Petition: ban music on mobiles
My friends, I have had enough.
I do not want to listen to crap music on crap speakers on crap mobiles at the top of the bus. I’ve had enough of Soulja Boy on the tube. I would like it to be quiet in the Quiet Zone on the train.
I don’t mind if people want to listen to music on their headphones. I mind – very much – if they force me to listen to their music when they could just use their headphones.
The solution is clear. Ban the sale of mobile phones that can play music out loud. Sign the petition at petitions.number10.gov.uk/NoMobileMusic/.
xD.
April 21st, 2009 at 12:05 pm
Aren’t the little shits the play that rubbish wailing R n B and the like breaking public performance laws or something like that already?
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April 21st, 2009 at 12:06 pm
LT by-laws, I believe.
The point is that current laws aren’t working, so we should look for a technological solution.
April 21st, 2009 at 6:15 pm
Some urchins were doing this on a bus I was on. Then the drivers swapped over. One stop later and the driver pulled over, said words to the effect of, you can either turn that off or I’m going to come back there and ram it down your throat. They stayed deadly silent for the rest of the trip.
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April 21st, 2009 at 10:23 pm
I’m becoming increasingly grumpy in my old age, so I tend to ask people to turn off the music. Usually, they will without too much fuss so long as you do ask rather than tell.
I’ve found that people in the quiet carriage on the train are less responsive, even if they are talking about their dahlias in an excessively loud voice.
xD.
April 22nd, 2009 at 6:17 pm
Could this petition please be extended to the whole of europe?
April 22nd, 2009 at 8:34 pm
One country at a time!
April 22nd, 2009 at 8:53 pm
Mr. Cole,
Although this is an excellent idea, I fear that it is fundamentally flawed. The tide of impudence and rowdiness so prevanlent in the youth of today cannot be stemmed by banning such gadgets – these hobble-de-hoys will merely find a new way to inflict their mischief upon the public.
We must attack this problem at its root: philosophy. Our schools have been corrupted by the philosophies of Montaigne and Rousseau, who held children to be essentially good, and held that their education should bring this good to its fruition. As such, punishment was to be frowned upon and their every whim should be indulged.
Contrast this with Thomas Hobbes. He, having a greater insight into man’s bestial nature than almost any other philosopher (Arthur Schopenhauer is perhaps his equal in this), knew that children were essentially uncontrollable savages who needed to be constrained by fear. The liberalism of Locke – a thinker noted both for his idealism and his common sense – stops at the education of children, who are not to be treated as our equals, but as self-centred ignorami who need the imposition of the law to be transformed into citizens.
I fear, sir, that until our education system is re-established upon the sublime Anglophone thought of Hobbes and Locke, our children will continue to be a bother to right-thinking people everywhere.
I remain &c.
April 23rd, 2009 at 9:06 pm
As a concerned youngster, I’m very intrigued by Mr. Withey’s comments. As one who is currently suffering through school, and as one possessing friends who go to a variety of schools, I ask him: Where on earth is he getting the ideas that the youth of the day are getting their every whim indulged? And punishment, though, currently, not corporal (or, thankfully, capital) is hardly not “frowned upon”. I welcome Mr. Withey to spend an hour in a detention room. Perhaps he shall see that children are not only assumed to be demons by the peons of everyday life, but by their teaching staff as well, typically.
And while he imagines a Locke-based society, where children are second-class citizens (or, perhaps, not citizens at all?) I ask him to think of a new scenario, where he is the student being treated as an ignoramus.
And I’m also confused by the idea that it’s only children who do these things – frankly, I’ve also noticed that it’s adults, typically youngish but not too young ones, who play the vile music on their phones, and use their age as an excuse to do such a thing. Perhaps, too, they are fond of Locke?