Noise

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I haven't seen the film Noise, but merely watching the preview, aishlynn turned to me and said, "No. Don't even think about it."

"It" would be my oft-stated desires to do something very much akin to what Noise's protagonist, and the real-life person he was based on - namely, beat the living fuck out of cars whose alarms go off for an extended period, and, once finished with that, their owners.

It appears that this isn't merely my innate temper and wrathfulness being expressed, it's an expression of deeply rooted self-preservation instincts and reactions.

If exposures are intermittent or rare, the body has the chance to return to normal. But if the exposure is unrelenting, the body doesn't have a chance to calm down, and blood pressure and heart rate may remain elevated, Hagler explains. That's why what seems like a mere annoyance can actually have long-term health effects. "There is no question that people who live near a busy roadway are experiencing effects on their blood pressure," says Hagler.

As Bean attests, once you tune into the din, it's hard to tune out again. "It's like an allergy -- once you get sensitized to one of these things then they all bother you, and then each one builds on the other," he says. And what's a mere nuisance to one person is another's bête noire. "There is no evidence that noise causes mental illness itself, but there is little doubt that it may accelerate or intensify some kind of mental disorders," explains Hagler. He adds that symptoms of exposure to noise pollution include anxiety, nervousness, nausea, headaches, emotional instability, argumentativeness and changes in mood. No wonder excessive noise has been used as a form of torture.

(from http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/06/25/noise_pollution/print.html)

And people wonder why I bitch about the hideous fucking music coming from the next cubicle over all goddamned day....

Comments

[bitogoth.livejournal.com]

we are drawing to the end of six months of construction. not to mention ongoing noisy neighbours, so there's never any downtime. i directly attribute these issues to a large portion of my crankiness, loss of sleep, and mood swings. *nods*

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

I've always felt that car alarms should be required to be enabled by the state. Every time it goes off, it costs the owner $5. (If it's stopping a theif, it's cheap. If it's not, it's comforting for everyone else to know that the guy's getting it in the wallet.)

[pixirae.livejournal.com]

Hey - will you ping K to log onto LJ long enough to add my new LJ? :-D

[mschaos.livejournal.com]

We hate them, we do

A often would say when we hear them that if we can get to the car before the alarm goes off, then it belongs to us...

then there is the cars with the bass so high it shakes the house when they drive by - needless to say it isn't so bad here in Mayberry, but in Chicago, crap, that was nuts

[y2kdragon.livejournal.com]

Had a similar cubicle issue with a previous job. My answer would be to dig out the bagpipe music when it got too bad. Regardless of the volume, it would crowd out my neighbor's music, and he would turn it down.