Neighbour’s Booming Garden Voice

[misshappycat]

My neighbour has a voice louder than Brian Blessed and regularly has ridiculously loud games of football with his children. It’s not that I object to the sound of children playing next door, but it’s his constant deafening shouts of “GREAT KICK!”, (BOOT), C’MON!”, OOOOOOOH!”, “NICE ONE” (BOOT) “GO ON!”, “AAAAAAAAH!”. You can hear him shouting when you’re inside, and when you’re outside, it’s so loud, it’s a struggle to have a conversation . I would expect there to be a bit of self-awareness that other people live around him, and that it’s not the World Cup final? Wondering how long I can bear this? Been an issue pre lockdown, but now it’s more frequent. I fully expect to hear neighbours in their garden, but the shouting and screaming as if he’s at a football
match is excessive perhaps?

It's shit but nothing you can do about. If he is the sort where a word would change his ways he wouldnt be shouting to begin with. I suspect he doesnt give a fuck. Joys of living near other people.

Is he trying to let the neighbourhood know what a great dad he is ?

Set of speakers turned towards his fence playing some lovely classical music, worked with mine. Every time he did the loud parenting shit, I’d just turn it on. This annoyed his wife, so I told her I had to turn it up on order to hear it over his shouting. Was a lot quieter after that.

Do you live near to me? I have one of these too, the only voices you ever hear from that garden are from the parents. The kids are relatively quiet. Its performance parenting at its loudest.

I feel your pain. My neighbour is a PE teacher and can be very shouty.

Performance parenting. Urgh. “IM SO FUN”

YANBU I hate people like this. Your voice has a natural built in volume control. Use it. Wanker.

I always seem to sit near someone like this in restaurants!

It’s so rage inducing isn’t it? I’m as shocked by how much I have come to dislike my (relatively nice) neighbours as I am by their constant noise. It’s the dad! He’s SO loud. He’s a one-man cheering squad. If his child raises a pinky finger, we get to hear dad whooping and yelping with joy as if he’s just discovered his spawn is the messiah. And because they’ve turned their back garden into Disneyland with every outdoor toy and ride-in car imaginable, they are never inside. The dad is out there ALL day with his booming, shouty voice, his blaring music, and oh doesn’t he just love a bonfire of plastics? Constantly burning shit, acrid smoke everywhere. Then they take the show out front, where dad sits in his Porsche blasting music while showing off what an awesome guy he is. They are such showboats- both parents. I think these dads are anticipating some enormous prize.
Sympathy handhold!

They do it because they want everyone to know how impressive they are. All that happens is that everyone knows how much of a twat they are.

I had a neighbour like that- performance parenting all the way.

He didn’t realise I could also hear his loud voice calling his daughter a dickhead inside the house as well.

Lucky for me they moved.

Record it, then play it back to him, via speakers in your garden, on loop ! Make sure you too can be heard mumbling "I wish he'd shut the fuck up".

Trumpet the match of the day theme.
Get a vuvuzela
Randomly boom "GORDON'S ALIVE!!!"
Play Pavarotti singing the World Cup theme from 1990.

If you can't beat them, join them.

My granddad had a loud booming voice like this, couldn’t get it down to a ‘normal’ level if he tried. It’s just the way he was made, nothing at to do with ‘performing’ 🙄

Of course he could get his voice down to a normal level if he tried. He just didn't try.

I've got one of these - he lives opposite and you can hear his loud shouty voice all day. He is particularly fond of walking up and down shouting on his phone, he even said "Lovely jubbly!" Just go inside and take your calls?

He is also fond of having booming conversations with anyone who walks past. Before social distancing, he was having a shouty talk with a man in the other side of the road, I mean really loud shouting. The other man, clearly embarrassed, crossed the road to get closer and talk so he would lower the volume. But no, he stood face to face to him and carried on roaring away at the same volume. Empty vessels make the most noise, they say.

I like @T0tallyFuckedUpFamily's idea. In fact you could go outside and put your speaker and music on when he starts the game, and go back inside yourself.

I have a sister that is like this and she has partial hearing. She is just a loud person as she doesn't realise how loud she is. She had multiple ear infections as a child and it does feel like she shouts above you. In a small space she's still loud, but you can't tell she has a hearing issue as she is otherwise fine and has adapted to it. Are you not sure they just don't have hearing issues?

My neighbour speaks so loudly I can hear her talk through the walls, I feel your pain (but theres nothing we can do about it).

We were at a beautiful picnic spot a few years ago. About 6 families all quietly picnicking. We were not aware of any of the other families. Then LOUD family arrived. Each of them SHOUTED and YELLED every interaction. Parents were the worst kids mirroring them. All other families quietly left. Felt really sorry for their neighbours.

Ugh my neighbour is the same except instead of general parenting it's constantly swearing/arguing with his partner or shouting at his kid. Doesn't matter if he's inside or outside as they leave the back doors open all day, I know what they are having for tea, who "fucking beat him on fucking fifa" what he's annoyed about, etc. He's like a toy with two options -full volume or mute, nothing inbetween. He seems to think a mobile phone is some sort of magic amplifier so that if you shout loud enough your mate will hear you even if they are in Australia.

Music blaring all day, mates around for bbqs...don't think I've ever actually hated a person I don't know before.

Also he unironically referred to himself as a "rude boi" yesterday which made me laugh....mate you're a thirty year old living in a welsh suburb not a teen gang member in tower hamlets

We also have loud neighbours. It’s awkward because they are kind and caring people and we get on well. It’s not performance for them, they just shout a lot. I’m relieved it’s started raining so we can all get a bit of peace.

My neighbour is like this. Thankfully his kids are too old for any performance parenting antics. It's just general booming conversation. He's worse when he's on the phone so I hear all phone conversation details including some very intimate details about his genital issues!

Hmm- I'm a loud voice person to. I'm often tutted at in restaurants and whilst I try to be self aware, my voice just projects.

We have the world’s noisiest family two doors down. They are genuinely making me feel depressed. No self awareness at all. The children scream and shout constantly in the garden and the parents are just as bad. ☹️