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Why do people have to be so noisy??

27 replies

CardoMondo · 05/01/2021 12:13

Last night, 11:30pm ... two idiots walking past the house having a fucking “conversation” at top volume, shouting, screaming, laughing, set my dog off barking who then set a neighbours dog off barking.

An hour ago, couple outside shouting at screaming because one of them slipped on the ice

Just now, family walking past the back garden screaming. FUCK OFF!!! Can’t people talk at normal volume anymore??? Stop fucking screeching!!

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recklessruby · 05/01/2021 12:18

It's the ones who walk past having a conversation on speaker phone or playing loud music that drive me mad.
Thank God I now sleep in the back bedroom.

McT123 · 05/01/2021 12:56

So you have a dog that you haven't trained not to bark late at night and are complaining about other people's noise...?

MolyHolyGuacamole · 05/01/2021 12:57

@McT123

So you have a dog that you haven't trained not to bark late at night and are complaining about other people's noise...?
🙄
Soubriquet · 05/01/2021 13:01

Most dogs would bark if someone walked by the house shouting. Especially at night

That’s why they are guard dogs... every dog is a bit of guard dog

Original poster
CardoMondo · 05/01/2021 13:09

@McT123

So you have a dog that you haven't trained not to bark late at night and are complaining about other people's noise...?
Oh behave
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213Milne · 05/01/2021 13:10

Agree. The complete disregard for people who may not only want peace and quiet, but are currently enjoying undisturbed peace in their homes (with tolerance for normal noise levels) jars me so much. Being loud is a form of controlling a space.... When it's coming into a home it's ten times more annoying. Intrusive, aggressive noise is pollution.

FrostyChocolateMilkshake · 05/01/2021 13:11

People are inconsiderate arseholes, that's why!

unmarkedbythat · 05/01/2021 13:13

Meh, I'd find your dog the most annoying thing in all of this.

Twobrews · 05/01/2021 13:13

I'd probably scream involuntarily if I slipped on ice.
Otherwise I don't get the screaming do you actually mean people are screaming as they do on a roller coaster?

Maybe move? We've moved and are no longer on a main thoroughfare in town and the peace and quiet is lovely.

However Dogs barking is one of the most annoying noises IMO so your part of the problem as far as I'm concerned.

Iknowwhatudidlastsummer · 05/01/2021 13:20

Some people live surrounded by noise, with the tv blaring in the background all day long, and then they put a tv in their toddler's bedroom!

They no longer realise the amount of noise they actually generate, and they don't care. Unfortunately there's literally nothing you can do about ill-mannered and inconsiderate idiots.

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CardoMondo · 05/01/2021 13:29

This area was dead quiet before all this Covid shit started. Now everybody is off work and school and have to go for “walks” constantly but god forbid they do it at a normal volume.

Any most dogs would bark if idiots were messing around near the house in the middle of the night. Our neighbour certainly didn’t mind the barking when our dog alerted us to some smack heads trying to get into his car earlier in the year!

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CallistoSol · 05/01/2021 14:01

@McT123

So you have a dog that you haven't trained not to bark late at night and are complaining about other people's noise...?
You get the prize for most nobbish thing I have read today.
Mablefly · 05/01/2021 14:10

I don't know. Some people are just naturally LOUD. I have friends / relatives who would fall into this category and they are like it at home too. I think it's partly to do with being an extrovert or introverted. I hate loud noises so wouldn't inflict them on others but many people simply don't notice so don't think that anyone else would mind either. I'm hoping one day to move somewhere quieter, further away from anyone else Grin

ZoeTurtle · 05/01/2021 14:12

I've definitely noticed that children can't seem to play without shrieking and screaming. Was it always like that and I somehow didn't notice until the last few years? I think back to playing as a kid and I don't remember much shrieking.

