[doggodaddo78]

What's the difference between talking on a phone and passengers talking?

[b112]

Two things, but I admit not hard rules.

First, some people seem to talk quite loudly into their phone. Dunno the ratio, 1 out of 20 or 40?

The second is, if you are sitting beside someone, and they talk to you, your attention is of course focused on them. It doesn't matter that the person beside you is talking, because your attention is focused there on purpose. Yet, if a person beside you is talking on a phone, like right beside you, it is hard to ignore.

Now imagine people on both sides, and behind you and in front of you talking. Some loudly.

On a plane, usually there are not that many people contantly talking.

So now you've stuck in a tiny seat, for hours and hours, with all these people talking, loudly, constantly.

Worse, it's all gibberish, all only one side of a conversation. Basically people just spewing random sentences.

I can not imagine a worse hell.

[reportgunner]

Two passengers can have one debate with each other on the plane, but two debates over the phone.

[gruez]

Some people talk unusually loud on phones, possibly due to habit and/or their phones being too quiet/loud and changing their volume to compensate.

[encryptluks2]

One requires 2 people in person to engage, and is usually projected in a general direction which limits sounds. The other, only 1 person has to be present and sound may go in any direction.

[TchoBeer]

Alternatively, an irl conversation has two talkers which doubles noise, has to be louder than someone on a phone because you're taking to a receiver further away, and both conversers have to be directing sound in the direction of where people are, as opposed to a phone which can be used while directing sound at e.g. the wall

[doggodaddo78]

I've never heard of sound going in a particular direction. Are they throwing their voices under a cone of silence?

[Nicksil]

>I've never heard of sound going in a particular direction.

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