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RULES:
We old people were raised well, dammit! We had wired earphones! Then Apple cocked up and tried to make expensive wireless earphones fashionable. And look where that lead us. That's right, kids not knowing what earphones even are. Fuck you technobros, you can't do anything right.
(Posted from my HMD Global Nokia 5.4, which does have a headphone jack, thank you very much) (Sorry if abrasive, mildly drunk)
Abso-friggin-lutely. Shoot them twice to be sure.
It’s such an annoying, disrespectful thing to do in public. If you do it, you’re either a giant asshat or too dumb to keep around.
I'm so old I remember when you'd get thrown out of restaurant if you used a cellphone
Back in the day when cellphones could only take calls.
I like to loudly say to my children: "Isn't it sad that some people can't afford headphones"
Just yesterday, I had to endure some mf with headphones loud enough to be heard by everyone around him on the bus
I was in the surgery waiting room for 12 hours while my mom had spinal surgery and some piece of shit Boomer kept watching political commentary videos on his phone and would very aggressively say to people "This isn't bothering you, is it?" And when we let him know it was, he'd just move a few seats away - not far enough to make any real difference. I wanted to beat the asshole to a bloody pulp, but I was equally as mad at the hospital who didn't put an end to it.
Same with fuckers in restaurants watching sports on their phones, or on speakerphone calls, or kids playing their fucking preschool games with their volume turned up. If we can't kill these motherfuckers then we should at least be allowed to smash their phones out of their hands.
I just tell people to please use headphones or turn their whatever to silent. I've only once had a guy react not so nicely to that.
I was once on a Greyhound bus where a guy was loudly talking on his phone, but not on speaker. The issue was he was just repeatedly saying:
"Listen....... Listen..... Listen.... Listen... Lemme tell you.... Listen... Listen .... Listen lemme.... Lemme tell you .. listen"
For half an hour.
Finally a hero yelled out: "Listen! Lemme tell you to shut the fuck up!"
He said "lemme call you back later" hung up and shrunk down on his seat as the whole bus clapped.
“and everybody clapped”
It's true, I was the phone
Was his name "Navi" and he looked like a small glowing light?
i love how cory doctorow is consistently right about literally everything
i imagine he'd be first to warn you that is insane thinking
i can of course draw no conclusions about the future from the fact that he's been right about everything he's ever said thus far -- he could be wrong about something tomorrow and i'd look like a fool -- but he is a pretty righteous dude
He spends his entire life curating information sources. Selecting the absolute best and burning the rest with holy fire.
He's a living spam filter.
Basically you take what's left after the bullshit filter and you end up with a lot of his writing.
It's truly a gift.
This is why the removal of 3.5mm jacks is bullshit.
I can't just forcibly attach headphones to someone's phone and silence them anymore.
But you could shove the phone gently up their rectum.
Something to ponder.
Seconded.
A lot of people blame this on people losing their social skills during COVID, but I remember people doing it when I was in high school in the mid-2010s.
There was a whole scene in Star Trek 4 with the same premise and I think that released in 86.
I don't get why anyone who rides public transportation doesn't wear headphones themselves. Big obvious ones are best so people don't talk to you.
I do find that the more righteous I feel about someone's actions the more annoying it becomes to me. Despite how rude it is, and you're absolutely right about that, try to not give a fuck. It really helps to consider their obliviousness as a disorder. They're pathetic.
If nothing else, hopefully it'll keep you from actually pulling the trigger one day.
Shooting them is a kindness. They could be reported to the RIAA for violating public performance copyright.
