Fredrictree

Yes, you. You too. And you in the back.
Every single person has their own genre that they defend, and their own group of people they associate with. They also seem to pick sides against genres they hate.
There is always hate with music lovers. People always denigrate and insult people who enjoy genres they deem unworthy.
But for some reason, even though everybody has their sides picked in this battle against each other, there is one group that they can all team up on and disparate together. Even as bitter enemies, the rappers and the jazzheads can all team up on me.
I am in the extreme minority of society.
I don't like any types of music. Every genre I've ever heard, I've disliked. It's the beats, the rhythms, the lyrics, all of it. It's grating, obnoxious, and intrusive. It violates and offends my ears. I can never hear myself think, or concentrate on work.
The only difference between me and you is that I hate more genres than you. Yet people seem to think they would rather I enjoy a genre that they think is laughable, as long as I am listening to some kind, any kind, of music.

All of society that I live in has music blaring. I'm a pariah, but there's nothing I can do about it because the majority in power wields that power with wanton disregard for anybody that might disagree with them.
As is any marginalized group of people, the majority never seem to think of them. They don't care as long as their own needs are satisfied.
I currently live a very secluded life away from people as much as possible (I do still have to leave to go to work) but even my home is violated by music! Ice cream trucks blaring discord into my very home!

I just wanted to share, so you people may in the future not act so childishly. Perhaps people on the streets don't want to listen to your favorite song, use some earphones.
Especially you people at work that wants to listen to some music right next to all your coworkers. They may not want to hear it, and you may be harming them by doing so. It's no different than going to work smelling of BO. Just try to be understanding of people around you.

Sansa Stark

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Janszoon

Yeah, I hate when people do that too. Usually it's not people who aren't particularly into music though. It's more likely to be people who think everyone listens to top 40.

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Freebase Dali

I can't stand it when people come in to my forum and start broadcasting ridiculous opinions that I don't agree with. Pshh... they should learn to keep them to themselves. I'm here for only my own satisfaction, and I don't appreciate other people interjecting their irrelevant, annoying perceptions into my own personal space and violating my eyes. It's like.. use private messages! Ya know? I don't want to have to see their stupid words. So violating.

I think I'll just start banning those idiots, because the public aspect of this place is really starting to infringe on my secluded lifestyle.

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Fredrictree

Dali, would you enjoy a person smoking and blowing smoke in your face (if you don't smoke).
What about somebody who hasn't showered standing right next to you?
This is about decency.
It's always the people in the majority that don't think about their actions against the discriminated minorities in society, because they have no need to care.

Engine

It's interesting to me that you, who dislikes all of it, uses the word "genre" when discussing music. Are there some genres of music that you dislike more than others?

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Thom Yorke

Hey, welcome to MB, Fredric. Just wondering, was your name inspired by The Fredric by any chance? Great band.

Freebase Dali

I don't smoke anymore, but now I just don't hang around smokers.

One of my good friends has a huge B.O. problem, but his deodorant doesn't help much because he's a hyper-sweater. I joke to him that he stinks like ass, but I understand that he's doing what he can. I just sit as far away from him as possible.

As far as people listening to music loudly, I will concede that there should be certain limits, for instance, my neighbor's kid who's all of 15 years old probably shouldn't open his bedroom windows and position his speakers facing out so that the entire neighborhood can hear his incredibly ridiculous booty rap, but that's easily solved by talking to his parents, and/or calling the cops.

I, too, have been terrorized by an ice-cream man that loves to... I don't even know.. count his money?... right outside my door, with his ridiculous ice cream songs blasting, for tens of minutes at a time. Another problem easily solved by walking outside and telling him to knock the sh*t off.

The moral of this post is this...
Different people are annoyed by different crap all the time. But if you just sit there and stew about it without actually doing something to stop it, regardless of how it makes you look, then you're simply going to be tortured, and it's not anyone else's fault. For all they know, you're inside, naked, dancing to ice cream songs.

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Janszoon

I can't dance to either of those things though.

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Paedantic Basterd

I think it's a myth that ice cream trucks drive through neighborhoods and stop for children; a lie perpetuated in film and television, setting children up the world over for disappointment.

When I was a child I would occasionally hear the pupil-blowing jingle of a truck filled with joy roaming down my street, and I would immediately drop everything and tear outside of the house, hoping to flag it down, but I rarely laid eyes upon it, and if I did chance upon it, it never, ever stopped.

Fuck ice cream trucks, I'm with you there.