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I hate the people who get those shitty bluetooth speakers and blast them in public. The people who blast music from their phone’s speakers are assholes, but you could still say that they don’t have headphones on them, but the people with the speakers? They intentionally went out of their way to buy a device for the purpose of being a public nuisance. They’re a special of asshole.
Yeah. The proper way is to hook up your phone to, and carry around, your $2500 speakers with gold plated cables or whatever.
Now seriously, I don’t listen to music on the speakers because I’m mindful of other people, so I use headphones or simply don’t listen to music
While I would never listen to music in public on my phone speakers, I have to say that they are just as good as, if not better than, transistor radios I have had.
But react angry when you remind them that you’re not interested in their conversation!
If they were talking with somebody standing next to them, would you do the same? Ask them to please shut up? If not, why is this different?
Asking out of real curiosity. I don’t mind if people talk close to me in a puplic place, as I don’t demand silence around me. Never cares for if it’s on the phone or in person.
If the two people are being loud as fuck and obnoxious, then yeah I’ll probably take a dig at them and ask them to pipe down.
But people on the phone take it to a whole nother level. Last year I was in a Starbucks and some douche on his phone was going into graphic detail about the girl he brought home. I asked him to take that conversation outside and when he told me to fuck off and mind my own business the barista straight up kicked his ass out.
The difference is that when there are two people having a conversation they aren’t almost screaming, because they understand each other. Those using their phones like that however…
And yes, I tell them their shit doesn’t interest anyone. It’s helping when you look like an bad angry bearded biker.
audiophiles and introverts in hard agreement in this one. handshake meme.
I’m neither and i dont mind listening to the classical radio station on my phone in my house, or seeing the odd cooky character passing by with their music for a moment. as long as they’re only passing thru…
Probably the music is horrible too, so…
Some do that even in the train.
I like to say “it sucks you can’t afford headphones”.
Always the shittiest, most tone-deaf trap/hip-hop music with the same exact snare drum riff on a loop. There’s objectively good stuff from those genres out there, how do these people consistently find the worst?
We’re not talking about smart people here…
Not just music but also stupid canned slaughtered comedy routines that some of my coworkers flood our break room with occasionally
As a homeless guy that hangs out at McDonald’s everyday, this hits close to…well, not “home” 😅
This hits close to current location? :)
PS, hope you find a place to live soon.
Don’t get me started on people that wear too much cologne or perfume 😅
Thank you 🫂
I remember used to live in a house very close to McDonalds. We’d just walk there and open up a laptop (very cheap one) outside to use their free wifi. No money for internet lmfao.
Thinking about it makes me sad about the inequality in the world.
Free wifi?
Cheap food and the staff doesn’t chase me off most of the time.
I had a hero bus driver who pulled over the bus and kicked out a guy who was doing this.
Based.
in my city, all bus drivers were of hero grade about 10 years ago. Today, none of them give a fuck so long as they make their time points. dafuq happun
Soulless metrics with remote tracking.
When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. -Goodhart’s law
The bus drivers who would enforce the rules probably got more complaints and not enough compliments came in to offset them.
So the ones who wanted to keep getting paid just chase KPIs.
Selective hearing probably
I use it in my shop when I’m alone and want something to listen to other than my tools.
my problem with people who do this? they’re listening to the worst possible music in a public space.
I used to do this a lot while working around the house/garage but got one of those small “soda can” sized blutooth speakers and would reccomend, its not super loud but the sound is rounded out around the bottom end and i can keep my phone out of the way of whatever i am around (dirt/dust/glues/water).
tried that but it doesn’t work for me. my shop is pretty big and I wouldn’t be able to hear it from one end to the other without pissing off all my neighbors with my taste in music. also, someone (wife) always calls me when I’m literally inches from cutting my fingers off or when I’m just starting a weld. it’s a hassle to have to take off my mitts, answer the phone, forget it’s on the BT speaker, swipe 3 times to unlock the phone, switch the call mode, answer it again, then get the question “how’s it going?”
It’s just easier for me to output from my phone in my back pocket or shirt pocket.
I get ya, what works for you is best, i used to put my phone in my shirt pocket a lot too but too many times i would lean over to do something/pick up something and then hear it hit the floor just as i straightened up.
Another trick i like is to wear those wired ‘ear bud’ style headphones that come with my phone and run the cord down my shirt along my back and into phone in pants pocket. The earbuds fit under ear muffs and dont dangle in front of me when using tools as they can only hang about 10cm in front of my face if they fall out, and to answer a call i just squeeze the button on the cord and the mic seems to pick me up fine for a quick call and keep working.
