God Damn AIRSHOW!!!!!

[Sannum]

At work, nothing was happening, so they just let us all go home instead of getting paid to surf the net.

I am home, and of course, there is a fucking fascist, noisy airshow on the lake! Which is RIGHT NEXT to my apartment! This is going on all weekend apparently, which ruins my weekend schedule of sleeping in and watching bad movies and ordering chinese food:grr:

[WeRQ4U]

1. Why is the airshow "facist"?

Lol. That's just a funny adjective.

[Sannum]

2. Large displays of military power

Smells like it to me.

[WeRQ4U]

5. Ahhhh.

I wondered, because all the airshows that I had been to had been performed mainly by local small plane pilots and the standard "blue angels" type troop as well. THere was a smell of military but nothing dictatorial.

Did they have f-16's and b-52's flying around or something?

[greatauntoftriplets]

17. Yes, all kinds of military hardware plus the Thunderbirds....

There usually is a full Marine "attack" on the Chicagoland lakefront to be enjoyed by a million cheering fans. Can you guess that I have never attended? Having to listen from the privacy of my home is bad enough.

After last year's show, the neighbor with a small baby wrote an angry letter to the local newspaper. I congratulated him on it.

[Montauk6]

20. Smells Like Military Power

Sounds like a Nirvana tune.

[ret5hd]

4. i think that a display of the military might...

of a fascist government could be described as a fascist event...but that's just me. :shrug:

[Blue-Jay]

7. The airshow has been going on longer than the * admin.

just sayin'...

[RebelOne]

3. I know air shows are noisy, but fascist?

Anyway, why not make the best of it and watch the show if you can see it from your apartment.

[Blue-Jay]

6. I believe I'll walk over to the lake at lunch.

I like airshows, and my office building is only a couple of blocks away.

Put on headphones and play some nice music to drown the sounds out.

[miss_kitty]

8. you have my total sympathy and support, Sannum

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=3793334

Fascist military-industrial complex displays of WMDs and a waste of money, designed to seduce kids into the military and adults into thinking it's cool. Propaganda, and we pay for this shit, and less for veteran's health care every goddamned year.

[Sannum]

11. Exactly

It is a waste of money so people will be seduced into thinking that war and military might is just the best thing our tax dollars could ever go towards.

The people flying the planes over my apartment building will probably be hauled over to Iraq in about a year to give their lives a lie. The kids watching will be seduced into thinking that it is cool to be in a war, and the idiotic masses will just love it because this is 'murka and everything is fine because gas has not reached 5.00 a gallon yet.

[Kathleen04]

9. That sucks

No luck sleeping in for me today either. Someone was vacuuming at 8 AM..knock on the door at 9..call at 10..another knock at 11.. x(

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. I'm sorry to hear it!

Airshow noise doesn't bother me at all. Nor do firetruck, police, or ambulance sirens.

Boom cars, though - THOSE piss me off. Or Salsa/Merengue music being played at concert volume by one's less-valuable-than-craack-spoons neighbors.

Sorry that you have to suffer through the planes! I know what it's like to be forced to endure sounds over endless hours that one does not want to endure. My sympathies!

[DS1]

12. Salsa players should be cut to pieces

and I ~might~ mean the electronics

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. You ~might~ mean that, but I don't

:evilgrin:

[XNASA]

13. I like the airshow.

It's the airshow crowds that I avoid.

[tjwmason]

15. I went to university less than 10 miles from R.A.F. Leuchars

Who managed to schedule extra training during revision and exam times. :grr:

Few things can stop the gentle and delicate concatenation of an argument on ideology more swiftly than a few chaps playing with their after-burners.

[greatauntoftriplets]

16. I always pray for rain those days....

:evilgrin:

I live a bit farther north than you and the din here is so bad that my extremely deaf 93-year-old mother hears it.

Has always scared the bejesus out of me. These days, it makes me think of what shock-and-awe must have sounded like to the Iraqi people.

[Sannum]

18. If I could afford it, I would just get out of town.

I have five framed prints on my dining room wall. Only one of them was still on the wall when I got home. Some things had even rattled off of my coffee table.

Let's continue to pray for rain.:). The whole damn building is shaking. Plus, the crowds are horrendous. It took half an hour for my bus to get from Water Tower Place to Wacker!

[barb162]

19. I think of airshows as enormous gasoline wasters and polluters

[Withywindle]

21. SO goddamned LOUD!

And I'm not on the lakefront -- but close enough to have it vibrate the building and terrorize the cats and give me a headache, anyway.



The one the year after 9/11 felt extra special.

[Sannum]

23. I noticed that the main sponsor for the event was

Shell Oil!

How Interesting:shrug:

I think that my cats are going to lose all of their fur. They are shedding like crazy and under the bed.:(

[KitchenWitch]

22. I happen to enjoy air shows

Especially the ones with the vintage planes. I think it is more a show of technology than military might, although there are shows that are focused more on military planes.

I live near a small airport that holds an airshow every year. Yes they are noisy, but usually the planes do not start flying until around 11:00 AM, so it would not disturb my sleeping in.

[greatauntoftriplets]

26. This is mostly military might....

It's a big-time military recruiting event.

:eyes:

Not a "pretend" Marine invasion this year. A "pretend" Army invasion.

http://egov.cityofchicago.org/city/webportal/portalContentItemAction.do?BV_SessionID=@@@@0109344908.1124492148@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccccaddfhheimeecefecelldffhdffn.0&contentOID=536924961&contenTypeName=COC_EDITORIAL&topChannelName=Dept&blockName=Special+Events%2FI+Want+To&context=dept&channelId=0&programId=0&entityName=Special+Events&deptMainCategoryOID=

[Redstone]

28. I like airshows too. So do a lot of other people.

Doesn't mean you're fascist or anything else. Just means you like airplanes, which I have for as long as I can remember.

Besides, you're gonna live in the city (especially a large city like Chicago) and expect quiet?

Redstone

[SoCalDem]

24. Does your TV have earplugs?

Close your drapes, veg out and lounge:)

[LSK]

25. Chicago?

I heard the Air and Water show is this weekend.

[Sannum]

27. Yes....

I have been hearing it all day. I will be hearing it all weekend. They are passing out earplugs in my building. They are saying to keep them in if it gets to bad.:crazy: