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To think buskers should read the room

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Rolson77 · 05/05/2024 15:15

Set up my picnic blanket in lovely local park. Brought my book. Rare couple of hours without my 5yo. Bliss. Until the fucking busker turns up. Average singer blasting out Bette Midler songs ridiculously loud to a cheap sounding piano backing track. A few moans. It's fucking annoying. Totally understand in places where people walk by but not in a park. She's now singing the first time ever I saw your face and I want to poke needles in my eyes!!

AIBU?

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ArcaneWireless · 05/05/2024 17:43

I’m embarrassed for someone.

Just not the OP.

FrivolousKitchenRollUse · 05/05/2024 17:35

Sillyjane · 05/05/2024 16:52

Oh cmon, yoh think we ate stupid? Your park is a meter square, embarassed for you

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Er, noise carries.

BarcardiWithGadaffia · 05/05/2024 17:00

Sillyjane · 05/05/2024 16:52

Oh cmon, yoh think we ate stupid? Your park is a meter square, embarassed for you

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I'm my local town park you'd hear a busker wherever they were, same where my parents and brother live, OK they areny a metre square but they aren't Central Park either

Same thing happened a few weeks ago on a night out with friends, lovely evening catching up then a singer set up in the pub and that was the end of conversation, very annoying

RichardMarxisinnocent · 05/05/2024 16:57

Sillyjane · 05/05/2024 16:52

Oh cmon, yoh think we ate stupid? Your park is a meter square, embarassed for you

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My local park is a rectangle, containing a rectangle of grass and a children's playground. If a busker were playing at one end of the grass you'd absolutely hear them from the other end. It's not Hyde Park, there is nowhere else in my park you could go and escape the busker.

Sillyjane · 05/05/2024 16:52

Rolson77 · 05/05/2024 15:17

There is nowhere else in walking distance.

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Oh cmon, yoh think we ate stupid? Your park is a meter square, embarassed for you

cranberrypi · 05/05/2024 16:50

Tell her to go away

ItDoesntHaveToBeDave · 05/05/2024 16:49

If she takes requests ask her to sing "over the hill and far away"
Hopefully she'll get the point!

MrsTerryPratchett · 05/05/2024 16:47

Sparklesocks · 05/05/2024 15:17

Normally you need a permit to busk, I know it’s different everywhere but I’d be surprised if the council let her do it in the park.

This. Shouldn't be there.

toomuchfaff · 05/05/2024 16:46

Tell her to fk off and take her shit with her before you ring the police and report her.. peaceful park ruined with shit karaoke! I feel your pain...

MsLuxLisbon · 05/05/2024 15:33

YANBU. I don't think buskers should be somewhere where people can't escape.

Original poster
Rolson77 · 05/05/2024 15:17

PotatoFan · 05/05/2024 15:17

Go and sit somewhere else?

There is nowhere else in walking distance.

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Sparklesocks · 05/05/2024 15:17

Normally you need a permit to busk, I know it’s different everywhere but I’d be surprised if the council let her do it in the park.

PotatoFan · 05/05/2024 15:17

Go and sit somewhere else?

welshycake · 05/05/2024 15:16

Give them £10 for 15 minutes silence