idiots on the bus with headphones on

Funkytown

and the volume, you think they realise they are putting on a concert for everyone else? never mind that but its the ****ing ladygaga album.christ.

Malice

You might have been better off posting here .

brummytom

Yep, hate people like that.

If I'm listening to music on a bus/train, I take the headphones out for a second to make they're not so loud that other people you can hear them - it takes a second to check and it's common courtosey

I don't expect people to listen to Ronnie Drew growling at them, I don't want Kayne Dizzee Lethal Cent shouting at me about his Bitches and Hoes from Donegal.

Redpunto

if ya cant beat them then join 'em, sing along and do it really loudly so that they then cant hear their own music

CianRyan

Hahaha, god... You have to hop on one of the buses to Tallaght.
Out this way they bypass the headphones and just blare it out of their phones.

I was on the 77N one night and this MASSIVE eastern European guy just went: "Fcuk this...", Stood up, goose stepped down to the arseholes playing the crappy chimpmunk music, grabbed the phone, threw it on the floor and crushed it under his MASSIVE boot.
I shook his hand, such a legend.

ejmaztec

brummytom wrote: »

Yep, hate people like that.

If I'm listening to music on a bus/train, I take the headphones out for a second to make they're not so loud that other people you can hear them - it takes a second to check and it's common courtosey

I don't expect people to listen to Ronnie Drew growling at them, I don't want Kayne Dizzee Lethal Cent shouting at me about his Bitches and Hoes from Donegal.

Is that a self-help tape about dogs and gardening?

Dennis the Stone

The amount of times I have encountered people with headphones blaring my idea of hell, i.e. Beyoncé, James Blunt, Scooter. But every so often you see a slightly weird character destroying his/her eardrums with Aphex Twin, Squarepusher or Steve Reich. Kind of restores your faith in humanity.

CianRyan

BigMentalDisease wrote: »

The amount of times I have encountered people with headphones blaring my idea of hell, i.e. Beyoncé, James Blunt, Scooter. But every so often you see a slightly weird character destroying his/her eardrums with Aphex Twin, Squarepusher or Steve Reich. Kind of restores your faith in humanity.

WIN!!!

Chucky the tree

I listen to my music on full volume the majority of the time. It's because I don't want to listen to other c*nts conversations about there shi*t lifes. If no ones talking on the bus I'll turn it down.

Funkytown

especially when you get the same bus to work every day, and the same person listens to the SAME songs every day, i had a girl listening to that new beyonce lp beside me for a few weeks, seriously considered strangling her.

you know whats coming next, you prepare your head for the onslaught of single ladies, to top it off they never listen to what you would expect, all yuppie professionals should be listening to Huey Lewis.

Gavin "shels"

Chucky the tree wrote: »

I listen to my music on full volume the majority of the time. It's because I don't want to listen to other c*nts conversations about there shi*t lifes. If no ones talking on the bus I'll turn it down.

At least they've people to talk to on the bus, you loner!?:P

Funkytown

malice_ wrote: »

You might have been better off posting here .

i shall edit it in ye olde english, im not ranting nor raving, just observing with a side measure of annoyance.

phasers

My headphones are made so I can blare them but people around me can't hear my music. Why aren't all headphones like this?

Lady Gaga is shyte

ballsymchugh

screw the green party. drive yourselves!!

_ZeeK_

dom jolly headphones ftw.

Jim236

Funkytown wrote: »

and the volume, you think they realise they are putting on a concert for everyone else? never mind that but its the ****ing ladygaga album.christ.

Jaysus have ye got nothin better to whinge about? So what like? Fair enough if someone takes out their phone and turns speaker on and blares their music at the back o the bus, ye thats annoyin. But so what if someones playin their music loud with earphones on. If it pisses ye off that much go out and buy one yerself and listen to yer own music, i'm sure ya cud get an mp3 player in power-city or currys for cheap enuf.:rolleyes:

TheZohanS

I love listening to music on public transport, it's a hell of a lot better than listening to people on the phone or hearing about some old biddys ailments.

If the bus is quiet I'll keep the music down, if it's full then I'll put it up to the max.