Wotsitsarecheesy · 05/01/2021 14:20

Yesterday there was a guy outside Tesco with his older toddler son (3 ish?), having a 'roaring' competition. Son roars like a lion at Dad, as loud as he can, Dad roars back at son. Repeat and repeat, etc. They were having a great time roaring loudly at each other. But they were LOUD. And stood right by the front door, where everyone had to walk right past them. At least they were just outside the door, rather than just inside. Does that make me sound like a right misery? Fine at home, in a garden, a park or other large outdoor space. But not standing right outside the front door to Tesco. Our old next door neighbours used to have late night parties. They would often stand outside chatting at 2am or later, talking and laughing loudly. They would be about 4m from our bedroom window. No chance of sleeping, and they were too drunk to care. Some people are just inconsiderate.

ChippyChickenChips · 05/01/2021 14:20

Any most dogs would bark if idiots were messing around near the house in the middle of the night
Of course they would.
I don't like dogs at all but it's not as if that's barking for no obvious reason. My neighbour's dogs bark all day at nothing. That's not useful.

CounsellorTroi · 05/01/2021 14:39

Our previous neighbours seemed to live their life at full volume. I can't get over how quiet their successors are in comparison.

CloudPop · 05/01/2021 14:41

@Wotsitsarecheesy

Yesterday there was a guy outside Tesco with his older toddler son (3 ish?), having a 'roaring' competition. Son roars like a lion at Dad, as loud as he can, Dad roars back at son. Repeat and repeat, etc. They were having a great time roaring loudly at each other. But they were LOUD. And stood right by the front door, where everyone had to walk right past them. At least they were just outside the door, rather than just inside. Does that make me sound like a right misery? Fine at home, in a garden, a park or other large outdoor space. But not standing right outside the front door to Tesco. Our old next door neighbours used to have late night parties. They would often stand outside chatting at 2am or later, talking and laughing loudly. They would be about 4m from our bedroom window. No chance of sleeping, and they were too drunk to care. Some people are just inconsiderate.
What strange behaviour
blalalala · 05/01/2021 15:25

Is some of it compensating for poor hearing or being ignored?

Unreasonable though.

StopMakingATitOfUrselfNPissOff · 05/01/2021 15:55

Being loud in the middle of the night I’d say is definitely unreasonable.

However, when we are out and about during the day on yet another walk and the DC are getting loud, I don’t tend to quieten them down. We live in a mid terrace so are conscious of neighbours at home. Outside is fair game for me tbh

Twobrews · 05/01/2021 16:53

Any most dogs would bark if idiots were messing around near the house in the middle of the night.
The fact that it's what dogs do doesn't make the sound any less annoying.
Dogs bark, it makes a racket, humans talk and sometimes shout and laugh which also makes a racket.
Unless you live in the middle of nowhere and people are making a special trip to sit outside your house and talk loudly it's just part of life.

Where we used to live a man used to sing 'the green, green grass of home' at the top of his voice on the way home from the pub every Thursday, Friday and Saturday without fail. Some people used to tell him to shut up, others applauded!

MissBaskinIfYoureNasty · 05/01/2021 17:06

It drives me mad. I can't cope with intrusive noise. My cousins neighbour installed a TV in their garden last summer. It wasn't for special occasions like watching movies or whatever. Tipping Point, Gogglebox, etc.. blaring out across the gardens.

sqirrelfriends · 05/01/2021 17:16

It drives me mad.

Much better now but our street made the local news because of the beautiful Christmas lights a lot of residents put up. Of course it was rammed every evening, people talking at stupid volume, walking in front gardens, parking over drives and peering in windows. Some people will always struggle to be considerate.

warmandtoasty2day · 05/01/2021 17:23

so glad i'm moving to a detached house in the country, totally fucked off with some peoples behaviour, esp. with disregard to covid.

cyclingmad · 05/01/2021 21:22

Urgh my neighbours don't talk they clearly shout at each other. That toothed is their normal speaking voice. Id I can hear your conversation word for word in my front bedroom when your in your back garden and my windows are shut your too loud.

They spent entire summer doing video calls for hours in their garden, I could even hear the person on the other end of the call. I couldn't even sit in my garden and if i did i habd headphones on, music on and volume turned way past the limitations just to drown them out. You have to be awfully loud if my volume is cranked up that high. It would be at 8am or 8pm they didn't care.

They also have form for slamming their back door shut, nope can't just close it as they go in and out they slam it. Do peolle not realise slamming doors can over time cause cracks in plaster and potentially the wall. Hmm