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From: todd@scirtp.UUCP (Todd Jones)
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.music,net.music.classical
Subject: Re: Noise pollution (flame)
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Date: Mon, 14-Oct-85 15:01:45 EDT
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I cared a great deal for pop music when I was a teen, and I still do.
But I too am FED UP with having others musical preferences forced on me.

> 
> I didn't much care for pop music when I was a teen, and I still don't.
> I am FED UP with having others musical preferences forced on me.
> 
> This flame is about *NOISE* :
> 
> * At work *  Around here people play portable radios, car radios with
>            12v. power supplies, home stereos, etc. in offices and labs.
>            Most turn it down when asked -- but (1) I really don't want it
>            down, I want it OFF, and (2) I'm fed up with constantly
>            having to ask.
> * At play *  Around here, all the city owned swimming pools are
>            equipped with metal horn loudspeakers -- the better to
>            blare top 40 MOR music with.  The park district people
>            respond "but most people using the pools like it".
>            Maybe so, but it is my pool too - I pay taxes to
>            maintain and operate it.

Don't forget:
  * Boom Boxes * Designed to offend those whose musical tastes vary
	     from the boom boxer.

  * Muzak while being put on hold * This is this ultimate piss-off.
 	     When I am holding, I hate listening to two-hundred bored
	     musical never-beens butchering a Lennon/McCartney tune.

There's more, too

-todd jones


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