(OT) the loser lair

"Enfilade" wrote in message
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(I just think I'd really **** off the entire floor if I did that with,
say, Hawkwind's SONIC ATTACK. It'd sound like a ****ing air raid.
And, since we are getting the police involved here, I want to be
utterly innocent myself of such things.)

But didn't it feel good to be able to do that at a time in you life when it
was more or less appropriate?

Sometime its just no fun to be a grown up.

Jo

But didn't it feel good to be able to do that at a time in you life when it
was more or less appropriate?

Sometime its just no fun to be a grown up.


Yes, it did.

It was even more fun when I was in the military and good friends with
the security chief (Smokey's "godfather") which basically meant that I
could kick anyone's ass up to the rank of captain if they ****ed me off
in the barracks...

I miss having power to abuse...

--Fil

On 31 Aug 2005 18:39:51 -0700, "Enfilade"
wrote:

Here is a story from my undergrad days.

September of my first year in residence, I was woken up in a dorm one
night by REALLY LOUD Janis Joplin at 3 am. I went next door to ask the
girl to turn it down. She told me "it was her room and she'd do
whatever she felt like."

So I went back to my room, put my stereo against her wall, cranked the
bass, cranked the volume, and "felt like" playing an alternating mix of
my honkiest honky-tonk country CD and my most headbanging metal CD.

It was so damn loud I had to take refuge in the dorm bathroom as my
stereo blasted Brooks&Dunn and Metallica for four songs.

Then I went to turn it off.

Silence next door.

And I had no more problems the rest of the year.

I lived in a dormitory for one year as an undergraduate. As in most
college dorms, the walls were only slightly more soundproof than a
sheet of cardboard. On occasion, the guys in the two rooms adjoining
mine would each turn their stereos up loud enough that they couldn't
hear each other, meaning that I got bombarded by both. The fact that
one liked heavy metal, and the other liked country music, didn't
exactly help matters.

--
John F. Eldredge --
PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu
"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better
than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria

On 31 Aug 2005 18:39:51 -0700, "Enfilade"
wrote:

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Which is why I'm playing this as a mature and responsible person.

Here is a story from my undergrad days.

September of my first year in residence, I was woken up in a dorm one
night by REALLY LOUD Janis Joplin at 3 am. I went next door to ask the
girl to turn it down. She told me "it was her room and she'd do
whatever she felt like."

So I went back to my room, put my stereo against her wall, cranked the
bass, cranked the volume, and "felt like" playing an alternating mix of
my honkiest honky-tonk country CD and my most headbanging metal CD.

It was so damn loud I had to take refuge in the dorm bathroom as my
stereo blasted Brooks&Dunn and Metallica for four songs.

Then I went to turn it off.

Silence next door.

And I had no more problems the rest of the year.

(I just think I'd really **** off the entire floor if I did that with,
say, Hawkwind's SONIC ATTACK. It'd sound like a ****ing air raid.
And, since we are getting the police involved here, I want to be
utterly innocent myself of such things.)

--Fil


PS Thanks everyone for letting me rant. I am feeling a lot better now
and good about what I'm doing to deal with the issue.

Ah, those college days.

I was living in a rooming house, and they had band camp practicing on
a field right behind the house. At 6:30 am in the morning. I am NOT
a morning person. I called the appropriate authorities, who said
nothing could be done.

So another resident of the house and I got on our bicycles with my
boom box and a Led Zeppelin tape, and rode over to where the band
campers were staying. At about 3 a.m. And I BLASTED Led Zeppelin
right under their windows.

Being on bicycles, we didn't quite make it home before the police
stopped us. I was honest and confessed, and explained why. They
seemed to find it pretty amusing. They simply told me next time, call
the East Green Coordinator, and let them deal with it. And they let
us go.

I was a wild one back in those days ;-)

Ginger-lyn

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There are lots of ways to retaliate against difficult neighbors. It was
hard to deal with an annoying mime, until I thought to put a blank CD in
the player and crank the speakers to full volume.

I have to ask, Howard, what does this do????

PatM

PatM wrote:
I have to ask, Howard, what does this do????

PatM

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PatM wrote:
I have to ask, Howard, what does this do????

PatM

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Plays the sound of silence very loudly. Of course, the joke is that
there is no sound.

There is other research along these lines. Consider the two
propositions:

1. If a man speaks in an empty forest, where there is no woman
to hear him, is he still wrong?
2. If a woman speaks in an empty forest, where there is no man
to hear her, is she still nagging?