>reading on public transport Is there anything more disgusting

>>9798558
>the sound of "VROOM VROOM" ?
Trains aren't VROOM VROOM though

Looks like we got ourselves a reader!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwkdGr9JYmE

>>9798558
By not having ADHD you spastic retard. Reading is how I deal with being surrounded by noise and shit. If you don't have the ability to shut out the world and focus completely on what you're reading then you've never really read anything seriously before in your entire life.

>>9798558
There are only so many hours in a day. I can tune out most distractions, so why not? As long as you're not being pretentious about it, I don't see the problem. Besides, what else am I supposed to do, look at my phone or out the window? Maybe look at the ogres that ride public transport? No thanks.

>>9798558
Bugs..

Hopefully you read this op.
You are a worthless maggot I hope you die.

nothing is good if you're not attractive and cool and no one is

go easy on the fucking carrots bugs...

>>9798558
What else would you do to pass the time on public transport?

>>9798558
>not being able to intuitively filter all the sounds of the city
you are never gonna make it OP

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>>9798869
Post the one with the Phenomenology of Spirit

You just pretend to read so hotties can notice you. It only work if you're hot, though.

>>9798558
Harry potter is so immersive all of that doesn't matter ;)

>>9798558
Pretty chilled reading on PT in the country, not at all like the cacophony you are railing against with such vim and vigor.

>>9798588
Fuck you. You sure are one cool little faggot for being able to cut out noise so well! I'm sure you must be an extra smart little fella.
> If you don't have the ability to shut out the world and focus completely on what you're reading then you've never really read anything seriously before in your entire life.
There is a difference between being able to focus on reading in a minimal environment and cutting out screams of babys and shitty trap blasting out of bluetooth speakers. Getting disturbed in serious reading while in a distracting environment is in no way a sign of mental weakness.

>>9799374
> Getting disturbed in serious reading while in a distracting environment is in no way a sign of mental weakness.
of course it is, what else would it be? strength? you'll always be a pleb.

>>9798558
>>9798588
>>9799374
>>9799395

You're both acting like idiots.

>>9799395
There is a grey zone fuckhead, what isn't strength is not neccesarily weakness. Get your head outta your ass.

>>9798558
I get travel sick half the time, but I still try it.

>>9798558
>How can you immerse yourself n what you're reading when you're surrounded by smelly, noisy retards and the sound of "VROOM VROOM" ?
By having an attention span that hasn't been ruined by pornography, video games and American schools.

>>9798558
>Is there anything more disgusting than this?
yeah, covertly taking pictures of people innocently reading books

>>9799703
But I went through American public schooling, wasted my adolescence playing video games at every opportunity, and consume a truly unhealthy amount of pornography and I can still focus on a book whenever I want for hours and hours.

>>9799374
If you can't block out outside distractions then you aren't really focused on what you're reading. You're just half-assing it, not really engaging. Sorry for you being born defective and not able to actually connect with literature.

>>9799416
Not being able to focus on something is a definite weakness. There's zero advantage in having such a pathetic attention span. You'll never be able to seriously read anything. How does it feel to know you've probably wasted years of your life on something you've never done properly even once?

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>>9798625
He is coming

>>9798558

It's easy to block out those sounds if you are really immersed in the book.

>>9798558
lol Pleb....i read while commuting in my motorcycle.

>>9798869
Saved! Thanks man, I guess I don't come here often enough if I've never seen that photo.

>>9798558
At least he's not looking at a fucking telephone. And what kind of mongoloid gets all up in arms over someone examining a book in public? Christ, maybe he's trying to avert his gaze from your idiot mug and your fucking camera

>>9799788
>>9799800
Really hope you are baiting, because if not you are just sad. What, just because I struggle to focus on reading while being bombarded with the fuckloads of noise present on (Australian) public transport means I have never read anything seriously? Thats a dumb conclusion to make. I hope you soon meet the end of your life you pretentious faggot.

Once again I would like to point out there is a difference between being able to focus and being able to fully shut out large levels of noise.

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There is nothing more pretentious than someone who reads on the train.

>>9799783
Same

>>9800551
lol angry much?

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>>9799076
Not that one but I have another.

>>9802526
How the hell do you hold two books at the same time? What about a sudden stop? You and your books will just fly away to the ground.

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>>9798558
not really a problem as long as you don't have loud minorities on your public transport

>>9802536
big thumbs

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>>9798869

m...multitrack reading

>>9802536
You don't usually have to worry about sudden stops on a train.

