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ArishMell · 70-79, M
[i]I'd rather they play [b]no[/b] music at all![/i]
It is[b] not[/b] necessary, indeed more likely irritating than relaxing. No-one should have inflicted on them so much music whether it matches their tastes or drives them up the wall; and all probably selected by some remote compiler not forced to endure it.
It uses to be called "Muzak", the brand-name of the US company that started this nonsense. Later it became called "Lift Music" ( "Elevator ~" in the US), or now, due to its insane ubiquity, "Piped Music".
The Co-Operative, now merely a supermarket chain like Tesco, calls its offerings of run-of-the-mill pop interspersed with ads, "Co-op Radio", but that does not make it any better.
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Britain used to have a roadside cafeteria chain called "The Happy Eater" - probably out-competed by so much of the long-distance traffic now using the motorways instead of the A-class roads where such cafeterias were once common.
Once, one of my three travelling-companions using a Happy Eater asked the rest of us if we had realised what the low-volume, syrupy "angelic-choir" in the ceiling, was singing. We had not.
He replied, "They were all adverts for the cafe!".
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The UK's motorways' equivalents are far worse. The typical service-area is a sprawling, very wasteful collection of a main restaurant surrounded by mainly-American "junk-food" outlets, a needless shop and pointless "amusement" machines; all, like the accompanying filling-station, charging inflated prices. It too plays irritating, non-stop pop-music, all over the building... even in the toilets!
It is[b] not[/b] necessary, indeed more likely irritating than relaxing. No-one should have inflicted on them so much music whether it matches their tastes or drives them up the wall; and all probably selected by some remote compiler not forced to endure it.
It uses to be called "Muzak", the brand-name of the US company that started this nonsense. Later it became called "Lift Music" ( "Elevator ~" in the US), or now, due to its insane ubiquity, "Piped Music".
The Co-Operative, now merely a supermarket chain like Tesco, calls its offerings of run-of-the-mill pop interspersed with ads, "Co-op Radio", but that does not make it any better.
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Britain used to have a roadside cafeteria chain called "The Happy Eater" - probably out-competed by so much of the long-distance traffic now using the motorways instead of the A-class roads where such cafeterias were once common.
Once, one of my three travelling-companions using a Happy Eater asked the rest of us if we had realised what the low-volume, syrupy "angelic-choir" in the ceiling, was singing. We had not.
He replied, "They were all adverts for the cafe!".
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The UK's motorways' equivalents are far worse. The typical service-area is a sprawling, very wasteful collection of a main restaurant surrounded by mainly-American "junk-food" outlets, a needless shop and pointless "amusement" machines; all, like the accompanying filling-station, charging inflated prices. It too plays irritating, non-stop pop-music, all over the building... even in the toilets!
DavidT8899 · 22-25, M
@ArishMell You know whats worse than that?There was a grocery store I knew that did nothing but play ads for the store all day long.Plus,the store had this annoying little "theme song"that they'd constantly play as well.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@smileylovesgaming I suppose it just becomes part of the background noise when you are working in it - making it even more pointless.
I remember a fish-&-chip shop that had one of those early arcade computer games - [i]Pacman[/i] I think - that when not being used, played an endlessly-repeating, short, simple jingle. I commented on it to the shop assistant, and she replied that you stop noticing it after a while, like the traffic noise from the busy road outside.
I often do things at home with the radio on, but selectively, so if there is nothing to attract me on the several channels readily available at the time, I do without.
I remember a fish-&-chip shop that had one of those early arcade computer games - [i]Pacman[/i] I think - that when not being used, played an endlessly-repeating, short, simple jingle. I commented on it to the shop assistant, and she replied that you stop noticing it after a while, like the traffic noise from the busy road outside.
I often do things at home with the radio on, but selectively, so if there is nothing to attract me on the several channels readily available at the time, I do without.