cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/16511967
Someone got woken up on Sunday morning 🤣
I never understood this. When I was a wee lad I wanted a car that sounded just like KITT. Completely silent.
this post was submitted on 15 Sep 2024
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Yep. Neighbor down the street. The emotional equivalent of a cow fart.
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New Rule: if the motorcycle you purchased exceeds noise ordinance levels for a given area, said motorcycle cannot be sold, driven, or registered in that area, nor can it be parked in a public parking spot in that area.
Honestly though, I wish police would simply enforce noise ordinances and anyone with more than one violation would have their bike impounded.
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I have a much harder time with light pollution than I do noise pollution.
Black out curtains work, but in my experience they can be harmful if you forget to open them.
Blackout curtains have different levels. From your comment it seems to me you probably tried 100% blackout curtains. Those are quite overkill.
You should try 80% blackout curtains, they block almost all of night lights and have a warm yellowish haze during the day.
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Imagine if motorbikes didn’t exist. These dickheads would have to go up to people and shout “MY DICK IS BIGGER THAN YOURS” in their faces one at a time.
Then they would all drive diesel trucks with modified exhaust and floor it between stop signs
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KC’s got a huge group of crotch rocket and ATV riders that pull this shit at wildly inappropriate times, riding on sidewalks as well as blowing through red lights.
I still think the cringiest noise issue around here though is the neighborhood’s designated shittiest DJ lugging around a huge ass bluetooth amp and blasting his shitty rap music right across the street from my bedroom window.
I swear to god if that thing ever gets in range of my phone I’m connecting and blasting ABBA’s Arrival at full fucking volume.
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Let me run out and ask my neighbor, who also carries a gun while he mows the lawn
this is probably a joke but in these times i have to check. fo' real?
I'd bet money it's not a joke.
yeah i'm getting lots of replies with stories showing my city ass i simply have no clue what the 'burbs are gettin up to anymore. Seems we're not ok.
My neighbor is a decent man. I like him. We differ greatly politically but we can have a conversation and find common ground against the rich. My neighbor is not a racist. My neighbor is not a caricature.
My neighbor wears his gun to walk from his porch to mine to talk. And our houses are literally fifteen feet apart.
I bet you want to make a comment on it but you can't. I know my mind wants to come up with a question and can't. Frankly it seems more likely the gun is there as a conversation piece than anything else like a tattoo.
Have you complimented his gun? I'm so curious!
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Oh it's real. I used to have a neighbor who would mow with a massive revolver on his belt, and no shirt
if it weren't so dangerous i'd have loved to see that picture. I get the feeling his revolver was competing with his belly for size. am i right? I'm just guessing cuz if i had a six-pack i wouldn't want the gun distracting anyone.
Surprisingly no! He was more of the stick-skinny, probably into meth, cut off jean shorts and boots kinda guy
Not OC, but I don't doubt it. I've seen several people strapped with guns walking around their suburban home in my very red state. I saw a guy with a pistol clipped to his gym shorts getting the mail once, just dangling around, falling lower with every step. 2A bros are terrified of everything and panic without an emotional support weapon
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Man, there is a small d man who lives along my street and EVERY F DAY he drives his loud and noisy motorbike. It's driving me insane!
Also, there is a car that every f day, around 10 am, drive down the street, but his carburetor is open, being stupidly loud! It make me literally sick!
Literally eh
This is the internet. It's OK to swear here.
~~Man,~~ I swear there is a small d man who lives along my street and EVERY F DAY he drives his loud and noisy motorbike. I swear It's driving me insane!
~~Also,~~ I swear there is a car that every f day, around 10 am, drive down the street, but his carburetor is open, being stupidly loud! I swear It make me literally sick!
There was a guy who used to rev his obnoxiously loud bike super early and super late round my way, it was so loud it would leave your ears ringing even inside with the windows shut.
He died in a bike accident and everyone was happy, so many neighbour's I've barely spoken to shared a quiet comment about it.
We do though get a ride through every year from the chapter of the gang he was in because he died 'a heros death' according to them as he had been fighting a different group of manchildren on motorbikes earlier that day and they were possibly chasing him at the time.
The family have a shrine to him by the road (not where he died, just near their house) with empty beer cans, burnt out candles, biker patches, cheap plastic skulls, and slogans about how tough or cool bikers are. It's a fascinating testament to how we form groups and make our own reality, I think he and they really believe that when we saw him on that stupidly loud bike we wished we could be as cool as him rather than everyone viewing him as nothing but an annoyance.
Duality exists. He might have been awesome in a way they saw, even if his loud pipes were annoying to you.
Don't know if he was, only that you got a limited view of this person, and it seems cruel to degenerate how other people mourn.
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Set the bike on fire.
Some men seem to think their balls will fall off if they don't frequently cause loud noises.
Just gonna drop this here. https://www.psypost.org/psychopathy-and-sadism-drive-preference-for-loud-vehicles-study-suggests/