THE noise pollution thread

"Could you just not breathe?"....

I have lived for the past 5 years 1/3 of a mile away from a major freeway and I can't stand the constant hum of the cars at all hours, day and night.

Happily, I am moving in a month to a place further away from the major freeway and - while still in suburbia - it's a damn sight (and sound!) better than what and where I've been living these past 5 years.

I live above a big intersection in Brooklyn and all day long it’s those damn cars with no mufflers and squealing tires. And the motorcycles. It gets old. I have been here seven years and am still surprised I have not seen an accident from all the speeding and loud noises.

The building behind mine was pressure washing their balconies for spring. Couldn't hear myself think.

Loud car stereo systems. I'm in NYC and I hear them regularly, especially late at night. They have the subwoofers blasting at 10 with their windows down. My windows and even stuff on my shelves vibrate, and it sounds like an atomic boom. The most frustrating is that police don't enforce the noise code so they drive around the neighborhood with impunity.

Not greatly pleased when good weather brings the neighbors’ screaming horde out to their backyard. TO SAY THE VERY LEAST.

[quote] I hate loud pipes coming from the lifted trucks of trashy people.

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R7 Right 😂. Where he leave at that the exhaust’s are still like that. It must be some place where they are altering they shit which is illegal.

Snoring, it nearly makes me violent.

Here in the 'burbs, it's leaf blowers. They can make me positively homicidal.

Leaf blowers. Montgomery County, MD has banned gas-powered blowers.

My apartment complex has two trash dumpsters outside the loading dock. Every morning at 7 a.m., a trash truck with a loud engine backs into the loading dock (making that loud beeping noise), uses a forklift to lift the dumpster into the air, and tip it to dump the contents into the trash truck. Then the driver drops the hundreds-pound empty metal dumpster, letting it crash onto the pavement.

Also, I live just feet from a highway that is a popular drag racing site. Sometimes until two in the morning, drivers rev their engines with their straight-pipe mufflers.

Then there are the motorcycles.

Every morning, r12?? That's horrible.

Sounds worse than when I was living in SF and the stupid trash trucks would come by at around 4 in the morning 2 or 3 times a week. I lived in a Victorian with what must have been very old glass in the windows because it was paper-fucking-thin, basically making the trash trucks sounds like they were driving up beside my bed.

R11 Me being a cunt comin’.

Sounds like you live in HELL R12. I hope you have a large supply of earplugs.

Loud mufflers.

Squeaky cabbage.

My neighbor’s fucking ATV.

Crying babies, really all children. "Shouldn't you be in school" is a constant thought.

Loud motorcycles.

Wet coughs or a lot of coughing. Take a sick day.

Barking dogs. I prefer cats.

Loud eating. Smacking and slurping

Honestly if I had a choice between blindness and deafness the decision would be simple.

Loud black women speaking eubonics.

People’s sneezes that come out sounding like tweeting birds passing gas.

R20 Oh mafuckin dear.

Near where I live, I get:

Boombox cars

Motorcycles with guttural, raspy or just plain loud exhaust systems

Vehicles with same type of exhaust noises as above

These over-entitled vehicle owners don't think anybody exists but them. I drive an electric car. It's quiet!

Children under the age of 12

Leaf blowers

Heterosexual women with hair highlights of pink or green who are more than 45 BMI with random non-cohesive tattoos on white flabby skin.

Anyone using their phone with the speaker instead of holding it up to their ear.

Loud people.

The kid downstairs who is about 3 and cries/moans/wails/screams/sobs nonstop at certain times, for, like, an hour or two hours. I asked the dad about it once and he said, "Oh, yeah, he's having a meltdown." So I said, "Why don't you take him out? Maybe a change of scenery...?" So he actually did.

You can tell the kid is acting, too, A lot of it isn't genuine crying. Just attention-getting.

^^But it's terrible when you plan on spending a quiet Saturday morning or someting and you have to listen to someone else's child screaming. (Mostly you can hear it becausew we share a back hallway.)

(The kid also runs around endlessly, stomping on the floor and banging against walls and making a racket. The parents are very laid back about it and whether it disturbs anyone.)

Other apartments playing loud music. Person across the street used to put their speakers on the windowsill. With the advent of Bluetooth and earphones, no one needs to inflict their wretched taste in music on anyone.

Public phone conversations of any kind, exception 2 seconds to say "I'll be there in 5 minutes"

Sidewalk preachers

I live near an Air Force Base and their planes roar overhead. Totally deafening. Sometimes as late as 11 p.m.

People having loud FaceTime conversations and no earphones. Today there was a woman talking in an airport lounge...both voices were loud. Nobody said anything.

I live in NYC, and I'm more than a little sick of the helicopters that are forever in the sky.

teeth smacking white eating

Have you heard me sing?

Once on summer break when I was in college I worked a 2nd shift summer job. I would try to sleep late but the kid down the street would be riding his big wheel up and down the driveway. Ever hear the sound that makes?

