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Noise pollution - are there no laws?!!?


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hey ender,

 

been here in japan for 5 years. why i'm here is a long story but basically i studied japanese and my gf at that time was a j-girl. I came over for her after uni but it didn't work out and i ended up staying.

 

ender, have u heard the song "ender will save us all" by dashboard confessional. maybe u're the next donnie darko.

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Yo Doku - yeah I am a big Dashboard fan. Have you seen them live? I caught them in October. They really rocked. You can hear the direction they are goin with their Summer Kiss EP (especially Ender...) - you should give em a second chance amandanism. But I've been enderzero longer than Dashboard Confessional has been a band.

 

I will gladly be Donnie Darko if it means I get to hook up with Jena Malone.

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Originally posted by zwelgen:
[QB]And dont go forgetting the chimes either. Im not sure if this is just a rural thing but EVERY morning at 7am the chimes from big ben are blasted out from the city office of which I live next door to. Then at midday, 5pm and 9pm. No one has given me a decent explaination as to why, esp 7am why I need to hear chimes at 7am on a Sunday!!!! mad.gif QB]
Zwelgen - I live right across the street from a bunch of rice paddies and other fields on the edge of town. I have one of those blasted speakers right by my house! Here it is 6am, 9am, noon, 6pm and 8pm and of all things they play 'Edelweis'. I was told the reasoning for these things was in the past it was a way to communicate to the farmers when to begin the day, when to take lunch, dinner, and when to quit.

I actually began waking up at 5am just so I could avoid the morning one. They still are a terror on the weekends though.
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I was staying with friends in Toyama last night, and this morning at 6am a siren went off that woke me up. mad.gif

 

They said that the siren goes off EVERY MORNING. mad.gif

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Nor have they figured out that some people actually work to different schedules and would appreciate not being woken up at those times.

 

If I lived in a place like that, I'd have a very big set of bolt cutters in my tool box...

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When I was living in Takasaki I had an entire apartment building go up behind where I was living. Talk about noisy. The worst part was that they worked in shifts so that I could hear the jack hammers going at 3:00 in the morning. It used to drive me up the wall. I heard that they weren't allowed to actually make such a din after 10:00 but nobody said anything.

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european town clocks will often chime 24 hours a day, on the hour, half and quarter hour. At 12 o'clock you get 12 chimes in a row, 5 chimes of 5 o'clock etc.

 

They sound nice particularly if the bell is the product of the local bell foundary from 200 years ago.

 

Somehow I suspect that teh japanese town chimes are not of that quality.

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We used to have a really old grandfather clock that chimed on the quarter hour, half hour, three quater hour and then hour - as db explained. It was a very old clock and didn't sound to bad. Plus because i grew up with it i was used to it and it didn't phase me at all. It was just background noise in the end.

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