Noisy B*******ds

[klubex99]

What the hell is wrong with some of these people?

Sunday Morning at 7am and my neighbour starts angle grinding steel box section.

OK, so the guy doesn't drink and never goes out, and is in bed by 9PM at the latest, then gets up at 6am every morning. That's fine by me. But not everyone lives like that. Many people in our moo baan (including myself) likes to go out on a Saturday night and maybe have a couple of drinks and lie in on a Sunday morning.

I have no problem with people doing improvements on their home, I had mine done, but would not let power tools be used until at least 9 to 9.30AM out of consideration for others.

This is not just me complaining, my wife is also pissed off at him and equally thinks it's not acceptable this early on a Sunday. This dude is turning out to be a major pain in the ass.

The other morning he was out there real early with a drill, putting holes in his exhaust manifolds trying to make his pickup sound like a clapped out Ferrari (Yes, he's one of those idiots) Then sits there revving the engine constantly with a big stupid smile on his face. Now when he drives down the street he drops the revs, puts the clutch in and revs up like he is in a hot rod.

The guy is like 45 or something, with the mind of a teenager.

Sunday morning rant over.

[HeijoshinCool]

The other morning he was out there real early with a drill, putting holes in his exhaust manifolds trying to make his pickup sound like a clapped out Ferrari (Yes, he's one of those idiots) Then sits there revving the engine constantly with a big stupid smile on his face. Now when he drives down the street he drops the revs, puts the clutch in and revs up like he is in a hot rod.

Hey! I didn't realized there was a fellow westerner living in Rhek Thum!

Kidding aside, I actually thought my town was unique for this.

They drill holes or, in the case of one guy, come home with a brand new pickup, and proceed to cut off the exhaust, including the catalytic converter. The same goes for motor bikes.

Thais generally, as another poster put it, don't see beyond the end of their noses. Something in the culture prevents them from thinking anything they do, might disturb another human.

[benalibina]

Its serves you right after leaving the " whats happened to Tony" thread in shambles.

[klubex99]

Its serves you right after leaving the " whats happened to Tony" thread in shambles.

Haha.... Sorry for that one. I just thought it had run its course.

[wayned]

What makes you think that Sunday is a day off in Thailand. Where I live, Saturday is the "low" day where some businesses are closed. Sunday is full bore except for the government offices and banks. Rant on, but get busy living rather than complaining because nobody really gives a rats ass about your problem, and you know it!.

[BookMan]

Its serves you right after leaving the " whats happened to Tony" thread in shambles.

Haha.... Sorry for that one. I just thought it had run its course.

I thought u were taking some photos of Tony's place for us to see? What happened?

[klubex99]

What makes you think that Sunday is a day off in Thailand. Where I live, Saturday is the "low" day where some businesses are closed. Sunday is full bore except for the government offices and banks. Rant on, but get busy living rather than complaining because nobody really gives a rats ass about your problem, and you know it!.

Strange how my wife and her entire family work Mon to Fri jobs and have Sat and Sun off..... I just think you live in a weird place.

Don't really give a rats ass that you don't give a rat's ass. I started the thread because I wanted my rant and felt entitled to my rant.

But you are obviously a hypocrite, because you feel entitled to rant about the fact that I am having a rant.

Me thinks it may be thee who needs to get 'busy living' (hypocritical comment 2).

Sunday morning rant No2 over.

Edited October 27, 2013 by klubex99

[AYJAYDEE]

What makes you think that Sunday is a day off in Thailand. Where I live, Saturday is the "low" day where some businesses are closed. Sunday is full bore except for the government offices and banks. Rant on, but get busy living rather than complaining because nobody really gives a rats ass about your problem, and you know it!.

Strange how my wife and her entire family work Mon to Fri jobs and have Sat and Sun off..... I just think you live in a weird place.

Don't really give a rats ass that you don't give a rat's ass. I started the thread because I wanted my rant and felt entitled to my rant.

But you are obviously a hypocrite, because you feel entitled to rant about the fact that I am having a rant.

Me thinks it may be thee who needs to get 'busy living' (hypocritical comment 2).

Sunday morning rant No2 over.

more like a whinge

[HeijoshinCool]

What makes you think that Sunday is a day off in Thailand. Where I live, Saturday is the "low" day where some businesses are closed. Sunday is full bore except for the government offices and banks. Rant on, but get busy living rather than complaining because nobody really gives a rats ass about your problem, and you know it!.

