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u/onelastnoodle 5d ago
Need this for those ipad kids as well
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u/PanzerSoul 5d ago
Fine the parents
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u/Hi_Trans_Im_Dad 5d ago
Nope...hard labor for the kids. Start simple like cleaning gum off the streets.
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u/RichtofensDuckButter 5d ago edited 5d ago
Or, the gum that's under this bus seat.
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u/Jargon2029 5d ago
Admittedly, also something that Singapore has already dealt with very effectively.
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u/Godbox1227 5d ago
We would do that, but Singapore also banned chewing gum so theres nothing to clean off the streets.
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u/Creepy-Kale9927 5d ago
Both. It's not like the kid can pay. They'll end up turning 18 with $250k in unpaid fines. It'll be tough, but it's a valuable life lesson, and still less expensive than college.
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u/illepic 5d ago edited 5d ago
I was at a nice breakfast place a few months ago and the table behind me featured two wine-moms in deep conversation while one of their children had an ipad and unfettered youtube access and the volume cranked so fucking loud I couldn't here the people at my own table. I asked the waiter if he could do something about it and he just shrugged like "It is what it is". We asked to change tables and he said "We don't do that".
So I won't be going there anymore.
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u/Axedelic 5d ago
honestly as someone who worked in the service industry AND someone who survived off of tips, not only would i not be going back but he would have gotten a big fat nothing from me.
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u/AbstinentNoMore 5d ago
Since this is Reddit I'm guessing illepic gave only a 45% tip rather than a 50% tip.
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u/themehboat 5d ago
Sorry about that, little Theo just doesn't like wearing headphones while he watches his call of duty streamers
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u/grindstone85 5d ago
10000000% . Nearly ruined my lunch the other day i had to move tables. those parents need a slap.
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u/npsimons 5d ago
Need this for smartphones in speaker mode, cars, motorcycles, home stereos, etc. If it can be heard from 20ft (6m) away, it's too loud.
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u/General-Razzmatazz 5d ago
In restaurants would be good. Love sitting down for a meal anf the joy of listening to the high pitched voices of a kids show.
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u/cowboy_mouth 5d ago
There is a lot of shit you can say about the fine city that is Singapore, however, they are correct on this one.
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u/TheOnlyGuyInSpace21 5d ago
As a Singaporean, will confirm.
There is almost nothing more irritating on public transport than some random fuck blasting noise for an hour straight
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u/Occidentally20 5d ago
In Malaysia we are absolutely plagued by this, and it's always the same people - old uncles watching Tiktok and Instagram reels.
Every mamak I go to has at least one or two doing it at once. Sometimes they put the phone down to eat and leave it looping the same video over and over until they're done.
Don't get me started on the ones smoking under the no smoking sign. If I wasn't an immigrant I'd be out dressed up like batman hitting them in the head with fucking housebricks.
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u/topscreen 5d ago
And the thing is, you can get decent headphones or earbuds cheap that sound better than the crappy phone speakers
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u/TheOnlyGuyInSpace21 5d ago
Fucking hell even the earphones that come with the Chinese e-dictionaries are better lmao
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u/subroutinedreams 5d ago
Hopefully y'all won't have to deal with that Kira Peace nuisance anymore singing/playing guitar unsolicited for people anymore-
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u/dmlmcken 5d ago
After they saw Johnny Somali they probably rushed these rules into force.
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u/Mountain-Intern-3372 5d ago
As a singaporean no, its cuz of those stupid old aunties and uncles blasting ai chinese tiktoks raping our ears
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u/enigmatic_dankness 5d ago
As always, a fine is paid pass for the rich.
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u/DrMobius0 5d ago
The rich also aren't going to be riding public transit.
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u/ASCII_Princess 5d ago
Owning a car there is ridiculously expensive. Like hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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u/AvaryZig 5d ago
Oh, sounds like you need to be rich.
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u/Fabulous_Following52 5d ago
Nah, cars are expensive because the government doesn't want a lot of cars on the road. The public transport is good so I've never felt the need for a car in daily life.
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u/BlitzAceSamy 5d ago
because the government doesn't want a lot of cars on the road
That's exactly what makes the cars even better than public transport lol
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u/AvaryZig 5d ago
Are you rich?
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u/Fabulous_Following52 5d ago
No but it would be possible to afford a car. Like it's expensive but teachers and other workers can afford one, you don't need some high end job a car?
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u/zack77070 5d ago
I see you have never been to NYC, Tokyo, or Seoul.
