I always assume people doing this are unhinged/crazy and I definitely don’t want to deal with that.
Sometimes they look nice enough.
Usually what happens is myself and everyone else on the train look at each other, have a shared look of “Morons? Am I right?” and then when that person leaves, we all share a group laugh.
So I guess what I’d say is, if you do this, know that everyone is laughing at you. If you say you don’t care, that’s a lie, you do care, that’s why you’re doing what you’re doing. This is not positive attention, this is negative attention. Please take a moment and reflect to be a force for positivity and not negativity.
The new trend I’ve noticed, actually is people SINGING/RAPPING along to the music on their headphones, like, fully as if they were the only ones there, while on a packed train.
I mean, i guess it’s better because it’s not as loud as their shitty Bluetooth speaker at max volume peaking like crazy, but it is super weird and very fuckin annoying.
Like, cool, we get it you’re so super confident and think youre as cool as the person you’re listening to in one of their music videos. But you’re not. Because you sound like shit and you’re a dick. Everyone else is getting through this train ride, why the fuck do you think we want to hear YOUR rendition of what you’re listening to? Like, I really can’t decide which is worse. One is way louder but one is way fuckin weirder. People who do either of these are true assholes.
Some guy got stabbed on the subway in Toronto a few months back because he asked a guy playing music to turn it off. It really is a crazy world out there.
Genuinely not necessarily true. I used to do this when I was younger. It wasn’t because I wanted attention, I just like the feeling of being surrounded by music
Genuinely, the world does not want to always take part in what you want. There are rules to society that most of us at least try to follow out of respect. Time and place to be surrounded by music. I’d definitely say on the bus or train is not the time or place. Agree?
I don’t personally do it myself just because I know the majority finds it disrespectful, but I actually enjoy it, especially when they are playing a good song and i can audile who the artist is.
headphones are both more polite and more immersive thwn carrying around a speaker to annoy others
So true. I have an older pair of headphones and they’re still the best sound I can get for my music. It’s the MOST immersive, not only like the sound is all around me, but right inside my head.
I masturbate on trains—not because I want attention, I just like the feeling of cumming and I wanted to cum.
when I was younger.
Looks like you’re still not forgiven :)
You’re a bad person.
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Also, I live in the US,
The first paragraph made that clear.
Americans who want to confront but can’t afford medcare 🤝 Swedes who have full access to medcare but are afraid of social interaction
I was gonna say that. The guy with the speaker is also the one asking you for coke or heroin on the L.
It’d be worth it if you happen to have weapons yourself, though, simply by virtue of the fact that they are unstable, violent bullies.
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And that means what in this context?
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There’s literally no way to prevent that that doesn’t involve compromising one’s values and the safety of others, so it’s a risk you’ll just have to accept.
I have to accept it just being alive riding on a bus. What makes you think you’re so special that you can just opt out? If you have a car, drive.
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Yes, that is what it means to be a principled person. Life is ephemeral and temporary, and you’ll die a worse death from cancer or Alzheimer’s than you will through violence, to start.
Life’s not all about you and your ability to continue shoveling food in your face and arguing on the internet. You are a social animal and therefore you have a moral obligation to put others before you, especially in violent situations where someone else’s life may be in danger.
Is your life more valuable than anyone else’s on that bus?
What happens when the brat starts harassing other passengers (which they do, all the time)? Threatening or hurting people? Sexually assaults someone?
Do you intervene which would protect the others regardless of whether you win the fight or not? Or do you tell yourself your health and livelihood is the only thing that matters and try to justify your cowardice by convincing yourself the cops will somehow magically appear on a moving bus and stop him before he kills her (the victims are typically women)? Even knowing the fascistic and abusive tendences of police, and how they often don’t protect people from violence?
You’re not just a coward, you’re a selfish despicable piece of shit.
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What country do you live in?!
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I never claimed that. Saying that ignores the amount of times it happens in a given country. Per capita.
What country are you from then?
Probably Denmark considering the name and one comment they made referring to Denmark.
I feel sorry for them.
Neither Sweden or the UK have that many knife related deaths (I couldn’t find any good non death statistics).
Probably a city in America, crazies live out here.
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Seriously, why do high population centers in the western world have so many mentally unstable people and/or tweakers?
Low population areas do to. But you don’t have public transit so as long as you don’t wander into their meth labs you never have to meet them.
Those type of people exist everywhere.
Lots of people.
Small town crazy is different. Small town crazy everyone knows who the lunatic is and avoids them or they don’t know and one day several people disappear or someone is kidnapped or something. Small town crazy scares the shit out of me.
Small town crazy is more like the sheriff knows you beat the shit out of your wife and kids but ignores it as long as nobody ends up in the hospital.
If rural crime was reported accurately, it would be very clear where the most dangerous places per capita are.
Because those places have actual free media which report these kinds of issues.
Crazies live everywhere bro
But the crazies tend to get better help in other countries. Free healthcare and all.
Hey we have free healthcare in Canada and our waitlists are so laughable you may as well just join the crazies.
The system here isn’t perfect either. But it is clearly a lot better than in many other places.
That’s if they want help at all.
Free my ass. Tax payer funded. If you’re going to support something, at least be honest about it.
Nothing in life is free. I guess we should just get rid of the word. Who doesn’t know that “free healthcare” is paid with taxes? I obviously mean no unexpected bills or denied healthcare. Nobody has to chose between food or medication. Obviously…
Do you also comment about the word literally and figuratively being synonyms?
