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8:32am on Tuesday, 8th October, 2024:
Anecdote
We're having our shower done this week. There are tiles, bits of wood, soggy insulation and pieces of metal and plaster outside our front door awaiting disposal in a skip that's almost guaranteed to damage our new driveway when it's plonked down.
The chap doing the shower-improvement is one of those tradesmen who is powered by the radio. He has it on all the time, tuned to gawd-knows-what station, which blares out bouncy pop songs I've never heard before and don't want to hear again. Only when he's drilling can I not hear it.
Fortunately, I'm both a programmer and a gamer, either of which is sufficient to explain why I have very good set of headphones that cut out noise from the external world. I can listen to music with no lyrics instead of whatever auto-tuned, repetitive sound is being played at 8:30am in between the banal attempts to connect with the audience that emerge with little thought from the mouths of a pair of enthusiastic DJs.
To be fair, though, this isn't as loud as some of the people my wife speaks to on her Zoom calls.
[Edit] Arrgh! Sometimes, he sings along with the music. Sometimes, he sings different music to what's on the radio. Sometimes, he argues with the presenters. Arrgh! Arrgh!
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