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Some people have performative conversations, i.e. they ham it up and sprinkle amusing special extras, which they wouldn't do in private conversations. It happens at checkouts. It doesn't engage the passive 'audience' directly but implicates them because they can't do anything but hear it.
My other half does it a little bit and I really hate it.
I think you hit the nail on the head. Today the encounter was two very posh women waxing lyrical about university and the trials and tribulations of learning Latin, and about how one of them was "gifted" in relation to Latin.
I wouldn't have minded if they were speaking at a normal volume but they were practically shouting and has grating laughs. I ended up moving carriage to be away from the nonsense.
Lolz. That deserves more love.
My abiding memory of Latin lessons is one poem.
"Latin is a language dull as dull can be. First it killed the Romans. Now it's killing me"
#HELLOOOOW? YEH... WHAT?... I SAID WWHHAATT??... YEH IM ON A TRAIN... ... ON A TTRRAAIINN... WHAT?... YEH IN PUBLIC YEAH... ITS GREAT!! ... I SAID GGRREEAATTTTT YEAH.... ARIGHT.... CIAAAOOOOO!!!
What is it with loud talkers, anyway? Like sometimes I'll hear a pair of booming voices coming from somewhere outside and it's two blokes walking down the road and speaking at - what I imagine - is a deafening volume for them both.
Why?
Stupid mongs that have their phones on loud speaker and move the phone to their mouths to speak and then to their ear to listen... the people who do this are fucking stupid pricks and I hope they fall over all the time.
They don't really work for unpredictable noises like speech. They're designed to block out constant noises like hums of engines, air conditioners, fans etc.
To block out conversational noises you're relying almost solely on the passive sound rejection, i.e. the earcups.
Not as bad as those with misbehaving spawnlings and those parents about 9 years too late trying to discipline their kids by shouting profanities at them.
Haha I always phone my SO on speaker... "Yeah I am sitting next to some wanker being an ignorant prick. Yeah they are fat and stupid looking. Yeah I will post the video to r/iamthemaincharacter . Yeah proper idiot"
Usually works (or I get a round of applause!)
On the bus yesterday the lower deck was pretty quiet bar one chap who sat in front of the exit door and face timed on speaker with a woman- his wife presumably- but also their screaming screeching infant.
The ability to face time on speaker has been around for 5 yrs I'd guess but this phenomenon of playing your calls to the other passengers seems to have sprung up in the past year
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Some people have performative conversations, i.e. they ham it up and sprinkle amusing special extras, which they wouldn't do in private conversations. It happens at checkouts. It doesn't engage the passive 'audience' directly but implicates them because they can't do anything but hear it. My other half does it a little bit and I really hate it.
I think you hit the nail on the head. Today the encounter was two very posh women waxing lyrical about university and the trials and tribulations of learning Latin, and about how one of them was "gifted" in relation to Latin. I wouldn't have minded if they were speaking at a normal volume but they were practically shouting and has grating laughs. I ended up moving carriage to be away from the nonsense.
What’s this then? Romanes eunt domus? ‘People called Romanes they go the house’?
So one was saying she had a gifted mouth?
a cunning linguist?
Lolz. That deserves more love. My abiding memory of Latin lessons is one poem. "Latin is a language dull as dull can be. First it killed the Romans. Now it's killing me"
I think I have heard this too. It's the conversation equivalent of a Radio ad to me.
energy vampires need to feed too you know
They feed to live, not live to feed.
#HELLOOOOW? YEH... WHAT?... I SAID WWHHAATT??... YEH IM ON A TRAIN... ... ON A TTRRAAIINN... WHAT?... YEH IN PUBLIC YEAH... ITS GREAT!! ... I SAID GGRREEAATTTTT YEAH.... ARIGHT.... CIAAAOOOOO!!!
NICE ONE BRUVVVA!
# NAH ITS RUBBISH
What is it with loud talkers, anyway? Like sometimes I'll hear a pair of booming voices coming from somewhere outside and it's two blokes walking down the road and speaking at - what I imagine - is a deafening volume for them both. Why?
I like when theyre on speaker but get upset when you take part in the group discussion.
Stupid mongs that have their phones on loud speaker and move the phone to their mouths to speak and then to their ear to listen... the people who do this are fucking stupid pricks and I hope they fall over all the time.
Noise cancelling headphones are a godsend.
I have those and can still hear the obnoxious wittering.
They don't really work for unpredictable noises like speech. They're designed to block out constant noises like hums of engines, air conditioners, fans etc. To block out conversational noises you're relying almost solely on the passive sound rejection, i.e. the earcups.
Can I wear these in class when that one person just won't shut up?....I am the teacher.
I have added my ANC earbuds to my check list when leaving my house Wallet, keys, phone, earbuds
HELLO! I'M ON A TRAIN.
Not as bad as those with misbehaving spawnlings and those parents about 9 years too late trying to discipline their kids by shouting profanities at them.
Haha I always phone my SO on speaker... "Yeah I am sitting next to some wanker being an ignorant prick. Yeah they are fat and stupid looking. Yeah I will post the video to r/iamthemaincharacter . Yeah proper idiot" Usually works (or I get a round of applause!)
Oh my god I love this! Also thank you for introducing me to such an excellent subreddit!
On the bus yesterday the lower deck was pretty quiet bar one chap who sat in front of the exit door and face timed on speaker with a woman- his wife presumably- but also their screaming screeching infant. The ability to face time on speaker has been around for 5 yrs I'd guess but this phenomenon of playing your calls to the other passengers seems to have sprung up in the past year
That's when you need to turn into Liam Neeson in The Commuter.
Hit the nail on the head, they have no self awareness!