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Oh goodness. I'll never forget my across the street neighbors. They were the nicest people generally, but the wife didn't work and used to spend all her spare
by silisili 3y ago
Oh goodness. I'll never forget my across the street neighbors. They were the nicest people generally, but the wife didn't work and used to spend all her spare time doing busy work in the yard.
I'll never forget having to listen to leaf blowers running full throttle for hours nearly every day in the fall. This lady would get a ladder, climb up, and leaf blow her gutters out every single day between the hours of 11am and 2pm or so. Then chase those leaves around the yard in the wind, mostly fruitlessly. The only brief reprieve was her moving the ladder over 3 feet at a time.
I don't think I've ever held such negative feelings for a human before that I didn't express. Having a good neighbor is so rare for me, I didn't want to spoil it by complaining, but boy did that make me miserable all fall long.
They hurt my ears indoors across the street, I don't know how they are even legal.
- globular-toast 3y agoIn one of my worst places for noise pollution I would regularly have thoughts of throttling the perpetrators to death. This was one thing that made me realise how bad noise is for people.
- CalRobert 3y agoApparently this guy snapped after thirty years of sonic assault https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45919025 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45919025
- mbork_pl 3y agoWhat a sad story... That said, I absolutely love the expression "sonic assault". I'm adding it to my vocabulary, right next to the uses of "sonic" as a verb and as a noun. ;-)
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- screye 3y agoI grew up in South Asia, with my window facing a large public ground. Weekly, Random schools blast deafeningly loud speakers into our windows. All this, just so teachers could shout left-right-left, as kids marched on out of sync. I'm not exaggerating. It was physically painful and I have heard my parents utter words reserved only for the worst of scum. Who is it for? If I'm losing my hearing, surely the participants must be in lot more pain. I suspect that many people in public event planning suffer degraded hearing early....... which in turn leads to them setting even higher volumes. I'm a big fan of the hustle and bustle of big cities. But, there is a reason for targeted defening sounds being used as torture in Guanatanamo Bay.
- olyjohn 3y agoI hate to break it to you, but electric ones are loud too. It's the blower that is loud. Not the motor. I have a big ass backpack one and it's not any louder than the little handheld electric one I have.
- viraptor 3y agoNot "across the street loud". I've got a Stihl electric one and I can barely hear one working in my own yard. It's just slightly louder than a hairdryer.
- silisili 3y agoThey are loud, but not nearly as loud. Few things in common days are as loud as an unmuffled 2 stroke at WOT. Numbers provided elsewhere in the comments put the gas version at more than 10x as loud as electric.
- bitshiftfaced 3y agoA search says gas powered is 80 - 100 dB (vacuum cleaner to blender) and electric is 65 - 70 dB (washing machine).
- TheCoelacanth 3y agoAnd decibels are logarithmic, so 80-100 dB is 10 to 1000x times as loud as 70 dB.
- pandaman 3y agoNo, the reason we use logarithmic scale for noise is because "loudness" is logarithmic i.e. as the power of sound grows exponentially the perceived loudness grows linearly, so 80 db is 15% as loud as 70db (it is 10x more power though).
- glimshe 3y agoI don't live through this misery, but I have to deal with occasional loud leaf blowers during my morning walks. Quality noise cancelling headphones do a really good job at mitigating this problem, bringing the noise level from unbearable to just "annoying".