Rant!

[landlockedsailor]

While I appreciate the humor in the retaliation posts, have a little mercy on us lakefront owners who can hear normal conversation on the lake at 500 yds.

Amen!!!

[Drago]

I've come up w/ a solution, though. With these Wake boats on our lake, well, they only have so much room on them. In fact, besides a sub woofer or two, all of their speakers are mounted on a tower (I counted 22 speakers on one wake board tower once).

Don't agree. We parked next to a guy that has a ski boat / wake board boat with 6 big batteries, 4 amps totaling 8000 watts and the smoothest sounding system I've ever heard. He played it during breaks at a Kevin Fowler concert we were at last summer. He also had a Lucite lighted stripper pole that attracted many crazy women. It was a hoot.

I'm sure if I was floating in a quiet cove somewhere and he came in blaring gangster rap, I would have had a problem.

[tuned]

I've found that the youth of today have little tolerance for the classics (Slim Whitman or Hank Willimas Sr etc).

I work for an organization that furnishes hailing devices, essentially sound cannons, to Navy ships. I soooooo want to borrow one for a day and fire that puppy up. They are highly directional with the back lobe being small enough that I can aim it at the current perp and blast him with over 150dB while only getting about 70dB myself.

"Oo-Oo-Oo-Oo, Oo-Oo-Oo-Oo
When I'm calling you
Oo-Oo-Oo-Oo, Oo-Oo-Oo-Oo
Will you answer too?
Oo-Oo-Oo-Oo, Oo-Oo-Oo-Oo"

pure poetry! bwahahahahaha

This is funny stuff. I ALREADY DID IT!
Being a musician (hey Darin), I typically have large stereos in general. When I built Al, I didn't scrimp. Probably the largest on my lake. Fortunately my lake is huge. When I am miles off shore and just passing through, I most certainly will bump it. I am sure it is still audible from the cabins, but this is when I'm moving and not late at night. No single person is subjected to my music for more than a song or two.
Party cove is a different matter. My competition sub is virtually off and the mid highs are kept on low. Total respect for the boats AND the landowners. Earlier this year, in pulls one of those wakeboard boats with speakers bristling from the towers. Bump bump goes the nasty tunes with f this and f that. I could see a family anchored not too far away getting pretty ajitated. Although I couldn't talk to them, I signaled that I was gonna do something about it. Although not quite 360 degrees, I do have coverage for maybe 270.
Aaaand what do I play? SLIM WHITMAN. Not much bass, but it didn't matter. We just put the earplugs in and cranked the crap out of it. That piercing yodel rode right on top of the rap. Since I was facing the ski boat, they figured they could just re-anchor (I give them credit for trying) but there was no escaping it. I left it on the same song too. Hey, if it is enough to explode a Martian head, I figue those punks would be easy pickin's
After about 4 times through, they gave me the finger and left
The guy on the family boat gave me two thumbs up, I turned the tunes down, and we all proceeded to have a nice afternoon.

Please no Slim Whitman

Sorry Lloyd, I'm not a big fan either, but sometimes ya gots to pull out the big guns
Next up, Dolly Parton. Now that's pulling out the REALLY big guns

[Ron Burgundy]

Loud music and people being inconsiderate are not the problems.... they are merely symptoms of the problem. So, just what is that problem? The problem is that we are slowly becoming too stupid as a society to gather in large groups. We (as a society) no longer have the intelligence or interpersonal skills to get along peacefully, or even the basic self-awareness to conduct ourselves in a civil manner.

It is the movie "Idiocracy" unfolding in front of you. It is truly an intelligence deficiency and it is rampant throughout our society. It is sad, but I think it is true. It is primarily poor parenting or lack of parenting that has caused it over the last few decades. It's a snowball. The vary people with the inability to demonstrate even the most basic level of intelligence are the vary people who will raise (OK, not really raise, but merely produce) the next generation. On and on it goes.

Good luck turning that around! I don't think we can do it. I truly hope I'm wrong, though. Please tell me I'm wrong!!!!

You're wrong.

[Darin]

I've found that the youth of today have little tolerance for the classics (Slim Whitman or Hank Willimas Sr etc).

I work for an organization that furnishes hailing devices, essentially sound cannons, to Navy ships. I soooooo want to borrow one for a day and fire that puppy up. They are highly directional with the back lobe being small enough that I can aim it at the current perp and blast him with over 150dB while only getting about 70dB myself.

