I'm not a particularly confrontational person, but I'm seized by a desire to throttle every person I encounter loudly playing audio off their phone in public places.
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Two weeks ago - waiting room for CT scans for cancer patients - Guy blasting the Jordan Peterson/PP interview. Didn’t last long - too many scornful stares.
I too was in a waiting room 2 weeks ago, also for CT scans no joke, and some dude was listening to an audiobook including some spicy content, shall we say, and I was just about to say something when he was mercifully called back for his xray. Seriously. How/why people still so this... beyond rude!
We can’t have nice things. They literally make announcements on planes head phones are required and people still watch videos on their phone with the speaker blasting. Fucking this is the hill I will die on
Why the heck do they have speaker mode?
Have seen people screaming out here in clinics, hospitals abd every freaking place!
phones must have feature, no voice will come out of ohone unless headphones are o
Honestly, I prefer that to tinny audio of YouTube videos or whatever blasting out of phones. There’s something about the latter that just pierces my brain. Also, there’s like 500x more people doing it right now than there ever were boombox carriers.
SAME!! Put in earbuds, take it into your own private place, stop subjecting the rest of us to the drama in your lives. We already have a sufficient dose.
I shushed a man who was shouting into his phone over the gym music. I felt bad and apologized the next time I saw him. He was elderly and new to the gym. He thanked me because he didn't realize lt annoys people. I still felt bad.
During the pandemic, a neighbor playing videos of anti-vaxx "medical experts" in the lobby. Told her to shut them off or leave, or things would get really, really nasty.
Nah. The sound quality from the shitty phone speakers is actually the worst part of the equation. The shrill tinny sound they produce causes me physical pain.
Had a friend who got hearing tested at a place where they wire you to an EEG. On the chart, he showed me the higher frequencies were off the top of the graph. The doctor said that's why he felt pain while hearing high freqs.
I sometimes put my noise cancelling earbuds in and listen to nothing just to block out the noisy crap, especially those loud voiced people who think everyone else wants to listen to the. Quiet bliss
Some people are so darn disrespectful. Yesterday I was standing in line at a grocery store. A woman had a sheet of coupons and she took at least 10 minutes to carefully tear each coupon apart...and there appeared to be at least 20 of them.
I finally just moved to the end another line.
I have to say it’s something I refuse to normalize lol I have never had the impulse to just loudly play songs in the grocery store or on the trail. Those people irk me.
Sadly I play my favorite blogs in places where I know republicans will be. My fave is TDS. I will stop. Instead I will have fake phone conversations featuring crazy stuff Trump is doing.
On hikes. Why the hell must they do it while out in nature. Someone comes trotting down the trail in $200 hiking boots, $150 Arcteryx backpack, and they can't afford $30 headphones?
And don't tell me it's to scare away bears.
I do not move out of the way for people who look down at there so called smart phones while walking in public places. If they walk into me tough shit and too bad if that smart phone broke when it fell.
It drives me crazy, I’m tired of hearing phone conversations about how terrible their baby’s daddy and baby’s daddy’s other baby’s momma while I’m shopping for spinach at Kroger
I hate people who do this at physical therapy. I have no qualm about you wanting to listen to what you want, just USE EARBUDS so I don't have to hear it as well.
I find it distracts me from my own work because of the poor speaker quality, competing outputs, and possible MAGA messaging.
I recently learned that when iPhone switched their headphone jack, several ppl assumed we don’t use them anymore. Never bothered to ask questions or use the dongle they were given? Omfg 🤦🏼♀️
Or having phone conversations at a level you can literally hear every word, especially of the other person is on speaker. I always want to get involved in the talk and give my opinion like ‘I would dump him’ or ‘I am having spinach for dinner’
Drives me nuts! I was getting a relaxing pedicure the other day and this woman was having a loud FaceTime conversation. I gave her lots of dirty looks but of course she was oblivious.
Was sitting at lunch in a restaurant recently, guy sitting there on a FaceTime call with screaming kids.
Really? I have to listen to screaming kids at lunch from another zip code?
I might enjoy the throttle cuz I'm the one listening to Reggae and Afrobeats on insane levels on my Bluetooth speaker in public (I'm Jamaican) that's a cultural NORM here in Jamaica...come throttle me Daddy 😅
Honestly, reggae through a Bluetooth speaker doesn’t sound too bad to me. Certainly a *lot* better than random YouTube clips and speaker-phone conversations with tinny but weirdly brain-piercing phone audio.
it seems to have gotten worse since the pandemic, people came out of their houses but still want to watch the video they just got, so the insipid music that goes with it is turned up. they don't mind if it is a Bruegger's.
I work in a government office that serves the public and myself and a colleague have zero tolerance for this. We shut it down as soon as we hear a phone speaker.
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Have seen people screaming out here in clinics, hospitals abd every freaking place!
phones must have feature, no voice will come out of ohone unless headphones are o
This was a thing, and it was glorious!! 😂
I finally just moved to the end another line.
"Only at stop lights."
And don't tell me it's to scare away bears.
also I don't have shit taste in music.
I find it distracts me from my own work because of the poor speaker quality, competing outputs, and possible MAGA messaging.
Really? I have to listen to screaming kids at lunch from another zip code?
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