# Damned Noise Pollution !! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 11, 2008, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-noise-pollution/444901 "2008-04-11T15:01:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-noise-pollution/444901/21 "2008-04-11T21:41:08Z")
[QUOTE=FarmerChick] I live in the country. [/QUOTE] The sad thing is, this used to be ‘the country’, too. When my hubby was born this was a 60-acre dairy farm. We’re down to 20 acres, and the city has swallowed us on all sides. Now they’re bitching about our barn being an ‘eyesore’. At least our barn doesn’t wake you up at 9 am on Saturday with a chorus of buzzing lawn tools Mr. Alderman! _sigh_. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-noise-pollution/444901/22 "2008-04-11T23:10:04Z")
There are restaurants where I have stopped going because I feel like blood is about to pour out my ears. My ears hurt from all the people that have to talk over the other loud people. I then get a migraine. There are some other places where it gets loud, but the restaurants seem to be were everybody has important information for the whole place and must make sure that they can be heard over the people three tables away that prevents people at their table from hearing them. People don’t know how to just shut up. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-noise-pollution/444901/23 "2008-04-12T00:00:27Z")
I hope you all noticed that I’m jumping up and down on your lawn and shooting spitballs at your Buicks. ---
**Author:** ![Faruiza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@Faruiza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faruiza)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-noise-pollution/444901/24 "2008-04-12T01:06:15Z")
[QUOTE=EJsGirl] Minor nit-pick- it’s “fount” rather than “font.” Short for “fountain” as in “this board can be a veritable fount of grammar and spelling nit-picks.” 🙂 ETA- Fount = source or spring. [/QUOTE] :smack: Of course it is. Gah. Stupid U! Stupid brain, and stupid fingers. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-noise-pollution/444901/25 "2008-04-12T01:49:06Z")
[QUOTE=EJsGirl] Minor nit-pick- it’s “fount” rather than “font.” Short for “fountain” as in “this board can be a veritable fount of grammar and spelling nit-picks.” 🙂 ETA- Fount = source or spring. [/QUOTE] [Ahem.](http://www.thefreedictionary.com/font) > [@](#): > > font 1 (fnt) > n. > > 1. A basin for holding baptismal water in a church. > 2. A receptacle for holy water; a stoup. > 3. The oil reservoir in an oil-burning lamp. > 4. **An abundant source; a fount** : She was a font of wisdom and good sense. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-noise-pollution/444901/26 "2008-04-12T03:34:17Z")
Huh. Th site I was looking at made a distinction between “font” as a receptacle for still water and “fount” as an active source from which water springs forth… I humbly retract my picked nit. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![nonacetone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonacetone/32/2819_2.png) [@nonacetone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nonacetone)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-noise-pollution/444901/27 "2008-04-12T03:47:30Z")
Yesterday, I threatened to snap the bass control off the sound system in our daughters bedroom. I detest hearing/feeling that low, irritating noise, or vibration, or whatever the hell it is. Her bedroom is next to ours. Being awakened to that sort of thing at 3am is not pleasant, especially if one has problems sleeping in the first place. I’ve also informed her that if it happens ever again, there had BETTER be a pot of coffee ready for me, or heads WILL roll. As well as the bass control, because I will not hesitate to snap that bastard off. ---
**Author:** ![Achren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@Achren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achren)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-noise-pollution/444901/28 "2008-04-12T04:17:50Z")
[QUOTE=FarmerChick] I live in the country. The freaken geese are coming back. Do you know how loud 500 geese landing in the coulee can be? And the damn coyotes and night! I can hardly sleep with all the racket here! Next it’s going to be the bloody frogs and crickets. Where in the world can I go for quiet? :smack: [/QUOTE] Crickets are spawn of the devil. You’re just about the drop off to sleep and you hear a ‘cherp’ _silence_ ‘cherp’ and it’s coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE, from inside your room! And once you find it and either kill it or set it outside you realize that there was more then one… _shudders from the memories_ ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-noise-pollution/444901/29 "2008-04-12T12:15:05Z")
