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Title: Would you take a beating
Post by: Institutional Control on March 27, 2014, 10:18:22 AM
And spend 15 months in jail for $1.1 million.

Dallas police dash camera video shows incident that led to man's $1.1M settlement with city (http://www.dallasnews.com/news/metro/20140326-dallas-council-oks-1.1-million-settlement-in-police-abuse-case.ece)
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: EllRobersonisInnocent on March 27, 2014, 10:18:40 AM
Nope
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on March 27, 2014, 10:19:45 AM
Nah. I've never been beat  up before. It sounds awful.
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: Emo EMAW on March 27, 2014, 10:20:47 AM
I wouldn't voluntarily sacrifice any of my freedom for all the money in the world.
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: scottwildcat on March 27, 2014, 10:21:22 AM
1.1 no, 3.1 yes
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: EllRobersonisInnocent on March 27, 2014, 10:21:45 AM
Those cops should be beaten and tossed in prison for 15 months. eff them.
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: steve dave on March 27, 2014, 10:22:24 AM
no, not for any figure. the beating isn't a big deal but losing 15 months of my life is. money is easy to make. time isn't.
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: EllRobersonisInnocent on March 27, 2014, 10:25:19 AM
no, not for any figure. the beating isn't a big deal but losing 15 months of my life is. money is easy to make. time isn't.

I bet you would for $1 billion
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on March 27, 2014, 10:26:13 AM
That video makes me want to murder that cop.
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: The Big Train on March 27, 2014, 12:38:16 PM
Exactly what SD said
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: steve dave on March 27, 2014, 12:39:54 PM
no, not for any figure. the beating isn't a big deal but losing 15 months of my life is. money is easy to make. time isn't.

I bet you would for $1 billion

no, the dollar figure is irrelevant
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: Asteriskhead on March 27, 2014, 12:44:01 PM
no, 15 months is a long rough ridin' time. eff, 1 month is a long rough ridin' time to spend incarcerated.
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: Spracne on March 27, 2014, 12:44:09 PM
no, not for any figure. the beating isn't a big deal but losing 15 months of my life is. money is easy to make. time isn't.

I bet you would for $1 billion

no, the dollar figure is irrelevant

#TheSecret
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: EllRobersonisInnocent on March 27, 2014, 12:44:59 PM
I'd spend 1 yr in Riley County lockup with work release for $100,000.
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: EllRobersonisInnocent on March 27, 2014, 12:45:39 PM
I'd spend 1 yr in Riley County lockup with work release for $100,000.

Make that 3 months.
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: steve dave on March 27, 2014, 12:46:03 PM
I'd spend 1 yr in Riley County lockup with work release for $100,000.

 :lol: :thumbs:
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: Asteriskhead on March 27, 2014, 12:49:40 PM
I'd spend 1 yr in Riley County lockup with work release for $100,000.

you're gE'ing.
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: EllRobersonisInnocent on March 27, 2014, 12:50:34 PM
Did you dorks not read the next post. jfc.
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: DQ12 on March 27, 2014, 12:55:46 PM
As some one who has spent time on the inside, it ain't pretty.  I wouldn't go back for an hour for all the money in the world.
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on March 27, 2014, 12:57:58 PM
As some one who has spent time on the inside, it ain't pretty.  I wouldn't go back for an hour for all the money in the world.
What's it like? :ohno:
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: Asteriskhead on March 27, 2014, 01:00:28 PM
Did you dorks not read the next post. jfc.

even on work release, you would hate it. Do you want me to breakdown what E-Pod's daily schedule is like at RCJ?
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: EllRobersonisInnocent on March 27, 2014, 01:01:11 PM
Did you dorks not read the next post. jfc.

even on work release, you would hate it. Do you want me to breakdown what E-Pod's daily schedule is like at RCJ?

YES!
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: DQ12 on March 27, 2014, 01:01:47 PM
As some one who has spent time on the inside, it ain't pretty.  I wouldn't go back for an hour for all the money in the world.
What's it like? :ohno:
Lonely.
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: EllRobersonisInnocent on March 27, 2014, 01:05:01 PM
Dlew is a hardened criminal. Who woulda thunk it?!
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on March 27, 2014, 01:05:22 PM
As some one who has spent time on the inside, it ain't pretty.  I wouldn't go back for an hour for all the money in the world.
What's it like? :ohno:
Lonely.
:frown: Did anyone mean mug you?
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: bubbles4ksu on March 27, 2014, 01:05:27 PM
i don't know guys. if you had your own cell and a desk you could read all of the classics or master some academic field. you could write a bestselling personal account, title it "my struggle" or something.
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: michigancat on March 27, 2014, 01:07:13 PM
i don't know guys. if you had your own cell and a desk you could read all of the classics or master some academic field. you could write a bestselling personal account, title it "my struggle" or something.

