Noise noise everywhere

Oh Vintagejazz I’m with you. Most people don’t need mobile phones - they shout so loud when using them. Also, it seems to be ‘the thing’ now to have the mobile on speaker so everyone can hear both sides of the conversation! I don’t want to listen to others’ conversations!!! Whatever happened to privacy, peace and quiet. Another grumpy old woman here

As much as the noise irritates me I am also mindful that I should be grateful I can hear it.

Love to hear the sound of children playing, and certainly don’t expect silence - the world is not a silent place! I just object to the shouting into phones in public. My next door neighbour also has a voice like a piercing foghorn. On a summer’s day, it’s hard to enjoy my garden because all I can hear is her shouting at the top of her voice - usually on the phone for hours! I’d love her to shut up so I could enjoy the sounds of the children laughing and playing in other gardens!

Don't mind the sound of children playing, but on our estate they seem unable to play without screaming. It's high-pitched and piercing and drives me mad. And that's before I've opened any windows. Spring/summer school holidays are the worst times. Yep, I'm a grumpy old woman.

I am a member of Pipedown, an organisation who campaign against background music in public places. I was in Marks and Spencer and couldn't hear what the assistant was saying to me because of background music. I have a hearing problem so background noise makes it very difficult.

I don’t enjoy the sound of children and am mightily grateful that there are none round here, nor visiting grandchildren. Bah humbug. Helmet and flak jacket on.

No you're not grumpy, or maybe yes, but justifiably so. Everything is noisier now. Ads are noisier on TV, and talent shows have to have audiences screaming and clapping loudly. Opportunity Knocks and Come Dancing were perfectly enjoyable without all the hype.
Children in the garden behind us scream all the time. I wouldn't have let my children do that.
A man walked round our local charity shop recently having a loud conversation on his mobile the whole time, so distracting. My hairdresser's is a nightmare with the radio. Most modern music is not pleasant.
I never sit down in a cafe until I have checked the noise level.
It's a noisy world.

I agree Vintagejazz. Plus those oversized exhausts that are only on cars to make noise and dogs barking/yelping day and night. Children screaming no matter what they are playing at. I am convinced we have a epidemic of deafness ahead of us.

Noise is a serious issue for me. We are currently doing a lot of archiving at work in preparation for relocation. The firm have purchased a job lot of second hand scanners and ours has been positioned directly behind me. It grinds and throbs all day and beeps loudly at every jam, and there are many! I just can't hear myself think! I even lose track of telephone conversations mid flow! I can't function in excessively noisy situations. I am so miserable!

I do admit to driving a car which has a loud exhaust. Sorry. But I don’t sit on the drive revving it up.

I am lucky that I live 'far from the madding crowd' and usually only have the birds and the ewes and lambs to listen to. However the last few weekends have been spoiled by a 'hooligan', who has bought a very steep and wooded piece of ground nearby, felling and burning trees (illegal during nesting season) and running a huge tracked vehicle around digging up tree roots.
I could willingly throttle him!! - not just if the disturbance but the disregard for nature - and laws!!

Where I live we have to put up with high powered noisy cars racing up and down day and night. Added to that, we have the ‘wedding season’ which involves loud fireworks at any time of day or night, including early hours of the morning.

I am also a grumpy old git. Give me birdsong and cancel tiresome noise. Please.

A you might have super duper hearing.

OR

B your hearing aids might need turning down.

My hearing is rubbish but I have good aids and it is blissful in noisy places simply to take them out.

You could keep some earplugs handy.

If I set foot in a shop or pub and hear loud thumpy music, I leave, but not before telling a member of staff why I am leaving and will not be doing business with them again until they turn off the racket.

Unless I am expecting someone or a package I wear ear plugs inside most of the time and then turn up the background music to the volume is comfortable for me. Drowns out most outside sound. I live in a detached house and am not interested in what my neighbours are doing.

I live on a narrow boat...the only noise I hear at home is a swan occasionally knocking on boat wanting food or Mr Duck shouting from jetty for a snack. I don't go on buses as would have to drive to a bus stop to get one. I don't go in shops very often...I get groceries via click and collect. I actually didn't notice any noise when I was in Aldi the other day. Maybe I don't listen for noise. If you are continually listening then you will hear and be disturbed. There is peace in silence.... Just turn your head off from noise. Is quite easy to do...

The peace of my daughter's suburban home on a lovely Sunday afternoon was destroyed by neighbours a few doors down playing 'music's to accompany their BBQ. The sun often brings out the power tools in our rural area, the loud laughers and the motorbike revvers (and also the bonfire enthusiasts, of course). With that and my tinnitus there is rarely complete peace and quiet. Some birds can also be quite annoying tbh! ?

As a hearing aid wearer I find background noise almost unbearable as it is so hard to hear people above it - the hearing aid magnifies all sounds and not just the ones l want.

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 ?

I sympathise. Unfortunately some people lack awareness and can't distinguish between their childrenmaking normal kids' noise, and being disruptive and annoying.

I loathe loud, thumping music in restaurants. We used to have an annual meet-up with 2 couples, one of which lived abroad, and the restaurant we once picked - not by any means a cheap one - had such loud music, we had to shout across the table.

In subsequent years we chose a lot more carefully, asking in advance about levels of noise and emphasising that we needed to be able to hold m conversations without shouting.

If you wear hearing aids it is even worse, to sit in a cafe like Costa next to the coffee machines is like WW2. There are no curtains and carpets so nothing to absorb the noise, I find it very difficult to find places where you can have a decent conversation with a friend. I use a one to one system, but then cannot hear the waitress or anyone else except the one person who is linked on to my system. It is a true nightmare.

These last few years, I've noticed that I can't stand a lot of noise. In the past, I always had music on or at work I had earphones from the mp3/radio on (if it was allowed), or the TV even if I wasn't watching it. Now, I can go for hours and then realise the house is totally silent. If I do put music on for a short time, it tends to be more 'easy-going' like Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole or Rod Stewart's several "American Songbook" cds but never for more than an hour. Maybe it's because my multi-tasking abilities have lessened as I've got older.

I live in a street with very few children so screaming is rare. It's generally quiet with the occasional lawnmower or diy noise. I can sit in my garden and hear only birds, despite being relatively close to a motorway. Bliss

It seems to me that we/someone is obsessed with background , so called music... everywhere!

someone mentioned meditation, lol so much meditation on youtube has background music!