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To: epicure who wrote (54240)	9/2/1999 11:23:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Respond to of 108807

>taking your boom box to a public park for a family picnic- how loud? Are we talking loud enough to injure hearing? taking your boom box to a mountain top from which there is a magnificent view, a site used by others for quiet contemplation - how loud? Are we talking loud enough to injure hearing?< This is beyond the question of offense. Injuring hearing is an act of outright assault - on a par with taking a gun to school. Taking a boombox to any public place and playing it loud enough that unintended audience can hear that it is on ... this is impolite. Strangely there are many in our society who don't grasp the elements of acoustic decorum. They should teach it in our schools.

To: epicure who wrote (54240)	9/2/1999 11:41:00 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

You don't think it's rude to pick your nose in public? Heavens. You'd fit right in in most countries in Africa, where it's considered on a level with scratching your head. The men of the Kalanga tribe in Zimbabwe and Botswana grow the nail of the little finger of one hand long, the better to pick with. Of course I agree about stripped to the waist. It is there to distinguish between discreet and exhibitionist public nursing. People who talk loudly so I can't read in a waiting room drive me crazy. And when I go to have my car serviced, there is a small waiting room in which there is a large TV set; if I have a chance, I pull the plug out of the wall.... No, the boomboxes are not loud enough to injure hearing in either case. My feeling is that these families enjoy their loud music in the public park, and although I don't like it much, they've got a right to be festive, etc., so I wouldn't think of complaining. But we live on the side of a mountain, a small one, at the top of which, after a 45 minute climb, we used to have lunch and read poetry while enjoying a spectacular view. The last two times we climbed the mountain, there were teenagers there playing their music. I wanted to push them off the edge onto the rocks below. I agree with you about the other things, too; but it's interesting to think about how recently ago it was considered scandalous for a woman to wear pants or smoke or appear pregnant in the work place. Many restaurants excluded anyone in a wheelchair. I have a friend who just a few years ago was told it depressed the other diners to see a wheelchair. And in the past, I have had many people look at me as though I had done something offensive when I was asked my religion and I replied I was an atheist. Plus ca change, plus ce n'est pas la meme chose.