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Loud noise makes my brain shut down

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12:15 / 01.07.04

By George! I think I've got it!
(Although sympathetic, I was totally uncomprehending at the beginning of the thread. But I've just finished giving a lecture on protest movements with Bob Dylan playing in the background and it was impossible. I couldn't string together improvised sentences and I couldn't understand what the students were asking.)

Do you usually have music or another sound source on around the house or the office? Could you ween yourself into club environments by stepping up the amount of background noise either generally, or just before you go out? I don't know if this would be useful, or just annoying.

Sorry I have nothing more helpful.

Spaniel

12:18 / 01.07.04

Also, Horn put it best, not being able to have a conversation certainly doesn't preclude communication, just a particular kind of communication.

And, frankly, if you want a chat, what the fuck are you doing in a night club?

Now, loud music in pubs, that's another matter entirely, that really does piss me off.

_Boboss

14:00 / 01.07.04

aw yeah that's definitely the worst thing about 'funky' places - i'm trying to have a quiet drink, i do not need one of the enormously swollen local dj talentless pool to fill my head with five-year old breakbeats thanks.

and clubs, and conversations - hey: chill-out rooms! do they still have those? amphetamines and chill out rooms if you must chat in a club, losing yourself in a sweaty ball of dance is a far better thing to do though.

Spaniel

14:13 / 01.07.04

Chrisy, yes, chill out rooms, I'd forgotten about those.

I am getting older.

Not sure I've ever had whatchacall a proper conversation in one, though. Had a few drug-fucked enthuso-rants, however.

Linus Dunce

18:03 / 01.07.04

I have to say, Linus, I find your post not only condescending but also spectacularly ignorant.

Condescending to whom? Yourself? Are you attractive then? And I wrote wrinkles, not age in years. So you could be 26, 28 ... 48. Who knows?

Goodness Gracious Meme

11:52 / 02.07.04

B's not attractive, in the slightest, but I think hir point is that it's entirely possible to be attractive and enjoy clubs and be capable of intelligent conversation.

And that it's extremely ignorant and condescending to divide people into attractive&facile/unattractive(attractive to whom, anyway?)&interesting.

I am hugely relieved by the whole thread tho, as I've always felt that I find it harder to hear people in background noisy places than most people. then end up shouting annoyingly as i can't hear myself, let alone them.

IMO, the best clubbing envir. has space that is for dancing, and seperate space for chatting.. not difficult to manage, you'd think.

Spaniel

12:18 / 02.07.04

I am too attractive.

Thanks, Bengali. You took the words right out of my mouth.

Goodness Gracious Meme

12:22 / 02.07.04

First time for everything.

Spaniel

12:23 / 02.07.04

Also, Linus, you seem to be tacitly suggesting that clubs are merely a space for vapid, trendy idiots to feel safe. If you genuinely feel that way, I genuinely feel sorry for you.

Clubbing can be a lot of fun, fun, fun for everyone.

You just can't have much of a conversation.

Goodness Gracious Meme

12:53 / 02.07.04

Also, Linus, you seem to be tacitly suggesting that clubs are merely a space for vapid, trendy idiots to feel safe. If you genuinely feel that way, I genuinely feel sorry for you

Nicely put.

Linus Dunce

15:00 / 02.07.04

I didn't say that, and I didn't mean it tacitly. Those are your own insecurities speaking.

It was meant in good humour originally.

I'm quite happy dancing. Even though I am, to be frank, not much to look at. But I can talk as well. And I don't regard public putdowns as wit.

Mourne Kransky

15:07 / 02.07.04

'course, sometimes people are just really dull so I pretend I just pretend I can't hear what they're saying because I'm concentrating on watching a nearby arse or such. I expect others do the same with me.

Goodness Gracious Meme

15:25 / 02.07.04

often.

Goodness Gracious Meme

15:26 / 02.07.04

often.

Goodness Gracious Meme

15:28 / 02.07.04

often.

Linus Dunce

15:32 / 02.07.04

Yes. Haha. Bye.

Spaniel

08:12 / 03.07.04

My own insecuriities? I doubt it. I stopped clubbing regularly almost ten years ago. These days I can't even be arsed to go to friends' nights.

40%

20:44 / 04.07.04

A whole buncha people on this thread seem like they've never enjoyed a good dance up in their entire lives.

I have, but I just find it frustrating that the experience is often incomplete. Chill-out rooms are of course the way to go, along with general thought given to the layout, volume etc. in order to make it suitable for its purpose.

A lot of it is me just finding fault, to be fair. I liked Bedhead's post, cos it shows you can always make something better of a situation by looking at it differently.

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