It won’t be enforced, don’t get your hopes up. The bus driver isn’t gonna leave their cabin to go tell someone to put headphones on.
The difference is Irish rail have someone managing the train cabins and they can take action. They also often know based on the seat booking who you are.
If one person does it, let’s all do it. We all just pick a different song and turn our phones on full blast until everyone mutually stops.
The powers that be will just ignore this campaign, in one ear and out the other..
But but… what if I don’t want to listen to anything?
If some cunt plays some shite from TikTok on their speaker the only way to combat it is to play Norwegian Death Metal at full volume. Everyone will thank you
There was a campaign? What?
I am an avid headphone user on public transport. I HATE hearing other people’s crap. And the dread when you look in your bag and your headphones is missing doesn’t seem to affect them. Bizarre.
I’m at near vigilante stage when it comes to this. Glad the state, who have a monopoly on force, are stepping in. I’m expecting uniformed, jackbooted guards with tasers.
>”There is the ability there to interrupt, so a driver can be notified of this and might request that a passenger wears earphones or turns off their music, whatever the case may be,” he said.
I asked a woman on the bus recently to turn off the music she was blaring through a speaker. She was a little gone in the head and proceeded to shout around the bus that I had insulted her for being gay (I’m gay myself, so I was like, ‘Knock yourself out’). A drug addict type got on the bus and the woman filled him in on how horrible I am. God love him, he took umbrage on her behalf and came down to me and started swinging. I forced him off with my feet and went down to the driver for help (no passenger came to my aid, of course).
The driver became immediately frustrated. ‘Ah, Jesus, look I dunno. What do you want me to do about? Do you want me to call the police? Is that what you want?’ I was like, ‘I dunno’. He had already pulled in and it would have meant delaying everyone. He then threatened to kick both of us off. I was thinking, ‘I’m fucked if I’m left behind with this guy’. Eventually I decided to get off and the bus went off without me, my attacker and the DJ watching me through the window, proving that life isn’t fair.
As I read over that, it seems fictional or exaggerated, but I assure you every detail is true. Unless bus drivers receive proper training and are receptive (even grateful) to those who make complaints, I don’t see why anything would change.
Bit of a joke because we all know the kind of person who blares tunes on a bus or train is not the type of person who cares about a campaign. Maybe a €100 on the spot fine.
I’ve seen it three times and on all three times I’ve asked the person to turn it off or use headphones and they’ve stopped.
Other times I’ve seen it happen is when older people ask for it to stop.
Nobody got punched. Nobody got stabbed. Nobody had to *”get involved”*.
What’s wrong with the younger generation? Why do you tolerate it? You can’t *all* be too scared to speak up???
It starts when they’re children and the parents just let their kids run around with tablets or phones blaring with not a care in the world.
> A campaign to encourage passengers to use headphones
When I was going to school in the 2000s, there used to be signs telling you not to let the sound in your earphones be audible to others. How far we’ve come!
Just play your own phone close to their ear with a white noise video playing. They’ll get the message.
Please add in loud and long conversations over the phone to the list 🙏🏻😫
Ban video calls in public as well!
Not an issue when driving a car.
Had to listen to the “best” of Van Morrison on loop all the way to Heuston. I’d hate to hear the worst considering I wanted to rip my own ears off. Some prick a few seats down decided he needed this to start his day feeling good and so did we. I’ve definitely posted before about this. But what was worse was the princess beside me asked and expected me to deal with it (I was on the outside so that made me responsible apparently) not a gender thing either cause I am female too and we were around the same age. She was from the “why can’t someone say something just not me” brigade. I endured it in the end just to sicken her.
Of all the problems we have, this comes under miner annoyance
My HD600 open back headphones will turn heads 🤣
Bus drivers: *”i OnLy DrIvE tHe BuS, nOt mY jOb tO pUt MaNnErS oN pAsSeNgErS”*
There are exceptions to this, but that is the prevailing attitude of 99% of bus drivers.
So you can campaign all you like, it will amount to *sweet fuck all* if yer man driving the bus isn’t bothering his hole to manage the behaviour of his passengers. Or her passengers.
Whether you blame them for this attitude or not is neither here nor there, this is simply the fact of the matter.
I asked a passenger once to lower her volume down and she did. She apologised for the distress. It’s how you ask that matters. If you ask with an attitude, they’ll respond in kind. How you approach the situation makes all the difference.
How about wearing shoes? I hate people’s bare feet on where I’m supposed to sit. Better than a junkies needle pointed up between the seats, I guess.
They culprits won’t care about a campaign. They need to be fined, but I’m happy that it’s at least being recognised as a nuisance. It’s a start.
Reading the comments in here I think people are misunderstanding that this shit is getting normalised. Even without any fines the campaign alone should hopefully stop this behaviour in a lot of people. There will always be some who are unreachable, but who gives a fuck about those ignorant cunts.
The rare times I’ve used public transport since COVID it’s a cacophony of crap coming from all directions, if it was up to me throwing the phones of gobshites blaring that crap out the window would be encouraged.
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It won’t be enforced, don’t get your hopes up. The bus driver isn’t gonna leave their cabin to go tell someone to put headphones on.
