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Indolent Bastard posted:Link to the one you got? https://www.amazon.com/LectroFan-Fidelity-Machine-Unique-Non-Looping/dp/B00E6D6LQY?th=1
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Pastry of the Year posted:https://www.amazon.com/LectroFan-Fidelity-Machine-Unique-Non-Looping/dp/B00E6D6LQY?th=1 Thanks. It does answer my question "Is there a cheap one?" Answer: NO. I may get one at some point anyway.
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Indolent Bastard posted:Thanks. It does answer my question "Is there a cheap one?" Answer: NO. this is one of my problems bc that costs nearly as much as our electric bill and just lol
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Sep 27, 2017 21:02
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Have you considered a white noise app and a speaker? Maybe not as good (not sure how to rate the quality of white noise lol) but definitely cheaper
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Sep 27, 2017 21:05
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Mynoise.com and a speaker. Works just as well.
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Sep 27, 2017 21:23
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I have this low-tech one and it works fine: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GFSF402/
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yeah I eat rear end posted:When someone insults you and you get mad about it and they claim they didn't mean it that way and paint you as the some over-reacting psycho. I'd be open to considering the fact that maybe I took it the wrong way in some subtle situations, but in the situation in question there was only one possible interpretation. When I took it she backpedaled and was like "whoa i was just saying ____ sounds like you have some growing up to do". It's such a lame social manipulation tactic. I have a pet peeve that is sorta vaguely related to this (in terms of being a social thing that is difficult to call out). It really bugs me when people "humble brag" in ways that are technically deniable. Like, someone saying "I know this is weird of me, but I just kinda like exercising and working hard? Haha I'm such a weirdo, it's just this little thing I do" Or "This is really odd, but I just really enjoy reading historical fiction? I hope that's not off-putting!" One specific example I'm thinking of also included a "complaint" about how the person in question has to be careful to make sure girls don't think he's flirting with them and get interested. Like, obviously it's not impossible for that sort of thing can be an actual issue, but it's the sort of thing there's literally no reason to mention (unless you're specifically asking what to do) other than out of some attempt to craft an ideal image of yourself in the minds of others. Basically, I'm referring to when someone says in a self-deprecating way something about themselves that is almost universally considered good or at least unique in an obviously not-bad way. It is transparently obvious that they're doing it to try and make themselves look better to others, but you can't exactly point out that it's humble-bragging without looking like a douchebag. Part of the reason it bugs me is that I used to do this myself back when I was 18-20, so I can easily recognize when others are doing it (but a lot of these people are in their mid-twenties or thirties, so there's no real excuse). vvvv: Yeah, kinda, though usually when I think of "fishing for compliments" I think of people being legitimately self-deprecating in ways they know other people will deny. Like someone who is good looking saying they're ugly. In this case the actual thing the person is saying about themselves is positive, so the main intent seems to just be an attempt to find someway to reveal this info to others without coming off as self-aggrandizing. Ytlaya has a new favorite as of 23:26 on Sep 27, 2017 |
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That's usually just fishing for compliments, isn't it?
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Iron Crowned posted:
Same, but they also replaced all of the paper towel dispensers with motion activated units.... then decided that batteries to run them are too expensive. Now each restroom has a non-working automatic dispenser with a regular roll of paper towels balanced on top of it. For a long time they were too cheap to even give us soap, using the excuse that "people will just spray the soap all over and make a mess."
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my work stopped filling the dispensers at some point in the past and just replaced them with foaming hand soap you would buy for your home. Last week they refilled those with some mystery type of soap that just oozes out of those dispensers in spurts.
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Rabbit Hill posted:I have this low-tech one and it works fine: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GFSF402/ I have an even more low-tech one that works great for me. 
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I turn on an air purifier which makes a gentle noise like AC coming through a vent. It won't stop an rear end in a top hat neighbor but it's enough for fairly quiet street noise and my tinnitus. I can't imagine trying to sleep without white noise.
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Once a week, usually around 9 or 10pm, my upstairs neighbour likes to drop a bunch of billiard balls all over the floor and kick them around a bit so they bounce off the walls. Or at least that's what it sounds like. Last night there was a heavier sound which indicated they'd added a bowling ball to the party. It's been 2 years and I still have no clue what the gently caress they're up to up there. It's driving me nuts.
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Sep 28, 2017 05:19
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When a place says they'll keep your resume on file for future positions and you're supposed to act like they're doing you a huge favor. I was one of over 300 applicants for a customer service job, we both know that you're never going to touch it again.
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Sep 28, 2017 06:26
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I was called once if I wanted to come in for another interview at a place I'd forgotten about. They indeed kept my resume on file from like 6 months before but I had no idea what the job was or what the company did.
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Sep 28, 2017 06:43
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Digirat posted:I turn on an air purifier which makes a gentle noise like AC coming through a vent. It won't stop an rear end in a top hat neighbor but it's enough for fairly quiet street noise and my tinnitus. I have 2 meter high JBL speakers blasting brown noise. Unless the neighbors are using a stone drill it's gonna get drowned out.
