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ok... not really poker related but this is something that is starting to annoy me.

i don't catch many buses, but when i do there always seems to be someone playing music out of a phone at the back of the bus.

is it just me or is this a bit annoying, am i getting too old?

i've started to say something now (when i've had a bit to drink, like now).should i just keep my mouth shut?



i wouldn't mind so much if it had a good tune and meaningful lyrics. but too me it just sounds like bad noise  ;tk;

It is annoying


Once I was on a bus and listening to a Frank Sinatra CD on my MP3 player.  I never realised how loud it was until I was about to get off at the next stop and a guy said to me " I like his other CD, do you have the Greatest Hits?".  He was sitting about 8 seats away from me  :D

Being on a bus is one of the more depressing things life has to throw at you. Anyone making it any more difficult than it needs to be, should strung up by there thumbs. I was once sitting on a bus and this horrible little kid was terrorising all the passengers whilst the mum just ignored him. Eventually the kid ran up to his mother and just smacked her round the face. She screamed at him 'Slade you little Sh*t'. World class parenting, the old guy next to me started humming 'come on feel the noize' which made me chuckle.

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:) sorry not totally related but still sometimes you feel like doing this to those idots.

yes - it is extremely annoying.  Perhaps even worse than the people who have their ipods so loud that you can hear every word.

On the way up to Walsal for bb3 I was hoping to catch a snooze on the train.  Not to be however with the two women sitting behind me bitching and gossiping the whole way up, a crying baby in the carriage and, most annoyingly, two teenagers playing the same song over, and over, and over again on their mobile phone. 

It was actually a song I liked, but 10 times in a row - no.

God I sound like victor meldrew  ;tk;

Having the music playing from a phone is distracting, but certainly not as annoying as someone going through their list of available ringtones.  ;grr;

lol,  I agree.  Very annoying

There should be fines for noise polluters on the buses and trains

I really don't wish to have some xxxx imposing their crap music on me.


Telling the whole train (using the mobile device as disguise) about their boyfriends/girlfriends, drunken nights, money and other aspects of their mundane lives is the most annoying thing ever.  Sometimes I would like to tell them, that if they are so keen to tell every1 about their problems they should go on a talk show.

Not related tot he noise itself;
people who keep their filthy feet on the opposite seats should have their knee caps damaged, so at least their excuses for this horrible habit would be valid.



 ;tk;

I find this more annoying than the music, and as Claw highlighted -
- people don't necessarily have to be on a mobile to be guilty in this manner, so I hope your noise pollution fines extend to the annoyingly loud and not just the mobile related noise.

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I agree esp with the whole 'feet up' thing. Don't know where the hell that comes from. You get on a bus/train and the seats have dirty great patches of filfth due to selfish idiots. I'd give them a final warning and tag them with a micro chip. If they were caught at it again I'd chop their feet clean off!

I really hate when someone puts there bag down on the empty seat next to them on a busy train or bus and then give you that filthy look when you ask them to move it. Like there damn bag paid for a ticket. GRRRRRRRR!!!!

Happened to me a while back.It used to not bother me till I got twatted on the head with a double bass.

some people have no consideration...

Worse still is when they choose to sit in the aisle seat. That way if you want to sit down they'll 'tut' or 'kiss their teeth' then swivel their legs over while they remain seated. This being their idea of giving you enough room to take the window seat without accidentally banging them in the jaw with your hip/bag/belt or anything else that wouldn't have struck them had they done the decent thing and either moved over or stood the eff up and allowed you to sit down in a stress-free fashion.

That's of course assuming they 'allow' you to sit down. The whole point of them sitting in the ailse seat is so that they have assumed power over anyone with manners who may want the seat as they'll always gesture/request in a polite manner...Now the low life has the power to determine whether you get a seat or not. If they feel like it they'll swivel their legs over and allow you to squeeze by in an undignified manner and if the mood takes them they'll refuse you the seat and then what do you do?

The law is on their side here.

