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By Merekat (Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 10:38:13 AM EST) (all tags)
Please to be not playing jungle music at 7am.


While I am aware that this does not contravene the time period when noise ordinances apply, and the fact that you've started so early today means you might not continue late into the night when you normally play it (up to the point that one of us gets pissed off, gets dressed and reaches the door on the way to complain, at which stage, you stop), it is still Taking The Piss and making me write excessively long sentences.

The idiots on the internet are particularly loud and noisy this week. I grow weary of much of it. I would turn these channels off, yet I have nothing with which to replace them.

Holiday soon. At the moment I feel so tired I think all I could do is read and doze in the sun. But I'll pack the board and the hiking boots and see what happens.

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Total War by Breaker (2.00 / 0) #1 Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 10:53:31 AM EST
Is your only option.

Do you own louder speakers than they do?  It's often the only language they understand...




Listen to this man. by nightflameblue (2.00 / 0) #2 Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 10:57:30 AM EST
He knows of what he speaks.

Come to think of it, I haven't heard the ridiculously loud neighbor's stereo since the last time I fully cranked the old half-stack a few years back.  I'm guessing the two events are related.

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Since you last cranked the half stack by Breaker (2.00 / 0) #4 Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 11:06:03 AM EST
Have you heard much beyond jet aircraft taking off?  Them things can get loud.


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Well, we do live right next to the airport. by nightflameblue (2.00 / 0) #6 Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 11:33:23 AM EST
But that was years and years ago, so yeah, I've heard other things.  A little bit.  Sometimes.

And you should see the room I cranked it in.  It's less than ten feet square.  You'd hit a cord and it would keep bouncing around in the room for about half an hour.

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Ten feet square... by Breaker (2.00 / 0) #7 Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 11:39:25 AM EST
How many days before your ears stopped bleeding?


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Only a couple. by nightflameblue (2.00 / 0) #11 Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 01:10:47 PM EST
But I kept the high and presence controls below 5.

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Tut. by Breaker (2.00 / 0) #12 Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 01:16:23 PM EST
I'm pretty sure Manowar was talking about the volu by nightflameblue (2.00 / 0) #13 Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 01:19:57 PM EST
me.  Which, I assure you, post and pre, were on 10.

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Hmmm by Breaker (2.00 / 0) #14 Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 01:32:28 PM EST
Everything up to 10.  11 if you got it.


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That's dangerous on some amps. by nightflameblue (2.00 / 0) #15 Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 02:05:11 PM EST
I still have some scars on my chest from doing that with the old Ampeg fullstack.

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Yeah by Breaker (2.00 / 0) #22 Thu Feb 21, 2008 at 05:23:35 AM EST
But danger == rock and roll.


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Actually by Merekat (3.50 / 2) #3 Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 10:57:48 AM EST
I could call the cops on them and complain to the apartment management company and have them evicted. But I'd rather they just copped themselves on.

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You are wise. by greyrat (2.00 / 0) #5 Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 11:08:06 AM EST
This comment and another you've made recently make me think you're cool and I want to have your children.
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That's not how things are done round here. by komet (4.00 / 2) #9 Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 12:14:47 PM EST
You are to fix them with cold stares and silence when meeting them in the stairwell, and (this is the important bit) interfere with the washing machine on their laundry day until all their clothes are ruined.

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Ah by Merekat (2.00 / 0) #21 Thu Feb 21, 2008 at 03:14:19 AM EST
So individual laundry gradually leads to the decline of society then?

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sorry about that by alprazolam (2.00 / 0) #8 Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 11:47:09 AM EST
i didnt realize it was that loud...i just wanted a bit of music while i was showering.



What I did by duxup (2.00 / 0) #10 Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 12:35:14 PM EST
A few homes ago I had a neighbor who played music too loud at the oddest times.  Being shy I went the passive aggressive route.  I'd print on a sheet of paper "Your music is too loud." fold it nicely, put it in an envelope, and leave it at the door.  No name or anything.

It worked.  A few times it started up again now and then but another letter put it down.

Some folks thought this was a bad thing and I should have talked to them in person and leaving an anonymous letter was somehow cowardly or something.   I never quite got what that was about and was happy the music stopped.
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I would do a variant, ala Jack Handy by joh3n (4.00 / 2) #16 Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 03:34:46 PM EST
put a pumpkin in front of the door.  carve out eyes, and a mouth, a regular jack-o-lantern.  Then stick a knife in the head.  Attach a note to the pumpkin head which says 'you'.

Then add your note.

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I just ate about 7 pounds of meat
-theantix
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How about a gord instead? by duxup (4.00 / 1) #18 Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 04:39:42 PM EST
n/t
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I'm willing to comprimise on this point by joh3n (4.00 / 2) #19 Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 04:46:22 PM EST
gourd: yes, but no further.  Try to go into succulent or fruit territory, and the deal is off.

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I just ate about 7 pounds of meat
-theantix
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Q: Why did the lion get lost in the jungle? by Dr Thrustgood (4.00 / 2) #17 Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 03:41:47 PM EST
Answer:

'cos jungle is massive.





Solution: by tuscoops (4.00 / 2) #20 Wed Feb 20, 2008 at 07:12:54 PM EST
Imitate sex sounds (or have sex). You'll want to start out loud to pique their interest, then let it disintegrate into murmurs. Their curiosity will make them turn it down.



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