# This shit has got to stop **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 2, 2008, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-shit-has-got-to-stop/475408 "2008-12-02T21:57:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Jolly\_Roger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-shit-has-got-to-stop/475408/21 "2008-12-03T01:10:15Z")
> [@Queen\_Bruin](#): > > I somehow think you don’t sit in front of people’s houses for 20 minutes at a stretch blaring Cannibal Corpse. > > If you do though, you’re an asshole and deserve whatever’s coming to you. I knew someone would post about how they blare music and don’t care, nyah, nyah, nyah when I typed the OP. Its not rocket science, you can say anything online and not have any repercussions except maybe the ire of other posters. (and\*\* Bo \*\*i am not accusing you of this, read on) That being said, \*\*Snowboarder Bo \*\*didn’t say he did it in front of houses or anything. he said he cranked it up in a challenge type thing in a redlight. People being people, this isn’t what bugs me. If he cranked it to win a stereo dick measuring contest with a stranger at a redlight, its really no big deal. Yeah its annoying, but so are old people driving really slow or not allowing you to pass or people that are so busy on their fucking cell phones they don’t see the light turn green. Its one thing that is annoying but you can live with compared to people that constantly do it as if their car won’t run unless the music is loud and the bass is shaking the fillings out of folks within a half mile radius that I hate. He never said he blasted his music in a busy parking lot or residential area or anything. From what I’ve seen in his posts from the past he doesn’t seem like the kind of guy that gets a thrill from annoying people. We may not see eye to eye on some things, but I get the feeling hes a pretty reasonable dude, the kind that would actually turn it down if he knew he was bieng a nuisance. He can tell me if I’m wrong, but I think he would agree that blasting my goddamn beret off with bass is kinda wrong in a busy and full parking lot. You can jam out when you’re away from that kind of area. I think **Bo** might not like it but he;d agree, but then only he can really make that call. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-shit-has-got-to-stop/475408/22 "2008-12-03T01:16:29Z")
I don’t like it either but I am betting that this thread won’t put an end to it so I will just stick with my policy of laughing at the idiots who spend a fortune to produce loud lo-fi approximations of music. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-shit-has-got-to-stop/475408/23 "2008-12-03T02:39:31Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > And we have laws to protect us from people like you, who “just don’t care” about others. Enjoy the tickets that you will get for being a dick. Try telling the cop “I just don’t care”. > > At least have the balls to admit that **Mangetout** is right - the primary reason you do it is so people will look at you. That’s not my motivation. I just like loud music. I don’t care if people are looking at me or not. I just like to listen to my music at maximum volume. It sounds better that way. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-shit-has-got-to-stop/475408/24 "2008-12-03T02:48:59Z")
> [@Jolly\_Roger](#): > > I knew someone would post about how they blare music and don’t care, nyah, nyah, nyah when I typed the OP. Its not rocket science, you can say anything online and not have any repercussions except maybe the ire of other posters. (and\*\* Bo \*\*i am not accusing you of this, read on) > > That being said, \*\*Snowboarder Bo \*\*didn’t say he did it in front of houses or anything. **he said he cranked it up in a challenge type thing in a redlight**. People being people, this isn’t what bugs me. If he cranked it to win a stereo dick measuring contest with a stranger at a redlight, its really no big deal. Yeah its annoying, but so are old people driving really slow or not allowing you to pass or people that are so busy on their fucking cell phones they don’t see the light turn green. Its one thing that is annoying but you can live with compared to people that constantly do it as if their car won’t run unless the music is loud and the bass is shaking the fillings out of folks within a half mile radius that I hate. > He never said he blasted his music in a busy parking lot or residential area or anything. From what I’ve seen in his posts from the past he doesn’t seem like the kind of guy that gets a thrill from annoying people. We may not see eye to eye on some things, but I get the feeling hes a pretty reasonable dude, the kind that would actually turn it down if he knew he was bieng a nuisance. He can tell me if I’m wrong, but I think he would agree that blasting my goddamn beret off with bass is kinda wrong in a busy and full parking lot. You can jam out when you’re away from that kind of area. > > I think **Bo** might not like it but he;d agree, but then only he can really make that call. I never said I cranked up at a red light in a challenge type thing. But perhaps I was unclear. My stereo is at max volume all the time, if I’m not talking to someone: parking lots, residential streets, highway. I don’t turn it down or up at red lights. I just think its cool when some other guy who also listens to his favorite music loud pulls up next to me, and we both realize that the other guy also likes loud music. It’s a brothers-in-arms type thing, not a pissing contest. I don’t do it to piss people off, or to get a thrill from annoying people. I just like my music loud. My neighbor and I were talking a couple of years ago and he told me he had been working a new job for a couple of months that had him in at 4am, so he went to bed at 9pm. He told me what a pain it was for him when I was rocking out at night (our walls are only like 15 feet apart), so now I don’t rock out after 9pm on weekdays. On weekends, tho, I usually rock out until local noise ordinances forbid it. BTW, lots of y’all come off as real pricks in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-shit-has-got-to-stop/475408/25 "2008-12-03T02:57:29Z")
