Stupid neighbors goodamn loud music

[alarimer]

If I have to hear "Magnet and Steel" one more time, I'll puke. I guess the only recourse is to retaliate with "Karma Kameleon".

Thes people moved in a week ago and they are driving me batshit crazy. They are upstairs (at least I think that is where the racket is coming from). What's worse is that I have a presentation tomorrow that requires me to record some audio tonight on my computer (just narrating a Power Point) and I am afraid it will get picked up on my recording. Dammit I hate having neighbors. Guess I won't be renewing my lease, which expires the end of next month. Gotta move someplace else.

I know it's only 530 pm but I have work to do. Stupid shits.

[leftofthedial]

1. "goodamn"

great new word! :thumbsup:

[alarimer]

3. I noticed that after it was too late to change it

oh well.

[leftofthedial]

18. no apology necessarty

I like!

[ChoralScholar]

2. I am narrating a powerpoint also

You aren't per chance taking Music Education Research at Boston University, are you?

[alarimer]

5. No this is actually for work.

I have "career day" at an elementary school tomorrow. So I wanted some explanation for some slides that wasn't too complicated (they are like 4th and 5th grade) and didn't involve their having to read anything on the slides. But I was trying to wing it and probably didn't do too good a job.

[bbernardini]

11. Yeah, how about that presentation?

How long is yours?

[alarimer]

13. only about 5-10 minutes

It is to be shown to some 9 and 10 year olds so nothing complicated. I kept messing up and had to restart.

[ChoralScholar]

19. 13.5 minutes.

I'm glad it's done.

[bbernardini]

20. HOLY CRAP.

How did you get it to be so long? I keep thinking I should put in less, but perhaps more is in order. Right now, I only have an introduction, the statement of the purpose, the explanation of the methods, and the rationale. Do you suppose I should include my definitions and something from the literature review as well?

[ChoralScholar]

23. I did.

Mine is basically a powerpoint form of my research proposal.

[Robb]

4. Ooh, ooh, ahhhhh

Now, I told you so you ought to know, It takes some time for a feeling to grow...! :rofl:

[alarimer]

6. By some strange serendipity I turned on the radio

and Culture Club was playing so I thought that was suitable revenge, although I don't think he heard it.

[salin]

7. had a roommate who would play the old 45 of WhipIt

over and over and over and over again. For years I couldn't recognize (or admit) the roll that DeVo played in alternative music because I had grown past irritated to agitated whenever I heard the song. One morning when the song on auto repeat was turned on a wee bit early - I hurled a shoe at the wall (half asleep, it still had some velocity to make a nice bang). Point made ...

[democracyindanger]

8. That's nothing. Try

being forced to listen to a drunken a capella rendering of "Ring of Fire" at 3:30 in the morning, where after the first verse and chorus the idiots realize they don't know any more lyrics so they just keep singing "Ring of Fiiii-errrrr...Ring of Fiii-errrr..."

[Nevernose]

12. Oh yeah? I once had a woman give birth in the next door apartment

On purpose, because she didn't believe in doctors.

She had a two bedroom apartment. And seven children (eight, afterwards). Do you think it was ever quiet after they moved in?

After the first hour of labor, the husband came over, drunk, and asked me to help him watch his other seven children, because he had a migraine and had to go to work in the morning. Like he was the only one that needed to go to work in the morning. Fortunately, after seven kids, the eighth one popped out like it was slathered in vaseline.

For what it's worth, we put the rest of his kids to sleep in my house, both got drunk, and both called in sick. Sometimes you just have to roll with these things. And then move.

[alarimer]

14. Well I guess compared to that it isn't so bad

I have had worse noisy neighbors before. This one just irked me because I had some work to get done.

I am not sure what is worse to hear, loud music or loud sex. Usually the music lasts longer.

[Nevernose]

16. That was funny (n/t)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. I had a "noise party" once, to get even with chronically noisy neighbors.

Our downstairs neighbors constantly played loud music late at night, no matter how much we asked them to turn it down. So, after making arrangements to move, we had a noise party; we invited a bunch of friends and asked them to bring something to make noise with. The implements of noise included a bagpipe, a trombone and a chainsaw; we played opera albums at full volume, and rollled a bowling ball down a hallway.

The neighbors complained.

We laughed.

I highly recommend this technique.

[alarimer]

10. I love it

It may come in handy. Seems to have stopped. I was all prepared to be mad all evening but he went and turned it off.

[EstimatedProphet]

15. I had upstairs 'neighbors' like that in college

They were kind of self-centered. they had the top 2 floors, I had the basement. They had a stereo with hugh speakers, positioned right over my bed, and they used to put on rap, turn it up to 11, and then go upstairs so that it wasn't too loud.

I, however, had the main power circuit breakers for the house...

[dolo amber]

17. That's really weird

I heard that blaring from a car today. :o :tinfoilhat:

Who *listens* to that? :shrug:

[alarimer]

22. I think it was a radio station

we have something called Jake FM. I have heard of Jack FM, apparently that's some new format. I don't know if ours is related to that but they play all kinds of weird crap. Some of it's okay but the rest is just stuff I didn't like when it came out. Of course the station I turned on was playing Culture Club so it all pretty much sucks. One reason I am thankful for whoever invented the MP3 player.

[AirmensMom]

21. Here's how harleydad handled it once ...

Our neighbor's kid had just driven into his driveway with his car stereo going, "THUMP, THUMP, THUMP" so loudly that it was rattling our gutters. I said something to harleydad about it and he calmly said, "I'll take care of it." He left and came back around five minutes later, just as calm as he was when he left. Then I asked him what happened. Here's what he said happened:

He went up to the kid and said, "WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU? DIDN'T I TELL YOU THAT MAKES ME CRAZY?" :rofl: I couldn't believe my ears! :rofl:

The kid replied, "Oh, I'm sorry, Mr. C. I won't do it again."

OK, a few minutes later, the phone rang. I told harleydad the kid's mother was probably calling to yell at him. His reply? "If she'd been home, the kid wouldn't have had the radio on so loud!" He was right -- the phone was someone else.

A week later, the kid was outside with harleydad in OUR driveway, talking about cars and radios. No harm done. The kid has never played his car radio like that since, and that was about 6 years ago.