AN Wilson again

Fflaps · **Posted:** Fri May 15, 2009 1:12 pm

A new thread for Wilson as he's blaming Broken Britain on...the Sony Walkman.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic ... ITAIN.html

Basically can be summed up by 'whinge, moan, young people, new technology, moan, whinge, American (even though it's Japanese!), antisocial etc etc'.

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How true!
What a curse these things are.
Most of today's teenagers seem incapable of walking without dragging their knuckles along the floor as it is. Don't deprive them of the ability to hear as well.
- Jester, Dunstable, UK., 14/5/2009 16:36
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Yeah I see teenagers literally dragging their knuckles all the time, turn down the hyperbole you moron!

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"The gadget that helped break Britain" How very simplistic, and truly spoken like an old man.
When I travel with friends on the train, I will chat with them. When I am on my own, I will listen my iPod.
And by the way, I have heard much worse things on the train than, to quote you, "that infuriating tsst, tsst, tsst, tsst noise". I have heard people talking... shouting really, like the own the whole place, listening to loud music on their mobiles as opposed to using headphones.... my iPod allows me to avoid that kind of situation.
- Maria, Aylesbury, UK, 14/5/2009 14:04
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My thoughts exactly!

ManicMiner · **Posted:** Fri May 15, 2009 1:37 pm

From the article:

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I am a cyclist, and biking round London with Wagner blaring into your head at full tilt is a very dangerous occupation indeed - you can't tell whether a double decker bus is coming up behind you.

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Exposing your ear drums to badly mixed rock music at 110 or 120 decibels is the equivalent of standing near a jet aircraft.

aljardi · **Posted:** Fri May 15, 2009 1:45 pm

Am I dreaming? Have I entered a parallel universe?

Let me get this right. Sony Walkmans have helped to break Britain? WTF?

Dear oh Dear.

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How true!
What a curse these things are.
Most of today's teenagers seem incapable of walking without dragging their knuckles along the floor as it is. Don't deprive them of the ability to hear as well.
- Jester, Dunstable, UK., 14/5/2009 16:36
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That's right, have a go at all young people and how "bad" they are. What an absolute load of tripe.

Seriously, written by morons for morons.

Killer Whale · **Posted:** Fri May 15, 2009 1:48 pm

One very loud noise is equivalent to another very loud nose? No shit.

office_tramp · **Posted:** Fri May 15, 2009 3:23 pm

Christ on a bike. Is it 1979? Have we not put the 'headphones make you deaf' thing to bed yet? I'm one of those headphone wearing eighties kids who is meant to have no hearing now and yet it still hasn't happened. I can still fucking hear perfectly.

So perfectly in fact that going to the cinema has become a painful experience in the last 10 years. I found the volume they had cranked the Star Trek soundtrack to quite unpleasant...

jonnyhead · **Posted:** Fri May 15, 2009 4:16 pm

Hitchens had a similar moan about iPods really, it's ridiculous. I've got on the bus without listening to music loads of times; no-one talked to me and all I ended up doing was listen to the traffic and people's inane conversations. Getting engaged with society or whatever he's babbling on about is overrated.

LuciusAR · **Joined:** Wed Feb 18, 2009 5:09 am **Posts:** 766

I really don't understand the mentality of anyone who moans about something that has no effect on them whatsoever. People that start random conversations on the train tend to be total nutters anyway. I love my MP3 player, no listening to boring peoples inane prattle.

Seriously, though 'the device that broke Britain?' What pointless, paranoid, hyperbolic drivel.

DisgustedOfTunbridgeWells · **Joined:** Fri Mar 24, 2006 5:00 pm **Posts:** 703

Wilson is a proper fucking mental, I love him, he's like tookey only not restricted to films.

Paul · **Posted:** Fri May 15, 2009 8:36 pm

I always thought it was Blair/Brown that broke Britian, at least that is what they keep saying.

Esqui · **Posted:** Fri May 15, 2009 9:37 pm

Allow me to point out that the Walkman is not "returning". It never left.

Chris S · **Joined:** Wed Mar 22, 2006 5:10 pm **Posts:** 998

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All so true! "Quiet" coaches on trains ruined by selfish cretins plugged into their brain recharging units along with their mobile phone toting cousins screaming "I'm on a train". Sadly, the last bastion of peace -the aeroplane - is being invaded by these saddos.
I've spoken to many interesting people while travelling, its a shame these people don't realise there is a world outside the boundaries of their own heads.

- DAVID, Plymouth, 14/5/2009 8:00
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Haha, quiet coaches on trains are a joke in my experience.

People think their kid might want to sleep, but no, it's a train and on the lines I frequent, it's very difficult to sleep, so they get very bored with only a book/magazine for 5 hours and get noisy. In a non-quiet carriage packed with kids, they're much quieter playing games or listening to music. Besides, on a train, it's usually nigh impossible to hear someone else's headphones. Especially on Northern Line, you can barely hear your own.

cycloon · **Joined:** Sun Jun 10, 2007 4:07 pm **Posts:** 3303

I am quite aware of people existing around me, and that when travelling (the distinction between a commute or a domestic trip and a 'travel' is profound, in outlook and intention) there are potentially fascinating people around.

Music isn't just a shield, albeit it can be at times. It is also an enhancing aspect. I never listen to it absurdly loud. I walk with music, letting it enrich my experience. Then I turn it off and listen to the ambience, or talk to a friend. Then I listen some more.

etc.

Raskolnikov · **Posted:** Sat May 16, 2009 12:28 am

office_tramp wrote:

Christ on a bike. Is it 1979? Have we not put the 'headphones make you deaf' thing to bed yet? I'm one of those headphone wearing eighties kids who is meant to have no hearing now and yet it still hasn't happened. I can still fucking hear perfectly.

So perfectly in fact that going to the cinema has become a painful experience in the last 10 years. I found the volume they had cranked the Star Trek soundtrack to quite unpleasant...

yup. Had a well bloke test recently (you bloody unwashed students got dis de cum) and was AOK. Even the liver has a few weeks left.

Had an original Walkman cranked up to 11. Been to so many deafening concerts. Did me no harm.

I can still tell the difference between CD level and mp3 though the latter is good enough to mask the inane chatter on trains and boats and planes.

I was also told that masturbation would render me a blind moron.
Just looking for a good excuse as to why I wear glasses and read the Daily Mail.

p.s. cycloon's post is almost poetic.

cycloon · **Joined:** Sun Jun 10, 2007 4:07 pm **Posts:** 3303

I really need to get earplugs for the next gig I go to. I don't like my ears ringing for hours.

ManicMiner · **Posted:** Sat May 16, 2009 11:36 am

I wear earplugs on the tube so I can read in a quieter environment. I'm deliberating separating myself from my fellow passengers, but I'm not wearing a 'walkman'; I wonder if that thought would make Wilson's head explode?

AN Wilson again

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