OT - Does Anyone Sound More Horrible Than ...

 ... a drunk karoke singer???    We have this family-owned Mexican restaurant in our 'burb near where I work with GREAT food ..  I sometimes like to go there to eat after work ..  Unfortunately, adjacent to it and only separated by a thin divider wall, is the bar section of the restaurant ..  Even more unfortunately, the bar features karoke singing every night until closing ..      It seems every patron that steps up to the mike to sing karoke at this place is drunk off their azz, and is "singing" way too loudly and way too off key and tempo to make the tunes often even recognizable  ..  The wailing sounds so horrific at times that, I think that if the source of the awful noise wasn't human, someone would mercifully shoot them to put them out of their misery ..   The bartender or karokemaster or whatever they're called even sees fit, incredibly, to amplify the mess over the P.A. system for anyone who might mercifully somehow be out of earshot in the builiding ..    This whole spectacle really ruins the ambiance for many of the diners in the restauant part of the premises (I've wanted to request earplugs from the server before whenever asked, "can I get you anything else?").  I'm amazed that the owners put up with this verbal encroachment on their diners' peace and sanity (and even more amazed that more of them don't get up and leave b/c of the din) ..    Tonight's entertainment I found particularly offensive b/c,, as soon as I entered the place, I recognized (barely) that the karoke star o'th moment was, ironically, "singing" a reverent contemporary Christian song while at the same time so intoxicated that I wondered if this Amy Grant-wannabe was going to pass out and into the next life before reaching the end of the tune ..    Not being one to drink and sing myself, I ask:  do these singers really believe they are giving a performance worthy of American Idol???   Everyone in the bar seems to really applaud their efforts, nonetheless, which only serves to encourage their endeavor, but then again maybe they're all just as zoned out from their drinks as the singer ..   &:-/)   If only the stars could hear themselves later while sober .  (hmmm  maybe that would do the trick and end their musical aspirations - tape record them and play it back for them next time over the P.A. when they show up at the bar completely sober???  hmmmm)