My heartbeat just goes up. It just triggers me so fucking much.
Even talking does’t trigger me that much, it’s something about that phone speaker’s weak crackling sound, I despise that. It’s like the REVERSE of asmr.
Same with loud exhausts on cars and motorbikes, I hate those people
Yes. Inconsiderate & selfish people.
Yes, It’s a sign of people that do not think of others and that bothers me a lot.
Yes
Annoys
From time to time I see people taking video calls on speaker in public (in enclosed spaces where everyone else can hear); in situations like this I’m always tempted to pop into the frame and say “HELLO!” since apparently the call is public, not private, and that maybe they’ll get a hint. I’ve never actually done it since I have the common decency, but others, sadly, just don’t seem to take social cues.
On one occasion when an idiot was blaring music from their phone so loud the whole train carriage I was in were forced to listen to it, I queued up some metalcore and held my phone up so close that it was near his ear. He jumped, startled, and then tried to start a fight with me which was a bitch to de-escalate and prevent myself from getting punched without other passengers verbally backing me up and him eventually getting off at the next station.
Suffice to say two things: it’s not something I’ll likely do again for fear of my own safety, and the people who do this have a significant overlap with people who consider personal violence to be a warranted response when inconvenienced; i.e. they’re selfish, violent arseholes.
my wife does this and it triggers the fuck out of me. I get so stressed out by it I just go somewhere I can’t hear it anymore and just disappear for hours.
choose your battles.
Fuck, every night I come into work, there’s always handfuls of people that has everything on loudspeaker.
Phone conversations - take that shit elsewhere! I don’t need to hear your conversation! Some dude flipping over a bunch of TikTok or YouTube Short videos so fast that they auto-play and sound like one long stream Some people repeating videos over and over for all to hear
I don’t even use loudspeaker because everytime I use it, people claim they have a hard time hearing me and there’s so much interference.
Japan has ruined me for going anywhere in public elsewhere. If someone is playing anything that others can hear, they will get told off. I love the silence. (This unfortunately does not apply inside store like don kihote that have 37 different things blaring music at once and I can’t enter without noise-canceling headphones).
At my last doc’s appointment, some 900 year old Lady was blairing AI Facebook reels at max volume in a crowded waiting room.
I genuinely believe in most cases its a clear indication of genuine cognitive dysfunction.
In the waiting room is the worst. I’m considering switching to a different doctor because of this. It’s a psych office, and some lady was blaring some religious podcast or something in the waiting room. I was trying to read and couldn’t concentrate. I asked if she had headphones, but was ignored. I brought it up to the receptionist and he shrugged. Even the psych that saw me was like, “Oh well, can’t do anything about it.” Uh, yeah you can. It’s your office, right? If you want a quiet, peaceful waiting room, you can totally enforce that.
People can listen to their own stuff if they want, but to subject everyone else to it is another matter. If hearing about Jesus or playing music makes you happy, great! Headphones are available cheap at the drug store down the street.
I was just getting annoyed at my husband for exactly this and your post was literally the next one in my feed. Felt like kismet.
Anyway YES it drives me crazy. He seems to love watching videos on his phone. I don’t get it at all.
I watch videos on my phone but with headphones on. Could be a decent gift to yourself to buy him some. :)
It’s infuriating and I don’t understand how anyone is ok with doing it.
If I’m walking back from the pub I’ll play something out loud and audio book etc.
If I start approaching people i turn it off until I’m out of their earshot again.
In an enclosed space public transport etc i think we should be allowed to smash their devices
Why don’t you use headphones? Why doesn’t anybody use effing headphones?
My mom said she doesn’t use headphone because it causes “ear damage” or some shit xD
Wanna come over to my house?¹
You wanna hear the WeChat and shitty boring cringy drama shows on loudspeaker?
¹/joke, not an actual invitation
I blame Apple. They removed the headphone-jack, and suddenly access to headphones went from “included” to “buy our expensive AirPods”. Other brands went with it too. I guess this increased cultural tolerance for ‘loud-watching’ in public, presumably starting with kids (who it would be wasteful to buy AirPods for, seeing how easy it is to lose them). Unless everyone had perfect manners, this result was inevitable.
Because I’m at the pub with my friends, not bringing headphones that I will lose because I’m a drunkard
Modern headphones are so much better than any way of listening to music there has ever been, and yet people still use their tiny phone speaker loaded with microscopic metal shavings, dust and skin oil clogging it. It’s unbelievable, really.
Its the selfishness of people playing loud ass tiktoks, looping AGAIN and AGAIN, on public transport. Like use some fucking headphones. You can even get shitty wired earphones for like 3 quid on amazon or at a corner shop.
Oh, the looping.
I don’t usually mind the sound of my wife tictoking, but sometimes she dives deep into the comments and I’m stuck listening to the same 30 seconds of audio over and over and over.
You can even get shitty wired earphones for like 3 quid on amazon or at a corner sh
To be fair, if you’re talking 3.5mm headphones/earbuds, you’re likely going to need to add a USB DAC with that too, as most current smartphones don’t have a 3.5mm jack.
That doesn’t fundamentally change the point on cost — you’re talking maybe $6+ more on Amazon — but it does cost more.
There are now cheap trash airpods clones with usb c at the end now. So no need for those obnoxious people to get a dongle and no excuse other than zero empathy
You don’t need a DAC with USB C.
You need a DAC somewhere, though there are headphones that incorporate one so that you don’t need one independent of the headphones. I just don’t know if the parent commenter is referring to ones that incorporate one or not, whether his corner-store-three-pound ones are 3.5 mm or USB C ones.
I can imagine how someone who is still a good person overall might commit certain serious crimes. But the petty stuff like this or littering immediately places whoever does it in the “person I detest” category in a way that, say, robbing a bank would not. The thought of having all that money is a genuine temptation, and maybe the robber needs it for something important. Meanwhile playing audio in a subway car is just completely unjustifiable.
I drive for Uber, so… YEAH, I GUESS YOU COULD SAY THAT. Instant 3 star rating, unless you’re nice.
And honestly, most people really are, so it generally takes the fire out of the proceedings, unfortunately.
Me speaking into my phone: “No way! There an asshole playing videos with the volume all the way up sitting next to you too? What are the odds?”
