Ohmigodwhywon'tthealarmgooff

My office looks out onto some fancy seaside apartments. If they have their curtains open I also have a lovely sea view

Every day, an alarm goes off in one if the apartments. Every. Day.

Usually it goes off after a while, but today it has been cutting through my brain for the past 3 hours. I am beginning to wonder how far a petrol bomb would travel when thrown.

Are there any noises you regularly have to endure that may one day push you over the edge and turn you into a psychotic killer?

Or is it just me?

danniemcq

Deleted User wrote: »

I am beginning to wonder how far a petrol bomb would travel when thrown.

pm sent

littlelulu

Are you sure its not all in your head??

I'M NOT SURE OF ANYTHING ANY MORE


*rocks back and forth in chair*

Einstein

House across the road goes off multiple times every day without fail. I work shift. And I too would like the info on the petrol bomb situation.

corner of hells

Deleted User wrote: »

My office looks out onto some fancy seaside apartments. If they have their curtains open I also have a lovely sea view

Every day, an alarm goes off in one if the apartments. Every. Day.

Usually it goes off after a while, but today it has been cutting through my brain for the past 3 hours. I am beginning to wonder how far a petrol bomb would travel when thrown.

Are there any noises you regularly have to endure that may one day push you over the edge and turn you into a psychotic killer?

Or is it just me?

Stop trying to break into the apartments .

Wazdakka

Deleted User wrote: »

I am beginning to wonder how far a petrol bomb would travel when thrown.

Throwing it the distance mightn't be the issue,


But being able to throw a petrol bomb the distance and it still having the lateral kinetic energy required to actually break the window might be a bit tricky...

I recommend some form of mechanical assistance.
Slingshot, trebuchet, a giant elastic band... or something similar...




[/Engineer]

SEPT 23 1989

Dogs barking

nicowa

I'm at home with two little kids - no, they aren't the problem. There's two houses across the way the regularly have their alarms go off. Yesterday, day two of my having a tummy bug, the alarm went off 3 times! Morning, noon and night! Literally! And by literally, I do mean the literal meaning.

Twice were during the baby's sleep times (noon & night). I don't know how she slept through it. It wreaked my head! And according to my MIL - whose house I now live in (not with her) thus has been going on for over ten years - that these alarms regularly go off.

What can you do about it?

Plazaman

I find a large rock or other solid object hurled at the outside alarm box is just as good as entering the code. Percussive maintenance it's called.

My tip-over-the-edge noise is goddamn birds pecking at the rain gutter above my bedroom window at 6am on a Saturday morning. Doesn't happen during the week with the lazy feckers but always on a morning when I'm off work or want a lie in. They must be spying on me. My neighbours don't take too kindly to me shouting out the window at crows any more and I had to discontinue the use of the airhorn also. Someday though, they'll push me too far.....someday.....

Einstein

Wasn't there some rule passed that they had to silence after fifteen mins or something..?

Duggy747

I'm pretty sure this is what people in my estate look like, it's like some sort of arthouse sound experiment project I live in.

Davarus Walrus

I work with someone who breathes through their nose. Not an issue. It's this faint kinda whistling noise it makes that is going to cause me to disembowel him someday.

Other people can't hear it or it doesn't bother them. I hear it. It sometimes causes my left eye to twitch.

everlast75

Used to work on Dame St in Dublin, up near the Olympia.

Every 15 minutes (recorded) bells would ring, EVERY 15 MINUTES!

I had visions of climbing up the walls on the other side of the street to rip the speakers down.

Everyone else in the office didn't mind them

Einstein

Einstein wrote: »

Wasn't there some rule passed that they had to silence after fifteen mins or something..?

Time to arrest those alarms :mad:

Graces7

everlast75 wrote: »

Used to work on Dame St in Dublin, up near the Olympia.

Every 15 minutes (recorded) bells would ring, EVERY 15 MINUTES!

I had visions of climbing up the walls on the other side of the street to rip the speakers down.

Everyone else in the office didn't mind them

same in kenmare when i used to trade at the market there, but i rather like it.

worst for me was crowbangers in two different counties. they were not being used as they should be and in one place a guy would walk the lane with one. the council agreed but every time they tried to find it it vanished. they added illegal shooting parties too

just that constant banging....

