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MP3 player phones on Buses
Vince J
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The quality of this video isn't all that great but watch this to see what I'm talking about http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FP254kR_vaQ
I think the points raised are spot on. It is extremely anti-social, unnecessary and annoying. It doesn't bother me when the person sitting next to me is using their earphones but when a bunch of loud kids come tramping on the buses with loud trance music/heiium vocals screaming out their MP3 playing phones it just shows sheer selfishness and lack of considerarion for people who wish for their journey to be peaceful.
No wonder people don't want to confront them, especially when their response is going to be a tirade of verbal abuse and cursing. We reserve the right to travel in peace and security. I really do hope that measures are put in place to stop ASBO behaviour.
I think the points raised are spot on. It is extremely anti-social, unnecessary and annoying. It doesn't bother me when the person sitting next to me is using their earphones but when a bunch of loud kids come tramping on the buses with loud trance music/heiium vocals screaming out their MP3 playing phones it just shows sheer selfishness and lack of considerarion for people who wish for their journey to be peaceful.
No wonder people don't want to confront them, especially when their response is going to be a tirade of verbal abuse and cursing. We reserve the right to travel in peace and security. I really do hope that measures are put in place to stop ASBO behaviour.
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I just wish it was trance..
Everytime I'm on a bus there is always either an Asian, or a Black person who looks like some sort of wannabe gangster, sat at the back of the top desk with some awful hip hop blaring out. Don't even start with the racism card regarding my point of them being black or asian, I've never seen a white person do this.
What is the point of it? The music quality from a mobile phone speaker and more often than not absolute bollocks anyway!
I've seen white people do this. Strangely enough though, its always that chamillionaire song....
That does seem to be the 'white gangsta' song of the moment.
I guess it's down to where you live. My main bus goes through majority Asian areas.
They then proceeded to blast music out and it really was annoying me. It was just the same beat over and over.
All this and I'm 20. I dread to think how older people, especially the elderly who can't defend themselves feel.
That made me laugh SO much, I'm of black origin but completely Scottish, so no offence taken. But I understand what you mean. But I have to say what you said doesn't happen often where I live, I'm in a huge minority up here.
In Edinburgh (where I live) it's mainly 13-18 year old girls who either shout to one another over their music or sit at the backs of the bus in packs of 5 completely ignoring each other whilst listening to their sh!tious music... then one of them starts singing along... :rolleyes:
It's not the type of music I'm getting at *lol* I honestly couldn't give a hoot if it's my all time favourite song, all I'm asking is for them not to share it with people who don't want to listen to it.
Mobile phone noise polluters should be stopped, though, regardless of race.
C'mon, nanny state, sort it out.
Totally agree, I've been on buses with these kind of kids a few times. Their music sounds f**king horrendus to start with & it sounds even worse screeching out of a crap little phone speaker.
Agreed! As I said, I'm guessing it's down to where you are. I'm glad you didn't take offence as I didn't mean to cause any!
They obliged, they were all about 16 yr old and I got the usual verbals from the hard men when the got up and were nearer the front of the bus, as they thought they were getting off at a different stop from me
As I stood up to give them the impression I was about to get off with them, they soon quietened up and left the bus in a hurry.
I pay money to sit on a usually over-crowded smelly bus with the heaters on full blast regardless of the weather, i'll ****ed sideways by a tow bar if any young knobs are gonna make it anymore unpleasant for me.
Fortunately where I live, there's not really a knife culture etc that gripped other cities, otherwise I wouldn't be so wuick to speak out I reckon.
"have you got any headphones?"
"that sounds rubbish"
"can you play that inside?"
"its much nicer out here when its quiet!"
"for god's sake, turn it off or go inside!" :mad:
Fortunately she got the hint at the end
the number 30 going to clovenstone in edinburgh is the worst for skanky teenage girls with shit taste in music, they dont call that service the looser cruiser for nothing,
Just so you people know, I'm 23...
I get the local bus to the roadworks\streetlight depot I work and unfortunately the bus goes to college so you get loads of chavs playing music on their crappy sounding MP3 playing phones. My phone also plays MP3s but I never use it.
When I want to listen to music, I listen to it at home using my DVD micro stereo system as the sound is excellent and has brilliant bass :cool:
They also pick on people who can't defend themselves like the disabled people and the people who wear high visibility uniforms, but they stopped picking on me after they threw a bit of paper on me and I stood up and made myself look taller and bigger!
The one thing I've notice is if you say something like have you got something to say about me? they get in to a flap and say no I wasnt or if they ask you something to say? and you reply yeah I do actually, they don't like it and THEY dont like being spoken to or humiliated. Not so tough after all, huh?
You definitly have a point there.
I am also mostly into brands but my DVD Micro system is a LOGIK (DSG's own brand) and have a Ferguson 28" TV, Sharp VCR, etc
anyway.... back to the real subject
Seriously, we're being told to take public transport more to save the environment. It's hardly an attractive thought having to share a space with these stupid kids. Curses to the mobile phone companies who put this facility in the phones, the stupid tosspots.
Anyway regardless of the genre they shouldn't be playing it out loud at all but it definately doesn't bother me enough for it to disrupt my journey, if anything it adds some excitement LOL Thats how boring the bus journeys are, but I can totally see why people wouldn't want to hear it.
And you can barely hear what the singer is saying (then again, like all dance music!)
Then it gets worse. When they repeat their chavvy music over and over again. I had Lil Chris squealing right next to my ear after a hard days work! I didn't want to hear some pre-teen's squeals from a crappy MP3 Phone right in my ear after I have had only a very short lunch break :mad:
Or hearing that repeated dance song that gets stuck in your head when you get off the bus, especially that one where you hear the singer sing "Because everytime we touch, I get this feeling...." Oh the pain of bus journeys! I can't wait until I start driving :mad:
Unfortunately, it just sounded silly when everyone else was sitting clutching their shopping bags and talking about what they were going to have for tea. He stood out like a sore thumb.
He was white and he had a completely bald head which may have been shaven but I suspect was a vain attempt to disguise premature hair loss. He looked like a plonker in his baggy street clothes.
And then, when he stood up to get off he lurched across the top deck and made a gun shape with his fingers, shouting "brrap! brrapp!". I think he may not have been entirely well.
So kids, next time you're on a bus and you feel like listening to some tunes, think again. It'll make you look like an old white mental case.