[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by Davonu

You can avoid the toenail fungus, not the sudden unexpected screaming.

If you have a problem with noise, at an amplified musical performance, then don't go to amplified musical performances.

[fdpaq0580]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

That has nothing to do with this thread or its topic. Mark CAN control his spinning. He likes spinning, it feels good. I asked him about it when I gave him a ride one night when I saw him a couple of blocks away from the square, we were both headed in that direction. He spins because he LIKES it, not because he's compelled to do it.

Can he also control his shrieks? Really want to know. I don't know Mark. You, apparently, do.

[Davonu]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

If you have a problem with noise, at an amplified musical performance, then don't go to amplified musical performances.

You equate so many things ridiculously. Now it’s amplified music on stage equals sudden, unexpected blood curdling screams from an audience member.

[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by Davonu

You equate so many things ridiculously. Now it’s amplified music on stage equals sudden, unexpected blood curdling screams.

Blood curdling screams??? (I guess my blood is made of stouter stuff)

[Davonu]

Originally Posted by Bill14564

Blood curdling screams??? (I guess my blood is made of stouter stuff)

Maybe. But I doubt you’ve been standing right beside or in front of him when he let one go.

[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by Davonu

Maybe. But I doubt you’ve been standing right beside or in front of him when he let one go.

Very few have - that isn't what he does. Judging from the way he carries himself he is very aware of his surroundings and considerate of others. That's more than can be said of some of the dancers, a few of the dogs (and owners), and most of the drunks.

[I'm Popeye!]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

If you have a problem with noise, at an amplified musical performance, then don't go to amplified musical performances.

I went to a baseball game just last month:
. . . . . . . The guy two seats behind me every 5 minutes or so kept yelling from the top of his lungs, "Kill the Umpire!"
Mark is everywhere!

[Funkman]

Someone enjoying himself at a concert?!

We'll have none of that around here.





Personally, I love seeing people enjoying themselves at the squares and Mark does just that.

[fdpaq0580]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

If you have a problem with noise, at an amplified musical performance, then don't go to amplified musical performances.

Obviously, there is no problem with the amplified music performances! The concern is the unexpected loud screams/shrieks. You get it, but you, apparently, don't want to acknowledge that can be annoying and startling. Since you like or feel sorry for Mark, you are willing to make allowances for him that others don't feel they should have to. Especially since you told us he is in control his movements. And, I'm still waiting for the answer to my question on whether he is also in control of his screams/shrieks. Or, are the vocalizations uncontrollable, like someone with Tourettes syndrome

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by fdpaq0580

Obviously, there is no problem with the amplified music performances! The concern is the unexpected loud screams/shrieks. You get it, but you, apparently, don't want to acknowledge that can be annoying and startling. Since you like or feel sorry for Mark, you are willing to make allowances for him that others don't feel they should have to. Especially since you told us he is in control his movements. And, I'm still waiting for the answer to my question on whether he is also in control of his screams/shrieks. Or, are the vocalizations uncontrollable, like someone with Tourettes syndrome

They are CONTROLLED. Not just controllable. They are intentional. He is getting into the music, and expressing himself to the beat of it, at certain spots of the song, always in sets of three, usually with an actual verbal count. In words. Three, two, one (or maybe it's one, two, three - I haven't been to the square in a few weeks).

Seriously - there's only a small handful of people who have an actual "problem" with the guy. If everyone else is okay with it, or (dare we dare?) tolerant...

then maybe the problem is you, and not him.

[fdpaq0580]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

They are CONTROLLED. Not just controllable. They are intentional. He is getting into the music, and expressing himself to the beat of it, at certain spots of the song, always in sets of three, usually with an actual verbal count. In words. Three, two, one (or maybe it's one, two, three - I haven't been to the square in a few weeks).

Seriously - there's only a small handful of people who have an actual "problem" with the guy. If everyone else is okay with it, or (dare we dare?) tolerant...

then maybe the problem is you, and not him.

Possibly so. There are always those who are different. Likewise, there are aways those who find certain others less tolerable. Human nature ensures that there will always be a certain amount of friction.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by fdpaq0580

Possibly so. There are always those who are different. Likewise, there are aways those who find certain others less tolerable. Human nature ensures that there will always be a certain amount of friction.

I find people having full conversations, loudly, while sitting directly behind or in front of me at a musical performance to be intolerable. I find it rude and disrespectful to the audience and the musicians. I get the occasional comment like "oh yeah check out that bass riff!" or "hey Stymie's here, let's call him over" or whatever. But complete, full, in-depth conversations - not acceptable. You can enjoy conversation at the dinner table, in the car, at each others' houses, at the bowling alley, at a wedding, at a driveway party - so many places you can have conversations.

It's even worse when they're in front of you and they push their chair back when they sit down to give themselves more room in front of them, making it difficult for you to leave and go somewhere else. Then you can triple the fun when one lights a cigarette.

And then you have to be "that woman" who asks her to a) put the cigarette out, b) push her chair back where she found it, and c) be aware of the fact that you're at a musical performance and you can either dance or listen, you can talk between songs, or when they go on break. I don't want to hear about your cousin Murray's gall bladder operation.

[I'm Popeye!]

I'm beginning to like you OrangeBlossomLady.... Two "likes" in a row from me!

[manaboutown]

From the video the baton man moves like Lurch or Herman Munster.

[margaretmattson]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

I find people having full conversations, loudly, while sitting directly behind or in front of me at a musical performance to be intolerable. I find it rude and disrespectful to the audience and the musicians. I get the occasional comment like "oh yeah check out that bass riff!" or "hey Stymie's here, let's call him over" or whatever. But complete, full, in-depth conversations - not acceptable. You can enjoy conversation at the dinner table, in the car, at each others' houses, at the bowling alley, at a wedding, at a driveway party - so many places you can have conversations.

It's even worse when they're in front of you and they push their chair back when they sit down to give themselves more room in front of them, making it difficult for you to leave and go somewhere else. Then you can triple the fun when one lights a cigarette.

And then you have to be "that woman" who asks her to a) put the cigarette out, b) push her chair back where she found it, and c) be aware of the fact that you're at a musical performance and you can either dance or listen, you can talk between songs, or when they go on break. I don't want to hear about your cousin Murray's gall bladder operation.

You forgot to mention the chair hogs and stealers. Pillows and blankets on nine chairs for an hour with owners nowhere in sight. Get up from your seat for one brief moment, your chair has disappeared. Ask others around if they saw where it went, no one saw anything.