'Either turn it down or turn it off'

davet82

On this bus this morning and the guy sitting across from me was listening to music on his ipod/phone. It was loud enough that you could here the lyrics of the song clearly, I found it strange that a long haired dude was blasting Olly Murs on his ipod instead of Korn or some rocky moshy music instead…

anyways some woman who was sitting towards the top of the bus comes down to him taps him on the shoulder and tells him (not asks) to turn it down or turn it off, which the guy does and apologies

Now its his ipod and his ears so I’m sure it wasn’t just because it was Olly Murs (which I may have agreed with) but because it was too loud...

Is this normal behaviour? Would you tell somebody to turn off their ipod if some on the bus told you/asked and would you comply to a request/order to lower your music?

I would have told her to fcuk off personally.

Tabnabs

She deserves a medal!

Chips Lovell

Some people are just polite. Fancy that.

Jerrica

You choose to listen to your music, it's shít when people listen to it so loudly they force you to listen to whatever horsepoop that happens to be en vogue. Your music, not ours. Keep the volume down. She was dead right and fair play.

davet82 wrote: »

I would have told her to fcuk off personally.

That would have made you doubly obnoxious so.

BASHIR

This is how normal people interact. What's the problem?

DominoDub

Buy better quality (InEar or Closed Back) Headphones....!

Why are people spending €300 on Kit to play mp3's and then go and play them into cheap Headphones that cost only €3.00.

OldGoat

I'm of the opinion that on public transport right beside the little emergency hammer for breaking windows there should be an little emergency wire cutter for snipping headphone leads.

FortuneChip

I've never told anyone to turn down their music or whatever. I just curse them under by breath.

For some reason I'm always cautious about how loud my iPod is. That said, I can't imagine ever wanting to listen to music so loud that it's audible all through the bus. Can't imagine that's comfortable at all.

Lady is well within her rights to request this though

anncoates

I'd say nothing but it's fucking ignorant to blare music that loud.

At least get s pair of proper bucket headphones to muffle the noise a bit.

And answering a polite request with "fuck off" is eventually going to get you slapped.

im invisible

In other news the sky is blue, and the ground is white

oldyouth

It's impossible to know how loud your music is for others when your earphones are in. The lady pointed it out to him and he adjusted the volume. Well done to both parties

MurdyWurdy

When I was younger and got the bus a lot, every so often some oul wans would tell me to turn my music down, even though I know it wasn't that loud. Then they would try and talk the ear off me about their medical problems and the trouble they were having with the local gurriers. It was just an excuse for me to take my headphones off!

Wised up to that one pretty quickly.

If the music genuinely is so loud that you can hear the lyrics than fair play to her for saying something to him. Maybe he genuinely didn't know how loud it was? I usually just move in that situation rather than confront someone.

davet82

so what next no talking or laughing on the bus?

his ears his music is my opinion...

would i feel the need to get all annoyed at this and confront and embarrass a stranger on the bus sitting 10 seats away from me? - not me anyways

She'll do that to the wrong person someday and get a slap (not that i agree with anything like that btw)

If she had asked politely fair enough, but she sounds extremely rude/entitled.

The guy turned it down after being given out to by some random woman (which he probably found embarrassing).

I don't listen to music at all on transport purely because I wouldn't want to annoy anyone, but I'd feel pretty stubborn in that situation, and someone equally as rude as the woman could very well have felt provoked and gone on the offence. I think that if the guy turned it down after being spoken to like that, then he would have turned it down if asked nicely. I don't see why the women felt the need to issue orders.

I'm very much a rule-follower. Even if a rule seems silly to me, I'll follow it unless I have a genuine reason not to. I had a boyfriend once who used to always put his feet up on the seat and I'd always ask him not to. One time, he had his feet up on the seat and some woman came over and ordered him to take them down, accompanied by a lovely filthy glare. Regardless of whether I agreed with him doing it or not, I told that woman where to go. You don't go around speaking to people like that for something as small as transport etiquette.

syklops

OldGoat wrote: »

I'm of the opinion that on public transport right beside the little emergency hammer for breaking windows there should be an little emergency wire cutter for snipping headphone leads.

This is why I carry a leatherman.

I was in a pub one night last week and there was a crowd in playing rebel songs on the jukebox. I was in a closed off area where the pool table was and the speaker was blaring it out at us. The will power it took to not go over and snip that wire was unreal. You'd think in a situation like that you'd be able to at least turn off, or turn down the speaker.

Korvanica

davet82 wrote: »

I would have told her to fcuk off personally.

You're a lovely person. Bothering everyone on the bus with your music then telling them to fook off when they ask you to turn it down?

I'm guessing you're probably also one of those people who board the luas before everyone else has disembarked ?

