What is it with people who play music through their crappy phone speakers on buses

Snake Plisken · 22-10-2007 11:30PM #1

Ok recently taking the 25A home in the afternoons and have noticed something that pisses me off, couple of weeks ok these black school kids get on and has songs noisely out of the phone much to the annoyance of other passengers, this has happened for the last couple of weeks not every day but most days. Last Thursday it was trackie Irish girls turn to do the same thing and then today there was a Turkish/Romanian Girl blasting ethnic Pop out of her phone and downstairs there was a one eyed china man doing the same thing? Do they do it to impress their mates or to upset everyone else? Why don't they just stick the headphones in? Dublin Bus should outlaw it.
Is this a Lucan thing or does it happen elsewhere?

Dave! · 22-10-2007 11:34PM

yeah that annoys me. It's always schoolkids though. Just stab them in the face and move on.

Malteaser! · 22-10-2007 11:35PM

It happens everywhere.

Very annoying, I'd say they're doing it to upset everyone else and just make as much noise/disturbance as possible!!!

andrew · 22-10-2007 11:43PM

I want to kick them in the face. Under my umberella ELLA ELLA ELLA AY AY AY

Ahhhhh!!

Terry · 22-10-2007 11:53PM

Anyone ever think of politely asking them to turn it off?

alleepally · 22-10-2007 11:54PM

It's the younger set that do it (and not only Dublin). It is very annoying though. I also find it incredibly annoying when people carry on long winded and loud conversations on the bus. So much so, that I am seriously considering buying a phone jammer, and switching it on when I get on the bus.

TPD · 22-10-2007 11:54PM

Yes, but I've thought about politely being stabbed as a consequence.

Orange69 · 22-10-2007 11:57PM

A good technique is to take the phone and insert it into them.

That usually sorts the situation out nicely..

23-10-2007 12:27AM

Maybe they are like dogs that pee on all the bushes as they walk about declaring their territory?

Sam Vimes · 23-10-2007 12:59AM

thats one of many reasons that i don't get the bus anymore. Train ftw

gazzer · 23-10-2007 08:43AM

Oh this is a big pet hate of mine (along with girls wearing pyjamas in the shopping centre).. Ive asked a couple of times would the person use a set of headphones instead of blasting their music but each time they shrug at me to indicate they dont speak english so I do have to point at my own headphones and point at their mobile.. They still just stare at me blankly and continue blasting their music

coolhandc · 23-10-2007 08:51AM

gazzer wrote: »

Oh this is a big pet hate of mine (along with girls wearing pyjamas in the shopping centre).. Ive asked a couple of times would the person use a set of headphones instead of blasting their music but each time they shrug at me to indicate they dont speak english so I do have to point at my own headphones and point at their mobile.. They still just stare at me blankly and continue blasting their music

yeh dey only speak english wen it suits them!it is very very annoying though.were can you buy these phone jammers?!

growler · 23-10-2007 08:54AM

hate these little feckers, always listening to some sh1te, I've also asked them to turn them off on occassion but have found a less polite approach to be far more productive / creates more risk of being stabbed.

have decided to completely boycott nokia as a result they seem intent on producing these nuisance devices which have no good reason to exist.

TheVan · 23-10-2007 09:14AM

Its a knack thing.

Nuttzz · 23-10-2007 09:15AM

no idea what you're talking about, but then again i wouldnt be seen dead on a bus

kaimera · 23-10-2007 09:18AM

growler wrote: »

hate these little feckers, always listening to some sh1te, I've also asked them to turn them off on occassion but have found a less polite approach to be far more productive / creates more risk of being stabbed.

have decided to completely boycott nokia as a result they seem intent on producing these nuisance devices which have no good reason to exist.

Clearly Nokia are the only ones that allow music to be played thru ones mobile :rolleyes:

I wonder what those SE Walkman phones are all about...

Dun laoire · 23-10-2007 09:25AM

They're kids. Kids do stuff like that

Dun laoire · 23-10-2007 09:28AM

Nuttzz wrote: »

no idea what you're talking about, but then again i wouldnt be seen dead on a bus

It would be a bit odd in fairness seeing a corpse on a bus.

4Xcut · 23-10-2007 09:31AM

Terry wrote: »

Anyone ever think of politely asking them to turn it off?

Have done it twice. Resulted in a turning off and then turning back on. Tbh, the driver should have just kicked them off the bus.

Dinxminx · 23-10-2007 09:50AM

DaveMcG wrote: »

It's always schoolkids though. Just stab them in the face and move on.

LMAO

Seconded. It is rather brutally annoying..

connundrum · 23-10-2007 10:06AM

I like to do this in mass. A bit of Run DMC goes a long way to making the gospel a bit more interesting.

When someone asks me to turn the music off/down I say:

Weeeaaaa, whats yore bleedin problem man??? Its a bleedin free countery de last toyim I checked!! Yore only mad jelous of my rapih fone!!

Stephen P · 23-10-2007 10:17AM

Don't get me started on things that irritate me on the bus. :mad:
The driver should tell them to knock it off!

Corega · 23-10-2007 10:26AM

I once sat beside this chap with Downs syndrome on the 75, he had a fairly sizeable sheet of bubble wrap and kept popping it intermittently for the duration of the journey...very annoying.

Zzippy · 23-10-2007 12:02PM

Corega wrote: »

I once sat beside this chap with Downs syndrome on the 75, he had a fairly sizeable sheet of bubble wrap and kept popping it intermittently for the duration of the journey...very annoying.

Ah, you were just jealous you couldn't pop it

Hellm0 · 23-10-2007 12:03PM

Corega wrote: »

I once sat beside this chap with Downs syndrome on the 75, he had a fairly sizeable sheet of bubble wrap and kept popping it intermittently for the duration of the journey...very annoying.

I shouldnt be laughing at that...

As for the school kids ,the 39 is riddled with this kind of vermin. Due to their number's and the pack mentality they develop when surrounded by their own kind I tend just to stick in my headphones and try my best to pretend I'm elsewhere.

elambra · 23-10-2007 12:47PM

Over here in Germany it's much the same, although the black & turkish kids play their hop-hop crap cos they think they are african-americans or 'urban', or whatever. The white kids play banging trance. either way, it's quite annoying to hear tinny high pass filtered tickity click crap, they must be doing it for attention..

faceman · 23-10-2007 01:27PM

jaysus, is this not the 3rd thread on this topic in about 6 months?

Hellm0 · 23-10-2007 03:47PM

faceman wrote: »

jaysus, is this not the 3rd thread on this topic in about 6 months?

Dont know but the above is a post I've seen a few hundred times before.

ntlbell · 23-10-2007 03:56PM

Hellm0 wrote: »

Dont know but the above is a post I've seen a few hundred times before.

Boards.ie

Now you're having deja vu!

james123 · 23-10-2007 04:09PM

one of my pet hates the 69 bus is full of them asked them politely turned it off for a while then kept turning it on behind my back dic*head. Then on a packed luas the other day some guy puts on a hard face and starts playing that umbrella song and others of lower quality everyone cringing, was the guy some sort of Tard

Scoobydoobydoo · 23-10-2007 04:15PM

4Xcut wrote: »

Have done it twice. Resulted in a turning off and then turning back on. Tbh, the driver should have just kicked them off the bus.

It'd be great if they had say a regular plain clothed inspector who would take the phones off them, and stamp on them, or just leave them with the driver. Or maybe the driver could blast out some Foster & Allen around the bus to drown out the tasteless muck from the mobiles, while returning the favour to their ears.

What is it with people who play music through their crappy phone speakers on buses

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