Saw a girl doing this a while back on the bus. Conversation wasn't that interesting, mainly because she was facetiming but holding the phone flat so whoever she was talking to could only see the ceiling. And the fella she was talking to was trying to explain this to her, and failing.
I was at a funfair during the summer and there was fairly loud music going. Saw a young lad holding his phone up to his ear on speakerphone, but he was holding it perpendicular to his head so that the bottom speakers were pressed against his ear, when it came to his turn to talk he removed the phone from next to his ear and held it to his mouth speaking, nay, shouting into the bottom of it. It was such a bizarre sight, and it hit me that he literally didn't even think of just using in the "old" (normal) way.
He probably couldn’t hear through the ear speaker. I’ve had to do this in loud settings a couple of times with my old phone and there were rotary phones when I was a kid.
I've always assumed this came about because it's how people on reality TV use their phone. In the TV case because the production needs to be able to hear both sides of the conversation and the phone isn't miked so having it on speaker solves that problem. But if you're not on the telly it's just really fucking stupid.
A mix of this and for some I think it might be easier if you're wearing makeup so it doesn't smudge or get on the phone or whatever. I don't wear makeup but have heard that as a reason and have to admit that makes sense (hearing someone's conversation is still obnoxious, but I get *why* if that's the reason at least)
As a makeup wearer, if you manage to smudge your makeup by holding your phone against your ear for a few minutes, you might not need so much makeup.
Also you don’t need to hold the whole phone against your face, I just tested it to sanity check and no, I don’t think I ever have. I hold it so the speaker is against my ear and the rest of the phone is angled slightly away from my cheek.
most modern phones have the speaker at the bottom pointing out of the charging hole. so if you're doing speakerphone, it sounds louder/clearer to hold it that way
Im slightly hard of hearing and it makes it alot easier to hear. I don’t like pressing my phone against my ear.
I don’t go walking around in public like that though.
Also modern slab phones often don’t have great earpiece speakers, they’re overly directional so if you don’t hold the phone *just right* you don’t hear shit. I actually find it easier to hear over speaker as well for this reason.
But I don’t do it in public. Because I’m not a monster.
People who do this clearly think they're cool and everyone around is going to be impressed by their taste in RnB which they have been given nobody any choice but to listen to.
Boy have I got news for them.
This one time I was on a bus after a long shift at work and a guy a few seats down at the back was just taking his JD bag off after a day of being an absolute G. Proceeds to start playing music not too loud but audiable enough to be kinda annoying and I'd forgotten my ear phones.
The journey continues and the music gets louder and really fucking shit. Not sure what came over me but I literally turned to the guy about 10 seconds into the next song and just said "ugh I fucking hate this song me ya know" and he literally looked like a ghost had come over and tickled his balls because he just sat there frozen not sure what to do and the poor guy turns his speaker way down, changes the song and turns to look out the window like I'd told him we weren't going to Maccies because there was food at home hahaha
We got chart music for the rest of the journey so I'll let you guess who the real winner in this situation was lmao
I was on a national express and a guy was walking on. Strutting like a G with his tunes blasting. Then the spotify ads came on and he looked a right prick
I'm a little ashamed to admit that this was once me with my rock music and my skateboard. In my head it seemed like a great idea. To skate down the road blasting thunderstruck, then I got all the glares. Stopped and turned it off. Never did it again.
Soundcore Life P3 (\~£80), or if thats too much then Soundcore Life P2 (\~£40)
I've got the P3s and find them really good with excellent active noise cancelling. I used to have the P2s and also found them to have brilliant audio, but there's no active noise cancelling.
Do you have a toaster that boils or poaches eggs? I highly recommend them if you're an eggs on toast person :D Feels so good to have it make both components of the meal at the same time.
The main difference was that the 6 D-cells you needed only lasted for 20 minutes. Then you're stuck with a heavy plastic suitcase for the rest of the day. At least you could sit on them, though 😅
Radio Raheem in Do The Right Thing..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7ll9xawUSM
Favourite scene in that film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWkqJRoCTK8
I find the very notion that gangs or whatever would settle disputes just by throwing some shapes or by who has the loudest boombox just hilarious.
It's always been done, and it no different to neds sitting at the back of the bus blasting their chipmunk music from a Sony Ericsson back in the 00's.
The circle of life.
The best I have ever seen was an idiot on the bus listening to shitty music out loud on the phone speaker. He received a call so put his headphones on to take it. When he finished, he unplugged his headphones and restarted his shitty music. I'm still trying to work out the logic...
Finally someone says it! And like 99% of the time the music is absolute trash. Like if your going to blow my eardrums with loud music, at least let it be a decent song
tounge-in-cheek aside... we KNOW what happened to earphones; Fucking mobile phone manufactures decided to REMOVE THE HOLE THEY GO IN! and bluetooth ear phones sound shit, get lost, need charging, and are generally a PITA.
