[78-L] Muzak is 75

[Malcolm Rockwell]

Bob Rice wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Julian Vein" <julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk>
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 11:37 AM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Muzak is 75
>
>
>   
>> zimrec at juno.com wrote:
>>   When that finished, it was followed by something even louder and
>> faster that gave the impression that I was seated next to a construction
>> worker using a jackhammer in cement at the next table.  I now keep a set
>> of earplugs in my vehicle.
>>     
>>> Art
>>>       
>> ================
>> I was subjected to something like that at a party on Saturday. I plug my
>> ears too. I imagine they use this sort of noise at Guantanamo Bay to
>> getting inmates to confess to anything. I know I would!
>>     
>
>    Same for a Supper Club event I sometimes go to. The "music" I'm being 
> polite here, BLASTS from a "On Line Jukebox with THOUSANDS of ugly , LOUD 
> selections, and GAURANTEED somebody will keep it going? Wish you could buy 
> "Silence" for what it cost to play the usual crap? I left with a headache!
>
>     SOMEWHERE th point of a supper club is lost; I mean you are supposed to 
> be able to talk to people without a megaphone?So earplugs, thou tempting, 
> sorta defeats the purpose of the whole thing?
>
>     Oh they DO use modern  crap in torture places! There MUST be something 
> in the Geneva Convention, right up there with Gas and nuclear?I think the 
> ACLU is on this case?
>
>     Bob.  all for  "Sound of Silence"
>
> *******
You might have asked the management to either turn it down, turn it off 
or you'd turn your business elsewhere.
Short of that, speaking very loudly to your companion throughout your 
stay might get their attention! If they come over to request you dial it 
down tell 'em you'll be happy to (loudly, of course) as soon as they 
dial down the offending background noise. I bet it'd work.
I tend to dance around in the Safeway with an imaginary partner when 
that unlistenable crap comes on their intercom, mostly for my own 
amusement but it also lets other patrons know exactly how I feel about 
it. Maybe it'll start a trend.
Unfortunately I can't do that to the "ONE FIVE TWO EIGHT BAKERY 
DEPARTMENT" loudly repeated in an electronic voice over and over until 
some ignorant sumbitch in that department picks up the phone. It's a 
relatively new phenomenon and it really bugs me.
Mal