[quote=“Mr He”]Keep confronting her - that helps.
If it doesn’t, then move out.[/quote]
Or have her done cold … enough big brothers around to clear the job … 
[quote=“Bassman”]Is there any way that we can rent your wife for important fights?
NO, NO, NO! We should help Ma become President.
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Yes, she likes Major Ma, so probably she would fight for him. I have to listen to this infamous Major Ma quote: “Women never have any fault. If woman has fault, it is husbands fault causing this fault” quote about 5 times a day :s
[quote=“bob_honest”]
Yes, she likes Major Ma, so probably she would fight for him. I have to listen to this infamous Major Ma quote: “Women never have any fault. If woman has fault, it is husbands fault causing this fault” quote about 5 times a day :s[/quote]
Tell me the trick how you brought it down to 5 times a day, please! 
geez if there wasn’t enough reason to think he was a schmuck already!
mordeth i won’t exactly say we can’t walk on the floor but we do need to tread lightly. these people are pretty noise sensitive but at 2:00 i try to accomodate them, you can actually make a stunning amount of noise just by stom… um walking on a concrete floor (ie after neighbor has rung bell again 
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Chewy, shifty
I’ve already given her the ‘look’ to let her know that I’m not putting up with her shite. But I’ll be patient. The right time will come when I return the favor of her welcoming to the neighborhood.
Disclaimer==nothing drastic but a nice little parting or thanks for playing gift
Talk about neighbors from hell. There was this hardware shop where the owners died in a tragic car accident. Now they have been morning for like 3 months already, and they like get up at 5 am and starts playing some cheesy taiwan music at LOUD volumes. I can hear them through the ear plug and feel its vibration and its like one block away, inside my house.
Are Taiwanese obligated to make loud noises in funerals??
I am so sick of them… if I had a Marshall JCM series head and those cabs…
[quote=“rahimiiii”]Talk about neighbors from hell. There was this hardware shop where the owners died in a tragic car accident. Now they have been morning for like 3 months already, and they like get up at 5 am and starts playing some cheesy taiwan music at LOUD volumes. I can hear them through the ear plug and feel its vibration and its like one block away, inside my house.
Are Taiwanese obligated to make loud noises in funerals?? [/quote]
No, they’re just being selfish fucks. Sometimes I find it easier to deal with if I think of them as barely evolved life forms for whom electricity and man-made shelter is still a novelty they have to get up early every morning and give thanks to the great gods in the sky for.
It’s not true. They’re probably from three generations of city dwellers and are just brought up to be incredibly self-centred. No-one else likes it either. Unfortunately the Apathy Juice that the government puts in the water to keep the population mollified means no-one will complain. You can be sure those noisy fuckers either know about the Apathy Juice, work for the government and have been told not to drink the water, or all died months ago and the karaoke machine is set to automatic.
So, 4 am, wife yelling at husband that he doesn’t treat her right and that he’s a dirt bag outside my building at the top of her lungs. 5 am, they’ve gone back inside to have make-up sex, leaving me wide awake when I should be counting sheep. :fume: First thing to do today, buy some balloons that’ll make good water bombs, fill them and keep them by the window.
I’ve done that a few times. Once there was a blue truck selling something at 7am on a Sunday…I dropped a fairly large rock and dented in his roof. He turned his loudspeakers off.
Don’t try that at home kiddies…you could accidentally kill someone.
I like the water ballon idea better - no permanent damage.
Me too. 
I did that once with eggs. Man, that was wrong but felt soooo good.
I’ve had it all, drilling until 11 PM, piano playing, Moaning Taoist loud speakers, drivers leaning on horns for 3 full minutes, screaming drunks, firecrackers, , political trucks parked outside my house
“I beg you pleeeease vote for me”
But thanks to expensive stereo equipment, 4 foot speakers and highend 5.0 surround sound on the TV to be the loudest Mutha Fuka in the district.
The God Thor buys earplugs when I’m aroused.
They’ve made me into a local deity- I’m so loud when provoked-they offer me virgins and slaughtered lambs.
