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- Kung-fu Hillbilly
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I really enjoy the atmosphere created in some places by the calls to prayer when the singer and volumes are reasonable, and I find you get used to the 4.30 morning calls eventually to sleep straight through. Don't get me started on when they let the kids run amok each day on microphones with that squealing nonsense.Spigzy wrote: ↑Thu Jul 21, 2022 12:58 pm I was staying in a hotel down near Sepang once upon a time, the call to prayer was delivered simply by the muezzin up his little minaret & he had a decent voice that wasn't intrusive at all. Top marks. Once it gets distorted through a PA system & put to volume 11 like Khmer weddings, grr.. Nothing traditional about that, it is like an audio version of Instagram "model" looking for attention at any cost.
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When it’s natural, it feels genuine. When it’s cranked up to defeat the neighbouring imam, it loses all legitimacy. What I used to call the 5am Karoake. Fleeting thought- what a service I could provide with just a pair of wire cutters.Kung-fu Hillbilly wrote: ↑Thu Jul 21, 2022 1:10 pmI really enjoy the atmosphere created in some places by the calls to prayer when the singer and volumes are reasonable, and I find you get used to the 4.30 morning calls eventually to sleep straight through. Don't get me started on when they let the kids run amok each day on microphones with that squealing nonsense.Spigzy wrote: ↑Thu Jul 21, 2022 12:58 pm I was staying in a hotel down near Sepang once upon a time, the call to prayer was delivered simply by the muezzin up his little minaret & he had a decent voice that wasn't intrusive at all. Top marks. Once it gets distorted through a PA system & put to volume 11 like Khmer weddings, grr.. Nothing traditional about that, it is like an audio version of Instagram "model" looking for attention at any cost.
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i lived in a moslem village in Phuket for over 22 years, the first call told me i had 90 more minutes of sleepKung-fu Hillbilly wrote: ↑Thu Jul 21, 2022 1:10 pmI really enjoy the atmosphere created in some places by the calls to prayer when the singer and volumes are reasonable, and I find you get used to the 4.30 morning calls eventually to sleep straight through. Don't get me started on when they let the kids run amok each day on microphones with that squealing nonsense.Spigzy wrote: ↑Thu Jul 21, 2022 12:58 pm I was staying in a hotel down near Sepang once upon a time, the call to prayer was delivered simply by the muezzin up his little minaret & he had a decent voice that wasn't intrusive at all. Top marks. Once it gets distorted through a PA system & put to volume 11 like Khmer weddings, grr.. Nothing traditional about that, it is like an audio version of Instagram "model" looking for attention at any cost.
I'll take the call to prayer over drunks singing karaoke here in Kep anyday
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Once I brought one of my Thai dinner companions to Jakarta each time she heard the loud speakers over the city she’ll giggle and say the city dogs are hungry again.phuketrichard wrote: ↑Thu Jul 21, 2022 2:45 pmi lived in a moslem village in Phuket for over 22 years, the first call told me i had 90 more minutes of sleepKung-fu Hillbilly wrote: ↑Thu Jul 21, 2022 1:10 pmI really enjoy the atmosphere created in some places by the calls to prayer when the singer and volumes are reasonable, and I find you get used to the 4.30 morning calls eventually to sleep straight through. Don't get me started on when they let the kids run amok each day on microphones with that squealing nonsense.Spigzy wrote: ↑Thu Jul 21, 2022 12:58 pm I was staying in a hotel down near Sepang once upon a time, the call to prayer was delivered simply by the muezzin up his little minaret & he had a decent voice that wasn't intrusive at all. Top marks. Once it gets distorted through a PA system & put to volume 11 like Khmer weddings, grr.. Nothing traditional about that, it is like an audio version of Instagram "model" looking for attention at any cost.
I'll take the call to prayer over drunks singing karaoke here in Kep anyday
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Like listening to evangelists, and all the others who seem to conclude that devotion is directly proportionate to volume.
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Another one:
I remember a drunk swiss guy spray-painting big roadside pictures of the late King of Thailand in Bangkok. He was pardoned after a short term in jail and left the country alive.
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Just like in Phnom Penh in the past. The nam pang lady would do her morning rounds calling out "nam pang, nam pang". Now they use a recording played through a loud speaker. They think it's progress, but to me it's lost its old world charm.Freightdog wrote: ↑Thu Jul 21, 2022 2:24 pmWhen it’s natural, it feels genuine. When it’s cranked up to defeat the neighbouring imam, it loses all legitimacy. What I used to call the 5am Karoake. Fleeting thought- what a service I could provide with just a pair of wire cutters.Kung-fu Hillbilly wrote: ↑Thu Jul 21, 2022 1:10 pmI really enjoy the atmosphere created in some places by the calls to prayer when the singer and volumes are reasonable, and I find you get used to the 4.30 morning calls eventually to sleep straight through. Don't get me started on when they let the kids run amok each day on microphones with that squealing nonsense.Spigzy wrote: ↑Thu Jul 21, 2022 12:58 pm I was staying in a hotel down near Sepang once upon a time, the call to prayer was delivered simply by the muezzin up his little minaret & he had a decent voice that wasn't intrusive at all. Top marks. Once it gets distorted through a PA system & put to volume 11 like Khmer weddings, grr.. Nothing traditional about that, it is like an audio version of Instagram "model" looking for attention at any cost.
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It's going to be OK.
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I always liked how in Istanbul the bars would turn down the music while the call to payer was on but everyone carried on serving/drinking beerKung-fu Hillbilly wrote: ↑Thu Jul 21, 2022 1:10 pmI really enjoy the atmosphere created in some places by the calls to prayer when the singer and volumes are reasonable, and I find you get used to the 4.30 morning calls eventually to sleep straight through. Don't get me started on when they let the kids run amok each day on microphones with that squealing nonsense.Spigzy wrote: ↑Thu Jul 21, 2022 12:58 pm I was staying in a hotel down near Sepang once upon a time, the call to prayer was delivered simply by the muezzin up his little minaret & he had a decent voice that wasn't intrusive at all. Top marks. Once it gets distorted through a PA system & put to volume 11 like Khmer weddings, grr.. Nothing traditional about that, it is like an audio version of Instagram "model" looking for attention at any cost.
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"i'll take the call to prayer over drunks singing karaoke here in Kep anyday "
"...always liked how in Istanbul the bars would turn down the music while the call to payer "
And anything else related to supporting mentally weak adults talking to invisible ghost and fairy tales.
Biggest con in the world makes Madoff look like a milk bottle money thief, comparing the amount stolen and of destruction to society.
"...always liked how in Istanbul the bars would turn down the music while the call to payer "
And anything else related to supporting mentally weak adults talking to invisible ghost and fairy tales.
Biggest con in the world makes Madoff look like a milk bottle money thief, comparing the amount stolen and of destruction to society.
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