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.
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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.
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.
A nice pair of electrically-insulated cable cutters may be a good investment.
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
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.
Where I live both are acceptable, but it depends on where you go
If you go to the "main beach" that's where you bring music. You show off your body, you listen to loud music, you cruise, etc...
But if you go the "locals beach", you show up looking like shit, keep your music down, and lots of people drink illegally but they do so low-key so while we all know they're doing it, nobody cares
To me, both are acceptable. It kind of sucks to think there is no place at the beach where you can party
But it also kind of sucks to think that there is no place at the beach where you can actually enjoy the ocean
SO we have both, you just need to know where to go
Very wise
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
Probably road their loud ass motorcycle to get there.
This just screams I beg for attention! Look at me !
"De bwootooth dewice is readey to paih"
Music vs 10 ppl trying to loudly talk over each other
It's like people have none sense of why they go places.
A few years back, I did a lantern-lit tour of Mammoth Cave. I've done them in the past, and the ambiance, sound, smell, and flicker of firelight gives a very close yet mysterious feeling to the tour. This time though, as soon as we got into the cave, half the dipshits on the tour had their harsh white cellphone flashlights going everywhere, completely ruining the experience that they (and other people) had just fucking paid for. They really need to have a "movie theater" cellphone policy for those kinds of tours.
Music concert - everyone recording with their phone out.
Fireworks display - everyone recording with their phone out.
Bride comes down the aisle - everyone recording with their phone out.
It's just pointless. You ruin your own experience of the event because you're watching it on a screen instead of experiencing it directly, and you ruin other people's experience too.
And the wedding one I've seen far too many times.
What do you think the official wedding photographer is there for? When the bride and groom watch their wedding video back they want to see a room of their happy family and friends, but instead they'll get a video with rows of people staring at their own little rectangles and pointing them at the bride as she comes down the aisle.
So yourself a favour and live in the moment sometimes, please.
I would say pretty much wedding I have been to in the past 10 or so years has had a no phone/camera policy during the ceremony. Before the ceremony starts, the officiant comes to the mic and reminds everybody and let's them know their is a professional photographer and everybody will get to see the photos online later.
The rest of the wedding? Go wild. We actually had some app with a QR code that guests could scan when they arrived. Then between 5pm and 10pm (or whatever the time of the wedding was) - any photo they took was uploaded, and we got to see all of the photos everybody took plotted on a time line. If you didn't want to use it, fine with me, I know how people are with privacy. But I thought it was cool.
Phone cameras are a godsend when I need to remember.
They are a curse when I want to remember.
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I went to see the leatherback sea turtles nesting a few years ago. They guide themselves by the light of the full moon and we were explicitly told not to use flash photography, as it disorients the turtles. As I’m sure will not surprise you, as the turtle ladies crawled up onto the beach, about 100 blinding flashes went off right in their faces.
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There's a point where its way too obnoxious but I think it's fine as long as you find your own space. We all kind of silently claim spots in public spaces like the beach so just claim somewhere that is not too close to other people.
When I want the serenity I go off to the side where no one is. I don't think it's a big deal.
It’s not like people bringing loud music to the beach is something new and different.
JOKE'S ON YOU ASSHOLE, I DON'T LISTEN TO THIS PLAYLIST ANYWHERE ELSE, BECAUSE I MADE IT JUST FOR THIS BEACH TRIP!
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.
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
Thank you, I specifically crafted this 3 hour slam death metal and goregrind compilation for my 5am beach walk by the residential area.
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I have come to understand that there is a subset of people that have never spared a thought for anyone else. They probably have never even considered the fact that I don't want to listen to their stupid bullshit. The thought never crossed their mind, not even once.
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