What?!
So this morning there was this high school kid on the city bus listening to his iPod. Loudly. Really loud in fact. So loud that the bus driver had to yell back to him to turn it down because he could hear it too. Did I mention that the kid was sitting at the back of the bus? Yup, that’s right. Not all the way back mind you. He was about 3 seats from the very back so we can give him that. o_o Who the hell listens to music that loud? I could say that it’s probably because I’m an old man of 35 that I don’t understand loud music. But I’ve never liked loud music. Not even as a teenager. Sure I’ve turned up the music in my van because it’s an awesome song, but never to a ridiculous level such as that.
Pfftt… teenagers are stupid (not the ones that come to my blog though… you guys are all right ^_^).
Play Asia
April 19th, 2012 at 12:32 am
>iPod
Yeah, probably some hipster kid that wanted to show of becouse his mom finaly bought him one.
I will never understand people that buy apple stuff.
April 19th, 2012 at 1:20 am
Loud music is horrible! The vast majority of the time I hate the music they listen to,and it’s so loud I can hear it from across a crowded and busy room. I tell them to turn it down to be considerate of others. i often have to remove one of their earbuds/lift one of heir headphones manually to tell them the following canned line…
“You may like it,but others probably don’t. Don’t share it unless asked.”
I even pulled it in high school. Usually resulted in a bruised face for me and a wounded elbow for them.
April 19th, 2012 at 1:34 am
Gad, how annoying. If I can hear your music? It is TOO LOUD. Even if I am sitting right next to you. Some people claim I have too sensitive hearing. Loud music, TV, people tend to make me cringe. SO I would never be able to have my music that loud. I guess I will have good hearing well into my years if I avoid destroying my hearing 😛 I’m 27 and apparently I can still hear the “mosquito ringtones” which are a decibel level I should not be able to hear? I dunno
April 19th, 2012 at 2:33 am
He was probably using really crappy headphones that leak sound like crazy.
April 19th, 2012 at 9:40 pm
He was wearing ear buds and it’s true they suck for keeping the sound in.
April 19th, 2012 at 4:37 am
He probably think that it is realy cool to listen to music as loud as posible, its like internet trolls without internet, i have seen some people like this, realy annoying sometimes, so annoying that you actualy want to punch them. And since when 35 is old ?! dont even joke like this.
April 19th, 2012 at 9:42 pm
Are you in the 35 year club too?
April 19th, 2012 at 9:06 am
Since I wasn’t there, I’ll not attempt to make a character call about this person on the given info. That said, allow me to play devil’s advocate for a moment. I’ll admit to having, in my life, listened to my fair share of loud music. It was always done with my neighbors interest in mind, so I didn’t do it if it would bother them. However, as Humbirdo pointed out, bad headphones can leak noise both ways, so some of the sound intended to go into the ears escapes into the public environment, and some of the sound meant to be blocked makes it through the headphones to the listener. It is amazing how cheap headphones can sound loud from the outside (like ear blaring loud) and be not all that loud from the perspective of the person wearing them (due to the noise bleed). Being a high school student, he may not be able to afford better buds, and could be turning up his music to block the din of the bus. However, even if this is the case, and he was only attempting to listen to his music with minimal external intrusion, he still oughtn’t have turned it up that loudly. Not only is it rude to his fellow passengers, it also is hell on his ears. If he really appreciates his music, he should try to get ahold of some better cans. It’ll save him from both of those problems.
April 19th, 2012 at 9:51 pm
Those are all good points. He was indeed wearing ear buds, but I couldn’t tell you if they where crappy or not. Most are I believe. As for the noise of the bus… the two of us on the bus at the time. I get on at the beginning of the run and he was on before me. Plus we now have new hybrid buses so the noise level is at least half. It’s pretty sweet. ^_^ I do agree that he needs to get some better head phones so he can enjoy his music in peace.
April 20th, 2012 at 2:26 pm
Hybrid buses… I am so jealous right now. <—-(not sarcasm)
April 21st, 2012 at 9:16 pm
One of the old ‘be nice’ type ads on the TTC covered how to make sure your headphones/ear buds aren’t too loud:
Close your hands around them and place them in your lap. If you can hear them at all, they are too loud.
April 21st, 2012 at 9:58 pm
Interesting… I’ve never heard of that. I’ll have to try it to see if people can hear my 3DS when I’m on the bus.
