Meeeee wrote:
Andrew Yarnwood wrote:

I have a proposal for dealing with (punishing) people who make loud
business phone calls on trains (or any other public transport). ("I'm
on the train ... buy! ... sell!")

Record the calls or make some note, especially if there's anything
that sounds confidential, and publish transcripts or summaries on the
web or a newsgroup.



A far worse menace these days are the idiots who play music on their
phones via the loud speaker. It's worse than the walkman/Ipod tinny
hissing noise as these people really do think everyone else wants to
hear their (normally 'urban') music.

I should really get together some MP3s of very loud classical music to
counteract it, either that or develop a portable antinoise generator


And it is NEVER anything good; it's always noisy and obnoxious and
completely and utterly senseless. This is why I avoid public transport
during school starting/finishing times or during the holidays. Doesn't
always work though unfortunately. Worse still is that crazy frog.
Working in the music section in a supermarket means I had that rammed
down my neck for weeks on the promotional video, followed by the bus
trip to/from work from some low intellects who would play it repeatedly
for a good half hour and still find it funny after the 50th time.

Jamie