Train Rage

Haha i had a fairly similar experience on the train the other day. Some girl sat down, took her laptop out, plugged her earphones in and started watching a TV show. Well her earphones were broke in some way cause it was playing out of the laptop speakers and she was totally oblivious to it. Everyone on the carriage kept looking at her as if to try and tell her that it's a bit loud. Anyway about an hour later when it got to Birmingham another main stop and the train pretty much had all new people on it, some bloke went straight up to her and said can you put some headphones on. And she was like i am wearing headphones and he was like well it's still coming out of the laptop. Dunno what happened after that i think she turned it off and packed it away.
 
I hate this, it just seems so ignorant. I always end up just thinking "who do you think you are? Why do you think we want to half listen to your terrible music?" whilst staring at the back/side of their head and not saying anything.

I would be embarassed if I thought I was annyoing other commuters with something I was doing, some people just don't give a **** about anyone else though.

Worse than this is chav scrotes who play Akon or Cascada on their phone speakers. Like we're supposed to high five them for sharing their awesome choons with us.
 
AndyT said:
I hate this, it just seems so ignorant. I always end up just thinking "who do you think you are? Why do you think we want to half listen to your terrible music?" whilst staring at the back/side of their head and not saying anything.
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A "friendly" tap on the shoulder and a polite request usually works. It's only recently that I've started saying say something. You often find that once one person makes it clear, that others will have a go as well.

There's always the odd exception where the person is obviously an idiot with no concept of common courtesy. I remember one was on a late night train home from the West End where some biker-looking type ended up telling the chav that if he didn't turn his music down, he was going to throw him "out the ******* window" ;)
 
I don't think anything comes close to winding me up as much as having to listen to someone elses music/media on a train :( The closest I get to saying anything on the tube is staring at them until they catch my eye, then absent-mindedly taking one of my headphones out, listening, doing a sort-of mime that says 'oh it is your music I can hear over mine' and then sitting there and not saying anything :p

I have just bought a pair of great IEMs now that my old Sony's broke and upon first test I could barely hear the tube announcements let alone any music so I think I'll be alright from now on!

I once sat on a train from London to Leeds with a girl watching TV on her laptop with no headphones. So annoying! I can't actually remember if someone said something in the end.
 
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All fixed :D

But sometimes you don't want to listen to music, you just don't want to listen to anything, and it does drive me mental.
 
Threat of violence usually works.

I'd love to see somone do the scissors cuts cord trick on an offender but who knows if you would get stabbed these days :p
 
I was in a pizza Express in London the other week and the guy next to our table was playing films on his ipad without earphones. Cretin.
 
PianoBasher said:
I already *ahem* took action to quieten the loud bint on her phone on my day shift commute home (on the phone ALL the way home EVERY day up until recently). Just need to think how I can covertly tackle this problem now. :p

Maybe they need a "Disco Carriage" so all these idiots can sit together.
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I have no shame in saying I did buy a GSM blocker ages ago to stop my ex sitting on the phone in my car all the time... worked brilliant. :D
 
Of course not, as would I. I was merely musing about how brilliant it would be.

I'd also like to muse at how amusing it 'would be' to watch the look of confusion on cars long side mine, if I got stuck in traffic and they were on the phone. :p
 
Maybe shoot microwave interference at the headphones so that they do that annoying crackly thing the entire time. That'll get him to turn them down.

I recommend taking apart a microwave, installing it in a tube like ray-gun device and shooting it at them. *



* No really, go for it. Atleast it'll be an interesting news story.
 
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