Yeah, I'd consider it.
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: Tobias on March 27, 2014, 01:07:26 PM
it did wonders for chingon
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: steve dave on March 27, 2014, 01:07:46 PM
i don't know guys. if you had your own cell and a desk you could read all of the classics or master some academic field. you could write a bestselling personal account, title it "my struggle" or something.

you can do that without speding 15 months in prison as well
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on March 27, 2014, 01:08:56 PM
I don't know if I could go 15 months without alcohol.  :dunno: Is that bad?
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on March 27, 2014, 01:15:27 PM
OK, so there are lots of people out there who just work work work their asses off for several months/years in a row without taking any days off; work overtime to get extra $$ etc...So it would be kinda like that except you are making $92,593 per hour 24/7 (mocat please check my math). (That's the $1 Billion scenario.)
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: bubbles4ksu on March 27, 2014, 01:17:01 PM
OK, so there are lots of people out there who just work work work their asses off for several months/years in a row without taking any days off; work overtime to get extra $$ etc...So it would be kinda like that except you are making $92,593 per hour 24/7 (mocat please check my math). (That's the $1 Billion scenario.)
yeah some of the economists in here think their time is worth infinity amount of dollars.
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: steve dave on March 27, 2014, 01:18:06 PM
OK, so there are lots of people out there who just work work work their asses off for several months/years in a row without taking any days off; work overtime to get extra $$ etc...So it would be kinda like that except you are making $92,593 per hour 24/7 (mocat please check my math). (That's the $1 Billion scenario.)
yeah some of the economists in here think their time is worth infinity amount of dollars.

it's definitely subjective. if you ask in this thread I'll tell you if your time is worth that or not.
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on March 27, 2014, 01:18:46 PM
OK, so there are lots of people out there who just work work work their asses off for several months/years in a row without taking any days off; work overtime to get extra $$ etc...So it would be kinda like that except you are making $92,593 per hour 24/7 (mocat please check my math). (That's the $1 Billion scenario.)

Yeah, only instead of work work working your ass off doing something you love, you get to hang out with lowlifes all day doing nothing. I don't think they even have cable television in prison. It's bullshit.
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on March 27, 2014, 01:20:25 PM
OK, so there are lots of people out there who just work work work their asses off for several months/years in a row without taking any days off; work overtime to get extra $$ etc...So it would be kinda like that except you are making $92,593 per hour 24/7 (mocat please check my math). (That's the $1 Billion scenario.)
yeah some of the economists in here think their time is worth infinity amount of dollars.

it's definitely subjective. if you ask in this thread I'll tell you each if your time is worth that or not.
I'll bite.
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: steve dave on March 27, 2014, 01:20:58 PM
OK, so there are lots of people out there who just work work work their asses off for several months/years in a row without taking any days off; work overtime to get extra $$ etc...So it would be kinda like that except you are making $92,593 per hour 24/7 (mocat please check my math). (That's the $1 Billion scenario.)
yeah some of the economists in here think their time is worth infinity amount of dollars.

it's definitely subjective. if you ask in this thread I'll tell you each if your time is worth that or not.
I'll bite.

absolutely do it. no downside.
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: DQ12 on March 27, 2014, 01:21:09 PM
 :lol:
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: Tobias on March 27, 2014, 01:21:35 PM
omg
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on March 27, 2014, 01:22:44 PM
OK, so there are lots of people out there who just work work work their asses off for several months/years in a row without taking any days off; work overtime to get extra $$ etc...So it would be kinda like that except you are making $92,593 per hour 24/7 (mocat please check my math). (That's the $1 Billion scenario.)

Yeah, only instead of work work working your ass off doing something you love, you get to hang out with lowlifes all day doing nothing. I don't think they even have cable television in prison. It's bullshit.

You would basically get all your time back within about 5 years by not having to go to work any more.
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on March 27, 2014, 01:23:33 PM
Saw that coming.  :lol: :D
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: Asteriskhead on March 27, 2014, 01:25:09 PM
Did you dorks not read the next post. jfc.

even on work release, you would hate it. Do you want me to breakdown what E-Pod's daily schedule is like at RCJ?

