"You're welcome" when you're not, on a canal towpath
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Note that wearing headphones, especially large ones, does not necessarily equate to listening to music (or anything else); some people wear them routinely as a means of fending off unwanted words (verbal harassment of various types) or ambient noise, or to deal to with tinnitus. And strictly in terms of hearing, headphones and music are about equal in terms of external audible input with music from car stereo with windows closed.
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I'm missing something... what have "we" become, please?Tiberius wrote: ↑29 Jul 2021, 7:52amNot just pedestrians
Just the other day I saw a bloke riding a bike with a full sized set of headphones on his bonce. This wasn't on a tow path, it was in the middle of town which is currently mad and thick with summer traffic.
It's just how 'people' are now, it's what we've become.
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Ah! The mysterious ‘we’ - when you get your answer, pleas let me know:-)
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Darkman wrote: ↑28 Jul 2021, 11:59am Didn't happen on a towpath, but I was coming up behind two people walking along a narrow road with a dog (off-lead) a few months back. I pinged the bell to make them aware. Bloke starts rifling through his pockets as I draw close, seemingly paying not a jot of attention to me.
I pass him, slowly, and he leaps about three foot in the air, completely unaware that I was even there.
Turns out, he thought the "ping" was his phone, hence his frenzied pocket search.
Not sure if society is doomed by social media, or I need a new bell.
I am here. Where are you?
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When I see and hear someone talking to no one with their ear buds in it brings me back almost 50 years to that nutter at school who talked into the rubber on the end of his pencil.Tiggertoo wrote: ↑28 Jul 2021, 4:46pmYup!Not sure if society is doomed by social media,
On a similar note, I often ride on a local hike/bike trail and just about every walker/runner has ear buds and or have eyes glued to their phones, so calling out or ringing a bell has no effect, they just can't hear what's coming up behind them.
I am here. Where are you?
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One of the amusing things I saw ( heard them first ) was two hooligans ripping along the towpath of the LL on two stroke powered mountain bikes! You'd not need a bell on those things.
I am here. Where are you?
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I don't think that there's any evidence of a general trend towards stupidity.
What I do see is far too much Golden Agery, often triggered by individual events.
Jonathan
What I do see is far too much Golden Agery, often triggered by individual events.
Jonathan
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The single note of a "ping" type bell is a lot like the default sound for the Facebook Messenger app.Darkman wrote: ↑28 Jul 2021, 11:59am Didn't happen on a towpath, but I was coming up behind two people walking along a narrow road with a dog (off-lead) a few months back. I pinged the bell to make them aware. Bloke starts rifling through his pockets as I draw close, seemingly paying not a jot of attention to me.
I pass him, slowly, and he leaps about three foot in the air, completely unaware that I was even there.
Turns out, he thought the "ping" was his phone, hence his frenzied pocket search.
Not sure if society is doomed by social media, or I need a new bell.
After a long time without a bell I stumped up for a Lion Bellworks one which seems to work better at getting attention than previous ones I've had. (Although not as effective as the discs on the tandem that have a "sweet" spot, just beyond feathering the brakes but well before hard braking, where they do a passable imitation of a truck doing an emergency stop! ). The squeeze bulb hooter on my friend's tandem seems to work well too & it is difficult to make it sound aggressive.
Former member of the Cult of the Polystyrene Head Carbuncle.
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Absolutely, let's all blame the old people.I don't think that there's any evidence of a general trend towards stupidity.
What I do see is far too much Golden Agery, often triggered by individual events.
Jonathan
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