This post sounds moar like a PSA
They had a guy like that at a work site. In the end somebody ground down some of the graphite part of a pencil and sprinkled that down the openings of his boom box. It short-circuited when he tried to switch it on the next time and there was silence after that.
Not the sort of thing I normally condone, but I think if there was ever a good use for a Bluetooth jamming device - Flipper Zero, etc - this is it.
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There is this fucking guy at my local park that sets up a full DJ system with giant speakers and “spins” electronic music, by himself, with no audience, loud as FUCK, at least one day every goddamn weekend for multiple hours. Everyone loathes him, but he doesn’t seem to care.
A nice pair of electrically-insulated cable cutters may be a good investment.
Nah I’m not like that, not calling the cops on him or anything either, but if someone whips his ass I won’t feel bad.
I like McMaster-Carr, it’s the greatest catalog of industrial supplies.
Also the markup on the first cutters that showed up is insane. $90 on McMaster, only $57 at home deopt
Man, I went to a coffee shop with a girl once. This coffee shop sat maybe 24 people, okay? It’s a shallow, wide building. There’s the counter with two baristas working, in front of the counter along the front wall of the building are those narrow “table for two” booths, like 2 or 3 of them. Both the counter and those booths run to the right wall of the building. To the left is a small more open area with maybe 4 four-seat tables.
There was this guy. This male homo sapiens. Who brought an acoustic-electric guitar. A microphone. And two, count them in the eyes of sweet zombie Jesus TWO. 60+ watt amplifiers. Because this was the artistic opportunity of this existing organism’s life. This creature, this placental mammal, was going to REACH his audience on this night. Through all the noise of a commercial AC unit and the single digit number of people that I ever saw in the building, his Green Day covers would be HEARD!
That happened during the winter of 2011. My headcanon is that guy wheezed to death of covid on one of those 3D printed ventilators they tried to get me to help make. I didn’t do those, I did the 3-ring binder slip cover face mask visors.
Any time I see all caps I just think it’s orange taco
“De bwootooth dewice is readey to paih”
I believe that they do for the attention, they must notice the nasty looks, they must know most people find that annoying in a place like that
Reminds me of the study with loud cars .
“We found that it was sadism and psychopathy predicting who wants to modify their mufflers, who feels more connected to their vehicle, and [who thinks] loud cars are really cool,” Schermer told CBC News.
“It seems to be this callous disregard for other people’s feelings and their reactions. That’s the psychopathy coming out and it’s also they probably get a kick out of enjoying watching people get startled.”
I guess at least they didn’t become CEOs
Music vs 10 ppl trying to loudly talk over each other
Probably road their loud ass motorcycle to get there.
This just screams I beg for attention! Look at me !
Someone blasted their playlist during a citywide fireworks display…why would I want to hear the explosions.
i’ve been in the band that plays during the fireworks, so to your point:
some people like music.
I should have mentioned this was at a public park with hundreds of people, no one asked or hired the dude to be there, and he was playing shitty music loud enough that you could not here the explosions. If you did that, you are also terrible.
i mean, i’m a musician (see above). when i’m playing music on my speaker it’s when i’m on my bike so pedestrians get out of the way and i don’t have to have one of those (more disruptive and annoying) bells that clangalangs the entire damn ride. or it’s somewhere that i can listen quietly, the music doesn’t go too far, or my own home. like, i get it. but the whole “i like the quiet so i own the public” movement, you folk need to move away from people if you want silence that much.
it may shock you to learn that people make noise just by existing. and for most of them, it brings joy.
I’m proud of you for being a musician. As a fellow musician I understand that when I play at a venue where people on not there to specifically hear my band play, we play at a completely different volume and take more breaks. Because people hate a random band dominating the random bar they chose to go to in order to talk to their friends.
It kinda sounds like you don’t have great musician etiquette and some main character syndrome.
main character syndrome.
Wait tell me what demanding silence from everyone in public spaces is
You got me. I definitely did exactly that, and it is not a strawman argument at all. Good one. Hope you play as well as you argue.
Yeah, I just hate it when I go to a concert and it’s all fireworks covering up the music I went to see. Would suck if the opposite happened…
well yeah, you just set up closer or further from the stage as you are able. it’s a You thing, not a public problem
Music hater
Hey you’re welcome. I really enjoy my Bluetooth speaker at the beach. I play it just loud enough so when I’m sitting in my area in my little tent that I can hear it. If you’re sitting close enough to me to be able to hear your music then you can fuck off.
