Adrian Weckler: Are you blaring music from your phone’s speaker in public? Stop it right now

by SUPERMACS_DOG_BURGER

25 comments

  2. It’s kinda mad how socially acceptable people think it is. And all ages too. Had some auld wan in a cafe the other day just watching her Facebook videos or whatever. Heard it all.

    I’d never even dream of playing anything out loud in public on my phone.

  3. The evening shift supervisor at my last job always used to watch tiktoks about cleaning hacks full volume in the break room. Last thing I wanted to be dealing with at 11pm while I was trying to drink my tea

  4. It’s not always easy. But if it’s safe to do so we need to call people out on this to their face. People keep doing this because they never get any pushback.

  5. I was in a doctor’s waiting room this week with my 4yo and I gave her my phone to play that Khan academy kids app (good app for parents who like their kids and society and stuff). The app has music on and so I asked her to turn it down because there were people around and it wasn’t fair for them to have to hear it – she agrees and turns it down and two women in the room smile at me/her – cause she’s sick and cute AF when she’s sick.

    In walks a 60yo woman who takes out her phone and starts watching tiktoks with the volume up. Those crappy AI audio celebrity gossip level trash. The two women are throwing her filthies the entire time and myself incl.

    Honestly, I’m pissed at myself. I’ve spoken up on the train a few times in the morning, calling folks out for listening to stuff on their phone and I should have called out that selfish auld bint. She should absolutely know better.

  6. Yeah, I don’t think anyone listening to their phone on speaker is reading a newspaper today.

  7. People face timing and walking around, shouting for everyone to hear is as bad

  8. Everyone seems to have ear buds nowadays.  This article might be a bit late…

  10. As long as mobile phones have had speakers this has been a thing. It’s irritating then and it’s irritating now.

  11. I kinda want to make a mock giant phone and walk through a train doing a Trigger Happy TV type thing. 

    HELLO? HELLO? NO! I’M ON A TRAIN! I SAID I’M ON A TRAIN! 

  12. We need to stop being polite and start calling people out. This is turning into an epidemic. We also need to start printing out posters to put in busses etc and creating a law about it. Its relatively new so it’s understandable that there are no laws around it yet but there needs to be.

  13. Personally I have sensory issues and earphones give me an ick so I’ve no choice but to listen to things from the speaker.

    People should remember that some disabilities are invisible before they start confronting people on the bus.

  14. People don’t care and have no social awareness really. 

    I was in a shopping centre bathroom recently and a guy came in on a videocall and proceeded to go into the cubicle and take a shit all while still on the call and neither him nor the person they were talking to had the common sense to actually gang up the call

    I fear for humankind really

  15. Unless it’s Edge of Etiquette. The only band that should ever be played outloud on a bus.

  16. I mentioned it before, but the best solution is to respond with your own music. I did it once with someone blasting out some mumble rap song, so I said “fuck it” and blasted out Meshuggah as loud as I could – but giving those around me a heads up to apologise in advance. The guy turned his music off very quickly.

  18. There are apps that will play extremely high pitched, annoying tones that only younger people can hear. They’re great for the wind up when someone is blaring shit or won’t be quiet.

  19. It doesn’t help that Ireland has poor public transport policy on it. I did a lengthy train journey in Canada and they made an announcement at the start of the journey for people to use headphones and be respectful of others around you. They didn’t need to say it again as everyone obeyed. There is nothing like that in Ireland and even if there was most people would just ignore it anyway.

  20. People need to keep calling people out, but a bigger deal is ones someone finaly dares to call someone out and its not you calling it out this time because scared/nervous/cant be arsed this time, people need to back up the one calling it out, instead of them now being on their own against some cunt.

    Read enough stories here where when someone finaly calls someone out, a bus full that is annoyed with the bastard playing shit loudly SUDDONLY doesnt step up to help the person that called them out, a united front is so much easier to deal with a single cunt or even a group of cunts, overtime it can become a socially normal thing to just call people out and KNOW others will back you up, including lets say a bus driver.

    Its worked in Netherlands for ages, sure, not all the time, but by far more then in Ireland, people will back each other up and a bus driver will stop a bus to kick out a cunt doing this stuff, while people like wise suporting the driver, physically and verbally.

  21. This article is 10 years too late in a publication that none of these goons will read.

  23. The only solution if someone does it is to play Norwegian Death Metal at full volume so it drowns out their shite

  24. This came up in conversation with family the other day and my 15 year old niece goes oh yeah me and my friend do that on the bus.. she genuinely had no idea that this was rude. Obviously we told her it was and to stop immediately.

  25. I don’t get how anyone can listen to anything through shitty, tinny phone speakers. Drop kicking should be legalised.

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