My condolences to everyone at SYH…

[oilybilge]

…and everyone else on the Orwell who was hoping for a quiet evening and instead has to listen to thumping music because some selfish tw***s have set up a sound system on the beach. I could hear it four miles up the river. I just don’t understand this mentality.

 

[Wansworth]

…and everyone else on the Orwell who was hoping for a quiet evening and instead has to listen to thumping music because some selfish tw***s have set up a sound system on the beach. I could hear it four miles up the river. I just don’t understand this mentality.

Same mentality that affects a young mantodrive his car with the windows down with the music (if you can call it that) at full volume

 

[Daydream believer]

…and everyone else on the Orwell who was hoping for a quiet evening and instead has to listen to thumping music because some selfish tw***s have set up a sound system on the beach. I could hear it four miles up the river. I just don’t understand this mentality.

A well aimed catapult loaded with a couple of ball bearings fired from the boat might do the trick

 

[johnalison]

Same mentality that affects a young mantodrive his car with the windows down with the music (if you can call it that) at full volume

I think that ascribing a mentality to these animals is overstating the matter.

 

[Wansworth]

I think that ascribing a mentality to these animals is overstating the matter.

I clearly recall my mother back in thelate1950s berating people with their transistors turned up loud on the beach

 

[Sailing steve]

…and everyone else on the Orwell who was hoping for a quiet evening and instead has to listen to thumping music because some selfish tw***s have set up a sound system on the beach. I could hear it four miles up the river. I just don’t understand this mentality.

It's yet another symptom of the selfish entitled fk#k you mentality that much of UK society has descended into.

I'm with the stoic Marcus Aurelius on the matter of other people - change what you can and simply ignore what you can't.

 

[Bouba]

I clearly recall my mother back in thelate1950s berating people with their transistors turned up loud on the beach

Not that long ago there were bongo players on our beach causing a ruckus.....it’s hard to find something older than bongo drums

 

[Daydream believer]

I suppose the answer is to find some opera & turn that up loud to counter the noise. Cannot be anything much worse than a dose of opera.

 

[Momac]

The bar/restaurant just down from the marina had loud thumping "Ibiza party" music playing yesterday evening. Too headache inducing for an old git like me so I walked away. But they had plenty of paying customers so that must be what folks want.

 

[Bouba]

The bar/restaurant just down from the marina had loud thumping "Ibiza party" music playing yesterday evening. Too headache inducing for an old git like me so I walked away. But they had plenty of paying customers so that must be what folks want.

All that techno noise started in the nineties…those people are now middle-aged…with money to spend while they listen to the sound of their youth

 

[Momac]

All that techno noise started in the nineties…those people are now middle-aged…with money to spend while they listen to the sound of their youth

That seems like an accurate assessment.

 

[Malish]

The bar/restaurant just down from the marina had loud thumping "Ibiza party" music playing yesterday evening. Too headache inducing for an old git like me so I walked away. But they had plenty of paying customers so that must be what folks want.

I wasn't there yesterday evening but I am struggling to workout where there is a bar/restaurant 'just down from the marina'. I thought it was rolling fields in all directions, withe the first bar being the Ship at Levington, ignoring the Lightship and on site cafe.

 

[johnalison]

Not that long ago there were bongo players on our beach causing a ruckus.....it’s hard to find something older than bongo drums

There have been times when I would happily have settled for some bongo drums in place of what was being inflicted. It is the amplification that turns sounds into unacceptable noise, along with that brain-rotting disco beat, or whatever it is called.

Many years ago now we had picked up and paid for a mooring at Pin Mill. All went fine until about 10 o/c when some massive noise came from across the river. Around midnight and no sleep in prospect we upped sticks and moved away to anchor above Shotley.

 

[Wansworth]

Noise gives the sensation that something is happening,with noise there is no need to communicate ……I was unsuccessful in my chatting up technique in discos as I wrongly thought one had to engage in conversation

 

[doug748]

I suppose the answer is to find some opera & turn that up loud to counter the noise. Cannot be anything much worse than a dose of opera.

There is and it may be in their arsenal, a form of noise that nobody likes. They may go nuclear with rap.

 

[shanemax]

Have you never heard Orwell Lady coming down the river in the dark on their disco nights, you can hear the boat a long time before you can see it. I always thought it was a lot of youngish people having FUN. Live and let live.

 

[oilybilge]

Around midnight and no sleep in prospect we upped sticks and moved away to anchor above Shotley.

I did that last night. It was still going at 2am so I left the buoy and went and anchored as far as I could upriver. Didn’t do any good, even with earplugs. It was LOUD.

 

[doug748]

On the same theme don't ever, ever, ever stay in Cherbourg marina if they are setting up, in the park next door, for music.

The only place I have ever left in the middle of the night after paying.

 

[Bouba]

Have you never heard Orwell Lady coming down the river in the dark on their disco nights, you can hear the boat a long time before you can see it. I always thought it was a lot of youngish people having FUN. Live and let live.

Tolerance to young people enjoying themselves is not what old age is all about

 

[shanemax]

…and everyone else on the Orwell who was hoping for a quiet evening and instead has to listen to thumping music because some selfish tw***s have set up a sound system on the beach. I could hear it four miles up the river. I just don’t understand this mentality.

Go anchor in the Stour, a much quieter, peaceful river with no marinas or much traffic. Sometimes you get the whole river to yourself.