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How the gently caress does someone become a person who never shuts up? Have not their parents, siblings, presumable friends etc. never noted that "holy poo poo you must be quiet at some point Jesus Christ". It's not even a conversation, it is just one person's unending stream of consciousness with my "umm, yeah" every now and then. Is it a mental ilness? I've been on this shift for an hour and I am at an end already. I'm hungover and pretending to be writing a text message to get a moment of peace, not that they have stopped talking. If you literally narrate everything you are doing at the moment you"re at least a little crazy, right? 
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Because social programming says you sit at a booth at a restaurant, and hmm a big cushy chair vs a stiff wood chair, tough choice.
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lidnsya posted:Oh my God, that bus thing, except when in addition, a NOT IN SERVICE bus just happens to go by at around the time your bus was supposed to. And it's -45 and you would cry but your tear ducts are frozen shut. I could probably fill this thread with nothing but bus complaints. (AND HAVE). Still better than dealing with traffic and rear end in a top hat drivers myself, though.
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DarkCrawler posted:How the gently caress does someone become a person who never shuts up? Have not their parents, siblings, presumable friends etc. never noted that "holy poo poo you must be quiet at some point Jesus Christ". It's not even a conversation, it is just one person's unending stream of consciousness with my "umm, yeah" every now and then. Is it a mental ilness? I've been on this shift for an hour and I am at an end already. I'm hungover and pretending to be writing a text message to get a moment of peace, not that they have stopped talking. If you literally narrate everything you are doing at the moment you"re at least a little crazy, right? this is me when I get excited, I'm sorry. I just get VERY EXCITED about a thing and I want to tell you and everyone else about the thing and I don't realize how annoying I'm being. I also get VERY LOUD. 
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DarkCrawler posted:How the gently caress does someone become a person who never shuts up? Have not their parents, siblings, presumable friends etc. never noted that "holy poo poo you must be quiet at some point Jesus Christ". It's not even a conversation, it is just one person's unending stream of consciousness with my "umm, yeah" every now and then. Is it a mental ilness? I've been on this shift for an hour and I am at an end already. I'm hungover and pretending to be writing a text message to get a moment of peace, not that they have stopped talking. If you literally narrate everything you are doing at the moment you"re at least a little crazy, right? Sounds like amphetamines
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Sociopastry posted:this is me when I get excited, I'm sorry. I just get VERY EXCITED about a thing and I want to tell you and everyone else about the thing and I don't realize how annoying I'm being. I also get VERY LOUD. Excited is one thing, I had to hear like 30+ minutes about this person's eating habits among other equally intersting topics. How the can anyone be under the impression that anyone cares about their loving lunch? I usually like talkative people because it means I don't have to think about what to talk about but this was interally unending
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STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP *throws furniture against wall* *slams door* STOMP STOMP *shitmutt starts barking its head off* STOMP STOMP STOMP STOMP -my new upstairs neighbor, at all loving hours of the day
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And when you go up to tell them that they are being excessively loud it ALWAYS turns out to be a tiny <90 lb. woman that just never learned how to walk right or something.
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I've seen her on her balcony when I come home from work and she doesn't look overweight, and I assume she's not wearing combat boots around the house. I don't fuckin get it and there may need to be some words soon
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Some people really, literally do not know how to walk without stomping. Either they're physically incapable of it, or they were never taught. I lived in a house with a couple of girls who were tiny but put every ounce of their weight down on every single awful step and it drove me absolutely bananas.
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No offense to you but people who send noise/whatever complaints to the management constantly for no real reason. My neighbor always sends ones about me "making noise" when I'm quiet as gently caress, I put my tv on minuscule volume so I can barely hear it, and I guess my cats running around @6pm before being fed is enough to warrant a complaint. They sleep the rest of the day (they are cats). She bangs on my wall when I move my mouse on my keyboard too loud. Recently she sent one that I was "smoking marijuana and that she was gonna call the police if she smelled it again." I guess she thought the febreze I sprayed was marijuana? I don't smoke marijuana. I hope the police write her a ticket for false police report if she DOES put one in. She's scared off TWO renters so far who each only stayed a few months cause of her incessant complaints against them (I never had any problems w them, they were all super cool). My management said "some people shouldn't live in apartments" and I agree. Thin Privilege has a new favorite as of 05:16 on Aug 16, 2016 |
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I had a wall neighbor who left an angry note on the building's front door informing the person in the apartment next to his (me) that whatever machine I'd purchased that was producing a high-pitched noise was very annoying and that I had to let him look at my room to see what it was. I can't convey exactly how loony his writing was, it really made him sound like he was a paranoiac (he said that if it didn't stop he was going to buy a machine that made a similar noise and point it at my room). The landlord emailed me about it and we concluded that he probably had tinnitus.
