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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 12, 2009 15:10:31 GMT
Live through one garbage strike, and forever after that clanging will be music to your ears!
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Post by existentialcrisis on Dec 13, 2009 13:21:48 GMT
Speaking of garbage, wanted to ask our UK members... ok so... when I stayed in London, I stayed in a hotel in Picadilly Circus which featured an airplane-like bathroom. In the middle of the night, the garbage/recycling trucks would come by and they were SO LOUD! Torture. I ended up getting a bad cold by the time we got to Paris (another bad Paris story) from being woken up so much in London. Is this normal? Just cus I've heard some comments on here about recycling trucks from our UK members...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2009 3:47:10 GMT
Someone's f'n carhorn! I thought those things were obsolete!Jeez!
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Post by rikita on Dec 14, 2009 22:13:20 GMT
every now and then i hear the sound of the ice from my refrigerator's freezing compartment crashing down - am defreezing it right now. also sometimes a car passing by, but not particularly loud.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2009 11:56:44 GMT
Whatever the sound of no rain is...that's what I hear.
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Post by rikita on Dec 16, 2009 15:59:18 GMT
right now the main sound is a japanese lesson i am listening to.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2009 4:33:15 GMT
Am hoping I am not awakened tonite by the sounds of last nite,every dog in a 2 block radius carrying on over a oppossum or two in the garden.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2009 5:47:23 GMT
I just have my usual low rumble of traffic outside. Some high pitched motor bikes stand out when they accelerate at the green light. No sirens at the moment.
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Post by existentialcrisis on Dec 17, 2009 9:41:36 GMT
Since they installed televisions in this building, I've enjoyed the steady TV buzz on my lonely nights ... lately they've all been on the channel with the fire burning and Christmas carols playing. I've turned up the volume tonight so try and get in the Christmas spirit, since decorations are lacking in Calgary - especially after seeing those beautiful lights in Paris!
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Post by rikita on Dec 17, 2009 14:17:27 GMT
seems like the stores started selling fireworks for new years already? becuase lately i more and more often hear one going off in the street. scares me each time...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 18, 2009 11:50:04 GMT
Wandering around the Champs Elysées at lunchtime, I realize how many different languages that I hear -- plenty of German, Italian and Japanese at the moment. There will probably be a huge mix of nationalities between Christmas and New Year's.
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Post by rikita on Dec 18, 2009 22:04:08 GMT
my heater got noisy again. i suppose the water in it is low again so it makes sounds and doesn't really get warm.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2009 1:30:32 GMT
Without the constant rain of late,and the knowledge that my gutters need cleaning can now hear the trains and river boat traffic.So nice.
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 19, 2009 2:17:03 GMT
I don't know if it has to do with the weather or what, but the damned rooster who lives on this property has been crowing incessantly. (There may be more than one, I don't know.)
At least the %^&*#! turkeys are gone. Live around poultry and you will renounce vegetarianism in the hopes that more of the little feathered ******* will die.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 19, 2009 11:21:10 GMT
Early a.m. garbage trucks,this time I was awake before them...
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Post by bixaorellana on Dec 19, 2009 15:23:04 GMT
Ginger and I chased the rooster further away from our house this morning. There is a male turkey out there strutting around. It is close to Christmas, though, so his days may be numbered.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2009 11:55:03 GMT
Laughed my fool head off as I received a Christmas card from the "grass cutters from hell',the crew that comes and makes really bad noise on my block, on an every other week basis. Mind you,they do not cut my grass,but,obviously must know how much I loathe their presence. Either they have an equally twisted sense of humor or think my grass(of which there is very little)needs tending. ;D
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Post by Kimby on Dec 25, 2009 9:46:15 GMT
It's 2:45 a.m. here, and very quiet. Except for the whirr of the computer and the ticking of a nearby clock, all I hear is the mournful meowing of two kitties who are locked in separate rooms because they have been spatting.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2009 14:14:44 GMT
Silence, apart from the computer whirring away. That is likely to change however when my kids wake up and shoot straight for the Christmas tree and prezzies underneath!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2009 5:53:44 GMT
I realize every morning that the city has a constant low rumble that I can hear beneath the local traffic. Obviously it must be the périphérique ring road expressway 800 meters away.
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Post by paristraveler on Dec 28, 2009 15:43:20 GMT
I often listen to the free radio station, Pandora.com on my computer as I surf the net (Do they still say that, ?) Otherwise I hear traffic in a small downtown city going by my windows, not so annoying as it is when I have the windows open in warm weather. When the temps are up, I have to bear witness to the truly aggravating sound of the incessant motorcycles and loud trucks revving it up as they go across the bridge just outside my 7th floor windows. The sound seems to be amplified by the structures on the bridge and the water beneath it. I also have the county emergency squad about a mile away to the south and the fire and police department about 3/4 mile away to the north, so sirens are also a way of life here too. However, I like it when the occasional freight train goes rumbling by on the tracks that run parallel to the river. I grew up hearing trains go by and I find it soothing and comforting.
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Post by rikita on Dec 28, 2009 22:03:46 GMT
right now i mainly hear music - bach's christmas oratorio, in a recording made a few years ago with the choir i used to sing in then.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2009 3:58:01 GMT
right now i mainly hear music - bach's christmas oratorio, in a recording made a few years ago with the choir i used to sing in then. how lovely rikita I am listening to the birthday party next door that I attended earlier and some fairly decent music and much laughter and mirth.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2009 6:01:09 GMT
I can hear the rain beating on the roof above my head and the wet swish of tires on the street outside.
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Post by spaceneedle on Dec 29, 2009 6:40:42 GMT
I just heard a coyote crying in protest off in the distance. They don't like it when it gets too cold around here.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2009 17:09:43 GMT
Do you live out in the countryside too then, spaceneedle?
I hear the coyotes as well, but mostly after dusk. Right now, the whirring of the computer, I'm in the upstairs office, so not a lot else. Faint sound of the television and conversation.
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Post by rikita on Dec 29, 2009 22:49:29 GMT
again, just music.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2009 2:13:00 GMT
Two tomcats underneath a neighbor's house having a showdown,face off.
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Post by rikita on Dec 30, 2009 22:30:20 GMT
again music. this time swiss music. a singer named erica stukki. and the occasional firework going off outside.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2009 0:25:21 GMT
nothing but rain,all day pounding on everything.
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