Anx said:

You know, this probably won't surprise you, but this is not the first time I've been compared to that character. Interestingly, I've also occasionally been compared to The Dude in The Big Lebowski. Figure that one out.

NDRU said:

Car stereos drive me insane! Although I'm not about to start leaning out my window: "Excuse me, sir? Did you know that my car is shaking due to the volume of your horrible - I mean, your music?" That'd be slightly refreshing though, sometimes. I have this thing - when I'm in my own car, I expect to hear my own music (or nothing if I'm playing none), my own noise, etc.

In Jr. High once we had a substitute teacher who let us study quietly, as they are wont to do.

My friend thought he'd just listen to his headphones and nobody would hear. But Judas Priest played at 10 on your Walkman is going to leak, as we've established. The whole class was cracking up at him grooving, completely oblivious to the fact that the whole classroom was filled with guitar solo after screaming vocal after guitar solo.

The teacher took his Walkman away from him, much to his surprise.

Protege said:

Nobody thinks their own music is noise, they think everyone is thinking how cool they are and how great their music is--me included.

But I think the kind of bass we have here in Oakland is a form of assault, as well as an invasion of privacy. Eventually the whole city will be nothing but a dull thumping.

NDRU said:

Anx said:

I can think of other leaks i'd rather people told me about.

When teenagers listen to shit heavy metal on their headphones so that the whole morning train will shake, I'm often the one who gets up tells'em to turn them down or "preferably off altogether". They're fucking idiots, can't stand them. I might even tell them to listen to "proper Black Metal instead of shit Black Metal". I'm enough big, old and look relatively like a metalhead myself with long hair and the constant combat boots - so they never give any shit back. Sometimes I get people to thank me afterwards or give me approving smiles.

And unfortunately the other group that can't keep the volume on reasonable levels are the foreigners in this city. Them I usually leave alone, I don't want to start an all-out racial war because of their crappy taste in music.

In noisy public places like public transportation, I don't care, either about my "leakage" ( ) or others'.

However, in quiet settings, I do care. I can't wear earbuds (they don't fit, and I have a tragus piercing), but I have those big headphones with the padded thing going all the way around the ear, and I don't think they leak. If they do, I'd want somebody to tell me.

INSATIABLE said:

Oh, well, hello...I am wont to do, too.

once i was on a bus with my buds in, and i listen 2 my music LOUD - which explains my bad hearing ( ), but this girl beside me starting singing along and tapping to the beat

that's back when i was really listening to music unreasonably loud
u can still here it now, but if they dont like it...meh
it's public transportation - deal with it!

Anx said:

only child eh?

i know those moments to!


diva,where are u??! join us!

I'd much rather have someone notice that my earbuds are expensive and uber swanky.

I don't dig leaky headphones.. as an pre-audilogist.. I find if its that fucking loud, you'll be in my office soon enough.