It’s not like people bringing loud music to the beach is something new and different.
There’s a point where its way too obnoxious but I think it’s fine as long as you find your own space. We all kind of silently claim spots in public spaces like the beach so just claim somewhere that is not too close to other people.
When I want the serenity I go off to the side where no one is. I don’t think it’s a big deal.
What if my music is a driving rhythm made to amplify ones enjoyment and celebration of being alive with others that’s just what we’ve been doing in nature since before the United States showed up with a bunch of indoors people?
I mean, I’ve had to listen to some pretty shitty, country music before, definitely not something that fits my idea if music or a good time, but I just move, or swim out 100’, or hike, and bam, nature sounds.
99.9% of the outdoors is not full of these people. You can just go there. If you can’t just go there, maybe you have to put up with the other people who also can’t go there.
It’s like people have none sense of why they go places.
A few years back, I did a lantern-lit tour of Mammoth Cave. I’ve done them in the past, and the ambiance, sound, smell, and flicker of firelight gives a very close yet mysterious feeling to the tour. This time though, as soon as we got into the cave, half the dipshits on the tour had their harsh white cellphone flashlights going everywhere, completely ruining the experience that they (and other people) had just fucking paid for. They really need to have a “movie theater” cellphone policy for those kinds of tours.
Music concert - everyone recording with their phone out.
Fireworks display - everyone recording with their phone out.
Bride comes down the aisle - everyone recording with their phone out.
It’s just pointless. You ruin your own experience of the event because you’re watching it on a screen instead of experiencing it directly, and you ruin other people’s experience too.
And the wedding one I’ve seen far too many times.
What do you think the official wedding photographer is there for? When the bride and groom watch their wedding video back they want to see a room of their happy family and friends, but instead they’ll get a video with rows of people staring at their own little rectangles and pointing them at the bride as she comes down the aisle.
Do yourself a favour and live in the moment sometimes, please.
Phone cameras are a godsend when I need to remember.
They are a curse when I want to remember.
I try to always make a point when recording to have the phone down as much as I can manage, so I can actually watch the event with my special eyes.
I went to see the leatherback sea turtles nesting a few years ago. They guide themselves by the light of the full moon and we were explicitly told not to use flash photography, as it disorients the turtles. As I’m sure will not surprise you, as the turtle ladies crawled up onto the beach, about 100 blinding flashes went off right in their faces.
Oh fuck that makes me mad. If I was running that operation, I’d have those people removed from the beach immediately. And probably fined, depending on the situation.
Or better yet, ban people from bringing cameras with flashes.
JOKE’S ON YOU ASSHOLE, I DON’T LISTEN TO THIS PLAYLIST ANYWHERE ELSE, BECAUSE I MADE IT JUST FOR THIS BEACH TRIP!
Some people get to go to the beach all the time and enjoy having fun there and being social. Not quietly listening to the waves. You want a public beach to be your way, go buy a private beach.
Nobody wants to listen to your shitty music.
Yeah let’s go for a semi-relaxing float down the river…oh look 2 dipshit trashy rednecks blasting their shitty country/hip-hop playlist over a cheap Walmart amp-sized speaker with the sound quality of a flip phone.
I swear the next time I go on one of those I need an air pistol that only shoots small darts. Fire one at the float carrying that speaker and just float on happy.
Chugs can of Bud Light. Tosses can in water.
Maybe bud light before they acknowledged a trans person existed. Now these cousin-fuckers exclusively drink Busch Light
Well, Budweiser and Busch are both owned by AB InBev. But I guess that’s that level of awareness one can expect from bigots.
- FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
I have come to understand that there is a subset of people that have never spared a thought for anyone else. They probably have never even considered the fact that I don’t want to listen to their stupid bullshit. The thought never crossed their mind, not even once.
Mean while, I’m over here turning off my radio at stop signs and red-lights so no one takes more than a passing notice of my existence.
Subset makes it sound like a small population. I get the sense it’s a large slice whenever I brave the public domain
I have come to understand that there is a subset of people that have never
spared athoughtfor anyone else. Theyprobablyhave neverevenconsideredthe fact that I don’t want to listen to their stupid bullshit. The thought nevercrossed their mind, not even once.Now with all of the unnecessary words helpfully marked.
Aw that’s not fair - they think about themselves all the time! They spend so much time thinking about themselves, in fact, that they don’t have the extra brain power to spare for the rest of us.
Girl have you seen my thoughts? I have 3 prefrontal cortex handicaps, it’s chaos up there.
THANK YOU FOR USING ALL CAPS AS DUE TO MY HANDS BEING WAY TOO LONG I ALWAYS STRUGGLE TO READ SMALL TEXT ON THE SMALL PHONE SCREEN
SPOKEN LIKE A REAL MFER AROOOOOOOOO
Thank you, I specifically crafted this 3 hour slam death metal and goregrind compilation for my 5am beach walk by the residential area.
If only. Instead you will hear songs about trucky-trucks, beer, and fishing sung in only the most generic pandering tones with influences of whatever music is currently popular at the time.
I could sing in mandarin, you’d still know I’m panderiiiiin’
It’s usually reggeaton around here.
I wonder if there’s a database of ways to get a bluetooth speaker to crash with a few malformed requests…
You don’t need a database of exploits, just broadcast a lot of noise at* 2.4 ghz.
I have long wanted a directed EM projector that could destroy electronics from 10 meters away. A cellphone death ray, as it were.
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.
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.
Often there’s people (esp. groups) who can’t be bothered with “reasonable”.
I’ve probably been guilty of that in the past…
I just walk 100m along the beach and can’t hear them anymore. Most people are too lazy to walk more than that distance from the car park. A fact that is very obvious when I kayak past the coast here and can use the dense clusters of people on the beach as landmarks with almost no one between them. First cluster is the lifeboat station, second and third are cafes, fourth has ice cream.
Its not laziness. It’s because they’re carrying a bunch of stuff for an extended hangout.
You do realise I can see them right? Many have not. You don’t really need to bring that much with you anyway.
I live close to the beach and this is the way. Car is parked, peeps want to lay down IMMEDIATELY NOW. Take 5 minutes to walk down the beach and the crowd thins significantly.
This applies not just to beach. It applies to everything. Everyone congregates near entrances/exits, landmarks, close to the door in a parking lot, etc.
5 mins? 15 seconds of walking out in either direction is enough for it to start noticeably thinning out.