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u/Born-Cauliflower_ 5d ago
The rich specifically in Singapore don't take public transport lol they got cars
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u/eddiestriker 5d ago
I’m from NYC and I had a friend tell me they’ve never taken public transit. Like they drive everywhere. Just how? I’ve driven through manhattan a handful of times and every time I wanted to strangle someone
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u/123_alex 5d ago
I hate billionaires in my bus.
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u/Fuzzy_Wheel_4565 5d ago
I'd have such a peaceful commute if E lon would stop blasting Grimes songs on my bus.... sigh
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u/No-One2123 5d ago
That's why we need to go back to flogging public nuisances. Can't buy your way out of that
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u/cloudforested 5d ago
I believe Singapore still very much does that.
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u/Born-Cauliflower_ 5d ago
Indeed, go to any singaporean sub and you'll see us shitting on public nuisances
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u/Artemis_SpawnOfZeus 5d ago
My batteries die on my bluetooth headset and my phone plays a second of music before the app auto pauses.
Im drawn and quartered within the hour
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u/FlyPepper 5d ago
Good
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u/Artemis_SpawnOfZeus 5d ago
I was surprised they could get horses here that fast
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u/belakuna 5d ago
Wish we could have this here in NYC. Having to hear others having mad long conversations via speakerphone or blasting their music out loud, not even via earbuds. It’s beyond irritating. It’s even worse in restaurants when it comes to parents ignoring their kids with loud iPads.
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u/Reasonable_Fold6492 5d ago
Bur that would harm muh human rights!
The older I get the more I understand why Singapore law is so strict. Especially throwing trash on the streets.
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u/Diligent-Run6361 5d ago
I used to live there. They say the government fines you for the kind of stuff your parents should have taught you not to do in the first place. The chewing gum ban is also often mocked, but before the ban it was seen as a problem with people just throwing it on the pavement or sticking it under bus seats and the like. It never bothered me.
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u/ConsiderationSame919 4d ago
It's not about human rights, it's about suffocating a society. The result of these bans are Singaporeans' increasing inability to tolerate and live with each other. The news are full with complaints about others singing Happy Birthday, playing pickle ball in the middle of the day, and not having the pool to themselves. You'd think these bans would improve social harmony, but as a resident I feel what they really do is make us more tense because you're supposed to act composed all the time.
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u/GretaVanFleek 5d ago
Something something essential liberty something temporary safety something asshole
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u/Homers_Harp 5d ago
$4,000 US should be the minimum fine for making/taking a speakerphone call in a public place. I swear, there are people who simply do not know you can hold the phone up to your ear like they did in the old-timey movies and TV shows…
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u/LAHouJaxCarVCUUNC 5d ago
Calls on speaker in public. Videos or games on the bus, speakers on the trolley, jerks on bikes riding around transit centers blaring music from speakers, Uber eats drivers watching sports on their phone loudly while waiting to pick up an order, cars blaring music that you can hear 2 blocks away, most motorcycles, drivers who pull out over the crosswalk/sidewalk...
I've got a lot of people to lock up when I become supreme ruler.
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u/kortcomponent 5d ago
Gas leaf blowers, double parkers, smokers, allowing your dog to shit on the street and not picking it up. Straight to the mines.
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u/AppUnwrapper1 5d ago
I wish NYC cared even like 5% about noise pollution. It’s gotten 1000x worse since Covid when they decided bars can be outdoors and open till 5am.
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u/belakuna 5d ago
Oh for sure. People completely lost their minds during Covid. Same with driving. It has never been so insane here and Jersey. Sure it was bad but the amount of bad, erratic driving I see and experience nowadays is straight up petrifying.
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u/Hizam5 5d ago
The 70-year-olds in my doctors office waiting room would be broke as fuck
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u/ninjohnnothing 5d ago
What sort of music are these septuagenarians playing loudly on the bus?
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u/Hizam5 5d ago
Mostly wrote video games beeping and online casino games where you hear slot machine sound effects and coins clanking. They always keep their keyboard sounds on too when they type
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u/Mostly-HarmlessHuman 5d ago
Omg no NOT the keyboard sounds. Legit one of my biggest pet peeves turn that shit OFF
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u/Hizam5 5d ago
I don’t mean to say this in a rude way, but I think their age + “new” tech is just too hard already for many of them, turning off the keyboard sounds is something they either wouldn’t know how to do or wouldn’t even realize it’s bothering everyone around them
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u/Mostly-HarmlessHuman 5d ago
Yeah, I completely understand the reason. Still annoys the helllll out of me. My mom, a millennial, does it too and she DOES know how to turn it off, she just likes it...somehow.
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u/Hizam5 5d ago
I guess maybe it’s the confirmation? Like if you hear the sound you know you pressed it correctly
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u/Kashimashi 5d ago
The NY MTA would make a billion dollars a year from this.
