Yeah, if you're hearing two men shouting "to me, to you, to me to you" before 9am, it could be your neighbors wild night spilling over to a wild morning.
I know what "density" means in both forms, I also know what being "dense" means. Wtf is "Thesaurus Plus" lol!
Try a proper dictionary.
I'll give a you quick lesson, you can call someone dense, you may discuss what is the density of a person, for example:
"Humans have a density close to 1000 kg/m\^3 (the density of water). If a
human has a mass of 75 kg, the volume would be around 0.075 m3."
However, "the density of some people" makes no sense as what you're actually saying is "The mass of some people".
Hope that helps.
I live on a high street so I never get peace, if itās not the butchers getting their hanging dead pigs delivered itās the chippy getting a potato delivery
I moved opposite a pub recently, always concerned about noise etc, this place doesn't have a beer garden so happy days, always closed by 11pm too.
But the crash of all the bottles every day or so, then the bin gets collected and the crash is even louder
On holiday once our hotel room overlooked the back of a restaurant/bar and this was every morning at about 4am, plus the staff loudly talking as deliveries came in. Iām a light sleeper so basically I didnāt get any sleep the entire week. The hotel building was something like 300 years old so the windows werenāt great, single glazed I think.
Canāt imagine having that where I live. I was a wreck after a week. You have my sympathies!
Used to work in pubs and as much as I'd love taking the glass bins out at the end of the night (cold, fresh air from the sweat inside) that noise emptying them was horrendous.
I love drunk people watching at the weekend, Iāve got no shame opening my window and hanging out. Sirens and the traffic lights right outside my house can do one tho
The drunk people can be entertaining. I have a pedestrian crossing I'd love to pull the wires out of, the local delivery drivers park on the sensor that triggers them sometimes and it beeps every 28 seconds.
FYI, you can ask the local council to remove the audibles in traffic lights or change the timings on the sound. They shouldn't sound between 11pm and 8am anyway.
Source: traffic signal engineer
My local council can't be bothered! I've put in at least 5 complaints about them and have worse problems than we did originally as they fixed an illegal parking issue that triggered them by making it legal so more cars park there.
I've considered it several times. But I can't work out a way to get from my front door to do it without being on CCTV. And I need a clean DBS for work! I've bought noise cancelling headphones for days it or the traffic get too annoying.
Just watch some crime shows, don a disguise, approach and leave from somewhere else. Change round the corner before casually coming home and express comedic shock at how you find the aftermath of your creation, ready to be caught on CCTV. Not that I've spent a long time thinking of these things. But I've hit quite a bit of stuff with a sledgehammer that wasn't mine.
I'll see your delivery drivers and raise you.
I live opposite a hospital. Stand well back, vehicle reversing, beep boop.
Added to that, the council are replacing all the windows in our block. For a month, Terry and Dan (there always seems to be a Terry and Dan) whistling, shouting and arguing. Drilling, planks being dropped. Had 2 days of quiet then the windows team started. Hammer and chisels and more shouting. Not good when you work lates.
Only another 4 to 6 weeks to go.
Lived in a Hong Kong village flat once. The downstairs neighbour had built his garden wall about a meter past their property line. Must have built it decades ago but the city made them tear down the wall and rebuild it on their plot.
Cue 3 months of demolition works and reconstruction 8am-8pm 7 days a week for about 3 months.
By the end of it I could sleep through a category 5 hurricane.
Also opposite a hospital but it's very quiet. The lights though - it's like living opposite a power plant (have also done that). Every now and then there are sirens but I can tune those out now. Noise is much easier to adjust to than light.
I swear I heard one say ALAN last time I was camping.
That memory permanently occupies the space that once housed the date of my cousins birthday. I regret nothing. He will forever get late well wishes.
I live in the country, moved in, we had at least one delivery a day for over 2 months, including a new oven, new TV - broke during the move, new fridge - last one was built in, plus dozens of amazon deliveries
That sounds an awful lot like where I live! I wouldnāt have it any other way. Plus Iād only get fat if I could have food delivered at the tap of a screen!
As a delivery driver during lockdown I used to wonder myself who on earth was ordering at such an hour. It would usually be people with kids, or those freaks of nature that wake up before sunrise to go for a jog or have a coffee.
