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phone calls in neighbours gardens

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riversflows · 01/08/2025 19:38

Why do people insist on making lengthy phone calls from their gardens? I want to enjoy my garden not listen to people talking about their jobs and their love live.
If they don't want their family to hear them why do they think it's ok for strangers to hear them?
So anti-social.

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HeadDeskHeadDesk · 17/08/2025 20:59

randomusernam · 01/08/2025 19:49

have you ever considered they don’t have good signal in their house. The only way I get signal in my house is outside or stood by the window. You have no right to dictate how someone uses their garden. They have every right to sit in the garden and have a chat. How is this any different to you sitting in your garden and talking to someone face to face?! How would you feel if people said you couldn’t sit in the garden and speak to someone?! I think you have way to much time on your hands to let something like this irate you. Get a hobby for god sake

There is something massively more annoying about overhearing phone call conversations than in-person conversations. You speak much more loudly for a start. And either you only hear one side of it, or the other side is someone speaking with that annoying, tinny phone sound which is irritating and intrusive. When someone is sat in front of you you don't project your voice anywhere near as much as you do on the phone, especially when you have the handset held away from your face.

AgnesX · 17/08/2025 20:55

Alliod40 · 17/08/2025 20:16

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 stop it now uou miserable sod..the weather is beautiful and of course you're going to sit in the garden and make your phone calls..I'd say you're great fun at parties..people like you would suck the life out of everyone

Pathetic remark.

Alliod40 · 17/08/2025 20:16

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 stop it now uou miserable sod..the weather is beautiful and of course you're going to sit in the garden and make your phone calls..I'd say you're great fun at parties..people like you would suck the life out of everyone

Seagoats · 17/08/2025 20:13

How dare they have a conversation while enjoying the nice weather. Glad youre not my neighbour

GeorgeMichaelsCat · 17/08/2025 20:03

How else would they indicate they have a life?

PinkTonic · 15/08/2025 19:16

BauhausOfEliott · 15/08/2025 14:59

People are entitled to hold a conversation in their own gardens. Do you also think they're being inconsiderate if they sit in their garden with a mate and have a chat over coffee? How about using a lawnmower? What about kids playing, are they allowed to talk while they doing that, or do they have to remain silent?

Look, in an ideal world I'd want total silence in my own garden - who wouldn't? But it's mad to say that people are being unreasonable to speak outdoors on their own property, whether it's on a phone or in person. Gardens are not an unreasonable location for a conversation.

Do you also think they're being inconsiderate if they sit in their garden with a mate and have a chat over coffee?

I think it’s inconsiderate to have that chat in loud booming voices without understanding that our behaviour impacts the people around us. You can chat over coffee in a normal voice.

Some people are extremely loud. My neighbours are a very loud family. They bellow from the back door to the end of the very long garden. He is loud and booming, she is loud and screechy. They make calls to Australia and you wonder why they’re bothering to use a phone, they might as well just shout. If they are having coffee in the garden I can clearly hear everything they say, it’s like I’m sitting with them. They are insufferable.

Rallentanda · 15/08/2025 16:05

BauhausOfEliott · 15/08/2025 15:04

Expecting other people to be completely silent in their own gardens because you don't like hearing their voice also 'just isn't great'.

A garden is part of someone's home and they are entitled to speak in it. You can't expect them not to talk in it. As I'm sitting here now, I can hear my neighbour and her sister chatting together while they sit in my neighbour's garden - ultimately, I'd rather not hear them, but I don't think it's antisocial of them to sit and chat on their own bloody patio on a summer afternoon!

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I don't expect them not to talk in their gardens: don't be silly.

You likely know very well that phone calls are a different sort of communication. People have a phone voice, which is much louder and clearer. It's intrusive in the way that just chatting is not.

K0OLA1D · 15/08/2025 16:00

Peaceisenough · 15/08/2025 15:50

Thanks for the love KOOLA1D 😁

We could all do with some love.

That was my intention

Peaceisenough · 15/08/2025 15:50

Thanks for the love KOOLA1D 😁

We could all do with some love.

Chompingatthebeat · 15/08/2025 15:48

XenoBitch · 15/08/2025 15:46

It is not anti-social to talk on your phone in your own garden.
I live in a mid-terrace house and I can hear people on phones indoors too.
It is just part of living close to others.

Not everyone does it

jen337 · 15/08/2025 15:48

Memberofstaff · 01/08/2025 19:45

We have the same. Neighbour Facetimes in her garden so we get to hear the whole conversation! Really annoying as she does it multiple times each day in the summer.

same here, ours has the most grating voice too and can only seem to speak LOUDLY. Also moans over the fence any time our kids make any noise, once threatened to call police when dh told her to fuck off. These types of people have zero self awareness, like the ones using speakerphone on public transport

Peaceisenough · 15/08/2025 15:48

K0OLA1D · 15/08/2025 15:47

As are yours 😉

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Not true.

Silly winky face arse.

K0OLA1D · 15/08/2025 15:47

Peaceisenough · 15/08/2025 15:46

No it isn’t. Your contributions are though.

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As are yours 😉

XenoBitch · 15/08/2025 15:46

It is not anti-social to talk on your phone in your own garden.
I live in a mid-terrace house and I can hear people on phones indoors too.
It is just part of living close to others.

Peaceisenough · 15/08/2025 15:46

K0OLA1D · 15/08/2025 15:46

The thread is pretty irrelevant really isnt it.

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No it isn’t. Your contributions are though.

K0OLA1D · 15/08/2025 15:46

Peaceisenough · 15/08/2025 15:43

Then your contributions to this thread are irrelevant aren’t they.

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The thread is pretty irrelevant really isnt it.

Peaceisenough · 15/08/2025 15:45

K0OLA1D · 15/08/2025 15:45

As I said in my earlier post, today I had 3 calls, probably lasting 5 minutes each.

So yes. Occasional. I don't work in a call centre.

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Then the thread is about someone like you is it.

K0OLA1D · 15/08/2025 15:45

Peaceisenough · 15/08/2025 15:44

So what is your point?

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That I am doing nothing wrong?

K0OLA1D · 15/08/2025 15:45

Chompingatthebeat · 15/08/2025 15:43

Ah so its down graded to 'an occasional call' now is it

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As I said in my earlier post, today I had 3 calls, probably lasting 5 minutes each.

So yes. Occasional. I don't work in a call centre.

zebrazoop · 15/08/2025 15:44

my neighbour does it in her conservatory with her back door open and jt echos. Does my
head in

Peaceisenough · 15/08/2025 15:44

K0OLA1D · 15/08/2025 15:44

Again where is the loud coming from. I wear headphones? No one is being loud.

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So what is your point?

Peaceisenough · 15/08/2025 15:44

Chompingatthebeat · 15/08/2025 15:43

Ah so its down graded to 'an occasional call' now is it

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🤣

K0OLA1D · 15/08/2025 15:44

Chompingatthebeat · 15/08/2025 15:38

Theres a big difference between chatting irl, and loud zoom calls

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Again where is the loud coming from. I wear headphones? No one is being loud.

Chompingatthebeat · 15/08/2025 15:43

K0OLA1D · 15/08/2025 15:41

You need to meditate or something if someone working across the other side of their garden from you, having an occasional phone call drives you mad.

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Ah so its down graded to 'an occasional call' now is it

Peaceisenough · 15/08/2025 15:43

K0OLA1D · 15/08/2025 15:42

I dont take loud phone calls.

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Then your contributions to this thread are irrelevant aren’t they.

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