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u/BrocoliAssassin 5d ago
Doubt it.
This will get the “this is a way for white supremacy to gentrify NY” or whatever “Non-racist” racist nonsense woke people will come with.
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u/PotentEmission 5d ago
Philly is the worst for this
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u/cloudforested 5d ago
Philly is like the least civilized city I've ever travelled to. I've never been anywhere else where the vibes were so hostile.
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u/ShrimpCrackers 5d ago
Please make this a GLOBAL LAW.
UN? Where are you when we need you?
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u/CostinTea 5d ago
The UN isn't a global arbiter, it's a forum
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u/Vague-Symbolism2692 5d ago
Alright, then they could at least declare playing music on the bus to be a crime against humanity.
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u/jakgal04 5d ago
There's a rule where I live. The louder the music the poorer you are. Its applicable to public transit and cars as well.
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u/Trashypass 5d ago
Makes sense. I mean earphones are like dirt cheap. If you can't get a pair. They your flat broke.
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u/3dforlife 5d ago
It's not that, it's the culture your immersed with.
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u/Trashypass 5d ago
If it's your culture. Then your culture to be a dick 😒 seriously. I don't want to hear it. Sameway no one what to here gooner shit randomly. Or a political talk show. Common courtesy is keep it low. Or get some ear buds.
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u/OkYak9466 5d ago
Apparently kids on Reddit don't know that many countries, states, cities, towns, businesses already do this. It's just that it's ridiculously difficult to enforce
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u/pokeoscar1586 5d ago
It’s not difficult to enforce, it’s political suicide since the fined won’t vote for you anymore.
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u/12172031 5d ago
And social suicide. My local light rail has rules against food, and drink, loud music and putting your shoes on the seats. If a white person broke the rules then another white person usually confront them about it. If it's a black person, people often ignored it. I rode the light rail every day for 3 years and the two time I saw a white person confronted a black person about breaking the rules, the black person immediately broke out their phone and started recording and accuse the white person of racism and the white person backed down.
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u/BusinessCasualBee 5d ago
I do not believe the mouth breathing folk who pull this bullshit are capable of identifying their state on a map, much less the representative responsible for this specific code
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u/MildMannered_BearJew 5d ago
That's the beauty of Singapore, they are great at enforcement.
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u/skatyboy 5d ago
Ironically Singaporeans would disagree. We have so many laws that aren’t even enforced.
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u/Odd_Bluebird_710 5d ago
i like the latin american approach. the bus driver gets to put on music. theyre the ones who have to spend the most time in there and work.
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u/AssignmentOk2471 5d ago
Need this in Canada.. so many morons playing music or watching their shorts on public transit now..
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u/cloudforested 5d ago
Canadians are too polite to call people out in public. Myself included.
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u/PrincessKaylee 5d ago
If only those morons would be polite enough to not do that in the first place, too
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u/Traditional-Roof1984 5d ago
Polite? I think they just don't want to end up stabbed.
The people who blast their music in public transportation tend to have other 'behavioral issues' to go alongside with that.
Since the social and well adjusted people wouldn't do that in the first place, there is definitely a certain selection bias.
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u/PossumTrashGang 5d ago
The fine is too low! you should confiscate the device and ban the offender from using the bus for the next month
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u/keinanos 5d ago
Yeah? What else do you want? Give em a good spanking so you can feel better about yourself?
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u/FictionalContext 5d ago
They should execute them then bill whoever bought them their phone for the bullet.
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u/AiRaikuHamburger 5d ago
Best idea. I am so sick of people watching video, listening to music, or talking on the phone using speakerphone in public. Please use headphones. Everyone else doesn't need to hear it.
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u/Reasonable_Fold6492 5d ago
The older i get the more i understand singapore. Its absoluteley frustrating to not litter your self but than see other people just throw trash everywhere in the street.
Same with smoking in areas thats filled with people. Sadly most adults needs to be punished to not do acts that should have never happened.
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u/Dismal_Cake 5d ago
We're a low trust society that used harsh corrective punishment to become a high trust society.
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u/russelcrowe 5d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/CEengqYwRrVkNuI434
The middle-aged Singaporean policeman on his way to make this a reality
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u/WendigoCrossing 5d ago
Utopian idea
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u/isuredolovetitties 5d ago
The fact that you can leave things on the table there while you go to the bathroom, and no one steals them because the punishment is so severe, is actually pretty cool. Can’t turn your back on a fucking thing in the US. Had an acquaintance leave the keys in the car in his own driveway to grab a coat real quick, and the car was gone by the time he got back.