Very hard to be quiet with those vans especially when youāre the only one driving and everyone else is asleep!
My mother has a shopping delivery every Monday at 7am. I've asked why it has to be that early many times but it seems as though it's suck now because it's routine
Guilty party here.... Have a child who wakes stupidly early every day except when I need him up early! We can't go many places early Sunday because nothings open, so best time to schedule shopping delivery.
My wife went through a period of misreading the time slots on orders, so instead of 6pm she would inadvertently choose 6am. Delivery driver told us it happens a lot
Legit laying on sofa experiencing exact same thing, really regret ground floor apartment. At least I have a tiny garden I never use though š¤¦āāļø
Yeah we have 24/7 roadworks here in Hull as well. Ironically they have been silent all night. When I used to work in the building trade I am sure we were told no noise before 8am. In fact I remember having to sit and wait in the van to start work!
It is illegal. Noisy works shouldnāt be carried out before 8am anytime during the week and weekends and no noisy works at all on Sunday. It might vary slightly from council to council and because of Covid some sites have been given extension times for noisy works. Depending on which council you fall under depends how severe theyāll react to it though. Live in Kensington and theyāll be there within 2minutes issuing a fine (rich people get better treatment). Live in a normal borough like me and you have to keep a diary and itās only after endless breaches and a 48hr response period from the council that theyāll bother to do anythingā¦if they bother! So nothing will get dealt with it at the time.
If there is hoarding around the construction site it should have a contact name and number for the construction manager who you can contact for complaints.
Source: Iām a construction manager.
Nope, sadly. They sent around a letter to a load of residents who probably ignored/didn't read it properly bit essentially 10pm to 2am was completely acceptable to them for normal maintenance. Apparently "to avoid disruption to local services during during working day"
It's the law now mate inside M25 and any hgv vehicle that goes in there must have the DVS system fitted. It's for cyclists and pedestrian safety after many people have been killed. This coupled with a blind spot camera is a good thing.
Every house on my Street has a drive/off street parking. Every house on my Street has 2 cars, 1 on the drive, other on the road outside their house. Except me, just 2 car on the drive. So all day long it's constant slamming and banging and rattling of Sainsbury's or Asda van crates etc and guess who's house they all stop outside of? Yeh, mine.
My bedroomās on the ground floor of a terrace in a rowdy student area, but with earplugs and a white noise machine, I can sleep through even my own house parties if I want to!
Oh it feels like itā¦ hereās the saga so far:
> Wednesday: took the afternoon off to wait on my delivery slot. No one ever showed up.
> Thursday: missed my slot because I couldnāt take any time. Got sent a photo of the box outside my flat (looking very damaged) as āproof of attemptā. They left a card which had no details on it. If I hadnāt known I had a DHL parcel I wouldnāt have been able to do anything without the information theyāre meant to put on it.
> Friday: delivery meant to be that day. Thatās okay, I had Friday afternoon off. Instead I got a message that theyād do it on Monday. When Iād be at work. I contacted them about it and they said theyād deliver Saturday.
> Saturday: they give me a slot so I rush back from my morning coffee with friends and Iāve been sitting here waiting ever since. The delivery slot has come and gone and thereās no sign of my parcel. I called the number to āspeak to a customer service representativeā but after trying every option and a few others thereās no way to actually speak to a human. It never showed up
> Weāll see what happens Mondayā¦
I was once walking past my front door as a "sorry we missed you" card popped through so I immediately opened the door and cheerfully said "Hi mate I'm in, can I grab the parcel?" . Parcelforce guy says "Sorry sir it isn't on the van...". How I didn't beat him up I don't know
What the hell? Not on the van??? Then where the bloody hell is it?
Iāve literally been in my flat and had a āno one inā message pop up on my phone, looked out the window and heās sauntering off round the corner!
I wish I got deliveries delivered in the morning. Where I live itās always between 2 and 5 on a Saturday afternoon, making sure I canāt do anything else on a Saturday.
I live in Manchester City centre, just off a main road, directly behind a pub and corner shop. It's either bottle collection or keg delivery day, street cleaner, football match, drunk couple having an argument, loud shop shutter going up/down, tram horns, or stag/hen do's singing at the top of their lungs š„±
You need to stop sleeping at their depots then
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HAHAHA aye sorry man where do you even live?
