Which would you rather be trapped in a
dorm room with...
A guy
playing the guitar who doesn't know any chords
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OR
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A system playing
loud, pulsating bass
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Details:
- Today's question is
courtesy of Kimmy Acquilano out of
Raleigh, NC.
- The sound of the
guitar is basically what it sounds like
when you just pick one up and strum
it. Also he is trying to sing,
badly.
- You know what loud,
pulsating bass is like, especially when
the eccentrics buy huge
sub-woofers. Imagine that's how it
is and there's no way to stop it (there
usually isn't.)
Kimmy
Acquilano:
"She is always dangerous."
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RESULTS:
guy playing the guitar:
7
loud,
pulsating bass: 2
Name: JT
Choice: guy
Comments: I think I'll just ask the guy to stop
playing guitar. If he doesn't I could always Hendrix-ify
his guitar. Yummmmm, the lovely sound of silence.
Name: Super_Dave
Choice: guy
Comments: Being that I live with both Kyle Brown (
guitar player ) and Chris Priesig ( bass system freak
)... I have alot of experience in both areas :) and uh...
since you can't turn off the bass.. i have to go with the
guitar player. I mean at least you can sing along with
him but with the bass you just get vibrations and kinda
makes you have to go to the bathroom sometimes. so mmm..
yeah.. definitely the guitar player. fin....
Name: spautz
Choice: guy
Comments: If it's a dorm room then there should be
plenty of dirty laundry to hide under. It might not be
thick enough to stop some loud, pounding bass, but it
should do the trick for normal-volume guitar. I guess
this turns into another WWYRBTW: dirty, smelly laundry or
loud, pounding bass? I say laundry.
Name: Allison
Choice: guy
Comments: For two years, I lived next to these 4
guys in Lightsey (the same guys, mind you--we moved, but
they moved right next door to us!) who played their sound
system with the bass pumping ALL THE TIME. I lost count
of how many times I asked them to turn it down, or when I
was too tired, simply banged on the wall. If you've ever
lived with me, you'd know why I chose the option I did.
Also, I'm trying to learn to play the guitar, so I AM
that guy. :)
Name: McDave
Choice: bass
Comments: Well, considering that Kevin and I had
suitemates who had the loud, pulsating bass thing going
our entire freshman year, I am somewhat amazed by my
choice. But the guy who doesn't know any guitar chords
will bring up bitter memories of how I made a weak
attempt at learning guitar right before college. (It went
nowhere because I had a very busy senior year of high
school, and I soon had to give up on the idea. Of course,
all of those people I knew at Clemson like Darren Lord
who made guitar-playing look easy really help to form the
bitter part of the memory.) :>)
Anywhoo...my bed from freshman
year was on the wall next to the bass system. And my only
real complaint (besides having to hear it at 3 a.m. on a
Sunday morning) was that I could ONLY hear the bass, that
the bass had an extremely boring and repeating pattern,
and that the guys only had these really long,
15-minute-plus songs. Maybe it would be better if I'm
actually in the same room.
Besides, I now own a small
subwoofer, so it would somehow be wrong of me to
publically condem loud, pulsating bass...not really, but
I had to add something else to make me feel better about
my choice.
Name: Bonnie
Choice: guy
Comments: [The bass] is one of the most annoying
things ever! Especially if you are trying to sleep or do
homework.
Name: Kimmy
Choice: guy
Comments: because, there is usually no rhythm to
[the bass], it's just long notes. such as:
daaaaaaaaaaaaaaa daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa daaaaaaaaaaaaa and
that's it, and not only do you ahve to hear it but you
have to feel it too!!
Name: Heather
Who: (Super)Dave's girlfriend
Choice: bass
Comments: I figure after a while I could ignore
the sound or maybe find some earplugs, but the guy with
the guitar would vary his playing/singing and that I
couldn't ignore
Name: Kevin
Choice: guy
Comments: People, it's a trick question. The guy
is John Cliver, and he is on a roll with a comedic song.
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