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Thin Privilege posted:She bangs on my wall when I move my mouse on my keyboard too loud. Idk about you, but I think banging on the wall warrants a noise complaint against her  Seriously though, if people are literally moving out because of her, that's probably costing management way more money than she's worth and at that point they need to stand up and tell her to stop harassing the other tenants.
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After several loud as gently caress parties when they first moved in, and then after that putting their very nice speakers against our common wall to play the shittiest of club music, I became the incessantly complaining neighbor and I hate it. Until recently, any peep over there sends me into paranoia that it's going to get worse at any moment. I've chilled out now that one of the douchebags has a regular early morning job so they are much quieter now. I don't even know why they are here. It's a hip part of town, but this specific area skews older than the party houses across the tracks.
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So, I read this thing on reddit that apparently, you might be able to use someone's speakers remotely. So, if it's pissing you off enough and you've got money to blow, you should definitely invest in some of the best petty revenge there is.
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There were some times where I might have tried that. Luckily my property managers didn't gently caress around and got on those fuckers case pretty heavy, and luckily there was very little if any retaliation. Now if there were only a way to shock them everytime they said "bro!!!" loudly in the kitchen. Jesus.
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We share the washing machine in our apartment building (only 8 apartments) and you just write in the time and day you want to use it and everything should be fine. It works 90% of the time, but a few specialists think they don't need to write themselfs into the roster. It never happend that they are washing while it would be my turn which I'm really glad for, it is annoying though if you want to hang up your clothes to dry and all the space is used by them since they won't take it down for 2 days or longer. But since they didn't write themselfs in the list I have no way of knowing who they are so I could ask them to take their poo poo down. It then also enrages me that something so petty is actually making me angry. We are slowly getting all of them in an building whatsapp group so maybe one day we'll be able to sort it out that way
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That was a fine 3 hours of sleep on a work night where I went to bed well before midnight. Yeah we are having words about this.
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Helios Grime posted:We share the washing machine in our apartment building (only 8 apartments) and you just write in the time and day you want to use it and everything should be fine. It works 90% of the time, but a few specialists think they don't need to write themselfs into the roster. It never happend that they are washing while it would be my turn which I'm really glad for, it is annoying though if you want to hang up your clothes to dry and all the space is used by them since they won't take it down for 2 days or longer. But since they didn't write themselfs in the list I have no way of knowing who they are so I could ask them to take their poo poo down. I lived in an apartment building for a couple years and people try and cheat the system all the time and it drove me nuts. The most common thing, similar to what you described, were the people leaving things to dry overnight. I get it, it takes things a long time to dry when you're hanging them up even with the big fan thing they had down there, but at least have the decency to take it down before the first slot starts the next day. Probably half the time I sign up for the morning slot I had to wait for the cheaters to wake up at 10am and take their sweet time going to take it down. We also were forbidden to use the laundry room on Sundays and any holiday - the landlord would actually come check to make sure people weren't violating the sacred rule of "no work on sundays" and you'd get an angry talking to if you were caught. Still, people would wait for him to pop by and then immediately go down to start a load. That one didn't bother me particularly because who cares, but seriously, following the rules isn't hard, just plan your laundry days in advance....but not too far in advance - one of the other major annoyances with that system were the people who would wait for the landlord to bring a new signup sheet every month and immediately claim every saturday, every slot. I managed to snag a saturday slot maybe 5 or 6 times the entire time I lived there because of these people. It really makes you appreciate the luxury of having your own machine and actual dryer. I would hate going back to such an awful system.
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Nettles Coterie posted:Idk about you, but I think banging on the wall warrants a noise complaint against her I did, they agree with me, but it's a condo and she owns it so there's not much we can do. Murphy Brownback posted:I lived in an apartment building for a couple years and people try and cheat the system all the time and it drove me nuts. The most common thing, similar to what you described, were the people leaving things to dry overnight. I get it, it takes things a long time to dry when you're hanging them up even with the big fan thing they had down there, but at least have the decency to take it down before the first slot starts the next day. Probably half the time I sign up for the morning slot I had to wait for the cheaters to wake up at 10am and take their sweet time going to take it down. I drive an hour over to my moms to do my laundry there so I don't have to deal with the nightmare of common washing machines. Also, I love your duck 
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Thin Privilege posted:Also, I love your duck Thank you but I can't take credit for him, he was drawn by permabanned user wolf puppy.