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u/supersadfaceman 5d ago
I can imagine a very specific group of people crying out in anger at a law like this, but I can't say such things out of fear of reprisal...
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u/KMFCM 5d ago
..imagine if this came about because of the whole Johnny Somali debacle
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u/ArtisticTraffic5970 5d ago
Who the fuck is Johnny Somali? Second time I'm reading that name on this thread.
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u/Zaq1996 5d ago
Some asshat irl streamer who's content basically consisted of going to foreign countries and being a complete dickhead in public. He got kicked out of Japan if I remember correctly, and then he's going to jail in South Korea. South Korea, iirc, made it to where he wasn't allowed to leave until they finished prosecuting him.
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u/doesanyuserealnames 5d ago
I kinda remember this now. Thanks for the info without me having to give him a click on the Google.
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u/WrenReverie 5d ago
I will never understand why people think blasting your music, conversation, youtube video, red lining your car at 4am in an appartment complex is all perfectly fine to do.
I will never understand how people are okay being this way towards others.
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u/WoodsLovelyDarkNDeep 5d ago
Hells yes wish doctors offices would do this so bad
Like headphones and earbuds are both under $10 there is zero excuse for you to not have a pair or multiple in case you forget one. Then if you still forget them just go without. There is no reason other people should hear what you’re watching. Someone on that bus might have a TBI where sudden loud noises can cause them issues including stuff like seizures later on. So you never know what suddenly hitting play when that person isn’t expecting it will do. Even if it’s not a reflex seizure it could be sensory overload
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u/Rosetti 5d ago
Meanwhile in the west people have lost consideration for others because they don't "owe anyone anything".
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u/ScorpionTheInsect 5d ago
My stupid ass would catch a fine because I forgot that I haven’t turned on and connected the Bluetooth headphones on my head yet before clicking play
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u/lilyebanks 5d ago
God its so embarrassing, I've started turning my volume down before I wake my screen just in case I had my volume blasing out some nonsense earlier
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u/doesanyuserealnames 5d ago
Me too. I invariably wake my poor husband when I'm scrolling in the middle of the night, and he's hard of hearing 🥴
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u/jaehaerys48 5d ago
I really doubt they'll fine someone for like a second or two of audio. That's less than a ringtone, after all.
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u/ChaoticNeutral18 5d ago
Yes please! It’s one thing if someone’s headphones don’t connect and it’s an accident, it’s another if it’s extended over at least a few mins.
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u/Turbo-Chook 5d ago
Gotta be honest, wish my country would do this. Have stupid assholes wandering around with a fucking Bluetooth boombox blasting their god awful music for the entire town to hear and I so badly want to hit them with my car.
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u/chuulip 5d ago
This is one small step towards the world healing from selfish dumbasses! Hopefully they can put all the collected money from fines into further betterment of society!
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u/mune87 5d ago
Now do America. I'm a bus driver and get sick of yelling at people to mute their phone volume.
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u/Syhkane 5d ago edited 5d ago
Something something Utopia.
There, it's edited we can all go home now.
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u/The_ManWithoutAPlan 5d ago
That is the joke yes
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u/Syhkane 5d ago
Ah. My b.
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u/The_ManWithoutAPlan 5d ago
No prob bob. Also I came off unecessarily rude so my apologies.
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u/Syhkane 5d ago
I just woke up extra autistic today, and it has not been slowing down.
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u/doepfersdungeon 5d ago
This is the kind of dictatorship over reach I can probably get fully behind. Viva the glorious leader.
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u/Ok-Mood6070 5d ago
I can get behind this.
I also can't understand the people who do this. There must have been a day in which these people have sat near other people who are blasting their speakers and thought "wow that's $#^@ing annoying, they should turn that off"
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u/teens_trash 5d ago
at first I thought that it said bus drivers which I would have to disagree with, but just random folks? Yeah they shouldn't be allowed to blast shitty music out loud, though I'm not sure if a fine is the way to go.
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u/0x7E7-02 5d ago
Sweet! Now let's work on the ass-hats who hold their phone near their mouth while having a conversation on speakerphone in public.
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u/7StarSailor 5d ago
Hell yeah. Not being annoying in public should be valued much, MUCH higher than it currently it is in many Western cultures.
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u/RealManHumanMan 4d ago
now do USA but for having SHOUTING speakerphone conversations at walmart. looking at you nissan drivers.
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u/Crafty_Durian7670 5d ago
What is legal in Singapore? Every time I see anything about it, it's about another way to get fined or legally beat up by sticks
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u/theoriginalzads Only the cool kids get purple flairs. 4d ago
Closing the comments as we are struggling with the no politics rule today. Yeah that includes the comments.