Hey you’re welcome. I really enjoy my Bluetooth speaker at the beach. I play it just loud enough so when I’m sitting in my area in my little tent that I can hear it. If you’re sitting close enough to me to be able to hear your music then you can fuck off.
Sound of silence
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titanicx@lemmy.zip 11 minutes ago
Doomsider@lemmy.world 19 minutes ago
Music hater
holy_scroller@lemmy.zip 33 minutes ago
Someone blasted their playlist during a citywide fireworks display…why would I want to hear the explosions.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 12 minutes ago
i’ve been in the band that plays during the fireworks, so to your point:
some people like music.
VelvetPinkOtter123@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Where I live both are acceptable, but it depends on where you go
If you go to the “main beach” that’s where you bring music. You show off your body, you listen to loud music, you cruise, etc…
But if you go the “locals beach”, you show up looking like shit, keep your music down, and lots of people drink illegally but they do so low-key so while we all know they’re doing it, nobody cares
To me, both are acceptable. It kind of sucks to think there is no place at the beach where you can party
But it also kind of sucks to think that there is no place at the beach where you can actually enjoy the ocean
SO we have both, you just need to know where to go
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
It’s like people have none sense of why they go places.
A few years back, I did a lantern-lit tour of Mammoth Cave. I’ve done them in the past, and the ambiance, sound, smell, and flicker of firelight gives a very close yet mysterious feeling to the tour. This time though, as soon as we got into the cave, half the dipshits on the tour had their harsh white cellphone flashlights going everywhere, completely ruining the experience that they (and other people) had just fucking paid for. They really need to have a “movie theater” cellphone policy for those kinds of tours.
tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Music concert - everyone recording with their phone out.
Fireworks display - everyone recording with their phone out.
Bride comes down the aisle - everyone recording with their phone out.
It’s just pointless. You ruin your own experience of the event because you’re watching it on a screen instead of experiencing it directly, and you ruin other people’s experience too.
And the wedding one I’ve seen far too many times.
What do you think the official wedding photographer is there for? When the bride and groom watch their wedding video back they want to see a room of their happy family and friends, but instead they’ll get a video with aisles of people staring at their own little rectangles and pointing them at her as she comes down the aisle.
So yourself a favour and live in the moment sometimes, please.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Phone cameras are a godsend when I need to remember.
They are a curse when I want to remember.
NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
I went to see the leatherback sea turtles nesting a few years ago. They guide themselves by the light of the full moon and we were explicitly told not to use flash photography, as it disorients the turtles. As I’m sure will not surprise you, as the turtle ladies crawled up onto the beach, about 100 blinding flashes went off right in their faces.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Oh fuck thay makes me mad. If I was running that operation, I’d have those people removed from the beach immediately. And probably fined, depending on the situation.
Or better yet, ban people from bringing cameras with flashes.
Sunshine@reddthat.com 2 hours ago
It’s not like people bringing loud music to the beach is something new and different.
forgetfulmeat@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
There’s a point where its way too obnoxious but I think it’s fine as long as you find your own space. We all kind of silently claim spots in public spaces like the beach so just claim somewhere that is not too close to other people.
When I want the serenity I go off to the side where no one is. I don’t think it’s a big deal.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
JOKE’S ON YOU ASSHOLE, I DON’T LISTEN TO THIS PLAYLIST ANYWHERE ELSE, BECAUSE I MADE IT JUST FOR THIS BEACH TRIP!
queermunist@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
I have come to understand that there is a subset of people that have never spared a thought for anyone else. They probably have never even considered the fact that I don’t want to listen to their stupid bullshit. The thought never crossed their mind, not even once.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 minutes ago
Oh it’s crossed my mind. It’s also crossed my mind that public space does not belong to you in particular. If you want silence, go find it.
okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I have come to understand that there is a subset of people that have never
spared athoughtfor anyone else. Theyprobablyhave neverevenconsideredthe fact that I don’t want to listen to their stupid bullshit. The thought nevercrossed their mind, not even once.Now with all of the unnecessary words helpfully marked.
queermunist@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
Aw that’s not fair - they think about themselves all the time! They spend so much time thinking about themselves, in fact, that they don’t have the extra brain power to spare for the rest of us.
StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Mean while, I’m over here turning down my radio at stop signs and red-lights so no one takes more than a passing notice of my existence.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Subset makes it sound like a small population. I get the sense it’s a large slice whenever I brave the public domain
FireRetardant@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Idk i feel like most beaches this is pretty acceptable. In my experience if you walk further from the parking lot you get more seclusion and peace. IMO a reasonable volume on a speaker isn’t any more disturbing than kids playing which is expected at the beach.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 minute ago
the difference is the “i need silence” folk just want to get away from all the sound of humanity. which, cool, but you need to actually get away from humans to do that. don’t expect everyone to accommodate you in public. it belongs to me just as much as it belongs to you, and you ain’t accommodated shit for me.
huey_m@reddthat.com 2 hours ago
I really wonder if there is any place outside of a concert venue that these folks find music on speakers acceptable? I kind of get it if they’re solo, just use headphones, but… hanging out in a group and listening to music together at the beach is about the most normal use of a beach trip I can think of.
autriyo@feddit.org 6 hours ago
Often there’s people (esp. groups) who can’t be bothered with “reasonable”.
I’ve probably been guilty of that in the past…
MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
I just got back from a beach vacation in a house we rented. Unfortunately I had to rely on a relatives speaker, so I could relax watching for no kids to drown.
Mostly played soft R&B, Blues, or anything downbeat at a lower level I could hear it over the sound of the waves. But I was sitting right next to it and not blasting it from 100 meters away.
