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Vox presents an article about restaurant noise levels and why they've risen over the years.
When the Line Hotel opened in Washington, DC, last December, the cocktail bars, gourmet coffee shops, and restaurants that fill its cavernous lobby drew a lot of buzz. Housed in a century-old church, the space was also reputedly beautiful.
My first visit in February confirmed that the Line was indeed as sleek as my friends and restaurant critics had suggested. There was just one problem: I wanted to leave almost as soon as I walked in. My ears were invaded by a deafening din.
[...] In reckoning with this underappreciated health threat, I’ve been wondering how we got here and why any well-meaning restaurateur would inflict this pain on his or her patrons and staff. I learned that there are a number of reasons — and they mostly have to do with restaurant design trends. In exposing them, I hope restaurateurs will take note: You may be deafening your staff and patrons.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Grishnakh on Friday April 20 2018, @12:58PM (3 children)
And I should have left that church a lot earlier.
This line needs to be emphasized here. It's absolutely true, no matter which church you're talking about, if it's a church in America, and it's not just because of the noise level.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 20 2018, @04:13PM (1 child)
Oh, yes, that's right. American churches. The European ones are SO much cooler.
You are such a pathetic tool.
(Score: 4, Funny) by bob_super on Friday April 20 2018, @04:38PM
> American churches. The European ones are SO much cooler.
Made of ancient stone, badly heated, and mostly empty outside of Christmas/Easter. They are literally a lot cooler.
Much much fewer are Evangelical, too.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Friday April 20 2018, @06:00PM
You are making assumptions. There are decent churches in the US, at least. I know of three. I don't go to any of them, being a heretical gnostic pagan of the Jungian faith, but they are still good churches. They do their best to promote ethics and self-awareness. And they fulfill a social need that for many people is much stronger than their religious needs.
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