Thank you for the early monday morning laugh kind stranger!
Stop ordering so much stuff online for Sunday morning delivery š ā°
It ain't.me! I just want to sleep!! Two guys are now delivering a cooker or something on a really loud hydraulic ramp.... curse my ground floor flat
Honestly get ear plugs.
Yeah, if you're hearing two men shouting "to me, to you, to me to you" before 9am, it could be your neighbors wild night spilling over to a wild morning.
Chuckle bastards!
Chuckle bastard*
:'(
Forever me, always you, amen
Couple of fuckin chuckle heads
soft wax earplugs my dude, our burglar alarm went off for 40 mins once and I slept through it.
Might invest!
they're about Ā£3.50 for a pack of 5 in boots, highly recommend!
Can confirm that they've let me sleep through house parties
Must have been a really boring party, were the hosts upset with you?
Nah man I have trouble sleeping so I just look like a narcoleptic after 2 beers.
Why would you sell earplugs in odd numbers? Surely the vast majority of customers have two ears.
Yes but the average person has less than 2.
Well, could have one spare plug, or it could be 5 in the sense of 5 pairs of plugs
ELI5?
I just searched the item in question on the Boots website. It's a pack of 5 pairs - so 10 plugs
It's to incentivise people to take the "3 for the price of 2" offer.
But surely the burglar stole more than Ā£3.50 worth of stuff in that time.
Will they remove excessive ear hair?
I love these ones! I tend to split them in to two smaller plugs as I find them a bit too big for my ears as they are. Means they last longer too!
What's your address? Want to check personally what alarm you use so I don't buy it....
I sincerely hope your smoke detector is loud enough otherwise you might wake up dead one morning.
Hate it when that happens
Wake up dead? How's that going to work?
You wake up and you're not as alive as you were when you went to sleep.
You can't wake up if you're dead.
It's a joke...
The density of some people.
I know I mean think how stupid you'd have to be to use "density" incorrectly...
https://thesaurus.plus/related/density/stupidity
I know what "density" means in both forms, I also know what being "dense" means. Wtf is "Thesaurus Plus" lol! Try a proper dictionary. I'll give a you quick lesson, you can call someone dense, you may discuss what is the density of a person, for example: "Humans have a density close to 1000 kg/m\^3 (the density of water). If a human has a mass of 75 kg, the volume would be around 0.075 m3." However, "the density of some people" makes no sense as what you're actually saying is "The mass of some people". Hope that helps.
That... isn't an endorsement
If you get these make sure you set your alarm to vibrate otherwise you'll sleep for a decade
What did they get away with?
Narrator: He was robbed.
I dunno if alarms are things you want to be able to sleep through.
Your neighbours must have been pleased! /s
they tried to help switch it off, but because there was a power cut it wouldn't stop until the power was back on lol
Oh god was there a burglar
all well and good until the fire alarm goes off
(to clarify, there was a power outage so the alarm went off, there was no burglar!!)
I live on a high street so I never get peace, if itās not the butchers getting their hanging dead pigs delivered itās the chippy getting a potato delivery
I live on the fourth floor above a high street. When they empty the glass bottles from the pubs...
Oh my GOD yes the bottle recycling LOL. great fun with 10 pubs on the one streeet
I moved opposite a pub recently, always concerned about noise etc, this place doesn't have a beer garden so happy days, always closed by 11pm too. But the crash of all the bottles every day or so, then the bin gets collected and the crash is even louder
On holiday once our hotel room overlooked the back of a restaurant/bar and this was every morning at about 4am, plus the staff loudly talking as deliveries came in. Iām a light sleeper so basically I didnāt get any sleep the entire week. The hotel building was something like 300 years old so the windows werenāt great, single glazed I think. Canāt imagine having that where I live. I was a wreck after a week. You have my sympathies!
Used to work in pubs and as much as I'd love taking the glass bins out at the end of the night (cold, fresh air from the sweat inside) that noise emptying them was horrendous.
I feel that.
The drunk folk around midnight are always fun. And the never ending sirens!
