not a new topic is it but I almost got myself stabbed on the bus on Marylebone Road on Sunday morning as I could no longer bear hearing the tinny sound of Warren G advocating that all girls are clearly asking for it. I held my tongue - just - but really when is someone going to get stabbed for 'confronting' these shop-soiled half arsed attempts at human beings - sorry to be all Meldrewian but its more anti social than smoking or wanking at funerals or something.
Also you never hear a wide variation of genres either do you? Seriously there should be inspectors boarding these buses with stun guns. I'd pay more tax for this to happen.
If I'm on my own on the bus
I'll listen to my iPod so I don't have to hear it
yes but tis the 'mustn't get involved' look in everyone's eyes
that makes me despair for life - I suppose that means your showing 'respect' though. So that's alright then, bitch.
Sadly
it's best not to get involved. If things were to escilate and you found yourself in a figt with 6 chavs be sure that nobody would help you out.
i smoked cigars while wanking at a funeral and listening to the birdie song through my phone
does that make me a bad person?
depends if you were hired to do so
there msut be a line in that sort of 'for hire' type thingy?
I wasn't hired
but I was just walking past the funeral, nobody I know, I just thought it might lighten the mood...
did it work?
it did!
my grandad didn't even turn in his grave.
And, whether you 'inhaled' in the oval office or not
...
I'll inhale YOUR oval orifice
bad man.
The bus companies here
have started introducing a no music rule.
I 'guess' its like 'ghetto blasters' in the 80s
but tinnier?
Apparently they do here too
but no-one enforces it.
On the way back to Sheffield
on Sunday night, mine and Mike's tired ears were confronted with 3 different phones playing 3 different types of music (namely: U2, shit dance A and shit dance B) all at the same time.
It was so depressing that people actually act like this, without a regard for other people's feelings.
I'd like to discuss theories of solipsism with these people and see if that's the reason they behave in the way they do.
Ahem
I listen to music VERY LOUDLY on my i-Pod and have had, on two seperate occasions, people ask me to turn the music down. One was a bus driver from UP THE FRONT OF HIS BUS (I was really pissed off... and the girl next to me was on her i-Pod too - we started bitching and made friends)... The second time was some middle aged man who came up to me and said, 'Please turn it down'.
[SIDE TANGENT ^^^]
What about the days of the glorious 80s when people used to walk around with 'ghetto blasters'??
What happened then? It was 'fashionable' then!
Ah yes
but everyone loved a bit of De La Soul or Sigue Sigue Sputnik.
I hate the way the music's bashing away, and the gitty bastards listening to it then proceed to shout at eachother over it! Or worse, sing along to it too loudly!
De La Soul and Sigue Sigue Sputnik >>>>> Warren G
I liked Erik B and Rakim, tho...
PAID IN FULL - WHAT AN LP!
(memories)
why didn't you stab them for not showing you respect?
that is the issue - if I was bollocked for annoying someone with my music I'd be ashamed but can you imagine asking someone to turn their phones down?
With respect to language and its eloquence, I just wish these people were thrown into some sort of VAT of horrible liquid.
It actually *SHOCKED* me to be asked to turn down my headphones
I was quite irrate for a few minutes (as is always a normal reaction, since the age of 5, at being asked to turn anything musically down)...
*musical
Why were you shocked?
I always make sure my iPod isn't that loud, so I don't annoy anyone. Hearing that tinny noise from someone's headphones is fucking awful.
I hate wearing headphones on public transport.
With earphones, you can put the music as loud as you want. I have in-ear ones from Philips. They're pretty good. Unlike the ones that come with the player that don't fit.
VAT of horrible liquid?
17.5% ABV
they were in the right
what's your point?
"people ask me to turn the music down"
fucking GOOD. did you?
it's awful
Not that i go on buses but people just sit playing it as you walk past or as they walk around college...
the other thing is it's NEVER good music
you should just avoid buses prole
way too many frightfully common types. Lucky you didn't come back to Sophies with us on Saturday, there was a singsong on the bus, Spice Girls etc. Ye gods, you'd have turned to dust and blown away under the door :p
Well at least you were on the beuatifully historic Holloway Road
did you doff your cap at 304?
i raped a small boy outside it
on the way home, just for good measure.
i dont think there was one person on that bus that was sober. i checked my ticket and we did indeed get on it at 4:01am.
there's not much
to see at 304. sprain yr neck looking up and you'll find a crappy 'plaque' above a bike shop.
having said that, i do need a new bike...
the bike shop
has a nice sign though.
On Saturday night
Some people on the bus started singing a Spice Girls medley and a large proprtion of the top deck joined in. It was ace.
This should happen more.
^^ too ironic
unless people were singing along to 'It Was a Very Good Year' or 'Le Moribund'
It wasn't really ironic
it was more people of a certain age singing songs that they were exposed to lots when they were younger and therefore knew all the words too.
Also a guy somewhere near the back of the bus started singing Barbie Girl by Aqua and doing all the voices. The hilarity of the impression negated the annoyingness of the song.
^^No. Still ironic
Unless it was someone adding words to the Lovejoy theme. I've done similar in the past on buses and coaches pissed, but I'm a miserable bastard now.
Where's Ben Warn when you need him
with his made up lyrics to the Going For Gold theme tune?
It was me who made up the lyrics to Going For Gold!
damn you!
Was it?
Can you repeat them for me please?
We were discussing it the other night and decided it was ace.
Fuck this, I'm going to start a thread about it.
