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.
Every day I curse Tim Cook for getting rid of the simple headphone jack. Now I can’t just hand cheap dollar store earbuds to people on the bus. Not that I ever did that, but I’ve sure thought about it.
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.
I love when they hold it like a slice of pizza like they’re some vapid famewhore on a reality TV show. It’s a well-designed sound device held exactly wrong, so the noise-canceling and gain control are going fucking nuts.
It’s like it’s bad for you, bad for the phone, bad for the person using the phone; who looks like a moron as a bonus. Good job, chucklenuts!
I’m not sure if the same (or any at all) noise reduction works when using speakerphone. I kind of understand the sentiment for using it - looking back at COVID times and the “don’t put the phone to your face, it’s dirty”, but even that was a bit exaggerated - and I still agree that there are still way too many people using speakerphone when they shouldn’t (voice-only calls and all).
There is evidence suggesting second hand brainrot exists in the same kind of way as second hand smoking, the presence of the bad thing is a problem for all in the vicinity.
Yes. Inconsiderate & selfish people.
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…)
I also hate it when they take up a ton of space in public.
I didnt mean to format that way but then I just left it haha
😂 it’s prefect!
Very much, yes. It’s so disrespectful to other people.
Yes, It’s a sign of people that do not think of others and that bothers me a lot.
Same with loud exhausts on cars and motorbikes, I hate those people
and blinding headlights. light pollution is no different than noise pollution.
Fuck, every night I come into work, there’s always handfuls of people that has everything on loudspeaker.
Phone conversations - take that shit elsewhere! I don’t need to hear your conversation! Some dude flipping over a bunch of TikTok or YouTube Short videos so fast that they auto-play and sound like one long stream Some people repeating videos over and over for all to hear
I don’t even use loudspeaker because everytime I use it, people claim they have a hard time hearing me and there’s so much interference.
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.
This happened to me last night. I was wasted out of my mind for New Year’s, so I stopped at a convenience store that was open at 4 am. The lady next to me was playing some god-awful video on her loudspeaker while I was trying to slurp down my ramen noodles and hold my head together.
How can anyone be this inconsiderate and not get the hint when the other person makes a grand gesture to put on their headphones?
my wife does this and it triggers the fuck out of me. I get so stressed out by it I just go somewhere I can’t hear it anymore and just disappear for hours.
choose your battles.
My wife does this in our home. Calls and full videos are usually okay, but nobody who is not watching them wants to hear you flip through shorts. I go play Cities Skylines in my office and it keeps everyone’s peace.
Checks username - did I post this while avoiding the incessant noise from her phone?!
I’m right there with you bro.
I try not to let it annoy me and use it as an opportunity to meditate
Yes. Hate it. And exactly at this moment there are two of them going off.
It is attention seeking behavior. Don’t feed it.
