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I have zero issue with this TBH. Double the fine each week he don't pay.

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Could we make these fines proportional to the income?

[–] bob_lemon@feddit.org 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Imagine you are at a station, making a call on speakerphone in public (because you're an asshole). Then you get approached by a person asking you to turn of the speaker (not even to end the call, mind you).

At that point, I'd imagine the normal thing is to just comply with that request (even for dicks on speakerphone).

Now imagine this person being not some random passenger, but someone working for the train company, in uniform and everything. And they're telling you that they will fine you if you don't comply.

At this point, how fucking deep up your own ass do you have to be to ignore them?

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 1 points 45 minutes ago

I once traveled with French people. As we were leaving the airport building up on arrival and met our local tour guide, one of them pulled out her cigarettes. All of the area had big signs declaring non smoking and pointing to the designated smoking area.

I asked her to go to the smoking area, since we should comply with local customs and laws as guests.

The reply was "oui, but i am French!"

We later had a whole drama with having to send her home earlier because of continuously offending local people.

French tourists also have a bad reputation in many countries because of behaviour like this.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 28 minutes ago* (last edited 27 minutes ago)

"David said he was told that he would be fined" + David got fined = David kept doing it even after getting warned.

The BBC, doing their public service of letting us all know that David is a twat!

(More serioulsy, most British media - definitelly the BBC - pretty frequently post "other countries are bad" and "shocking treatment of Briton abroad" kind of articles: Brexit was very much anchored on English Exceptionalism and the local media has long feed such delusions of exceptionalism with this kind of article and a more general spin on international news that agrandizes British importance and portrays others countries as lesser)

[–] albert180@discuss.tchncs.de 45 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Can we have the same treatment for the Assholes who watch TikTok or Reels without headphones but with sound on the Train?

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[–] DonAntonioMagino@feddit.nl 17 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

The only thing worse than idiots watching one vapid TikTok clip after the other (preferably in the silent compartment, of course), was when I was on a train to Berlin from Amsterdam, and the people on the other side of the aisle were trying to keep their kid calm by playing him Baby Shark over and over and fucking over again...

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 8 points 13 hours ago

I'm not a fan of eugenics but you make a good argument

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 15 points 14 hours ago

According to the article, they also get fined.

[–] lnxtx@feddit.nl 22 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

From the article:

David said he was told that he would be fined €150 if he did not turn off the loudspeaker - a fine which he claims was later increased to €200 because he did not pay it on the spot. He has since hired a lawyer to dispute the fine.

He got a warning and ignored it... can we double the fine?

[–] fuzzy_feeling@programming.dev 29 points 15 hours ago

for 200 you get some pretty decent headphones