YES!

E-pod is RCJ's work release pod. Unlike the majority of the others, it is unsupervised.

Your day starts at 5:00 am. The guards come in shortly to serve you cold, stale cereal, which alternates between rice krispies and corn flakes. you also get two pieces of burnt toast, milk and kool-aid. The television can be turned on at this point. After breakfast, you must clean the whole pod, bathrooms, bunks, sweep and mop, wipe down tables, everything. If the pod isn't cleaned to the guard's expectations, you must clean it again.

After all the cleaning is done, you have to make your bed and you can't go back to sleep. You're left to watch the filtered cable, playing cards or board games, write or draw, or converse with your podmates. The cable sucks, aside from local channels you get the travel channel and cartoon network.

Lunch is served at 11:30, it's usually terrible. Dinner is served at 5, it sucks too. E-pod is given recreation time twice a week in the evenings. Library trips once a week on the evenings. You're not allowed to swap library books, commissary or cafeteria food. Laundry comes twice a week.

You're strip searched on your way in and out of the facility. You have to submit a time sheet from work, so they can monitor where you've been. The CO's are really good about making you late to work and making you sit outside of the sally port in the weather for extended periods of time.

Lights go out at 11:00, but not really. You're required to be in your bunk. You can't talk or get up and move around if you can't sleep. It's tough to fall asleep since the lights stay on and the bunks are solid metal. Even if you do manage to fall asleep, you'll be woken up in short order, as the CO's will come through at scheduled intervals to do head counts. They always make a racket when they do.

That's a short overview, what specifics do you want to know? Anybody that's saying they could do a stint, or would do a stint, is either lying or doesn't know what they're talking about. The only people I know that have been through a similar situation to incarceration are military veterans.
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: Asteriskhead on March 27, 2014, 01:27:03 PM
OK, so there are lots of people out there who just work work work their asses off for several months/years in a row without taking any days off; work overtime to get extra $$ etc...So it would be kinda like that except you are making $92,593 per hour 24/7 (mocat please check my math). (That's the $1 Billion scenario.)

Yeah, only instead of work work working your ass off doing something you love, you get to hang out with lowlifes all day doing nothing. I don't think they even have cable television in prison. It's bullshit.

Prison has more amenities than jail. The downside is that you're usually there longer and have to spend your time with shittier people.
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on March 27, 2014, 01:28:40 PM
OK, so there are lots of people out there who just work work work their asses off for several months/years in a row without taking any days off; work overtime to get extra $$ etc...So it would be kinda like that except you are making $92,593 per hour 24/7 (mocat please check my math). (That's the $1 Billion scenario.)

Yeah, only instead of work work working your ass off doing something you love, you get to hang out with lowlifes all day doing nothing. I don't think they even have cable television in prison. It's bullshit.

You would basically get all your time back within about 5 years by not having to go to work any more.

Not really. People who work that hard really enjoy the work. Give them $1 billion and they would put that money to work. How many billionaires do you know of who don't keep themselves very busy?
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: Mrs. Gooch on March 27, 2014, 01:40:14 PM
OK, so there are lots of people out there who just work work work their asses off for several months/years in a row without taking any days off; work overtime to get extra $$ etc...So it would be kinda like that except you are making $92,593 per hour 24/7 (mocat please check my math). (That's the $1 Billion scenario.)

Yeah, only instead of work work working your ass off doing something you love, you get to hang out with lowlifes all day doing nothing. I don't think they even have cable television in prison. It's bullshit.

You would basically get all your time back within about 5 years by not having to go to work any more.

Not really. People who work that hard really enjoy the work. Give them $1 billion and they would put that money to work. How many billionaires do you know of who don't keep themselves very busy?

Well none of the billionaires that I know work at all.

But we are talking about normal people who do not currently have a billion dollars, but would get paid a billion dollars for 15 months of "work" in a bad environment.
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: Rage Against the McKee on March 27, 2014, 01:41:33 PM
OK, so there are lots of people out there who just work work work their asses off for several months/years in a row without taking any days off; work overtime to get extra $$ etc...So it would be kinda like that except you are making $92,593 per hour 24/7 (mocat please check my math). (That's the $1 Billion scenario.)

Yeah, only instead of work work working your ass off doing something you love, you get to hang out with lowlifes all day doing nothing. I don't think they even have cable television in prison. It's bullshit.

You would basically get all your time back within about 5 years by not having to go to work any more.