The difference is Irish rail have someone managing the train cabins and they can take action. They also often know based on the seat booking who you are.
If one person does it, let’s all do it. We all just pick a different song and turn our phones on full blast until everyone mutually stops.
The powers that be will just ignore this campaign, in one ear and out the other..
But but… what if I don’t want to listen to anything?
If some cunt plays some shite from TikTok on their speaker the only way to combat it is to play Norwegian Death Metal at full volume. Everyone will thank you
There was a campaign? What?
I am an avid headphone user on public transport. I HATE hearing other people’s crap. And the dread when you look in your bag and your headphones is missing doesn’t seem to affect them. Bizarre.
I’m at near vigilante stage when it comes to this. Glad the state, who have a monopoly on force, are stepping in. I’m expecting uniformed, jackbooted guards with tasers.
>”There is the ability there to interrupt, so a driver can be notified of this and might request that a passenger wears earphones or turns off their music, whatever the case may be,” he said.
I asked a woman on the bus recently to turn off the music she was blaring through a speaker. She was a little gone in the head and proceeded to shout around the bus that I had insulted her for being gay (I’m gay myself, so I was like, ‘Knock yourself out’). A drug addict type got on the bus and the woman filled him in on how horrible I am. God love him, he took umbrage on her behalf and came down to me and started swinging. I forced him off with my feet and went down to the driver for help (no passenger came to my aid, of course).
The driver became immediately frustrated. ‘Ah, Jesus, look I dunno. What do you want me to do about? Do you want me to call the police? Is that what you want?’ I was like, ‘I dunno’. He had already pulled in and it would have meant delaying everyone. He then threatened to kick both of us off. I was thinking, ‘I’m fucked if I’m left behind with this guy’. Eventually I decided to get off and the bus went off without me, my attacker and the DJ watching me through the window, proving that life isn’t fair.
As I read over that, it seems fictional or exaggerated, but I assure you every detail is true. Unless bus drivers receive proper training and are receptive (even grateful) to those who make complaints, I don’t see why anything would change.
Bit of a joke because we all know the kind of person who blares tunes on a bus or train is not the type of person who cares about a campaign. Maybe a €100 on the spot fine.
I’ve seen it three times and on all three times I’ve asked the person to turn it off or use headphones and they’ve stopped.
Other times I’ve seen it happen is when older people ask for it to stop.
Nobody got punched. Nobody got stabbed. Nobody had to *”get involved”*.
What’s wrong with the younger generation? Why do you tolerate it? You can’t *all* be too scared to speak up???
It starts when they’re children and the parents just let their kids run around with tablets or phones blaring with not a care in the world.
> A campaign to encourage passengers to use headphones
Your taxes into someone else’s pockets.
We all know this will do nothing.
France also has this problem and they’re considering jail for repeat offenders:https://www.connexionfrance.com/news/repeat-incivilities-on-public-transport-in-france-may-soon-be-punishable-by-jail-time/706505
pretty please with sugar on top
When I was going to school in the 2000s, there used to be signs telling you not to let the sound in your earphones be audible to others. How far we’ve come!
Just play your own phone close to their ear with a white noise video playing. They’ll get the message.
Please add in loud and long conversations over the phone to the list 🙏🏻😫
Ban video calls in public as well!
Not an issue when driving a car.
Had to listen to the “best” of Van Morrison on loop all the way to Heuston. I’d hate to hear the worst considering I wanted to rip my own ears off. Some prick a few seats down decided he needed this to start his day feeling good and so did we. I’ve definitely posted before about this. But what was worse was the princess beside me asked and expected me to deal with it (I was on the outside so that made me responsible apparently) not a gender thing either cause I am female too and we were around the same age. She was from the “why can’t someone say something just not me” brigade. I endured it in the end just to sicken her.
Of all the problems we have, this comes under miner annoyance
My HD600 open back headphones will turn heads 🤣
Bus drivers: *”i OnLy DrIvE tHe BuS, nOt mY jOb tO pUt MaNnErS oN pAsSeNgErS”*
There are exceptions to this, but that is the prevailing attitude of 99% of bus drivers.
So you can campaign all you like, it will amount to *sweet fuck all* if yer man driving the bus isn’t bothering his hole to manage the behaviour of his passengers. Or her passengers.
Whether you blame them for this attitude or not is neither here nor there, this is simply the fact of the matter.
I asked a passenger once to lower her volume down and she did. She apologised for the distress. It’s how you ask that matters. If you ask with an attitude, they’ll respond in kind. How you approach the situation makes all the difference.
How about wearing shoes? I hate people’s bare feet on where I’m supposed to sit. Better than a junkies needle pointed up between the seats, I guess.
They culprits won’t care about a campaign. They need to be fined, but I’m happy that it’s at least being recognised as a nuisance. It’s a start.
Reading the comments in here I think people are misunderstanding that this shit is getting normalised. Even without any fines the campaign alone should hopefully stop this behaviour in a lot of people. There will always be some who are unreachable, but who gives a fuck about those ignorant cunts.
The rare times I’ve used public transport since COVID it’s a cacophony of crap coming from all directions, if it was up to me throwing the phones of gobshites blaring that crap out the window would be encouraged.
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