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Reminds of a neighbor I had back when I was renting in a big city. He didn’t seem to understand what’s wrong with keeping his TV on for very long periods broadc
by shibel 8mo ago
Reminds of a neighbor I had back when I was renting in a big city. He didn’t seem to understand what’s wrong with keeping his TV on for very long periods broadcasting the sleaziest (at least at the time) reality show on full volume.
I tried talking to him multiple times to no avail. He’d basically say “yeah I’ll pay attention no problem” but nothing changed for weeks.
Coincidentally at that time I was working morning shifts at a radio station. Those start really early so you gotta wake up at around 4am.
I decided one day to change my alarm (triggered on my Sony Vaio) from the peaceful iPhone-like tunes to System of a Down’s “Chop Suey”. I also decided to forget it on, on repeat, full volume, while leaving the apartment.
I don’t think 3 days passed before he knocked loudly at my door, moaning and complaining.
I told him: “you gotta understand, your TV was so loud I couldn’t sleep for nights on end, the old tune wouldn’t wake me up anymore. I had to change it. I’m so tired that I even forget to turn it off.
But yeah, I’ll try to pay attention to it”
- morganf 8mo agoBut did he get the message and start keeping the volume down?
- unsupp0rted 8mo agoUsually people who are that inconsiderate don’t change. Or they quickly change and then quickly change back.
- tensor 8mo agoMorning people are often inconsiderate to night people and let alone change they simply judge night people for not getting up at fuck you o’clock. Usually morning people don’t change and are inconsiderate their whole lives.
- LoveMortuus 8mo agoBaseless accusations, because what bothers night people in the morning, bothers morning people in the night. The only real difference is how much you care about how your actions impact the environment and people around you. I wake up early, because I work early, I don't make any sound, my flatmate (I rent a room from the company) works late and always stays up late, they make so much noise that they keep waking me up to the point that I had to report them to the company. It doesn't matter if you're a night or a morning person, what matters is, are you considerate or not.
- 9rx 8mo agoConsiderate people will be considerate at any time of the day, but there are a lot more checks and balances to keep the inconsiderate at bay at night (e.g. noise bylaws). They soon learn that they have to become considerate. Conversely, anything goes for the inconsiderate morning crowd.
- GuestFAUniverse 8mo agoBull shit!
- sporkland 8mo agoAs a collector of off kilter bigotry, I love finding new forms of it. Gave me a smile thinking about how much you must have nursed this grudge against morning people (they are a judgey holier than thou group on average). The particular group I harbor bigotry towards is car drivers with tinted front windows, which I find to display anti social behaviors as a group.
- throw20251220 8mo agoI’d tell him “no worries I will pay more attention next time”.
- flocciput 8mo agodid you not read the last line of the post?
- its_ubuntu 8mo ago[dead]
- direwolf20 8mo agoBazinga
- nixass 8mo ago[flagged]
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- postalcoder 8mo agoThis post and your comment has me thinking about STFU, posted here a couple weeks ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46649142 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46649142 Is it feasible to capture and directionally pipe audio back to a rude neighbor? Seems like it could be effective.
- shawn_w 8mo agoObligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/316/ https://xkcd.com/316/
- steveBK123 8mo agoOh I had one of those neighbors too, but I don't even count them in my bad noisy neighbors list.
- socalgal2 8mo agoI lived in an apartment with extremely thin floors. One night I needed to move the bed 5 inches away from the wall at 3am. In my room it made almost no noise and took 1 second. But, the next morning the woman below came up and complained. I told her I heard her masturbating often and would just put my headphones on and check in 20 minutes. She said she didn't do that. I said "well, maybe you're listening to porn. All I know is I hear something". She moved out the next day.
- _boffin_ 8mo agoBeen around for awhile: https://www.holosonics.com https://www.holosonics.com
- trhway 8mo ago"a beam of directed ultrasound that delivers audio ten times more isolated " ah, so this is what they used in embassy attacks
- direwolf20 8mo ago
- latexr 8mo agoWere you each other’s only neighbours? How did that “war” not involve other people in the vicinity?
- corwinxpro 8mo agoIn the vicinity of obscenity?
- folkrav 8mo agoTerracotta pie!
- refulgentis 8mo agoBased on this tall tale being the top comment, and the replies to you, I hereby request dang remove the “HN is becoming Reddit” nono from the guidelines.
- LordDragonfang 8mo agohttps://old.reddit.com/r/nothingeverhappens https://old.reddit.com/r/nothingeverhappens
- Kiro 8mo agoI agree. I don't understand the argument that just because people have incorrectly claimed HN is turning into reddit before, it automatically means it can never happen. I think HN has become a lot more like reddit and in some ways even worse.
- latexr 8mo ago> I don't understand the argument that just because people have incorrectly claimed HN is turning into reddit before, it automatically means it can never happen. I don’t think the argument is it can never happen, but rather that at the time of writing of the guidelines it hadn’t. And that it is an argument that doesn’t advance the discussion. Complaining that HN is becoming like Reddit is one of the things which makes HN more like Reddit.
- varispeed 8mo agoFrom childhood I remember there was a guy who was blasting loud music whole day. He wouldn't stop, so one neighbour got so angry he took an axe, demolished this guy's door, took his stereo and launched it through the window, through the glass. Fortunately it landed in the garden on the other side. Then he said next time he will chop him up and throw through the window. That was the end of nuisance. Police came, but all the neighbours said they didn't hear anything and the guy did it himself, must have gone insane.
- dh2022 8mo agoI do not know in what country you live, but in the countries I lived in if you chop somebody's property you will go to jail.
- taneq 8mo agoBut the guy did it himself. Must have gone insane.
- irishcoffee 8mo agoIgnoring the entirety of the rest of this story, I desperately want to know why: "Fortunately it landed in the garden on the other side." was so notable.
- close04 8mo ago"The victim did it to themselves" is a famously bulletproof defense. I don't know why people don't try it more often. This is the typical tall tale that used to travel in every neighborhood as a warning, especially to scare kids from doing some things. Kids eat up these stories. Probably doesn't work that much in the age of phones and "pics (shorts?) or it never happened".