Why I like noisy airplanes

Flying over to Germany I was on an Airbus A-330 -- vouged as having extremely low cabin noise.

http://www.airliners.net/discussions/
aviation_polls/read.main/92754/

It was so quiet in fact, that I could hear the jerk two rows back talking about himself the entire flight. I learned how much he paid for his car, the size of wheels, the type of tires, that according to his mountains of wisdom folks from North Carolina are a bunch of hicks....

I could also hear "dueling babies" competing to outscream each other a few rows ahead.

Maybe it's quiet enough to hear a pin drop or something, but it's also quiet enough to hear all the other crap going on and I'd just as soon have a little white noise.

On the flight back it was loud enough I had to lean to someone's ear just to hold a conversation with them.

It was great.