I have a system that beats all the crap you get on buses.

Never use buses.

That's a good system. Unfortunately not all of us are in a position to implement it tho...

How about taking an air horn on the bus?  Direct towards those who annoy you.  Might get you thrown off, of course!

Alternatively, don't let it bother you.  Accept some people will always do things that annoy others.

For example: A group of around 15 mobile homes and caravans were recently parked on the verge of a busy side road around a mile from my home.  That's ok with me, I'll slow down from the 60 mph limit to avoid killing their children and animals which were running wild.  I'll ignore the rubbish, tyres, plastic bags and other crap blowing around that they left because I know the already stretched local council will clear it up.

Am I bothered?

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Sometimes I wish I had a gun..... ;tk;

Cliff Richard started it

oh god yeah - don't even get me started on this one......too late!

I was travelling on the tube, about 7 months pregnant, and really needed to sit down with my back straight as it had been giving me gip.  There was one free seat, but a woman had put all her shopping backs on the ledge along the back of it, jutting over. So I could have perched on the seat, but I asked instead if she would mind moving them so I could sit properly.  She gave me a filthy look and said "where do you expect me to put them?"  "on the floor in front of your feet?", I suggest.  Another filthy look and a tut, and she mumbles something about not putting her shopping on a dirty floor.  I am flabbergasted to be honest, and don't know what to say.  Another woman sitting opposite offers me her seat, i accept and apologise explaining that I need to sit comfortably,  and the other woman perches on the seat in front of the shopping. 

Bag lady then starts going on about "who does she [me] think she is?  Suppose she things she should have a bloody rocking chair installed for her comfort"

 :tikay:

God dont talk about the London tubes, only place I have ever seen in the world where people were walking over an injured granny who fell down the steps.

You've never been to Bradford then?

doesn't surprise me.  A few weeks ago I got sent literally flying off the tube onto the platform as I was getting off the tube, by people pushing to get on rather than waiting.  A couple of people helped me up and asked me if I was OK, but the offending people getting on the train didn't even glance backwards.

I don't know what it is, but there is something about going down into that underground in rush hour that turns 85% of otherwise perfectly good mannered people into complete animals.

Not unless I can really really help doing so, I have been 3 times in 30 years and I live in Leeds, thats more then enough.

I tried to play music on a bus, but I burned my lips on the exhaust pipe!

 ;hide;  that really is me!!  never on a bus though, just going around in my day to day life, maybe on a train.

But i cant get on buses, too crowded, dirty, and bumpy, ive avoided getting on a bus for the past 5-6 years even electing to walk miles on several occassions when ive felt too sick to get on any kind of transport but i'm a bit odd like that about getting on public transport or in cars, the only type of transportation in which i feel truely comfortable is a black cab, i mustve spent thousands on those things in the last 5 or so years.

I hope you have 'Songs For Swingin Lovers', which is a perfect album.

'Sinatra and Basie' is good too.

I've noticed this a hell of a lot lately. Maybe its because I'm banned so I have to use public transport. The last time I used buses would be 2000, and it seems the advent of cheap pocket sized technology that plays songs through speakers has allowed the youth of today to offend elderley ladies the world around! When gheto blasters where popular in the 80s I didnt see kids sitting on the back of a bus blurting their sounds out on a daily basis!

Thankfully I listen to my mp3 player with my headphones in so I don't have to listen to the next internet DJs rendition of scratching and shouting over the top of "Cos Everytime We Touch I get this feeling".

I hear you Claw. I've seen pregnant women and very elderly poeple made to stand on the tube/bus. Gets to me everytime I see it happen but I can only give up my seat once at a time!

I remember when I was on sticks learning to walk again travelling on public transport with my brother on a wkend visit away from hospital. Interesting journey, my brother holding me up helping me keep my balance while he was still in agony from a serious op. We must have looked a sight.

