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The Clamp

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I quite enjoy going for breakfast/coffee of a morning on my days off, with friends or happy to go solo. It’s nice, relaxing.

Increasingly I find myself having to move tables or even down my coffee and leave the whole place.

Why?

People having full on work zoom or teams meetings.

It’s so annoying. They seem to revel in talking loudly about their boring jobs.
Lots of “hey guys, I wanted to touch base on this as I feel blah blah”

I just had to move downstairs in my favourite cafe because upstairs is rammed with people in teeny beanies holding laptop meetings. A cacophony. Upstairs used to be chilled and quiet away from the yoga mums and labradoodles .

On the bus on the way here three teens at the back playing some noisy tv program on their phone and yelling and jumping to whatever it was that was happening on their program. I mean screaming like 12 ye old girls. They were 16/17 ye old lads.

Does everyone treat the world like it’s their own front room now? “I’ll do what I like and you’ll just have to poke up with it”

It seems every whim or requirement of every one is catered for these days unless you just want a bit of decorum?

Increasingly I just want to move to the middle of nowhere and get away from all this noise.
 
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WhingForPresident

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There was a guy BLARING Chinese TikTok videos on my train home last night. IN THE QUIET CARRIAGE.

Luckily I have good noise cancelling headphones that block out the selfish pricks I encounter on an almost daily basis. Surely people know it's not acceptable, so it's either a 'f*** you, I'm more important than you' to everyone or they just do it in the hopes someone will confront them so they can get in a fight over it.
 


bhafc99

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Starbucks/Costa/Nero/Pret etc where someone has taken a 4-seat table to themselves, (maybe) bought one drink, plugged their laptop and phone charger into the building sockets/power supply, and proceeded to sit there for hours and hours on end, no matter how busy the place gets around them…
 


The Clamp

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bhafc99 said:
Starbucks/Costa/Nero/Pret etc where someone has taken a 4-seat table to themselves, (maybe) bought one drink, plugged their laptop and phone charger into the building sockets/power supply, and proceeded to sit there for hours and hours on end, no matter how busy the place gets around them…
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It’s just pure selfishness
 




Westdene Seagull

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bhafc99 said:
Starbucks/Costa/Nero/Pret etc where someone has taken a 4-seat table to themselves, (maybe) bought one drink, plugged their laptop and phone charger into the building sockets/power supply, and proceeded to sit there for hours and hours on end, no matter how busy the place gets around them…
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When I used to have to travel to London for meetings and got there early I'd go to these type of places for a cup of tea. On days I felt rather belligerent I'd purposely go and sit on a table of four with only one person sat at it. Got some glares but not once did anyone say anything.
 


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The Clamp said:
I quite enjoy going for breakfast/coffee of a morning on my days off, with friends or happy to go solo. It’s nice, relaxing.

Increasingly I find myself having to move tables or even down my coffee and leave the whole place.

Why?

People having full on work zoom or teams meetings.

It’s so annoying. They seem to revel in talking loudly about their boring jobs.
Lots of “hey guys, I wanted to touch base on this as I feel blah blah”

I just had to move downstairs in my favourite cafe because upstairs is rammed with people in teeny beanies holding laptop meetings. A cacophony. Upstairs used to be chilled and quiet away from the yoga mums and labradoodles .

On the bus on the way here three teens at the back playing some noisy tv program on their phone and yelling and jumping to whatever it was that was happening on their program. I mean screaming like 12 ye old girls. They were 16/17 ye old lads.

Does everyone treat the world like it’s their own front room now? “I’ll do what I like and you’ll just have to poke up with it”

It seems every whim or requirement of every one is catered for these days unless you just want a bit of decorum?

Increasingly I just want to move to the middle of nowhere and get away from all this noise.
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If you were in Shoreham, surely you had to ‘drift’ downstairs ;)

Totally agree about the annoyance - in coffee shops, buses and trains etc. We went to London yesterday and chap near us was playing loud music on his phone with no headphones.

Even on way home from Liverpool game on Seagulls Travel coaches, an older chap was watching MotD - again loud and no headphones.

As you say… why?
 
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Bry Nylon

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The Clamp said:
Increasingly I just want to move to the middle of nowhere and get away from all this noise.
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Do it TC, you won't look back. The sheer joy of being able to avoid 'other people' and how they unthinkingly inflict their shit on everybody around them is exactly why I live in the middle of nowhere. (Last evening, just the distant sound of deer bellowing at each other, plus owls. That's the kind of noise I like).
 




