Effing people playing effing music in their gardens...

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...Some of us would like to enjoy the birdsong and do a bit of quiet reading.

Bastards.

Some of the loud noises mentioned on here are extremely irritating and invasive and if you don't think they are loud then perhaps you need your hearing tested.

And I'm sorry but it IS rubbish that a mower's like an airfield. You can't argue otherwise, the decibels are enormously different'

chronically ha ha you may be right but I swear I only mow once a week and never strim. He does it most of the weekend the knob!

Have you heard of the concept of a simile?

It is rude to inflict your choices on other people, be that loud rock music, Opera, whatever.
everyone should be able to enjoy their outdoor space, garden or balcony and to play music so loud that your neighbours cant enjoy a drink in the garden, sunbathe and so on is just out of order.
Likewise fuckers who blare music out of their cars - make me want throw rocks at them.
I am never able to invite friends over to sit in my garden for a drink and chat because the surrounding neighbours seem to think "Suns out - lets rave" selfish bastards.
and no I cant simply move to a quieter area. just turn it down fuckwits

not sure what they've got to do with wild exaggerations?

I'm not trying to claim that a mower is like a tiptoeing ladybird.

But if you have multiple neighbours, who ALL enjoy doing this, then why should you have the say on silence being the optimum.

Just to remind people, I NEVER play music at home.

Every bugger round here has some sort of loud gadget they like to use. Pressure washers and the like. Drives me nuts.

Also just for good measure, add smells to the argument. I hate feckin barbecues. The smell of petrol and burnt animal drifting round my washing.

And yes I am a miserable old git.

I would love to see a tiptoeing ladybird

What are the points to pressure washers and leaf blowers either? What's the fucking point of them

What boils my piss is the football knobbers who lump their balls around constantly crashing into the fence whilst bellowing shitty instructions at each other.

Now that is fucking annoying.

I'm saving my pressure washing for when my neighbour whose building work pust the Pyramides to shame has his annual summer party.

Payback time!

I don't want silence just don't want to hear loud music all the fucking time, I want to be able to use my garden not shut the bloody windows and doors on every hot day because selfish fuckers think that it is ok to inflict their choices on me., there is no argument here, you just don't disturb people with your racket, you just don't.
we all have to cut our grass, our hedges and let our kids play out, this is normal, to recreate Ibiza is just beyond awful, selfish in the extreme.

Loud music outside, or even intrusive quietish music, is so very, very, selfish. It dictates what every one in the vicinity has running through their head. SEmyarse you might not mind, lucky you. But you must see that lots of people are driven to distraction by it. It would help so much if the music-listeners did so with earphones where possible, and bonfire-burners waited until evening. I don't think the odd bit of music now and again would bother anyone, but that isn't what is at issue here.
I think the problem is that the music players often aren't just playing for their own enjoyment, they are wanting to broadcast their identities to the world, so earphones wouldn't work. hence this being a common issue with teenagers with their burgeoning sense of who they are. And all the selfish tw**s of course.

Yes, I'm an old grump too.

But with mowers most won't be on for more than an hour whereas the music might go on a lot longer and the noise is different - a mower can become part of the general hum whereas the beat from music is intrusive and where there is bass then inescapable.

It's not just a case of not minding though. it's a case of positively enjoying it. Of course, there would be a limit on volume, but that's usually much more a problem for indoor music when it vibrates through walls at silly times, outside it would have to be extremely loud to really cause a problem.

And as I said, if multiple neighbours are doing this then you must be in the minority. If you had your wish then they would be enforced in their behaviour by a minority. and there seem to be so many activities that people object to, there'd be very little anyone (or the wildlife) would still be able to do.

I will agree that beaty music is much more intrusive. Short sharp noises maybe? The beeping someone mentioned, and some high pitched barky dogs. Yes that could become tortuous.

But what I love love love, is the general hustle and bustle of people interacting and living their lives in the sun.

There was a young woman on the bus sitting in front of us on Friday (we were at the back of the bus). Her music was so loud we could hear it right at the front after we moved to get away from it. People shouldn't have to move seats to get away from other people's noise, people should be respectful and considerate.

There's no excuse to play loud music in the garden unless it's a one off party which is ok.

Constant music playing is selfish. Use fucking headphones.

Its not about mowers though, or even power tools within reason. Those are both necessary compromises that you have to make when you live close to other people.
Pumping loud incessant music is neither necessary or desirable, it is disgustingly selfish.

I had a neighbour like this, they also liked to throw very loud all night parties. I went round to ask them to turn it down, he threw pebbles at my windows. I reported him to the police. It got toned down a lot after that and these days touch wood he is polsitively polite.

People who play music in their gardens are selfish thoughtless arseholes.

I feel very lucky; the only music in our garden today was from the pair of blackbirds who have a nest full of young in the creeper on the wall. They have been working to the point of exhaustion finding food and bringing it back to the nest, singing and chirruping to each other. I am keeping a good watch on my two cats...

We know it's summer when we hear our neighbour's 4 grown-up (musical?) children venture outside and start playing their banjostogether.
I think they're guitars, but who knows......
It's enough to make your ears bleed.

YANBU we had neighbour from hell (for lots of reasons) who was around all day every day and in summer in nice weather that was outside -
if I was lucky I might get 1 hr a week while he was a the shops. They ate outside, they watched TV outside (TV in house, sat outside watching through the open patio doors so volume right up) or had the radio playing 'musak' loudly or (the very worst) he tried to play the guitar and sing - so badly half the time I didn't know what it was supposed to be until I got a tuneless lyric I'd recognise the words ...excruciating...
Just shut up! - or go out for an afternoon ...(He had one week holiday every year ...it was heaven. He bought a campervan and I got all excited - but he never went anywhere in it !)
Also I never understood why people complain about mowers - until I heard my parent's neighbour's. It is incredibly loud, also a compactor and makes a loud thudding noise every so often too- and he mows nonstop for hrs at a time - and his garden is only about 10m x10m...he must go over the same bit 4 times at least...

At least you don't live next door to me. I was playing the penny whistle with the back door open this afternoon.

I'm totally with Grumpy on this. I've had 6 years of the wankers next door and their shitty music, shitty parties and all-round wankerishness. They cant have a single day without blaring music so loud you can hear it from the top of our street. The real kicker is that neither the police nor the council give a toss.

It's ruined what should have been a happy home for us since day 1 and we can't move. If we ever do I never want to own a house again, at least with renting you can escape if you hate it.

I find people who think those with nightmare neighbours are exaggerating have either never experienced it or are nightmare neighbours themselves.