Why are people assholes on public transport?

cannotlogin · 25-05-2019 10:36am #1

Currently in a 2.5hr bus journey and there's one passenger listening to a film with really loud sound effects.

Despite having been asking to turn it down, he's sill listening to it fully aware that everyone around him is really pissed off!

Seems to have improved in the last minute or two but it's so rude & inconsiderate.

PirateShampoo · 25-05-2019 10:36am

Bus Wanker

Shefwedfan · 25-05-2019 10:37am

They are just assholes, because they are on public transport just means you have to suffer them

Cee-Jay-Cee · 25-05-2019 10:38am

Everyone who uses public transport is an asshole, that’s just life and something you as an asshole will have to get used to.

Shefwedfan · 25-05-2019 10:39am

I am waiting for the post from someone saying “ I’m on the bus trying to listen to a film and some asshole keeps annoying me “

Omackeral · 25-05-2019 10:48am

Sick of seeing scrotes horsing around on the Luas.

Omackeral · 25-05-2019 10:50am

In all seriousness, the Luas is great. Firstly, it's free. It's convenient too as it rolls past St James Hospital to sort out various diseases, the 4 courts for cases and then city centre to hassle people and get drugs. Phenomenal service.

25-05-2019 10:51am

It’s nothing to do with public transport, or even being ‘assholes’. In his head he’s not being an asshole, he’s just enjoying a film.

It’s just that a quite large proportion of people only think of themselves.

fryup · 25-05-2019 10:52am

why are people assholes? fullstop

Eggs For Dinner · 25-05-2019 10:54am

Deleted User wrote: »

It’s nothing to do with public transport, or even being ‘assholes’. In his head he’s not being an asshole, he’s just enjoying a film.

It’s just that a quite large proportion of people only think of themselves.

Not being aware that you are an asshole is one of the key features of being an asshole

RikkFlair · 25-05-2019 10:55am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prH9RyFX4SM

cannotlogin · 25-05-2019 11:01am

Headphone aren't expensive and often free, cannot understand why he wouldn't use them!

So so selfish, fair enough if you didn't realise how loud and annoying you are but to continue whenit is brought to your attention is total wankery.

cannotlogin · 25-05-2019 11:01am

Headphone aren't expensive and often free, cannot understand why he wouldn't use them!

So so selfish, fair enough if you didn't realise how loud and annoying you are but to continue whenit is brought to your attention is total wankery.

fryup · 25-05-2019 11:01am

Deleted User wrote: »

It’s nothing to do with public transport, or even being ‘assholes’. In his head he’s not being an asshole, he’s just enjoying a film.

It’s just that a quite large proportion of people only think of themselves.

as denis leary so eloquently put it

FishOnABike · 25-05-2019 12:12pm

People are assholes
People use public transport
=> People on public transport are assholes

Collie D · 25-05-2019 12:48pm

Listen to your own movie, you cheap bastard

corner of hells · 25-05-2019 12:53pm

Omackeral wrote: »

In all seriousness, the Luas is great. Firstly, it's free. It's convenient too as it rolls past St James Hospital to sort out various diseases, the 4 courts for cases and then city centre to hassle people and get drugs. Phenomenal service.

Arguably, one of the best observations ever made in AH.
I tip my hat to you , sir.

circadian · 25-05-2019 12:56pm

cannotlogin wrote: »

Currently in a 2.5hr bus journey and there's one passenger listening to a film with really loud sound effects.

Despite having been asking to turn it down, he's sill listening to it fully aware that everyone around him is really pissed off!

Seems to have improved in the last minute or two but it's so rude & inconsiderate.

Because OP, **** you. **** everyone.

freshpopcorn · 25-05-2019 12:57pm

When I used get the bus one of my biggest bugbears was when people used sit beside me on a bus that was almost empty.

Samuel T. Cogley · 25-05-2019 2:04pm

freshpopcorn wrote: »

When I used get the bus one of my biggest bugbears was when people used sit beside me on a bus that was almost empty.

Easy way to stop that is smile and pat the seat as they approach. You'll be avoided at all costs.

Birneybau · 25-05-2019 2:14pm

I will walk back home, even if it will make me late, if I ever forget my own earphones. Will never use public transport without them

Pkiernan · 25-05-2019 2:15pm

cannotlogin wrote: »

Currently in a 2.5hr bus journey and there's one passenger listening to a film with really loud sound effects.

