Originally Posted by jasonyates
Wow, this is incredibly off topic now. Stevenaleech: Where do you live? I live in Chicago and I encouter some of the same things, but I'll be damned if I'm going to move to the suburbs. I understand all your gripes, believe me, but I think it would be better to just let those people live their lives and and ignore them. For being so offended by those things, you certainly seem engrossed in them as well. I'm not telling you how to live, that is just what I do and it works out better than letting myself get upset by all the stupid things..
-Jason
When I can hear my windows rattling and feel the base in my skull I can no longer ignore it. That's one reason that we are moving to a much quiter neighborhood next summer.
The replies to the music comments are hillarious :-)
at least no one wrote back that they love cars that blare their horns while passing [That's what I ride for... I would be devistated if I didn't get the $#!+ scared out of me during a ride!]
or loud exhaust systems [I love the amplified lawn mower sound of a honda with a big stove pipe exhaust! It is so relaxing... just puts me in a state of zen.. especially when they don't shift tell like 6,000rpm pulling away from the stop light!]
Also, I'm confused... when did "hip hop" enter the discussion.... I've seen it brought up in several of the last messages. Unless I am mistaken, "hip hop" (though not something that I enjoy at all) is a form of music (whether good or bad is not the point)... ie there is a melody line... you can hum or whistle to it (Whether you would want to or not... again beside the point). How does this relate to the rap which was what I had originally referred to?
Rap=rythmic profanity set to rythmic noises.
"Hip Hop"=Form of music with rap like rythm pattern.
If you tried to hum or whistle along to rap, you would sould like you were transmitting morse code.
Further more, this all goes back to the question of why can't they turn their stereos down? At the point that a car 50+ feet from my house is rattling my windows and making my living room floor vibrate, how loud is it in the vehicle? Do they have to wear ear plugs? Are they just deaf now?
Sometimes the sound is actually loud enough to be painful when sitting in the next lane on a bike or even in another car with the windows rolled up!
And regardless of whether rap is considered music or not, why can't there SOMETIMES be some variety? Why is it ALWAY rap blaring from these cars?
Hmmm.. maybe because people who would rather listen to Niel Young, The Beatles, or the Presidents Of The United States Of America [just to pick three bands at random], aren't rude enough to force other people to hear and feel their selection of music.