April 19th, 2012 at 12:52 pm
If you’re in a public setting and you don’t have headphones, you should definitely keep your musical preference to yourself. Heck, I usually wait til I get home. After a crappy day of putting up with morons at work and listening to musak all day, I like to listen to the loudest, most evil rock and roll I’ve got and air guitar all over my apartment. Great stress relief.
April 20th, 2012 at 7:04 pm
As someone who is deaf, and listens to music I usually say this to people who are listening to music way too loud/talking on their phones way too loud:
“When the deaf guy sitting next to you, wearing a pair of headphones (in my case, usually, a pair of Shure SRH840s), is asking you to turn it down (or stop yelling), you’re listening to your stuff way too loud.”
That usually shuts them right up.
Honestly, I value what little hearing I have left, and I don’t play my tunes too loud, and I avoid this by usually using a closed pair of headphones, to block out the outside noise, and as a bonus, to keep my ears warm in the winter.
April 20th, 2012 at 9:14 pm
Wow, that would get people to turn things down for sure. ^_^ So you’re deaf but can still listen to music? How much of your hearing do you have left? Have you been deaf all your life or has it been something that is slowly deteriorating.
April 20th, 2012 at 9:43 pm
I have been deaf my whole life, but recently I have developed tinnitus (ringing in the ears), probably due to a combination of my music love, and working in a dairy cooler for a couple of years.
I was diagnosed with hearing loss in kindergarten, and have been wearing hearing-aids since I was about 5 or 6. It took a while to figure it out as I had enough hearing left, as to be able to hear my own voice, which is critical for speech development. If I were to remove my hearing aids and try to understand what you were speaking to me, the sound will loose definition, and I will not be able to totally comprehend what you are saying to me. Consequently, I have a hard time understanding people with strong accents, and I have no ability to filter out background noise mentally, as I hear EVERYTHING equally well (or not so well) due to how the hearing aids work. I also have a much harder time understanding anybody in a noisy environment, more so than people with normal hearing. Lots of people assume that if I were to take out my hearing aids, that I wouldn’t hear anything at all. I still have some hearing left, but I joke it’s how I get my peace and quiet in the mornings.
As for headphones, there’s only two type of headphones I can wear, and even those are not guarantees.
The first type are similar to my Shures, which are the cans that go over my ears. Since I wear a pair of in-the-ear hearing aids, the pickup on my hearing aids are right next to the drivers of the headphones. The other type are the basic pads that sit on your ear. Usually I use the Shures in the winter, and when it’s too hot in the summer, I switch to a pair of Sennheiser PX-100IIs. Earbuds, and ear-plug style headphones are out of the question.
I also have some difficulties in finding a pair of headphones, in that I need not only to find something that sounds good (to me), but that also works with my hearing aids (or more specifically, the program that’s loaded into them). This pretty much rules out any cheap headphones, as they clash with the programming on my hearing aids (which can only be changed at an audiologist). I’ve had to return quite a few headphones for this reason. This pretty much has me looking at $100+ headphones (however, there are exceptions), so I try to take care of my stuff, as I can’t really afford to break things. I also prefer to have an equalizer available to me whenever I can, so I can turn down frequencies that would otherwise be over-amplified (once by the source, and then again by my hearing aids), so that it won’t sound distorted to me… With the exception of bass. I love bass.
As for the tech in the hearing aids themselves, they’ve come a long way from the big, clunky models of the 1980’s. In fact, next week, I’m going to be picking up my new hearing aids, which should make things very interesting. Not only do they patch up (but not totally fix) my hearing, they can function as headphones, as a wireless headset for my cellphone, and have noise cancellation built right in. Downside is, all these bells and whistles (which, lets face it, is what they are), costs quite a pretty penny…
PS. I also use my disability as a foot for my humour, which makes people cringe, or laugh.
PPS. That was quite a long posting…
April 20th, 2012 at 10:45 pm
No worries at all. I love hearing about the things from people that wonder by here. I put so much of myself out there, it’s refreshing when others share too. Thank you so much for all the details you’ve given. I don’t know anyone with a hearing aid so all this is news to me, and I love learning new things. Good luck with your new head phones. Sounds pretty sweet to have head phones build right in to them. ^_^
April 21st, 2012 at 4:48 am
Actually, they’re not new headphones, they’re a new pair of hearing-aids with the ability to link up to a bluetooth device, so that they can function as either a headset for my cell, or as a set of headphones.
All of this is in addition to compensating for my hearing loss. I’m actually pretty excited for these, as I have a job that has me working for long periods of time by myself. Being able to listen to some tunes is going to make the day go much quicker.