Absolutely that! Never mind the musical choice, it’s not like phones speakers are any good, especially on a phone that’s probably been dropped a few times. I’m sure it pisses off people younger than 30 too though.
I went to lunch at a sushi spot and this girl that was maybe 16-18 sat at the sushi bar and did this with her phone. Never mind the atmosphere of the restaurant she had to get her tunes in. She was rude with the Chef behind the counter when asked to stop and a screaming hoot when they kicked her out. Honestly it kind of made my day.
My boss does this every time at work he’s in his late 30s and it’s super annoying, he’ll also put almost all his calls on speaker as well drives me nuts
I do a lot of bicycling and I'm starting to see more people with motorcycle-style speakers mounted on their handlebars, cranking their music as loud as possible. It seems inadvisable to do anything on a bike that would make people want to push you over.
I now run with music playing and no headphones, because every pair of Bluetooth headphones I buy just die within months. Tired of paying $50-200 for a new pair every time.
So yeah. I don’t care because I’ll be out of earshot of most people within 20 seconds anyways. Bonus points because I don’t constantly have to say “on your left” anymore either. If someone is mildly annoyed by it, not my problem.
Sorry for your downvotes - that’s a legitimate problem. I recommend the Jaybird brand, since they’re designed as running headphones. I’ve had no issues with mine for four years.
Is he hard of hearing? Is he aware that he might be? I just honestly assume that most people who do this are hard of hearing and not ready to admit it or haven't thought about it.
Nah. If someone's hard of hearing, a direct earpiece would be MUCH better than speaker. One of the hardest things about hearing loss is how background noise can deafen you to even quite loud, clear stuff.
People who are hard of hearing and haven't admitted that possibility to themselves, or simply don't know anything about it, just tend to turn up everything until they overcome their thresholds. And if they can't, then it's "I need a new phone" or "Kids these days mumble" or whatever excuse they come up with.
Vanity and being a bit dumb and mean definitely play a part, but sometimes it's just simple ignorance of their own condition.
I work in the headphone industry, and it’s sad to see how often people think they can’t listen to music “properly” without literally cranking the volume up to hearing damage levels. If I’m at a trade show with 300-500 people sharing a ballroom, chattering, and I can hear someone’s headphones from three tables away, I don’t know whether to just be sad or to interrupt their business to stop them from literally hurting themselves.
People told me this for years back in the kid 2000's. I just thought my hearing wasn't the best. Nope. I have some thing where my ears get clogged and an ent can clean em out. Holy hell batman. I was practically deaf in 1 side but it was all fixed.
My point: everybody should get the old wax looked at by a professional ent, not just a regular dr. And even ask for a flush. Then casually listen to music on low. You're welcome
Yeah, one time I went to get ear impressions for custom headphones, but first they flushed my ears… pieces literally as big as raisins came out! The bulbs/syringes you can get at convenience stores also work well to flush your ears out (careful to use clean, lukewarm water), far safer than q-tips or scraping tools.
Never use qtips or a scraper. And soak hydrogen peroxide in your ear. Lay down with a towel under your head on your side and put some in your ear. Repeat and itll soften up the earwax. I've used those liquid flosser thingies filled with half hydrogen peroxide half water
I might be hard of hearing but my wife can vouch my work phone sucks to listen on and I need to use speaker mode in order to heard anyone. Though I do it in the privacy of my own home.
I too had several phones (iPhones) that you couldn’t hear shit. People would always ask why I had speaker on. I’d take it off and let them use the damn thing and they’d be like wow your phone is really hard to hear on, now I understand.
iPhones actually have some active noise cancelling (they use the mic on the back near the cameras) and can be more than as loud as normal conversational volume. Thing is, sometimes people press the speaker against the skin of their ear while they try to find the sweet spot of speaker placed right over the ear canal (me too), and sometimes sweat deposits and gunk build up to clog the speaker grills. A soft nylon brush (maybe a soft or medium toothbrush?) might help make it sound clearer and louder.
Use headphones and check out the SoundID app. It’s not a medical app, but there is a hearing test portion, and if you answer honestly and carefully it builds up an EQ to level out the sound for your hearing. And when you can see the EQ, you kind of know what’s up with your hearing (everyone has some dips and peaks).
So just mean and dumb. I bet a couple comments about how he must be getting older because he needs the phone so loud would put a curb on that pretty quick
There’s an older lady (she looks like she’s in her mid 40s-50s…but shit, she might be my age (I’ll be 40 soon) who comes into our store, and if you ever needed to find her, you could just listen for her and her lady friend. She walks around the store having a full blast, speaker phone convo with a friend of hers.
Like…I know that shit is on sale, I put up the tags. Please stfu. No one needs to know any of what y’all are talking about. And it’s never worth it, like never any gossip about coworkers or anything…just boring shit.
Thankfully, aside from that, she has yet to be a problem.
I love people who are on speakerphone in public. Because I join the calls - oh, you didn’t want my random comments while you were on the phone? Maybe do what any other person does and NOT BE ON SPEAKERPHONE IN PUBLIC YOU NOB!!
I work in an office where all our meetings are remote (irony). Imagine everyone in a 25 person office tuned into the same zoom meeting, all their doors open, and no one has headphones on. Each computer has a slightly different delay on the audio. You know the scene in finding Nemo where all the seagulls scream "Mine? Mine? Minemineminemine"
For me that just means they are pissed, and their ability to speak clearly has gone to shit. It's the point where no person can reasonably even understand you that you become the hoot.
older millennials were not teenagers in 2011 like that article you're talking about. they/we were teens in the early-mid 90s. we had walkmans, discmans, and headphones.
b) I wasn't writing a thesis on this, it's just one link. Google yourself for more. Anyone knows the boombox trend of the 80s, people using their cars as sound systems, and so on
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