Can't get away from the damned stuff.

[bobnewbury]

Can\'t get away from the damned stuff.

Nice sunny morning this morning (Lagos, just to rub it in). Got up and wandered up to the facilities. They have been 'improved'. They now have piped music. Gone is the quiet interlude, contemplating the joys, opportunities and challenges of the day ahead.

It's bad enough that you can't hold a conversation in a bar or restaurant without shouting into your companions ear from a distance of 2 inches (5 cm for our younger readers), but in the bog as well?

Where will it all end? (Bah! Humbug! Bloody world etc).

 

[Danny Jo]

Re: Can\'t get away from the damned stuff.

I share your aversion to piped music, but this form of torture has been less severe recently, not only because some of the leading supermarkets have woken up to the fact that we hate it, but also because of the switch from analogue tapes to digital recordings. It's bad enough hearing some Tom Jones soundalike crooning away over the tinned soup, or the slow movement from Mozart's 21st piano concerto (Elira Madigan theme) being muzacked to death, but quite another thing to have them played from a worn tape by a filthy tape head.

I've long since given up complaining to the staff - they've only avoided being turned into Zombies because they've got patches in their brains that filter it out, so they don't know what I'm talking about.

By the way, I love the strap line
[ QUOTE ]
An intellectual is someone who has been educated beyond his intelligence.

[/ QUOTE ]
Best part of a lifetime searching for myself, and at last a little flash of insight.

Mark

 

[Lakesailor]

Re: Can\'t get away from the damned stuff.

[ QUOTE ]

It's bad enough that you can't hold a conversation in a bar or restaurant without shouting into your companions ear from a distance of 2 inches (5 cm for our younger readers), but in the bog as well?


[/ QUOTE ] I tend not to have companions in the bog /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

 

[Kilter]

Re: Piped Muisc!

 

[DeeGee]

Re: Piped Muisc!

[ QUOTE ]
hairy blokes dressed up in skirts and blowing into a pigskin

[/ QUOTE ]Yeah, that's the 'orrible stuff!!

 

[Blueboatman]

Re: Piped Muisc!

Just to rub it in...
Sheez,You pay all that money to be in a marine parking lot on the Algarve and ,oh well,there you go.
May I suggest that you hop on the train east to the Spanish border and back,I was never asked for mooring fees in over 6 months along a delightful coast.Course I had to buy my own loo paper and generate my own solar and wind leccy !

 

[bobnewbury]

Re: Can\'t get away from the damned stuff.

You've led a sheltered life, haven't you.

 

[hannahman]

Re: Can\'t get away from the damned stuff.

Can you ask for requests? Pan-pipe music or something by Lou Rolls? /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Doug

 

[Slow_boat]

Re: Can\'t get away from the damned stuff.

Can't stand piped music. I have a collegue from the wild north who is currently subjecting me to the stuff as I type.

Sadist.