I know that we all like to listen to a bit of music whilst we're out and about, especially on the journey to work. However, not everyone wants to hear what your listening too. I've had a few bus journeys recently where someone else's music has been very much in my eardrums and that's just nee good whilst I'm trying to tweet or read the Metro paper !
I had a trip down to Chester the other morning on the way to work and heard Rihanna booming out of the person sat in front of me's headphones. I wonder if he was going to the concert at the Stadium of Light and I should have mentioned our extra 78's to get him home after the gig !!! Anyway, when I got to Chester, I made the swift change onto the Pronto to get to Gateshead and there was a bloke sat halfway down the bus and I could still hear the hoosey-hoosey music belting out of his headphones.
We must be creating a country of totally deaf people and presumably when they get to those mature years (as me mother-in-law says), they'll all be stone deaf and will hear nowt.
The other bit that gets me with some of these headphones is the price of the buggers. We where passing a well known music store in Darlington yesterday and they had an advert in the window for some new beats headphones and they where available for only £209 - £209 man ! You can get the bloody things in the Pund shop and the quality of things surely can't be 209 times that of the much cheaper version ? Nee wonder that HMV went bust as they can't shift many pairs at that sort of money. I only paid £15 for my running headphones and they are these fancy-dan one's that go over your lughole to keep them in place and the sound quality is really good - so how you can pay £209 for a pair escapes me. I know I'm a tight get, but........
So, the upshot is, if you're on the bus and want to listen to your music, then please have a think about the people around you as we don't all want to listen to the same as you !
I had a trip down to Chester the other morning on the way to work and heard Rihanna booming out of the person sat in front of me's headphones. I wonder if he was going to the concert at the Stadium of Light and I should have mentioned our extra 78's to get him home after the gig !!! Anyway, when I got to Chester, I made the swift change onto the Pronto to get to Gateshead and there was a bloke sat halfway down the bus and I could still hear the hoosey-hoosey music belting out of his headphones.
We must be creating a country of totally deaf people and presumably when they get to those mature years (as me mother-in-law says), they'll all be stone deaf and will hear nowt.
The other bit that gets me with some of these headphones is the price of the buggers. We where passing a well known music store in Darlington yesterday and they had an advert in the window for some new beats headphones and they where available for only £209 - £209 man ! You can get the bloody things in the Pund shop and the quality of things surely can't be 209 times that of the much cheaper version ? Nee wonder that HMV went bust as they can't shift many pairs at that sort of money. I only paid £15 for my running headphones and they are these fancy-dan one's that go over your lughole to keep them in place and the sound quality is really good - so how you can pay £209 for a pair escapes me. I know I'm a tight get, but........
So, the upshot is, if you're on the bus and want to listen to your music, then please have a think about the people around you as we don't all want to listen to the same as you !
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