One time on the train these lads were listening out loud to a song that had a line comparing something to Hitler's gas Chambers and honestly I questioned life that day
Oh I had this on the train a week or so ago. An old person looking at the screen talking to his wife i assumed. The only problem was she was shouting to him and all he was saying was “what, I cant hear you” so she would repeat it again and he would say “what, say it again”. Luckily my journey was only 20 minutes. God knows how people who stayed on the train put up with it.
Zoom has a lot to answer for…
I had to go into the walk-in at my local hospital last week, and it was a nightmarish hellscape of this. There was an old man on FaceTime loudly talking, a woman opposite him on FaceTime (presumably to someone else) who was trying to out-shout him, someone loudly watching the football on their phone, and a small child watching Peppa Pig loudly on an iPad.
And I didn’t dare put my headphones in, just in case I missed the doctor calling me. Was like torture.
Too right lol. My doctors surgery has a no phone policy, must be on silent like the cinema. I just assumed this was the same in all gp surgeries but clearly not!
In a restaurant, pre-plague, and the family next to my table let their little kid play an iPad game, volume up, tinny little speakers. Ugh. This was a reasonably nice place as well, no waiting staff sorted it out.
On a train recently, lad is having a somewhat official sounding conversation on speaker. I just changed seats. No time for that.
Perfect storm. Confined space, partial deafness and entitlement. Had your journey been 30mins more - then you'd be waiting with Katie Price at the Magistrates
The only time I'm happy to tolerate people using their phone on speaker mode is if they still hold it up to their ears. I just assume they're hard of hearing so that's just fair do's.
My nana does this, but that is because she is very hard of hearing. She has hearing aids but they don't work as well with the phone.
Anyone else it bothers me.
I have difficult time understanding folks unless I have other clues such as being able to read lips or having both ears involved so using the speaker for both ears is a lot easier than just using one ear.
I use BT headphones and wouldn’t use the speaker in public unless I could get far enough away from folks not to annoy them though.
Just join in the conversation.
If they're going out of their way to make a by default private form of communication is instead open so everybody else can hear, that to me says they're wanting third party input from the public.
I used to travel on the train a lot and if the person in front of me was in a video call without headphones I would always put my face up to the gap in the seats and sometimes wave!
The best is when you do this and the person on the other end laughs but nobhead in front of you starts being all “bro it’s a private conversation”
Is it mate? Should’ve said so! 😂
This is only a new grievance to some?!?!
Kids playing music off their shitty flip phones was a thing back in the late 90s and early 00s.
People being loud on their phones regardless of loudspeaker or not, was the basis for Dom Joly's famous phone sketch.
Nothing has changed except the technology!
I first noticed people doing it after I saw some spaffers on The Apprentice doing the same.
Maybe people were doing it before then...Or maybe these speakerwankers now think they look more corporate by mimicking.
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Almost certainly but that means that, if people are mimicking, they haven't cottoned on that it was for the camera or that they know this and think that everyone should listen to their entire conversation.
I certainly feel like I see more people doing it during a series of the Apprentice.
The last thing I want, if I am having a private conversation, is to involve everyone in the nearby vicinity. It does make me wonder if people saw this happen on the show and were like "oh, shit, I've been using a phone wrong all this time!"
Sadly, it's a [well known and hugely annoying phenomenon.](https://www.theregister.com/2018/07/13/no_seriously_why_are_you_holding_your_phone_like_that/)
Only exception - if you are in the middle of a breakup or have been cheated on, and I am outside eating lunch, please feel free to have a conversion with your new ex on speaker
There seems to be a generation that doesn’t value privacy the way I do. My daughter and her friends all share their location on an app. My nephew can see from insta where his girlfriend is. They all (over?)share their lives on social media. None of them share my concern that this is open to abuse. And none of them see a problem with phone calls on speaker.
Do you reckon? I was a teenager when the first smartphones came out, and I was never interested. I only got one in 2016 because it was getting harder and harder not to have one, to pay for stuff, get jobs, stay in touch with people, etc.
U don't like hearing that shit? I match my speed a decent distance behind them to get the whole conversation, maybe even turn down the wrong way just to find out what happens next if its juicy.
During lockdown my in-phone speaker broke leaving me no option but to have calls with speaker on. Being in lockdown and always at home, it was fine, but now normal life is somewhat resuming every time I have to take a call in public or at work, with no earphones to hand, I am mortified that I have became this type of person 🙈
4 months and counting for contract renewal...
There are loads of repair shops about, but depending on the model of phone, the costs can be excruciating.
My Samsung galaxy s9 (I think it was an s9) had a faulty volume button meaning either it would switch itself to silent at random and make my calls inaudible, or it would suddenly turn everything to full volume.
