The street I live on is treeless and lined on both sides with 4-story stone buildings, and buses, ambulances, cars, and trucks use it nose-to-tail.
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'fucked in one ear with bagpipes and in the other with a road drill'
With a 6ft something scottish bagpiper blowing all he can in the bagpipe, I suppose?
@ParadeGrotesque @cstross Surely it's the squeezing that makes the difference, not the blowing?
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I came here to say this
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The street I live on is treeless and lined on both sides with 4-story stone buildings, and buses, ambulances, cars, and trucks use it nose-to-tail. Ambient noise can hit 90dB at pavement level: noise-cancelling earbuds are a survival tool.
Not to mention that folks on the spectrum are prone to noise pollution induced meltdowns.
TLDR: this guy is a pompous prescriptive ass who needs to be fucked in one ear with bagpipes and in the other with a road drill.
@cstross you can take my headphones out of my cold dead ears.
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The street I live on is treeless and lined on both sides with 4-story stone buildings, and buses, ambulances, cars, and trucks use it nose-to-tail. Ambient noise can hit 90dB at pavement level: noise-cancelling earbuds are a survival tool.
Not to mention that folks on the spectrum are prone to noise pollution induced meltdowns.
TLDR: this guy is a pompous prescriptive ass who needs to be fucked in one ear with bagpipes and in the other with a road drill.
@cstross Although on trains etc I would rather prefer people don't put in earphones that are leaky as hell, like the Apple ones.
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The street I live on is treeless and lined on both sides with 4-story stone buildings, and buses, ambulances, cars, and trucks use it nose-to-tail. Ambient noise can hit 90dB at pavement level: noise-cancelling earbuds are a survival tool.
Not to mention that folks on the spectrum are prone to noise pollution induced meltdowns.
TLDR: this guy is a pompous prescriptive ass who needs to be fucked in one ear with bagpipes and in the other with a road drill.
@cstross Out-of-tune bagpipes, with the reed replaced by a kazoo.
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The street I live on is treeless and lined on both sides with 4-story stone buildings, and buses, ambulances, cars, and trucks use it nose-to-tail. Ambient noise can hit 90dB at pavement level: noise-cancelling earbuds are a survival tool.
Not to mention that folks on the spectrum are prone to noise pollution induced meltdowns.
TLDR: this guy is a pompous prescriptive ass who needs to be fucked in one ear with bagpipes and in the other with a road drill.
@cstross classic guardian "i can't tell my feelings from rational thought and i'm very important" article.
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@cstross previously this was obviously the guy who is upset someone is reading a newspaper on the train instead of paying attention to them.
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@cstross @grayabbott The dude (Stephan Stern) completely misses the point. The ear buds are the symptom, not the problem.
Get rid of open-plan offices, allow work from home when possible, and impose strict noise and emissions limits on vehicles - including stereo systems. More public transportation/less traffic. More parks.
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@bubbajet @cstross @grayabbott
"strict noise and emissions limits"
Including the revolting chemical stink which was marketed to you as "perfume"."But it contains ambergris, and that's natural!" is not the defence you think it is. Rubbing the anal glands of a Himalayan deer and whale vomit on you in a public enclosed space isn't a good stench.
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