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Olly wrote:

Last week I had two visitors around and as we had striped our carpet our voices might have bounced off the walls and sounded louder than normal, guess what? my neighbour once again complained that we were making noise.

If you stripped your carpet it's quite likely she could hear every word you were saying - I don't know about you but if my neighbour could hear every word I was saying I would prefer to know about it.  Firstly because I like my conversations to be private, secondly because I don't like to annoy people.  When between carpets it's consideration to keep noise to a minimum - incidentally the increase of laminate floors has not helped neighbourly relations.

It's all about consideration.

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TwistedMarbles wrote:
kitsypoodle wrote:

Is wanting a bit of peace and quiet really being a "nazi"? I don't think so, and having to put up with a pair of screaming brats all the time just because their parents can't be bothered to discipline them is not a "joyful" sound. These people know they are being ignorant towards other people, and yet don't care.

I've got noisy neighbors and I've complained about them for 7 years to the council. But nothing was done they just send you in circles expecting the problem the fade away. When your a landlord or lady wanting to rent out the rooms, having compassion on noisy neighbours sounds pathetic. They cause you to loose money big time and destroy your life. What people need to do is discipline their children not to be up 1am in the morning when they supposed to be sleeping to wake up the next day for school.

I reported a couple who constantly fight, argue and stamp up and down on the floor just about everyday for 7 years. They live above me However, when the council interviewed them about it, the man said, "My wife an I do argue, but we don't make noise." Then the council said they were free to go. No real investigation took place.  How does that work out. What's worse is that during a particular month of complaining about the disturbance, the council give the couple permission to lay down Laminated flooring which has now increased the level of noise to a further unreasonable measure. It's so bad, I decided to write a small article about it on the internet and added video sample of the noise.

http://www.authspot.com/Journals/My-Noi … urs.677883

I find it amazing how councils can harbour such people and call it reasonable

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Oh i'll keep this short I was once in the same bout complaining about noisy neighbours. Then it finally dawned on me! I started to complain about the lack of council service. I followed their procuders and eventally took my case yo the ombudsmans man. The council sure pulled up their socks and funny enough the tenants were moved.

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Everyone, of course, should be allowed to express their opinion, as long as it's done politely. However, as the original post has been posted more than once, I sense the poster is someone who wanted to be provocative. I suggest you ignore her.

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The OP is an idiot, plain and simple, a complete ignorant selfish fool.  There is nothing joyful about the 5 kids across the road from us that scream at each other at the top of their voices first thing in the morning and then well in to the evening inviting all of their friends to join in too. We live in a very green area with plenty of parks and playgrounds supplied not 5 mins walk away, but theie mother is so lazy that she sits indoors all day drinking cups of tea with her friends (who also bring their children to top up the noise level) and it seems to me that as long as the kids are out from under her feet,  she does not care what they do or how loudly they do it. We have to clean up after them constantly, sweet wrappers, drinks cartons, you name it they drop it between their fits of screaming. We had a lovely quiet street with kids that would play and have fun but also had respect for the neighborhood.  Now we are deperate to move from our lovely home. There is just no getting through to the parents, they are completely ignorant and self centred.
  I will say it again just so there is no confusion,  THE OP IS AN IDIOT.

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Noisy neighbours have an over developed sense of entitlement.  Imagine if we all behaved as they did, what a revolting world it would be.
It's inconsiderate, rude and selfish. To complain often makes matters worse. 
I work from home and we had an idiot move next door who loved to play base music VERY loud day and night. I ended up nearly having a breakdown. 
He came round one day after I asked him AGAIN to turn it down, and hit me.
The police said no witnesses, can't prove it.
My very elderly parents had issues with party lovers next door.  Why should they endure vile lyrics and swearing/violence occurring?  They moved into a retirement village i.e. forced into it.

So there is little backup for the good people who do the right thing.  That's the major problem here.  You can't force people to be thoughtful but there needs to be enforced laws to protect the well behaved. Seems that the bad people are winning and if you are rude, inconsiderate, loud and horrible, you rule the world and your neighbourhood.   What a society we've become!

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"What these Nazi, cruel, self-centred neighbours seem unable to realize is that, when people behave that way, they have some serious problems that are already causing them a lot of pain. "

What a bloody ridiculous and totally ignorant assumption, my god! Try living in your OWN home when the noises from the neighbours are SO loud that they may as well be in the same damn room! And try relaxing WHILST listening to it and never knowing when it's going to stop - IMPOSSIBLE!!!!
I bought my own home, they are renting from the local authority, they get to do what ever they want when they want.
I WORK DAMNED HARD AND STRUGGLE TO PAY THE MORTGAGE yet EVERYTHING I hear is dictated by my d*ickhead neighbours!
I have been here 23 yrs, without a SINGLE sound issue until they moved in 4 yrs, and it's ME that now urgently wants to move!!!!!!!
Go figure who's in the wrong here!