Despite having been asking to turn it down, he's sill listening to it fully aware that everyone around him is really pissed off!

Seems to have improved in the last minute or two but it's so rude & inconsiderate.

Usually come from a welfare background, so zero accountability and no responsibility.

orourkeda1977 · 25-05-2019 2:16pm

fryup wrote: »

as denis leary so eloquently put it

He stole that from louis CK

That makes him an asshole in my eyes

orourkeda1977 · 25-05-2019 2:17pm

Birneybau wrote: »

I will walk back home, even if it will make me late, if I ever forget my own earphones. Will never use public transport without them

It has the added advantage that you dont have to listen to the other assholes on the bus.

freshpopcorn · 25-05-2019 2:30pm

Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »

Easy way to stop that is smile and pat the seat as they approach. You'll be avoided at all costs.

I don't know. I've being felt up on the bus before by strangers who had to sit beside me.

Collie D · 25-05-2019 2:35pm

Pkiernan wrote: »

Usually come from a welfare background, so zero accountability and no responsibility.

There’s something wrong with you.

AMKC · 25-05-2019 3:44pm

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I don't know. I've being felt up on the bus before by strangers who had to sit beside me.

So are you saying you liked that then?

Birneybau · 25-05-2019 3:57pm

orourkeda1977 wrote: »

It has the added advantage that you dont have to listen to the other assholes on the bus.

Well, that was my point. :pac:

fryup · 25-05-2019 5:22pm

fryup wrote: »

as denis leary so eloquently put it

orourkeda1977 wrote: »

He stole that from louis CK

That makes him an asshole in my eyes

oh ya gotta link to prove it?

Blinky Plebum · 25-05-2019 6:23pm

On my bus there's a load of people who leave a bag on the outside seat as if saving it for someone. If I was more of a dickhead I'd make it my business to sit in one of those seats, don't understand what the **** is wrong with these people.

There are also people who leave the seat tilted all the way back ( a slight tilt is fine) so you have no room for your legs if you sit behind them.

Badly Drunk Boy · 25-05-2019 7:45pm

I was on a bus to Dublin this evening, and there was a lad directly behind me who started blaring music 15 minutes into my journey. After a bit it was replaced by spoken word/possibly radio in some foreign language that..eh...didn"t match his look...

I just turned up my own music (with my headphones on, of course! ).

freshpopcorn · 25-05-2019 7:59pm

AMKC wrote: »

So are you saying you liked that then?

No I didn't like it but acting crazy wouldn't help I'd say.

orourkeda1977 · 26-05-2019 12:47am

fryup wrote: »

oh ya gotta link to prove it?

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

Outlaw Pete · 26-05-2019 12:52am

Cause most people are selfish and inconsiderate around people that they don't want something from.

Spanish Eyes · 26-05-2019 12:54am

I remember years ago myself and my sister were on the late bus back home. She was sitting on the outside seat opposite me. The yoke beside her started messing with her legs, imagination required to picture it.... and sis just took out her cigarette lighter and burned the hand off him. Sweet.

I would politely ask for the sound to be turned down, failing that I think I'd just grab the offending article pro tem. For my sanity like. But it has never happened to me so I am just being the big I am!

Ficheall · 26-05-2019 1:30am

OP, find out the film and look it up, and then tell him all the plot twists, who dies etc.

jimbobaloobob · 26-05-2019 1:33am

Because theres three types of people in this world, one of them type happens to be assholes

JupiterKid · 26-05-2019 4:31am

I use the Dublin bus and Luas on a regular basis and I find that most people on public transport are actually very polite and courteous.

There is the odd scumbag creating a scene on the Luas red line and a couple of ignorant passengers on the bus now and then but by and large, people are polite.

The one thing though is the looking into phones or out the window - but never directly at other passengers. It's sort of being in a crowd but keeping very much to yourself.

Nigel Fairservice · 26-05-2019 5:28am

Blinky Plebum wrote: »

On my bus there's a load of people who leave a bag on the outside seat as if saving it for someone. If I was more of a dickhead I'd make it my business to sit in one of those seats, don't understand what the **** is wrong with these people.

There are also people who leave the seat tilted all the way back ( a slight tilt is fine) so you have no room for your legs if you sit behind them.