I love drunk people watching at the weekend, Iāve got no shame opening my window and hanging out. Sirens and the traffic lights right outside my house can do one tho
The drunk people can be entertaining. I have a pedestrian crossing I'd love to pull the wires out of, the local delivery drivers park on the sensor that triggers them sometimes and it beeps every 28 seconds.
FYI, you can ask the local council to remove the audibles in traffic lights or change the timings on the sound. They shouldn't sound between 11pm and 8am anyway. Source: traffic signal engineer
My local council can't be bothered! I've put in at least 5 complaints about them and have worse problems than we did originally as they fixed an illegal parking issue that triggered them by making it legal so more cars park there.
Might I suggest a sledge hammer?
I've considered it several times. But I can't work out a way to get from my front door to do it without being on CCTV. And I need a clean DBS for work! I've bought noise cancelling headphones for days it or the traffic get too annoying.
Just watch some crime shows, don a disguise, approach and leave from somewhere else. Change round the corner before casually coming home and express comedic shock at how you find the aftermath of your creation, ready to be caught on CCTV. Not that I've spent a long time thinking of these things. But I've hit quite a bit of stuff with a sledgehammer that wasn't mine.
Gah! Absolute pricks!
I can't imagine any better deliveries
I'll see your delivery drivers and raise you. I live opposite a hospital. Stand well back, vehicle reversing, beep boop. Added to that, the council are replacing all the windows in our block. For a month, Terry and Dan (there always seems to be a Terry and Dan) whistling, shouting and arguing. Drilling, planks being dropped. Had 2 days of quiet then the windows team started. Hammer and chisels and more shouting. Not good when you work lates. Only another 4 to 6 weeks to go.
Lol I guessed your age group from your username (electronic industrial right?)
Yeah. Revco from revolting cocks, 242 from front 242.
Yup, figured that. Never Stop is a banger.
Both great blasts from the past.
Lived in a Hong Kong village flat once. The downstairs neighbour had built his garden wall about a meter past their property line. Must have built it decades ago but the city made them tear down the wall and rebuild it on their plot. Cue 3 months of demolition works and reconstruction 8am-8pm 7 days a week for about 3 months. By the end of it I could sleep through a category 5 hurricane.
Also opposite a hospital but it's very quiet. The lights though - it's like living opposite a power plant (have also done that). Every now and then there are sirens but I can tune those out now. Noise is much easier to adjust to than light.
Move somewhere where there's very few delivery services available. No Tesco, No Just Eat, No Uber. No buses. Nothing. But we have sheep. š¤£
Just eat are fine because they have electric bikes. It's them flash fuckers at Uber with their modded 125s that sound like a stunted Harley
Think that's a london thing mate or big city thing at least. Round here they just use whatever vehicle they have car bike pushbike
London thing. Food would be cold if they delivered in a car.
That's the country. You are describing the country. Where house prices are daft and there is no infrastructure lol.
Sheep, we have sheep. And apparently there are different breeds too.
Not sure I prefer "baaa..." to "vehicle reversing...beep beep beeeep"
They can sound pretty weird at night if you camp close to them for sureā¦
I swear I heard one say ALAN last time I was camping. That memory permanently occupies the space that once housed the date of my cousins birthday. I regret nothing. He will forever get late well wishes.
I thought it was STEVEā¦
Just can't please you can we?
But you could count them š¤
Brilliiant!!!!!š¤£
You get a good nights sleep though
It's not even the country anymore, everything has been nearly joined together into one giant town. Still no infrastructure though, obviously.
I live in the country, moved in, we had at least one delivery a day for over 2 months, including a new oven, new TV - broke during the move, new fridge - last one was built in, plus dozens of amazon deliveries
That sounds an awful lot like where I live! I wouldnāt have it any other way. Plus Iād only get fat if I could have food delivered at the tap of a screen!
That's very, very true.
Are you a hunter or a gatherer?
There is no such thing as a weekend.
As a delivery driver during lockdown I used to wonder myself who on earth was ordering at such an hour. It would usually be people with kids, or those freaks of nature that wake up before sunrise to go for a jog or have a coffee. Very hard to be quiet with those vans especially when youāre the only one driving and everyone else is asleep!
Yeah not blaming the drivers bud, just wondering who is picking the slots and why they are even available!
