Reading on public transport

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

Obligatory

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.

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

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

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.

> 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.

You're both acting like idiots.

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

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

>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.

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

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.

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.

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?

He is coming

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Same

lol angry much?

Not that one but I have another.

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.

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

big thumbs

m...multitrack reading

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

me too user, how can anyone function without the ability to cut out outside noises

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

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Pleb can't concentrate

Hahahahahahahaha

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?

>Post the one with the Phenomenology of Spirit

I need this also

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

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

bugs... easy on the carrots

>pornography

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.

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

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

it looks like she's frenching his ear

but charli xcx is real patrician shit

thewonderreflex.blogspot.co.nz/2013/08/seneca-on-noise.html

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.

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.

>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

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

Yea because being able to dress decently and reading books can't ever go together...
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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Audio books my dude

Disgusting.

Because I can focus, can't you?

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

comedians are really the most cancerous creatures on earth