Writer's Block: Pet Peeve

[fajrdrako]

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Three things:

• Someone telling me to do something I don't want to do.
  
• A baby crying.
  
• A television I don't want to listen to.

Comments

[namastenancy.livejournal.com]

To all of the above I'd add my upstairs neighbors endless, headache inducing "music" which - well I don't know how to describe it except as BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM....for hours and hours.
Of course, one look at their blank bloated faces tells you all you need to know about their mentality, manners and morals.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

You need a cone-of-silence force field above you. I assume that would cut the vibrations?

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

Screaming brats really drive me mad, too – especially in cafés. You get these small groups of "yummy mummies" going in to meet up and chat, and they completely ignore their brats, who scuttle around screaming. Once I had to stop one from rummaging in my handbag, which was on the floor beside my chair.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. A parent should at least be watching.

[silverwhistle.livejournal.com]

These girls are far more interested in talking to each other.
I was tempted to slap the kid, but that's illegal, alas.

[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

Lots of that at the library. :(

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Ugh.

At least they might eventually learn to read.

[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

LOL!

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[raissad.livejournal.com]

Chapter 1:
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Re: Latest Heroes Webisodes

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

More - ! Happy to see this.

[auriaephiala.livejournal.com]

Several things:
* People carrying on a conversation when I'm trying to listen hard to musicians playing (it's so RUDE as well).
* Constant flipping of pages during a meeting -- one man I knew (whom I had to sit beside) would never stop flipping the pages in his binder -- drove me crazy
* frequent and stupid camera-clicking during a performance (during quiet or intense moments, or to the point where you just want to say "Haven't you got the damned picture yet?") It's unnecessary and unprofessional, because a photographer can be effectively inaudible if he/she is aware of what's happening, shoots more during loud passages, and generally recognizes the performance should come first. During the staged reading of _Vox Lumina_ a few weeks ago, there was an (NAC?) photographer who just wouldn't stop shooting, even during the quietest and most intense parts of the production. Why couldn't they have got their shots during one of the rehearsals?
* any noise that I don't want to hear and that I can't tune out because it's irregular and annoying -- particularly if I'm trying to listen to something else.

When we went to the store yesterday, a very loud plane roared low over the shopping centre. Looking at it, it was obvious it was military, not commercial (the tail, for example, was very different). It really brought home how dreadful it must have been for the inhabitants of Goose Bay in Labrador when they had those constant military test flights right over their quiet community. No wonder they complained.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Some noises are objectionable not just by their nature but their volume. Ears are sensitive creatures. Yesterday morning we had been told that the street-sweepers would be cleaning our streets. I woke to an incredibly loud noise of machinery - I thought it was huge trucks, perhaps a fleet of huge trucks, and looked out my window. No, it was one man with a modestly-sized box strapped to his back, and a hose. But the nose it made was incredible.

Ditto for airplanes - much nicer to be inside one, where the noise isn't so bad.

[idiotgrrl.livejournal.com]

The loud and wasteful drip of the bathtub faucet when the plumber will be able to get there the following day.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Ouch - good one!

[monsieureden.livejournal.com]

Agree on all of these!!

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

Fingernails on a chalkboard, of course. And anything coming out of the car of a cretin who assumes that everyone wants to listen to his "music" so he plays it at full blast with all the windows down.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I am astounded at the volume some people can tolerate - in fact, obviously like - inside their car. Sometimes when I was at work, a car would stop at the stop sign outside the office and the vibrations of their music would be so intense that the whole office would shake. Sometimes the vibration - the pitch of the sound - would be painful, and I'd tense up until the car passed onwards.

I sometimes like loud music, but not like that, and not when it's not my choice.

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

I know they're not seeing it as forcing other people to listen to them. I know they just like what they like.

But I refuse to see it as anything other than "I want to make sure everyone within five miles absolutely has to hear what I like to listen to." Because that's what it is. Grrr...