Noisy people

Lovely soft furnishings in the restaurant where Americans assaulted our ears!

We have created a world where both mums and dads work. We are living in a world where the rich can avoid tax and and these people have to work long hours and support the NHS and the councils and really children have very little parental time. These parents are making up the tax which Farage, Tice and his kind avoid. Tax paid by companies is very much reduced as most of our companies are foreign owned. Our culture is changing because we have huge differences in wealth, and the working parents are bearing the brunt of it.

Sorry to say but it always seems as if it's women in company with men that make the most noise!!! It gets on my nerves!!!

Les1950

We have new neighbours with a lot of children. Over the holidays they screamed constantly. If ever they were in real trouble no- one would take any notice. Also very noisy in cafes. There is a group of us who go for coffee, and I am sorry to say one of our group is very loud, but no-one knows how to tell her without upsetting her.

I was always loud as a child but learned eventually to tone it down a bit. Still louder than most people. Then I married a guy with slight hearing loss that got worse over the years we were married. So I got louder. He did eventually get hearing aids (stubborn) but by that time my voice had returned to its louder level. I know I get loud when I'm enthusiastic over a subject or excited. My friends quite kindly ask me to tone it down. Most of them understand I don't do it on purpose. Sometimes its not so kindly done but a bit sarcastic but I also understand.

OMG yes!

I know this woman, in her 60s, a part-time bakery worker who is absolutely lovely, but she's got one of those huge, overly noisy voices that's like a load of bagpipes on their death throes in a sack and being dragged over rough cobblestones, you can hear her from miles away, her voice makes her sound like she's being tortured!

When I was driving Double Decker buses, and I could hear the teens on the top deck at the back having ''shouting'' conversations - literally sat next to each other but shouting at each other instead of actually talking normally, and this was with the noise from my cab, the entire bus, various passengers and outside noises like traffic, etc.!

Thankfully, our local Fine Dine Indian Restaurant is brilliant with that. If anyone/group gets overly noisy, one of the staff politely requests they tone it down, and if not, they're asked to leave! The same happens when kids are screaming; the staff will politely but firmly speak to the parents.

In shops and other places where they yak on their phones extremely loudly, even passwords and bank details!

Our local library is good, it's only a small one, and the staff won't tolerate noisy voices. Even in the kids' section, they try to keep the noise down.

Sadly, we've become a society of ''listen to me, everyone, I'm extremely important!''

I rarely go out anymore too as it's so noisy. Unfortunately we have had a DIY enthusiast move in next door so even home isn't a haven anymore. I put in my earphones and listen to a book.

I love the sound of children, and my neighbors next door and behind have them out playing. It is the one 2 doors down who sits out and talks loudly on her phone while the child has an ear-splitting scream both when she is happy and when she is not getting her own way.
Teens do not actually speak to each other, they sist beside each other and text.
But it does seem the adults no longer have volume control. Is it because they have lost the ability to notice those around them? I get fed up with people walking in to me, stopping and changing direction without warning or checking too.

I think it is also partly that public spaces have hard wipe-clean floors and no sound-deadening fabrics.

My DGD is autistic and hates loud noises. In a restaurant recently two couples on the next table were very vocal and I could see her becoming stressed. Luckily they left and it went quiet. Why do some people have to shout when they talk. Also recently in a supermarket doing my weekly shop we had to listen to a child screaming for the whole time we were there. In my day the child would have been taken out of the store until it either calmed down or been taken home. The mother walked round as if she couldn’t hear anything. Total inconsideration for fellow shoppers.

They are hell when you’re stuck in hospital with them!

I often go with friends for coffee or lunch and we simply cannot find a venue where we can hear ourselves speak. Noise is a major problem today, just cannot get away from loud voices and screaming uncontrolled children. On top of that, prices in cafes and restaurants have gone through the roof. Over £4 for a slice of what, is sometimes less than fresh, cake or stale scone. I no longer buy these items, just have a coffee and a small.packet of biscuits, inspecting them to make sure they are not broken, which often they are!