GLaDOS

He probably wasn't aware how audible it was to everyone else. When pointed out to him he adjusted the volume accordingly. Woman was assertive, man reacts politely.

I try to be conscious of how loud my music is when I'm on public transport, I know it can be pretty irritating. Having noise cancelling earphones helps (and are generally better quality).

davet82

Korvanica wrote: »

You're a lovely person. Bothering everyone on the bus with your music then telling them to fook off when they ask you to turn it down?

I'm guessing you're probably also one of those people who board the luas before everyone else has disembarked ?

i dont give up my seat for grannys either :cool:

It wasn't his ears, it was everyone else's ears as well.

Good on her for saying something

tightropetom

oldyouth wrote: »

It's impossible to know how loud your music is for others when your earphones are in. The lady pointed it out to him and he adjusted the volume. Well done to both parties

Erm, if it's so loud that you can hear the vocals, how could you NOT know it's that loud?? Seriously, there's a difference between a slight hissing sound that's audible to the general public and music that blares out.

markpb

davet82 wrote: »

his ears his music is my opinion...

What about her ears and her music?

Duggy747

Headphones are so that you can listen to music to yourself.

Nobody else wants to hear your shìt taste.

28064212

davet82 wrote: »

his ears his music is my opinion...

It's not just his ears. If it was just his ears, the woman wouldn't have been able to hear it in the first place. Instead, the whole bus has to listen to some ****ty little distorted version of music that was crap in the first place

davet82

markpb wrote: »

What about her ears and her music?

she can go buy her own ipod, he shouldn't have to share an ear or compromise on his music

anncoates

It's easy to test how audible your music is.

I have a decent pair of bucket headphones and I just put them on my leg or something (so that the phones are covered like they would be on my ears) and test the volume.

If you have OK headphones, you can play music much louder than earphones anyway.

Come to think of it, every time I hear over-loud music from another person's headphones, it's either shit dance music or metal.

RikkFlair

Olly Murs? I would've strangled him with his own hair.

Lumbo

I was on the bus last week and someone had their Ipod on too loud. They were listening to an audio book and you couldn't hear it until the bus was stopped at lights or in traffic.

Only problem for them was that I think they were listening to 50 shades of Grey because there was some very graphic description of riding happening. It was actually quite funny and one of the few times I was glad that the volume was turned up.

Ush1

Sounds like the oul wan could have been a bit more polite herself than giving an ultimatum to him.

Kold

I'll listen to my music at a level sufficient to drown out people's mindless conversations. Usually isn't overly audible to everyone else.

davet82

10 seats away over a noisey dublin bus chugging its way around rush hour traffic and peoples voices i doubt her ears were that much effected but it was i her attitude that stank, no please no thank you. The guy seemed like a real timid dude and i wonder if the hash smokin monkeys we usually have on the bus that dont use earphones and play on their music through their phones like a ring tone, would she be as quick to confront them

it maybe annoying but its not like the chap lit up a ciggarette, if somebody is laughing or joking loudly would you tell them to shut up? same thing in my book (annoying but there is nothing you can do about as its a free country!)

Ush1

davet82 wrote: »

10 seats away over a noisey dublin chugging its way around rush hour traffic and peoples voices i doubt her ears were that much effected but it was i her attitude that stank, no please no thank you. The guy seemed like a real timid dude and i wonder if the hash smokin monkeys we usually have on the bus that dont use earphones and play on their music through their phones like a ring tone, would she be as quick to confront them

it maybe annoying but its not like the chap lit up a ciggarette, if somebody is laughing or joking loudly would you tell them to shut up? same thing in my book (annoying but there is nothing you can do about as its a free country!)

Might be for a seperate thread but I find old people to be the rudest people of all.

Of most of my instances of coming across obnoxious people, most of them have involved people aged over 50.

Anyone

No issues with people using headphones on public transport, I use them myself from time to time. But people who insist on playing it max volume and infect other peoples ears with their music are the same as others who contribute to the misery that is public transport.

mitosis

davet82 wrote: »

10 seats away over a noisey dublin bus chugging its way around rush hour traffic and peoples voices i doubt her ears were that much effected but it was i her attitude that stank, no please no thank you. The guy seemed like a real timid dude and i wonder if the hash smokin monkeys we usually have on the bus that dont use earphones and play on their music through their phones like a ring tone, would she be as quick to confront them

it maybe annoying but its not like the chap lit up a ciggarette, if somebody is laughing or joking loudly would you tell them to shut up? same thing in my book (annoying but there is nothing you can do about as its a free country!)

If she could hear it over the bus hub-bub from ten seats away it must have been extremely loud. Kudos to the passengers both!

