Bringing the karaoke machine camping?!?!

[FusionChefGeoff]

Can anyone name anything less appropriate than bringing a KARAOKE machine to a campsite?!?!

We've been here since Tuesday and new neighbours arrived yesterday. We were out this morning and got back for some lunch and they'd cracked open the karaoke?!!!

Terrible singing, very loud and English is not their first language so the words are also hysterically bad.

Honestly, I'm veering on finding it funny as it's just sooooooooo inappropriate but wanted to check....

IABU - it's their holiday too they can warble along for hours if they so wish
IANBU - for the love of God people, read the room that is not on!!

I’m actually having flashbacks to various traumatic camping experiences now.

On a national trust campsite once and some people turned up at 1am, pitched their tent by car headlight and then got the guitar out and started singing and playing. They were turned out the next morning!

People are twats at times.

I’m currently at a caravan club site and someone yesterday did a poo on the toilet seat and left it! I had to go and tell the warden!

😂😂😂😂😂

I'd go and join in. A warbly number a la Celine Dion.

The immediate effect would be equivalent to 300 astroids striking the area simultaneously and decimating all forms of life for 5,000 miles. It would only take 2 minutes top.

I’d be constantly tripping their electric tbh. Last year we had a family next to us with a dad who Sounded like jimmy nail. 8am he shouted to his wife, nice skirt there will be a few upskirting shots today! Various comments insinuating he wanted his wife to perform sex acts with her mate, comments about any woman within sire with a bra size over a A cup (apparently knockers, as a word survived into the 21stcentury) - all within earshot of their 5kids!

My least favourite part of camping is People

Mine's Emus.

The massive downside is that despite there being lots of loud, very excitable shouting and talking I can't understand them which is VERY unfair. The whole point of canvas is that you can hear every word your neighbours say

Emus singing karaoke would be worst of all.

How bizarre! I can see that it would be funny for a little while, but the novelty would soon wear off.

Mind you, I'm one of the people that applauded when someone on a campsite got fed up with a group playing loud music from their car, walked over to it, grabbed the keys from the ignition and threw them into some bushes.

We don't camp any more, but when we did, we would only go to sites with strict noise rules. Camping and Caravanning Club sites are brilliant, and members get a big discount on site fees. Especially old farts like us who are over 50!

I advise anyone worried about emus camping to avoid Doncaster... Apparently there is one on the loose. Fortunately the biggest bird we've had appearing in our tent is a duck.

I opened this fully expecting an AIBU to take the karaoke machine camping? and was about to launch into WTF yes you bloody well are mode lol!
See it's the next door lot though, so in that case YANBU!
I'd be feeling murderous

OMG we have just arrived at a campsite and the kids have decided to be feral, screaming and arguing from 8am.

I'm just relieved there are worse campsite neighbors than us 🤣🤦

Hope the rest of your stay is peaceful OP. X

I love a group of screaming feral kids - hilarious listening to them going all Lord of the Flies on their own!

What's with the emus?! Have I missed something??

@JacobReesMogadishu, I once stayed at a very similar sounding campsite in the Lake District. At the weekend, it was packed with walkers and climbers.

It was all very peaceful once everyone was back from the pub, but I woke up for a wee in the small hours and couldn't back to sleep for hours afterwards. The hills were alive with the sound of farting!

God knows what the beer in the pub was made from, but the arse-music was really noisy.

Doesn't help your problem OP but this has brought back memories of when I was staying in a jungle retreat hostel with a group of Scout Explorers on a DoE Gold expedition in Borneo.
It was a lovely place, and had a communal longhouse, but the owner has installed a Kareoke machine as some of the people who stayed there expected one (some companies used it for corporate retreats etc)
We weren't the only ones staying there that weekend, and we were treated to hideous top-volume K-pop until 2am. We did complain but were told the group had booked the kareoke machine so they couldn't tell them to be quiet (er) .
So the scout leader said fine and promptly booked the kareoke machine for the next three nights while we were there for us. She picked up the mic from reception and kept it in her bag til we left. Bloody genius woman.

@TheRosariojewels

Imagine what Keith and Candice-Marie would make of it.

😂😂😂😂😂. They would not be amused @TheRosariojewels.

Fuck a duck! I hate karaoke at the best of times and would never knowingly enter any gawdforsaken place that had such an infernal contraption but next to you on a camping site! That's actually against the Geneva Conventions! You have every right to send in a convoy, smash up the sodding thing and imprison them behind some barbwire!

I'm in West Aus. They're massive and really aggressive because people feed them. They actually chase you around the campsite.

I was on my own in the Lake District with the kids a few years ago, beautiful site, and we were In bed around 10pm. A tent a few rows down had two adults (my age or older so '40's) and two young adults. They had a sound system playing fucking Phil Collins, and I hate Phil Collins and Genesis. Kids were complaining they couldn't sleep.
The boom from the bass was horrible.
I got up and asked them why they felt the need to torture us with this and to turn the bloody crap off. They did.
I will never understand why you would camp and drown out hooting owls and stuff with fucking Phil Collins. Gobshites.