When I lived in Manhattan:

Hovering helicopters.

Bouncing basketballs.

Crotch rocket motorcycles.

We have none here where we retired. Leaf blowers are not that bad comparatively.

I would only use a leaf blower on weekends after 10am on Saturdays and after 12pm on Sundays, as I know for some people it's their only sleep in late morning of the week.

I live in a city, sure there's constant noise but I'd rather that than the fucking eerie silence of living out in the boonies.

I'm in my 60s but my hearing is excellent, better than people in their 20s. Noises that other people don't notice make me jump or react. For me, almost everybody plays their TV and their music too loudly, and talks loudly (though I am used to that because it's something of a national trait.). I wish I were not so sensitive to sounds and volume, but it's often the case that I have to bite my tongue and and shout, "Does that need to be so incredibly fucking loud?"

I can't wait for this to start, which will be next week. Adams said only on Fridays but it will be every day, five times a day in about a month. This is how this goes. It drove my mildly crazy and freaked me out in Istanbul. Luckily, I don't live near a mosque.

I live near a busy intersection with stop signs, and the worst is the assholes who crank their music up, except they have:

-A car made out of plastic, especially the outer shell.

- An absolute SHIT "soundsystem"

Sounds like someone farting in a Tupperware container. 🤣

[quote] I would only use a leaf blower on weekends after 10am on Saturdays and after 12pm on Sundays, as I know for some people it's their only sleep in late morning of the week.

When I lived in Phoenix, the lawn maintenance guys would start as early as 5am due to the heat.

Living in apartments where renovations are going on next door or above you, or living next to a major construction site.

In Latin America you get a lot of the guys who drive around with a shitty loudspeaker advertising that they buy mattresses and household appliances…then there's the gas truck jingle, the buskers with shitty karaoke machines, the roosters, etc.

I like hearing the call to prayer but it has to be a good caller.

Big dogs barking at my little dog on our walks. She gets scared and then I have to carry her until she calms down.

Raindrops on FUCKING ROSES!

R45, most of them are recorded. I think you are either ill-informed or very naive.

Yes I know that r48 but not the one where I used to stay, it was Awi’s uncle. Not a good caller.

Loud, stupid music in the drug store, the grocery store, department store, every other retail store, dentist office, doctor’s office, restaurant, airport lounge, basically anywhere there are people. And don’t get me started on those fucking assholes who walk down the street with a speaker on their ass. Fuck OFF.

In NYC, the janitors use leave blowers too, at all hours. They are too lazy to sweep the front of their buildings, they use this shit instead. Sometimes the doorman across the street would do it in middle of night coz he's bored.

In college, my apt was on a street with lots of food shops and restaurants, my bedroom faced the street and the delivery for produce or bread or whatever would come at like 4am and make loud noises especially when they pull down the back door and the loud clank clank sounds...

R51 Yeah, I call them out. That's not cleaning up the sidewalk, that's the equivalent of pushing all your sidewalk trash to your neighbor's property and the street. If I use the leaf-blower to clean my front sidewalk, I blow everything up against my building into a corner, and then sweep it up and bag it. It's called being a responsible neighbor.

Yapping dogs who do not stop barking, because their owners put them outside and forget them

"....because their owners put them outside and NEGLECT them"

DL has really upped the number of cunts posting these days. Must be living unhappy lives.

R56 I can imagine the grating tone of your moronic voice bitching about people bitching on a thread that was created as a forum to bitch about annoying noise.

The other day in Trader Joe's they had MmmBop by Hanson on the Muzak.

It goes on forever. And, the only fucking lyric is "Mmmmbop" over and over and over again for 5 minutes.

I wanted to kill.

[quote]Loud mufflers.

If the car is loud, the muffler isn't working. Is 'loud muffler' an oxymoron?

^Some idiots install “performance mufflers” that are made to be loud, oxymoron or not.

I had trouble sleeping this morning because a nearby owl was hooting incessantly. So it's not just humans causing the noise pollution.

I have super hearing too, and can identify music played three floors below me. ~~spending most our luves living in a gangster's paradise~~ Also. when you're masturbating, consider muting your moans.

I can top all of you.

Last night, I was treated to the mania and sound stylings of the new upstairs neighbor slamming something heavy on the floor over and over for hours, breaking who knows what, all while listening to shitty, loud dance music and pacing back and forth above my head. The cops were called on him by the landlord twice and they did nothing, despite the fact that he was clearly ripping the place apart. This guy moved in a mere 4 weeks ago (and is severely bipolar, we have just found out) and he just broke up with his girlfriend who moved out 4 days ago because of his mental illness.