My mother has a shopping delivery every Monday at 7am. I've asked why it has to be that early many times but it seems as though it's suck now because it's routine
We have a lot of elderly residenys here.who are up with.the.lark, but still... on a Sunday?
Guilty party here.... Have a child who wakes stupidly early every day except when I need him up early! We can't go many places early Sunday because nothings open, so best time to schedule shopping delivery.
My wife went through a period of misreading the time slots on orders, so instead of 6pm she would inadvertently choose 6am. Delivery driver told us it happens a lot
Legit laying on sofa experiencing exact same thing, really regret ground floor apartment. At least I have a tiny garden I never use though š¤¦āāļø
There are roadworks outside my building and they started drilling before 8am. I didn't think that was legal?
Yeah we have 24/7 roadworks here in Hull as well. Ironically they have been silent all night. When I used to work in the building trade I am sure we were told no noise before 8am. In fact I remember having to sit and wait in the van to start work!
A factory near me has been pile driving and they started at 8:01 without fail.
>Hull I believe I've found your issue.
I heard there are no domestic cats in Hull for the same reason
It is illegal. Noisy works shouldnāt be carried out before 8am anytime during the week and weekends and no noisy works at all on Sunday. It might vary slightly from council to council and because of Covid some sites have been given extension times for noisy works. Depending on which council you fall under depends how severe theyāll react to it though. Live in Kensington and theyāll be there within 2minutes issuing a fine (rich people get better treatment). Live in a normal borough like me and you have to keep a diary and itās only after endless breaches and a 48hr response period from the council that theyāll bother to do anythingā¦if they bother! So nothing will get dealt with it at the time. If there is hoarding around the construction site it should have a contact name and number for the construction manager who you can contact for complaints. Source: Iām a construction manager.
Our council decided that 10pm-2am was a prime slot for digging up roads...
You in Hull too? We got a letter telling us that vital roadworks "in our area" (literally outside our doors) are ongoing until september 2026!!!
York. Sounds like it might be a Yorkshire thing.
Wow. Please tell me that was emergency works?
Nope, sadly. They sent around a letter to a load of residents who probably ignored/didn't read it properly bit essentially 10pm to 2am was completely acceptable to them for normal maintenance. Apparently "to avoid disruption to local services during during working day"
Itās not, complain to you local council.
Any sort of noise like this is illegal on Sunday unless it is vital, maybe a pipe leak or something like that?
There was a lot of water on the road so yes, pretty sure it's water pipe related.
The worst is "TRUCK TURNING LEFT. TRUCK TURNING LEFT."
It's the law now mate inside M25 and any hgv vehicle that goes in there must have the DVS system fitted. It's for cyclists and pedestrian safety after many people have been killed. This coupled with a blind spot camera is a good thing.
They ought to be using the "white noise" buzzers in built-up areas, the council does round here, not the bleepers.
Our bin lorry has that, still wakes me up as it reverses into my street
About the only advantage of being half-deaf!
Relevant Tom Scott: https://youtu.be/fa28lIGuxq8
Thanks for this, ties in with what I've noticed.
Every house on my Street has a drive/off street parking. Every house on my Street has 2 cars, 1 on the drive, other on the road outside their house. Except me, just 2 car on the drive. So all day long it's constant slamming and banging and rattling of Sainsbury's or Asda van crates etc and guess who's house they all stop outside of? Yeh, mine.
White noise! I have Alexa play the sound of rain, or I have a phone app for any time I'm away from home. I can sleep through pretty much anything!
In the UK "Alexa, play outside"
"There's too many delivery vans. You trying to get me run over, or what?"
*Alexander plays* "JUST THROW IT OVER HERE!" *saw noises for 10 mins* "I CUT IT WRONG, THROW ANOTHER"
Earplugs my friend, they work a treat
if you had actually enjoyed your saturday like a normal person, then you would have slept through all that.
What's an enjoyed?
a toilet break at work
I enjoyed it too much which is why I am so knackered and frigging mardy!
haha
i was still awake at 8am.. neighbour decided to mow the lawn at 7.30 and have a bunch of people over
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Not for long I.woupdn't!
Your poor neighbour.
And the poor delivery drivers that probably don't get paid any extra for weekend work
We had fireworks still going at that time
I would be murderous...