I often have people gather around me to listen to the music I'm playing - it's that good.

Sarn

I have to say it doesn't bother me, simply because I've my own music and noise-isolating headphones. The other day I heard someone's headphone music over my own and they were two rows back :eek: They'll be deaf by the time they're 30!

CreepingDeath

There was some bloody student on the 25X today on the way home, blaring his headphones out. I was on the other side of the bus but some poor sod had to sit beside him.

Deafness won't be the first physical impact he'll suffer from if he continues like that for the rest of the year.

CyberWaste

TheZohan wrote: »

I love listening to music on public transport, it's a hell of a lot better than listening to people on the phone or hearing about some old biddys ailments.

If the bus is quiet I'll keep the music down, if it's full then I'll put it up to the max.

I often have people gather around me to listen to the music I'm playing - it's that good.

I cant imagine a load of people gathering around some person on a noisy bus to barely hear so very bad distortion coming from a set of earphones, as that's all you hear, distortion, yet some people think they do :rolleyes:

The worst are the people who think they're "hardy" or "tough" because they're blaring death metal or drum and bass from a set of headphones and like seeing peoples reactions. You know the kind...

thebman

I use mine to drown out other peoples conversations and the noise of the train/bus.

Nothing more annoying than a sea of Dublin accents TBH especially teenagers.

I'll turn it down if someone asks, if your too shy/hesitant to ask, don't expect me to magically know it bothers you.

Mine isn't that loud compared to others either. I hear some weirdo with iPod earphones in over my own sometimes and as far as I know, they are volume limited and you have to overwrite the standard software to get above the safe hearing volume. Now that is going out of your way to deafen yourself.

jellie

Funkytown wrote: »

and the volume, you think they realise they are putting on a concert for everyone else? never mind that but its the ****ing ladygaga album.christ.

solution: p-p-p-poke-her-face, p-p-poke-her-face







sorry i couldnt resist

Somnus

Don't really mind people with loud headphones, I never really think to check how loud mine are either. But it hate the shmad lads who'd be sitting at the back of the bus upstairs blaring music from their phones. F*ckin' drives me mental.

The_Kew_Tour

TheZohan wrote: »

I love listening to music on public transport, it's a hell of a lot better than listening to people on the phone or hearing about some old biddys ailments.

If the bus is quiet I'll keep the music down, if it's full then I'll put it up to the max.

I often have people gather around me to listen to the music I'm playing - it's that good.

any hot chicks come over to listen to your music?

If so what did they like? ;)

thebman

Dr.Poca wrote: »

Don't really mind people with loud headphones, I never really think to check how loud mine are either. But it hate the shmad lads who'd be sitting at the back of the bus upstairs blaring music from their phones. F*ckin' drives me mental.

Agree even if I like the song, the sound quality is so poor from phone speakers I'm convinced these people are already deaf and are using the vibrations to try to remember what the music was like.

Funkytown

Jim236 wrote: »

Jaysus have ye got nothin better to whinge about? So what like? Fair enough if someone takes out their phone and turns speaker on and blares their music at the back o the bus, ye thats annoyin. But so what if someones playin their music loud with earphones on. If it pisses ye off that much go out and buy one yerself and listen to yer own music, i'm sure ya cud get an mp3 player in power-city or currys for cheap enuf.:rolleyes:

im not talking about barely being able to hear it, im talking about a volume at which i can hear the vocals clearly, made all the more disturbing by the straight face of the suited and booted young woman as "pokerface" is roared into her head.

also i got another question, why do the bus drivers never play the radio over the speaker system? i have a vague memory of them doing it back in the day but never now.

TheZohanS

CyberWaste wrote: »

I cant imagine a load of people gathering around some person on a noisy bus to barely hear so very bad distortion coming from a set of earphones, as that's all you hear, distortion, yet some people think they do :rolleyes:

The worst are the people who think they're "hardy" or "tough" because they're blaring death metal or drum and bass from a set of headphones and like seeing peoples reactions. You know the kind...

adrian280582 wrote: »

any hot chicks come over to listen to your music?

