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AIBU to think it’s ridiculous to watch movies in your garden!

136 replies

Naithnira · 25/04/2020 21:59

Spotted in a magazine. What fresh hell is this?! AIBU to think you’re a selfish entitled shit if you erect an outdoor cinema screen in your garden?!

AIBU to think it’s ridiculous to watch movies in your garden!
OP posts:
RingtheBells · 26/04/2020 06:52

I couldn’t think of anything worse actually as if the weather was ok, I would probably get bit to death by flies but then I don’t really like bbqs either

Gizlotsmum · 26/04/2020 06:54

I was trying to work out if we could do something like this for the kids... But I don't think we can without disturbing the neighbours... I am still working on options...

TheSkyWasDark · 26/04/2020 06:59

"Yes, it's life, so send your kids screaming in the garden from 6am, put loud music on all day so no one else can enjoy their garden, watch a movie so others have to put with a stupid background noise , have late parties, leave your kids scream on their trampoline until at least 11pm, have a karaoke in the garden to entertain the street with drunk and out of tune shouting.."

Adults are just overgrown toddlers these days.

I want I want I want I'm bored I need to be entertained.

It's kind of pathetic.

OneandTwenty · 26/04/2020 07:00

I guess if you do have neighbours who like to impose their noise on neighbours like that, (and don't have the most basic manners and use headphones), it will be the best time to get your bbq out and smoke them out start cooking sardines or whatever diner you feel like having.

RingtheBells · 26/04/2020 07:02

I’m glad I don’t live on one of those new estates which are rife with this sort of thing, I think you have to pick where you live very carefully.

LakieLady · 26/04/2020 07:02

I can’t understand how anyone can think this is okay. If it’s not bad enough that we seem to have become a nation where your own choice of wanky music is shoved down your neigbours ears, now we have to have their wanky films too?? And flashing lights?

This. Why should anyone have to endure someone else's totally unnecessary noise or have the flickering from a giant screen intruding into their home? If it's loud enough to be heard in a neighbouring property, it's disturbing someone else.

Unless you're in a house with no near neighbours, or use headphones, it's rude and inconsiderate. And I feel just the same about people who have their music or tv up so loud indoors that their neighbours have to turn theirs up louder than they would otherwise have it.

Oddly enough, my neighbour's wind chimes don't bother me. Now I've got used to them, I'm starting to find them quite pleasant.

Bounceyflouncey · 26/04/2020 07:03

That does sound hellish, it's bad enough when you can head a film shaking through the walls, let alone blaring from the garden when we are all trapped in our homes and gardens, eurgh. Guessing to be able to see the screen it would have to be dark which is quite late now, without headphones of course it's selfish. People do as they please though.

Mintjulia · 26/04/2020 07:05

Not my taste but I can’t see it as outrageous.

Plenty of people have large gardens & neighbours aren’t close enough to hear.

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 26/04/2020 07:10

So if No.8 wanted to watch Sleeping Beauty, No
10 were trying to watch James Bond, and No.12 were watching Love Actually... How could anyone concentrate on their film?

It could work in bigger gardens, and it does look fun for IDs, esp in big gardens... But in close living quarters it is rather intrusive on other people.

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 26/04/2020 07:13

As for taking it camping... Leave it home along with the disco lights and karaoke machine for everyone's sanity please.

Onone · 26/04/2020 07:20

I would if we lived in a hot country

EricaNernie · 26/04/2020 07:35

the noise would drive me spare

EricaNernie · 26/04/2020 07:36

it is annoying listening to people's music in the garden, ruining the peace , let alone a film!

daisypond · 26/04/2020 07:47

But they’d have headphones. My neighbours have a setup like this. But they have headphones, so there is no noise at all.

BruceAndNosh · 26/04/2020 07:48

I'd hate this if my neighbours did this (they wouldn't as they are nice people and not arseholes)
And I really doubt everyone wears headphones with that set up.

NewYearNewTwatName · 26/04/2020 08:14

some people are inconsiderate and if you already have a close neighbour who gives no fucks about others, then I can see this being another thing to be upset about.

I did just want to point out to people saying that living in field would be the ideal.

I live in a field, We can still hear our neighbours, there are acres between us. A neighbour 1/2 a mile away, has massive consert like parties going into the early hours, a couple of times a year in summer.(you can still hear with windows closed)
On summer days we can hear the tennis balls being batted on tennis courts. on really still days I can hear people talking at the stables a few fields away.

If even one neighbour had a party every weekend it would be unpleasant. But then how would you realistically complain? they live in the middle of nowhere! and are in the best position to throw a party.

I'm not complaining at all about living where we do,(it is peaceful) but just wanted to point out to those who think it would be the answer, it's not, it always depends on what sort of neighbours you have near or far.

Bluntness100 · 26/04/2020 08:18

Blimey, you’re neighbours haven’t even done it and you’re fuming. What a way to live.

Personally as long as the volume was managed appropriately I couldn’t give a shit other than hoping they had fun.

SunShine682 · 26/04/2020 08:20

I’d watch a film in my garden but I also play music in my Garden aNd so does a few other neighbours.

If you can’t beat them, join them.

RHTawneyonabus · 26/04/2020 08:23

I can see how this might be fun to do but really rude and inconsiderate for neighbours you’d have to be a special kind of entitled to build one of these in your garden.

SerenDippitty · 26/04/2020 08:27

I don't see how the noise level is much different to having a barbecue or talking in the garden? Since when are gardens meant to be more silent than a library? There is so much hysteria about garden noise at the moment.

A quiet film with lots of dialogue might be comparable to talking in the garden. Not an action film with a loud soundtrack and lots of noisy SFX.

BonnesVacances · 26/04/2020 08:32

I read this magazine too and had a similar thought. But in fact that would be a waste of time in our garden as we wouldn't be able to hear it over the neighbours' dog barking. Apparently the dog is allowed to bark all the time as we live in a free country.

cherrybunx0 · 26/04/2020 08:40

I cant imagine being this wount up about something that hadnt actually happened

transformandriseup · 26/04/2020 08:40

I remember camping in the garden with friends in the summer holidays when I was a teen and staying up late talking quietly. I remember neighbours had late night parties in their gardens and others playing quiet music outside in the daytime. I don't expect my neighbours to be totally silent and as long as the volume wasn't turned up too loud it wouldn't bother me.

DominaShantotto · 26/04/2020 08:48

Would never be able to hear it over the general garden noise here as we're so packed in together - but I have the TV on in the conservatory most of the day in this weather and that sound carries as well I guess so it's give and take.

I'd take Die Hard over our neighbour getting pissed in his garden last night singing along to the Pet Shop Boys and honking a novelty car horn at 2 minute intervals for hours though.

SerenDippitty · 26/04/2020 08:51

I think it’s just a passing fad. We don’t really have the climate for it.

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