We’d also setup way early with no one around. I’d have the speaker rolling and the beach wasn’t packed. Yet people still setup really close to me on both sides.
At that point I figured they weren’t bothered. They would hopefully had said something because we talked to each other about the kids playing together.
So yeah there are situations, like everything else.
Probably only person I bothered was my Mother-in-law, because she is kinda racist and doesn’t like music made by darker skin people, but that I really didn’t give a shit about.
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Yeah let’s go for a semi-relaxing float down the river…oh look 2 dipshit trashy rednecks blasting their shitty country/hip-hop playlist over a cheap Walmart amp-sized speaker with the sound quality of a flip phone.
I swear the next time I go on one of those I need an air pistol that only shoots small darts. Fire one at the float carrying that speaker and just float on happy.
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Chugs can of Bud Light. Tosses can in water.
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Maybe bud light before they acknowledged a trans person existed. Now these cousin-fuckers exclusively drink Busch Light
Nouvellalia@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
What if my music is a driving rhythm made to amplify ones enjoyment and celebration of being alive with others that’s just what we’ve been doing in nature since before the United States showed up with a bunch of indoors people?
I mean, I’ve had to listen to some pretty shitty, country music before, definitely not something that fits my idea if music or a good time, but I just move, or swim out 100’, or hike, and bam, nature sounds.
99.9% of the outdoors is not full of these people. You can just go there. If you can’t just go there, maybe you have to put up with the other people who also can’t go there.
cogman@lemmy.world 42 minutes ago
If you are having a party with lots of people, fine by me, I’ll avoid your group.
This is a much bigger problem when you are at a crowded location with strangers and you choose to play music. In that case, get some headphones.
Nouvellalia@lemmy.world 25 minutes ago
How are you in any way “enjoying nature” in a manicured location next to a parking lot, that is packed with people? I dunno, ‘I want to experience outside around tons of people but don’t want the things that come with tons of people’ is just a really weird niche to expect everyone else to conform to.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 6 hours ago
I just walk 100m along the beach and can’t hear them anymore. Most people are too lazy to walk more than that distance from the car park. A fact that is very obvious when I kayak past the coast here and can use the dense clusters of people on the beach as landmarks with almost no one between them. First cluster is the lifeboat station, second and third are cafes, fourth has ice cream.
starik@lemmy.today 4 hours ago
Its not laziness. It’s because they’re carrying a bunch of stuff for an extended hangout.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 hour ago
You do realise I can see them right? Many have not. You don’t really need to bring that much with you anyway.
Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I live close to the beach and this is the way. Car is parked, peeps want to lay down IMMEDIATELY NOW. Take 5 minutes to walk down the beach and the crowd thins significantly.
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 4 hours ago
This applies not just to beach. It applies to everything. Everyone congregates near entrances/exits, landmarks, close to the door in a parking lot, etc.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
5 mins? 15 seconds of walking out in either direction is enough for it to start noticeably thinning out.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 hour ago
Some people get to go to the beach all the time and enjoy having fun there and being social. Not quietly listening to the waves. You want a public beach to be your way, go buy a private beach.
monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Nobody wants to listen to your shitty music.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 minutes ago
walk ten feet. the ocean is loud. i can tell you’ve never been
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 40 minutes ago
I don’t care that you don’t.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
- FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
theparadox@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
To be fair, I also hate to be left alone with my own thoughts for even 1 minute… I’m just considerate enough to use headphones.
lost_faith@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
Some idiot decided that headphone jacks are not as good as… buying earbuds that cost 3x or more what I “paid” for the ear buds with a wire and are so easy to misplace, I’m no audiophile I just want to hear someone talk. So I only listen to stuff if there is no one close and lower the volume if people get close to me so as not to disturb them
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 3 hours ago
TBH I’m way more likely to break headphone wires than to misplace wireless earbuds.
Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
I wonder if there’s a database of ways to get a bluetooth speaker to crash with a few malformed requests…
alekwithak@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
You don’t need a database of exploits, just broadcast a lot of noise on 2.4 ghz.
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 3 hours ago
I have long wanted a directed EM projector that could destroy electronics from 10 meters away. A cellphone death ray, as it were.
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
It really makes me puke when I’m trying to enjoy the outdoors and someone plays a stream with FUCKING ADS because it’s just a sacrilege to pervert nature’s harmony with advertisements that I didn’t consent to hearing.
Kenny2999@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I use a hifi cushion. You can barely hear anything beyond 2 meters at a reasonable volume. A lovely invention, too bad it didn’t catch on.
OS2Warp@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
A what?
Kenny2999@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Exactly. Heres an old review. I dont think its sold anymore.
Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 hours ago
Guessing a speaker with a pillow from the name.
WereCat@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
THANK YOU FOR USING ALL CAPS AS DUE TO MY HANDS BEING WAY TOO LONG I ALWAYS STRUGGLE TO READ SMALL TEXT ON THE SMALL PHONE SCREEN
ddplf@szmer.info 3 hours ago
SPOKEN LIKE A REAL MFER AROOOOOOOOO
bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Did everyone forget that Bluetooth speakers are not secure and you can just disconnect them and play any thing that you want instead (such as silence or the ocean waves)
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
How do you take it over without putting it in pairing mode?
Malyca@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Girl have you seen my thoughts? I have 3 prefrontal cortex handicaps, it’s chaos up there.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
Move somewhere else. Its a public space. Nobody is going to make everyone happy 100% of the time. Or go in the slower/more calming hours. Or get your own private beach.
This just reads as bitching.
gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 4 hours ago
if the music would at least be acceptably good
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 hours ago
“I BRING THE PARTY! YEEEEAAH!”
Fuck.
dil@lemmy.zip 17 minutes ago
Music vs 10 ppl trying to loudly talk over each other