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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
“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
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.
Do 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.
I try to always make a point when recording to have the phone down as much as I can manage, so I can actually watch the event with my special eyes.
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.
Oh fuck that makes me mad. If I was running that operation, I’d have those people removed from the beach immediately. And probably fined, depending on the situation.
Or better yet, ban people from bringing cameras with flashes.
pretty hard when they’re phones, but i get it. it’s almost worth investing in some cheap digitals that you can destroy the flashes and give to everyone to take the photos and then email them their copies. and by almost i mean i wish i had the money i’d do it right now.
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.
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)
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.
Mean while, I’m over here turning off my radio at stop signs and red-lights so no one takes more than a passing notice of my existence.
One of the shittest cars I ever owned (Ford Fusion) turned the volume way down when stopped automatically. Should be standard but I’ve never seen it any other car.
I have come to understand that there is a subset of people that have never
spared athoughtfor anyone else. Theyprobablyhave neverevenconsideredthe fact that I don’t want to listen to their stupid bullshit. The thought nevercrossed their mind, not even once.Now with all of the unnecessary words helpfully marked.
Aw that’s not fair - they think about themselves all the time! They spend so much time thinking about themselves, in fact, that they don’t have the extra brain power to spare for the rest of us.
Subset makes it sound like a small population. I get the sense it’s a large slice whenever I brave the public domain
Oh it’s crossed my mind. It’s also crossed my mind that public space does not belong to you in particular. If you want silence, go find it.
I play music so i don’t run you over. Literally. It’s so you get out of the way. Unfortunately all y’all “THE PUBLIC IS MINE AND MINE ALONE SHUT UP SHUT UP I CAN’T HEAR THE VEIN THROBBING IN MY FOREHEAD ANYMORE” types are so wrapped up in your own bullshit you don’t think about shit like that.
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 !
JOKE’S ON YOU ASSHOLE, I DON’T LISTEN TO THIS PLAYLIST ANYWHERE ELSE, BECAUSE I MADE IT JUST FOR THIS BEACH TRIP!
It’s not like people bringing loud music to the beach is something new and different.
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.
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.
Often there’s people (esp. groups) who can’t be bothered with “reasonable”.
I’ve probably been guilty of that in the past…
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
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.
