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    I always assume people doing this are unhinged/crazy and I definitely don’t want to deal with that.

    Sometimes they look nice enough.

    Usually what happens is myself and everyone else on the train look at each other, have a shared look of “Morons? Am I right?” and then when that person leaves, we all share a group laugh.

    So I guess what I’d say is, if you do this, know that everyone is laughing at you. If you say you don’t care, that’s a lie, you do care, that’s why you’re doing what you’re doing. This is not positive attention, this is negative attention. Please take a moment and reflect to be a force for positivity and not negativity.

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      The new trend I’ve noticed, actually is people SINGING/RAPPING along to the music on their headphones, like, fully as if they were the only ones there, while on a packed train.

      I mean, i guess it’s better because it’s not as loud as their shitty Bluetooth speaker at max volume peaking like crazy, but it is super weird and very fuckin annoying.

      Like, cool, we get it you’re so super confident and think youre as cool as the person you’re listening to in one of their music videos. But you’re not. Because you sound like shit and you’re a dick. Everyone else is getting through this train ride, why the fuck do you think we want to hear YOUR rendition of what you’re listening to? Like, I really can’t decide which is worse. One is way louder but one is way fuckin weirder. People who do either of these are true assholes.

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      Some guy got stabbed on the subway in Toronto a few months back because he asked a guy playing music to turn it off. It really is a crazy world out there.

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      Genuinely not necessarily true. I used to do this when I was younger. It wasn’t because I wanted attention, I just like the feeling of being surrounded by music

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        Genuinely, the world does not want to always take part in what you want. There are rules to society that most of us at least try to follow out of respect. Time and place to be surrounded by music. I’d definitely say on the bus or train is not the time or place. Agree?

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        headphones are both more polite and more immersive thwn carrying around a speaker to annoy others

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          So true. I have an older pair of headphones and they’re still the best sound I can get for my music. It’s the MOST immersive, not only like the sound is all around me, but right inside my head.

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        I masturbate on trains—not because I want attention, I just like the feeling of cumming and I wanted to cum.

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    The venn diagram of people who play music on speakers in public and people who are a thin thread away from stabbing you is a circle.

    Also, I live in the US, so the medical fees for getting stabbed is not worth the risk.

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      Americans who want to confront but can’t afford medcare 🤝 Swedes who have full access to medcare but are afraid of social interaction

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          This has happened in Germany, too.
          I’m not going to try and educate other people anymore. Too many people now explode without warning at the slightest perceived criticism in public.

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            Seriously, why do high population centers in the western world have so many mentally unstable people and/or tweakers?

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              Low population areas do to. But you don’t have public transit so as long as you don’t wander into their meth labs you never have to meet them.

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              Lots of people.

              Small town crazy is different. Small town crazy everyone knows who the lunatic is and avoids them or they don’t know and one day several people disappear or someone is kidnapped or something. Small town crazy scares the shit out of me.

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                Small town crazy is more like the sheriff knows you beat the shit out of your wife and kids but ignores it as long as nobody ends up in the hospital.

                If rural crime was reported accurately, it would be very clear where the most dangerous places per capita are.

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              Hey we have free healthcare in Canada and our waitlists are so laughable you may as well just join the crazies.

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                The system here isn’t perfect either. But it is clearly a lot better than in many other places.

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              Free my ass. Tax payer funded. If you’re going to support something, at least be honest about it.

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                Nothing in life is free. I guess we should just get rid of the word. Who doesn’t know that “free healthcare” is paid with taxes? I obviously mean no unexpected bills or denied healthcare. Nobody has to chose between food or medication. Obviously…

                Do you also comment about the word literally and figuratively being synonyms?

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                  Literally, it’s an important point that seems to be lost on many that believe if we just tax the top 10% (who pay 90% of total tax revenue) even more, we can fix all our problems. Every country with socialized healthcare requires every citizen to pay a significant tax to cover the cost. If people are not willing to pay for it, they shouldn’t be advocating for it. But first they have to be educated on the reality of the cost. So yeah, stop saying free because many have no clue.

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          Not just America. I saw this on the DB to Strasbourg, drunk middle aged woman spitting vile at each person who passed her.

          You really wanna handle that?

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    Why is it always the worst rap music imaginable? Like, I’m a hip hop fanatic, old school, new school, trap, g funk, boom bap, conscious, etc. But why is it the most asinine “i took a xanny now i’m fucking your girl” type shit?

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      You don’t enjoy “Gucci Gucci Gucci Gucci, fucked yo girl on a Tuesday, Gucci Gucci Gucci Gucci, I made poopies on yo boobies, Gucci Gucci Gucci Gucci.”

      For real when did brands become choruses?

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    Start up your Bluetooth speaker. (Buy one if you haven’t got one. It doesn’t have to be good, just loud.)
    Ramp it up to 11.
    Start the most annoying obnoxious sound you have, (that you have already downloaded).
    Stand next to the person playing the shitty music and aim the speaker at then.
    When they complain about your annoying noise you reply, “You started it.”

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    Yeah I don’t need the tweaky dude stabbing me on the train because I didn’t like his music, but thanks

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    i wonder what would happen if you just start acting really into it and singing along terribly with enthusiasm.

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    You better have the gun from the meme if you’re gonna make a habit of this.

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    Yeah I mean I’m not much of a fighter and I’ve gotten put in the hospital for something similar, so now I avoid confrontation like the plague.

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    Did it at the gym once, was watching a show while doing cardio with my headphones and could hear another guy’s music over it. I just yelled without stopping what I was doing “Hey bud, no one wants to listen to your music, use headphones!” and the guy could see everyone’s smirk, he got the message.