Nothing quite compares to the disruption caused by a passenger who is listening to their music out loud, without headphones — otherwise known as ‘barebeaters’.
But if you’re flying with United Airlines, you’ll be irritated no more. The airline, which carried 2.4 million British passengers in 2024, has said staff will now be able to remove them — and the ban could be permanent.
I was in a work trip once and got on the plane, put on my noise cancelling headphones and started listening to music. My co-worker sitting next to me had his headphones on and was playing Angry Birds. After about 5 minutes I realized that I felt like I could hear the Angry Birds music… I removed my headphones and my coworker was blasting his sound, and apparently didn’t realize that his headphones had never connected. I let him know and he was very apologetic and embarrassed. When he fixed it several people sitting around us thanked me.
tyler@programming.dev 8 hours ago
Nobody wants to start a conversation with you because they already know you’re inconsiderate.
They do not expect to listen to your shitty podcast or YouTube video, and if they did they would be inconsiderate too.
X to doubt.