If only. Instead you will hear songs about trucky-trucks, beer, and fishing sung in only the most generic pandering tones with influences of whatever music is currently popular at the time.

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Often there's people (esp. groups) who can't be bothered with "reasonable".

I've probably been guilty of that in the past...

I really wonder if there is any place outside of a concert venue that these folks find music on speakers acceptable? I kind of get it if they're solo, just use headphones, but... hanging out in a group and listening to music together at the beach is about the most normal use of a beach trip I can think of.

the difference is the "i need silence" folk just want to get away from all the sound of humanity. which, cool, but you need to actually get away from humans to do that. we get you don't like humans. some of us do. don't expect everyone to accommodate you in public. it belongs to me just as much as it belongs to you, and you ain't accommodated shit for me.

I just got back from a beach vacation in a house we rented. Unfortunately I had to rely on a relatives speaker, so I could relax watching for no kids to drown.

Mostly played soft R&B, Blues, or anything downbeat at a lower level I could hear it over the sound of the waves and screaming children. But I was sitting right next to it and not blasting it from 100 meters away.

We'd also setup way early with no one around. I'd have the speaker rolling and the beach wasn't packed. Yet people still setup really close to me on both sides.

At that point I figured they weren't bothered. They would hopefully have said something because we talked to each other about the kids playing together.

So yeah there are situations, like everything else.

Probably only person I bothered was my Mother-in-law, because she is kinda racist and doesn't like music made by darker skin people, but that I really didn't give a shit about.

I have come to understand that there is a subset of people that have never ~~spared a~~ thought ~~for anyone else~~. They ~~probably~~ have never ~~even~~ considered ~~the fact that I don’t want to listen to their stupid bullshit~~. The thought never ~~crossed their mind~~, not even once.

Now with all of the unnecessary words helpfully marked.

Mean while, I'm over here turning off my radio at stop signs and red-lights so no one takes more than a passing notice of my existence.

Music concert - everyone recording with their phone out.

Fireworks display - everyone recording with their phone out.

Bride comes down the aisle - everyone recording with their phone out.

It's just pointless. You ruin your own experience of the event because you're watching it on a screen instead of experiencing it directly, and you ruin other people's experience too.

And the wedding one I've seen far too many times.

What do you think the official wedding photographer is there for? When the bride and groom watch their wedding video back they want to see a room of their happy family and friends, but instead they'll get a video with rows of people staring at their own little rectangles and pointing them at the bride as she comes down the aisle.

Do yourself a favour and live in the moment sometimes, please.

I went to see the leatherback sea turtles nesting a few years ago. They guide themselves by the light of the full moon and we were explicitly told not to use flash photography, as it disorients the turtles. As I’m sure will not surprise you, as the turtle ladies crawled up onto the beach, about 100 blinding flashes went off right in their faces.

A nice pair of electrically-insulated cable cutters may be a good investment.

Chugs can of Bud Light. Tosses can in water.

Its not laziness. It’s because they’re carrying a bunch of stuff for an extended hangout.

Reminds me of the study with loud cars .

"We found that it was sadism and psychopathy predicting who wants to modify their mufflers, who feels more connected to their vehicle, and [who thinks] loud cars are really cool," Schermer told CBC News.

"It seems to be this callous disregard for other people's feelings and their reactions. That's the psychopathy coming out and it's also they probably get a kick out of enjoying watching people get startled."