D1stant

Every morning I enjoy Dempsey & Rosenstock.Everything is fine, half listening, half asleep. Then around 9:02 I realise we have moved into the inane world of Ray Darcy and Co. Then there is a lunge for the Radio dial

danniemcq

Wazdakka wrote: »

Throwing it the distance mightn't be the issue,


But being able to throw a petrol bomb the distance and it still having the lateral kinetic energy required to actually break the window might be a bit tricky...

I recommend some form of mechanical assistance.
Slingshot, trebuchet, a giant elastic band... or something similar...




[/Engineer]

petrol bombs aren't really designed to smash through windows, you will end up more than likely breaking the bottle on impact which is what its meant to do, after all most are cheap bottles against what i'm assuming is double glazed windows. adding force behind it will improve the chances but also increase the chance of it either going out or going off target.

Larianne

A bazooka is what you need!

Graces7

nicowa wrote: »

I'm at home with two little kids - no, they aren't the problem. There's two houses across the way the regularly have their alarms go off. Yesterday, day two of my having a tummy bug, the alarm went off 3 times! Morning, noon and night! Literally! And by literally, I do mean the literal meaning.

Twice were during the baby's sleep times (noon & night). I donon noiesection 't know how she slept through it. It wreaked my head! And according to my MIL - whose house I now live in (not with her) thus has been going on for over ten years - that these alarms regularly go off.

What can you do about it?

try the epa website. environmental protection agency. they have a special section on noise pollution and can get the council activated.

castletownman

When there's a draught in the house, if the door in the hallway right outside my bedroom that isn't closed properly isn't banging off it's frame, then one of the wooden handle things on the blind on the window is been blown against the window-frame.

Many an interrupted sleep I've had due to both.

gugleguy

A poo thread by a mod. Out of character for woopsasdie but maybe not so for ahfor****sake.

Philo Beddoe

My bedroom faces onto a football field, and on weekend mornings there's generally local kids teams playing out there. I quite like the sounds of the matches going on, the sound of the ball being kicked, the cheers for goals etc. but sometimes you'll have one of those parents who spend the game roaring abuse from the sidelines. Their noise always manages to cut through my reverie. If you can't go along to your child's under-10 football match without throwing dogs abuse at the people good enough to ref these affairs....well you're just a failure as a human being.

gugleguy

gugleguy wrote: »

A poo thread by a mod. Out of character for woopsasdie but maybe not so for ahfor****sake.

What kinda noises make your posts so grumpy?

Czarcasm

Contender for thread title of the year at least!


Finger clickers, knuckle crackers, the noise! Jesus H, the temptation in that moment to grab their wrists and smack their hands down on the desk! :mad:

Can't be doing that though, I just picture it in my head

The noise that emits from a phone charger. Hi-pitched tone that gets stuck in your ear for the rest of the day. Why are phone chargers so fecking noisy! :mad:

Diabhal Beag

Seagulls only ever turn up when either A) < 4 hours sleep or Hangover. Regardless though, I ****ing hate those little pricks.

danniemcq

why does nobody listen to headphones?

Arthur Beesley

I snort. Doesn't annoy me but seems to annoy others. Not that I care.

Merkin

A neighbor who insists on strimming EVERY SUNNY EVENING until about 11pm. I don't know what can possibly be left to strim. I'd like to go out and strim all his hair off.

anncoates

Get a big motherfucking pair of bucket headphones like mine.

Essential for the ambient torture of the workplace.

Larianne

A moany person.
I've a co-worker whose constant moaning is very tedious.
I just laugh at it now.
But that took a while..

Arthur Beesley

Czarcasm wrote: »

Contender for thread title of the year at least!


Finger clickers, knuckle crackers, the noise! Jesus H, the temptation in that moment to grab their wrists and smack their hands down on the desk! :mad:

Can't be doing that though, I just picture it in my head

it would have been better with camel casing (or camelCasing).

corner of hells

Deleted User wrote: »

My office looks out onto some fancy seaside apartments. If they have their curtains open I also have a lovely sea view

Every day, an alarm goes off in one if the apartments. Every. Day.

Usually it goes off after a while, but today it has been cutting through my brain for the past 3 hours. I am beginning to wonder how far a petrol bomb would travel when thrown.

