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City Centre - Weird Noise

  • 21-10-2013 6:12pm
    #1
    Buckeye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 134 ✭✭


    Every night a little after midnight I can hear a noise that sounds almost like a digeridoo. Anyone know what it is?


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  • #2
    Marcus Halberstram
    Closed Accounts Posts: 338 ✭✭Marcus Halberstram


    That's a Polynesian Wasp's mating call. It's in the key of C, according to a young chap I was talking to down Poor Man's Kilkee the other day.


  • #3
    frag420
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    When I lived in Limerick many years ago I used to hear a very weird noise every day too. After some investigation in turned out to be the local scobes conversing in their mother tongue!! Weird eh?


  • #4
    fando
    Closed Accounts Posts: 172 ✭✭fando


    frag420 wrote: »
    When I lived in Limerick many years ago I used to hear a very weird noise every day too. After some investigation in turned out to be the local scobes conversing in their mother tongue!! Weird eh?

    Yeah. They can produce interesting sounds. I sometimes feel like in the jungle.


  • #5
    campo
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    fando wrote: »
    Yeah. They can produce interesting sounds. I sometimes feel like in the jungle.

    If you live in the north side it might be the whistling bridge , but I thought that was fixed years ago


  • #6
    Taco Chips
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 565 ✭✭✭Taco Chips


    God some of the threads on this forum can be so inane and pointlessly nosey sometimes. Between this one and the one the other day wondering what the odd lights in the sky were (airplanes landing in Shannon). Why so hung up about so a miniscule thing that you would come online and post about it.


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  • #7
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,970 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    Taco Chips wrote: »
    God some of the threads on this forum can be so inane and pointlessly nosey sometimes. Between this one and the one the other day wondering what the odd lights in the sky were (airplanes landing in Shannon). Why so hung up about so a miniscule thing that you would come online and post about it.

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  • #8
    tacofries
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 854 ✭✭✭tacofries


    Insect Overlord wrote: »
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    I only thanked your post so that id get the other posters attention and let him know they're called taco 'fries',,. okay, FRIES, NOT CHIPS, NOT POTATO STICKS, BUT FRIES AND FRIES ONLY... CAPICHE?


  • #9
    Buckeye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 134 ✭✭Buckeye


    Marcus Halberstram wrote: »
    That's a Polynesian Wasp's mating call. It's in the key of C, according to a young chap I was talking to down Poor Man's Kilkee the other day.

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  • #10
    seachto7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,863 ✭✭✭seachto7


    tacofries wrote: »
    I only thanked your post so that id get the other posters attention and let him know they're called taco 'fries',,. okay, FRIES, NOT CHIPS, NOT POTATO STICKS, BUT FRIES AND FRIES ONLY... CAPICHE?

    Non se capisce piu un cazzo qui!


  • #11
    RikkFlair
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    Could it be The Hum? It was down in Kerry driving people nuts a while back, perhaps it's come up to Limerick to see what the craic is.


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  • #12
    Kev_2012
    Closed Accounts Posts: 976 ✭✭✭Kev_2012


    Marcus Halberstram wrote: »
    That's a Polynesian Wasp's mating call. It's in the key of C, according to a young chap I was talking to down Poor Man's Kilkee the other day.

    Not to get technical Marcus, but I believe it's the key of E. Having said that, be careful with those, they are absolutely DEADLY...at hiding


  • #13
    Kess73
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,560 ✭✭✭✭Kess73


    RikkFlair wrote: »
    Could it be The Hum? It was down in Kerry driving people nuts a while back, perhaps it's come up to Limerick to see what the craic is.



    The Southampton and Blackpool Hums are now being put down to this fella or at least a close relative.

    The humming noise in the fish part of the video is what they sound like when grouped together enmasse .

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7511531.stm


    They can tolerate brackish water to a degree so would be capable of coming up the shannon estuary probably as far as other saltwater species have. Tope have been caught in the shannon surprisingly close to Limerick city, so stands to reason other species could come within a few miles as well.

    The hum in Southampton and in Blackpool could be heard between 5 and 8 miles from water on still nights.


  • #14
    Marcus Halberstram
    Closed Accounts Posts: 338 ✭✭Marcus Halberstram


    Kev_2012 wrote: »
    Not to get technical Marcus, but I believe it's the key of E. Having said that, be careful with those, they are absolutely DEADLY...at hiding

    I also heard that one specimen escaped from his owner not so long ago. Last seen around a chemist in the city, Ferguson's I think.


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