Not really. People who work that hard really enjoy the work. Give them $1 billion and they would put that money to work. How many billionaires do you know of who don't keep themselves very busy?

Well none of the billionaires that I know work at all.

But we are talking about normal people who do not currently have a billion dollars, but would get paid a billion dollars for 15 months of "work" in a bad environment.

Yeah, if you just hate working, it's probably a very good deal.
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: Emo EMAW on March 27, 2014, 01:47:53 PM
Guys, it's the principle of the matter.
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: treysolid on March 27, 2014, 01:48:11 PM
i don't know guys. if you had your own cell and a desk you could read all of the classics or master some academic field. you could write a bestselling personal account, title it "my struggle" or something.

interesting to see a hitler reference fly so low under the radar.
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: EllRobersonisInnocent on March 27, 2014, 01:54:47 PM
Did you dorks not read the next post. jfc.

even on work release, you would hate it. Do you want me to breakdown what E-Pod's daily schedule is like at RCJ?

YES!

E-pod is RCJ's work release pod. Unlike the majority of the others, it is unsupervised.

Your day starts at 5:00 am. The guards come in shortly to serve you cold, stale cereal, which alternates between rice krispies and corn flakes. you also get two pieces of burnt toast, milk and kool-aid. The television can be turned on at this point. After breakfast, you must clean the whole pod, bathrooms, bunks, sweep and mop, wipe down tables, everything. If the pod isn't cleaned to the guard's expectations, you must clean it again.

After all the cleaning is done, you have to make your bed and you can't go back to sleep. You're left to watch the filtered cable, playing cards or board games, write or draw, or converse with your podmates. The cable sucks, aside from local channels you get the travel channel and cartoon network.

Lunch is served at 11:30, it's usually terrible. Dinner is served at 5, it sucks too. E-pod is given recreation time twice a week in the evenings. Library trips once a week on the evenings. You're not allowed to swap library books, commissary or cafeteria food. Laundry comes twice a week.

You're strip searched on your way in and out of the facility. You have to submit a time sheet from work, so they can monitor where you've been. The CO's are really good about making you late to work and making you sit outside of the sally port in the weather for extended periods of time.

Lights go out at 11:00, but not really. You're required to be in your bunk. You can't talk or get up and move around if you can't sleep. It's tough to fall asleep since the lights stay on and the bunks are solid metal. Even if you do manage to fall asleep, you'll be woken up in short order, as the CO's will come through at scheduled intervals to do head counts. They always make a racket when they do.

That's a short overview, what specifics do you want to know? Anybody that's saying they could do a stint, or would do a stint, is either lying or doesn't know what they're talking about. The only people I know that have been through a similar situation to incarceration are military veterans.

Let me wake up at 8am instead of 5 and I could do 3 months no problem.
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: lopakman on March 27, 2014, 02:03:40 PM
If was younger and single I would do it.  I mean come on, we're talking about a $1,000,000,000.00.  Get it out of the way at like 19 or 20 and party the rest of your life.   
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: star seed 7 on March 27, 2014, 02:04:07 PM
i would do those 3 months with ERII, maybe we can be roommates
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: The Tonya Harding of Twitter Users Creep on March 27, 2014, 02:11:23 PM
would take. bet the 1.1 mill on ML for whoever is playing the cats in the NCAA tourney. then dump all money into suite tickets for cat football and a condo at Colbert.
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: Institutional Control on March 27, 2014, 02:16:26 PM
I have a high school buddy who spent 18 months in the Bourbon County jail.  He came out ripped from working out and had an incredible outside jumper from playing hoops 7 days a week. Didn't get butt raped even once.  Or so he says.

I think I would do it.
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: CNS on March 27, 2014, 03:36:51 PM
Would do for the Bill.  Cant imagine doing it for $1.1M, though.
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: Emo EMAW on March 27, 2014, 03:41:01 PM
Would do for the Bill.  Cant imagine doing it for $1.1M, though.

Sellout.
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: CNS on March 27, 2014, 04:03:24 PM
Would do for the Bill.  Cant imagine doing it for $1.1M, though.

Sellout.

I'm fine w that.  I would feel like I was getting a deal at that price.
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on March 27, 2014, 05:27:27 PM
I've changed my mind on this thing. After watching TMNT trailor. I would go to jail for 18 months if it meant I got one shot with Megan Fox. I don't care how GOPO that post is, it's the truth.
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: star seed 7 on March 27, 2014, 05:29:20 PM
megan fox is average at best
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: EllRobersonisInnocent on March 27, 2014, 05:30:55 PM
I've changed my mind on this thing. After watching TMNT trailor. I would go to jail for 18 months if it meant I got one shot with Megan Fox. I don't care how GOPO that post is, it's the truth.

