Damn!
I suppose this will put a stop to my Der Ring des Nibelungen sidewalk performance.
We've seen it countless times on the news during the lockdown coverage – Brits getting happy-clappy for our beleaguered National Health Service once a week among other forms of forced fun for the cameras. As the days grow warmer, people are holding aerobics and Champagne parties in the street (all conscientiously taking place …
> Perhaps a version of the Ring Cycle that is a little more relatable to modern audiences?
That would be 'Lord of the Rings' or perhaps 'Star Wars'.
http://www.the-wagnerian.com/2011/06/star-wars-series-and-wagners-ring.html
https://houstonsymphony.wordpress.com/2010/09/15/before-luke-skywalker-there-was-siegfried/
Bloody right.
"I don't want to just sit here all day looking at the same four walls."
Well most of us have to now, and we'd rather not listen to the muffled sounds of someone caterwauling. Similarly, the number of weapons who think that now is the time to have bonfire after bonfire. It's been 20+ degrees the last few weeks, and I'm sitting sweltering in the house of an eve with the windows bolted shut.
Those in healthcare working nights and needing their BLOODY SLEEP have strong opinions about people intentionally creating loud noise for hours on end.
Just because you are home and bored doesn't mean everyone else, and not everyone shares the idea that being a loud prat is a positive thing. Nevermind that here, that'd be a noise complaint--getting the police out. And they probably have better things to do.
I can agree that 3 hours forced entertainment can be more than too much but tolerance has to be a communal sport or nothing is allowed because someone will object.
I used to enjoy the one day a year local 'festival' but that's no more because a few would not appreciate the enjoyment it brought to many.
I put up with other people's shit in the expectation that they will put up with shit I might enjoy. It's about balance, tolerance, equability, reasonableness and compromise.
The cure ->
I put up with other people's shit in the expectation that they will put up with shit I might enjoy. It's about balance, tolerance, equability, reasonableness and compromise.
The cure ->
"No Jason , its Madness this week."
Been waiting 30 years for the correct setup line for that quote.
Someone 50 metres away from here has been using an incredibly loud power tool, possibly a disk sander and it has been very distracting on sunny afternoons. However, I was prepared to tolerate it as he is producing PPE items in this home workshop. Other neighbours weren't so patient and have been arguing with him about it and he's now gone quiet.
I believe the response expected when someone sings it badly at a football match is to chant back at them "You'll never walk... again"
However working in IT and never having actually been to a football match I cannot personally verify this and therefore it remains an urban legend.
Still, did you see that ludicrous display? I mean, the thing about Arsenal is they always try and walk it in...
Yes, you are very sad, but it's taken you this long to realise.
If I choose to go into a pub and suffer karaoke for an evening, the fair play. I have even done this a couple of times in my life.
Having it forced upon us for 3 hours, all by the same person? On three occasions.
People doing daft things, streaming them online for people to choose to watch - this is fine. The problem here is that by blaring away for 3 hours in front of your house, you're *forcing* everyone nearby to have to listen. It doesn't seem to have occurred to the guy that some people might not want to listen to karaoke - especially not for 3 hours.
I appreciate he meant well, but he should find another outlet for this, rather than forcing his idea of entertainment down the ears of all his neighbours.
I was an early onset curmudgeon, now I am retired I have full curmudgeoning rights but I have always hated karaoke.
Not least because most of the people that pick up the mike think that because they can read the lyrics on screen they can perform the song, when the reality is, most of them are so bad they create rifts in the fabric of the universe, and I personally find that annoying.
It may be because I have never been able to sing, even my mother thought I sounded terrible.
As for the Sound of Silence; my favourite version is by Disturbed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Dg-g7t2l4
Every single positive spin he puts on it is it's to help him feel better. Good on him for thinking of sharing, but not your neighbors fault if your singing is more akin to two cats going at it in an alleyway. Rather, look to youtube for the exposition so at least people can choose to be inflicted upon, and keep it in your own four walls please.
The only mistake he made was not to dedicate each song to the NHS. You can get away with breaking many crimes if it's for the NHS. No social distancing (as shown by the Met Police themselves on Westminster Bridge) and you can leave your house to clap when it's not a reasonable excuse to do so.
Some of us like quiet solitude. Inflicting your version of uplifting sound on us is just plain rude.
When my Daughter was about six years old, she took to yelling "looser!" at automobiles driving by with their tunes set to 11. She had a point. Out of the mouths of babes ...
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.. this whole clapping for the NHS thing feels like it's turning into a bit of a selective cult amongst (mainly) middle-class estate-dwellers.
I love the NHS as much as the next person and I think our doctors an nurses are amazing but I also think that standing outside and clapping is rather pointless and I will not be part of it...
As it happens nobody in my street seems to be doing it - possibly because I live amongst a densely populated mixture of flats and houses occupied by a truly metropolitan range of people from all 'corners' of this earth.
Meanwhile the friends and family I hear taking about 'the clap' all seem to live in cul-de-sacs or nicer estates, and their main focus seems to be predominantly a game of one-upmanship: Starting with who can clap/bang the loudest and progressing to other stunts by individuals clearly hoping to show that their devotion to the NHS is that much greater than anyone elses.
I think the best one yet was a story from a friend where some doofus in his street decided to light a big vertical flame thrower like you might see at a sports event, but had it too close to the house and set fire to the roof. Oh what larks!
I'm just about tolerating a neighbour occasionally playing load music in their garden - anyway wannabe driveway DJs or Karaoke stars near me would be likely to cause me to have a sense of humour failure... The only remaining question is whether my local council's environmental/noise team is actually working right now?
I think the best one yet was a story from a friend where some doofus in his street decided to light a big vertical flame thrower like you might see at a sports event, but had it too close to the house and set fire to the roof. Oh what larks!
Yeah, I heard a story from a friend of a friend of a friend where some bell end decided to fire a high powered laser into the sky which happened to burn a hole in a passing Zeppelin causing a massive hydrogen fire which came crashing down onto a fuel storage depot causing an explosion that left a crater the size of Much Wenlock. The guy that fired the mortar then fell into the crater and drowned in the flood caused by a burst water main. Oh what larks.
I work for the NHS and I don't like it either. Admittedly, I work in IT not on the frontline - I don't even use my NHS ID badge to jump the queue for food shopping which I can do.
I have to endure the clapping where I live - including saucepan banging and car horn blaring. There was also shouting, couldn't quite make it out, but I like to think it was along the lines "Shut the f*** up!"
Long before SARS-CoV-2 raised its receptor sites above the parapet we had an annual "music festival" within hearing range of home. Admittedly that hearing range is six miles, but the noise is loud enough to prevent sleep. Which is no problem at all if you're attending, woo! We're not teenagers, we're adults and we can stay up to 4AM with banging choons, man! More of a problem if like most of the people in the rural area your working day starts at 5AM.
The great news is that thanks to the virus the event is cancelled.
SARS-CoV-2, I love you man, you're like rilly, rilly my best friend.
One weekend per year? Cry me a river. Try living in any location when the bloody tourist-ride hot-air balloons are launching on what should be a quiet weekend dawn. You wouldn't believe how intrusive the things are until you have to live with them. I had the misfortune of discovering this in Yountville in the Napa Valley while we were waiting for this place to close escrow. Never had a Saturday or Sunday lie-in. Awful, awful things, hot air balloons. Should be outlawed for tourist use.
[0] That's pronounced "yont", not "yount".