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Oh come on, that's the type of situation that is SO EASY to turn into a classic! All you need is a strong light and a makeshift megaphone.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 11 July 2005 14:57 (eighteen years ago) link

And cards with numbers on them, so you can hold up a score btwn 1 and 6 for performance!

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 11 July 2005 16:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Ps Jon you are being a complete tool, it isnt neccesary.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 11 July 2005 16:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Hahahaha! "This 2.8 is from the Romanian judge!"

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 11 July 2005 16:42 (eighteen years ago) link

my downstairs neighbour used to call the cops on me for WALKING too loud after 10pm!!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 11 July 2005 17:16 (eighteen years ago) link

once i knocked a stapler off my desk and onto the floor at 11pm and she called the cops!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 11 July 2005 17:17 (eighteen years ago) link

You're a menace to society.

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Monday, 11 July 2005 17:19 (eighteen years ago) link

no kidding, i did three years in solitary for that!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 11 July 2005 17:28 (eighteen years ago) link

I had upstairs neighbors who were really really annoying and a bunch of allergy ridden hippies. I lived on a hall with 3 weed dealers. Whenever someone would smoke weed or cigarettes on the hall, they would call the cops and complain about marijuana. I was woken up 5 times by fucking pigs who wouldn't take "NO GOOD NIGHT" for an answer. Fuck cops and fuck busybody neighbors.

― no tech! (ex machina), Monday, 11 July 2005 17:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Dripping with sympathy.

― The Ghost of Get One Sense Of Communal Responsibility (Dan Perry), Monday, 11 July 2005 17:40 (eighteen years ago) link

(I wasn't smoking weed even!)

― no tech! (ex machina), Monday, 11 July 2005 17:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Hahaha! Sorry!

(You have to admit it's not clear that you weren't the one in the hallway smoking weed from that initial post. You could have been lying to AUTHORITY.)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 11 July 2005 17:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Nothing kills the mood like the neighbors working on their trucks while blasting Mexican dance hall music when you are trying to have early morning sex.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 11 July 2005 17:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Too many BPM?

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 11 July 2005 17:51 (eighteen years ago) link

I dunno, some of the mariachi bands sound like Depeche Mode.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Monday, 11 July 2005 18:13 (eighteen years ago) link

My neighbours are currently playing music at full blast. Cyndi Lauper (Girls Just Wanna Have Fun) I can forgive, Female of the Species by Space I can't.
I want to cry.

― bilblio (Celeste), Monday, 11 July 2005 20:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Now that's just cruel.

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Monday, 11 July 2005 20:29 (eighteen years ago) link

one time my downstairs neighbors had a party which was attended by a bunch of non-campus inner city gangstas. there was one fire alarm at approx. 1 am, caused by smoking, during which i made friends with one of the gangstas (he was wearing a blue velour tracksuit and gold jewelry) and watched his buddies urinate on our building. at 5:30 am, we had another fire alarm caused by someone being pushed into the fire alarm thing and breaking the glass during a GANG FIGHT. when i came downstairs there was someone speeding away in a car. a few days later i had to describe my velour tracksuited friend to the police, sorry big guy. the moral of the story is that sometimes when your neighbors are loud, an adventure happens.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Monday, 11 July 2005 21:28 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm usually pretty tolerant but one apt building i was in had a load of undergrads who would blast music, and people would be (loudly) coming and going from their apartment and hanging out outside (climbing the walls of the apt building and throwing baseballs through people's windows) until ... 4 or 5 AM. that's fucking unreasonable. and yet i just sort politely ran downstairs in my pjs to ask them to keep it down. what a dork. eventually we called the cops.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Hahahahahaha "an adventure happens"!

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:52 (eighteen years ago) link

oh did i mention that this was 4 or 5 AM on a weeknight?! which may have been their spring break or something but was definitely not ours.

the nice thing is that when the cops came to clean up the worst of the debacles, we ended up meeting some of our other neighbors who were likewise irritated by the undergrads' bullshit.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 11 July 2005 22:52 (eighteen years ago) link

When we had problems with this back in a rough area of Essex my sister marched over there at 3AM with a fuckin mallet and threatened to cave their skulls in. After that there was no more music and they even moved out swiftly.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Monday, 11 July 2005 23:10 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.saferbrand.com/store/Assets/product_images/fly_tr1.gif

― Ô¿Ô (eman), Monday, 11 July 2005 23:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Ladies, have I got crazies?
Screaming young babies
No piece and no quiet
I got T.V.'s, saxophone playing
Groaning and straining
With the trouble and strife

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Monday, 11 July 2005 23:17 (eighteen years ago) link

noise mapping england

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 00:37 (eighteen years ago) link

this is hilarious! this morning when jon told me how silly the british are about noise, i poo-pooed him, but now i understand. thanks jon, and british people: take a chill pill.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 00:56 (eighteen years ago) link

come on, it's a relatively crowded (by North American standards, certainly) place. with everybody right next to each other, surely people need to be more considerate. besides, one loud party a month is the absolute maximum anyone should have to tolerate.

