Issue #11
You’re being too loud📣🎧
The Guardian recently published a very interesting piece about the rise in people listening to their phone out loud on public transport.
Apparently, since the pandemic, a lot of people have forgotten the basic public etiquette of listening to music/a podcast/a literal phone call through headphones and not blasting it at full volume on public transport and in other shared spaces.
Personally, I have my music loud enough (through headphones!) that I often can’t hear what other people are doing. It’s probably not healthy but I much prefer that to listening to someone flick through the first three seconds of hundreds of TikToks.
I am also completely against music being played out loud, mostly because it’s normally trash, and having it full volume distorts the sound, making it so much worse.
However, if someone is listening to a voicenote from their bestie about relationship drama I am absolutely pausing my music and tuning in to the tea. And then I’ll tell all my friends about it later. Also, if you’re having a conversation on speaker (or talking loudly enough someone on the other side of the carriage can hear it) it’s obviously not a private conversation so I feel it’s fine to just listen.
Having said that, I do not eavesdrop on what are obviously private conversations being had in a public space, that’s just rude.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetl- just kidding⚪️⚫️
Ads for the new Beetlejuice film are doing the rounds on public transport.
Admittedly, I have not seen the original film and know very little about the plot, but the ads are very clever by all accounts.
I did see a trailer for the sequel when I went to the cinema to watch Deadpool and Wolverine (10/10 highly recommend btw) and it does look great, so maybe I’ll watch the original before going to see the sequel.
As seen on TV📺🤷
Or maybe not. Ofcom have released some new stats about the public’s TV viewing habits.
The key takeaways:
Stark generational divide as 16-24s watch just 20 mins of live telly daily
Family TV becoming device of choice to watch YouTube at home
Radio listening hits 20-year high as commercial stations thrive
For the first time, less than half of 16-24-year-olds are now watching broadcast TV in an average week
So why the sharp decline? The obvious answer is streaming services. No adverts, and the choice to watch what you want, when you want is too attractive a proposition to ignore.
This could change soon enough however, as quite a few streaming services are raising their subscription prices AND talking about introducing ads. Which…completely defeats their purpose. The whole point was that they were cheaper than TV and you didn’t get hit with a bunch of ads. It’ll be interesting to see if these stats change as more streaming services introduce these new policies.
And all these little things💖🫶
Sometimes, it really is the small moments that count the most.
Micro-moment: A brief, meaningful interaction that creates significant emotional connections between people.
While grand gestures are all well and good, they’re just that. A gesture. You can perform a gesture with no real feeling behind it. The real emotion comes in the form of the small moments and the things that really prove you know someone. These micro-moments are normally spontaneous and brief; a quick glance, the touch of a hand.
One Reddit user said: “My partner knows me really well. For example, today, we were at an art store, and he showed me some gouache from an expensive brand I like for cheap. It was on sale because it had been lightly used. He knew I liked the brand, he knew I’d likely want the item and he was excited when I got it.”
It’s not always romantic either. Micro-moments can be shared between friends, colleagues, siblings, and even strangers. Here’s some micro-moments from my life:
At uni, when one of my best friends (she was also my flatmate) and I would watch our mutual comfort show pretty much in silence after one of us had a bad day
Buying the best snacks for my siblings when I go home to visit
Every single drunk interaction I’ve ever had in a club toilet
Micro-moments are everywhere. You may not even know you’re doing it (or that you’re on the receiving end), but these little things help form life-long bonds, so it’s best to keep doing them.
And that’s that on that🫡
xoxo curiosity curator👀