Noise noise everywhere

There's a big difference between birdsong and grandchildren, and loud music and yelling into mobile phones. Not comparable really.

I have ADHD and as I get older my sensitivity to noise is getting worse I am going to buy some noise cancelling headphones. I have tinnitus and it’s made worse by certain types of music, I’m fine with Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple etc but newer stuff does my head in and makes me feel angry.

Vintagejazz

There's a big difference between birdsong and grandchildren, and loud music and yelling into mobile phones. Not comparable really.

You imply (apologies if I am wrong) that the shouting/noise/music etc is the fault of the young.
What about the biddies I see/hear shouting into their phones? Or with the radio/TV turned up max because they are "a bit hard of hearing,"?
The world can be a noisy place, but our attitude to it plays its part too.

I'm not sure how you took that out of my post. I was talking about people of all ages.

I did some knitting outside this morning, this is what I heard, someone sawing wood and laughing, a dog yapped, the wind, a few distant cars, a bumble bee and some birds on a roof.The guttering creaked in the sun. There was no silence, I liked it all, signs of life. I would not choose ever to shop anywhere that has musac and am thankful not to live by screechy shouty neighbours

I’m sitting having a flat white in a cafe in Marylebone, central London. Apart from some idle chit chat in admiration of a beautiful dog. It’s blissfully quiet.

You should try being deaf!! you don't have an option!!

Oh I dislike noise too …when my sister picks me up in her car she always has the radio on and when she’s talking to me I can’t hear or concentrate on a word she says and always have to ask her to turn the sound down. I love music and have it on often in my car when I am myself and am singing along but not when someone beside me is trying to talk to me!

I hope I am not turning into a grumpy old woman….yet.

Vintagejazz

Everytime I get on a bus the person beside me or behind me is yak yakking into a phone.

Every shop is playing loud thumpy thump music.

Every teenager seems to shout not talk.

Every cafe is full of shrieking kids, loud hissing coffee machines and aforesaid awful music.

Even libraries aren't the peaceful sanctuaries they used to be.

Is nowhere quiet anymore or am I just a grumpy old lady?

Vintage jazz -you probably are because I definitely am and I feel exactly the same. It seems there’s nothing some people won’t discuss on their phone in public

A friend of ours was distressed when he got hearing aids because his mac was so loud! I

The whole world just seems to be getting noisier and noisier!
Children playing appear to have to scream and shout at each other. While in a pub, yesterday, two small boys ran around the tables while others were trying to eat their lunch peacefully and the parents said said nothing when their ear piercing screams could be heard from the next village.
I wear noise cancelling head phones now when out in the garden. I may well start wearing them everywhere ?

In my area, every hairdressers has dance music on very loud. So any visit involves perhaps 60 to 90 minutes of music so loud it rattles my brain.

Since lockdown I have avoided them. ??‍♀️

Another advantage of hearing aids - you can switch them off.

We sometimes go for a meal to our local pub. They have 'music' on but often all I can hear is the drum machine and have no idea what the song is. If I have gone with friends for a natter at lunchtime, I have tried to get the music turned down but the staff say they are not allowed.

M0ira

The whole world just seems to be getting noisier and noisier!
Children playing appear to have to scream and shout at each other. While in a pub, yesterday, two small boys ran around the tables while others were trying to eat their lunch peacefully and the parents said said nothing when their ear piercing screams could be heard from the next village.
I wear noise cancelling head phones now when out in the garden. I may well start wearing them everywhere ?

What a sad post - I am happy to hear children squealing while they are playing - it’s what children do.
But if some people prefer them to be seen and not heard, that is their choice.

The worst pollution ever …noise. You can shut your eyes and your mouth but NOT your ears!! I have tinnitus… a specialist at hospital said it’s probably caused by noise pollution. My husband has tv 3x as loud as I need it. I can hear properly with sound set at 12/13…..my husband needs 34/35. He refuses thought he’s deaf! And wouldn’t wear aid if he knew he was …which he does!
Music the same! My house is 16 hours of misery. I hate winters. Can’t get into garden.
Selfish …selfish noisy people!!

Complain loudly to the person! I asked someone who was paying his music on the bus loudly 'to turn his crap down !' because my husband who has tinnitus was suffering, and I got angry. Next time, I might use nicer language!He did it straight away.

Complain to shops. Unless we do something about noise and anti-social behaviour, we will all have to live our lives in the way these people choose. Take a risk!

I live with a TV addict, who puts our TV on before 8am, and it doesn't go off until at least 11pm, then a radio by the bed for the night. I hate noise and spend as much time as possible in our sometimes quiet garden...means housework comes 2nd but hey ho.

Oh Thank you Nandad!! I will try to remember.

Our local Tesco has quiet hours twice a week where they turn off the music and dim the lights.

Where have you all been for the last 50 years?

All right we didn't have mobile phones then, but most of the other noises have been going strong since the 1970s.

Surely it bothered you all then? It did me.

One thing that annoys me is those that while having a conversation on a mobile phone do not put the phone up to or even close to their ear, but hold the phone away from them and shout into it !
You therefore have the joy of hearing both sides of the conversation whether you want to or not - especially while you are sitting near the front of the bus and they are at the back!

MiniMoon

I feel your pain. I too dislike all the music played seemingly everywhere these days. Even at home, sitting quietly enjoying the peace, DH comes in a switches the tv on. He likes background noise!
That being said, we went for lunch to a local pub recently and there was no music. It was very refreshing, just the conversation of the other diners.

You're lucky to have only quiet conversation from other diners, here they seem to get louder and louder in attempts to out-do each other.

M0ira

The whole world just seems to be getting noisier and noisier!
Children playing appear to have to scream and shout at each other. While in a pub, yesterday, two small boys ran around the tables while others were trying to eat their lunch peacefully and the parents said said nothing when their ear piercing screams could be heard from the next village.
I wear noise cancelling head phones now when out in the garden. I may well start wearing them everywhere ?

Really irritating, shame that children can't learn to sit down and stop shouting whilst they're in a restaurant. I have two adopted GC. When they first came they found it hard to sit still in restaurants but now they're happy to sit, eat and talk rather than rush around like banshees.
Most of the restaurants we visit would ask parents to get the children to sit down at least.

Lockdown in 2020 was bliss for us:

joiner at end of road was closed, therefore no grating machinery;
holiday cottage next door couldn't be let;
no road noise;
no RAF jets zooming overhead.

Just the birdies tweeting.