First I take my nice Waterford crystal down from the shelves.
My speakers create a concussion affect.
Rammstein played for 15 minutes tends to cease any noise I’ve ever encountered. The Sex Pistols “God Save the Queen” on repeat is another winner.
Try keeping a fairly large roll of firecrackers handy.
I bought a small air horn last time I was home, it doesn’t work anymore I used it to death. (That one stopped to vote truck dead)
Only had the cops come over once and they were giggling at my set up,
They also recognized me from my statue in the neighborhood shrine.
I actually live in a very quiet neighborhood. My neighbor complained when I played some music loud at around 7pm…I told him I didn’t waste 60,000nt on a stereo to listen to it quietly…he told me during the day is fine (cuz he’s at work)…I’m ok with that.
Those old air conditoners are good noise drowners too. I find it necessary to leave my TV or stereo on at all times.
Me too…my neighbors are quiet, but I can hear my roommate watching TV…etc. So I leave a fan on…it’s winter so it just faces a corner…but an electric fan uses less electricity than a TV or stereo…I’m guessing.
Bubba 2 Guns, I was seriously considering doing that too.
Eventually, when I’m pissed off enough, I’ll get to it.
[quote=“Bubba 2 Guns”]I’ve had it all, drilling until 11 PM, piano playing, Moaning Taoist loud speakers, drivers leaning on horns for 3 full minutes, screaming drunks, firecrackers, , political trucks parked outside my house
“I beg you pleeeease vote for me”
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When it gets loud I turn on my stereo equipments, the speaker is small (its an Usher S520) but it is quite loud. Piano playing is best countered by hooking the American Deluxe Strat to a Marshall and turn the knob to 11 (gain all the way up, the distortion activated) and playing a bunch of power chords. Wear earplugs because you WILL have hearing damage, hopefully your neighbors will too)
Or you can try some tater guns…
I guess I’ve had it better than most of you. The only time I’ve had to put up with speaker trucks was during the last election because I live in a network of narrow alleys. Every once in a while me and the my Taiwanese neighbors went out there and ganged up on 'em because they don’t like them either.
Other than that, some fool just renovated a house in our alley and most of the neighbors didn’t like that either (took him six months to do it in his part time, mostly at night and all day and all night Sunday). They ganged up on him a time or two but he had his bull of a wife running point for him and she barely held off the lynching. He would merrily bang away at whatever hour doing useful things like attach useless wall cabinets at 11 p.m. using a wooden block as a hammer. (I know 'cause I politely asked him to cease and desist one Sunday night at around midnight). Of course after all that, the house has been sitting totally renovated and empty for two months.
Now I love scooters and motorcycles, but the Taiwanese really love their bikes. So much that they rev the snot out of them for a good two minutes outside my front door on departure and arrival, sometimes whilst buzzing the intercom of the apartment. I also get to have a scooter parked right in front of my door sometimes, which blocks access to my apartment. Guess I don’t count. One lovely day I had a woman and her three kids on her scooter, revving her 50 CC like there was no tomorrow whilst screaming into her phone, all of this right in front of my door (like the alley is too small to park anywhere except in front of my door), and her kids were screaming at each other too, despite the fact they were sitting an inch apart).
The coolest thing that just happened is I now have a female escort or host or prostitute living above me in what was a wonderfully vacant apartment for the last five months. Silly me, I just thought it was good Taiwanese construction that kept the noise down!
Now I get to listen to her high heels click across her floor (my ceiling), and all the way down the stairs, down the hall and out into the alley just before she gets into her oh-so-precious car. She actually looks at me like she’s something special sometimes too. She also has kids (or someone in her apartment does), who like to wear her high heeled shoes too. They all like to have showers between 10 p.m. and 2 a.m. (perhaps more than one escort?), and I get to listen to the water trickle through the pipes like I’m living in a batcave.
Add to that the family with the baby next door that I can hear quite clearly most evenings now that it’s not summer time and their air-con is off so their windows are open all the time, and it’s actually quite good compared to all you forumosans!