[QUOTE=Zsofia] I tell you what, there is NOTHING better than the Delta Crown Room Lounge or whatever the equivalent is. You don’t even realize how very loud it is sometimes until you get to the soothing land of free drinks. My AmEx Platinum Card gets me and a friend in - you may have something that gets you in some nice part of the airport that you don’t even know about! (Did I mention the drinks are free? And they have a ticketing desk to solve all your problems?) [/QUOTE] Now you’ve got me started. Those bastards at Delta are passing out free entry to people with AmEx Platinum cards, yet I, who fly over 100,000 miles a year on Delta, am now forced to pay $300 per year for something that has been free for decades. There’s a great business model, let’s piss off the people who are our best customers. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-noise-pollution/444901/30 "2008-04-12T14:45:05Z")
We’ve had a nightingale singing all night long outside the front of the house the last couple nights. Doesn’t bother me that much, by the time I go to bed I’m dead tired anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-noise-pollution/444901/31 "2008-04-12T15:48:10Z")
We spent the weekend in the country in Virginia last week, and at one point, taking the dogs out for a walk on a country lane, the silence was so intense it was almost deafening. It’s not until you hear genuine silence that you realize how much noise is in your everyday life. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-noise-pollution/444901/32 "2008-04-12T16:10:10Z")
[QUOTE=Bill Door] Now you’ve got me started. Those bastards at Delta are passing out free entry to people with AmEx Platinum cards, yet I, who fly over 100,000 miles a year on Delta, am now forced to pay $300 per year for something that has been free for decades. There’s a great business model, let’s piss off the people who are our best customers. [/QUOTE] Huh. I wonder if American does that (I also pay hundreds for the privilege). But Admirals Club was never free, regardless of how many miles you flew (my MIL has flown hundreds of thousands of physical miles, and earned millions of American miles). ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-noise-pollution/444901/33 "2008-04-12T21:38:09Z")
[QUOTE=control-z] We’ve had a nightingale singing all night long outside the front of the house the last couple nights. Doesn’t bother me that much, by the time I go to bed I’m dead tired anyway. [/QUOTE] Nightingale? I thought they lived only in the Old World. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-noise-pollution/444901/34 "2008-04-13T14:57:30Z")
[QUOTE=Spectre of Pithecanthropus] Nightingale? I thought they lived only in the Old World. [/QUOTE] I don’t know, I’m no ornithologist, but I found some sound clips online and the bird sounds like a Nightingale. We have all kinds of animals around here, red fox, opossom, racoon, deer, bear, rabbit, squirrel, and lots of birds. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-noise-pollution/444901/35 "2008-04-13T15:16:51Z")
[QUOTE=Bill Door] Now you’ve got me started. Those bastards at Delta are passing out free entry to people with AmEx Platinum cards, yet I, who fly over 100,000 miles a year on Delta, am now forced to pay $300 per year for something that has been free for decades. There’s a great business model, let’s piss off the people who are our best customers. [/QUOTE] Are you serious? My dad used to be one of their whatever medallion level flyers and he’ll be pissed as hell to hear that. (We all have the AmEx cards, but he’s always been loyal to Delta and he won’t like to hear how they’re treating his spiritual descendants in business flying.) ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-noise-pollution/444901/36 "2008-04-13T15:52:03Z")
[QUOTE=Zsofia] Are you serious? My dad used to be one of their whatever medallion level flyers and he’ll be pissed as hell to hear that. (We all have the AmEx cards, but he’s always been loyal to Delta and he won’t like to hear how they’re treating his spiritual descendants in business flying.) [/QUOTE] Serious as hell. It started in 2006, when new Platinum members were charged. Those of us who were already Platinum were grandfathered in. Then last year they charged the old Platinum fliers $150, but if you had a delayed boarding voucher, would accept that. This year it’s $300 and no vouchers accepted. I haven’t paid yet, but will probably end up breaking down. I’m tempted to get the AmEx Platinum, but that’s an extra $150, and I don’t know if I’d use any of the other benefits. I know it would get me access to a lot of other lounges, but the airports I frequent either have Delta lounges or none at all. I have a perfectly good AmEx rewards card that I get a piece of the action on, and am uncertain of the marginal utility of the Platinum AmEx. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/damned-noise-pollution/444901.md?page=1)