― yuengling participle (rotten03), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 01:22 (eighteen years ago) link

It's hilarious until you've lived it monthes on end.

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 01:24 (eighteen years ago) link

you know what they say - you cant control what other people do, you can only control your reaction. if yr trying to sleep just buy some freakin ear plugs.

― sunny successor (i dont get dirty with the bodies once i kill 'em) (katharine), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 05:10 (eighteen years ago) link

(on the other hand, they live in Shoreditch, so maybe any of their neighbours who haven't lived there more than a decade deserve every last decibel)

haha because they've all moved the shoreditch and married all the women and stole all the jobs?

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 11:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Or buy a phone and call the cops.
(xpost)

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 11:06 (eighteen years ago) link

hey Hari, which particular rough area of Essex?

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 11:12 (eighteen years ago) link

oh noes my weekend is ruined!!

(also they can't possibly be hippies if they don't like weed)

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 11:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Ken, America is full of people who privilege their food intolerances and allergies beyond any reasonable expectation. Many of them are non-smoking hippies.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 11:55 (eighteen years ago) link

People who priviledge their vices above other people's health, classic or dud?

― MIS Information (kate), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 11:56 (eighteen years ago) link

I am not British, but I live here and I get irritated with my noisy neighbours sometimes too. My theory is that the population is crowded into a relatively small country, so space is a commodity in many parts of the UK. This can make you want to protect your peace and quiet.

But it does feel like a lot of people are missing basic manners. I try to keep relatively quiet, because I know the soundproofing is crap in our building. I don't let my doors slam or run through the halls screeching or writing "drugs R here!!" on the wall when I'm drunk. I don't throw the junk mail I don't want onto the floor. (Someone did this in our building - my boyfriend was so pissed off he cleaned it up himself and it was a whole bin bag full from one flat - wanker...)

We pay a fair whack for living in the centre but sometimes it feels like we're stuck with a bunch of students.

People here can be uptight about things like fences and boundaries too. My mum was visiting and stepped into someone's drive to take a photo so she could get a better shot. The woman came out and bit her head off for daring to venture onto her property.

― flats are rubbish, Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:10 (eighteen years ago) link

agree about "flats are rubbish." in the extremely unlikely event of my making any money out of this bloody book, it'll go towards a house, and probably one a long way away from london.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:23 (eighteen years ago) link

If you have a fucking allergy problem, don't live in a building with other people or fucking talk to people rather than fucking calling the cops on them all the fucking time because you're too chickenshit to confront someone about their problems.

And, as I said, I was not smoking weed.

― no tech! (ex machina), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:28 (eighteen years ago) link

a great thread from all

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Except that next doors lad has just got a new girlfriend but hasn't discovered curtains.
Massive dud.
-- mark grout ( .....
You meant classic didn't you?
-- PinXorchiXoR ....
Oh come on, that's the type of situation that is SO EASY to turn into a classic! All you need is a strong light and a makeshift megaphone.
-- The Ghost of Dan Perry ..
And cards with numbers on them, so you can hold up a score btwn 1 and 6 for performance!
-- Trayce (

Yeah yeah, the difference being that they know! blummin exhibitionists.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:35 (eighteen years ago) link

HI My name is kate and I am pro-censorship:

These was a reasonable thread at one point:

― no tech! (ex machina), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:37 (eighteen years ago) link

(grout xpost)

It lacks a certain decorum.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:37 (eighteen years ago) link

No, Jon, I'm just anti-YOU.

― MIS Information (kate), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:38 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't take being criticized! Please delete any post that upsets me!

― no tech! (ex machina), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 12:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Are you being sarcastic?

― Rufus 3000 (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Not even he knows anymore.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:10 (eighteen years ago) link

if you don't like cops knocking on doors, don't live in the same place as 3 drug dealers?

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:13 (eighteen years ago) link

what a great sentence.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:14 (eighteen years ago) link

The sarcasm on this thread has reached such density that it may collapse in itself.

And what a fantastic moment THAT will be...

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh do you really THINK SO?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:29 (eighteen years ago) link

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