I happen to endure the same neighbors, so I do indeed sympathize with him.

(Actually, it's just good to know someone else is suffering like me )

[kevozman1]

Yep, Thais are loud adn fairly inconsiderate when it comes to noise a lot of the time. The way in the tropics it seems. I love it.

[Gsxrnz]

Maybe he thinks it's fair enough to make a noise after daybreak because his neighbours disturb his sleep when they come home late Saturday/early Sunday morning and make a fair amount of noise slamming car doors, parking bikes, talking loudly, generally having no respect for his early to bed and early to rise lifestyle.

[jackr]

Move ;-)

[klubex99]

Maybe he thinks it's fair enough to make a noise after daybreak because his neighbours disturb his sleep when they come home late Saturday/early Sunday morning and make a fair amount of noise slamming car doors, parking bikes, talking loudly, generally having no respect for his early to bed and early to rise lifestyle.

I don't hear many of those noises at night., maybe dogs barking. You can't help making a sound when you close a car door, and I don't hear any loud voices here at all. But even if there were, I think angle grinding at 7AM is unacceptable.

But here is another strange brand of behaviour from a different neighbour (not noise related).

A family from down the road (about 6 houses away) used to have a dog that they would just allow to roam the street and crap outside every one else's gate, as a matter of fact, it crapped outside almost every house apart from its own. Some neighbours complained about it, but this <deleted> wasn't even fazed.

Up the other end of the street, a new family moved in, and as soon as they did, the dog crapped outside their gate, and within 3 days the dog was dead in the road. The new guy openly admitted to all us neighbours that he poisoned it. I am no dog lover, especially here, so I actually felt quite good about it. No more cleaning up dog shit. I don't feel bad about that at all.

A week later, the guy who poisoned it, went and acquired 2 dogs that bark almost constantly and they leave the gate open for them to wander around crapping all over the street.

You couldn't make it up.

Edited October 27, 2013 by klubex99

[klubex99]

Move ;-)

Very original.

[krisb]

Yeah wheres the Tony pics?

[Gsxrnz]

Maybe he thinks it's fair enough to make a noise after daybreak because his neighbours disturb his sleep when they come home late Saturday/early Sunday morning and make a fair amount of noise slamming car doors, parking bikes, talking loudly, generally having no respect for his early to bed and early to rise lifestyle.

I don't hear many of those noises at night., maybe dogs barking. You can't help making a sound when you close a car door, and I don't hear any loud voices here at all. But even if there were, I think angle grinding at 7AM is unacceptable.

But here is another strange brand of behaviour from a different neighbour (not noise related).

A family from down the road (about 6 houses away) used to have a dog that they would just allow to roam the street and crap outside every one else's gate, as a matter of fact, it crapped outside almost every house apart from its own. Some neighbours complained about it, but this <deleted> wasn't even fazed.

Up the other end of the street, a new family moved in, and as soon as they did, the dog crapped outside their gate, and within 3 days the dog was dead in the road. The new guy openly admitted to all us neighbours that he poisoned it. I am no dog lover, especially here, so I actually felt quite good about it. No more cleaning up dog shit. I don't feel bad about that at all.

A week later, the guy who poisoned it, went and acquired 2 dogs that bark almost constantly and they leave the gate open for them to wander around crapping all over the street.

You couldn't make it up.

You've got it tough. I live in a moo baan in Jomtien. The "camp mother" is related to Hitler and takes all complaints from residents seriously so she shuts all these things down before they become a problem. She even has the security guards follow the rubbish collection truck around on a pushbike to make sure they pick up anything they drop from the truck.

Had some Russians making too much noise so after a few tellings off she padlocked them INSIDE their 6 foot high fence/gate. They soon got the message.

[klubex99]

Yeah wheres the Tony pics?

I couldn't be bothered in the end. That thread fizzled out.

[apetley]

You really love inconsiderate behaviour?

[Mighty Mouse]

Sunday Morning at 7am and my neighbour starts angle grinding steel box section.

.................... at the latest, then gets up at 6am every morning

Your neighbour gets up at 6am and starts working an hour later. If he was totally inconsiderate, he would have started grinding at 6am.

He probably already knows how obnoxious you are, believing that if he started grinding at 10am, you'd still find a reason to criticise him.

This guy might one day be on hand to put out a fire in your house, to stop a burglary, to help save your life should you fall off a ladder....etc.