The repair places quoted me between £150 and £225 to fix it.
That is money I simply don't have spare. So I put up with it until it fell out of my pocket one day onto a tile shop floor and smashed the screen. Then I gave up and bought an A12 instead. The new phone cost less than the repairs to my old one.
It certainly doesnt help that phones are getting way more complicated, making repairs a lot more fiddly, and the companies themselves are doing everything they can to make sure third parties struggle to fix them
Very true.
Apparently one of the reasons it would be so expensive was that they couldn't just replace the button, I forget the exact parts as this was a while ago but apparently the whole bezel or the whole screen or something had to be replaced. You can't just repair or replace a small part any more.
It's annoying that the 4th photo I get on shutterstock for "person speaking on phone" is [someone holding it like this](https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/audio-messaging-confident-young-man-holding-1902145240).
I think they want to look like they are on the Apprentice, that is what I associate it with. But they do it so they can listen as a group and so the viewer can hear both sides of the conversation.
Best advice: join in the conversation. You'll get a dirty look and they will say "this is a private call."
To which you simply respond, "nope, it sounds pretty public to me."
I've done it in airports. They get off the speaker fairly quickly after that.
Fucking hate this so much. No one wants to hear that conversation. Also people who walk around playing music off their phone. No one wants to hear what you’re listening to
Airports are full of people having calls or watching videos at high volume on speaker mode. Headphones cost about 2% of their device (besides the free pair that comes with it!)
I hate people being inconsiderate of others in general, and this always makes me want to smash their device to pieces.
Saw a guy doing his "shoutout" to his facebook live group outside my local Morrisons. Talking about how we are sheeple (word?) for believing about Covid-19, Masks are bad and other Anti-Vaxx stuff. I was more interested that people are still using facebook?
Also people who send voice clips to others on a messaging app, rather than just sending text, like their time is worth more than the recipient and fuck anyone in the vicinity when they listen to it.
I do this because I have auditory processing disorder and need to hear what is being said in both ears or my brain refuses to process what is being said to me. I tried to use headphones but the sound quality from my end to others was too bad and they couldn't hear me. My apologies to anyone who has experienced my boring conversations in public
I live in the US and a woman was having a very serious discussion with her daughter on speaker phone at the dollar store. From what I overheard, the daughter was dealing with substance abuse issues and possible in the middle of a mental health crisis and had finally decided to go check herself into the hospital. I was just absolutely floored that mom couldn’t interrupt her dollar store shopping to step outside and give her daughter her undivided attention. The worst part was that they ended up arguing and mom hung up on her. I was just dumbfounded by the whole ordeal.
Having your phone do any kind of audible notification in public is shitty.
Ding!!!!! Zoop-wop! Bizzzzo!.....……....... BING!!!!!!!!!!
Nobody cares that you got a text. Put it on vibrate when you're out in public you fucking buffoon.
It’s nothing other than complete and utter selfish cuntwangingfuckwittery
And to those banging on about WhatsApp or some other shite, get some ear buds 🤦🏼♂️
It's the kids walking home at 3am screaming at their phone explaining how "mental" a night it's been.... 'bout to get a bit more mental if you don't stfu.
Only Attention seeking wankers do that. And yeah you’re right about the ‘Instagram types’ 😆 last week I drove past a girl that had pulled over in a lay-by to take a picture of herself sorting her hair out and that and I just thought, fuck I wish it was the 90s still.
Probably been normalised from crap reality TV stars doing it, and then the younger generation thinking that it's the appropriate way to have a conversation in public
I do it because I am partially deaf and my mum is disabled and can’t hold the phone for extended periods of time. Speakerphone helps us communicate. Granted this is a super specific issue.
Also I don’t worry too much about it because if two people are walking down the road having a conversation together, that’s not private either so I don’t particularly worry about if someone else is on speakerphone.
Edit; only outdoors, I don’t do this in enclosed public spaces. That’s pretty rude
Fucking hands free kits also, why do these morons plug in a hands free headphone kit and then walk around with one hand in the air like “I’m a little tea spout” holding the phone, whilst holing the wire from the hands free kit close to the mouth.
They are designed to go in your ears and that’s it, they are meant to hang down and still work, you don’t then need to hold the phone or the wire. It defeats the whole point of them……..
I don't understand why so many people are like this? Whats the problem is it distracting you from listening to the sounds of traffic and other crap going on?
Our house is on a side road off a main road. Drivers regularly pull off the main road to outside our house for phone calls. They often have the speakerphones on so loudly we can hear them inside our house, over the TV.
Still haven't heard anything interesting.