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Murphy Brownback posted:Thank you but I can't take credit for him, he was drawn by permabanned user wolf puppy. Poor puppy. I love it anyways.
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Murphy Brownback posted:
Wtf. That is completely unreasonable. Unless it's in the lease agreement, I would tell that guy exactly where he could shove it! Sunday IS my laundry day. I also find it hilarious that the guy is on the property, working, to ensure that tenants don't violate the Sabbath. Two of my peeves in here: people who push their beliefs on other people, and hypocrites. Silver Falcon has a new favorite as of 15:22 on Aug 16, 2016 |
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Silver Falcon posted:Wtf. That is completely unreasonable. Unless it's in the lease agreement, I would tell that guy exactly where he could shove it! Sunday IS my laundry day. Swiss people take quiet sundays really seriously, at least in my experience. Germans do the whole shutting almost every shop down aside from the main train station/airport and gas stations on Sunday thing too but I at least see some of them cutting their grass doing laundry etc on Sunday which I never saw anyone dare to do (without trying to sneak around/hide it, anyway) in Zurich.
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Bast Relief posted:Until recently, any peep over there sends me into paranoia that it's going to get worse at any moment.   It's gotten better here with the loud music man, at least. He keeps having parties and barbecuing right under our balcony (a violation of the fire code AND the lease!) and makes our apartment smell like lighter fluid. Also they had a small but open fire in a can. After living with my terrifying mom for so long, I tip toe around everywhere when I'm not in shoes and I'd like to think I don't make that much noise... the children next door love to slam themselves around, and the people upstairs don't seem to know how to walk without stomping. I know the floorboards here are trash but I'm pretty sure there's a difference between the creaking and actual stomping.
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Murphy Brownback posted:Swiss people take quiet sundays really seriously, at least in my experience. Germans do the whole shutting almost every shop down aside from the main train station/airport and gas stations on Sunday thing too but I at least see some of them cutting their grass doing laundry etc on Sunday which I never saw anyone dare to do (without trying to sneak around/hide it, anyway) in Zurich. Interesting! Here I figured you were somewhere in The Bible Belt, southern United States. Some stores down there won't even sell so much as cleaning supplies on Sundays. I can understand businesses being closed, but household chores? Really?
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Murphy Brownback posted:Swiss people take quiet sundays really seriously, at least in my experience. Germans do the whole shutting almost every shop down aside from the main train station/airport and gas stations on Sunday thing too but I at least see some of them cutting their grass doing laundry etc on Sunday which I never saw anyone dare to do (without trying to sneak around/hide it, anyway) in Zurich. Ahaha, should have guessed you are swiss, the wars fought in the laundry rooms here are legendary. Luckily our landlord does no care a bit and there is a business between the laundry room and the first apartments so we wash 24/7.
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Helios Grime posted:Ahaha, should have guessed you are swiss, the wars fought in the laundry rooms here are legendary. Luckily our landlord does no care a bit and there is a business between the laundry room and the first apartments so we wash 24/7. American who just happened to be living there actually. Made it even more jarring when I first was getting used to it. I particularly cared about people following the rules because my apartment was right over the drying room, so the overnight cheaters meant I'd always have a faint whirring noise constantly coming from the floor while I tried to sleep.
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Hahahahaha. My apartment building's laundry rooms have nothing even remotely like a schedule or a signup sheet. It's all first come first served. Fortunately the one I use is kind of tucked into the garden level (where my apartment is) on a hall without many people, so I'm only fighting 5 or 6 people for the (singular) washer/dryer rather than 30 or 40. Still, it works about as well as you'd imagine. (There are other laundry rooms throughout the building in a pinch, but the next nearest one is up two flights of stairs and gently caress that.)
