People who play music on public transport

[Heartbreaker]

Were you personally sent by Satan to do this annoying shit?

[Talent Name]

My favorite are the ones who try and freestyle on the bus

[Heartbreaker]

May 29, 2017 21:34:05 GMT -5 Talent Name said:

My favorite are the ones who try and freestyle on the bus

I swear this guy was playing his awfully produced mixtape. He kept looking to see if anyone wanted it.

[Gawk Rivers]

When I was on the train a few weeks back, some dude was playing a DS game and decided to read out all the dialog out loud. He kept messing it up, so he'd do like multiple takes. He kept going even after he got off the train.

[Jiren]

Spock knew how to handle these guys

[dragonofearth]

i live along the main road in the town i live in, and near a red light. so, what i get is loud bass thumping for a while and tire burning out once the light goes green. annoying as hell.

[Zombie Mod]

May 29, 2017 21:24:58 GMT -5 Heartbreaker said:

Were you personally sent by Satan to do this annoying shit?

No, that's the people who have personal phonecalls on the bus/train.

[SmashTV]

I saw a clip online recently of some bloke, topless apart from war paint, singing and dancing on the bus while trying to promote some sort of peace message. Aside from the person filming him, nobody else even acknowledged him.

And rightly so.

[Father Dougal McGuire]

Could be worse. It could be porn.

[CMPunkyBrewster]

Back in 2015, Brandy (for those who don't know, she was an R&B singer in the late 90s/early 2000's and also starred on a tv show called Moesha) posted a video of herself loudly singing on the subway. She even kept going "Is everybody good? Is everybody ready? Sir, you good, you ready?" like she was preparing the world for her groundbreaking performance.

Nobody gave anything even remotely resembling a f***.

She even stops and tries to goad a reaction out of the other people...who continue to not care. Eventually, one woman takes one for the team and gives her some vague compliment like "You sound nice" or something like that.

It's simultaneously REALLY sad and REALLY funny, because she clearly expects an "Oh my god! BRANDY is on the subway and singing!" kind of reaction, which never comes because it had been at least 10-12 years since she had been anywhere near the mainstream. Most of the people on that subway had most likely never even heard of her.

[Push R Truth]

May 30, 2017 1:57:10 GMT -5 Zombie Mod said:

May 29, 2017 21:24:58 GMT -5 Heartbreaker said:

Were you personally sent by Satan to do this annoying shit?

No, that's the people who have personal phonecalls on the bus/train.

Many times I've seen this in subways/buses/airports:

Personal phone call, borderline yells about intimate secrets of their or the callers life. The amount of times I hear about somebody I don't know having a period, an affair or is just being an asshole is getting astronomical.

If somebody strikes up a random conversation about the local sports team, the weather, what restaurants to try in town... speaks in a whisper that can't be heard. Wants to remain private.


I feel like this is the new version of the old "guy with boom box in public transportation" with an extra twist of odd.

[Deleted]

I ride the subway everyday to and from work. Oakland to SF.

During the commuter hours (but especially in the morning) almost all the cars are pin-drop quiet. People just want to get to work and are reading something on their phone or a book - whatever.

Invariably there is always at least two people talking to each other VERY LOUDLY so that the whole car can hear them and it's always either about stupid work stuff or the most mundane "omg, did you see the new placemats I bought" chatter. Literally everyone else completely silent except for these two people blathering on at a volume well-beyond reasonable.

There aren't any official rules against talking loudly during these commuter hours on the train, but I just don't understand how people can't read the room and/or abide by the social contract of the moment.

These people are the subway equivalent of elevator farters.

[The Legend of Groose]

I work in audio production, so any outside sound that's not mine triggers me so hard. I don't mind people playing music, but not everyone wants to hear your songs. It's just rude.

[Gus Richlen: Ruffian]

Just ask them to do Classical Gas.

[Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie]

yeah i try to sing to myself quietly, so you can't blame me

AT ALL

damn it

[unc40]

I drive a bus and for the most part people usually have their heads buried in their smart phones texting and playing games. Someone playing their music loud on my bus usually isn't a problem because people aren't on the bus that long and not worth it. The one problem I do have is the language some people use. It's one thing to drop the F-word once in a while but to use it over and over is too much. Once a guy on my bus was telling his friends about what he was doing with a girl he had meet the previous night and in explicit details. Does anyone have common sense anymore.

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

Living in New York I'm used to it but it still irks me when these older people come into a store with a f***ing speaker.

["Trickster Dogg" James Jesse]

May 30, 2017 10:22:10 GMT -5 @personman01 said:

I ride the subway everyday to and from work. Oakland to SF.

During the commuter hours (but especially in the morning) almost all the cars are pin-drop quiet. People just want to get to work and are reading something on their phone or a book - whatever.

Invariably there is always at least two people talking to each other VERY LOUDLY so that the whole car can hear them and it's always either about stupid work stuff or the most mundane "omg, did you see the new placemats I bought" chatter. Literally everyone else completely silent except for these two people blathering on at a volume well-beyond reasonable.

There aren't any official rules against talking loudly during these commuter hours on the train, but I just don't understand how people can't read the room and/or abide by the social contract of the moment.

These people are the subway equivalent of elevator farters.

This sounds like an excellent example of alienation in action, wherein the people who are engaged in the most social of activities, like communication, are deemed to be disruptions to the regular, mute functionality of the commuter experience.

[Fade]

Ever since I went back to school, this is just a thing I guess young douche bags do? Blast music..like..you could enjoy it with headphones, but no, all those around you must know your taste in music..

[cosmo]

The ones I see are people who will will be on the phone and have the speakerphone on or be engaged in Skype/FaceTime calls (while having the camera pointed straight up in the air so they can speak directly into the microphone), because everyone wants to hear their conversation.