Shed 7?
lol
TANGENT:
I played 'Stop' by the Spice Girls on flute. I wasn't my choice. and it wasn't a proud moment...
but what did puzzle me was that the composership was accredited to emma bunton, victoria adams, melanice c et al....
surely they didn't actually write the 'tune'??!!
oh dear
you've just made me realise that i think i know the lyrics to that song.
Stop Right Now
Thankyou very much
I need somebody with a human touch
fucking vile isn't it, your subconscious memory.
The thing that annoys me aswell
Even when they are wearing headphones, it's still insanely loud.
Why do people need to listen to it at that kind of volume? It would hurt your head after about 2 minutes.
Then again, the louder it is, the quicker it is they will allbe diagnosed with Tinnitus and won't be able to hear the music the seem to love listening to and inflicting on others.
"Why do people need to listen to it at that kind of volume? It would hurt your head after about 2 mi
it's when I think stuff like this I realise how old I am getting...ah well
Yeah
and I'm considerably younger than you.
I am an old man at heart.
I listen to everything loud where possible.
And I actually have excellent hearing.
Music loud, to me, (on great sound systems) is often better than sex.
Really?
and your sound system is?
this I have to get!
I think most of the time
it's more an issue with bad earphones. I still need to test mine for sound leakage but it would appear that no one can hear me when I'm playing it as loud as possible without deafening myself...
I listen to Germlin and Gay Against You on full volume on headphones when I am going out sometimes.
If I am in a bad mood or feeling a bit shit. It gets me thinking in a more positive way and improved my demeanour for the evening. It has to be at full volume.
It used to massively bug me when people make like tinny headphones-too-loud tap-tap-tapping beat noise. But I have learned to not let things like irritate me.
Noisy eating on the other hand, don't get me started...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
John, that seriously is my number one pet hatred of ALL TIME EVER.
EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER.
Noisy eaters. Oh my god, I could seriously go crazy when I hear this. It's SOOOOOOOOOOOO irritating.
I'd rather hear someone slurping their chicken
than a second-hand version of Mr Boombastic that sounds like it's being played be giant ants trapped in a dustbin.
what
about Mr Boombastic eating crisps on a bus?
That sounds rad
split single?
but who with?
I'd pay to hear the latter
(giant ants trapped in a dustbin, playing Mr Boombastic)
i like the idea of putting some
beethoven on my phone and cranking that up to full on a bus when i next hear a song from "tinny dance megamix 5" on the bus.
I was told to turn down
Freak Scene on a train in Holland two years ago by a lady of about 25, dead inside obviously
As soon as I got back to Glasgow on Sunday I jumped a bus home. We were sitting stationary and some guy at the back was shouting at the driver to get a move on as he wanted home, out to pub, it was worse than jail, the driver was a baldy fucker etcetcetc. This was like every 30 seconds for ten minutes until the driver threw him off, was spat at and the guy punched the window etc. This guy was in his mid 20s, shellsuited. Sometimes I choose to take a stand but I'd just done the London and back journey minus sleep and was too fried. I did get some looks from other passengers as though I should have done something and in different circumstances I would have but I can't police buses 24/7 goddamit
okay
just tell us what hours you CAN do, I'm sure we can be flexible.
They'd probably say
'Why are you just listening to an elongated sample?'
They're all very eloquent, the bus abusers around your way
Imagine all that
at volume in a ratlike nasal whine and you'll get the picture
.
I get two buses a day (to and from Barking station) and there's about an 80% chance of tinny r'n'b. Also ridiculous levels of teeth-sucking. I'm talking every five seconds.
It's incredibly annoying the lengths teenagers will go to to fit in.
people eating on buses
is worse than genocide. PROLEFACT.
I intend never to get a buis to Brixton again for this reason. Put simply, these people are no better than Dennis Neilson
Meh
I ate a pizza on the bus into town the other day. SUE ME.
^ You can't fool me Dennis
Prole - is it just eating on buses or eating in public places
that are not restaurants?
He can't even feed the pigeons
without getting into a violent rage.
My bus pizza was lovely though.
I think the main problem
with people eating on buses/in public is that it makes me hungry
I'm hungry now just thinking about pizza and i only finshed lunch 14 minutes ago...
I am eating pizza RIGHT NOW!
STOP IT
STOP IT
I'm eating pizza RIGHT NOW
on A BUS.
Blackberry?
On a PIZZA?
You disgust me.
on the BUS!
bus pizza?
is that like a 'smarties milkshake' i.e the pizza was speical in the fact that it tasted all bus-ish?
I just hate people eating pleb-fodder on buses then leaving the boxes on there to ceate that definitive south london bus smell. Truly repellent and I just hope the people who do this have the face and houses they deserve.
I got told I was pretty
by someone the other day, and I live in a lovely flat in east Dulwich. DO I DESERVE THIS, or should I apply for housing benefit and a bedsit on Queens Road Peckham?
^ means you are officially POSH
was she drunk?
or he?
What's wrong with eating on buses?
I see no sense in disliking that...
anybody who
eats KFC on a bus should be stabbed right up.
I endured
four grown men playing 80's classics across the aisle on the top of the number 8 at the weekend
give me tinny r&b about forced anal sex any day
^POTD
I once
liquidated the kulaks as a class through modes of the death penalty and labour sentences on the bus. We'd all had a drink.
nice
What riles me is
that they're not even listening to their tin-hop as they're too busy talking very loudly about their mate "Tanweer" and his on-going feud with some "cunt" who used to go out with "Tanweer's bird".
I blame the BBC for having background music on everything, EVERYTHING, they show (usually Delays or Hard-Fi). People can no longer function without a chimey, background noise.
if you'd known
what that cunt had done to mrs_tanweer, you'd look at it differently.
The end result of this behaviour
is that I now know all the words to Smack That.