Idk i feel like most beaches this is pretty acceptable. In my experience if you walk further from the parking lot you get more seclusion and peace. IMO a reasonable volume on a speaker isn’t any more disturbing than kids playing which is expected at the beach.
the difference is the “i need silence” folk just want to get away from all the sound of humanity. which, cool, but you need to actually get away from humans to do that. we get you don’t like humans. some of us do. don’t expect everyone to accommodate you in public. it belongs to me just as much as it belongs to you, and you ain’t accommodated shit for me.
I really wonder if there is any place outside of a concert venue that these folks find music on speakers acceptable? I kind of get it if they’re solo, just use headphones, but… hanging out in a group and listening to music together at the beach is about the most normal use of a beach trip I can think of.
I just got back from a beach vacation in a house we rented. Unfortunately I had to rely on a relatives speaker, so I could relax watching for no kids to drown.
Mostly played soft R&B, Blues, or anything downbeat at a lower level I could hear it over the sound of the waves and screaming children. But I was sitting right next to it and not blasting it from 100 meters away.
We’d also setup way early with no one around. I’d have the speaker rolling and the beach wasn’t packed. Yet people still setup really close to me on both sides.
At that point I figured they weren’t bothered. They would hopefully have said something because we talked to each other about the kids playing together.
So yeah there are situations, like everything else.
Probably only person I bothered was my Mother-in-law, because she is kinda racist and doesn’t like music made by darker skin people, but that I really didn’t give a shit about.
yeah, you pretty much get ten feet from the speaker and can’t hear it. beaches i go to at least, there’s lots of us little dorks sitting and drawing or reading or listening to music all quietly by ourselves, sneaking a joint whenever the kids are away.
or i assume. ain’t got kids so that’s what i’m doing when everyone else’s are in the water
Idk i feel like most beaches this is pretty acceptable. In my experience if you walk further from the parking lot you get more seclusion and peace. IMO a reasonable volume on a speaker isn’t any more disturbing than kids playing which is expected at the beach.
the difference is the “i need silence” folk just want to get away from all the sound of humanity. which, cool, but you need to actually get away from humans to do that. we get you don’t like humans. some of us do. don’t expect everyone to accommodate you in public. it belongs to me just as much as it belongs to you, and you ain’t accommodated shit for me.
I really wonder if there is any place outside of a concert venue that these folks find music on speakers acceptable? I kind of get it if they’re solo, just use headphones, but… hanging out in a group and listening to music together at the beach is about the most normal use of a beach trip I can think of.
I just got back from a beach vacation in a house we rented. Unfortunately I had to rely on a relatives speaker, so I could relax watching for no kids to drown.
Mostly played soft R&B, Blues, or anything downbeat at a lower level I could hear it over the sound of the waves and screaming children. But I was sitting right next to it and not blasting it from 100 meters away.
We’d also setup way early with no one around. I’d have the speaker rolling and the beach wasn’t packed. Yet people still setup really close to me on both sides.
At that point I figured they weren’t bothered. They would hopefully have said something because we talked to each other about the kids playing together.
So yeah there are situations, like everything else.
Probably only person I bothered was my Mother-in-law, because she is kinda racist and doesn’t like music made by darker skin people, but that I really didn’t give a shit about.
yeah, you pretty much get ten feet from the speaker and can’t hear it. beaches i go to at least, there’s lots of us little dorks sitting and drawing or reading or listening to music all quietly by ourselves, sneaking a joint whenever the kids are away.
or i assume. ain’t got kids so that’s what i’m doing when everyone else’s are in the water
Often there’s people (esp. groups) who can’t be bothered with “reasonable”.
I’ve probably been guilty of that in the past…