dyingofpoetry wrote:
Vaccuum cleaners and lawnmowers, and anything like those that are loud, mechanical, and change pitch during use.
+1.
I live in an older high-rise condo. There are constant repairs and renovations going on here Monday-Friday from 8am-4pm. The sawing, drilling, hammering, etc....is the aural equivalent of chinese water torture. I wear eagplugs constantly when i'm here during those hours. They help....but only marginally.
I also hate harley-davidson motorcycles, mopeds and all such cacophonous
vehicles.
The incessant noise pollution in suburban and urban American society
is just the tip of the iceberg for me.
I truly despise everything about this hideous, ugly, hyper-commercialized,
pre-fabricated, decadent, tawdry, tacky, tasteless, strip-mauled, soulless,
vulgar, nihilistic modern American hellhole of a society. How on earth can
a country like this be defined as "civilized"?
It amazes me that anyone who has a choice in the matter would
choose to live here.
No wonder the few genuinely civilized Americans like Gore Vidal move
to the Italian coast.
This society is absolutely toxic to the human spirit.