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I have noticed a few cafe's / coffee houses are now displaying a 'no iPad's or laptops' notices stating that these are a no, no between certain hours. I think that's a good way forward if you are a business as me thinks one's takings must be down if someone is taking up valuable space but not purchasing goods? It also encourages loyal customers who, like you Clamp want the ambience of a cafe and enjoy it for what it is.
 


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PascalGroß Tips said:
If you were in Shoreham, surely you had to ‘drift’ downstairs ;)

Totally agree about the annoyance - in coffee shops, buses and trains etc. We went to London yesterday and chap near us was playing loud music on his phone with my headphones.

Even on way home from Liverpool game on Seagulls Travel coaches, an older chap was watching MotD - again loud and no headphones.

As you say… why?
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Not surprised that annoyed you! Taking anti social noise to the next level :ROFLMAO:
 


Herr Tubthumper

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nicko31

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The Clamp said:
I quite enjoy going for breakfast/coffee of a morning on my days off, with friends or happy to go solo. It’s nice, relaxing.

Increasingly I find myself having to move tables or even down my coffee and leave the whole place.

Why?

People having full on work zoom or teams meetings.

It’s so annoying. They seem to revel in talking loudly about their boring jobs.
Lots of “hey guys, I wanted to touch base on this as I feel blah blah”

I just had to move downstairs in my favourite cafe because upstairs is rammed with people in teeny beanies holding laptop meetings. A cacophony. Upstairs used to be chilled and quiet away from the yoga mums and labradoodles .

On the bus on the way here three teens at the back playing some noisy tv program on their phone and yelling and jumping to whatever it was that was happening on their program. I mean screaming like 12 ye old girls. They were 16/17 ye old lads.

Does everyone treat the world like it’s their own front room now? “I’ll do what I like and you’ll just have to poke up with it”

It seems every whim or requirement of every one is catered for these days unless you just want a bit of decorum?

Increasingly I just want to move to the middle of nowhere and get away from all this noise.
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Had someone having a Teams call in the train waiting room last night, loud voice completely unaware of 20 others sitting in the room is total silence. Very twatty...
 




hans kraay fan club

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Bombardier said:
I have noticed a few cafe's / coffee houses are now displaying a 'no iPad's or laptops' notices stating that these are a no, no between certain hours. I think that's a good way forward if you are a business as me thinks one's takings must be down if someone is taking up valuable space but not purchasing goods? It also encourages loyal customers who, like you Clamp want the ambience of a cafe and enjoy it for what it is.
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Well, they can get in the sea, along with any disrespectful, noisy customers.

I'll regularly sit on my own in a coffee shop while my wife is shopping, and browse my iPad, or watch some sport - always with no sound. Any place that somehow thought that was a problem to anyone, can get f***ed.
 




Sid and the Sharknados

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hans kraay fan club said:
Well, they can get in the sea, along with any disrespectful, noisy customers.

I'll regularly sit on my own in a coffee shop while my wife is shopping, and browse my iPad, or watch some sport - always with no sound. Any place that somehow thought that was a problem to anyone, can get f***ed.
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Don't see how it's any different to sit quietly looking at a phone or tablet, or sit quietly reading a newspaper or book, which people have been happily doing in cafes for hundreds of years.
 


Tom Hark Preston Park

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There was a wonderful story on here (I think) a few years back. Bloke on the train was having a full-on yelling match with his missus. They'd been raging at each for about 30 minutes, completely oblivious to the rest of the carriage. Eventually the pissed-off girl opposite him leaned over and said in a very loud voice: "darling, put your phone away and come back to bed" 😄
 








dazzer6666

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WhingForPresident said:
There was a guy BLARING Chinese TikTok videos on my train home last night. IN THE QUIET CARRIAGE.

Luckily I have good noise cancelling headphones that block out the selfish pricks I encounter on an almost daily basis. Surely people know it's not acceptable, so it's either a 'f*** you, I'm more important than you' to everyone or they just do it in the hopes someone will confront them so they can get in a fight over it.
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Don’t ever travel on a train in China. The WHOLE CARRIAGE will be doing it. It’s horrendous.
 


Paulie Gualtieri

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Perfect setting, (Not today for any November 7lbs thread spies)
 


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