Noise noise everywhere

Sorry if I've suggested these upthread, can't remember, am on phone, so different to a pc with tabs!

https://www.flareaudio.com/products/calmer-soft

It drives me mad.

Am posting again since I can't see my previous post that I put up 2 days ago
MARKsS and SPENCER is bringing back background music! No doubt they think it will help their falling sales if the place becomes trendy again. It won't.
Please write to the CEO at [email protected]

Completely agree. I live in London and the best bit about my recent Cornish holiday was the lack of planes! Also escape to the New Forest a couple of times a year.

Heart FM was blaring out from somewhere in my neighbourhood at 11am. I was working nights. so was trying to get some sleep.

I put on my dressing gown and starting walking to find the source. Two roofers had switched on their van's radio. I reached in through the open window and switched it off. "I can hear it from two roads away. I'm working nights so shut up, shut up, shut up." I was fuming.

Never heard a peep after that.

What is wrong with these people?

My sympathies OP. The constant noise in everyday life gets me down. One thing that particularly gets me is people who are incapable of talking at a normal volume. At this moment I am sitting in my favourite coffee shop wishing that the 2 women on the next table would lower the volume. Despite sitting opposite each,barely 2 feet apart,they are finding it necessary to talk so loudly I can hear every word as can the entire shop probably. I don't bother going to the library any more because it seems to full of screaming,crying children,or mouthy teenagers. And don't get me started on people who play music or videos out loud on public transport,or in coffee shops and cafés.......

I know it sounds awful, but a part of me wishes my hearing would go.

I'm also autistic and I've had this exact same thought.

I grew up in the back of beyond and didn't have too many sensory difficulties until I went to uni in a city.
I'm now in my forties and it's ridiculous. Horrible shit pop music blasting everywhere, people's tinny headphones, traffic noise... My particular hate is the buskers, amplifiers ramped up to the max, that pollute the main pedestrian street of the city I live in. They absolutely ruin it. Fuckers.

Marks and Spencers re-introducing background music!
M and S are re-introducing background music, no doubt in a bid to reverse the fall in sales that they have been suffering of late.
It's not music that will draw the punters back in; it's decent clothes. Remember that horrible bright pink dress with the trumpet sleeves from summer 17? compare that to the chicissime linen blend shift dress what was on Mumsnetter July and Augst Mumsnetter Swears By? I could see women everywhere wearing that dress. When they get it it right it, it's so right, but when it's wrong , it's so awful.

Let us remember that music is a pleasure and not something to be endured. Write to M and S CEO at [email protected], and protest. Let's keep music a pleasure and therefore a choice

Totally agree - all day long in my office people’s phones are pinging and the person next to me drives me mad with his music that I can hear even he wears earphones and his stupid buzzing fan.

I agree!

I'm so sick of listening to other peoples headphones on the bus and don't get me started on the shrieking children that won't sit down and have to try out every seat on the bus.

YANBU - we live reasonably near to a main road and can here motorbikes tearing down the road even at 3am, dogs barking at 5am, the neighbours kids ( noisiest in the world) start up at 8am then they let their chickens out ( noisiest chickens on the planet ). It's never ending noise, drives me mad.

I’ve ordered some noise cancelling headphones from amazon.

I had a lovely lunch today with my ten year old (who as I mentioned further up has sensory processing disorder). She didn't have a random meltdown, get silly about wanting to leave or where to sit or have trouble choosing what to eat. It was great. Why? We were in a Wetherspoons. They don't play music. There was general people chatter but it was blissful.

My husband developed Hyperacusis which was pretty shite. He has since developed tinnitus (which is also shite). I don't know if yours is this severe or not, but might be worth taking a look at symptoms and see if they resonate.

Somebody parked across the street, maybe waiting to collect someone.

Music on loud enough for me to hear through his car, his windows are closed, as is my double glazing - and I'm a on relatively high floor.

Agree people are more shouty. Sometimes I look towards what sounds like people having a row, but it's actually just people chatting.

YANBU. Even at home I can't get away from almost constant building and gardening noise. I find it very stressful.

I agree almost everything is very loud now. I don't really mind music and that kind of noise but I feel like people are more shouty now. I find shouting (esp if aggressive) much more jarring than other kinds of noise.

I have hyperacusis and when I go to the hospital they have sound isolated rooms. They're amazing! You pass through a kind of double door and once they're shut, absolute silence. If i had the room (or the money) I'd have one at home.

One note on earplugs, they're not recommended by specialists for long term use, they can make your hearing more sensitive. Use of white noise, music etc is fine though, so long as your ears hear something.

YANBU. Even libraries aren't the quiet, peaceful places they used to be anymore.

Also when is this fashion for wooden floors, bare tables and plain painted walls in restaurants going to be over? It just means every noise is magnified a thousand times. I actually find it really stressful trying to carry on a conversation in a place like that.

I recommend noise cancelling headphones! I can't wear these due to issues with my ears. Not that I should have to. If only people realised that others don't want to hear their conversations, music, games etc. Ignorant c's. I particularly get annoyed around Christmas when in pubs/restaurants you can tell the people that don't get out very often and make a right racket as if to let everyone else know what a great time they are having! Saddo's.

I agree, we’re bombarded by noise any time we go outside and it’s really tough. I recommend noise cancelling headphones!

I have also noticed people having "loudspeaker" conversations on their mobiles, on buses and trains. Just why???? Can anyone answer me this??? It is so selfish.

Went to the beach for a peaceful day last month. It was fairly deserted and quiet. Then some idiots come and sit about 200 meters away and put on their ghetto blaster thing. You could hear it ages away.

The next day at the beach, a man decides to sit near me - well about 100 metres away and have loud mobile conversations continuously for about half an hour. Why come to the beach for that?

I could have complained both times, but I left it. But you just get tired of the confrontation aspect, even if one is polite.

What to do?

Completely agree.

I spend a lot of time travelling, and have definitely noticed a huge increase in people not using headphones over the last year or so.

Airports are full of people watching videos at full blast on their phones (as well as the usual babies screaming, children running riot and people conducting loud phonecalls, oh and the tannoy announcements etc).

I’ve even had a couple of people on flights recently watching stuff without headphones. Luckily the flight attendants have said something on those occasions.

It takes a lot of the enjoyment out of travelling for me.

And don't get me started on leaf blowers!

In restaurants 50 per cent of the time I have to ask them to turn the music down - just to hear a conversation properly.

I agree with poster its not noise per se. I don't mind church bells etc. Its just the electronic bombardment.

Its all very wearing at times.