People who listen to music on speaker in public should be euthanized.
A few years ago I regularly took the same morning bus to work. There was this maybe 16-17 year old kid who sat on the back and would listen obnoxious rap at full volume on his phone, while hogging the whole seat row with his stuff.
I had my headphones on but the hideous rap blared so loud I couldn't hear anything else. In my country we rarely interfere with other people's business, everyone was just sitting tight looking pissed off.
After few minutes I stood up, walked to the kid and told him to either turn that shit off, use headphones like everyone else or I'd throw his phone out at the next stop. He looked at me for a moment completely dumbfounded but turned the noise off and left the bus at the next stop.
He never took the same bus again.
You were everyone's hero that day.
It's easier to do when you're a tall man and happen to look like a bike ganger ;)
Thank you.
Please all other bike ganger-looking people do this for us poor masses who suffer through this garbage
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Carry bleach filled syringes onto the metro?
No, what? Don’t be creepy about it. Just snap their picture and run it through pimeyes to find their address and live in their walls for a few years to observe their schedule and fears. Maybe replace all of their clothes with identical versions a single size larger and put an irritant in their bodywash to give them reason to question whether they’ve dropped weight due to a terminal illness, then complete their existence as they sleep and, as hard as it may be, platonically collect their eyelashes for your album. Just don’t be creepy.
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You write " forced to listen to accordion covers of operas played at a volume so it competes against the TVs playing the HeadOn commercial in Portuguese backwards in a loop" funny, but I get it.
I'm gonna add people that use speakerphone in public to that last. Just today I witnessed a dude at a Starbucks speaking loudly because he had his phone sitting on the table in front of him. Nothing in his hands, just wanted to disturb everyone, apparently...
I had a hero bus driver pull the bus over and give one of those kids a single warning. Told him if he plays the music loud again he'd be walking.
Sus parenting.
And sus tech companies doing everything they can to get kids on and addicted
And completely corrupt and bought politicians doing less than nothing about it.
Meh. People watch stuff on public transportation, airplanes, or wherever without headphones. It’s maddening. I don’t care what the content is. They’re just being assholes.
The flipping thru media? Shit, look at the age of some of the people creating the “content” (I use that word loosely, the vapid and shallow garbage that consumes the majority of bandwidth is devoid of anything worthy of being called content). There’s a huge span of ages, from millennials to tweens generating the noise. Everyone shouting as loud as they can for views. Heck, even if you’re a conservative ass boomer there’s content for you, how does anyone think all these bullshit Q and pizza parlor pedo shit gets spread around.
Anyway, point being…it’s not the generation being an asshole watching the stuff loudly in public space, there’s plenty of assholes doing it. Just the kind of media they’re blasting is different by age.
No tiktok with sound in public is on another level than any other example
Counterpoint:
I got on the bus today, and there was this grumpy old guy complaining loudly to the lady in front of him about pronouns.
She was clearly trying to ignore him by pretending to read a book.
He looked up at me and scowled, but he stopped talking.
So I sat down next to him and opened TikTok.
He couldn't help but be nosy and was staring at my phone, so I picked the most obnoxious videos.
Each time he would show interest, I would flip to the next one.
I'm sure it was annoying, but at least he shut the fuck up for the rest of the ride.
you cocomelon'd grandpa
Too bad you couldn't intentionally play videos that were about pronouns just for him.
Bro never channel surfed the 90s away
Best analogy you could make to explain swiping to the next video, thank you.
Too young to see a boombox on the bus?
You would have a hard time changing to a different song every 3 seconds.
This is the part i don’t get about tiktok and instagram. You don’t even watch that shit and it looks like some sort of brain washing.
Yeah the rewiring of patience is startling. Like sometimes I'll look over a friend's shoulder at something that sounds like it's going to be interesting, only to see them flick it away before anything has even happened. Like what was your queue that this video wasn't worth your 20 seconds? Maybe they should have waved their arms or said something shocking to grab your attention?
I know it's old fashioned of me, but it's so weird to have this (and I mean no offense) schizophrenic stream of av content whipping by, with ads, extremism, and product placement interleaved with micro journalism, education, and genuine attempts at communication.
There's something about the infinite scrolling format which makes us fickle. It removes the act of choosing--
Sorry I don't know what this rant is about. I'm preaching to the choir here. I'm just nervous because my wife is having surgery today. Anyway thanks for the distraction, back to worrying lol
It is brainwashing. It's absolutely brainwashing.
A mixture of American society being dumbed down by social media and defunded school districts, neglectful Gen X parents that shoved a device in their hands at 5yo and walked away, and a feeling of detachment from a reality that is becoming more and more bleak as time progresses.
neglectful Gen X parents
You...you actually remembered we exist!
All right everyone it's time for an old person check!
If you identify with this meme you might be old!
it's important for you to recognize every generation was cringe because life is cringe. It's a little part of growing up, try to be kind to those around you even if they're younger.
Not really about generations, it's more about manners, anyone blasting shit around people who never asked for anything deserve a kick in the groin. Bonus kicks for people ruining the calm in a natural landscape.
Agreed. Every generation is chock full of idiots, just basic math. Two generations ago this would have been an idiot blasting his boombox on the bus.
Agreed, but listening to anything in a public setting without headphones is a shitty thing to do. It was when I was a kid with a Gameboy or Walkman, and it still is now with tiktok.
I remember kids in my class randomly shouting “Waffles!” or “this is a spork!” Because lol so random xd
Kids so obsessed with invader zim that they acted like him in real life
Also l33t sp33k being cool for a minute and “the narwhal bacons at midnight”at the peak of Reddit popularity
The whole gangam style craze. I went to a wedding held in a barn and everyone did the gangam style
People saying “epic fail” all the time
This is just what I can remember off the top of my head, but I think you get the point. None of us are without blame, we are all cringe. Let the kids be cringe too, it’s part of growing up
Being annoyed by someone blaring their phone’s volume in public isn’t an age thing. It always has been, and always will be fucking obnoxious.
And I say that as someone who’s literally in Gen Z.
"Why do drug addicts take drugs?"
I see more boomers blasting their phones than any other demographic
I tease my husband when he is on Facebook because my God it sounds exactly like when the kids are scrolling TikTok. Don't know how he can stand it. But he doesn't do that out in the world.
I blame the phone designers removing the headphone jack. We now have a generation of people who grew up without it,always using the speaker, max volume out loud is just how they exist, it's the new normal.
My wife (a millennial) does this all the time at home. Part of me thinks it's her way of getting me to leave the living room so she can fart.
Unfortunately I think this is real.
Yeah this generation kinda screw up, social media is real bad.
As a zoomer I still find that stuff strange. Although to all the people saying social media is bad, lemmy is also social media and can be just as bad for you. Go outside, touch grass or something. Better than shitting on some kid who was neglected by his parents and given a phone as a replacement.
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