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idiots on the bus with headphones on

  • 23-09-2009 07:26PM
    #1
    Funkytown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24 ✭


    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.


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  • #2
    Malice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,079 ✭✭✭✭Malice


    You might have been better off posting here :).


  • #3
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #4
    Redpunto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,024 ✭✭✭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


  • #5
    CianRyan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,730 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #6
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭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?


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  • #7
    Dennis the Stone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,358 ✭✭✭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.


  • #8
    CianRyan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,730 ✭✭✭✭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!!!


  • #9
    Chucky the tree
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,320 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #10
    Funkytown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24 ✭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.


  • #11
    Gavin "shels"
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,990 ✭✭✭✭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


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  • #12
    Funkytown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24 ✭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.


  • #13
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #14
    ballsymchugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,943 ✭✭✭ballsymchugh


    screw the green party. drive yourselves!!


  • #15
    _ZeeK_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 282 ✭✭_ZeeK_


    dom jolly headphones ftw.


  • #16
    Jim236
    Closed Accounts Posts: 956 ✭✭✭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:


  • #17
    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,581 ✭✭✭✭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. :)


  • #18
    Sarn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,180 ✭✭✭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!


  • #19
    CreepingDeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,015 ✭✭✭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.


  • #20
    CyberWaste
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,220 ✭✭✭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...


  • #21
    thebman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,001 ✭✭✭✭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.


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  • #22
    jellie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,503 ✭✭✭✭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 :o


  • #23
    Somnus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,345 ✭✭✭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.


  • #24
    The_Kew_Tour
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 36,032 ✭✭✭✭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? ;);)

    EVENFLOW



  • #25
    thebman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,001 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #26
    Funkytown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24 ✭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.


  • #27
    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,581 ✭✭✭✭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




    ;)


  • #28
    Neamhshuntasach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,205 ✭✭✭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.


  • #29
    Digitalism
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 991 ✭✭✭Digitalism


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


  • #30
    rainbowdrop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭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
    B) Under 25
    C)Over 65
    D) Mentally Retarded


    :D


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  • #31
    rainbow kirby
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭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. :)


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