Would you take a speaker on a solo holiday?

[itssoeasy]

To use in your Airbnb and on the beach?

Please don't do this. If I'm on a hard earned holiday somewhere beautiful and peaceful, the last thing I (and most other people I suspect) want is some selfish ignorant person inflicting tinny pop on them.

How old are you, 15?

Airbnb yes, beach is a no.

The trouble is that everyone else feels like it’s fine too, and then you’ve got a beach full of entitled arseholes, thinking everyone is happy to listen to their particular genre of music, and all doing their best to drown everyone else out. It is not the same thing as kids playing at all. You go to a beach, you expect to hear kids. Not Olivia fucking Dean.

It’s really selfish and bad manners, so if you want to be just another entitled dickhead, then go ahead. I do hope a bunch of weed smoking, seagull feeding, grime fans don’t set up camp next to you and disturb your sunset pizza.

what about other public areas? No, not appropriate. It’s selfish and rude and entitled.

Surely in a park is fine? No, it’s not! Why would a park be fine? How is it any different from any other public area? You’re inflicting your noise on everyone else. It’s selfish and rude and entitled.

And how about your own garden? 🤦🏻‍♀️ You aren’t understanding the concept of your actions negatively impacting on anyone else, are you? Did your parents not teach you this as a child? Or have you just grown up and decided that your wants and desires are more important than everyone just showing a little consideration for everyone around them, so everyone rubs along nicely together? The question isn’t ‘Can I play my music in my garden?’ but ‘Should I be playing my music in my garden?’

Groups of people on Brighton beach play music all the time. Adds to the atmosphere of the place No it doesn’t. Not unless you’ve got zero consideration for anyone else. You’ve got dozens of groups who are so entitled that it doesn’t even occur to them that they’re having a negative impact on anyone else, coupled with other groups that would rather poke knitting needles into their ears than listen to that crap, so the only way to avoid it is to drown them out. That’s not an atmosphere. It’s noise pollution.

Sounds lovely!

I’m a little surprised by how many people expect complete silence in their lives. Yesterday I had the windows open and my music on, I guess in some people’s book this would be something that gets me stoned.

I’m currently on my way to the gym, listening to Sam Fender. Nice try though 😂

Hope you're using headphones! We don't all like derivative, uninspired heartland rock!

That’s a common misconception amongst the overly entitled. You all seem to believe that it’s one thing or the other and that there is no nuance. You should be allowed to make as much noise as you like, or it’s like you’re being told to sit in complete silence where even the noise from your glass being put down on the table is too much. That’s not the case at all. It’s the logic I would expect from a melodramatic young teenager who hasn’t yet learnt that society functions best when everyone has a little bit of consideration for how they are impacting on everyone else.

If I go to the beach or a park or any other public space, I fully expect to hear the noise of families, people talking & laughing and children playing. If I’m at home, I expect to hear the noise of people living their lives. I don’t expect silence at all. That’s not the same thing as being forced to listen to 27 different types of shit music, all trying to drown out everyone else’s shit music.

And yes, I’m quite sure that if you were playing your shitty pop music at a volume where it was impacting your neighbours, and for a sustained period of time, there may have been one or two of them who thought you were being really fucking rude. The fact that you either didn’t stop to think about whether you were bothering anyone else, or you just didn’t care, says quite a lot about you.

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Yes you are rather boring.

Sorry but I’m going to listen to music in my own home and garden.

You don’t have to apologise to me, I don’t live next door to you. But this is the perfect example of the young teenager logic I was talking about. I said to you that if you are playing your shitty pop music at a volume where it impacts on your neighbours for a sustained period of time, then some of them are going to think you’re a bit of an arsehole. And you’ve read that and immediately jumped to the conclusion that I’m suggesting you sit in your house in total silence, which wasn’t the case at all.

Play your music at whatever volume you want. But my point remains. The fact that you either didn’t stop to think about whether you were bothering anyone else, or you just didn’t care, says quite a lot about you. Why are you surprised that some of your neighbours would think you were an arsehole for forcing them to listen to your shit choice in music?

I respectfully disagree with everything you’ve said 😀.

that being said I think once you know a city, this becomes less of an issue. Where I live now, my sister lives in a leafy suburban area, everyone out washing their cars on a Sunday morning, very quiet, little noise.

I live in an area closer to the city, terrace houses, students, families, parties, music in the garden. We both chose the areas we like based upon n our preferences.

Same with the beach. I don’t live in Brighton any more, but when I did it was well known - go between the two piers if you want music, a drink, a bbq. If you want to read a book or have a quiet swim head up towards hove beach instead (5 min walk).

It's your neighbours you should be apologising to. 🙄

And I respectfully apologise. You’re right about Brighton beach. I was projecting about beaches local to me, which definitely don’t have that separation and it drives me mad when you’ve got weed and Bob Marley in one ear and weed and Stormzy in the other and both groups think that Fatboy Slim has died and appointed them as the beach DJ!

No and no! Ahaha what is the obsession with blasting music in public?? Use headphones if you need to listen to something.