Playing music on the bus

JuliusCaesar

yes, yet again I've been subjected to the music choice of one of our tracksuited knuckle-dragging brethern on the bus. Played by his crappy phone at tinny top volume.

I did ask him to turn it down.

He refused. Not in polite terms.

I didn't want to get into an altercation, and none of the other passengers supported the request, so we all sat there suffering. I did briefly think of asking everyone to play their own phones with their own choice of music, so that we could ALL suffer (including your man), but decided the resulting cacophony would be unbearable.



This seems to have become more frequent recently. Any thoughts?

Latchy

Next to people talking loudly on phones as if they are in their own living rooms ( how ignorant) this behavior on public transport is another form of nuisance which shows no consideration for others .

Mr Whirly

Headphones turned up loud, drown out the world.

smash

You should record loads of clips from the radio of Joe Duffy giving out about ignorant people and then start playing them really loud.

3ndahalfof6

I fooking hate them, it is not just the tracksuit type, it seems people who use this type of listening device have to turn it up to a max,

ooooooo listen to the cool music I listen to, I do think I could go to prison because of this, one day I am going to explode and it wont be pretty (I am fat),

but seriously I fooking hate them, I try to create some good farts and unleash them where they sit, it has worked for me in the past but I don't like the fact I can not control it to sit as a bubble in front of his/her face,

the only thing I get some relief from is they are damaging their hearing and sooner or later they will go deaf, at a young age (35-45), while not quiet deaf, serious hearing difficulties.

that's all.

Bradidup

You should bring a large flask full of baked beans on your next bus trip. If you get any kind of unsocial activity you start eating and then sit down close to them

9959

It's a 'thundering' disgrace.

Chinasea

Its definately a case of; us against them in Dublin and I know who is winning.

Scruffles

smash wrote: »

You should record loads of clips from the radio of Joe Duffy giving out about ignorant people and then start playing them really loud.

thatd be funny, other people woud probably be all for it to if they realised the point behind it.

JuliusCaesar,
what about complaining to the bus company; really let rip,its their company and they shoud be making sure passengers are kept safe from the anti social behavior of chavs.

they will probably send a pre made letter out that they sent to everyone but all users need to be getting their voices heard to pile on the pressure,most bus drivers wont say anything to them as it woud be creating a difficult and sometimes dangerous life for themselves,a friend of dads used to drive for bus eireann; on several major rough estates he drove through chavs woud jump on his bus and have no interest in paying,he recieved vicious behavior off them with knives and his life was threatened if he asked them the simple requirement all passengers have-to pay,they also targeted his bus windows with airguns,they took his bus off a route but he was fed up and left for another company.

-unfortunately itd probably mean extra cost to the passenger but these companies shoud have one extra staff on them monitoring the bus all the time to sort out anti social behavior,itd be helpful for passengers to,to see that if someone starts abusing them or cranking their music up or doing drugs in the back-they know the passengers woud be sorted out.
at this rate though public transport will always be a risk for innocent passengers.

9959

smash wrote: »

You should record loads of clips from the radio of Joe Duffy giving out about ignorant people and then start playing them really loud.

Better still, ring Joe Duffy about the problem, it's classic 'Liveline' fodder.

Celly Smunt

Chinasea wrote: »

Its definately a case of; us against them in Dublin and I know who is winning.

augustus gloop

if this is the biggest issue you have in todays world you lead a charmed life my friend... long may your run of first world problems continue

cluelessgent

Original Poster,

I do not see a grievance, I havent used public transport
in decades however if some young gentleman started playing
Chopin I would be blissfully delighted my morning commute
was invigorated

Gent

TheUsual

Open the back door of the bus and expel the ruffian with your foot at the next opportunity.
When her majesty's police force arrive at the scene - simply tell them that we the After Hours gang told you to do it.

*hands you a get out of jail free card*

the groutch

should have started singing out loud yourself, preferably Boyzone/Westlife, he might get the message then.

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pmcmahon wrote: »

You know, the hoards of feral scum? Cant miss em. Usually found at back of bus playing sh1te music

Crann na Beatha

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TheUsual

Lucille Most Thighbone wrote: »

You know, the hoards of feral scum? Cant miss em. Usually found at back of bus playing sh1te music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B436avtEXzs

Niles

It's annoying alright. In the past I've had to endure it on the way to work, sometimes it's the same offenders a few days in a row. Of course you also get parents who think it's ok to put on Barney or something on a laptop to entertain their kids, without headphones.

And then there's myself obsessively taking the headphones out every few minutes to check they're not audible.

Pottler

No way am I stopping playing my music on the bus. They can all feck off. I am considering downsizing the instrument though - it's really crap lugging the drum-kit up the stairs and trying to find an empty double seat to get set up in.

3ndahalfof6

I got ear plugs, 50 cent for two (no point buy one) I got a tenners worth, they do work but if they are sitting close to you sometimes you can still slightly hear it, (this could just be my mind),

but while wearing the ear plugs I have started to read passages of a book I would be reading in voice, the crazy thing is I got pulled on it by an employee, saying I was upsetting other commuters,

while fook head was tinning his/her sound out to the max, I then said what about the guy/girl, pumping up the volume, the reply was, there is nothing we can do as they have headphones on.