My heartbeat just goes up. It just triggers me so fucking much.
Even talking does’t trigger me that much, it’s something about that phone speaker’s weak crackling sound, I despise that. It’s like the REVERSE of asmr.
Yes. Hate it. And exactly at this moment there are two of them going off.
Oh yes, I hate disrespectful people so much.
I firmly believe we should test those people who don’t put their carts back, and who play tik tok on loudspeaker and banish them to a remote island. We would have a utopia overnight.
/s (or is it…)
Yes, but I honestly don’t entirely understand why it bothers me so much. I think it’s the compressed and high-frequency noise aspect of it. Like if someone just had white noise blasting out of a tiny phone speaker, there would be no discussion that it’s intended to annoy.
Very much, yes. It’s so disrespectful to other people.
Yeah it makes me want to take their phone and crush it and scream at them. :)
Ive been thinking about this. Its always other people, at work or other places where we are forced to be, who makes life full of frustrations. And its not like we can leave. We have to be in those places. I think thats what makes us so frustrated.
I also think its normal to be angry and frustrated by that. I just cant imagine being totally fine with it and feeling content and happy around that behavior. Maybe if I was a teenager.
It can completely ruin my mood. External noise doesn’t both me too much, if it doesn’t include actual words. Anything with words disrupts my concentration badly. It keeps me from reading. It even makes it hard for me to follow a train of thought. It feels almost like a physical assault, to me.
I’m amazed that there aren’t frequent murders over this.
Yes. Inconsiderate & selfish people.
From time to time I see people taking video calls on speaker in public (in enclosed spaces where everyone else can hear); in situations like this I’m always tempted to pop into the frame and say “HELLO!” since apparently the call is public, not private, and that maybe they’ll get a hint. I’ve never actually done it since I have the common decency, but others, sadly, just don’t seem to take social cues.
On one occasion when an idiot was blaring music from their phone so loud the whole train carriage I was in were forced to listen to it, I queued up some metalcore and held my phone up so close that it was near his ear. He jumped, startled, and then tried to start a fight with me which was a bitch to de-escalate and prevent myself from getting punched without other passengers verbally backing me up and him eventually getting off at the next station.
Suffice to say two things: it’s not something I’ll likely do again for fear of my own safety, and the people who do this have a significant overlap with people who consider personal violence to be a warranted response when inconvenienced; i.e. they’re selfish, violent arseholes.
Its the selfishness of people playing loud ass tiktoks, looping AGAIN and AGAIN, on public transport. Like use some fucking headphones. You can even get shitty wired earphones for like 3 quid on amazon or at a corner shop.
Oh, the looping.
I don’t usually mind the sound of my wife tictoking, but sometimes she dives deep into the comments and I’m stuck listening to the same 30 seconds of audio over and over and over.
Yup, my wife watches a lot of shorts. I don’t get it. I think it’s bad for you, but it’s her choice as an adult. With that said, the looping is enraging.
When it starts to get to me, I start singing along. That usually ends it pretty damn quick.
You can even get shitty wired earphones for like 3 quid on amazon or at a corner sh
To be fair, if you’re talking 3.5mm headphones/earbuds, you’re likely going to need to add a USB DAC with that too, as most current smartphones don’t have a 3.5mm jack.
That doesn’t fundamentally change the point on cost — you’re talking maybe $6+ more on Amazon — but it does cost more.
There are now cheap trash airpods clones with usb c at the end now. So no need for those obnoxious people to get a dongle and no excuse other than zero empathy
I still have a 3.5mm on mine, for that reason exactly.
You don’t need a DAC with USB C.
Depends. Some phones can push actual audio through basic USB-C adapter (using their built-in DAC). Some other just won’t, and the only way they can work is if you use an active adapter that shows up as an audio device on your phone. It’s rarely if ever explicitly said which phone needs an actual adapter or not.
On my old Xiaomi MiA2, the “headphone jack” USB adapter was completely passive, just wiring. It won’t work on my Pixel phone.
You need a DAC somewhere, though there are headphones that incorporate one so that you don’t need one independent of the headphones. I just don’t know if the parent commenter is referring to ones that incorporate one or not, whether his corner-store-three-pound ones are 3.5 mm or USB C ones.
The DAC is in the same device as for the 3.5mm jack. Sometimes in the same hw, maybe USB chip.
USB-C specifically provides for analog audio pins and specifically to try to make it easier for manufacturers to eliminate the analog 3.5mm jack.
I agree that ones in the headphones exist but it is VERYV rare. Only slightly less rare than USB-A headphones that incorporated their own DAC.
At my last doc’s appointment, some 900 year old Lady was blairing AI Facebook reels at max volume in a crowded waiting room.
I genuinely believe in most cases its a clear indication of genuine cognitive dysfunction.
In the waiting room is the worst. I’m considering switching to a different doctor because of this. It’s a psych office, and some lady was blaring some religious podcast or something in the waiting room. I was trying to read and couldn’t concentrate. I asked if she had headphones, but was ignored. I brought it up to the receptionist and he shrugged. Even the psych that saw me was like, “Oh well, can’t do anything about it.” Uh, yeah you can. It’s your office, right? If you want a quiet, peaceful waiting room, you can totally enforce that.
People can listen to their own stuff if they want, but to subject everyone else to it is another matter. If hearing about Jesus or playing music makes you happy, great! Headphones are available cheap at the drug store down the street.
A bigger speaker and a podcast about worshipping Satan might get some rules enacted.
And I just got a big ol’ Bluetooth one from Goodwill. It’s got a handle, four front facing speakers and a subwoofer. Let’s fucking go.
This is the way
Tbh I was tempted to put some death metal on and just blast it.
I like you.
“Oh well, can’t do anything about it.”
“Gee, guess I have to spend 10 minutes online and pick out one of the other million people who do what you do.”
Of course, it’s being a selfish asshole without consideration of your surrounding.
One of the many reasons I need anc headphones in public transport and which benefits me using a car (though I don’t want it).
Same with loud exhausts on cars and motorbikes, I hate those people
and blinding headlights. light pollution is no different than noise pollution.
It is attention seeking behavior. Don’t feed it.
Yes, It’s a sign of people that do not think of others and that bothers me a lot.
Japan has ruined me for going anywhere in public elsewhere. If someone is playing anything that others can hear, they will get told off. I love the silence. (This unfortunately does not apply inside store like don kihote that have 37 different things blaring music at once and I can’t enter without noise-canceling headphones).
Don Quixote has that kind of vibe though. Like going into a model or anime shop you’d kind of expect to hear music related
My problem is the volume is insane and it’s the shop music competing with some talking display competing with some other talking/singing thing. I’d hate it much less if it were all the same thing. My brain can’t filter and tries to listen to all of them and fails leading to frustration but also a mild panic.
