Passengers who refuse to use headphones can now be kicked off United flights

Post by andy99 » Sat, Mar 21, 2026, 6:47 PM UTC

e40 wrote: post #72

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Pretty sure on planes this is more ignorance than malice. It’s self absorbed people that are too selfish to consider someone else might not want to hear what they’re watching, rather than some deliberate anti society thing. Regardless, no punishment is too harsh, this should be considered the equivalent of lighting up a cigarette on a plane.

The idea someone doesn’t know they bothering everyone around them is absurd. It is 100% malice.

Post by verdverm » Sat, Mar 21, 2026, 6:48 PM UTC

lelanthran wrote: post #67

nxpnsv wrote: post #45

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That's too harsh, a regular murder would suffice.

> That's too harsh, a regular murder would suffice. Correct. Kicking someone off during a flight and not giving them a parachute counts as a regular murder...

Post by wanderingstan » Sat, Mar 21, 2026, 6:49 PM UTC

mikkupikku wrote: post #34

pjmlp wrote: post #31

Is this really a thing?!? Blasting the others with unwanted noise. I never been in a flight, or train across Europe where passengers showed just lack of respect for the others. The only ones pumping anything loud, on trains or busses, usually get quickly pointed down by other passengers, personal or security. Ah, and then there are the rebellious kids or gangs, as the other exception, which usually don't take flights…

In America, a small number of people derive pleasure from being disruptive to everybody, and blasting music on public transit with captive audiences is a very "traditional" way of fucking with people and expressing your broad contempt for their society. I'd estimate that maybe one in five times you get on a city bus in America, you'll encounter somebody like this. Very rarely does anybody call them out or otherwise t…

Post by sowbug » Sat, Mar 21, 2026, 6:50 PM UTC

andy99 wrote: post #71

mikkupikku wrote: post #34

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In America, a small number of people derive pleasure from being disruptive to everybody, and blasting music on public transit with captive audiences is a very "traditional" way of fucking with people and expressing your broad contempt for their society. I'd estimate that maybe one in five times you get on a city bus in America, you'll encounter somebody like this. Very rarely does anybody call them out or otherwise t…

Pretty sure on planes this is more ignorance than malice. It’s self absorbed people that are too selfish to consider someone else might not want to hear what they’re watching, rather than some deliberate anti society thing. Regardless, no punishment is too harsh, this should be considered the equivalent of lighting up a cigarette on a plane.

Post by standardUser » Sat, Mar 21, 2026, 6:51 PM UTC

hallole wrote: post #66

mikkupikku wrote: post #34

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In America, a small number of people derive pleasure from being disruptive to everybody, and blasting music on public transit with captive audiences is a very "traditional" way of fucking with people and expressing your broad contempt for their society. I'd estimate that maybe one in five times you get on a city bus in America, you'll encounter somebody like this. Very rarely does anybody call them out or otherwise t…

I don't think I'd have the wherewithal to jump in and do something if I were a bystander. I'm not the sort to throw hands, I don't carry, and these disruptive types are already a bit feral. I'm not sure it's contempt they're expressing, or if they're expressing anything at all. There really are people who enjoy and defend it, too; "it's just a guy playing music, mind your own business." Truly alien.