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and if its illegal. Throw my ass in jail.

goes really high and squeaky as if she always needs to clear her throat but never clears it. AEUGHHHEGH.

whistling and humming ALL THE TIME.

Had a housemate that did it. Exceptionally smug.

I think it bothers me so much because there is something really passive aggressive about it which I can't abide. You should slip an anonymous note under his door.

there's 15 other flats in this stair so it will take some powers to figure out which is his.

I think that's what pisses me off so much is that it DOES seem passive aggressive. My ex-flatmate, not so sound in the head, used to do stuff like that all the time presumably to get a rise out of me. Walk around whistling from room to room and/or playing tinny music out of their phone or sometimes singing tunelessly. They only did this when we were going through periods of 'not talking to each other' so I assumed it was simply to piss me off.

I hear this guy whistling every day from the stairway front door to his front door and I just go 'you fucker'. Old habits, maybe.

even though you suspect it was to get a rise from you, to utter such a thing makes you sound beyond paranoid.

That's what makes it such a social weapon.

and this nasty old lady that stayed next door would get really annoyed about it. early some mornings she'd stand right outside my window and start screeching and shouting about how they were filthy beasts and inconsiderate pigs etc etc.

but no one could hear her except me.

I'd have jazzed it up a bit, maybe put in a humorous anecdote but you just don't need to bother too much these days.

I think he just likes to whistle, but it's just strange that it's EVERY day and EVERY time he comes into the stair and it continues until he's at his flat and then he stops.
Maybe he likes the echo, either way it is fucking annoying.

can't she leave a passive aggressive note like a NORMAL neighbour?

to mask a world of internal pain and angst.

You see it all the time on DiS.

that the perpetrator may indeed be a DiSer.

I think she was mental. You'd say 'good morning' and she'd just mutter 'what the hell is good about it, bloody bins are a state again'

granddad whistles are allowed in my books.

that lived below me has moved out. She complained about everything from the noises made by the heater to the dishwater to just about every guest I ever had. So glad she's gone!

there is a limit though. Can't stand neighbours who complain about EVERYTHING.
My mum used to have downstairs neighbours that would bang on their ceiling if she so much as dared to put the washing machine on at 6pm.
They banged and complained until she eventually had to leave.

Don't hear enough of it these days.

nothing more annoying than someone copying your whistling.

my memory of DiS threads is somewhat limited.

He gets in so late at night
Always a fuss and fight
Always a fuss and fight
All through the night

relatives of the crazy woman that lived below me! Some of her greatest hits included:

-Complaining that my friend and I were making breakfast at 7AM on a Thursday because 'I don't get up until 9 and you need to respect that'
-Complaining that the heater woke her up every time it kicked on She made the heating company come out twice and they never found any cause for noise. My landlord HATED her so much.
-Woke up my entire floor on a Saturday night because my boyfriend at the time and I had come home around midnight, had our sexy times, and she claimed we were too loud so she threw a shit fit out in the hallway and called me a slut. Being humiliated in front of all of my neighbors was REALLY fun, let me tell you.

She moved out after I complained to the landlord about her son's obnoxious trumpet playing at all hours of the night. She obviously didn't like having the tables turned. So far my new downstairs neighbors haven't said a word, so hopefully they're nice, sane people.

so I'd probably find him flaunting his cis white male heterowhistling privelege pretty offensive.

'I don't get up until 9 and you need to respect that' :')
People are psychos.

is because you have to share the living space. just because you have a key to a door that lets you into a part of the building nobody else can go into, doesn't mean you aren't basically living with other people.

if you want complete quiet and privacy, do better at life and get a house.

i lived with one for a year and it drove me mad. it wasn't even tuneful; he was on some free jazz shit or something. and no matter how infuriating it is, you can't complain or you'll like a right evil bastard. they've got us by the balls.

hapi had it right http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/social/4421794#r7215838

The bastards!

When you live in close proximity with others, you'll hear everything from water running in the pipes to the heater kicking on to voices. For her sake, I hope she moved to a cabin in the middle of the woods but let's face it, she'd probably complain about the birds chirping.

they literally started screaming at each other as i opened this reply box

i just don't understand why they're together

I'm crazy, if I had my way I'd live in a house without anyone else living within a 20 foot radius. Maybe more. That'd be great.

The students next door gave a rousing rendition of the Snowman the other night, quite decent harmonies

http://img546.imageshack.us/img546/3674/horselounge2.jpg

who spends at least 35 minutes of every night, irregularly between the hours of 11.30 and 7, blowing his nose like a vuvuzela.

fucking drives me insane, so much.

I've never heard anyone do it so loud, or so constantly (six months in this flat and he's never missed a night). He's in the room next to me (and has started already this evening btw, my timings must've been out) and I swear it rattles the windows.
I shared a flat for a year with a guy who had TB and who used to spend a good part of every night /early morning hacking his guts up in the bathroom, and even he didn't come close to this.

ok, you win.