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  • #698833

    Blend
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    I would like a West Seattle Blog chip implanted in my head that tweets, twits, posts, blogs, faxes, emails, scans, copys, rants, raves, and does my taxes. Someday my dream will become a reality.

    #698834

    we played “name that tune” at 45th & brandon, even sang along a bit…

    glad it’s only one weekend a year – and really glad the fest usually comes along with sunshine and warmth

    #698835

    WSB
    Keymaster
    #698836

    miws
    Participant

    I would like for myself, and others, to get transponders and LED’s implanted in our foreheads, so when we run across another WSB’er that we haven’t met face to face yet, the LED’s start flashing, and we can introduce ourselves to each other!

    Mike

    #698837

    HolyKow
    Member

    I love it when posters like Thee complain when people put up those pesky LAWS that keep getting in their way. And they call us NANNIES for wanting to abide by the LAWS that are in the region.

    So inconvenient, those LAWS when they tell you you cannot do something that you want to do, isn’t it Thee.

    Try Somalia, they have few to no laws, and you do not have to pay taxes either! Win/Win!

    hk

    #698838

    JoB
    Participant

    HolyKow..

    get a grip on your sanctimonious self.

    An exemption to noise laws is made for public events.. and Summerfest is an event.

    How on earth do you think that night sporting events and concerts and plays and fairs and other events that go on past 10 PM manage to occur?

    If you lived near the Seattle Center you would hear music played into the night on a regular basis.

    You didn’t choose to live next door to a public venue… but you did choose to live close to the Junction… and Summerfest is an annual event that likely preceded you.

    Suck it up dude… or dude-et

    and yes.. to answer the question posed on another thread.. i am a little crankier than usual.

    #698839

    Erik
    Participant

    I loved the music, it was a great way to let loose after a day of working in the booth next to the fetus worshippers.

    Next year Ima gonna give out Chupy fetuses!

    #698840

    Blend
    Participant

    hahahahahahahaha HA..I am definatly PRO CHUPY. But yes..let’s organize that for next year. I’m IN !!!

    #698841

    Michael Waldo
    Participant

    As someone who worked in a retail store by the north stage, I believe loud, heavy metal bands are inappropriate for such tight quarters.If you were not a fan of heavy metal, you were out of luck as I was bombarded for hours by it. I had a hard time even talking to customers. Live music is the best, heavy metal at a family festival not so much.

    #698842

    JimmyG
    Member

    1/2 a mile south of the Junction and loved hearing the music.

    Hells Belles were especially good. We sat out on our deck each night, had a glass of wine and enjoyed the festival from afar.

    #698843

    hoffanimal
    Participant

    This is a city. Stuff goes on here, stuff that is fun can get loud on rare occasions. If stuff didn’t go on this would be a boring place to live. Next.

    #698844

    HolyKow
    Member

    Hey, like I said, I personally have no issues with the whole noise thing. However, I feel that these people with their ‘Nanny State’ excuse of an approach to laws they do not like are hypocritical and unreasonable.

    If they like the law, it is OK.

    If they do not, all of a sudden, laws are like buffet items that you can just ignore if you do not like them. And when people that support the law say so, all of a sudden the age old practice of name calling and worse come into play as they have no real response to the issue other than to cry, whine and complain and degrade the person that is citing the actual rules regarding the issue…

    Examples of popular Nanny State items that people complain about because they cannot legally do them, but wanna real real bad:

    No Smoking just about anywhere but you home

    Leash Laws

    Fireworks Laws

    Transfat Limit Laws

    No unattended animals on the sidewalks

    If you do not like the “Nanny Laws”, move to someplace that you would rather be because they allow whatever behavior you are not allowed to do here. Please.

    If you live next to Seattle Center, you know what you are getting into, no excuses. However in a dense residential area, not a significantly commercial area like Seattle Center, I think that there is room for the noise ordinance in the argument.

    I do not live ‘near the junction’. I am over a mile an a half from the stage and could hear them like they were in my back yard. Again, I do not care, but it is not about me.

    It is about the community and there have to be rules.

    Would anyone really explode if the last big band came on at 9P and played till 10P? Really? World stops spinning and throws us all into space?!

    nope…

    hk

    #698845

    Blend
    Participant

    huh? I think people are just typing to type. Sometimes it’s ok to just read a post and not reply. Step away from the send post button…oh no..I’m gonna click it..ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

    #698846

    anonyme
    Participant

    HolyKow has posted the most reasonable and respectful opinions in this thread, only to be attacked and called names for it. I read nothing sanctimonius at all in the views expressed by HK, except for the fact that he/she dared to disagree with a holier-than-thou-kow.

    Do we really want a community where those that make the most noise, call the nastiest names, and shout down any dissenting opinion are the ones that win? Do we really want a society where everyone decides individually which laws they feel obligated to obey and which ones they don’t?

    Just because we live in an urban environment does not mean that unlimited noise and chaos must be the accepted rule. Moderation never killed anyone, and I’m disturbed by the trend toward extremes in everything. What makes cities vital is the mix — not the mob.

    #698847

    thee
    Participant
    #698848

    Blend
    Participant

    YES! hahaha

    #698849

    JoB
    Participant

    it’s a festival…

    that features music

    and you don’t even have to pay admission…

    what’s to bitch about?

    sound carries.

    some nights.. far further than a mile and a half.

    but it’s still only one weekend a year

    #698850

    anonyme
    Participant

    One weekend for Summerfest.

    Three weeks for Independence Day.

    A week of Blue Angels. At least they’re daytime only.

    New Year’s Eve (week)

    Everybody in the neighborhood who thinks if they only have ONE big drunken all night party per year, it’s their right.

    The point is that there is a constant stream of “just one night, or two, or a weekend” events ALL YEAR LONG. The exceptions have become the rule, and that ain’t right. Anyone who suffers an extreme physical or emotional reaction because the music ended at 10 instead of 11:30 is truly the one who needs to “chill”.

    #698851

    JanS
    Participant

    anonyme…3 weeks for Independence Day? That’s one heck of a celebration. But it’s a bit of a stretch, doncha think? It’s quiet here…Admiral District – unless you count the delivery trucks at Safeway as “excessive noise” – lol…

    #698852

    austin
    Member

    ohno there are people living around us ALL YEAR LONG!

    #698853

    CountingCoup
    Member

    We are lucky enough to have our own fair to bring in some good NW bands to provide entertainment all the while our local businesses and artists get a chance to market their products and food to pull people away from the beach once a year and it becomes a rant?

    Wow, maybe you would rather live in a quiet urban block in Timbuktu where the culture begins and ends with a strip mall and movie theater…

    #698854

    johnnyblegs
    Member

    That dang bell at Holy Rosary needs to stop that racket too! I like to take a nap in the middle of the afternoon and that church bell music four blocks away disrupts my slumber. My neighbor also talks to much to his cat and I can hear the chatter through my bedroom window. The rain sometimes wakes me up at 2am! The Insanity!

    #698855

    JoB
    Participant

    now if only someone could silence all those screaming children

    #698856

    Julie
    Member

    I haven’t read a response yet to the suggestion, made a couple of times, now, that the music could be turned down a little after 10:00 pm. So…what about that? How far would the music have to be turned down, and how early, before some of you would no longer enjoy it?

    On the other hand, would more people enjoy it more if it were even louder, and even later? If so, how loud would be too loud? How late would be too late?

    #698857

    TammiWS
    Member

    Seriously, just get over it. The b**tching on this site about this is ridiculous. So over the rants about this…And yes, I’ll quit reading before you tell me to.

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