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ArishMell · 70-79, M
[i]No you are not the only one![/i]
It's just not necessary; and enforced music in shops help ensure I buy and leave as soon as possible!* I like pubs without piped music or juke-boxes, too; though I enjoy live music in pubs, and then it's my choice to be there anyway.
Usually I have the radio on when at home, alternating between my favourite radio music channel, BBC Radio Three, and speech programmes on Radio Four. Sometimes I don't switch it on at all though.
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[i]Outdoors, especially in the countryside: no, certainly not.[/i]
I have enjoyed 2-3 week holidays, sometimes camping wild, with no music-player, radio or newspapers anywhere near other than when actually travelling in the car; and hundreds of miles from my own or work computer.
[i]Stop and listen...[/i]
Listen to the weather, to vegetation rustling, to streams, wtaerfalls, waves; to wild and farm animals... Sometimes, even to silence, though complete silence is very rare outdoors.
Not merely hear [i]without[/] even listening to, non-stop Radio Blather and "Worst Of xxxx's B-Sides" compilations.
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I have neither need nor wish to own a personal music-box / phone with radio function, or whatever "must-have" device. At least though, the modern ear-phones don't seem to emit that constant, sibilant pitter-pattering with which the earlier types would irritate anyone within a ten-yard radius.
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One pet hate though is needless background music or sound-effects on speech radio programmes. Appropriate SFX have their place of course, but often they are irrelevant distractions, ridiculous in a nature programme, and sometimes making it difficult to follow interviews.
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*The worst and least desirable piped music I've encountered infests the toilets in motorway service stations, where because the room is far smaller and lower-ceilinged than the main halls, the needless, non-stop, remotely-assembled pop playlist is a lot louder.
It's just not necessary; and enforced music in shops help ensure I buy and leave as soon as possible!* I like pubs without piped music or juke-boxes, too; though I enjoy live music in pubs, and then it's my choice to be there anyway.
Usually I have the radio on when at home, alternating between my favourite radio music channel, BBC Radio Three, and speech programmes on Radio Four. Sometimes I don't switch it on at all though.
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[i]Outdoors, especially in the countryside: no, certainly not.[/i]
I have enjoyed 2-3 week holidays, sometimes camping wild, with no music-player, radio or newspapers anywhere near other than when actually travelling in the car; and hundreds of miles from my own or work computer.
[i]Stop and listen...[/i]
Listen to the weather, to vegetation rustling, to streams, wtaerfalls, waves; to wild and farm animals... Sometimes, even to silence, though complete silence is very rare outdoors.
Not merely hear [i]without[/] even listening to, non-stop Radio Blather and "Worst Of xxxx's B-Sides" compilations.
'
I have neither need nor wish to own a personal music-box / phone with radio function, or whatever "must-have" device. At least though, the modern ear-phones don't seem to emit that constant, sibilant pitter-pattering with which the earlier types would irritate anyone within a ten-yard radius.
'
One pet hate though is needless background music or sound-effects on speech radio programmes. Appropriate SFX have their place of course, but often they are irrelevant distractions, ridiculous in a nature programme, and sometimes making it difficult to follow interviews.
'
*The worst and least desirable piped music I've encountered infests the toilets in motorway service stations, where because the room is far smaller and lower-ceilinged than the main halls, the needless, non-stop, remotely-assembled pop playlist is a lot louder.
Ingwe · F
I am like you
checkoutanytime · M
I do enjoy them both. Both have a "harmony" about them. It's spilt time, realistically.
SW-User
Outdoors I like the sounds of nature, indoors I like music
BalmyNites · F
I need silence sometimes 💜
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