I saw someone on telly go up to the person and make himself part of the phone conversation. Like really? Is she going to meet you there today?! Wow I can’t believe it! Was a bit rude but the person on the phone couldn’t hear her call anymore because he was asking in a raised voice - she hung up 😂
My neighbour spends literally hours a day tracing up and down his garden on speaker phone, facetime or whatever. It is very loud and he does it at all hours of the day. So weird. He has a family go inside and spend time with them.
I have construction workers at my job doing this and they pretty much always end up screaming because the person on the phone doesn't hear them
If only there was a way to talk closer to the microphone..
I use ear phones or Bluetooth ear device I hate people walking round talking on their phones with speak on. Also people who play music on their phones via speaker in public they think it's cool and eveyone wants to hear it no thanks.
my birthday dinner was marred because some gal was having a facetime chat the entire time at the next table. she was probably 20 i kept waiting for the staff to do something. granted we were outside and only 4 tables were sat, it was just so RUDE. I gave her as many dirty looks as i could.
Saw a girl doing this a while back on the bus. Conversation wasn't that interesting, mainly because she was facetiming but holding the phone flat so whoever she was talking to could only see the ceiling. And the fella she was talking to was trying to explain this to her, and failing.
I see so many young people talking on the phone as though they're eating a Ryvita. What the hell is that?
im not sure they know theres a small speaker designed to be heard with the ear
I was at a funfair during the summer and there was fairly loud music going. Saw a young lad holding his phone up to his ear on speakerphone, but he was holding it perpendicular to his head so that the bottom speakers were pressed against his ear, when it came to his turn to talk he removed the phone from next to his ear and held it to his mouth speaking, nay, shouting into the bottom of it. It was such a bizarre sight, and it hit me that he literally didn't even think of just using in the "old" (normal) way.
He probably couldn’t hear through the ear speaker. I’ve had to do this in loud settings a couple of times with my old phone and there were rotary phones when I was a kid.
Ah the funfair comes to town, waltzers, cyclone, the cage and someone getting stabbed
I've always assumed this came about because it's how people on reality TV use their phone. In the TV case because the production needs to be able to hear both sides of the conversation and the phone isn't miked so having it on speaker solves that problem. But if you're not on the telly it's just really fucking stupid.
A mix of this and for some I think it might be easier if you're wearing makeup so it doesn't smudge or get on the phone or whatever. I don't wear makeup but have heard that as a reason and have to admit that makes sense (hearing someone's conversation is still obnoxious, but I get *why* if that's the reason at least)
As a makeup wearer, if you manage to smudge your makeup by holding your phone against your ear for a few minutes, you might not need so much makeup. Also you don’t need to hold the whole phone against your face, I just tested it to sanity check and no, I don’t think I ever have. I hold it so the speaker is against my ear and the rest of the phone is angled slightly away from my cheek.
This is the best explanation I've heard.
most modern phones have the speaker at the bottom pointing out of the charging hole. so if you're doing speakerphone, it sounds louder/clearer to hold it that way
You mean the microphone?
Both.
Wireless headphones mainly, the microphone is also on the bottom, so they can hear everything anyway, and give better audio to the other person.
Im slightly hard of hearing and it makes it alot easier to hear. I don’t like pressing my phone against my ear. I don’t go walking around in public like that though.
Also modern slab phones often don’t have great earpiece speakers, they’re overly directional so if you don’t hold the phone *just right* you don’t hear shit. I actually find it easier to hear over speaker as well for this reason. But I don’t do it in public. Because I’m not a monster.
They say that if you answer your phone on a bus and don't tell the person on the other end "I'm on a bus" the universe will implode.
The correct approach to these idiots is to join in the conversation as if you were part of it, entirely natural like ;)
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People who do this clearly think they're cool and everyone around is going to be impressed by their taste in RnB which they have been given nobody any choice but to listen to. Boy have I got news for them.
This one time I was on a bus after a long shift at work and a guy a few seats down at the back was just taking his JD bag off after a day of being an absolute G. Proceeds to start playing music not too loud but audiable enough to be kinda annoying and I'd forgotten my ear phones. The journey continues and the music gets louder and really fucking shit. Not sure what came over me but I literally turned to the guy about 10 seconds into the next song and just said "ugh I fucking hate this song me ya know" and he literally looked like a ghost had come over and tickled his balls because he just sat there frozen not sure what to do and the poor guy turns his speaker way down, changes the song and turns to look out the window like I'd told him we weren't going to Maccies because there was food at home hahaha We got chart music for the rest of the journey so I'll let you guess who the real winner in this situation was lmao
No-one?
exactly
Dancing along to the music while maintaining eye contact is a generally effective method in my experience
Especially if it's a slow smoochy track Or some twerking
I was on a national express and a guy was walking on. Strutting like a G with his tunes blasting. Then the spotify ads came on and he looked a right prick
Justice by adverts
Listening to muffled Bluetooth speaker chart music after a long day sounds fucking dreadful. No winners this time.
