People who plug in headphone and ignore everything

ILA · 28-09-2010 12:19PM #1

Interested in what the esteemed inhabitants of AH think about people who hide behind an iPod/Phone/Mp3 player and refuse to communicate with others in a public setting (bus, library, train, tram, gym, etc.)

Snakeblood · 28-09-2010 12:20PM

ILA wrote: »

Interested in what the esteemed inhabitants of AH think about people who hide behind an iPod/Phone/Mp3 player and refuse to communicate with others in a public setting (bus, library, train, tram, gym, etc.)

I think they're Irelands greatest heroes and you should stop bothering them.

NothingMan · 28-09-2010 12:20PM

Why are you trying to talk to strangers on the bus who have earphones in? Take the hint and let them enjoy their journey in peace.

chin_grin · 28-09-2010 12:21PM

ILA wrote: »

Interested in what the esteemed inhabitants of AH think about people who hide behind an iPod/Phone/Mp3 player and refuse to communicate with others in a public setting (bus, library, train, tram, gym, etc.)

Are you a chugger?

CHUGGER ALERT!

But seriously, you do realise you're asking why do people listen to music when they can listen to traffic. Wow.

seamus · 28-09-2010 12:21PM

ILA wrote: »

Interested in what the esteemed inhabitants of AH think about people who hide behind an iPod/Phone/Mp3 player and refuse to communicate with others in a public setting (bus, library, train, tram, gym, etc.)

What is it with people who think it's appropriate to talk to complete strangers in places like the bus, the library (STFU!) and the gym? What's wrong with them that they can't go for an hour without flapping their gums?

alwaysadub · 28-09-2010 12:22PM

I'm sitting in a doctors waiting room and kickin myself that i forgot my headphones. People annoy me. And as for being on a bus, never get on one anymore without my headphones, i'm sick of ould ones telling me their life story.

Sanjuro · 28-09-2010 12:23PM

ILA wrote: »

Interested in what the esteemed inhabitants of AH think about people who hide behind an iPod/Phone/Mp3 player and refuse to communicate with others in a public setting (bus, library, train, tram, gym, etc.)

I dunno what busses and trains you're travelling on, but about 99.9% of the ones I've travelled on, everybody pretty much keeps to themselves. I'd rather be listening to music on my commute than be just standing there while everybody is either stuck into a book, reading the metro, sleeping or staring out the window.

ILA · 28-09-2010 12:23PM

chin grin wrote:

[Are you a chugger?

CHUGGER ALERT!

But seriously, you do realise you're asking why do people listen to music when they can listen to traffic. Wow.

No, I'm even worse: I use this method of mp3 and headphones to me a commute tolerable and was posting in AH to see what reception this gets in the hidden mind of the "general public", assuming AH is anyway representative of public opinion.

Gunsfortoys · 28-09-2010 12:25PM

I took the luas home yesterday and have never been so severely punished for forgetting my iPod. Two knackers blasting out the knacker national anthem (Rhianna-Umbrella) from their cheap tin sounding mobile phones. All hail Mp3 players.

Millicent · 28-09-2010 12:26PM

seamus wrote: »

What is it with people who think it's appropriate to talk to complete strangers in places like the bus, the library (STFU!) and the gym? What's wrong with them that they can't go for an hour without flapping their gums?

Ah, I don't mind random chit-chat - can be a pleasant little interlude to the day - but sometimes you just want a bit of piece and quiet.

I used to work in a job that frazzled my brain and involved talking to a lot of people day-to-day. Sometimes you'd need a short while to recharge, especially if people were being especially difficult that day.

The amount of people that have no compunction or sense of awareness about basic social cues is shocking! Every time (and I mean every time) I would sit down with a book and my headphones in, someone would come along to ask what I was reading/listening to. Seriously people, take the f.ucking hint!

Eventually had to resort to sitting round the back of the store, out of the canteen and away from colleagues/customers just to get a few minutes peace. :mad:

MingulayJohnny · 28-09-2010 12:27PM

People choosing to listen to music on headphones that isn't audible to everyone else , no problem. People blaring inane s**te from a mobile phone or mp3 player out loud on a bus or train , turf them off then take them away and sterilise them.

kfallon · 28-09-2010 12:28PM

If I want to talk to weirdos on a bus I will, my MP3 player is a shield against these kind of freaks. I don't know you, I prob have nothing in common with you (apart from taking the same public transport) so leave me alone!

minotour · 28-09-2010 12:29PM

f**kers in the jaquzzi in the gym, trying to chat up birds, need an underwater iphone to combat that carry on.

Scuid Mhór · 28-09-2010 12:30PM

sometimes people just wanna be left alone. if you can't understand that, you probably shouldn't be allowed on buses/libraries/wherever else.

chin_grin · 28-09-2010 12:31PM

Here's one. Does anyone put their earphones in but are not listening to any tunes? I do it the odd time. Just to listen in............cos I'm curious........Or just paranoid. Dunno.

ILA · 28-09-2010 12:31PM

MingulayJohnny wrote: »

People choosing to listen to music on headphones that isn't audible to everyone else , no problem. People blaring inane s**te from a mobile phone or mp3 player out loud on a bus or train , turf them off then take them away and sterilise them.