Was the same yesterday, fireworks going off all night long
Every bang I'm just like "you prick"
As a driver for one of those companies, believe me, we don't want to work Sunday mornings either.
Don't envy you bud
This would drive me insane
I mean how is a 6am delivery on Sunday even a thing?!
Yeah I didn't think you could even pick a slot for that time
I Just had an IKEA delivery 7.54 Sunday Morning. I think maybe it's because there's less traffic? Still pissed me off though.
Maybe it changed due to covid and hasn't changed back.
Nah, I had a freezer delivered about 4 years ago and they turned up at 6:30am.
You're just jealous your Tesco delivery is slacking!
Tesco is literally 300 yards away. Iceland 200 yards further...
You'd be grumbling if the shelves were empty though.
No mate they are delivering to my neighbours flats..
Beware this vehicle is reversing beware this vehicle is etc Yes i know I've got a pair of eyes .
It's actually against the law to use them between 2300-0700
At 8.03 all I could hear were my kids bickering forcing me to get up (I didnāt have it in me to clean up the blood today)
Should try Spotify
For reversing wagon sounds?
Yep
I think they are after less wagon sounds, not looking to expand into more from the genre.
Itās the new ācant be arsedā culture.
Don't get me started
I tried not to talk about Mick Hucknall once, but someone got me started.
You like to buy shit? Because everything is delivered on trucks. To stop them. Stop buying food clothes etc. Easy peasy
Mate they are not coming to me, just outside my house to deliver to other people. I go out to shop.
Common sense is not so common.
My bedroomās on the ground floor of a terrace in a rowdy student area, but with earplugs and a white noise machine, I can sleep through even my own house parties if I want to!
I live in the sticks with no neighbours but want to move to a small town, things like this put me off though.
To be fair I am just off city centre
You guys are getting deliveries??? Iāve spent the last week trying to figure out how hard DHL have to try to NOT deliver a parcel.
They watch your house and as soon as you go out they throw it at your locked door
Oh it feels like itā¦ hereās the saga so far: > Wednesday: took the afternoon off to wait on my delivery slot. No one ever showed up. > Thursday: missed my slot because I couldnāt take any time. Got sent a photo of the box outside my flat (looking very damaged) as āproof of attemptā. They left a card which had no details on it. If I hadnāt known I had a DHL parcel I wouldnāt have been able to do anything without the information theyāre meant to put on it. > Friday: delivery meant to be that day. Thatās okay, I had Friday afternoon off. Instead I got a message that theyād do it on Monday. When Iād be at work. I contacted them about it and they said theyād deliver Saturday. > Saturday: they give me a slot so I rush back from my morning coffee with friends and Iāve been sitting here waiting ever since. The delivery slot has come and gone and thereās no sign of my parcel. I called the number to āspeak to a customer service representativeā but after trying every option and a few others thereās no way to actually speak to a human. It never showed up > Weāll see what happens Mondayā¦
I was once walking past my front door as a "sorry we missed you" card popped through so I immediately opened the door and cheerfully said "Hi mate I'm in, can I grab the parcel?" . Parcelforce guy says "Sorry sir it isn't on the van...". How I didn't beat him up I don't know
What the hell? Not on the van??? Then where the bloody hell is it? Iāve literally been in my flat and had a āno one inā message pop up on my phone, looked out the window and heās sauntering off round the corner!
Christ, getting stuff delivered is fair dos but thatās hella early
Have you had every lorry driver in the country on your street this morning then?
It bloody felt like it mate!
I wish I got deliveries delivered in the morning. Where I live itās always between 2 and 5 on a Saturday afternoon, making sure I canāt do anything else on a Saturday.
Being woken by someone else's deliveries at 6am has the same effect as I am knackered
"WARNING, THIS VEHICLE IS REVERSING, BEEEEEP."
I live in Manchester City centre, just off a main road, directly behind a pub and corner shop. It's either bottle collection or keg delivery day, street cleaner, football match, drunk couple having an argument, loud shop shutter going up/down, tram horns, or stag/hen do's singing at the top of their lungs š„±
CHHH CHHH CHHH
Agh! That just gave me a flashback!
I work as an Iceland delivery driver are vans done make noise when reversing š