Insulting people on an audiophile forum and pulling "discussion" into monolithic "if you are not blindly with me you are a horrible person against me" is not a way to get anything accross. This is an audio-related forum where some innocent teasing may be the way it goes, but throwing one's anger at people and insulting them with one's self-righteousness should not happen.
Think fast: What would you take?
I live in beautiful Portland, Oregon.
Pandemics, riots, rain, no rain, economic turmoil, comets...
Now we have devastating fires.
One of my audio buddies is waiting in an evacuation center, awaiting the horrible news that he's lost his home. A couple others are at level 2 ready to abandon their homes. These guys are the best audiophile guys you could ever hope to have around. You probably know them.
With light rain in the forecast (Monday), I feel fairly safe.
But, I have collected one small suit case, just in case. My car will be loaded with camping gear. A photo album. Maybe a friend or 2.
Of the items in my listening room, I know I can't take any equipment. Maybe a couple Lps? No, I could replace those.
So, I ask you: What would you take?
Hopefully, you'll never be in such a situation.
Pandemics, riots, rain, no rain, economic turmoil, comets...
Now we have devastating fires.
One of my audio buddies is waiting in an evacuation center, awaiting the horrible news that he's lost his home. A couple others are at level 2 ready to abandon their homes. These guys are the best audiophile guys you could ever hope to have around. You probably know them.
With light rain in the forecast (Monday), I feel fairly safe.
But, I have collected one small suit case, just in case. My car will be loaded with camping gear. A photo album. Maybe a friend or 2.
Of the items in my listening room, I know I can't take any equipment. Maybe a couple Lps? No, I could replace those.
So, I ask you: What would you take?
Hopefully, you'll never be in such a situation.
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"Just one who was a police captain, one a fire battalion chief and the other was a DA for environmental crimes." https://www.threeuncles.co.uk/ https://www.instagram.com/three.uncles/?hl=en |
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Audio-related, I would take my Walkman (it is loaded with all the music I have), a few pairs of earphones/headphones, and two or three transistor radios with a bunch of fresh batteries. Otherwise, things that nonoise and a number of others mentioned. "Never was any reason to quarantine..." Says the man who shook like a leaf on the tree when it all started. "These aren’t passive events. We aren’t helpless victims..." millercarbon, Have some respect for those who were active while you were screaming from under the rock. Some of your kind were trying to help those affected, pushing machines from room to room, pushing plates under and from under the helpless victims. You hid. Allow some dignity for those on these incomplete lists. Do it in silence, please. https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/927976 https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/85867 |