My son used to enter competitions for best sound system and actually has trophies displayed in his home, **JR** , and when I asked him _why_ that music has to be so loudm he told me it originally began as a way to simulate being at a concert, but that it later became a status symbol. :rolleyes: I had him install a very nice Blaupunkt system in my car (I favor “classical” music), and although I know I _can_, I don’t turn the volume up so load it attacks the viscera and makes you wanna throw up. My thing is clarity, not volume. I did once play a cd of Square Dance calls (the first “rap” music) one summer day while stopped at traffic lights here in Dallas. Mah _Bubbas_ loved it! 🙂 Quasi ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Wing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/51bf81/32.png) [@Little\_Wing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Wing)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-shit-has-got-to-stop/475408/26 "2008-12-03T03:00:41Z")
This is a rant I can get behind. It’s not so much the loud music that bugs me, it’s the damned bass. I don’t want to hear that shit thump, thump, thumping while I’m _in my house_, trying to watch TV or whatever. When I can hear it inside or blocks away, it’s too damned loud. I can appreciate wanting to crank up the car radio. I do the same thing (with my measly factory installed stereo system in my 16-year-old car) but here’s the thing…when I’m at a stop light, I turn it down out of consideration for others. What a concept! Too bad others can’t be as considerate but I guess when you’re the center of the universe, common courtesy doesn’t apply. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-shit-has-got-to-stop/475408/27 "2008-12-03T03:03:35Z")
Nothing to add, except I think that **Little Wing** is a pretty nick. Yup, takes me back a few years… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Abraca\_Deborah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e495f1/32.png) [@Abraca\_Deborah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abraca_Deborah)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-shit-has-got-to-stop/475408/28 "2008-12-03T03:04:19Z")
I have seen grown men with hearing loss reduced to tears out of frustration when they cannot hear what their grandchildren say. I have seen it tear families apart as the one with the hearing loss eventually becomes an observer of his own life, while it plays in front of him like a silent film. Research shows that the magic age to get people to consider changing their attitudes and behaviours towards loud noise/music is grade four. Any later than that, and it is too late as teens and young adults just don’t care. As an audiologist who has fitted many hearing aids in the past 18 years, I have only two words: Job security. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-shit-has-got-to-stop/475408/29 "2008-12-03T03:08:23Z")
> [@Abraca\_Deborah](#): > > As an audiologist who has fitted many hearing aids in the past 18 years, I have only two words: > job security. Ha! I _love_ it! 😃 It’s kinda like what I tell people when they ask me what I do for a livin’ (I’m a respiratory therapist): "I’m the guy who tells you not to smoke, but who is secretly glad that you **do**! "😉 They don’t _always_ know how to take that. 😕 Sorry to hijack, **JR** Quasi PS: Love _your_ nick as well, **Deborah**! Very clever! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![GawnFishin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9bcb4/32.png) [@GawnFishin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GawnFishin)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-shit-has-got-to-stop/475408/30 "2008-12-03T03:31:15Z")
I had a cousin beaten to a bloody pulp one time for playing his music too loud, the guy who beat him was caught by the cops and he admited he hated loud music. My cousin deaf since birth had not realised he was pissing so many people off, he was only trying to feel his music, oh yes, I mean _his_ music he was a very good musician, sadly not since the beating though. Have fun with your hating loud music though I guess. Some people make me sad. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-shit-has-got-to-stop/475408/31 "2008-12-03T03:34:24Z")
I am sorry to know this happened to your cousin, **GawnFishin’** , but I think you’ll agree that it’s “apples and oranges”. Again, I am sorry. ☹ Q ---
**Author:** ![Mongo\_Ponton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Mongo\_Ponton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mongo_Ponton)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-shit-has-got-to-stop/475408/32 "2008-12-03T03:35:30Z")
SO’s boss is a pretty hard core no bullshit kind of guy. One day we went to lunch and got caught at a long light next to one of the thumpers. He put the car in park, got out and went over to the car. Words were exchanged and he came back and got in the car with a faceplate and a whole bunch of wires. The light turned green and off we went. ---