Yeah, that's a whole other thread. What the feck is up with that? It's like an hour of torture on every commute if you don't have an an MP3 player.

Snakeblood · 28-09-2010 12:32PM

chin_grin wrote: »

Here's one. Does anyone put their earphones in but are not listening to any tunes? I do it the odd time. Just to listen in............cos I'm curious........Or just paranoid. Dunno.

I do it when I'm sitting beside people I don't want to talk to in my office. I don't necessarily want to listen to music (maybe I'm hungover!) but I don't want to talk either.

KerranJast · 28-09-2010 12:32PM

chin_grin wrote: »

Here's one. Does anyone put their earphones in but are not listening to any tunes? I do it the odd time. Just to listen in............cos I'm curious........Or just paranoid. Dunno.

Ah the good old office wiretap. Works a treat.

R0ot · 28-09-2010 12:35PM

You know sometimes after a long hard day at work the last thing I want to have to listen to on the commute home is some teenagers playing music over their mobile phone/some drunk spouting ****e/some foreigners who don't realise you don't have to yell everything in your native language to have a fecking conversation with the person beside you/[insert your hate here] .

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candy-gal1 · 28-09-2010 12:35PM

Maybe we just dont like people.

ILA · 28-09-2010 12:36PM

chin_grin wrote: »

Here's one. Does anyone put their earphones in but are not listening to any tunes? I do it the odd time. Just to listen in............cos I'm curious........Or just paranoid. Dunno.

Yeah, I do "spot checks" on the conversations around me from time to time. Just hit the pause button and earwig.

candy-gal1 wrote:

Maybe we just dont like people.

You can't "just not like people", you have to!

Turtyturd · 28-09-2010 12:38PM

chin_grin wrote: »

Here's one. Does anyone put their earphones in but are not listening to any tunes? I do it the odd time. Just to listen in............cos I'm curious........Or just paranoid. Dunno.

Yep, have also perfected the stare into the distance so I can ignore people who approach asking for money, ciggarettes or worst of all 'Is there a bus due?'....you walked past the timetable to come here and ask me you lazy f*ck.

flas · 28-09-2010 12:38PM

and there we have it, the reason ireland has lost its tag of a warm friendly country! people hiding behind a wall of music the whole time and who have the social skills of a feckin table!get out and talk to people,you would be pleasantly surprised! for every weirdo you talk to there is a really interesting person aswell.

WindSock · 28-09-2010 12:38PM

Thankfully I don't commute to work on public transport the moment, but if I did everyday, I would imagine I would stick in the headphones for the most part. I do like to keep alert to what's going on around me though. I would not really do it in another country though, as I like to experience the different sounds and goings on.

Snakeblood · 28-09-2010 12:39PM

flas wrote: »

and there we have it, the reason ireland has lost its tag of a warm friendly country! people hiding behind a wall of music the whole time and who have the social skills of a feckin table!get out and talk to people,you would be pleasantly surprised! for every weirdo you talk to there is a really interesting person aswell.

You can't hear the really interesting person for the lunatic shouting obscenities though.

candy-gal1 · 28-09-2010 12:40PM

ILA wrote: »

Yeah, I do "spot checks" on the conversations around me from time to time. Just hit the pause button and earwig.

You can't "just not like people", you have to!

Have to like or not like people?

Why would i have to like them? lol

PhiloCypher · 28-09-2010 12:40PM

My pet peeve is when I see a bunch of emo kids walking down the street each and everyone of them with earphones in and music blaring ,I mean if you're not going to actually interact with your mates why not stay in your bedroom and finish carving 4 real into your arm Richey Edwards style .

Snakeblood · 28-09-2010 12:42PM

Turtyturd wrote: »

Yep, have also perfected the stare into the distance so I can ignore people who approach asking for money, ciggarettes or worst of all 'Is there a bus due?'....you walked past the timetable to come here and ask me you lazy f*ck.

Generally speaking the timetable is about as good as a ouija board for bus times. Also, it's generally been torn off the pole and used as toilet paper.

Turtyturd · 28-09-2010 12:44PM

Snakeblood wrote: »

Generally speaking the timetable is about as good as a ouija board for bus times. Also, it's generally been torn off the pole and used as toilet paper.

True, but if I am standing at the bus stop I am not going to know any better.;)

jill_valentine · 28-09-2010 12:44PM

flas wrote: »

and there we have it, the reason ireland has lost its tag of a warm friendly country! people hiding behind a wall of music the whole time and who have the social skills of a feckin table!get out and talk to people,you would be pleasantly surprised! for every weirdo you talk to there is a really interesting person aswell.

The last time my MP3 player battery ran out while I was on the Luas, I was treated to the sound of four of those warm friendly Irish people- blind drunk at five in the afternoon - giving out about how, thanks to Mary Robinson, foreign b*tches like me were stealing all their jobs and should f*ck off home.

I daresay that has more to do with it.

flas · 28-09-2010 12:44PM

Snakeblood wrote: »

You can't hear the really interesting person for the lunatic shouting obscenities though.

maybe in dublin, but not in the rest of the country!

People who plug in headphone and ignore everything

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