Music on trains.

[Mad Cyril]

Has anyone noticed a new trend on C2C trains for groups of youths to play MP3s at full volume from their mobile phones for the duration of their journey?

It surely can't be long before someone is arrested for giving one of these little urchins a dry slap.

 

[Westcliff Shrimper]

Quote[/b] (Mad Cyril @ May 22 2006,10:05)]Has anyone noticed a new trend on C2C trains for groups of youths to play MP3s at full volume from their mobile phones for the duration of their journey?

It surely can't be long before someone is arrested for giving one of these little urchins a dry slap.

I use an I-Pod when commuting, so don't ever hear other people's music. However, silly girls talking about which blokes they shagged in the toilets at Talk at high volume whilst I am studying the racing form? - now that makes we want to slap someone...

 

[Slipperduke]

I don't understand the appeal. Music sounds better with headphones on. It's quite simple really.

1, Headphones on: Sounds like aural paradise

2, Mobile Phone Speaker: Sounds like a band of midgets playing from inside a tin bucket.

What's going on? Am I getting old?

Mind you, as one Arsenal player may or may not have taught us, it is actually possible to wedge a phone up someones arse now. I fear that the next person to play their mobile at me may find this out the hard way.

 

[* ORM *]

What do you expect - C2C = Commute 2 Chavland. Get yourself onto the classy line.

 

[Upminster Blue]

Quote[/b] (* ORM * @ May 22 2006,17:02)]What do you expect - C2C = Commute 2 Chavland. Get yourself onto the classy line.

Yep, I'm coming to that conclusion.  The trains via Basildon aren't too bad.  But I've now got to the point where I avoid trains that go round the loop via Chafford Hundred and Tilbury - the chav factor definitely increases (even during the rush hour).

 

[Upminster Blue]

Quote[/b] (Mad Cyril @ May 22 2006,10:05)]Has anyone noticed a new trend on C2C trains for groups of youths to play MP3s at full volume from their mobile phones for the duration of their journey?

It surely can't be long before someone is arrested for giving one of these little urchins a dry slap.

To add to the list of annoyances, bloody video phones on trains. What's the point? (Apart from trying to show off.)

 

[Ron Manager]

Quote[/b] (Mad Cyril @ May 22 2006,10:05)]Has anyone noticed a new trend on C2C trains for groups of youths to play MP3s at full volume from their mobile phones for the duration of their journey?

It surely can't be long before someone is arrested for giving one of these little urchins a dry slap.

You want to commute on the Silverlink from Barking (as I do into Walthamstow) the playing of MP3's through the phone speaker for the benefit of the whole train is almost compulsory.

I really don't want to turn into a grumpy old man but this is tipping me into Victor Meldrew territory  

 

[hexagon_sun]

Quote[/b] (Ron Manager @ May 22 2006,19:49)]

Quote[/b] (Mad Cyril @ May 22 2006,10:05)]Has anyone noticed a new trend on C2C trains for groups of youths to play MP3s at full volume from their mobile phones for the duration of their journey?

It surely can't be long before someone is arrested for giving one of these little urchins a dry slap.

You want to commute on the Silverlink from Barking (as I do into Walthamstow) the playing of MP3's through the phone speaker for the benefit of the whole train is almost compulsory.

I really don't want to turn into a grumpy old man but this is tipping me into Victor Meldrew territory

Is that the Gosepl Oak line (or "Da Wrekked Train" as it became known among me and my workmates)? I used to get that to work in South Tottenham up to the end of 1999 - terrible, makes the Fenny line look like the Orient Express

 

[Guest]

You see (hear?) this kind of thing in all sorts of places these days.... it's not as if these phones don't come with headphones, either...

 

[Ron Manager]

Quote[/b] (hexagon_sun @ May 22 2006,20:26)]

Quote[/b] (Ron Manager @ May 22 2006,19:49)]

Quote[/b] (Mad Cyril @ May 22 2006,10:05)]Has anyone noticed a new trend on C2C trains for groups of youths to play MP3s at full volume from their mobile phones for the duration of their journey?

It surely can't be long before someone is arrested for giving one of these little urchins a dry slap.

You want to commute on the Silverlink from Barking (as I do into Walthamstow) the playing of MP3's through the phone speaker for the benefit of the whole train is almost compulsory.

I really don't want to turn into a grumpy old man but this is tipping me into Victor Meldrew territory  

Is that the Gosepl Oak line (or "Da Wrekked Train" as it became known among me and my workmates)? I used to get that to work in South Tottenham up to the end of 1999 - terrible, makes the Fenny line look like the Orient Express  

That's the one....oooohhh, the sights I've seen on there I can tell ya!

 

[Kenny]

Quote[/b] (* ORM * @ May 22 2006,17:02)]What do you expect - C2C = Commute 2 Chavland. Get yourself onto the classy line.

please can somone dig up the C2C vs FGE totty thread where we had a station by station breakdown.

That was a quality thread.

 

[Westcliff Shrimper]

Quote[/b] (Kenny @ May 22 2006,21:02)]

Quote[/b] (* ORM * @ May 22 2006,17:02)]What do you expect - C2C = Commute 2 Chavland. Get yourself onto the classy line.

please can somone dig up the C2C vs FGE totty thread where we had a station by station breakdown.

That was a quality thread.  

Good idea...

 

[* ORM *]

Quote[/b] (CI-City Blue @ May 23 2006,14:33)]

Quote[/b] (Kenny @ May 22 2006,21:02)]

Quote[/b] (* ORM * @ May 22 2006,17:02)]What do you expect - C2C = Commute 2 Chavland. Get yourself onto the classy line.

please can somone dig up the C2C vs FGE totty thread where we had a station by station breakdown.

That was a quality thread.  

Good idea...  

It's no contest - really - Chavburyness wins hands down.

I don't remember this thread.

 

[Uncle Leo]

Quote[/b] (Ron Manager @ May 22 2006,19:49)]

Quote[/b] (Mad Cyril @ May 22 2006,10:05)]Has anyone noticed a new trend on C2C trains for groups of youths to play MP3s at full volume from their mobile phones for the duration of their journey?

It surely can't be long before someone is arrested for giving one of these little urchins a dry slap.

You want to commute on the Silverlink from Barking (as I do into Walthamstow) the playing of MP3's through the phone speaker for the benefit of the whole train is almost compulsory.

I really don't want to turn into a grumpy old man but this is tipping me into Victor Meldrew territory  

Met Line from Uxbridge to Rayners Lane is similarly afflicted. Little tosspots.