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There was a coffee shop ages ago in SF that would every few hours play a cacophony (e.g. multiple songs at once). I assume it was to drive away people camping o
by inlined 8mo ago
There was a coffee shop ages ago in SF that would every few hours play a cacophony (e.g. multiple songs at once). I assume it was to drive away people camping on their laptops to rotate tables. Understand but super annoying to people like me who had a timer to but food or drink no less than hourly to be a good citizen
- acomjean 8mo agoWe had a friend who would play Metal when the ice cream store he worked at was closed but the customers were lingering too long. It generally worked, as he was immune.
- WalterBright 8mo agoI play disco music to keep the kids off my lawn.
- reincarnate0x14 8mo agoI introduced my local restaurant owner to Mongolian Techno and the late night bar flies and some of the kitchen staff have never forgiven me. He won't admit if he plays it for himself, or because of them :)
- fragmede 8mo agoeg https://youtu.be/9uMtnH7cABg https://youtu.be/9uMtnH7cABg for the curious.
- vrighter 8mo agothis is awesome!
- reincarnate0x14 8mo agoIt's 3am and we're arguing some insipid minutae over technically illegal tequila shots while one drunk girl is breaking it down on the tiny dance floor :)
- bigiain 8mo agoA live music venue near me plays this when it's time for people to GTFO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Tiz6INF7I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Tiz6INF7I
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 8mo agoI was at a coffee shop once that was playing metal while my writing group was meeting there and I just thought they had excellent taste (it was not near closing time)
- nerdsniper 8mo agoWe did this where I bartended as well. Generally 15-20 minutes after serving the last drink of the night. The goal wasn’t to offend or clear out 100% of the customers - just make a large enough portion decide that outside might be more comfortable/conducive than inside. The 20 or so customers who were fine with the cacophony were easy enough to wrangle manually, and also generally either people we knew well .
- kstenerud 8mo agoIn Japan it's pretty much an institution that shops play an instrumental version of Hotaru no Hikari (which is basically Auld Lang Syne with different lyrics) when they're closing. Most Japanese know it as "the closing song"
- ralferoo 8mo agoIt's maybe best not to give too much context to this, except just to warn you to turn down the volume and not watch if you might suffer from epilepsy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJT8vfraCmk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJT8vfraCmk When this was first presented, I was watching this in a large dark hall with this on the projector and the sound level set to extremely loud. Like a fool, I sat through this to the end wondering whether it was going to ever end rather than recognising it as a glorious troll.
- CTDOCodebases 8mo agoThat's extremely annoying. I have a Bluetooth speaker that I was intending to repurpose into a device to combat inconsiderate smart phone usage. I connected it to my laptop and started playing multiple streams of Punjabi MC - Beware of the Boys. It was torturous. My other idea was to get the line from dumb and dumber "Do you want to hear the most annoying sound in the world..." And just loop the sound continuously. I might just try this project though and see how it goes.
- paradox460 8mo agoCarissa's Wierd used to put cacophony at the end of some of their songs to clear the house out as well