Literally, it’s an important point that seems to be lost on many that believe if we just tax the top 10% (who pay 90% of total tax revenue) even more, we can fix all our problems. Every country with socialized healthcare requires every citizen to pay a significant tax to cover the cost. If people are not willing to pay for it, they shouldn’t be advocating for it. But first they have to be educated on the reality of the cost. So yeah, stop saying free because many have no clue.
Not just America. I saw this on the DB to Strasbourg, drunk middle aged woman spitting vile at each person who passed her.
You really wanna handle that?
The only time I’ve seen actual violence on public transit was in Germany, fwiw
Same for me
I’m not in the game of tempting fate
Why is it always the worst rap music imaginable? Like, I’m a hip hop fanatic, old school, new school, trap, g funk, boom bap, conscious, etc. But why is it the most asinine “i took a xanny now i’m fucking your girl” type shit?
You don’t enjoy “Gucci Gucci Gucci Gucci, fucked yo girl on a Tuesday, Gucci Gucci Gucci Gucci, I made poopies on yo boobies, Gucci Gucci Gucci Gucci.”
For real when did brands become choruses?
I often wonder if they get sponsored, like all these AP and Rolex on drill wrappers wrists they rap about idk, seems so specific sometimes
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That’s not at all the same, since it’s part of the chorus and follows a rhyming scheme that isn’t just rhyming itself.
Is that really a lyric!?
No it’s a joke about a megos song.
Nope, not worth it. I’ve stopped trying to convince others to be considerate in public. They’ll either ignore you or blow up and get aggressive. I’d rather just try to ignore them myself and move on with my life.
And at the end of the day, I’m also not some authority figure like their mom or dad; I’m nobody to them. As much as I may not always like it, strangers don’t owe me anything, including their consideration.
Strangers who use public spaces absolutely owe other people their consideration. It’s part of the price of admission to a public space. It’s not enforceable in practice but I’d be surprised if a certain level of being inconsiderate is even legal in most public spaces.
I don’t disagree with that in theory, but like you pointed out… Who’s going to enforce it in practice? Shouldn’t have to be me, or anyone else who doesn’t work for public transit.
Obviously there’s a point where I’d say something if a person was being truly inappropriate, but I’m not risking my neck over music on a bus.
You can at least feel superior to the assholes screwing up public spaces to the rest of us.
How is this not enforceable ? When someone is way to loud, drunk, promesticutus or drunk in the public space, you can call the police. Of course, there is appropiate mesures so police won’t come for music that is merelly loud but appropriate public behaviour is indeed enforced.
You can call the police, but will they actually show up and do anything about it? Where I live they almost certainly will not.
Where I live, the police only do something about it if they’ve been called multiple times and are annoyed. Which just encourages people to report it immediately instead of when they actually need the noise to stop.
If people cared about your opinion on their intrusive actions, they wouldn’t be doing anything intrusive in the first place.
The real caption should be “Am I the only one who makes memes about my tough guy delusions?”
Maybe OP found the one truly ignorant but considerate person in the world who has done this. Everyone else knows it’s a waste of time.
I have shaped my life to minimize exposure to anyone else and the first half of this is a good summary of why.
This is the most reasonable take here.
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Why even have rules of social discourse then?
I get the safety risk but at the end of the day, it’s everyone’s responsibility to enforce social norms because that’s the only way we get to have peace and quiet. And to not be run roughshod by those who don’t care otherwise.
How long will we let ourselves be intimidated by them?
I’ve tried this. Guy next to me was playing a video game on full blast that I can hear over my noise cancelling headphones. I asked him if he could turn the sound down.
He said “F you! This is my console. I do what I want! You’re the only one complaining so shut the f up”…
“Wanna hold a referendum on that?”
IMHO you would have been within your rights to yank that guy’s console out of his hands and smash it.
Of course the risk escalating wouldn’t be worth it, but you’d have the moral high ground at least.
Someone being obnoxious does not give you the right to damage their property.
This is an absurd and extremely juvenile take.
In many places, what you suggest would be charged as an assault, and destruction of property.
Yes? I’m not saying it’s a good idea to actually do it.
Start up your Bluetooth speaker. (Buy one if you haven’t got one. It doesn’t have to be good, just loud.)
Ramp it up to 11.
Start the most annoying obnoxious sound you have, (that you have already downloaded).
Stand next to the person playing the shitty music and aim the speaker at then.
When they complain about your annoying noise you reply, “You started it.”Is this the real reason polka was invented?
Hey! I’ll have you know that the “Polka King of the Midwest” doesn’t take kindly to comments like that!
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Yoko Ono it is!
Now now, there’s no need to be so evil!!
uses colorful metaphor
Well double dumbass on you!
The 1 downvote you have is from a sequel trilogy fan.
i wonder what would happen if you just start acting really into it and singing along terribly with enthusiasm.
The “my parents are so lame” gambit.
Probably tge safest option
Yeah I don’t need the tweaky dude stabbing me on the train because I didn’t like his music, but thanks
I’m American, I’m not trying to get shot
Nice try; Americans don’t have public transport.
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German here. A woman was starting to play loud music on her phone while I was sitting at a bakery having a cup of coffee, trying to relax from a bad morning. I opened Spotify, checked for this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDBDtIOxUsI Every Maaaaaamaaaa I was singing loudly along. She lasted half of the song then fled the scene, even left her coffee on the table. My ears were bleeding, but it was worth it.
Fight them with the most terrible old people song you know in your country, be aware that it might hurt you too.
No all hero’s wear capes…it’d be cooler if you did though
Or you can choose a mixture of terrible and majestic and sing with all your might.
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Yes. We shoot people for accelerating from a stoplight too fast here.
You better have the gun from the meme if you’re gonna make a habit of this.
1911? Yeah. We got those.
Try that in a big town