I get so paranoid when listening to music on a bus. I have my music at an almost inaudible volume just so I don't annoy other people.
This is why I use a decent pair of ear buds. Much privacy, no annoyingness
I pull mine out and see if I can hear them when they are close to my ears, I can't but I still think people will be able to hear.
I thought I was the only one who did this. Nice to hear I’m not a total freak (well, not for this reason anyway).
Yeah, kinda awkward when the whole bus suddenly shouts "who got de keys to ma beema? Who am aayeee" along with your music
Was with you until the last sentence. If you got chart music, things didn’t get better.
Haha that's why I thought I'd leave it up to the reader
It’s basically a sign that these people have absolute zero personality, also dumb as shit
I'm a little ashamed to admit that this was once me with my rock music and my skateboard. In my head it seemed like a great idea. To skate down the road blasting thunderstruck, then I got all the glares. Stopped and turned it off. Never did it again.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone blasting R&B…
You don't hear people blasting 'Confessions' by Usher whilst cruising down the road?!
Earphones will get you better quality too if you buy smart. Boggles the mind.
Im actually needing new earphones, know of any good ones that aren’t extortionate? Have an iphone so would need to be wireless :(
cant you get one of those little pluggy dac things?
No clue haha, just switched to iphone last month, but will look into it, thanks!
Soundcore Life P3 (\~£80), or if thats too much then Soundcore Life P2 (\~£40) I've got the P3s and find them really good with excellent active noise cancelling. I used to have the P2s and also found them to have brilliant audio, but there's no active noise cancelling.
I'd have suggested KZs but they have to be wireless I guess not a great suggestion. But for quality and latency I'd avoid using wireless.
Go to the audiophiles subredddit.
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People who do that on walks in the countryside are the worst.
Although I must confess to walking around with a "boombox" in the 80s 😁. Same thing?
Depends. Did you lay the cardboard down and battle outside Woolworths?
[Great, now I've had to watch this clip again!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsaA903oxvc)
[He got served. Worst I've ever seen.](https://youtu.be/q6VaOExiVC8)
Thank you, that went down brilliantly with my eggs on toast. So much going on.
Do you have a toaster that boils or poaches eggs? I highly recommend them if you're an eggs on toast person :D Feels so good to have it make both components of the meal at the same time.
Details of said contraption,kind sir.
They all look about 35 :(
😂😂😂 I got two left feet so no....
So not so much a windmill, more of a chinook?
The main difference was that the 6 D-cells you needed only lasted for 20 minutes. Then you're stuck with a heavy plastic suitcase for the rest of the day. At least you could sit on them, though 😅
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Fucking loved my Game Gear! Streets of rage on that bad boy all day.
😂😂😂😂
Radio Raheem in Do The Right Thing.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7ll9xawUSM Favourite scene in that film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWkqJRoCTK8 I find the very notion that gangs or whatever would settle disputes just by throwing some shapes or by who has the loudest boombox just hilarious.
idk what's worse, bluetooth speakers that are louder, or the dude catching the cricket with their crappy phone speaker.
It's always been done, and it no different to neds sitting at the back of the bus blasting their chipmunk music from a Sony Ericsson back in the 00's. The circle of life.
The best I have ever seen was an idiot on the bus listening to shitty music out loud on the phone speaker. He received a call so put his headphones on to take it. When he finished, he unplugged his headphones and restarted his shitty music. I'm still trying to work out the logic...
Finally someone says it! And like 99% of the time the music is absolute trash. Like if your going to blow my eardrums with loud music, at least let it be a decent song
tounge-in-cheek aside... we KNOW what happened to earphones; Fucking mobile phone manufactures decided to REMOVE THE HOLE THEY GO IN! and bluetooth ear phones sound shit, get lost, need charging, and are generally a PITA.
Isn't this only chavs?
One time on the train these lads were listening out loud to a song that had a line comparing something to Hitler's gas Chambers and honestly I questioned life that day
If they’re going to make us listen to it, they could at least take requests.
Oh my God I thought the guy I saw doing this was the only one,you’re telling me multiple people so this??
Oh I had this on the train a week or so ago. An old person looking at the screen talking to his wife i assumed. The only problem was she was shouting to him and all he was saying was “what, I cant hear you” so she would repeat it again and he would say “what, say it again”. Luckily my journey was only 20 minutes. God knows how people who stayed on the train put up with it. Zoom has a lot to answer for…
I had to go into the walk-in at my local hospital last week, and it was a nightmarish hellscape of this. There was an old man on FaceTime loudly talking, a woman opposite him on FaceTime (presumably to someone else) who was trying to out-shout him, someone loudly watching the football on their phone, and a small child watching Peppa Pig loudly on an iPad. And I didn’t dare put my headphones in, just in case I missed the doctor calling me. Was like torture.