>>9799783
me too anon, how can anyone function without the ability to cut out outside noises

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>>9798558
>tfw commuted via train all of last summer.
>tfw the quiet car was quiet 99% of the time.

>>9798558
BUGS
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S

>>9798558
Pleb can't concentrate

Hahahahahahahaha

>>9798575
So, Bill Hicks is a self important cunt?

But if I don't read on the bus, how will people know how clever I am?

>>9798869
>>9799076
>Post the one with the Phenomenology of Spirit

I need this also

>>9798588
I agree with this guy, reading in public transports silence every shit that surrounds me

>>9798588
>>9804619
This, you have to not care about what you're reading at all for the background noise to bother you

>>9801129
bugs... easy on the carrots

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>>9799703
>pornography

>>9798558
lol what? You must have, like, zero ability to focus. Get some noise-cancelling headphones if you really need to.

I understand you're probably either a student or a NEET, but there are a lot of people who don't have a lot of free time to read. It's hardly fair to criticize them for reading on their commutes.

>>9798558
>>reading on public transport
I conmute 4 hours every day and I don't get travel sick anymore so why not, faggot.

>>9801119
I think the other guy won the debate. If you are not able to concentrate on reading a book on public transport, you have a problem, I do it all the time (and yes, I like women to see me and think I'm an intellectual with a big penis). Unless you live in India and travel above the trains you are a small autistic child

>>9805400
it looks like she's frenching his ear

but charli xcx is real patrician shit

>>9798558
http://thewonderreflex.blogspot.co.nz/2013/08/seneca-on-noise.html

>>9807480

Indistinct noise is fine. When I lived at home and heard my parents talking or someone talking on the TV and silence otherwise it would ruin everything.

>>9806810
Of course you think he did - you're a fucking pseud. The noises I described are distracting to any normal person. How the fuck do you not get even slightly distracted when you are in the middle of a sentence and a baby directly behind you starts screaming? Keep in mind the noises I have problems focusing around are not just people talking or soft music in the background - they're noises that would put anyone off. I don't know what trains are like where you are but 90% of the time there is funky shit going on in my trains with dumb crack addicts or annoying school kids.
Ban the annoying pretentious cunts on this board please hiroshimoot.

>>9802536
>he can't maintain his balance on a train without holding onto a metal bar
A bus is a whole other story, since buses do much sharper turns, but balancing on a train is piss-easy.

You can tell if the reader is a poser or not by what they're wearing. If they're a fashion fag then they're obviously in it for the #image and doing it for the #gram

>>9799788
I can't sleep if the TV is on. I guess I've never really been committed to sleeping, huh?

>>9809750
Yea because being able to dress decently and reading books can't ever go together...
>>9809667
this, you have to slightly lean to one side and move with the train, not stand up straight and stiff, you'll be thrown off balance

Trying to read on a public transport on a third world country is the worst of the worst. I'd love to if I could but there's too much noise from inside and outside that makes it impossible. You have to pay attention that someone is not coming to rob your bag or stuff like that. And it's terrible if you live in a city wannabe, some people might find stranger that someone is out there reading,specially if you are a cute girl.

But I can say there's a moment when the longest the commute, the silence better is, so you can give it a try at these rare moments.

>>9798558
How much pussy does this guy get? He has it all:

>the hair
>the face
>the intellectual aesthetic
>the absurdist fashion
>possibly European

Life isn't fair guys.

>>9809857
It isn't, the guys a fucking 9/10 on a bad day, life is incredibly unfair. This guy will get more action than any of us in this thread and we just have to live with that fact lodged in our heads. Gee, wow I sure don't feel like killing myself after that.

>>9809857
>>9809870
>it's other people's fault I'm a virgin
hope this strategy works out for you

>>980989
Except I'm not a virgin, we're just pointing out how fucking attractive he is and therefore how much attention he probably gets.

>>9809885
Dude do you even read

Who tf cares

My commute is only ten minutes so I don't have much time to get settled into something, so I've been reading THE LEGACY OF TOTALITARIANISM IN THE TUNDRA™ on my phone

>too tired to read when commuting to work
>too tired to read when commuting home from work

>>9810029
Audio books my dude

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>>9810077
Disgusting.

>>9798558
Because I can focus, can't you?

>>9798558
So what's the argument here

>too normie to not already live in a little white room in his head
>too normie to go to said room and shut the door spontaneously
>too normie to make meaningful use of time ANYWHERE

>>9798575
comedians are really the most cancerous creatures on earth