Music is horrible but how about when they are scrolling through shorts or tiktok whith blasting sound? Like a never ending spirit box
Hearing two seconds of the worst possible version of a song you (used to before that) like. It’s like some punishment
My worst example is another “while scrolling” but dude had the same mumble trap sample play for every notification, so it was essentially on repeat.
I am convinced most people are just walking around as blank eyed zombies that can only think about food, sex, and scrolling TikTok.
While some might trash this take for sounding “boomer” you’re not wrong, on a very deep level the profound decline in American and European reading comprehension has led to nearly a quarter of our population being functionally illiterate, and the problem here is much deeper than reading scores or being well-read, the problem is without a robust, developed language system, your brain is far less capable of organizing and contextualizing even basic kinds of abstractions about our world.
We use words in our minds to create dialogues and monologs to explore meaning and synthesize ideas and understanding about complicated topics. Without words to create these narrations it’s much harder or impossible understand anything beyond what you immediately feel and see and hear, you become highly linear in your thinking and also highly reactionary.
You’re seeing people walking around like blank-eyed zombies because the number of blank-eyed zombies is literally increasing.
In my town it’s common to see somebody riding their bike through heavy traffic while looking at their phone. I don’t get it at all.
i overtook a topless dude riding his bicycle while scrolling tiktok with both of his hands today. no helmet
its so normalised where I live
I just did one of my 50 mile rides this morning on a bike trail, and I passed a bunch of people with their phones mounted on the handlebars, watching videos of some sort. Like, I guess I could see having a GPS app open, but watching videos? Why the fuck are you even out here? Get a stationary bike and be safe at home at least.
Many people riding and walking on the trail are playing music through their phone speakers instead of using earbuds. It’s somewhat less annoying since you don’t have to be around them for long, but it’s still annoying.
Pokemon Go?
I’ve made many victims, mostly steps.
Not looking ahead for loong time, going into my bikelane without realising and then I give them a shoulder with a scream of surprise and anger.
last one I didn’t even have to look, I heard the sound of him and his phone hitting the asphalt. So satisfying.And before the angry comments: One of those clowns broke my girlfriends arm with that idiotic behavior and I’ve also had near accidents.
If you’re this selfish and irresponsible you deserve it.Lol, murdering bicyclists with your car for something that doesnt hurt you.
can you read? I said bikelane.
And nobody got ‘murdered’ drama queen.
Im not sure they think about ant of those, but yes.
Hey don’t bring tiktok into this. I’ve discovered quite a bit of good music, political uprisings, neat hobbies, beautiful art and artists of all kinds, philosophical concepts, and wonderful ways to look at life on there. Like those two hiker guys from “we love you” that talk about being present and coping with and appreciating life.
Im sorry, but there is literally billions of other ways you could find those things. Don’t support tiktok.
No please don’t take this away from me. It’s one of the last things I have that help me feel normal. It’s a net positive on my life. It’s queer, it’s outspoken, it’s fresh, it’s thoughtful. What reasons do you have that I shouldn’t use tiktok?
Hey if it improved your life good for you! Id say for many though it degraded their quality of life.
Support Tiktok and literally anything else that brings you joy
I see various forms of peacocking these days. The other one is blasting a 1sq mile radius with music from a vehicle.
Incidentally this meme captures my reaction when I see Clint Eastwood.
People got worse over the course of the pandemic and it appears they have no intention to go back to more reasonable public behavior ever.
The pandemic worsened the already excessive individualist value of capitalism.
The other one is blasting a 1sq mile radius with music from a vehicle.
That kinda goes back to the OP’s title. It wouldn’t be as bad if it didn’t sound terrible. I miss the early 00s when every 3rd or 4th car had giant subwoofers. I may not like what you’re playing but at least it sounds decent.
I have to disagree. 9 times out of 10, the song is being drowned out by the sound of the entire car rattling from the bass.
Personally, I prefer a much flatter EQ when listening to my music. I often times turn up the high-mids just a tad. I love a crispy high hat. Jacking the shit out of the bass is kind of spitting on the sound engineer that mixed and mastered the music. It’s like taking a medium rare A5 wagyu and dumping A1 sauce on it.
From my experience it only sounds good inside the car. Outside is just heavy bass
I was in this car yesterday. Dubstep and woofers. It detached my organs.
