Comments on: Cellheads and Netheads http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6632 p2pnet.net offers not-your-lamescream news on movies music digital media P2P peer-to-peer TV television file sharing freedom of speech open source product news Wifi mobiles company Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:32:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6632#comment-22497 Reader's Write Tue, 18 Oct 2005 22:45:53 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6632#comment-22497 ewww... why didn't that idiot give her the clean earphones? how selfish he is. how inconsiderate and dirty he is. how disgusting is it to wear earphones which had just emerged from a total stranger's ears? very disgusting indeed. it's like offering someone your used toilet paper or tissues. ewww…

why didn’t that idiot give her the clean earphones? how selfish he is. how inconsiderate and dirty he is.

how disgusting is it to wear earphones which had just emerged from a total stranger’s ears?

very disgusting indeed. it’s like offering someone your used toilet paper or tissues.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6632#comment-22479 Reader's Write Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:24:57 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6632#comment-22479 It’s the shorter story in this article that merits comment. I started to ask, when did we Americans become so insensitive to other people. Then I had to admit that we have never been considerate of others. Apartment dwellers will forever be subjected to the loud music and party-making noises of other residents who feel they have a God-given right to party all night long, preferably at over 80 decibels; theater-goers will forever suffer at the hands of noisy patrons who prefer to talk their way through the movie; and on and on. Years ago, I attended a performance of “Rigoletto” by a regional semi-professional opera company, only to be subjected to the person in the seat behind me whistling along with the score. It was loud enough and obnoxious enough that most of the audience was clearly annoyed and tried desperately and in vain to shush this asshole and his compelling need to let the world know that he was intimately acquainted with the melodic line of the orchestral score. Being so close, I turned to him between the first and second scene of Act One and told him that he was disturbing everyone – could he not hear them expressing their displeasure? His reply was simply: “Hey, I paid to get in here just like everyone else.” How difficult is it to comprehend that personal freedoms come with personal obligations? The rest of us paid our money to witness and experience the production being offered by the semi-professional opera company. This one, single, inconsiderate asshole bought a ticket in order to whistle along with the orchestra! I will never understand why the management did not evict him before Act II. The fact that they did not is the reason I never attended another performance by that group. And the lady aboard that plane? Someone had to offer her a set of earphones! Incredible! It’s the shorter story in this article that merits comment. I started to ask, when did we Americans become so insensitive to other people. Then I had to admit that we have never been considerate of others. Apartment dwellers will forever be subjected to the loud music and party-making noises of other residents who feel they have a God-given right to party all night long, preferably at over 80 decibels; theater-goers will forever suffer at the hands of noisy patrons who prefer to talk their way through the movie; and on and on.

Years ago, I attended a performance of “Rigoletto” by a regional semi-professional opera company, only to be subjected to the person in the seat behind me whistling along with the score. It was loud enough and obnoxious enough that most of the audience was clearly annoyed and tried desperately and in vain to shush this asshole and his compelling need to let the world know that he was intimately acquainted with the melodic line of the orchestral score.

Being so close, I turned to him between the first and second scene of Act One and told him that he was disturbing everyone – could he not hear them expressing their displeasure? His reply was simply: “Hey, I paid to get in here just like everyone else.”

How difficult is it to comprehend that personal freedoms come with personal obligations?

The rest of us paid our money to witness and experience the production being offered by the semi-professional opera company. This one, single, inconsiderate asshole bought a ticket in order to whistle along with the orchestra!

I will never understand why the management did not evict him before Act II. The fact that they did not is the reason I never attended another performance by that group.

And the lady aboard that plane? Someone had to offer her a set of earphones! Incredible!

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