"Oo-Oo-Oo-Oo, Oo-Oo-Oo-Oo
When I'm calling you
Oo-Oo-Oo-Oo, Oo-Oo-Oo-Oo
Will you answer too?
Oo-Oo-Oo-Oo, Oo-Oo-Oo-Oo"

pure poetry! bwahahahahaha

This is funny stuff. I ALREADY DID IT!
Being a musician (hey Darin), I typically have large stereos in general. When I built Al, I didn't scrimp. Probably the largest on my lake. Fortunately my lake is huge. When I am miles off shore and just passing through, I most certainly will bump it. I am sure it is still audible from the cabins, but this is when I'm moving and not late at night. No single person is subjected to my music for more than a song or two.
Party cove is a different matter. My competition sub is virtually off and the mid highs are kept on low. Total respect for the boats AND the landowners. Earlier this year, in pulls one of those wakeboard boats with speakers bristling from the towers. Bump bump goes the nasty tunes with f this and f that. I could see a family anchored not too far away getting pretty ajitated. Although I couldn't talk to them, I signaled that I was gonna do something about it. Although not quite 360 degrees, I do have coverage for maybe 270.
Aaaand what do I play? SLIM WHITMAN. Not much bass, but it didn't matter. We just put the earplugs in and cranked the crap out of it. That piercing yodel rode right on top of the rap. Since I was facing the ski boat, they figured they could just re-anchor (I give them credit for trying) but there was no escaping it. I left it on the same song too. Hey, if it is enough to explode a Marian head, I figue those punks would be easy pickin's
After about 4 times through, they gave me the finger and left
The guy on the family boat gave me two thumbs up, I turned the tunes down, and we all proceeded to have a nice afternoon.

Please no Slim Whitman

Sorry Lloyd, I'm not a big fan either, but sometimes ya gots to pull out the big guns
Next up, Dolly Parton. Now that's pulling out the REALLY big guns

That is funny. As I said earlier, I don't even have a stereo on the punetoon and probably wont and I need my PA gear for my shows so I would never risk water damage just to irritate someone (I have other ways to irritate people) but it would be fun.

[TSip85]

tuned, that is.....AWESOME!!!! Exactly what I would do if I could. Enjoy my music respectfully, but crank it up and drown out the idiots until they turn their crap down or leave! Great story!

[curtiscapk]

That is funny. As I said earlier, I don't even have a stereo on the punetoon and probably wont and I need my PA gear for my shows so I would never risk water damage just to irritate someone (I have other ways to irritate people) but it would be fun.

THE PUNETOON!! AND HE IS ON BEAVER LAKE!!

[tuned]

THE PUNETOON!! AND HE IS ON BEAVER LAKE!!

Band guy. Go figure.

[Darin]

THE PUNETOON!! AND HE IS ON BEAVER LAKE!!

Band guy. Go figure.

[woolznaz]

Loud music and people being inconsiderate are not the problems.... they are merely symptoms of the problem. So, just what is that problem? The problem is that we are slowly becoming too stupid as a society to gather in large groups. We (as a society) no longer have the intelligence or interpersonal skills to get along peacefully, or even the basic self-awareness to conduct ourselves in a civil manner.

It is the movie "Idiocracy" unfolding in front of you. It is truly an intelligence deficiency and it is rampant throughout our society. It is sad, but I think it is true. It is primarily poor parenting or lack of parenting that has caused it over the last few decades. It's a snowball. The vary people with the inability to demonstrate even the most basic level of intelligence are the vary people who will raise (OK, not really raise, but merely produce) the next generation. On and on it goes.

Good luck turning that around! I don't think we can do it. I truly hope I'm wrong, though. Please tell me I'm wrong!!!!

You're wrong.

I hope so!

[oldcoot]

Please no Slim Whitman

Loyd....hell he killed all them martians...why not annoy shitheads???.....

[katieclooney]

No loud obnoxious music?
How else do you expect us single ladies to identify the guy with the biggest Johnson ?

[Darin]

No loud obnoxious music?
How else do you expect us single ladies to identify the guy with the biggest Johnson ?

WE are the ones WITHOUT a stereo!!

[tuned]

No loud obnoxious music?
How else do you expect us single ladies to identify the guy with the biggest Johnson ?

You funny girl Katie. You too Darin.
This guy with the massive stereo is feeling pretty inadequate at this moment