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Help me be the better person and NOT play Slipknot through the wall this morning!! Partying neighbours

103 replies

SaltedCaramelWithEverything · 07/12/2019 10:08

Hi,

I just need to release some rage, so bear with me.

Our joining (new) neighbours have had two consecutive parties and last night went on until 6 this morning 😠 Loud isn't the word. There was no way we could sleep, so by about 3.30-4am, we put up the rock hard sofa bed in the spare room. Reduced the noise slightly, but it was still impossible to sleep.

I'm so angry! Why are people so inconsiderate?! I would never do this. Not as an adult anyway, which they are. 40 something I'd say.

The sheer volume of everything to me was a big f* you. They clearly don't give a shit if anyone is disturbed.

I know they'll be sleeping it off today and I can't tell you how tempted I am to interfere with that and make lots of noise. Not a good idea, I know.

We had a child free weekend and had plans today and this evening, but on 20 minutes MAX sleep, I don't think either of us have the energy to do anything, so will probably end up cancelling.

Rant over. As you were.

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MoaningMinniee · 07/12/2019 11:58

Whatever the Christmas mix is that's on repeat in our local Tesco. I know it's driving the staff there bananas already!

Doormat247 · 07/12/2019 12:01

I'm with everyone else on here - blast that music at the bastards. Go out all day and leave it on so loud it shakes the walls.

MonstranceClock · 07/12/2019 12:02

I would love to have slipknot or Rammstein blasted through the walls. That wouldn’t be a punishment to me Grin

HouseworkAvoider10 · 07/12/2019 12:09

Do it.

Report back to us later.

aintnutinchanged · 07/12/2019 12:13

Do it! Do it!

TaliZorahVasNormandy · 07/12/2019 13:06

I'd play the Crazy Frog song on repeat full blast and then leave for a couple of hours. Wankers.

BlackCatSleeping · 07/12/2019 13:16

Maybe it's time to take up the recorder...

magicstar1 · 07/12/2019 13:21

Never mind now...I’d have been kicking their door down at 3 this morning

ForalltheSaints · 07/12/2019 13:21

If you go out early, you might have a gust of wind that causes the door to slam.

elmosducks · 07/12/2019 13:45

The wiggles songs. All of them. Especially that annoying theme tune...

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 07/12/2019 13:46

Michael Buble and James Blunt, on repeat, top volume.

Uberbeeboo · 07/12/2019 13:57

Hi, this happened to me over last Xmas and earlier this year, thumping music every Friday and Saturday night until 6am for about 12 weeks. I actually posted on here for advice and was told to contact the council. I did, and it stopped almost instantly. The idiots came over, not to apologise, but to explain that they were merely having fun and the council letter was uncalled for, overly harsh and caused them unnecessary stress (as if I was bothered). That was the end of that. Nip it in the bud ASAP. I felt I was going mad through lack of sleep.

dotty12345 · 07/12/2019 14:12

We had neighbours whose four grown sons still lived at home. The parents went on holiday. Absolute nuisances. One night they were having a party and the noise and swearing was horrendous, I had a 7 year old. I went round and complained, it still carried on but when it was still going on at 1am my partner went and told them to stf up or he’d call the police. They did eventually quieten down but the next day we suddenly remembered we needed an urgent day trip to the seaside but forgot we’d turned the speakers round upstairs to face the party wall and left Never mind the Bollocks by The Sex Pistols (old school me!) on a loop with the volume really high on. They were a bit quieter after that! Arseholes.

Soubriquet · 07/12/2019 14:24

Do it!!!

But not Slipknot. Gotta be something incredibly irritating.

The wiggles maybe or what about baby shark?

Go out so it doesn’t drive you crazy

GrumpyInsomniac · 07/12/2019 14:35

Slipknot is too good for them. I'd be going for Paul McCartney and the Frog Chorus. On a loop. And then going out. Or the 10 hour version of the Narwhals song. Or Crazy Frog greatest hits. But you get my drift.

DontBiteTheBoobThatFeedsYou · 07/12/2019 14:38

Oh yeah, chuck a load or Wait and Bleed at them.

Fucking bastards.

I used to live above a bastard who did this regularly. She was so drunk she would forget it happened and actually deny all knowledge of it. Actually make out that I was making it up! Fucking psycho.

I used to play very loud System of a Down and also Mika just for the annoyance of it.

DontBiteTheBoobThatFeedsYou · 07/12/2019 14:39

Oh baby shark!! YES!!

JustAnotherPoster00 · 07/12/2019 14:42

Sounds like a good day for some loud DIY alongside Slipknot but only in short bursts every fifteen minutes or half hour...just enough time for them to drift off to sleep before I wake them up again.

The human brain craves order, alter the timing so as they cant predict when its going to happen, itll work much better than just noise on its own

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SaltedCaramelWithEverything · 07/12/2019 18:55

Thank you so much for all your replies. Sorry for the dealy! Have been very slow today, as you can imagine.

I have to say, I've had a real laugh at some of the suggestions on here Grin

In the end, there was a lot of "unexplained wind" slamming the front and back doors and the living room needed a really thorough hover, at least 5 times and I can only do the washing up whilst listening to "music to rage to" on Alexa.

Annoyingly, I saw them up and about, looking quite chipper with a McDonald's breakfast Confused Angry

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FraglesRock · 07/12/2019 20:24

Gits

Notlostjustexploring · 07/12/2019 20:36

Slipknot is the wrong way to go.

Get an album of the worst power ballads ever and leave them playing when you're out. Repeat indefinitely.

Alternatively, can I recommend the birdy song.

Or, or, or...can you play the sound of dripping water near the wall corresponding to their bedroom? Play it all night, every night. They'll never sleep again.

Rosepetals30 · 07/12/2019 21:58

There is no way I would have even allowed the first party to go on without a police officer showing up.

No point playing people like that at their own game, it doesn’t give you much to stand on if you’re both being noisy.

banivani · 07/12/2019 22:32

Well, ideally you should confront them while the party is going on at night. Who knows, maybe they’re just thick eejits who need to be told to reform.

But music-wise you’re all rookies. Allow me to introduce you to Takeo Ischi, the Japanese yodeller

Xiaoxiong · 07/12/2019 23:00

No I'm sorry bani that is far too catchy. I can almost feel myself starting to grin at his wonderful yodellage. What you need is some chinese opera played at FULL VOLUME. m.youtube.com/watch?v=7-dPC-srIbs

Even better - start learning chinese opera yourself OP! All those gongs and woodblocks and very loud wind instruments need quite a bit of practice and the singing can take years to perfect just the right nasal timbre.

Failing that there's always bagpipes...

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SaltedCaramelWithEverything · 07/12/2019 23:36

Aaand here we go again

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