08-07-2018, 05:41 PM | #32341 |
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Regardless of what you call them they will still only answer to the sound of a can opener.
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08-07-2018, 06:11 PM | #32342 |
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08-07-2018, 07:21 PM | #32343 |
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08-07-2018, 09:56 PM | #32344 |
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Mine come when they're called only if they feel like it.
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08-07-2018, 10:05 PM | #32345 |
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Annoyed that my Kindle Oasis Gold has much worse battery life. 51% battery drain in 2 days. 48 hours!!! that's double than the 8GB model I sold on ebay
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08-08-2018, 12:09 AM | #32346 |
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Yes, they'd have done better to have included a battery in the cover, just as they did with the original. But trust me -- the battery life on the original S**** when it doesn't have the cover. Lucky to get a full day on it.
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08-09-2018, 05:11 AM | #32347 | |
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I feel your pain Hitch, it’s like the more you try to not notice the noise the more you notice it, in the old apartment I tried to do something to help me not notice but It didn’t work, it’s like my mind can’t unfocus from it, sometimes I just grabbed my book and went to a park to sit and read. They live across the street about 7 or 8 meters from my house, yesterday there was no music, I expect that their downstairs neighbor would say something, since the house is rented and the owners leave on the ground floor, and they are seventy or more, so I would expect that they don’t care for loud music, specially that kind of music. |
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08-09-2018, 02:09 PM | #32348 | |
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I hope it's resolved soon, for your sake. Otherwise, go over there with a big-ass hammer and knock on their door. OR, point your own speakers out the window at them, and play something that you think they'll hate. They usually get the message that way. (I once took a CD of the barky dog, that I'd recorded, put it on BLAST on my then-stereo, pointed the speakers out my front door, and played it for my oh-so-thoughtful neighbor...at 3:00 a.m.) Hitch |
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08-09-2018, 06:33 PM | #32349 |
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08-09-2018, 06:34 PM | #32350 |
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I like the idea of the payback...but didn't this punish all your other neighbors, too?
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08-09-2018, 09:07 PM | #32351 | |
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I would NOT have done it without consulting with them first. Hitch |
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08-10-2018, 05:16 AM | #32352 | |
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I think someone said something because again yesterday all was quiet. and still ranting about the noise, what's with people going in the street or in public transportation with their phones blasting music, don’t they know what earphones are, why should the whole word have to listen what they want. If I want to listen to music I will I don’t need you to provide music for me, in fact I would prefer you didn’t |
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08-10-2018, 09:43 AM | #32353 | |
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Honestly, at that point--and I'm not trying to be a drama queen--I thought I was going to have some kind of freaking breakdown. Mr. H is relatively deaf (a lifetime of flying old airplanes), and the mutt didn't bother him as much, because he simply couldn't hear him that clearly. I've been blessed (and cursed) with really wide-ranging hearing; I can still hear ranges of sounds that most people can't, even when they are young. I never minded that, until the Incident of the Dog in the Daytime, y'know? I nearly cried with happiness when I found out he'd met some woman and was MOVING. God only knows what the people at his new neighborhood went through--she had a large dog, too. (Not that size is relevant to noise, IME.) I worried for the other dog that it would pick up the horribly bad habits of the original Hound of the Barkervilles and sadly, we all know what happens to dogs that are unmanageable due to poor training by their owners. Hitch |
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08-10-2018, 11:38 AM | #32354 | |
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In my experience living in apartments, usually the worst noise offenders are young men. It doesn't seem to occur to them that their neighbors might not want to hear their music or TV. They are also usually the ones driving the cars with loud stereos. |
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08-10-2018, 03:20 PM | #32355 |
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I like house sitting for my friends, though it was very quiet this time without a dog. But three weeks is really my limit. Mostly because of their bed. It's a double but a narrow one, but still with two mattresses, so those are narrow. The mattresses are also hard and not flat, the sides are lower than the middle, so you feel like you're sliding off.
It feels like each morning it takes longer for me not to feel stiff and sore. The second half of the final week I have a perpetual sore back. I'm looking forward to sleeping in my own, soft bed again. Which is the same size as my friends' bed, but with one mattress, so it's more comfortable and spacious. |
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