If so what did they like? ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvL0ggdYKjQ

Neamhshuntasach

All i listen to is underground hip hop and i'm pretty sure the fella on the radio in Dublin bus could hear it if the driver pressed the button. I blare that shít.

Digitalism

I find the people who go around blaring basshunter and cascada out of their honda civics worse.

rainbowdrop

I don't use public transport, apart from planes, so I never have to listen to other peoples music or them talking boll*x.....Thank Christ;)

In my opinion, it's only acceptable to use public transport if you are:

A) Living in a city
Under 25
C)Over 65
D) Mentally Retarded

rainbow kirby

If I didn't have my iPod, the 17 with all its wannabe-D4 UCD 1st Arts girls and schoolkids would be absolutely intolerable in the morning. There is a time and a place for Slayer, and that is it.

joey54

Would be lost without my headphones. There is nothing worse than having to listen to some dope talk about who got with who last night first thing in the morning!

kumate_champ07

CianRyan wrote: »

Hahaha, god... You have to hop on one of the buses to Tallaght.
Out this way they bypass the headphones and just blare it out of their phones.

I was on the 77N one night and this MASSIVE eastern European guy just went: "Fcuk this...", Stood up, goose stepped down to the arseholes playing the crappy chimpmunk music, grabbed the phone, threw it on the floor and crushed it under his MASSIVE boot.
I shook his hand, such a legend.

Dublin Bus should give that man a job!

DigiGal

sar84 wrote: »

solution: p-p-p-poke-her-face, p-p-poke-her-face







sorry i couldnt resist

Ah ya beat me to it...

DigiGal

kumate_champ07 wrote: »

Dublin Bus should give that man a job!

Indeed....find him so i can shake his hand also!

kumate_champ07

BigMentalDisease wrote: »

But every so often you see a slightly weird character destroying his/her eardrums with Aphex Twin, Squarepusher or Steve Reich. Kind of restores your faith in humanity.

That would have been me on a few occasions, but I lost my mp3 player. I have sennheiser hd595 headphones, they leak the sound out on purpose as they are open design so it will sound better for the listener. At full volume with my old cowon media player(which had a very high output) I could have used them for a party!


I kept my finger on the volume to turn it down when the bus would stop and then I'd blast it when the bus started moving. I'd use them at the gym, 'clark-turning dragon' was used alot

Bob the Seducer

CianRyan wrote: »

Hahaha, god... You have to hop on one of the buses to Tallaght.
Out this way they bypass the headphones and just blare it out of their phones.

I remember the first time I witnessed this on Dublin Bus, I couldn't quite figure out why anyone would feel the need to hear anything more than 20 seconds of music out of a phone speaker let alone put on a public concert.

Shortly after, one of their male cohorts lit up (obviously assuming that upstairs is the smoking room on the bus) and it all became clear...

Dennis the Stone

kumate_champ07 wrote: »

That would have been me on a few occasions, but I lost my mp3 player. I have sennheiser hd595 headphones, they leak the sound out on purpose as they are open design so it will sound better for the listener. At full volume with my old cowon media player(which had a very high output) I could have used them for a party!


I kept my finger on the volume to turn it down when the bus would stop and then I'd blast it when the bus started moving. I'd use them at the gym, 'clark-turning dragon' was used alot

I love that, if you're going to spread your music around, it better be decent. I saw a girl with big earphones on the 122 one day, I could hear her music and it was almost definitely Eels. I wanted to go talk to her but instead I shuffled nervously away down the stairs. That sure showed her.

Soby

rainbowdrop wrote: »

I don't use public transport, apart from planes, so I never have to listen to other peoples music or them talking boll*x.....Thank Christ;)

In my opinion, it's only acceptable to use public transport if you are:

A) Living in a city
Under 25
C)Over 65
D) Mentally Retarded

Because......

JohnSmith101

BigMentalDisease wrote: »

The amount of times I have encountered people with headphones blaring my idea of hell, i.e. Beyoncé, James Blunt, Scooter. But every so often you see a slightly weird character destroying his/her eardrums with Aphex Twin, Squarepusher or Steve Reich. Kind of restores your faith in humanity.

oh yes:D