Short, and if not necessarily sweet, it gets the point across. I think I’d have to give this sign a snarky thumbs up.
related: On jamming
Short, and if not necessarily sweet, it gets the point across. I think I’d have to give this sign a snarky thumbs up.
related: On jamming
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#1
Madrias
As someone stuck in the middle apartment, I know this one all too well. I mean, yeah, it’s better than some of the shit I’ve had to deal with, but there’s definitely major suck factor in being kept up past 5 AM because someone wants to boom their gangsta rap.
Yes, it sucks worse when the toilet backs up and floods, or when the dipshits set the microwave on fire, but they’re usually short-lived minor annoyances. Yes, getting evacuated from the house because of said microwave fire at 1 in the morning really sucked, as well as having 3 fire trucks outside for one man to go in and put it out with a fire extinguisher, but it sucked worse when we got the all clear and had to go back to trying to sleep (with an adrenaline rush, mind you), and suddenly BOOM BOOM BUZZ BUZZ BOOM BOOM THUD WHUMP! from downstairs.
Sure, we were all annoyed, but now I couldn’t sleep, and I was still all wound up way too tight.
I think I may have gotten the point across by deciding to hammer on their door and screaming at them to shut that shit off or I’d call the cops again.
Mar 19, 2014 at 11:26 pm rating: 90
#2
Lita
So if I drop a submarine out my window and it destroys the neighbor’s flower garden, is it still a good sub? And do I get bonus points if it’s yellow and contains a bunch of British singers?
Mar 20, 2014 at 2:55 am rating: 90
#3
TRT
Typhoon club woofer.
I don’t get it…
Mar 20, 2014 at 5:09 am rating: 90
#4
The Elf
What about if I have my subwoofers installed in my sub, and I enjoy it while eating a sub?
Mar 20, 2014 at 8:35 am rating: 90
#5
Tesselara
I’m pretty sure the submarine would also get a thumbs down if it were moved into the building.
Mar 20, 2014 at 12:26 pm rating: 90
#6
Iwill FindU
Hiding sub sandwiches around the building and waiting for them to rot would still be a thumbs up?
Mar 20, 2014 at 1:32 pm rating: 90
#7
Banjo
You can tell it wasn’t a Dominatrix who made that sign, or there would be another acceptable sub.
Mar 20, 2014 at 3:47 pm rating: 90
#8
TGIF
I sang the title like a Zeppelin song.
Mar 20, 2014 at 4:47 pm rating: 90
#9
The Beast Among Us
What’s long, hard, round, and full of seamen?
Mar 20, 2014 at 7:39 pm rating: 90
#10
assiveProgressive
Should some lettuce fall out of your sub, pick it up or feel the PA wrath of Alex.
Mar 20, 2014 at 11:14 pm rating: 90
#11
assiveProgressive
Another sub getting a thumbs-down is the one in Cleveland who (allegedly) participated in the bullying of a disabled kid in gym class: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2577818/Substitute-gym-teacher-five-students-bullied-developmentally-disabled-14-year-old-boy-threw-volleyballs-head-dragged-feet.html
Mar 20, 2014 at 11:21 pm rating: 90
#12
sharon
Most apartments (and municipalities) have noise control laws. Typically you’re allowed with no limitations between between 8am and 8pm, and usually later than that.
My point being that if it’s between the hours of permissible noise disturbances according to lease and local laws: you can eat a d*ck, turn it up to 11.
Mar 21, 2014 at 8:42 am rating: 90
#13
Funny lewis Cave
Ha, this is a funny sign. I have to agree, I can feel the base coming through my house on Saturday nights and it gets a little crazy. I try to laugh it off but when it wakes up the kids it becomes a challenge.
Mar 21, 2014 at 9:10 pm rating: 90
#14
Kasaba
I’ve come back from holiday a few times, to find my radio alarm on, because I forgot to unplug it before leaving. I always feel bad, when I realise music has been playing day and from the morning after I left until my return. The volume is not such that the neighbours would hear it though, except maybe in the hallway outside my door. Or maybe they can hear it, and they are as (resentfully) tolerant/forgiving of it, as I am of the smell of their cooking regularly flooding my flat through the plumbing. Too many times have I found myself sitting in the bath, dry retching at the smell of, with a draft PA note bubbling away inside me.
Mar 22, 2014 at 9:03 am rating: 90
#15
olympiagold
Aw, this was an extremely good post. Taking the time
and actual effort to generate a top notch article… but what can I say… I hesitate a lot and never seem
to get nearly anything done.
Mar 25, 2014 at 12:37 am rating: 90
#16
Brattus Rattus
I would rather here the sound of bass (love how some people assumes it’s rap music) than someone with a Harley or some other motorcycle. That noise is far more disruptive to my sleep than music.
When you live in close quarters, you have to expect this kind of thing or move to the country and get a hose in the sticks. That’s the way it is. It might suck or be inconvenient, but all of the friggin whining is ridiculous. Deal with it, ask your neighbors to quiet down without a lame “shame sign” like an adult or move.
Mar 25, 2014 at 12:07 pm rating: 90
#17
Kaden
“Loud pipes save lives?”
No, they just make you an asshole. There are plenty of studies out there that show that the drivers ahead of you (the ones most likely to merge into you as you come up next to them) *can’t even hear you* until you’re right on top of them, and then you are more likely to startle them into swerving into you than to keep them from merging into you.
It’s not the pipes, it’s the idiot cagers – I drive a Can-Am Spyder (I have vertigo, so 2 wheels are no longer safe for me), which is *literally* as big as a SmartCar, and people *still* try to merge into me on a regular basis.
Loud pipes don’t stop dumbasses, they just make more of ‘em.
Mar 28, 2014 at 9:12 am rating: 90
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