Have you seen her thumbs?  :sdeek:
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: Dugout DickStone on March 27, 2014, 05:35:33 PM
How often can my fam visit their old man in the joint?
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: EMAWmeister on March 27, 2014, 05:38:55 PM
As long as I'm not physically being harmed, i could do 3 months for $100k and really not think twice about it
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on March 27, 2014, 05:39:09 PM
megan fox is average at best
:dubious:
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: 420seriouscat69 on March 27, 2014, 05:39:30 PM
I've changed my mind on this thing. After watching TMNT trailor. I would go to jail for 18 months if it meant I got one shot with Megan Fox. I don't care how GOPO that post is, it's the truth.

Have you seen her thumbs?  :sdeek:
No. Are they sexy too?
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: EMAWmeister on March 27, 2014, 05:47:53 PM
Uh oh
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: EllRobersonisInnocent on March 27, 2014, 05:53:21 PM
They're gross AF. Google it.
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: Winters on March 27, 2014, 05:57:40 PM
The things they'd do to me in that place  :frown: Would do it for a few billion though.  :dunno:
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: michigancat on March 27, 2014, 06:03:21 PM
If was younger and single I would do it.  I mean come on, we're talking about a $1,000,000,000.00.  Get it out of the way at like 19 or 20 and party the rest of your life.   

If you have a family, I think you'd be pretty selfish to turn down $1 billion. Yeah, I mean your time may be worth infinity dollars to you, but your children would be far better off with a billion dollars than the 15 months of your time.
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: ben ji on March 27, 2014, 06:11:50 PM
I've watched almost every episode of Lockup and would totally do 1 year in jail for 10 million dollars.

Anyone want to volunteer to walk lady while I'm locked up?
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: Trim on March 27, 2014, 06:17:21 PM
Is it an absolute 15 months or just a sentence of 15 months and we're left to our own devices on how to get out?
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: Spracne on March 27, 2014, 06:19:16 PM
$1B is too much money.  You'd be hurting your family way more than helping it.  If you don't believe me, then you probably don't know very many wealthy families. 

I'm leaning towards the SD school of thought in general, although in my particular age and condition I would easily exchange some of my time for an incongruous amount of compensation.
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: Headinjun on March 27, 2014, 06:35:50 PM
I've been arrested  6 times and once spent 3 weeks in the Sedgwick co. Juvenile  center.
It's not that bad if you make friends and keep to yourself.

I would do it in a heartbeat, and request the Wall Street journal if I could so I could properly invest the 1.1 mil when I got out.

I would lose weight and get ripped by skipping meals and doing prison calisthenics

You can make it work if you find just a lil routine and comfort in reading, drawing, or whatever. 

Sign me up!!!!
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: Spracne on March 27, 2014, 06:37:26 PM
I've been arrested  6 times and once spent 3 weeks in the Sedgwick co. Juvenile  center.
It's not that bad if you make friends and keep to yourself.

I would do it in a heartbeat, and request the Wall Street journal if I could so I could properly invest the 1.1 mil when I got out.

I would lose weight and get ripped by skipping meals and doing prison calisthenics

You can make it work if you find just a lil routine and comfort in reading, drawing, or whatever. 

Sign me up!!!!

Tell me more about making friends and keeping to yourself  :drool:
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: Headinjun on March 27, 2014, 06:41:39 PM
I guess what I was trying to say was finding a few cellies is good so you can chat a little but for the most part try not make any noise with the guards or the cross eyed Debos
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: steve dave on March 27, 2014, 06:42:14 PM
I enjoy people who aren't ripped and aren't studying high level things assuming that going to prison will make them less lazy.
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: bubbles4ksu on March 27, 2014, 06:43:52 PM
what is a debo?
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: Spracne on March 27, 2014, 06:48:27 PM
what is a debo?

You don't remember the '80s?
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: bubbles4ksu on March 27, 2014, 06:54:28 PM
what is a debo?

You don't remember the '80s?
the 80s were a blur, man.
Title: Re: Would you take a beating
Post by: Headinjun on March 27, 2014, 10:59:56 PM
I enjoy people who aren't ripped and aren't studying high level things assuming that going to prison will make them less lazy.



I'm too busy making 1 mil on the outside to take up all that noise.