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Thin Privilege posted:No offense to you but people who send noise/whatever complaints to the management constantly for no real reason. My neighbor always sends ones about me "making noise" when I'm quiet as gently caress, I put my tv on minuscule volume so I can barely hear it, and I guess my cats running around @6pm before being fed is enough to warrant a complaint. They sleep the rest of the day (they are cats). She bangs on my wall when I move my mouse on my keyboard too loud. Recently she sent one that I was "smoking marijuana and that she was gonna call the police if she smelled it again." I guess she thought the febreze I sprayed was marijuana? I don't smoke marijuana. I hope the police write her a ticket for false police report if she DOES put one in. Terrible wall neighbors are the worst, I used to live next to a guy who would game and play loud music/movies between 10pm and 1am every. loving. night. I asked him a few times to keep it down because I get up at 6 and that bullshit kept waking me up, he always said he'd turn it down and it'd be quiet for a couple days before starting up again. Complaints to management did nothing so I used his own tactics against him - subwoofer right against the wall, full blast whenever he started up his poo poo again. Had complaints from neighbors on the second floor (I lived on the third) and I'd always point to rear end in a top hat's apartment and be like "I dunno, it's all that dude and I've asked him to stop and complained to management". Didn't take long for more people to bitch and he eventually stopped and moved not long after. It always helped that I was super polite/nice with neighbors and management and literally nobody ever complained about me, half the people didn't know when I was home because of how quiet I am.
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BOOTY-ADE posted:Terrible wall neighbors are the worst, I used to live next to a guy who would game and play loud music/movies between 10pm and 1am every. loving. night. I asked him a few times to keep it down because I get up at 6 and that bullshit kept waking me up, he always said he'd turn it down and it'd be quiet for a couple days before starting up again. Complaints to management did nothing so I used his own tactics against him - subwoofer right against the wall, full blast whenever he started up his poo poo again. Had complaints from neighbors on the second floor (I lived on the third) and I'd always point to rear end in a top hat's apartment and be like "I dunno, it's all that dude and I've asked him to stop and complained to management". Didn't take long for more people to bitch and he eventually stopped and moved not long after. It always helped that I was super polite/nice with neighbors and management and literally nobody ever complained about me, half the people didn't know when I was home because of how quiet I am. I just saw her in the hall and regret not saying "hi" and being friendly  Last thanksgiving she blasted this so loud I typed the words I could hear on Google and found out the song was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=or-Lam5tPHc If you're a country girl why the gently caress are you living in a hi-rise in the middle of a gigantic city???
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The "noisy neighbor" chat reminds me of this roommate I had back in college who would repeatedly play the latest RHCP album (whichever one was released sometime 2004-2008) on his speakers. I was a dumbass who never really spoke up about how obnoxious it was, but I don't understand why 1. he didn't use headphones and 2. he wanted to listen to the exact same album every single day for months. I think that roommate was having various issues at the time, because he was also extremely messy. Oh, here's a picture of how bad it was (literally all trash in this picture was his):  edit: Oh I forgot the picture of the kitchen, which was arguably even worse: 
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My mom lives in a townhouse. Her new neighbors installed a basketball thingy inside the house ! You have a perfectly good porch which is bigger than the inside of your house! All day it's BANG BANG BANG. We even were friendly and gave them a booklet from *city* free sports teams/events where your kids could play basketball all day! Your kids would be so happy to play with other kids than banging on their townhouse wall! But noooooo lets force these poor kids to play basketball in a 10x10 kitchen instead of an athletically-sized gym.
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Butt Ox posted:People who call their characters in video games 'toons' I hate this so much, and also unironically how people who call all emoticons "emojis" now. The toon thing especially never made sense though. It was so pervasive back when I hated life and played wow that pepople would act confused if you referred to your character as a character or "char" or whatever.
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The Snoo posted:It's gotten better here with the loud music man, at least. Huh. Well, I'm not afraid to admit that I was wrong. Earlier, I suggested moving in lieu of pushing the matter further with the property manager, because I assumed he or she wouldn't give a crap. I'm sorry for being a jerk. I'm glad that at least that part of your situation is better, and I hope the noisy guy learns about fire safety the easy way instead of the hard way.
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Murphy Brownback posted:I hate this so much, and also unironically how people who call all emoticons "emojis" now. The toon thing especially never made sense though. It was so pervasive back when I hated life and played wow that pepople would act confused if you referred to your character as a character or "char" or whatever. Emoticons are ASCII Emoji are actual pictures. They got big in Japan and we just took their word. "moji" are the japanese characters/symbols. Although I still just call them all emotes.
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:Huh. Well, I'm not afraid to admit that I was wrong. It's okay.  I don't know what's going to happen but for now, things are relatively calm.'Luckily' the hot weather here comes with humidity, so at least everything around here (grass, trees, and the wood balcony) wasn't dry and immediately ready to catch fire, haha
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