tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3963192.post2822695046150959099..comments2023-11-03T10:31:19.854+00:00Comments on Assistant Blog: noise from withoutJonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04267191412203443333noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3963192.post-65885895333018213092008-09-12T17:05:00.000+01:002008-09-12T17:05:00.000+01:00oh yes, i remember those feelings of blood boiling...oh yes, i remember those feelings of blood boiling frustration...but resorting to banging on neighbours doors in my dressing gown and trying to look intimidating and mean...but failing<BR/><BR/>oh, and used to live next door to a bird man too, his racing pigeons would sit on our roof. was quite nice really, but made our garden smell like chicken pooGUGAWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10095156091465578848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3963192.post-3144528309269296492008-09-01T12:53:00.000+01:002008-09-01T12:53:00.000+01:00Count yourself lucky. My friend used to have a nex...Count yourself lucky. My friend used to have a next door neighbour whom we christened "Bird Man". He used to stand in the middle of the road, throwing seed into the air and sign-languaging to his avian friends, before pissing onto bread and slinging it into his front yard, in the hope that they'd come and feast on it. <BR/><BR/>Through the window, you could see that his entire Victorian front room was filled with margarine tubs, bread packets and newspaper, with not one piece of furniture.<BR/><BR/>Once we kicked a ball over his wall by accident, and he emerged in the street, asking us whether we wanted our ball back, "or a dose of cancer".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3963192.post-47336248032585824692008-08-31T01:31:00.000+01:002008-08-31T01:31:00.000+01:00That must be the worst neighbour-story I've ever h...That must be the worst neighbour-story I've ever heard, and I have heard some really bad ones! Although when I was living in halls there was a small down-hill slope just outside my bedroom window, that used to trigger the urge to run and scream as loudly as possible amongst the drunken freshers returning from honeyclub (or whatever shithole they'd been). Looking out the window I could only ever see fragments of cheap river island fabrics and glitter make-up. Clearly I am still bitter about this.jimmyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01003648135386294927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3963192.post-46035313127007186762008-08-21T18:09:00.000+01:002008-08-21T18:09:00.000+01:00why not dropping a smelly cat poo on their door ma...why not dropping a smelly cat poo on their door mat with an anonymous letter to threaten them?<BR/>eheheh<BR/>good luck Jonathan, noisy neighboursjust make you so stressed.<BR/>by the way how did the job interview go?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3963192.post-30183473481163797982008-08-21T13:51:00.000+01:002008-08-21T13:51:00.000+01:00Thanks all - yes, retaliation, warning letters etc...Thanks all - yes, retaliation, warning letters etc have all been considered. Think I'll leave it for now and see if any further problems crop up. Everyone has a stupidly loud party every now and again (although as Rowan says, I'd be mortified too if I was disturbing others). Having been there for nearly two weeks it's the only time I've heard from them, so I'm not panicking just yet.<BR/><BR/>It does occur to me, however, that when calling the police at the time of the next transgression, I might just report the arabic nature of the music and perhaps chuck in the possibility of a bit of a 'sinister chanting', in the hope of enlisting the terror squad.<BR/><BR/>(That joke was quite out of character, sorry).Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04267191412203443333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3963192.post-56101653231301913172008-08-21T09:39:00.000+01:002008-08-21T09:39:00.000+01:00I feel your pain. We've had sporadically noisy nei...I feel your pain. We've had sporadically noisy neighbours in the last two places we've lived (including the current one). Back in Bedford Place it was old war movies and bad guitar playing late at night from the flat below. Now our upstairs neighbour comes home drunk (I assume) and puts on a DVD, but evidently falls asleep before actually watching it, so that we get stuck with the (loud) menu music on a loop for hours. My other half is the braver one in our house, and has often gone up and knocked on their door, only to be met with resentment and rudeness. I would be mortified if someone complained that I was keeping them awake - unless of course it was the perpetrator of my own sleepless nights. *Apparently* it doesn't pay to retaliate, but oh the temptation.Rowan Stanfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05622169615560530281noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3963192.post-20450934877867679372008-08-20T23:45:00.000+01:002008-08-20T23:45:00.000+01:00Oh, that's horrible. It's so miserable to be at th...Oh, that's horrible. It's so miserable to be at the mercy of someone else's selfishness in your own home and to be worrying about when it might start again, so, yes, you have to "go nuclear" sooner rather than later.<BR/><BR/>How about leaving a note under their door as a firm but fair warning as to what will happen if the noise recurs? You could even just drop your Letting Agency a mail or letter, on the offchance there are strings they can pull.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05376621599111523024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3963192.post-68198717287533219322008-08-20T23:24:00.000+01:002008-08-20T23:24:00.000+01:00i know how you feel too! i had a band living next ...i know how you feel too! <BR/>i had a band living next door for a few months and they had VERY late band practices (and only one song it sounded like).<BR/>The music didn't bother me so much - but one of them had an annoyingly loud laugh that i could not block out.<BR/>Luckily they've moved out now. I hope your don't have any more sleepless nights!d e b b i ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13635877776881188656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3963192.post-63620936090181005572008-08-20T22:03:00.000+01:002008-08-20T22:03:00.000+01:00i feel exactly as you do when it comes to confront...i feel exactly as you do when it comes to confronting neighbours, so if it happens again, don't bother confronting them: just call the police straight off. cowardly, but effective!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3963192.post-21406306990287864692008-08-20T21:43:00.000+01:002008-08-20T21:43:00.000+01:00I hope it's a one off too. We'd not heard anything...I hope it's a one off too. We'd not heard anything from them until last night, so perhaps it was a birthday celebration or something. Very annoyed that they knew they were keeping us up and yet chose to turn up the volume. Grrr. But I guess they were just drunk and I hope they feel a bit foolish today. Hmm.Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04267191412203443333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3963192.post-38660567554800995222008-08-20T20:16:00.000+01:002008-08-20T20:16:00.000+01:00argh... a nightmare, almost literally. I hope tha...argh... a nightmare, almost literally. I hope that is a one off.<BR/><BR/>I've been very lucky and never had noisy neighbours, its the luck of the drawer I guess. <BR/><BR/>Bit worrying having not been there very long I know but yes call the Police next time.dan@hiidunia.orghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08509137876991461732noreply@blogger.com