h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

A man who hoovers?

*faints*

Wait a minute... Z hoovers, at 9pm, which is technically at night...

oh bob, no, please, leave my thread alone, please...

Actually the reason I don't have to worry about noise on my street is that we're about 10 yards from a railway line that has freight trains running every 20 minutes all night!..It tends to get rid of anyone who can't sleep through everything. Woohoo. Freedom to do your laundry at 2am when you realise that you haven't got a clean shirt for tomorrow, or to have some music on (within reason) when you happen not to want to go to bed at 9pm.

And I've only hoovered once, since I moved in October. I don't remember what time it was, but as I get home from work until about 8pm and don't spend the weekends in my house I reckon it was about or later.

Z, your point of view is very interesting- never considered some of the points you made Though it must be said, on the rare occasions when my drunken neighbours partying coincided with me not having work the next day, feeling awake, and in the mood for loud music myself, i was glad of the guilt free licence to turn the sounds up so i kind of know where you're coming from.

But for the most part i take Kelli's position on this- I'm a very light sleeper, and have a stubbornly concientious streak, which always leaves me worying about what effect my actions have on others (hence an earlier shower-time thread- i really do worry about what other people think of me, far too much)

I'm currently living somewhere much quieter than before so for the first time...well ever, i'm getting mostly undisturbed nights sleep But if an ant so much as sneezes in the next room... Well i do worry that by getting used to quiet nights again, any time i'm staying over somewhere noisy i wont sleep at all

Incidently, and this is a question that I'm asking because I'm curious about the answer, and not as a scarcastic question. If you all sleep so lightly why not buy some earplugs?

Is it only people who work days who have the right to have their neighbours not doing housework while they're trying to sleep? If I'm working nights (as I will do 1 week in 8 from April) should I have the right to go around to my neighbours whose a housewife and demand that she refrains from hoovering? Obviously not. What I actually do is sleep through it because I can sleep through anything if I want to.

(It's now 11pm, I've got some music on quietly, I'm about to finish off my housework).

Z - Slowly coming to terms with the fact that I might be a 'Neighbour from Hell'

ERRHHHH Must learn to preview.

What I actually do is sleep through it because I can sleep through anything if I want to.

Should read.

'What I actually do is sleep through it because I can sleep through anything if I want to, if I couldn't I would buy some earplugs'

Not exactly comfortable to wear though, are they That said, I have used them on occasions - can reduce annoyingly loud snoring to a bearable background noise.

Someone mentioned getting one's post code changed. Well I'm here to tell you that it is an absolute bloody nightmare when it does get changed.

The Post Office for its own sweet reason decided to change my street's post code so that the number at the beginning of the second part went from a 2 to a 9. The net result of this is that at any time you need to use your post code to register your address with a webiste or whatever you need to be prepared to use two different codes, or you'll get booted out as being someone who's just trying it on. And this change happened 3 years ago, yet still all the various databases haven't been updated

I recognise here that I'm not really contributing to the 'what's a good area to live in debate', so sorry about that. For what it's worth, I'll chuck these two pointers forward.

1) If there is a really good Primary School in your area, then the market will have picked that one up long ago; and houses within its catchment area might attract a premium of 15% or more.
2) If IKEA deliver its catalogue door to door, then you know that you are on to a winner with regard to the 'up and coming area' stakes.

How odd

When the Wirral was changed from an L coding (Liverpool) to a CH coding (Chester) that was all that changed. The remainder of the code stayed the same..

"If you all sleep so lightly why not buy some earplugs? "
Erm, and how am I meant to hear my alarm clock?

Re: Postcodes.
The Postcodes in this country are a complete mess. I work with the end product from Govt and postoffice. They keep changing them and the administrative regions. Now the fun here is that when the border changethe postcodes can sometimes drop through the crack. So it is quite possible to obtain the latest postcode list and find it is missing X amount of postcodes. Then you've got all the new ones. They get added and changed as they feel like it.
For instance, one system I know of uses the postcodes and admin areas as they were in 1996. Now some of those areas no longer exist. And some new areas weren't about then so they have to fudge it. I found no end of errors in the postcode files that get supplied to businesses.

"If you all sleep so lightly why not buy some earplugs? "

Double for that one. Do you really think that a £2 piece of plastic/foam renders all forms of noise pollution null and void?

Yes, i tried various types once, but found them very uncomfortable, prone to gradually work loose (unless you only every lie on your back all night) and only able to block out about 40% of noise at best, and even then, only the higher frequencies-so loud bassy music is virtually unaffected, as most of the sound will be transmitted through the rest of your body anyway. And yes, there is the alarm clock aspect too

Gawd almighty- if only earplugs were the answer to noise pollution there would be a hell of a lot of cheap flats in high-rise blocks being snapped up!

You can sleep through anything, Z? Lucky you. I know a few folk like that too. I just can't imagine for 1 moment how anyone can sleep through unpredictable and random sounds like shouts, thumps and dance music

All i can say is you'd be one very dead caveman with a response to unexpected noises like that. Maybe you've just evolved further than us light sleepers