I've had several confrontations with them, not by choice, purely because they caught me off guard out the house and had a go at me saying I expect them to gag and tie down their children, and carried on screaming profanities at me in the middle of the street!
Bullying to the enth degree so they can blame me for being miserable rather than understanding that they are wrecking my life!!!

So now I hardly use my own garden because if they're in theirs, I'm terrified everything will kick off again!
I don't even put my own bins out until it's dark and always check to make sure they're not outside!!!

ANYONE who affects the life of their neighbour so much that they feel constantly ill, miserable, constantly on edge, and provoke such a bad mood that their husband moves out, is SCUM! Full stop.
Picture the scene: you're home from work, you DESERVE a quiet night in watching your own tv, you settle down, and BANG, SLAM, BOOM BOOM BOOM, SCREAM, SHOUT, TUHD, BUMP as if they are in your living room!
NO ONE will ever understand how helpless (and often like me, terrified!) and angry an affected neighbour is unless they go through it for the short term, let alone the long term like I have!

I cannot sell because anyone with any sense would would straight back out upon hearing the constant array of noises which come through my walls. I can't even have the windows open when it's glorious weather because of the horrendous noise which comes from the gangs in the front and at the back of the house!

Meanwhile I am as quiet as a mouse because I know only too well how unreasonable these people are.
If I ACCIDENTLY make a noise, like drop something on the floor, or I manage to have the windows open and the wind blows an interior  door shut, I hear a door slam nextdoor in protest as if it was deliberate!! They are DELIBERATELY ruining my life! And I'M THE NAZI??????????
Yet if I DARE make a noise in protest (to their ridiculously loud music, or doors constantly banging for instance) by knocking on the adjoining wall,  I hear them shout 'f*ck off!!!!'

The noise alone is bad enough, but when you can actually feel the reverberation through your feet on the floor (such as a booming bass woofer), it's just too much!

I even listen to my tv and radio with HEADPHONES on - not only does this ensure they can't hear my equipment (though why the hell I'm still conscious about that is way beyond me), it also 'helps' to block out their bloody noise!!!!!!
I have a dog who flinches and hides every single time there is a noise from next door, like me she's a nervous wreck!
One of the worse things is not knowing when it's going to start and when it's going to stop!


People (and local bodies) to make a clear definition between INDICENTAL NOISE - such as someone making a cuppa, moving furniture, doing DIY etc - and DELIBERATE NOISE - someone doing something where THEY CAN EASILY control the volume (such as talking instead of shouting, turning down the stereo, or something as simple but effective as closing a door WITHOUT slamming it etc) - but DON'T!!!

To the layman the above probably sounds really trivial, I get that, but having been through it day in day out for over 4yrs, NO ONE has the right to judge ME! Compassion is NOT in my neighbours vocabulary and therefore THEY are the NAZIS!!!!!

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Nazi, I realise that you have a very stressful situation, but take care about the language, huh? So, have you made an official complaint?  Have you had recording equipment installed by the council?

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I hope if you read it again you will see it was solely directed to the imbicile who originally posted the nazi comment (Julia).
It was not meant to offend anyone and I apologise if it did.
I have seen other posts with swearing and I thought it was acceptable on here so again I apologise,
I am clearly wrong.

As you will see from my other posts, such as this one:
http://www.noisyneighbours.net/forum/topic/165/bbq-every-day/
I am not usually aggressive, and thank god I have moved away from that hell hole,
I was merely making it plain to Julia that she had no right to judge everyone in the way she did.
It's vital that people with her opinion realise how wrong they are.
Her opinion appears to be not a million miles away from that of the authories.
My point is very valid: There needs to be a recognised definition between acceptable incidental/accidental noise and unacceptable deliberate/constant noise.

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Oh,so it's you, Pooky! I don't know if swearing is permitted on here or not, I've only been around for a relatively short time myself. However, I'm not sure swearing acheves much in written form, and if you read back, you'll see that I pointed out that the original poster said what she said just to annoy people ie she was a troll, and has done it before!  Ignore such people - they're really not worth getting yourself worked up about! Your point is indeed valid, but not if the person was deliberately winding up others, as she was.

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You're right, I was in such a rage and I'm really sorry.
I'll check back here regularly just in case someone can use my help, specially in the way I managed to get rid of my hell hole and move into my detached shed smile

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You don't have to apologise.  Your help and encouragement will be invaluable, I should think, thanks.