Ohmigodwhywon'tthealarmgooff

02-05-2014 12:09PM #1

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 · 02-05-2014 12:12PM

Deleted User wrote: »

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

pm sent

littlelulu · 02-05-2014 12:13PM

Are you sure its not all in your head??

02-05-2014 12:14PM

I'M NOT SURE OF ANYTHING ANY MORE

*rocks back and forth in chair*

Einstein · 02-05-2014 12:15PM

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 · 02-05-2014 12:16PM

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 · 02-05-2014 12:16PM

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 · 02-05-2014 12:16PM

Dogs barking

nicowa · 02-05-2014 12:17PM

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 · 02-05-2014 12:18PM

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 · 02-05-2014 12:19PM

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

Duggy747 · 02-05-2014 12:19PM

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 · 02-05-2014 12:23PM

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 · 02-05-2014 01:11PM

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

02-05-2014 01:15PM

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 · 02-05-2014 01:20PM

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 · 02-05-2014 01:20PM

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 · 02-05-2014 01:21PM

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 · 02-05-2014 01:23PM

A bazooka is what you need!

Graces7 · 02-05-2014 01:24PM

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 · 02-05-2014 01:26PM

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 · 02-05-2014 01:29PM

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

Philo Beddoe · 02-05-2014 01:42PM

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.

02-05-2014 01:45PM

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 · 02-05-2014 01:46PM

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

02-05-2014 01:49PM

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 · 02-05-2014 01:49PM

Seagulls only ever turn up when either A) < 4 hours sleep or

Hangover. Regardless though, I ****ing hate those little pricks.

danniemcq · 02-05-2014 02:03PM

why does nobody listen to headphones?

Arthur Beesley · 02-05-2014 02:10PM

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

Merkin · 02-05-2014 02:13PM

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 · 02-05-2014 02:14PM

Get a big motherfucking pair of bucket headphones like mine.

Essential for the ambient torture of the workplace.

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