to be considering asking our neighbours to speak up a bit?

[becstarlitsea]

They've been rowing almost every night since they moved in about 6 months ago (young couple, no kids) about various topics - some shoes she bought, and whether he can do some more DIY this weekend, and whether she listens to him properly, and whether she doesn't listen because he's not very interesting (she has a point there, I feel), and his relationship with his mother (or 'your bloody mother' as she is known).

They tend to kick off at about 9.30pm when I go to bed, and I've started to listen to them in the manner of a radio play. It's no good telling me I shouldn't have listened in the first place - it's as loud as if they were standing next to my bed. It's like 'The Archers', if 'The Archers' featured young urban professionals with an interest in DIY. But now DH and I are getting hooked. 'What's the latest?' we ask each other 'Is she going to let him put those shelves up or what?'
No, we don't get out much, can't afford the babysitter. So wwyd? Should I maybe put on my ipod and listen to the 'real' Archers to wean myself off? Or should I go the whole hog and put a glass against the ceiling?

PMSL!

Sorry. Ummm... stethescope works better then a glass IMO. Could you just not have loud sex to prove how thin the walls are?

Oh great - I'm not the only one.

We listen to single-sometimes-not nextdoor who has fabulous telephone and RL arguements with her bf/ex/bf/ex.

We have even been known to press glasses to wall

In one particularly graphic row we got visuals as well - his clothes being thrown out of the window and into the garden. Pair of his pants sat on our wheelie bin for days.

We are very bad people.

Ooooh, stethoscope - excellent idea. My dad's a retired dr, I'm sure I can find one when I next visit.

We've had loud sex. I think they think that they can hear us, but we can't hear them. You know how a toddler 'hides' by hiding their eyes and thinks you can't see them? Our neighbours haven't grasped the concept of object permanence as it pertains to their downstairs neighbours (that may be the ponciest sentence I have ever written. Only may be, mind, there's some competition for that title.)

Fab becstar!!
Keep listening, and please share with us!
My neighbours should be interesting (they are certainly odd enough) but sadly their house is 5 foot from ours and I can't listen to them.
(The other side is fine, we are attached to them, but other than hearing their teen boys arguing and their mum yelling at them for something they broke/lost they are not very interesting)

Becstar - glad you're enjoying it.

Scrooged, can you get a stethoscope long enough to reach from floor to bed?

Lol at loud sex. My neighbours were at it last night. Thought DS had woken up but then realised my mistake when the bloke joined in with his low pitched moans. Yuk.

Becstar - perhaps you could use this thread to keep us all in the loop and we could have our own Mnet soap.

I used to camp out in the spare room to listen to my neighbours latest exploits - he would argue with his girlfriend (AKA: Girl 30 years younger than him who he knocked up but didn't want to pay for) in his garden.

he actually made sure they ate out there. I have no clue why.

Sadly, we moved before the story was concluded. but his house is still on the market for about £550K above it's market value, so I'm guessing he's holding out saying he can't afford to pay.

YANBU

Oh you should definitely do a blog!

Probably wizz.
Why don't you start a blog? Then we'll all know what they've been arguing about.

ScarletA - love it! Especially the wheelie bin pants!

If we were to tell them 'Erm by the way, just wanted to let you know about the noise level' or something, they'd think we were talking about the TV or radio, or those flippin' shoes of hers (he does have a point about those). 'Oh no, your TV is fine, we can only hear you when you're having highly personal conversations. And also when you wee.'

Actually our previous neighbours had noisier, and even more entertaining rows. My all time favourite was towards the end of their relationship. The crescendo was:

Her: Fuck you
Him: Well, fuck you
Her: WELL, FUCK YOU!
Him: (deafening) AND FUCK YOU!
Her: (at a screech) FUCK YOU! AND FUCK HER TOO!
Mr&MrsBecstar: [sotto voce] Oooooooh, now we get it!

I do ponder what my neighbours thought when DP yelled at two in the morning "FFS, laweaselmys, I'm not bloody asleep! I just want a pee alright!"

Yes. He was asleep. And I was trying to make sure he didn't pee in the laundry basket instead of the loo...

lol laweaselmys!

LOL!

Said single-sometimes-not shares her kitchen wall with our bedroom wall... Yes, we too have loud sex. And then we hear her plug in her kettle.

She is probably there with her glass to the wall.

PMSL at this thread. The flat next door to ours is a rental and the current occupants have very noisy sex most weekends. Honestly I think she's faking, it's the most ridiculous over the top, When Sally Met Harry type screaming orgasm. Either that or he's hung like a donkey and I want to meet him

ha ha

so glad i opened this thread some funn funny stories

sorry i havent got any to add!!!!

Mine are swiss german and I dont understand their rows - do you think if I asked them to row in English they would?

i once crawled around my flat from room to room with my ear to the floor so i could listen to the downstairs neighbours arguing, it was a real blazing row too.

When I was a studentliving in a flat in an old Glasgow tenement I once sneezed in bed and somebody somewhere said "Bless You!"

LOL its a bit like that next door to us.

Ours are moving abroad soon and having a big romantic wedding...jeez no way would I marry someone I already argued with that much When they told us it was really hard not to say " really?" in an "are you sure thats a good idea" tone of voice

I think if neighbours are going to disturb you by arguing they should at least ensure its loud enough to be interesting.

LOL at the pants on your bin.

Is this the first time they have lived together? If so, they are in the difficult adjustment stage. Poor things.

we had neighbours who argued loads, we heard very clearly 'well you can just fuck off, cos i just don't love you any more' one sat morning. i think she was lying, though, cos she got pregnant less than a month after having dc1!

Does nobody else remember The loser living downstairs?

I once lived in a building that had no soundproofing. Our first night there, me and xbf lay in bed listening to an argument upstairs 'did you fuck him?' 'did you fuck him?'. All night! (I think it was parents and a daughter.)

Our neighbours were two (theoretically) straight men, who liked to sit in their living room, with headphones on, singing along, together, to music. So ... we got to hear the equivalent of very very bad karaoke, without the music.

I love this thread it's made me laugh out loud and now i've made DH laugh as well. I wish we had neighbours this interesting but we live in the middle of no where. Please start a Blog so we can keep up with what's happening