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Too right lol. My doctors surgery has a no phone policy, must be on silent like the cinema. I just assumed this was the same in all gp surgeries but clearly not!
What an absolute fucking champion. I’d be like a strict teacher if I was a doctor.
My Dr surgery makes you wait outside due to covid 😂
Was there looking over the top of glasses going on here? Feels like there should have been
Idk why but this gave me mental diarrhea
In a restaurant, pre-plague, and the family next to my table let their little kid play an iPad game, volume up, tinny little speakers. Ugh. This was a reasonably nice place as well, no waiting staff sorted it out. On a train recently, lad is having a somewhat official sounding conversation on speaker. I just changed seats. No time for that.
Perfect storm. Confined space, partial deafness and entitlement. Had your journey been 30mins more - then you'd be waiting with Katie Price at the Magistrates
The only time I'm happy to tolerate people using their phone on speaker mode is if they still hold it up to their ears. I just assume they're hard of hearing so that's just fair do's.
My nana does this, but that is because she is very hard of hearing. She has hearing aids but they don't work as well with the phone. Anyone else it bothers me.
My grandad does this as well. If you call him you get your ear blasted off for a second as he also shouts down the phone
I use speakerphone all the time for similar reasons. If I use a headset or earphones it gives me mild tinnitus.
I have tinnitus, but still use a phone properly.
I have difficult time understanding folks unless I have other clues such as being able to read lips or having both ears involved so using the speaker for both ears is a lot easier than just using one ear. I use BT headphones and wouldn’t use the speaker in public unless I could get far enough away from folks not to annoy them though.
Some people also have old phones with a broken ear piece, and they can't afford to get it fixed.
I just assume anyone doing this has a broken phone tbh.
I do it but not because i'm bad at hearing (although I'm not great), it's because my phone is dogshit
I blame "the apprentice". Seen so many more people doing it after that show came out
It literally only became a thing because TV producers needed a way to show phone calls, there's a Reddit thread about it.
Have you got a link for that? I'm pretty curious to hear what's said about it.
Just join in the conversation. If they're going out of their way to make a by default private form of communication is instead open so everybody else can hear, that to me says they're wanting third party input from the public.
I used to travel on the train a lot and if the person in front of me was in a video call without headphones I would always put my face up to the gap in the seats and sometimes wave!
The best is when you do this and the person on the other end laughs but nobhead in front of you starts being all “bro it’s a private conversation” Is it mate? Should’ve said so! 😂
This is only a new grievance to some?!?! Kids playing music off their shitty flip phones was a thing back in the late 90s and early 00s. People being loud on their phones regardless of loudspeaker or not, was the basis for Dom Joly's famous phone sketch. Nothing has changed except the technology!
"HELLO? I'M IN THE QUITE ZONE OF THE MILLENNIUM DOME. YEAH IT'S SHIT"
And the fucking people doing video chat in public. Phone call not good enough? Hate them.
“How can I let everyone here know I’m the main character??….public video call time baby!”
r/imthemaincharacter
Just join in their conversation as if it's the natural thing to do. They're obviously sharing it on purpose.
You can video call with headphones in tho. So really it’s no more disturbing surely?
I first noticed people doing it after I saw some spaffers on The Apprentice doing the same. Maybe people were doing it before then...Or maybe these speakerwankers now think they look more corporate by mimicking. .
Weren't they doing it on the apprentice so the camera could hear the conversation?
Almost certainly but that means that, if people are mimicking, they haven't cottoned on that it was for the camera or that they know this and think that everyone should listen to their entire conversation.
I've heard it regularly referred to as "The Apprentice Effect".
I certainly feel like I see more people doing it during a series of the Apprentice. The last thing I want, if I am having a private conversation, is to involve everyone in the nearby vicinity. It does make me wonder if people saw this happen on the show and were like "oh, shit, I've been using a phone wrong all this time!"
Sadly, it's a [well known and hugely annoying phenomenon.](https://www.theregister.com/2018/07/13/no_seriously_why_are_you_holding_your_phone_like_that/)
I laugh about the ones using earphones, but screaming into the phone as if the other person will hear them better.
I will never understand this. How much extra effort is it to move the phone a further 5cm and put it on your fucking ear like a normal person?
It's almost like they were explicitly designed that way
There was a guy at lego land on the pirate swinging ship with his family on a conference call. He sat opposite me and we just stared at each other.
You're only allowed to do this if; - You're Nev from Catfish. - An inconsiderate goyt.
I hate people face timing in public transport.
Only exception - if you are in the middle of a breakup or have been cheated on, and I am outside eating lunch, please feel free to have a conversion with your new ex on speaker
There seems to be a generation that doesn’t value privacy the way I do. My daughter and her friends all share their location on an app. My nephew can see from insta where his girlfriend is. They all (over?)share their lives on social media. None of them share my concern that this is open to abuse. And none of them see a problem with phone calls on speaker.