Are there any noises you regularly have to endure that may one day push you over the edge and turn you into a psychotic killer?

Or is it just me?

Former alarm installer / service engineer speaking ...... eventually your brain will pour through your nose , peace will follow soon afterwards .
I'm pretty certain that's what happens.

The Backwards Man

I miss foghorns, used to love the sound of them.

Wazdakka

Larianne wrote: »

A moany person.
I've a co-worker whose constant moaning is very tedious.

Does your co-worker moan about alarms by any chance?
Or knuckle cracking?
Or heavy nose breathing?

:P

Sir Arthur Daley

A .223 would sort that out fairly lively.

Larianne

Wazdakka wrote: »

Does your co-worker moan about alarms by any chance?
Or knuckle cracking?
Or heavy nose breathing?

:P

Jeez, they probably would!

Graces7

QUOTE=anncoates;90203014]Get a big motherfucking pair of bucket headphones like mine.

Essential for the ambient torture of the workplace.[/QUOTE]

you mean like danny healy rae wears all the time...

danniemcq

Larianne wrote: »

A moany person.
I've a co-worker whose constant moaning is very tedious.
I just laugh at it now.
But that took a while..

is their seat wet when they stand up?

Graces7

portable generators at street markets..:mad:

cloud493

There's a car on this estate that the alarm goes off on every day without fail. People have complained, the owners of the car are in the house like, but they don't seem bothered by it at all, won't sort it out till someone asks them :mad:

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Larianne wrote: »

A moany person.
I've a co-worker whose constant moaning is very tedious.
I just laugh at it now.
But that took a while..

Been there! Worse than listening to a jack hammer all day.

Woe is me....ailment after ailment....if you only knew what this pain is like....they did it deliberately because it would annoy me......I have to do this or that.....the night I had with this sickness or that ache.....I need to go home because I don't feel well...my neighbours are so unkind to me....

As soon as she left the room everybody gave a huge sigh of relief.

It was a case of everybody out of step except our Johnny.

wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo wee ooo

kowloon

anncoates wrote: »

Get a big motherfucking pair of bucket headphones like mine.

Essential for the ambient torture of the workplace.

Big cushioned closed ear headphones, noise cancelling ones are even better.

I used to live in a place behind an electrical supply warehouse, the noise from the place was unreal. Truck engines and cages being thrown about the warehouse with the radio blasting over it all, all before dawn.
One time on the Friday evening before a long weekend something, I never found out what it was, put out an extremely loud high pitched noise. I got very close to putting a brick through a window so someone would have to come and sort it.

I wish I'd had noise cancelling headphones at the time.

anncoates

anncoates wrote: »

Get a big motherfucking pair of bucket headphones like mine.

Essential for the ambient torture of the workplace.

I couldn't listen to music while working, I'd end up singing along and forgetting what I was doing. Seriously, I'm so easily distra

Yaaaaaaaaaay it's stopped \o/

There are cats - sounds like many cats - who are either getting jiggy or getting skinned alive in the courtyard of my building about five or six days a month. Its torture.

Czarcasm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Yaaaaaaaaaay it's stopped \o/

Don't get too excited yet, the amount of times the stupid external fire alarm goes off here for about an hour after you call the security company, and then he's just pulling off in the van and you're just about to sit down for a smoke...

*beep beep beep beep beep...*

Sweet Jesus! But luckily the security guy hears it too and comes back and fixes it, again! :pac:

Irish Guitarist

Deleted User wrote: »

Are there any noises you regularly have to endure that may one day push you over the edge and turn you into a psychotic killer?

I've often been woken up by the sound of teenage girls going to school screaming so loudly that it sounds like they're being murdered and teenage males roaring like they're in a war zone. There are times where I've genuinely thought that someone was being beaten or raped in the street.

Earthhorse

There's an alarm goes off near me form time to time (no, not a personal alarm) that's quit annoying.

But there's also a night club nearby and every Wednesday night, I think it must be student night or something, I can hear groups of people going "Chug, chug, chug, chug... yayyyyyyyyyy!" They also make a lot of noise getting into and out of taxis; it's not enough to just get in they have to shout instructions at all their friends while doing so.