• HikingVet@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    If someone told me to silence my phone in public they would get laughed at. And if you persist I’ll tell you to call the cops, who will then proceed to laugh at you.

    Theatres, yeah, they shouldn’t even vibrate.

    Edit: you’re prefences are noted and ignored. People have been loud in public since there has been public. Get over yourselves.

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      2 months ago

      Presumably, for such a complaint, the cops wouldn’t even bother to come to laugh at you unless they were very very bored. This is probably true in both circumstances you described. Also, I can’t speak for others, but unless detained I wouldn’t stick around most public locations long enough for someone to complain about a notification from my phone. Even if a call is received and must be answered, it seems appropriate to accept the call and leave the immediate shared area if possible. Obviously, in such circumstances as a moving bus, quickly leaving isn’t really feasible.

      However, I partially agree with the person to whom you responded. Your phone shouldn’t make any media based sound (videos, music) in public. I also mostly agree with what I think you’re saying: in most circumstances, notification sounds are inoffensive. Movies are not the only exception to this but definitely are one. Laughing in the face of someone who requests quiet in a public shared area seems rude, though, and might escalate the situation.

      To elaborate, recently I went to see a dental surgeon. As I approached the waiting area, my immediate thought was to set my phone to vibrate. Once I entered, however, I realized that not only was there a TV in the space; also there was an elderly couple watching TV on their phones. Not only were they doing so, not only were they watching something different from what was on the TV, not only were they watching their media at BLARING volume, but they were also watching vastly different content. In this circumstance, notifications could be - reluctantly - forgiven, but their blasting and conflicting media made it very difficult to concentrate on filling out my paperwork.

      I’m too much of a wimp to have approached them, but in that circumstance I think it would have been appropriate to ask them to silence their media and would have only required a vague awareness of the existence of others for them to have done so without prompting.

      Though the cops, if they came, would likely still have just laughed.

      An aside: as soon as the presumed wife left the waiting area, the likely husband shut off his media. I don’t know what that means, but wanted to mention it.

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      2 months ago

      Call the cops?

      Yea you’re obviously a child. I mean literally based on that response.

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        2 months ago

        How am I a child? Dude makes up a rule and I’m supposed to follow it? Really?

        It’s not a law, and telling someone to call the cops os pointing out the absurdity of the demand.

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      I wouldn’t call the cops. I’d just fling it into the ocean. Who would call the cops for you then? You can’t. You have no phone.

      See? We all make decisions every second to be or not to be jerks. You’re not special.

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        2 months ago

        Ah, so you’ll commit assault because my phone isn’t on silent. Buds you need a reality check.

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          You’re assaulting others airspace and committing harassment. that isn’t your right but then suddenly everything is a crime when someone else does something to you. Pick a conviction. Narcissism isn’t an excuse.

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            2 months ago

            My phone making notification sounds isn’t assault, not even close. Taking my phone is theft.

            Pick a lane.

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              You’re convincing no one that you’re that important enough to get a notification. Sad face.

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                2 months ago

                You’re convincing yourself that you’re important enough to dictate others actions.

                Pitiful.

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      2 months ago

      It interferes with public emergency announcements so there should be some clear enough airspace for it.

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          That’s just an excuse to be an asshole. Not to consider. This is how sociopaths reason.

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            2 months ago

            Go up to everyone whose phone you hear and tell them to put it on silent.

            Expecting people to be silent in public is asinine.

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              2 months ago

              Expecting everyone to cowtowing to your wants only in a public space that’s for everyone is asinine and narcissistic

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                  Byeeeee. Trash takes its self out and saves me the work. If I’m pissing off the public narcissist I’m doin something right.