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In addition to, you know, letting me breathe at night, my CPAP thingie is a pretty good (if unintentional) white noise generator. Though I would not recommend developing sleep apnea for this purpose.
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Ok maybe I'm just an idiot, but wouldn't a white noise machine just add more noise to the situation? If silence and peace is what you want, how in the gently caress is a machine with noise right there in the name helping? I genuinely find this whole thing confounding. Adding "whooooooooosh hussssss" to "WHOOsh cluthunk shhhhhhus" seems, at best, mildly insane as a solution. I am irrationally annoyed by the idea of noise makers, just as a concept.
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Sep 28, 2017 10:55
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Basically, if you can't have silence, it's better to have a constant level of uniform noise so your brain has an easier time ignoring the irregular sounds that might wake you up.
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I prefer to be woken up by weird noises because if i'm going to be brutally murdered by an intruder or a ghost/goblin i at least want to be awake for it.
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My Lovely Horse posted:Basically, if you can't have silence, it's better to have a constant level of uniform noise so your brain has an easier time ignoring the irregular sounds that might wake you up. This guy's got it. Also, the poster above that mentioned brown noise: yeah, I actually switch between pink or brown noise, depending on what it is I'm trying to mask, how I'm feeling, etc. Straight up "white" noise feels a little too scratchy to me, if that makes any sense. I've relied on this website for a long time to drown out coworkers, and it worked a treat too when I lived in a smaller place and had my computer in my bedroom. It's got pink and brown options, too - try it out! yeah I eat rear end posted:I prefer to be woken up by weird noises because if i'm going to be brutally murdered by an intruder or a ghost/goblin i at least want to be awake for it. just sleep in lots of clothes, the first time they get you will strip you down to your underwear and then you can run away
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Pastry of the Year posted:just sleep in lots of clothes, the first time they get you will strip you down to your underwear and then you can run away I think it only works this way if you wear full plate mail to bed
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Creature posted:Once a week, usually around 9 or 10pm, my upstairs neighbour likes to drop a bunch of billiard balls all over the floor and kick them around a bit so they bounce off the walls. Or at least that's what it sounds like. Last night there was a heavier sound which indicated they'd added a bowling ball to the party. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IRB0sxw-YU Pretty sure everyone's had those neighbors. WHAT ARE YOU DOING UP THERE?!
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Creature posted:Once a week, usually around 9 or 10pm, my upstairs neighbour likes to drop a bunch of billiard balls all over the floor and kick them around a bit so they bounce off the walls. Or at least that's what it sounds like. Last night there was a heavier sound which indicated they'd added a bowling ball to the party. Same poo poo here, except it's the sideways neighbour hammering something to the wall at odd times like 5pm or midnight. Once I thought it was a bed hitting the wall due to someone having sex, but the sesions last up to two or three hours and you can hear the metallic sound of the hammer being dropped to the ground in between. It has been this way for years, so either he has the biggest bathroom in the world or he's tiling the entire house. Sleep-related pet peeves: dear brain, I'm trying to sleep. I don't need you playing some random song you heard over and over and over. Cut it off.
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Jiru posted:Same poo poo here, except it's the sideways neighbour hammering something to the wall at odd times like 5pm or midnight. Once I thought it was a bed hitting the wall due to someone having sex, but the sesions last up to two or three hours and you can hear the metallic sound of the hammer being dropped to the ground in between. It has been this way for years, so either he has the biggest bathroom in the world or he's tiling the entire house. It's never even the full song either, it's like one or two lines or melodies that just endlessly repeat for me because I'm trying to drive myself insane
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I personally love peace and quiet, and in a perfect situation I could just have nothing but the faint street noises and crickets or rain and I would be happy/able to sleep fine. but since that isn't possible, we use a fan to help w/ louder outside noise, mostly. and because it's hot as hell in our room since we have to keep the doors closed to minimize noise.  I woke up this morning to the bath noise and I could not hear our fan or the AC blower or anything else. it really drowns out everything, including talking, which is why it's frustrating during the day. I do like rainymood and stuff but I feel like that's a solution to a different problem, lol. a white noise machine makes sense but I'm unsure of how much it would actually block out, especially since the noises tend to transfer through the walls and floor. I did try ear plugs for a few nights/mornings when I wanted to sleep in. they kind of help depending on the way they're running the bath, but they get uncomfortable pretty fast and I have pets that I need to be able to listen for, let alone a husband and a sibling and the door......... e: earlier in the thread I never shut up about our old place and the neighbor noise. our new place is great bc we don't have an upstairs neighbor and the people below us are quiet! so of course it'd be the people beside us.
