Chicago was talking about doing this too. It seems like an interesting idea.
How much could it actually cost the city? I mean, especially if the speakers are already there.

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Quit biatching about stupid shiat subby - some people in the world have actual problems

Screw bird songs.

Give the people what they want! Give them...Angry Birds!

mrmyxolodian: Chicago was talking about doing this too. It seems like an interesting idea.
How much could it actually cost the city? I mean, especially if the speakers are already there.

The royalties are pretty harsh. Then you get into the whole issue of species discrimination. If the city is spending taxpayer money on sparrow sounds, then why can't howler monkeys also be broadcast? What about cicadas? Sure, they are annoying, but they have rights too. The whole thing could be tied up in the courts for years to come if the mayor tries to push it forward.

imbrial: Quit biatching about stupid shiat subby - some people in the world have actual problems

Like living in the desert.

mrmyxolodian: How much could it actually cost the city?

I think it would be cheep... cheep... cheep.

I only know the one "bird song." Presumably you've heard of it. Oh... you haven't? I thought everybody'd heard about the bird.

mrmyxolodian: Chicago was talking about doing this too. It seems like an interesting idea.
How much could it actually cost the city? I mean, especially if the speakers are already there.

If all your birds are dead, that implies you've poisoned your living space in ways that will last for decades. Why aren't you angry about it?

They want new batteries for their hoverounds.

Oops. Wrong thread. Bigdogdaddy: They want new batteries for their hoverounds.

I vote for the addition of random T-Rex roars.

All police sirens, all the time.

We got that here. I've seen some pretty big raptors by the river.

I'm outraged by this blatant local issue pressed by its duly elected executive. It serves no other point but to further confirm my wildest delusions of the coming statist nightmare.

sounds like something they'd do in Japan

Would hawk cries scare off the pigeons? If so, this might work out well.

oldebayer: Would hawk cries scare off the pigeons? If so, this might work out well.

This is done a lot in Germany. It works. Also Germans often have statues of crows on their buildings.

Meanwhile not a single thread on Egypt has been greenlit since Friday.

AdamK: sounds like something they'd do in Japan

Sounds like something they'd do in Cincinnati. The local township civic building has a nice little landscaped paved walkway on its grounds, replete with motion sensor-activated bird, bullfrog and insect sounds. My taxdollars at work, making nature sound more naturey!

ilambiquated: Meanwhile not a single thread on Egypt has been greenlit since Friday.

Reddit hasn't been posting funny enough headlines to steal.

AdamK: sounds like something they'd do in Japan

so you think we're turning Japanese, you think we're turning Japanese, you really think so?

Only subby can come off like a total butthurt drama b*tch regarding a minor issue nobody else would ever care about.

Enjoy your terminal victim status. Oh the HUMANITY.

It always starts like this.

Needs moar cowbell

It will be just like The Master's coverage.

mrmyxolodian: Chicago was talking about doing this too. It seems like an interesting idea.
How much could it actually cost the city? I mean, especially if the speakers are already there.

That's what I was thinking. If speakers need to be installed, yeah, that's costly. But if they are there, not so much.

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Leaving satisfied

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Ahh, nothing like white people problems.

that sounds nice.

nice chirping birds.

who could have a problem with that?

it's better than having real birds shiatting all over everything.

would THAT make you assholes happy?

would it be better to have the city spend your taxes on buying birds and releasing them all over the city so the birds can shiat all over everyhtng?

or would your rather enjoy nice bird chirping without having to clean bird shiat up from everything?

Before you know it cities across the nation will take on one form of this or another. Kind of like the Chinese did with their propaganda announcements across their burgs.

/The Overton Window advances one pace.

A cd of nature sounds costs about $15, if they already have the speakers for it it's hardly going to be a big expense. Plus it has the advantage of testing the speakers regularily without freaking people out or making them learn to ignore the sirens.

There's a similar system in some of the Oregon coast towns, they use cow moos to test the tsunami-warning system.

dmike: Ah, the place I live currently hit Fark, been wondering how long until this happens. We have a whole lot of aerospace, a whole lot of gangs, a decent amount of meth, and a whole lot of teabaggers in our awesome little segment of LA County...

Proof that science leans ultra right wing, scientists are basically gang members and their atheism turns their teenagers to crime, and that teabaggers really are on drugs.

grxymkjbn: AdamK: sounds like something they'd do in Japan

Sounds like something they'd do in Cincinnati. The local township civic building has a nice little landscaped paved walkway on its grounds, replete with motion sensor-activated bird, bullfrog and insect sounds. My taxdollars at work, making nature sound more naturey!

Would you like me to mail you a penny? You'll have to cut out your fraction and send it back, of course...

LoadShark: Before you know it cities across the nation will take on one form of this or another. Kind of like the Chinese did with their propaganda announcements across their burgs.

/The Overton Window advances one pace.

I read this as "across their bugs." and I LOL'd. Then I saw what it actually was, and found it to be lame. Just thought you should know.

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I think it would be interesting to see the native birds response to new jungle bird gossip.