This drives me bananas. You see people getting on a busy bus obviously looking for a seat and people just sit there slack jawed intentionally oblivious to the fact theyre taking up 2 seats. If you want 2 seats pay for 2 seats! Fair enough if the bus is quiet, take 2 for yourself and your crap.

Wanderer78 · 26-05-2019 5:33am

Nigel Fairservice wrote:

This drives me bananas. You see people getting on a busy bus obviously looking for a seat and people just sit there slack jawed intentionally oblivious to the fact theyre taking up 2 seats. If you want 2 seats pay for 2 seats! Fair enough if the bus is quiet, take 2 for yourself and your crap.

Just sit on their bag without saying anything

franglan · 26-05-2019 4:41pm

I cannot understand the logic of people on public transport having full blown conversation on their phone on

franglan · 26-05-2019 4:44pm

I cannot understand the logic of people on public transport having full blown conversations on their phone on a bus where no one else is doing it. I wonder do they ever notice no one else is at it or clearly they have no self awareness. The ones on facetime on the bus and me sitting like a facking potato in the background of the camera... I just don't think it's an appropriate location for this, often feel like asking in English or if the person's first language is not English searching for whatever I think the language is and saying "do you think its appropriate to have this convo on public transport"...

Zorya · 26-05-2019 4:55pm

Buses are nightmares. You can't drink for 3 days before using one in case you might want to pee and there's no stop for hours, some big fat person in a wet rain coat will be sure to sit in beside you, then jostle you half to death as they remove the damn thing and release the shock and awe of their rancid arm pits. Just when you've deadened your brain to that assault, they will bring forth their home made egg and scallion sandwich followed by a big bag of stinky meanies to finish you off.

tcawley29 · 28-05-2019 1:38pm

You should see the dicks in NY on the subway with a bluetooth speaker cranked up to the last. Very annoying.

Antares35 · 28-05-2019 3:04pm

People who refuse to carry tissues and just sit there sniffling and snorting for an hour. Especially when they snort/hack and swallow (younger men are particularly bad for this I find).

Cyclepath · 28-05-2019 3:11pm

Wouldn't it be terrible if someone accidentally spilled a bottle of Fanta all over yer man's phone?

tcawley29 · 28-05-2019 4:39pm

Antares35 wrote: »

People who refuse to carry tissues and just sit there sniffling and snorting for an hour. Especially when they snort/hack and swallow (younger men are particularly bad for this I find).

They barely have room in their pockets for phone/money/cigs with these stupid skinny jeans and you want to add more load :O

Yer Da sells Avon · 28-05-2019 4:42pm

Antares35 wrote: »

People who refuse to carry tissues and just sit there sniffling and snorting for an hour.

Dirty bastards. They should use their sleeves like everyone else.

mcmoustache · 28-05-2019 4:51pm

Ficheall wrote: »

OP, find out the film and look it up, and then tell him all the plot twists, who dies etc.

That's some constructive advice right there. OP, please do this. It's the only way.

If you're even more fiendish, watch the movie yourself near him but be 10 seconds ahead of him.

TeaBagMania · 28-05-2019 4:51pm

if this one ever gets out of prison im sure she can assist you with any problem passengers on the bus...

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/las-vegas-woman-bus-elderly-man-232514617.html

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 28-05-2019 5:02pm

franglan wrote: »

I cannot understand the logic of people on public transport having full blown conversations on their phone on a bus where no one else is doing it. I wonder do they ever notice no one else is at it or clearly they have no self awareness. The ones on facetime on the bus and me sitting like a facking potato in the background of the camera... I just don't think it's an appropriate location for this, often feel like asking in English or if the person's first language is not English searching for whatever I think the language is and saying "do you think its appropriate to have this convo on public transport"...

I’ve no problem with anyone using their phone on public transport as long as they aren’t yelling. It’s no different to two people having a conversation at a reasonable volume. I don’t understand why people talking on their phones on PT annoys some people in and of itself. I only find it annoying if they are being loud or have put the call on loudspeaker which is always loud.

People with colds sniffling and coughing does annoy me but I’m aware that that’s unfair because people can’t help that. I’ve had colds where I couldn’t control the coughing and sniffling, no matter how much I tried. All I could do was cover my nose and mouth.

Why are people assholes on public transport?

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