> http://bit.ly/9DX8HO
>
> New Yorkers' Most Private Moments? Not So Private
> Updated: 1 day ago
>
> (Feb. 12) -- In New York City, even the sex is louder.
>
Oh yes, because the liberal NY people do it on purpose to annoy their neighbors. (This article looks like writting by some puritan Texan, doesn´t it?).
> And a surprising amount of them are not registering complaints about it.
> While most surveyed said they'd rather not be subjected to their neighbors'
> carnal sounds, only 14 percent ever tried to stop them.
>
Stop other people from having fun?? Sheesh.
> Why not? "I would be afraid they might complain about me," one woman told
> BrickUnderground.
>
Surprise, surprise.
> "What this shows is if you live in New York City, you don't need to worry
> about keeping quiet in bed on Valentine's Day because the chances are slim
> that someone is going to complain," BrickUnderground founder Teri Karush
> Rogers told The New York Post.
>
A slow news day at the Post, it seems.
> The survey also said that a full fifth of those surveyed said it actually
> turned them on.
>
A full fifth? That´s surprisingly low. But then perhaps it´s just me. :-P
> Not everyone, however, is so excited. One frustrated New Yorker took her
> complaints to a Brooklyn blog instead of the authorities. "I heard
> everything!" she wrote.
That sounds like a good way NOT to fix things.
> "I hate to be a buzzkill
She is and likes it... Like every phrase that starts with "I hate to be a..... but"
but if they really feel the need to explore their sexual needs in public
Since when is a private apartment "public"?
> they should at least try to keep it on the low. My building is very old I
> hear every footstep on the roof and in the hallways."
>
In the end, I think this news story is a subtle advertisement for soundproofing systems.... to remind those that have once thought about this issue and give them a little push in the investment.
http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/6-4-2004-55087.asp
As the very aptly titled book "Toxic sludge is good for you!" says:
"Few outside the public relations industry know how well PR really works, and fewer still realize how often we are persuaded by it. Nor do many of us know how much of our "news" and other information originates from the desks of public relations proctitioners. "The best PR is never noticed", says the proud unwritten slogan of the trade"
FC