Bad Santa

I want her babies.

snubbleste

What about people who have hearing loss but still want to listen to music

murpho999

I've noticed lately that some people (who aren't that young) have taken to ignoring headphones altogether and just playing their music through their phone speaker for everyone to hear.

Anyone else had this?

I've seen about 3 people in the last month do it...very strange.

murpho999

snubbleste wrote: »

What about people who have hearing loss but still want to listen to music

Buy proper headphones.

--Kaiser--

oldyouth wrote: »

It's impossible to know how loud your music is for others when your earphones are in. The lady pointed it out to him and he adjusted the volume. Well done to both parties

Got it in one mate

razorblunt

She was wrong to to not ask politely.
He was wrong to have it so loud.

He turned it down when prompted.

The world keeps turning.
We can get back to tracking down the real animals on buses. The people that sit next to their bag on a 2 seater.

davet82

murpho999 wrote: »

I've noticed lately that some people (who aren't that young) have taken to ignoring headphones altogether and just playing their music through their phone speaker for everyone to hear.

Anyone else had this?

I've seen about 3 people in the last month do it...very strange.

usually between 3 and 5pm, teenagers coming home from school

had a guy come into the local chipper with his phone pumping music and roaring over it to make his order...

i didn't realise they made them so loud!

Annasopra

davet82 wrote: »

so what next no talking or laughing on the bus?

his ears his music is my opinion

When it's so loud the whole bus can hear - it's not his ears or his music anymore

Kold

razorblunt wrote: »

The world keeps turning.
We can get back to tracking down the real animals on buses. The people that sit next to their bag on a 2 seater.

Those people aren't sh1t compared to anyone eating tuna in any space where other humans can be within smelling distance.

silvervixen84

I use noise cancelling earphones and still keep the volume at an appropriate level. I'm still a bit paranoid that people could possibly hear my 'eclectic' taste in music :pac:

sbsquarepants

syklops wrote: »

This is why I carry a leatherman..

Isn't that just a very slightly less scummy way of saying i carry a knife?

KezzCoakley

If you are on public transport then you have to put up with the public. If it bothers you hearing other peoples music then get your own head phones. What I have a bug bare with is people who have no headphones but still feel it is necessary to play their music through the speakers on their phones. If i wanted to listen to lady gaga I would buy the album.

KezzCoakley

mango salsa wrote: »

When it's so loud the whole bus can hear - it's not his ears or his music anymore

When someone is listening to music so loud most of the people on the bus can hear it then I don't think they even know what they are listening as it will just become mush in your ears

Lollipops23

mango salsa wrote: »

When it's so loud the whole bus can hear - it's not his ears or his music anymore

Agreed.
I have on occasion asked someone to turn it down-politely.
This morning I merely looked at a guy incredulously when his music started blaring and he sheepishly turned it down.
It's anti social behaviour to force others to listen to your music-i don't care if it's classical, rock or pop. It's not polite

anncoates

KezzCoakley wrote: »

If you are on public transport then you have to put up with the public. If it bothers you hearing other peoples music then get your own head phones. What I have a bug bare with is people who have no headphones but still feel it is necessary to play their music through the speakers on their phones. If i wanted to listen to lady gaga I would buy the album.

There actually isn't much difference between sitting beside some dickhead blaring music through shit headphones or phone speakers.

PhlegmyMoses

If somebody put it to me the way the OP is portraying the woman did I'd tell them to fúck off. She sounded quite confrontational so let's have a confrontation. If somebody politely asked me to turn my music down, I'd have no problem doing so: "Do you mind turning that music down, please, it's very loud?" "Sure, no problem." "Turn that music down or turn it off." "**** off and sit back down in your own seat you crazy old wench."

davet82

PhlegmyMoses wrote: »

If somebody put it to me the way the OP is portraying the woman did I'd tell them to fúck off. She sounded quite confrontational so let's have a confrontation. If somebody politely asked me to turn my music down, I'd have no problem doing so: "Do you mind turning that music down, please, it's very loud?" "Sure, no problem." "Turn that music down or turn it off." "**** off and sit back down in your own seat you crazy old wench."

Thank you, I'd be the same, if somebody asked me nicely i probably go along with it and lower it down (thinking to myself ffs) but ordering somebody knock off there ipod or lower it down....

i thought i was going insane there

PhlegmyMoses

davet82 wrote: »

Thank you, I'd be the same, if somebody asked me nicely i probably go along with it and lower it down (thinking to myself ffs) but ordering somebody knock off there ipod or lower it down....

i thought i was going insane there

Meh, there's a polite way of doing things. The guy probably didn't know his music was offensively loud. There is no need to take your Tuesday blues out on someone. Sounds like she skipped the reasonable approach and jumped straight on the high horse.