The only thing to fear is phobophobia.
This is not good. People shouldn’t crap their dogs on the tennis courts, for various obvious reasons. I don’t know why anyone would take a dog there, except maybe to let it out without a leash but not have it run too far away. Sounds like bad and/or lazy dog-parenting to me, but what do I know, I’ve never had a dog.
I’m not talking about how loud it was, I’m talking about how painful it was. Getting hit by that car hurt as much as 65 dB, and 65 dB hurts as much as getting hit by that car. More when I have a bad migraine.
I know doctors prefer “on a scale of 1 to 10,” but that’s really uninformative without reference values.
Most dog owners I know have voiced disgust and disdain for the minority of dog owners who:
My gripe is people who let their large dogs in very small food retail spaces where there are food safety regulations against allowing non-service animals, or sprawl on customer seating in human hair salons. “Oh I’ll just stand, no point in a paying customer displacing a Great Dane.”
I feel comfortable calling these behaviors out as negligent or antisocial, because loving dog owners who care for their pets call them out too. If you don’t have a disability and are habitually bringing your Pekingese with you into a supermarket and sitting it in the grocery cart basket, you need to reorder your life like order your groceries online or pay for a dog sitter if your dog has separation anxiety
One of our local restaurants advertises that it welcomes “dogs and their well behaved owners”, which for me sums it up.
But, I feel the need to point out, so is the Bel scale. That’s why, for instance, sound has to be referenced to dBmWm-1 - deciBels relative to 1mW at a distance of 1M - or dBmW at ear, which is very different indeed.
So I can’t understand your scale because knowing that the construction noise was about three times worse than being hit by the car doesn’t tell me how bad either is compared, say, to my recurrent backache.
I’d like to understand your problem better if writing about it would help you, but your dB scale is no more helpful to me that 1-10 (which is really a log scale anyway and would be 10-100dB,.)
Edit - actually I’m wrong. The reliable level of discrimination for humans is approximately the 5th root of 100, or about 2.5, which was the original “order of magnitude”, the relative visible brightness of stars that observers agreed on.
A 0-10 scale in perceptual terms is roughly a range of 10 000 therefore. That would be a range of 40dB.
How can you accurately measure that?
Also, either 65 dB is way low, it was a minor accident, or your sensory issues are so bad that normal talking causes you intense pain.
I took a sound level meter to an equivalently painful sound; it wasn’t beeping and it wasn’t high-pitched, so I don’t know what may have thrown off the measurement.
It was a minor accident, though my scars often still hurt.
And my hearing is more sensitive than most people’s. Normal talking doesn’t usually hurt, but busy places do, waiting areas with flashing and blaring painscreens do, lawnmowers and leafblowers and helicopters do, etc.
But the really frustrating thing is that ear protection never fits right, so it only provides 1/4 the rated attenuation in decibels, so I have to wear the heaviest and most uncomfortable protection I can for errands, and it’s not enough protection.
It’s mathematically screwy, but it’s probably possible to convert from a noise scale to a pain scale by setting values for the limit of hearing, the loudness discomfort level, and the pain threshhold.
The high-frequency noises are the worst. I can hear coil whine and some outlets - which makes work a living hell. The electronics security system emits a high-frequency noise constantly.
(I’m only a high-freq hearer, I can’t possibly imagine the pain high sensitivity to sound would be.)
As an owner of three small dogs, one dominant, one neurotic and one terrified of his shadow, let me tell you, I also hate those people. Add in the people that don’t pick up poop! C’mon! Thats just so rude!
And side to that: I hate people that bring small children into the off leash areas! We’re in here to keep you safe! Dont bring your toddler in here! Sure, your freaking toddler “loves” dogs, but she is going to get knocked down in here and you’re going to be upset but you’ll still be in the wrong! And yes, my dogs are small, they are not puppies, do not pick them up and no you cannot pet them, they do not like children. (The looks I get from parents when I say that my god, I’m being proactive here! Don’t give me shit!) my old Doxie loved knocking down toddlers so she could lick their faces. And she weighed 12lbs! 12lbs of dog will knock your child down, I’m sorry they’re crying but tears are delicious and you shouldn’t bring your toddler into the off leash!
You know, we don’t have a dog, and it’s not because we don’t like dogs, far from it… it’s because we know that our current life (2 parents with jobs and a teenager in school) means that we can’t take care of a dog the way it needs to be taken care of. Dogs are higher maintenance than cats, in many ways (though they tend to be more loving towards their owners). If people can’t put in the time and effort to take care of an animal that’s depending on you, they really shouldn’t get it. It’s just cruel to the animal.
When I was winding my way across Texas on a bicycle, on highway 90 between Langtry and Marfa, there were places you could hear the telephone lines buzzing. There were also places where it was so still, all you’d hear was an occasional bird.
People that mistreat or don’t take of their animals have a special place in hell.
Agreed. They depend on us to take care of them. Abusing animals is right up there with child abuse or spousal/partner abuse.
A guy who was involved in a bias incident a few years back that left me both mentally shaken and physically injured keeps trying to weasel his way into a team project I’m leading.
What I don’t think he realizes is that by trying to force me into having to answer questions about why I won’t let him participate is that I’ll be honest with everyone involved about why I haven’t added him to the team.
Keep grinding my gears, pal.
Do you have an HR department you can go to and say: I need to register an accommodation, because of what this guy has done to me in the past he and I cannot work on the same projects?
I really wish. This isn’t at my actual job, it’s at a non-profit that doesn’t have an HR department. I’ve been volunteering to maintain some educational resources for them for a few years.
It’s a little bit of a mess. He’s actually married to the director of the non-profit. She hires heavily (for what few salaried positions this NP has) from his academic unit.
HOLY FUCK the GOP is confusing the tax bill with their Christmas wish list!
There was never any confusion.
They are clarifying who gets to be first against the wall.
Is the revolution in fact coming?
I’ve been sharpening my pitchfork for ever so long now.
It starts next Tuesday at 1:30PM UTC. Don’t be late.