Be nice to your neighbours.

[StreetCowboy]

What makes you think that Sunday is a day off in Thailand. Where I live, Saturday is the "low" day where some businesses are closed. Sunday is full bore except for the government offices and banks. Rant on, but get busy living rather than complaining because nobody really gives a rats ass about your problem, and you know it!.

I happen to endure the same neighbors, so I do indeed sympathize with him.

(Actually, it's just good to know someone else is suffering like me )

Perhaps you could go round for a cup of tea, and you could grizzle together over your Earl Grey.

Take some ginger snaps, and turn a hardship into a holiday...

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[klubex99]

Sunday Morning at 7am and my neighbour starts angle grinding steel box section.

.................... at the latest, then gets up at 6am every morning

Your neighbour gets up at 6am and starts working an hour later. If he was totally inconsiderate, he would have started grinding at 6am.

He probably already knows how obnoxious you are, believing that if he started grinding at 10am, you'd still find a reason to criticise him.

This guy might one day be on hand to put out a fire in your house, to stop a burglary, to help save your life should you fall off a ladder....etc.

Be nice to your neighbours.

I love starting particular threads to draw out this sort of TV poster..... lol

[StreetCowboy]

I got a bit fed up with a little boy reviing his toy car outside the pub opposite the other night. I think it was a full moon; there was fireworks outside earlier as well - possibly outside the pub, or one of the neighbours' houses. I din't get up to look. Where I live now is one of the quietest places I've stayed during the day, but one of the noisiest of a night time. And then the mosque starts up with the call to prayers - timely reminder of the need for serenity and spirituality.

SC

[mauGR1]

Personally i hate all the noises, of all kinds, at any time....Unless of course i am the one doing the noise.

But accepting the noise is part of life, otherwise one can choose to live on the top of a mountain..

The positive part of having noisy neighbours, is that i am becoming a philosopher

[whiteman]

What one finds quite today in Thailand becomes a disco Bar the next week so enjoy what you currently have for Saturday night fever could just be a heart beat away.

[WonnabeBiker]

any mornings, someone turns on the loud music at 5 am, even on some weekends.

Just music, interspersed by announcements. Someone has decided that 5 am

is the proper time for this kind of "public service".

At my condo, there are some morons with crappy old cars with monster exhausts.

When one of them pumps the gas at 2 am, I'm bloody minded, too.

And what's this about red-lining engines and popping the hood.

Even buses and coaches drive around with engines exposed...

[WitawatWatawit]

Screaming 3yo Thai boys throwing a tantrum top an angle grinder any day. Anyone want to up the ante?

[AYJAYDEE]

Screaming 3yo Thai boys throwing a tantrum top an angle grinder any day. Anyone want to up the ante?

nothing beats the morning village loudspeakers

[Mighty Mouse]

I love starting particular threads to draw out this sort of TV poster..... lol

Do you mean, the type of TV poster who believes in 'live and let live,' not the type of TV poster who regards his next door neighbours as

Noisy B*******ds and who would get upset if his "noisy b*******d" of a neighbour regarded him as an 'irritable, whinging b*******d.

[thequietman]

The other morning he was out there real early with a drill, putting holes in his exhaust manifolds trying to make his pickup sound like a clapped out Ferrari (Yes, he's one of those idiots) Then sits there revving the engine constantly with a big stupid smile on his face. Now when he drives down the street he drops the revs, puts the clutch in and revs up like he is in a hot rod.

Hey! I didn't realized there was a fellow westerner living in Rhek Thum!

Kidding aside, I actually thought my town was unique for this.

They drill holes or, in the case of one guy, come home with a brand new pickup, and proceed to cut off the exhaust, including the catalytic converter. The same goes for motor bikes.

Thais generally, as another poster put it, don't see beyond the end of their noses. Something in the culture prevents them from thinking anything they do, might disturb another human.

Please don't label this as culture. Its just plain inconsiderate behavior, simple as that. They know it will upset someone but as long as its not immediate family , they don't give a toss.

[YaiJung]

What did you expect living next door to Thais?

If you want peace and quiet in Thailand you must live in a condo(higher up the better) or in a wealthy, mostly expat type area(not easy to find, nor cheap).

You can complain all you want, but you will just drive yourself crazy. In Thailand(and most of the 3rd world) you will have to spend money to get peace and quiet.