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Old 05-20-2011, 09:59 PM   #1
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What do you hear outside RFN?

I live in a neighborhood densely populated with bars and restaurants, so it gets really crazy around here on the weekends. RFN however, it's surprisingly quiet.

I hear...

A dog barking, sounds like the German Shepherd from down the street
A lone drunk female yelling incoherently
Bass from a nearby nightclub, not too loud yet
Water heater exhaust from the restaurant downstairs
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Old 05-20-2011, 10:03 PM   #2
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Faint sounds of traffic from the highway 1/2 a mile away, really low-keyed crickets, and the low hum of the street light....(or maybe that's the crickets, hard to tell).
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Old 05-20-2011, 10:06 PM   #3
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I hear nothing because we closed all the windows because we smelled SKUNK!
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Old 05-20-2011, 10:06 PM   #4
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Old 05-20-2011, 10:15 PM   #5
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I can hear a couple of slow moving cars, some dripping on some green waste I haven't cleaned up yet. Some teenagers chatting as they walk past, a crow (oh no!), and some other random bird sounds. I can also hear boat motors faintly in the background.
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Old 05-20-2011, 10:45 PM   #6
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30% traffic noise, 70% birds in the park across the street.
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Old 05-20-2011, 10:53 PM   #7
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The occasional plane flying over. But mostly a freight train going by. The sound of a train at night always sounds mournful to me.
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Old 05-21-2011, 12:02 AM   #8
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Until about 2 minutes ago, I could hear a call to prayer (which thankfully these days doesn't wake me up at 4 a.m. anymore). Now it's car noises and the sound of 2 pieces of metal clinking against each other periodically.

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Old 05-21-2011, 12:12 AM   #9
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The occasional plane flying over. But mostly a freight train going by. The sound of a train at night always sounds mournful to me.
I miss that sound. Ever notice how it sounds differently in the winter?
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Old 05-21-2011, 12:18 AM   #10
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I miss that sound. Ever notice how it sounds differently in the winter?
Do you live in an area where it snows?
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Old 05-21-2011, 12:21 AM   #11
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Yes.

Nighttime winter sounds are generally mournful...just because its winter...
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Old 05-21-2011, 04:31 AM   #12
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Drizzle.
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Old 05-21-2011, 06:21 AM   #13
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I accessed this thread last night from my phone but couldn't be arsed fiddling about withthe on screen keyboard to respond, so am posting now, about last night:

Picture the scene: 4:15 AM and the party in the house/garden opposite my little street is still in full swing. It's been going since late aft/early evening. Even with doubleglazed windows and the TV on full blast, the noise o fthe party has been pretty much drowning out the tv all evening. It's even worse in the bedroom.

They're clearly having a rollicking good time, and judging from the balloons and the small red marquee, this isn't their usual late night get together, but a much bigger party and probably because of some special occasion. Conseqently I am loath to go round and ask them to turn it down a bit.

By now, (4:15am) they'd been engaged for a couple of hours in guitar led singsongs in the back garden, with ten or twenty people belting out Oasis songs at the tops of their voices, occasionally punctuated by screeches of laughter. Everyone appears to communicate at the tops of their voices and I don't know if it's my imagination, but I think one of the guitars is plugged into an amp.

Usually these late night gatherings fizzle out or move indoors by around 2am. This time it went on til gone 5.

I considered going outside and shouting over the fence to keep it down a bit, but they were clearly having such a good time, I didn't really want to be the downer to that. So I listened to my ipod in bed. I could still hear them, quite loudly over the audioplay, even though I had it on quite loud. By the time I finished that it was around 3:30 and I was too tired to get up, get dressed, and go out.

Somewhere around 4:30 the sound levels dropped a little. Still could hearthe music quite clearly but I think some of them at least had moved indoors.

Not great, but much better, so I tried to sleep. Which I did, for about half an hour before being woken by the sounds of raucous laughter and shouting, and what sounded a little like football terrace chants as the guests were leaving.

So then I couldn't sleep. Probably lay awake for another hour. Knackered, but not sleepy.

So. That's what i was going to post in here this morning, if I hadn't been too tired to work the phone properly.
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Old 05-21-2011, 06:28 AM   #14
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A few random birds, and a squirell scampering across the roof.
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Old 05-21-2011, 06:31 AM   #15
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Right now, just the gentle susurrus of a breeze through trees.
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