Petition: Music Free Buses in London
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treefrog
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I've taken this tack with some of my students too.spanglechick said:ok - this doesn't work for everyone, i know, but it's how i cope with a million similar irritations every single day at school:
smile and indulge them. they're enjoying music. they're making themselves happy and it really is harmless. they're often sharing music as a group experience. Now, I hate RnB, which it often is - and I hate the tinny sound of phone speakers - it isn't nice to hear, but neither, truthfully, is bus full of squealing three year olds singing tunelessly or asking interminable questions - and i always smile indulgently at that too. It's a survival strategy for the sake of my blood-pressure. I force myself not to care. I remind myself that it's nicer to like other people.
yes they're often adults, yes even teenagers should know better, but
- you aren't going to change them
- there are bigger, more important battles to fight
- what really is the harm to you?
It paid off once, when one of the kids went "Miss, I think this is your sort of tune" and played me some Aphex Twin
Streathamite
ideological dogmatist
and within 6 months the bus network will be in crisis due to the financial problems the doubling of the frontline staff wage bill will causemilesy said:
suzee blue cheese
Well-Known Member
Jezz: I'm really pleased for you that you've managed to overcome your own irritation. But to be frank you sound a little like a born again non-smoker.
It irritates me and Loki and lots of other people precisely because we can't seem to achieve a trancendental state of bhudda-like obliviousness. Personally, I find that after 10 minutes of the same fucking sentence, I find myself feeling ungenerous.
suzee blue cheese
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Ah Milesy you genius.. Turn the fuckers who infringe the ban into conductors
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I reckon phones should have two headphone slots like walkmans back in the day. Then they could take an ear piece each.
I should listen to my own tunes (with headphones). They're probably too loud but I will turn it down if asked or even scowled at (but obviously I'd engage the scowler in polite conversation first). Noise really gets to me (another ME thing) so I kinda need noise that I know (my choice of music) to survive outdoors at time. Can't bloody read as I get sick already on buses.
I should listen to my own tunes (with headphones). They're probably too loud but I will turn it down if asked or even scowled at (but obviously I'd engage the scowler in polite conversation first). Noise really gets to me (another ME thing) so I kinda need noise that I know (my choice of music) to survive outdoors at time. Can't bloody read as I get sick already on buses.
they should fit one of these on every bus
http://www.compoundsecurity.co.uk/teenage_control_products.html
http://www.compoundsecurity.co.uk/teenage_control_products.html
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
What is it with people on buses and windows? They lean over you to open them when it's freezing or wet outside. Now THAT is really annoying.
it is GOOD to have windows open on buses. especially when it's wet out, otherwise the bus just gets really really steamed up and you can't see out at all. get a bit of air in, moving around, rather than just breathing in stuffy other-people's-breath air.
it really annoys me when people DON'T open the windows.
it really annoys me when people DON'T open the windows.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
we should never get on the same busmilesy said:
I've never understood this stuffiness business. I never notice. I do notice a draught on the back of my neck though. I've always found it peculiar when people come upstairs, look miffed, and IMMEDIATELY open a tiny window. What is it that affects them so gravely that doesn't affect me? I never feel any different on a bus than outside but warmer and dryer.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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I don't understand why they think everyone want's to hear their shitty music or why they need everyone to know that they are into Jay Z.
some people (like me) like air moving around the bus. i like to have a little draught on me when on a bus, rather than having people's stale breath all around me. i've always found it peculiar when people come upstairs, look miffed, and IMMEDIATELY close a tiny window.
you get on my bus and there'll be trouble
you get on my bus and there'll be trouble
Streathamite
ideological dogmatist
in which case it will be very likely they will do this job as badly and sloppily as possilbe. and how wuill you monitor their en route performance?milesy said:
sorry folks, but this is a non-starter-there's no cost-effective way to give a ban teeth.
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