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But react angry when you remind them that you’re not interested in their conversation!
If they were talking with somebody standing next to them, would you do the same? Ask them to please shut up? If not, why is this different?
Asking out of real curiosity. I don’t mind if people talk close to me in a puplic place, as I don’t demand silence around me. Never cares for if it’s on the phone or in person.
The difference is that when there are two people having a conversation they aren’t almost screaming, because they understand each other. Those using their phones like that however…
And yes, I tell them their shit doesn’t interest anyone. It’s helping when you look like an bad angry bearded biker.
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Always the shittiest, most tone-deaf trap/hip-hop music with the same exact snare drum riff on a loop. There’s objectively good stuff from those genres out there, how do these people consistently find the worst?
We’re not talking about smart people here…
I use it in my shop when I’m alone and want something to listen to other than my tools.
my problem with people who do this? they’re listening to the worst possible music in a public space.
I used to do this a lot while working around the house/garage but got one of those small “soda can” sized blutooth speakers and would reccomend, its not super loud but the sound is rounded out around the bottom end and i can keep my phone out of the way of whatever i am around (dirt/dust/glues/water).
tried that but it doesn’t work for me. my shop is pretty big and I wouldn’t be able to hear it from one end to the other without pissing off all my neighbors with my taste in music. also, someone (wife) always calls me when I’m literally inches from cutting my fingers off or when I’m just starting a weld. it’s a hassle to have to take off my mitts, answer the phone, forget it’s on the BT speaker, swipe 3 times to unlock the phone, switch the call mode, answer it again, then get the question “how’s it going?”
It’s just easier for me to output from my phone in my back pocket or shirt pocket.
I get ya, what works for you is best, i used to put my phone in my shirt pocket a lot too but too many times i would lean over to do something/pick up something and then hear it hit the floor just as i straightened up.
Another trick i like is to wear those wired ‘ear bud’ style headphones that come with my phone and run the cord down my shirt along my back and into phone in pants pocket. The earbuds fit under ear muffs and dont dangle in front of me when using tools as they can only hang about 10cm in front of my face if they fall out, and to answer a call i just squeeze the button on the cord and the mic seems to pick me up fine for a quick call and keep working.
Probably the music is horrible too, so…
In the early 60s my teenage cousin constantly held a “transistor radio” like this up to her ear, listening to top 40 stations. I bet it sounded similar.
Got that blank stare down pat.
That’s angst.
I hate the people who get those shitty bluetooth speakers and blast them in public. The people who blast music from their phone’s speakers are assholes, but you could still say that they don’t have headphones on them, but the people with the speakers? They intentionally went out of their way to buy a device for the purpose of being a public nuisance. They’re a special of asshole.
Bro did this on the train last weekend. I told him the conductors tell us to silence our phones out of respect for everyone else. Didn’t do shit 😂
My father, back in the 90s, got into a fist fight with 2 guys over this, they had a boom box, he got stitches because one of their girlfriends came up from behind and hit him in the head with the radio. He was hot tempered. Glad you weren’t drawn into a confrontation and used your head.
Some do that even in the train.
I like to say “it sucks you can’t afford headphones”.
audiophiles and introverts in hard agreement in this one. handshake meme.
I’m neither and i dont mind listening to the classical radio station on my phone in my house, or seeing the odd cooky character passing by with their music for a moment. as long as they’re only passing thru…
Not just music but also stupid canned laughter comedy routines that some of my coworkers flood our break room with occasionally
Yeah. The proper way is to hook up your phone to, and carry around, your $2500 speakers with gold plated cables or whatever.
Now seriously, I don’t listen to music on the speakers because I’m mindful of other people, so I use headphones or simply don’t listen to music
or worst, TALKING loudy on thier phone to someone, or have it speaker, nobody wants to hear your whining.
Nah, playing music is worse. They are disrespecting the artist, the art, and everyone around them.
if its loud and annoying, but also talking loudly about thier daily problems is irritating too.
While I would never listen to music in public on my phone speakers, I have to say that they are just as good as, if not better than, transistor radios I have had.
577g 🤯
I’m in this picture and I don’t like it.
