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Mar. 11th, 2015 03:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snarpSpring, when a young man's thoughts turn to riding slowly around the neighborhood blasting the bass, and there's not even an identifiable song, it's just loud "wummmmmm"s.
We already have a train going through town that's really loud and annoying. Do these guys see it as a threat of some sort that trains are more noticeable than they are. Are they trying to assert dominance over a train.
We already have a train going through town that's really loud and annoying. Do these guys see it as a threat of some sort that trains are more noticeable than they are. Are they trying to assert dominance over a train.
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Date: 2015-03-14 05:06 am (UTC)One spring long ago, I was walking home from the grocery store, and the birds overhead were making the loudest and most melodious racket, and I thought to myself, "Ah, spring, when all the dudes start being as loud as possible to define their territory and get girls."
Just then, a car drove slowly by going WUMMM WUMMM WUMMM WUMMM as they do.
I laughed so hard I dropped my groceries. Then I started idly pondering the way separated populations can become unable to breed, not because they genetically can't breed, but because they develop different ways of communicating sexual interest and availability and can't recognize each other's signals. It's a recognized force behind speciation.