I can well believe that passers by stepped over an elderly lady in need. I made the mistake of stepping off from a packed mainline train to allow people off only to fall into the gap between the platform and the train. Very painful and left me with severe bruising. Nobody came to my aid, maybe due to the very pink shirt I was wearing for 'pink day' at work..lol...(the train guy held the doors for me to struggle back on tho...so that was something).

Not all doom and gloom tho. Walking home 3 days ago, I move to the left of the pavement making room for a couple to pass freely (can't abide folk that walk right between couples) and as we draw close to each other the next thing I know I hit the deck. They came to see I was ok which I was apart from cuts/bruises. There was a length of thick wire tied in a circle just left on the ground, just wide enough for my feet to step into and allow me to trip myself up. Would have looked funny from a distance methinks.

'They' reckon that science in our schools is being dumbed down and the kids haven't a clue about the laws of physics. I agree. Atleast if the evidence of queuing for transport is anything to go by. You need to allow people to get off in order to get on. Why don't they get it?

Maybe its a London thing all this ill-mannered-ness at rush hour. I've caught the train at various times into Glasgow central whch is the busiest underground I've been on outside of London, Liverpool and Paris and nobody seems to have this problem. Scottish people have their faults, but this isn't one of them. And most of them will say "Areet" to strangers in the street, most of them also getting an a similar greeting back.

The trains are remarkably clean too. And the single decker buses that serve my area. Maybe its 'cos they are new.

Glad to hear it's not the same up there. Birmingham is certainly as bad as London and it's getting worse (and that's not just me getting old...it really is beyond a joke).

HTF have I lived in this country for 34 years and didn't know that they had Underground rail systems in Scotland and Liverpool? I feeling a little bit freaked out by this. How much other stuff am I completely ignorant about. Wow. I would have thought I would have seen something sometime on the TV or news or something??? Maybe people fly around Wales on magic carpets and I've missed that as well.

you are kidding about not knowing about the magic carpets, right?  Have you never seen 'Bobinogs'?

you and me both!

hehe

Liverpool underground is I believe older than the Tube (but don't quote me!) There are two tunnels under the Mersey serving road traffic and a tunnel under the mersey serving the Wirral-line train.

The "Liverpool loop" as it is known is a circular underground rail line serving the terminal strations in Chester, Elsmere Port, West Kirby (where the UK Open Golf was held) and New brigton. It becomes an underground line at Hamilton Square station in Birkenhead and serves four underground stations in liverpool - james st, moorfields, lime street (trains to the mainline) and Central. The tunnel was built during the steam train era, and the stations would be quite smoggy! The actual loop was a later edition.

Also there are two "Northern lines" which run through Moorfields and Central stations, serving trains to Southport amongst other places. These are the only two underground bits.

Glasgow has two underground lines. The first is the "clockwork orange", which is a circular, sealed network not joined to any mainline. This serves much of Glasgow city. This may also be older than the Tube. I think actually its the first underground in britain? Again - don't quote me!

the second underground is just an underground part of the SPT edinburgh-glasgow mainline, running through Glasgow central and Argyle street.

much prefer backyardigans :D

I've seen the programmes you guys constitute as "news" down in southern land. Its little wonder you never see it on the TV because you don't care that we exist north of the M25 :D


We're the bob bob bobinnogs. And the bob bob bob bob bobble bobs on the bobinnog bobble hat.

I just had to look it up:

London Underground: 1863
Glasgow Underground: 1896
Liverpool Lime Street Station was opened in 1836, but this was just a station which the trains had to go through tunnels to get to. The Wirral Line opened in 1886, but it was only the addition of the 'loop' that made it a proper underground railway - and that was in the 1970's.

In true tabloid journalism style I've taken all my information from only one source, so feel free to contradict me.  :D

London Underground was the first in the world, as far as I know.

No no thats fair enough. I did say don't quote me :) Thanks for the clarification. I knew I had read something about the years being similar, and I got the "who came first" bit all muddled. But yes 1836 not a proper underground till the completion of the loop.

OK

I love history. But all this talk of trains is feeling very "tikay".