Argument on train

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OP you were not at all polite. The end. When people challenge you with this you seem to get all defensive and say well I thought it was polite. It wasn't. Accept this. Then you say well he was being inconsiderate in the first place so why should I have been polite? To that I simply say two wrongs don't make a right.

You handled the situation terribly. Don't try to make excuses - just accept it, move on, and do better next time.
 
Since when was "It's annoying" a polite way of saying "can you turn it down please?"

With my culture we speak to other very abuptly and it is not intended to be non polite., its just the way we speak."
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I am white british, born by two white british parents and my "culture" is nothing like yours, I would never be so rude towards a stranger, let alone bring their religion/ethnicity into it.
 
Yep you was confrontational in your approach and your surprised by the reaction you got?

I used to find that asking them to turn it up some more a) left them confused and b) usually did the trick
 
Whilst I thought OPs comments were not the greatest, the amount of hate going towards him is crazy. Traveling around London is a nightmare when these type of people get on trains and buses. Its nearly always some ghetto runt or some white trash kid who thinks he's a ghetto runt, aged between about 16 and 22. They play their music through loudspeaker on public transport for the sole purpose of being obnoxious and they usually actually want you to confront them so they can start a fight over you disrespecting them or 'telling them what to do.'

Whether OP was more polite or not, the idiot with the music pumping would have started an argument.
 
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I'd have just said, "Excuse me, could you turn it down a bit?"

Which any normal person would then do, but if they insisted to be a **** about it, i'd have to be myself.
 
TheLegendOfMart said:
Since when was "It's annoying" a polite way of saying "can you turn it down please?"


I am white british, born by two white british parents and my "culture" is nothing like yours, I would never be so rude towards a stranger, let alone bring their religion/ethnicity into it.
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You think it is not polite to let someone know that them playing music on their phone is annoying?

The thing is that I was never trying to be polite in the fisrt place. But I don't think what i said was not polite. IF someone said that to me that something i was doing was annoying them. I would not say that what they said was not polite what i would say sorry for annoying them or i don't care if annoy you.
 
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You think it is not polite to let someone know that them playing music on their phone is annoying?

The thing is that I was never trying to be polite in the fisrt place. But I don't think what i said was not polite. IF someone said that to me that something i was doing was annoying them. I would not say that what they said was not polite what i would say sorry for annoying them or i don't care if annoy you.
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If someone had come up to me and said "You're annoying" my first response would be ".......and?".

If someone had come up to me and asked "Can you please stop doing that" then I would probably stop doing it.

It doesn't matter whether you are polite or not, or whether you want to be polite or not, it's common sense if you rub someone up the wrong way that you've just met they are going to be confrontational.

I'm not defending the guy but I can see why he reacted the way he did.
 
If you spoke to me like that I would have judo chopped your face to a thousand pieces and mailed it back to your family. Just because they're being inconsiderate, it doesn't mean you can be confrontational and not expect a bit of lip back.
 
I don't ask people politely - they know it's a dickish thing to play music off your phone on public transport so clearly they're looking for an argument.

Remarks somewhere along the line of "If you don't turn that ****ing phone off I'm going to ram it directly up your arse" seem most appropriate. You need to be forceful with these dim witted wastes of oxygen or they won't do anything.
 
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The thing is that I was never trying to be polite in the first place.
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There's your problem.

And here's the theory about why your approach didn't work:

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To the OP; he was inconsiderate , but you approached it wrong. :)

Re: woolwich, I thought the place was on the up with the regeneration ?
 
You should have recited a verse from the Quran while on your knees and assembling some kind of device. I'm sure he would have vacated.
 
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