You forgot the subway and the park.
Thank you, I specifically crafted this 3 hour slam death metal and goregrind compilation for my 5am beach walk by the residential area.
If only. Instead you will hear songs about trucky-trucks, beer, and fishing sung in only the most generic pandering tones with influences of whatever music is currently popular at the time.
Hey, at least those are actual music. Not the groans of the recently deceased seeing someone shit in their cornflakes.
I could sing in mandarin, you’d still know I’m panderiiiiin’
Yup. Grew up listening to classic country, and while there were definitely stereotypes (he/she ran off and left the singer heartbroken/they died and left were heartbroken), they were obviously not formed by committee. This new stuff has no “soul” or underlying point, and is very obviously pushed because it targets a specific type of person.
It’s usually reggeaton around here.
A ella le gusta la gasolina (dame más gasolina)
A ella le gusta la gasolina (dame más gasolina)
Cómo le encanta la gasolina (dame más gasolina)
Idk i feel like most beaches this is pretty acceptable. In my experience if you walk further from the parking lot you get more seclusion and peace. IMO a reasonable volume on a speaker isn’t any more disturbing than kids playing which is expected at the beach.
the difference is the “i need silence” folk just want to get away from all the sound of humanity. which, cool, but you need to actually get away from humans to do that. we get you don’t like humans. some of us do. don’t expect everyone to accommodate you in public. it belongs to me just as much as it belongs to you, and you ain’t accommodated shit for me.
We literally never stop accommodating you. Are you being physically confronted over your music in public all the time? I doubt it.
We live in a populous world and the “I need loud music at all times” folk have absolutely no boundaries. There is nowhere to go where there is no chance of disturbance. Which is why it would be nice if some people would back off of blasting music in places of respite.
Looking at you, hiking trails within a two-drive from Seattle. It’s like being in a fucking shopping mall in the 90s, except now some people have bluetooth speakers hanging from their REI backpacks.
Yes, I am, about once a week, by people like you. Because they see a cane and someone vulnerable they can bully. The knife tends to make them back off.
People have been making music since before they were people. If you don’t like it, go back to under the sea
You seem to have some issues going on, and you’re projecting an awful lot of malice onto random strangers who don’t like someone else’s loud music imposed on them. I hope you work through those issues buddy
the person demanding silence from the whole world says “you have issues” and doesn’t see the funny. which makes it funnier.
The person upset at being imposed upon by people doesn’t see the hypocrisy as they angrily defend their behaviour of imposing upon others.
The chip on your shoulder might be visible from orbit.
So like, if you start the conversation polite, maybe you’ll get polite responses. Making unreasonable demands on everyone (considering earplugs cost a few cents, and it is your responsibility to deal with your disability, not mine) is very polite.
Often there’s people (esp. groups) who can’t be bothered with “reasonable”.
I’ve probably been guilty of that in the past…
I really wonder if there is any place outside of a concert venue that these folks find music on speakers acceptable? I kind of get it if they’re solo, just use headphones, but… hanging out in a group and listening to music together at the beach is about the most normal use of a beach trip I can think of.
I think it depends on the beach. If it’s somewhere with lots of other people, somewhere super accessible, then I kinda expect it. But if it’s a less populated beach, maybe one that’s more difficult to get to, I probably chose it in hopes of listening to nature.
Agreed, there are definitely exceptions I could think of, just speaking generally.
I just got back from a beach vacation in a house we rented. Unfortunately I had to rely on a relatives speaker, so I could relax watching for no kids to drown.
Mostly played soft R&B, Blues, or anything downbeat at a lower level I could hear it over the sound of the waves and screaming children. But I was sitting right next to it and not blasting it from 100 meters away.
We’d also setup way early with no one around. I’d have the speaker rolling and the beach wasn’t packed. Yet people still setup really close to me on both sides.
At that point I figured they weren’t bothered. They would hopefully have said something because we talked to each other about the kids playing together.
So yeah there are situations, like everything else.
Probably only person I bothered was my Mother-in-law, because she is kinda racist and doesn’t like music made by darker skin people, but that I really didn’t give a shit about.
yeah, you pretty much get ten feet from the speaker and can’t hear it. beaches i go to at least, there’s lots of us little dorks sitting and drawing or reading or listening to music all quietly by ourselves, sneaking a joint whenever the kids are away.
or i assume. ain’t got kids so that’s what i’m doing when everyone else’s are in the water
