Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
ysabetwordsmith
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WTF Music

Dude.  If your house is half a mile away from mine, and I can make out the words from my yard, you've turned up the music TOO LOUD.

I can only imagine they must be wearing earplugs or something; at close range the noise must be deafening.
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  • 15 comments
wiredwizard

wiredwizard

August 1 2012, 02:41:47 UTC 8 years ago

It could be worse: you could be also hearing 20-30 people drunkenly singing along w/ the song & randomly punctuating it w/ shotguns & fireworks...

(It only happens once a summer, but when it happens it lasts a week... =rolls eyes= )
pickledginger

pickledginger

August 1 2012, 12:56:14 UTC 8 years ago

Eeek. Sounds like a great time to go visiting.
wiredwizard

wiredwizard

August 1 2012, 16:13:56 UTC 8 years ago

I wish, but it's hard to plan ahead for a random event. No-one ever knows it's happening until the music starts up.
pickledginger

pickledginger

August 2 2012, 00:02:50 UTC 8 years ago

Oh, bummer. Not only the House Party from Hell, but no notice, either?? I don't suppose the residents would be receptive to a request for a little advance notice?
wiredwizard

wiredwizard

August 2 2012, 00:26:19 UTC 8 years ago

=snerk= Cthulhu no. These are the same twits who tell the Mounties to f' off when they come about the noise complaints & happily cut through other people's fences as a shortcut for herding lost cows home w/out fixing it after or even giving a heads-up. (Last time we found out from a panicked call from another neighbor that one of our horses was running laps around their swimming pool...)
siege

siege

August 1 2012, 14:59:22 UTC 8 years ago

I'd be tempted to be a dick about it and fire a BB gun or a plastic pellet gun in that direction. After all, firing shotguns, surely there will be lead pellets falling on the ground somewhere in the area.

Or even better, launch a rocket trailing a charged wire. That's basically "summon lightning" for scientists, right there, especially if you have heavy cloud cover (even if no storm threatens).

Or pray for rain on the party. I mean, might as well dampen the festivities at least a bit, right?
wiredwizard

wiredwizard

August 1 2012, 16:18:07 UTC 8 years ago

I don't think they'd notice incoming BB pellets. Paintballs maybe, but you'd have to get pretty close.

Rain doesn't seem to affect them much, but the music does get a weird echoing effect when they move the speakers into the barn...
ysabetwordsmith

Thoughts

ysabetwordsmith

August 1 2012, 18:34:21 UTC 8 years ago

>>Or pray for rain on the party. I mean, might as well dampen the festivities at least a bit, right?<<

Back before the weather became psychotic, I had good results with summoning storms to disperse troublesome outdoor events, or getting the rain to go away when necessary. These days, weather spirits tend to be in a mood too hostile to listen to anyone, so I've mostly given up on trying to influence them.
siege

Re: Thoughts

siege

August 1 2012, 18:42:15 UTC 8 years ago Edited:  August 1 2012, 18:42:49 UTC

Weather spirits tend to get upset when human governance trends toward hostility rather than caring, because it poisons the spiritual atmosphere in which they live. Land spirits tend to get upset when humans dump toxins and purposely destroy the landscape, but that doesn't manifest as earthquakes and storms so much; more like the poisons come back faster and hurt more residents.

I'd actually rather deal with land spirits who are angry, because it's not normally the fault of the people living there, these days. But one group will talk to the other....
ysabetwordsmith

Re: Thoughts

ysabetwordsmith

August 1 2012, 19:37:23 UTC 8 years ago

>>Weather spirits tend to get upset when human governance trends toward hostility rather than caring<<

Well, yeah, the cause of the problem is obvious.

The land spirits right where I live like me. Maybe I can try getting them to talk to the weather spirits. That is a really, really good idea.
ysabetwordsmith

Re: Thoughts

ysabetwordsmith

August 3 2012, 00:29:47 UTC 8 years ago

Dude. Your idea totally works. We tried this in our esbat last night. It's raining now. This part of Illinois is currently rated "extreme drought." We're not getting a lot, but it's more than we've had in months.
siege

Re: Thoughts

siege

August 3 2012, 00:48:39 UTC 8 years ago

I'm glad to hear that. :)
fayanora

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fayanora

August 4 2012, 02:54:06 UTC 8 years ago

Your icon is amazing! I love it! Did you make it?
pickledginger

pickledginger

August 1 2012, 12:55:18 UTC 8 years ago

WHAT??
fayanora

fayanora

August 4 2012, 02:52:55 UTC 8 years ago

I'm hard of hearing, but I tend to keep my music just loud enough to hear it, and no louder. If I can feel the vibrations, it's too loud. Feeling the vibrations of sound makes me ill.