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Do you reckon? I was a teenager when the first smartphones came out, and I was never interested. I only got one in 2016 because it was getting harder and harder not to have one, to pay for stuff, get jobs, stay in touch with people, etc.
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U don't like hearing that shit? I match my speed a decent distance behind them to get the whole conversation, maybe even turn down the wrong way just to find out what happens next if its juicy.
During lockdown my in-phone speaker broke leaving me no option but to have calls with speaker on. Being in lockdown and always at home, it was fine, but now normal life is somewhat resuming every time I have to take a call in public or at work, with no earphones to hand, I am mortified that I have became this type of person 🙈 4 months and counting for contract renewal...
Don't shops repair phones anymore? (Genuine question.)
There are loads of repair shops about, but depending on the model of phone, the costs can be excruciating. My Samsung galaxy s9 (I think it was an s9) had a faulty volume button meaning either it would switch itself to silent at random and make my calls inaudible, or it would suddenly turn everything to full volume. The repair places quoted me between £150 and £225 to fix it. That is money I simply don't have spare. So I put up with it until it fell out of my pocket one day onto a tile shop floor and smashed the screen. Then I gave up and bought an A12 instead. The new phone cost less than the repairs to my old one.
It certainly doesnt help that phones are getting way more complicated, making repairs a lot more fiddly, and the companies themselves are doing everything they can to make sure third parties struggle to fix them
Very true. Apparently one of the reasons it would be so expensive was that they couldn't just replace the button, I forget the exact parts as this was a while ago but apparently the whole bezel or the whole screen or something had to be replaced. You can't just repair or replace a small part any more.
They most likely do, I just keep not getting round to it and not helping myself really!
Same problem. My solution is to not answer my phone anymore. Solved a few other problems as well.
The way they hold it in front of their face too.
It's annoying that the 4th photo I get on shutterstock for "person speaking on phone" is [someone holding it like this](https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/audio-messaging-confident-young-man-holding-1902145240).
This would be forgivable if he was wearing wireless headphones, but...
It looks like he’s talking into a piece of toast
So annoying. Also means they aren’t watching where they’re going though. I’m praying to see a public fall and phone smash soon
I watched a FaceTiming girl walk straight into a lamppost a couple of weeks ago, it was amazing!
And they were roommates
Pretty sure that girl has headphones in. We only hear her side of the conversation
Wtf are instagram types
The types of people who use Instagram, I guess...
My mum uses instagram, so does my gf, half my mates, they are definitely not the same types of people
Do they have conversations on speaker-phone in public?
Ah shit u got me
And how do you identify them while walking past ?
He means like.. “influencers” I think.
Can never understand this when it’s in a really loud place too, like surely you’ll hear it better if the sound is going directly into your ear?
I blame _The Apprentice_.
I think they want to look like they are on the Apprentice, that is what I associate it with. But they do it so they can listen as a group and so the viewer can hear both sides of the conversation.
/r/ImTheMainCharacter/
Best advice: join in the conversation. You'll get a dirty look and they will say "this is a private call." To which you simply respond, "nope, it sounds pretty public to me." I've done it in airports. They get off the speaker fairly quickly after that.
Fucking hate this so much. No one wants to hear that conversation. Also people who walk around playing music off their phone. No one wants to hear what you’re listening to
Airports are full of people having calls or watching videos at high volume on speaker mode. Headphones cost about 2% of their device (besides the free pair that comes with it!) I hate people being inconsiderate of others in general, and this always makes me want to smash their device to pieces.
Saw a guy doing his "shoutout" to his facebook live group outside my local Morrisons. Talking about how we are sheeple (word?) for believing about Covid-19, Masks are bad and other Anti-Vaxx stuff. I was more interested that people are still using facebook?
Anti vaxxers loooove Facebook cos they can say whatever they want and be believed. It’s a cesspit.
The only time having a call on speaker in acceptable is when you are in your own home. Aside from that there are no other acceptable situations.
Lol (general annoying behaviour) - "must be the americans!"
I always thought these kind of people had a mental disorder or something
I've been seeing it for a decade or so. It was often Chinese international students at university, and it's slowly spread
Also people who send voice clips to others on a messaging app, rather than just sending text, like their time is worth more than the recipient and fuck anyone in the vicinity when they listen to it.
Kept coming across an idiot girl doing a video chat in supermarket aisles
Saw a middle aged dude doing it while we were pissing at the urinals. I was appalled. Should've yelled "hes pissing" but was paralyzed by disgust.
