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2005-07-26 Afghanistan/South Asia

400 cases in Punjab for misuse of loudspeaker

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Posted by Fred 2005-07-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Now, go to Roxbury and Dorchester and get all the 200 watt car stereos pumping out neanderthal gruntings that you can feel from the bass kickers four blocks away, then I'll be impressed.

Posted by Raj 2005-07-26 01:11|| 2005-07-26 01:11|| Front Page Top

#2 There's nothing quite like being in a place where you can hear 3 or 4 "calls to prayer" simultaneously - they're all on the same schedule, y'know - but since their watches are out of synch, so is the wailing.

Fucking surreal.

Absolutely hysterically funny when one drops his microphone in mid-wail, too. You get relief from the insanity where you can, heh.

Posted by .com 2005-07-26 01:23|| 2005-07-26 01:23|| Front Page Top

#3 At least in Germany, in our little village, all the various churchbells went off at precisely the same time. Of course, until the last one was done, there was no point trying to make oneself heard when we were sitting out in our little garden (my lawn was precisely 1 meter square -- I used to "mow" it with my kitchen scissors). And of course, the bells were all perfectly in tune. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2005-07-26 06:18|| 2005-07-26 06:18|| Front Page Top