**Author:** ![GawnFishin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9bcb4/32.png) [@GawnFishin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GawnFishin)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-shit-has-got-to-stop/475408/33 "2008-12-03T03:47:31Z")
**Quasimodem** , I guess what pissed me off about the whole situation was that my cousin never even saw his attacker coming. He was sucker punched and out cold. The fuckwit just kept laying into him. My cousin never owned an expensive stereo just the standard system in his old junker this guy just blew a fuse and let him have it. Yeah at times loud stereos can get annoying to me as well but I find it much easier to roll my eyes, take a deep breath and count to ten, normally by then the annoyance has gone. Works for me most of the time, and if it doesn’t I going to burst some tweeters with Helen Reddy.:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Wing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/51bf81/32.png) [@Little\_Wing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Wing)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-shit-has-got-to-stop/475408/34 "2008-12-03T03:51:40Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > Nothing to add, except I think that **Little Wing** is a pretty nick. > > Yup, takes me back a few years… 😉 Thanks 🙂 I couldn’t come up with anything clever for my user name and had a Stevie Ray Vaughan CD sitting on my desk…and there ya go! ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-shit-has-got-to-stop/475408/35 "2008-12-03T03:57:19Z")
I’ll be encouraging my kids to become audiologists. Something tells me that they’ll be in high demand in about twenty years or so. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-shit-has-got-to-stop/475408/36 "2008-12-03T03:58:42Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > That’s not my motivation. I just like loud music. I don’t care if people are looking at me or not. I just like to listen to my music at maximum volume. It sounds better that way. Suuuure you do. I think you’re kinda enjoying people looking at you in this thread too… ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-shit-has-got-to-stop/475408/37 "2008-12-03T04:05:20Z")
> [@GawnFishin](#): > > I had a cousin beaten to a bloody pulp one time for playing his music too loud, the guy who beat him was caught by the cops and he admited he hated loud music. My cousin deaf since birth had not realised he was pissing so many people off, he was only trying to feel his music, oh yes, I mean _his_ music he was a very good musician, sadly not since the beating though. > > Have fun with your hating loud music though I guess. Some people make me sad. This is part of it for me. I have been completely stone deaf 3 times in my life (my ears do not drain fluid properly. Chronic persistent cerumen impaction is at times painful and debilitating.) Surgery and medication were able to correct fully 2x, but now there is some damage to my eardrums, particularly on the right side. There is nothing so joyous as a wonderful sound, and I like to hear as many and as much as I can. As a musician, I sympathize with your cousin’s plight, **Gawn**. I’m not looking for sympathy, tho. Even the times my hearing was fine, I still liked my music loud. 😃 It’s just better that way. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-shit-has-got-to-stop/475408/38 "2008-12-03T04:06:48Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Suuuure you do. > > I think you’re kinda enjoying people looking at you in this thread too… :rolleyes: You go ahead and believe whatever unsupported assertion you want to about me, **EP**. I don’t care one way or the other. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-shit-has-got-to-stop/475408/39 "2008-12-03T04:16:18Z")
> [@Little\_Wing](#): > > Thanks 🙂 I couldn’t come up with anything clever for my user name and had a Stevie Ray Vaughan CD sitting on my desk…and there ya go! Stevie Ray, huh? 😉 Love Stevie! Quasi ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2008, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-shit-has-got-to-stop/475408/40 "2008-12-03T04:21:20Z")
> [@GawnFishin](#): > > **Quasimodem** , I guess what pissed me off about the whole situation was that my cousin never even saw his attacker coming. He was sucker punched and out cold. The fuckwit just kept laying into him. My cousin never owned an expensive stereo just the standard system in his old junker this guy just blew a fuse and let him have it. > > Yeah at times loud stereos can get annoying to me as well but I find it much easier to roll my eyes, take a deep breath and count to ten, normally by then the annoyance has gone. Works for me most of the time, and if it doesn’t I going to burst some tweeters with Helen Reddy.:eek: **GF** I apologize for misunderstanding your post! I took it to mean your cousin was a \*\*musician \*\*who just happened to be practicing too loudly because he could not hear himself. So I take back the “apples and oranges” comment. Quasi [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-shit-has-got-to-stop/475408.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-shit-has-got-to-stop/475408.md?page=3)