please empty your brain below
"I feel a sudden urge to bash this sycophantic self-satisfied jobsworth over the head with a rolled up copy of the Daily Express"

You can't have it both ways, though you know that already.

james | 30.11.06 - 7:26 a.m. | #

Sitting on fence on this one. With ipod in ears, but not on.

strandman | Homepage | 30.11.06 - 9:57 a.m. | #

So you do read the Daily Express? Surely not?

Michael | 30.11.06 - 10:13 a.m. | #

I always ask people to turn down over-load music if they are sat next to me on the tube (or indeed anywhere else). I don't see why they should inflict their need to damage their hearing on others.

I do think that most people are just totally unaware of the leakage from their headphones.

Growth industries of the future: hearing aids and tattoo removal. You read it here first

Blue Witch | Homepage | 30.11.06 - 11:06 a.m. | #

Great typo there!!!!

Blue Witch | Homepage | 30.11.06 - 11:07 a.m. | #

Of course, what we need is a podcast of the noises from DG's journey to work on the tube.

Then we can go to a Depeche Mode gig and stand in the front row and listen to it.

quin | Homepage | 30.11.06 - 12:07 p.m. | #

Tinny music bleeding through headphones almost seems like pleasure compared to the newer menace of R&B from cheap mobile phone speakers.

I wish my local bus drivers would tell them to turn their phone's MP3 players off, along with not allowing non-paying chavs on the bus, or stopping the kids smoking spliffs upstairs. But I guess he, like everyone else, is worried about getting stabbed.

Electric Eskimo | 30.11.06 - 12:15 p.m. | #

In this particular case I was standing as close to the offending headphones as the man who complained, and I couldn't hear anything loud enough to complain about. Some people are just over-sensitive.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 30.11.06 - 12:29 p.m. | #

Are you really saying that Express readers can now read and listen at the same time?

peter | 30.11.06 - 12:39 p.m. | #

Pardon?

Ian | Homepage | 30.11.06 - 1:55 p.m. | #

I had a snorer next to me on my hour and a bit long commute the other day.

As a result I turned into one of those tsk-tsk-tsking headphone wearers that others hate so much just to drown out the grunts!!

You know, it is a terrible thing, but commuting brings out the worst in me. It makes me hate just about EVERYONE. Probably even you DG, and so far I have loved every word!!

Fewellie | Homepage | 30.11.06 - 10:07 p.m. | #

I can never figure out just what it is that makes leaky headphones so irritating, especially when you compare their relatively puny volume to the mighty roar of the train/tube/bus engine. I suspect that the reasons are more rooted in subjective irrationality than we care to credit them for...

mike | Homepage | 01.12.06 - 5:08 p.m. | #

*cough cough* ok, I'm way out of my comfort zone here..but I just have to say I've spent half an hour reading your 'blog' which I stumbled upon quite by accident after typing in Animal Magnet Welcome to the Monkey House in my BT search engine.. Easy to read, hilarious, thought provoking (The Real Prince Charlie is the one on the right..yeah..?) and really really kinda beautifully written, I was captivated. Ok, that's it *blush blush*...just thought I should let you know how enjoyable my last 30 minutes have been..I look forward to more updates..

Mary | 09.06.07 - 11:15 a.m. | #











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