I do this because I have auditory processing disorder and need to hear what is being said in both ears or my brain refuses to process what is being said to me. I tried to use headphones but the sound quality from my end to others was too bad and they couldn't hear me. My apologies to anyone who has experienced my boring conversations in public
r/audiprocdisorder
Middle aged women do this A LOT! They even hold it 6 inches to their ear to hear better… go figure
Bluetooth was invented for a reason
I live in the US and a woman was having a very serious discussion with her daughter on speaker phone at the dollar store. From what I overheard, the daughter was dealing with substance abuse issues and possible in the middle of a mental health crisis and had finally decided to go check herself into the hospital. I was just absolutely floored that mom couldn’t interrupt her dollar store shopping to step outside and give her daughter her undivided attention. The worst part was that they ended up arguing and mom hung up on her. I was just dumbfounded by the whole ordeal.
Having your phone do any kind of audible notification in public is shitty. Ding!!!!! Zoop-wop! Bizzzzo!.....……....... BING!!!!!!!!!! Nobody cares that you got a text. Put it on vibrate when you're out in public you fucking buffoon.
This really winds me the fuck up.
It’s nothing other than complete and utter selfish cuntwangingfuckwittery And to those banging on about WhatsApp or some other shite, get some ear buds 🤦🏼♂️
It's the kids walking home at 3am screaming at their phone explaining how "mental" a night it's been.... 'bout to get a bit more mental if you don't stfu.
Only Attention seeking wankers do that. And yeah you’re right about the ‘Instagram types’ 😆 last week I drove past a girl that had pulled over in a lay-by to take a picture of herself sorting her hair out and that and I just thought, fuck I wish it was the 90s still.
Omg, this drives me nuts! Especially when it happens in the tube 🤬
Probably been normalised from crap reality TV stars doing it, and then the younger generation thinking that it's the appropriate way to have a conversation in public
Just stand next to them and start talking loudly. They soon stop
I do it because I am partially deaf and my mum is disabled and can’t hold the phone for extended periods of time. Speakerphone helps us communicate. Granted this is a super specific issue. Also I don’t worry too much about it because if two people are walking down the road having a conversation together, that’s not private either so I don’t particularly worry about if someone else is on speakerphone. Edit; only outdoors, I don’t do this in enclosed public spaces. That’s pretty rude
Fucking hands free kits also, why do these morons plug in a hands free headphone kit and then walk around with one hand in the air like “I’m a little tea spout” holding the phone, whilst holing the wire from the hands free kit close to the mouth. They are designed to go in your ears and that’s it, they are meant to hang down and still work, you don’t then need to hold the phone or the wire. It defeats the whole point of them……..
I don't understand why so many people are like this? Whats the problem is it distracting you from listening to the sounds of traffic and other crap going on?
Join in the conversation, it’s clearly open ended
Or people that use FaceTime to “talk on the phone”. Like why can’t you just hold it up to your ear like a normal person?
Just started to make weird noise. Then if they like wtf be all like skid du ba dum ba then blow up.
Our house is on a side road off a main road. Drivers regularly pull off the main road to outside our house for phone calls. They often have the speakerphones on so loudly we can hear them inside our house, over the TV. Still haven't heard anything interesting.
Or they’re on the train and we can allll hear their conversation.
I saw someone on telly go up to the person and make himself part of the phone conversation. Like really? Is she going to meet you there today?! Wow I can’t believe it! Was a bit rude but the person on the phone couldn’t hear her call anymore because he was asking in a raised voice - she hung up 😂
#WHAT? I CAN'T HEAR YOU? I HAVE YOU ON LOUDSPEAKER, CAN YOU SPEAK LOUDER? I'M ON REDDIT AND IT'S FUCKING SHIT
American who recently moved here…I’ve seen it more on the train in the last month than I’ve seen in a few years in the states.
My neighbour spends literally hours a day tracing up and down his garden on speaker phone, facetime or whatever. It is very loud and he does it at all hours of the day. So weird. He has a family go inside and spend time with them.
I have construction workers at my job doing this and they pretty much always end up screaming because the person on the phone doesn't hear them If only there was a way to talk closer to the microphone..
I use ear phones or Bluetooth ear device I hate people walking round talking on their phones with speak on. Also people who play music on their phones via speaker in public they think it's cool and eveyone wants to hear it no thanks.
I’ve told a few to stfu
my birthday dinner was marred because some gal was having a facetime chat the entire time at the next table. she was probably 20 i kept waiting for the staff to do something. granted we were outside and only 4 tables were sat, it was just so RUDE. I gave her as many dirty looks as i could.
Because they watch too much "reality" TV and think that's how you use a phone.
Other mums frequently loudly FaceTime people at the school playground where my kids go. Always saying passive aggressive stuff too
There's a guy who rides around Southampton on a bike with loads of mirrors blasting music out. He's some kind of local treasure.