It has accelerated my move out of the place. I have lived in this place for over 5 years now...it's a studio with all utilities rolled in and has only ONE window, but a large backyard attached to it with room for my dog and gardening. I am receiving a larger raise next month (guaranteed, as the BOD approved it for our employees to "right-size" our salaries) and my friend's house has just come vacation. I am going from a rent of $1850 (inclusive of utilities) to $2600 PLUS utilities. It's a 3bdrm/2bath home with a huge backyard and I may end up renting out the extra room if I find the right person (using 2nd bdrm as work from home office).

Anyways, sorry for long rant...but I'm a bit keyed up, in a hotel and have only slept about 4 hours. the upstairs neighbor is allegedly moving out today, and I'm hanging out in the hotel for another four hours because I don't want to see that asshole ever again. My poor dog and I are fairly traumatized by this entitled, mentally ill person (yes, you can be both - and he is).

So much drama I've dealt with over the past 4 weeks. I know that's why my blood pressure has been elevated for the past few weeks. I really hope this guy gets out of the place like he promised, but you can't trust a mentally ill person.

Damn that sucks R63!

Talkers at the gym. STFU.

I thought my neighbor had Tourette’s syndrome in which she can’t stop talking to herself. NO! There is a person listening to this bullshit for hours. They keep each other company.

Nobody wants to hear about your green bean problems! You’ve addressed this issue three times. Go to Allrecipes and leave us all in peace.

OMG, R65! These fuckers that talk so fucking loud on their phones with earbuds in on the gym floor make me crazy. One guy has a meeting every day at the same time while I am in the gym with him. He drones on and on so fucking loudly that everyone looks sideways at him - but he's oblivious. Also, often, groups of young guys working out together will be talking to each other very loudly, because they've also got earbuds in and are listening to music at the same time, so they have to yell to hear each other. And I also have to mention the guys who sing, invariably off-key to whatever they're listening to, and you can tell they think they sound fantastic. You can always tell the people who really do know how to sing - not only are they in tune, but they also sing quieter, because they know what they're doing.

jumping castles in public parks for kiddie birthday parties powered by NOISY gas powered generators.

If it sounds a little like a boomer "get off my lawn" complaint... you're right and I don't give a shit.

R68, if it isn't illegal it should be.

These fuckers that talk so fucking loud on their phones with earbuds in on the gym floor make me crazy.

R67 - I have one guy who talks on his phone for the entire 30 minutes I am in the cardio section. Luckily there is an extra rowing machine in the weights room so if I see him in cardio I use that.

Yeah, R70, the second I hear one of these guys on a call or loud-talking to their bros, I go to another area of the gym.

Leaf blowers. They're irregular so you can't get used to the noise. Five seconds on, two seconds off, nine seconds on etc.

It should be illegal to use them before noon.

There were four rowdy 20 year old youth on Lime scooters having noisy horseplay in my apartment building's private parking lot underneath my window and....

I hated it!

[quote] Heterosexual women with hair highlights of pink or green who are more than 45 BMI with random non-cohesive tattoos on white flabby skin.

R24, I am having a hard time imagining that sound.

R74 They're shrill and hectoring and won't shut up about the patriarchy.

The sounds of eldergays HISSSSSSSING and SCREEEEEEECHING.

I had trouble sleeping this morning because a nearby owl was hooting incessantly

R61 - I usually am ok with birds but I hate those baby miner birds that cry all day.

Another animal kingdom one is cicadas in heat for the short time they live.

R59, it’s often not an oxymoron. Mufflers with holes in them are noisy.

I don’t have a problem with a fire station four blocks away, but the loud Honda Civic mods make me want to key cars.

All helicopters.

Police car sirens on when there is no traffic but they still insist on letting their presence known.

That little throat clearing when someone you don't want to talk to prepares to talk to you

R30 yes. Loud music soft Muzak . Forcible listening wherever I am. Can’t I wait for my medical appt in fucking peace? No.

I cherish silence. I was forced to leave my beautiful home where I had lived with my pre broken family.

Now I live on the third floor of a nearby overpriced condo. It is so QUIET here. That, I love. So whenever I feel nostalgic about my home I think …. Listen to the silence .

My internal dialogue freaks me out

Boy I’m really lucky. Edge of open land and rural. At night it can be absolutely dead silent outside. Which is a little eerie. I have lived worse.

I live opposite a park and we get the Sport screamers.

That hum.

For me, almost everybody plays their TV ...too loudly

I agree R41. I live in an apartment block of 4 tenants. The other 3 all have their front doors open in the day and one lives with her door open at night too. They all blast their TVs so you can imagine the din. I work at home and have white noise machines going to block it all out and have to wear noise blocking headphones to walk up and down the stairway.

Kids over the age of five who do the fake cry.

Patti Lupone’s braying.

R88 I'd steal some shit from their apartments when they're not looking. Maybe these weird fuckers will learn to shut their doors.

But, to be fair, you might be the problem, too. I mean, wearing noise cancelling headphones to use the stairs is a bit much. You're either a bit fussy and/or they're all a bit old and deaf.

Triple whammy of lawnmower, branch and grass trimmer, and leaf blower.