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Subject: Re: Noise pollution (flame)
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Date: Wed, 16-Oct-85 13:34:52 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

There sure is!

Don't forget the twits that play "music" for you when they put you on
*hold* (and over an audio system never intended for music).

And  cars & trucks with loud exhaust systems...

And those damnable dirt bikes, especially those with the two stroke
engines...

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-- 
All opinions are mine alone...

Charlie Sorsby
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