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Rabbit Hill posted:I have this low-tech one and it works fine: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GFSF402/ I have this same one, all it is is a little fan inside the dome. You can adjust the dome to how loud you want it to be. I just set it and stuck it under my bed and it works great. I don't even notice it when it's on but I've accidentally turned it off before and immediately realized it because i could hear all the street noise and train that it was drowning out.
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I subscribe to Google Play Music. It drives me absolutely insane that if I'm listening to a song and I want to see the lyrics I have to open a new tab and Google "[whatever] lyrics" and then click on the very first link--which always goes back to Google Play Music. But, like, to a weird lyrics section of GPM that you can't get to from the music player. WHY?
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Every time i'm in an airport like i am now it reminds me of several peeves. People who still don't know the US airport security rules about jackets, shoes and laptops, people who turn into drooling idiots who can't understand simple commands like stay here or wait over by that line just because someone in a TSA uniform is saying it, people who start standing by the gate an hour before boarding who refuse to get out of the way as business class people start boarding, etc. It's like people shut their brains off when they step into an airport and expect to be physically herded to where they are supposed to go.
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I hate the gate-crowders because they turn me into one of them. If everyone just sat down and chilled out until their group was called, life would be so much easier.
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I kept track of the bath times on paper, starting when I was woken up by it early, and they ran it 16 times today 🙃👌 and I was about to fall asleep and they ran it a couple minutes ago so I'm wide awake again. I'm going to die
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Podcasts who do commentaries for whatever subject they are covering. Its not the content, it's the getting-everything-lined-up-perfectly thing that drives me up a wall. Seven times out of ten, I'm reasonably synched up, but the slight variance bugs me. The other three times, I'm having to manually line things up because the guide wasn't clear or precise enough. poo poo, it's the same reason why I only buy Rifftrax shorts, or riffs that come with a synch track for the player. But that's ages ago, and I don't know if that's still the case.
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My pet peeve is that people get so upset when I run my tub. I like to be clean, and if it means I must wash my body twelve or sixteen times a day then so be it! I must wash away my sins!
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walrusman posted:I hate the gate-crowders because they turn me into one of them. If everyone just sat down and chilled out until their group was called, life would be so much easier. The most annoying thing (I've probably mentioned it in this thread before) is when you've had the "Please have your boarding passes and photographic ID ready for inspection" announcement a couple of times but there's still one person who gets to the head of the queue and hasn't got anything ready.
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walrusman posted:I hate the gate-crowders because they turn me into one of them. If everyone just sat down and chilled out until their group was called, life would be so much easier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dlcq_DC1CkM&t=308s
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walrusman posted:I hate the gate-crowders because they turn me into one of them. If everyone just sat down and chilled out until their group was called, life would be so much easier. Had the same thing happen a few weeks ago, coming back from Paris. Sitting there, waiting for my baggage. Eventually I saw it, I had to find an empty spot because every single person decided to crowd around the conveyor belt instead of hanging back and waiting until you see it.
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When you're looking up music or something on YouTube and it instantly auto suggests a spoiler. I was looking up music for a show today and as soon as I hit m it suggests "M___ death scene"
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Pet peeve: the fact that autumn is hot now. I live in the south so it never got very cold, but it would get chilly and crisp at least. Not anymore. Last year it was consistently in the upper 70s and even the 80s well into late October. And now this autumn is forecasted to be unusually hot. So now another little pleasure is going away. And I know people are going to loving love it, especially as winter comes and its loving 70-something on Christmas. "Oooh, it feels so good even though its 20 degrees hotter than it should be; btw global warming is a myth"
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The Snoo posted:I kept track of the bath times on paper, starting when I was woken up by it early, and they ran it 16 times today 🙃👌 and I was about to fall asleep and they ran it a couple minutes ago so I'm wide awake again. I'm going to die Are you sure it's (just) their bath? Is it possible the hot water tanks or whatever for your building are up near you so you hear that noise whenever anyone in the building uses water? I had a similar issue when I lived above the boiler room in an old building.
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^ yeah sometimes the noise is inside of a wall that's entirely within our unit, as opposed to being in the shared wall. we're above another unit and under them is the laundry room (which gets flooded constantly, apparently). so I'm not really sure what's going on. I do know that at least sometimes the louder inner wall noise is them, though, because the same on-off pattern happens. but why it would shift between walls, I don't know. :s there's a big noisy building down the street that provides the chilled water and also the AC (and presumably the hot water/heat?) so I'm not sure what's inside of the apartments themselves. Blue Star posted:Pet peeve: the fact that autumn is hot now. I live in the south so it never got very cold, but it would get chilly and crisp at least. Not anymore. Last year it was consistently in the upper 70s and even the 80s well into late October. And now this autumn is forecasted to be unusually hot. So now another little pleasure is going away. And I know people are going to loving love it, especially as winter comes and its loving 70-something on Christmas. "Oooh, it feels so good even though its 20 degrees hotter than it should be; btw global warming is a myth" 
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