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    thelog
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      Once again the noisy market is on the highstreet. (outside my livingroom and bedroom windows) and they have had things like bands play futher don the road from time to time but now they seem to be bringing a fucking piano with them every time. Ok sure it was funny the first time to see and hear people having a knee’s up in the street. (although daftfader wasn’t ammused when he was trying to get some sleep) but is it really necessary for them to bring it every time. Its not like he plays anything diffrent. and he only plays like 4 diffrent tunes. one of them being “my girls” by madness. I swear mate I have a church that has weekly bell ringing practice right outside, drunks passing throgh all hours of the night, and now A FUCKING PIANO. I have said tis a few times but I am seriously thinking of getting a soundsystem placing it on the small flat room outside my living room window and blastig these people as and when they make noise and anoy me. But I don’t have the money for a soundsystem : ( and the people who live in the flats hear don’t deserve extreme terror gabba destroying there ear-drums.

      I was going to make a thread about the church bell ringers a while ago seeing if anyone had any advice for me, because its so fucking antisocial. to ring out from 7.30 to 0900 every tuesday night is fucking rude. If I had a kid it would be in bed by those times. and believe me it is fucking loud. because were on a cormor we get all the noise for two directions. in the hot weather we can’t have the windows closed. its really bad.

      Grumble grumble. i’m an old basted!

      #1257139
      DaftFader
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        It wouldn’t be so bad if the piano was actually in tune, some of the off notes that were coming from it really grinded my ears.

        #1257128
        thelog
        Participant

          Tell me about it, i’m tempted to go down there and walk upto the fish monger who is constantly yelling “FIVE FRESH SEABASS” taking a fish and slapping the piano dude with it and put it on youtube.

          I hate it so much man now he’s playing abba. I sould go and ask to see there TENS maybe they havent got one which means NO MUSIC i’m sure they would probably have one though since its a regularly orgainised market. But I could still wheel away his piano and dump it in the harbour

          #1257143
          Pat McDonald
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            I can only suggest ear defenders as a possible alternative to piano induced mania.

            OR… stage a special forces infiltration job to snip the piano wires when nobody is looking.

            That will make the bastards mime. Still annoying, but quieter.

            #1257129
            thelog
            Participant

              Right, maxines gonna get on the didgeridoo and i’m gonna man the bongos and were gonna makes some noise towrads honkytonk man. Failing that i’m gonna get that 1993 technics HIFI that I got dafts MC 303 rigged up to and play to the masses. Should be funny. I just gotta get the bottle to do it, oh and find a plu socket next to the window. LOL I wish i was drunk or something, then I would have probably done it already.

              LOL I think it would be well funny though If I stood out on that flat roof bit, pretending that all the people are there to see me play LOL

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              #1257130
              thelog
              Participant

                @Pat McDonald 491151 wrote:

                I can only suggest ear defenders as a possible alternative to piano induced mania.

                OR… stage a special forces infiltration job to snip the piano wires when nobody is looking.

                That will make the bastards mime. Still annoying, but quieter.

                I like the stealth Idea pat. could you perhaps come do it for me though.

                #1257120
                General Lighting
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                  I don’t know if Daft can actually play piano or knows someone who can – even if he doesn’t I’m sure that asking amongst the Jewish folk around where he lives would surely unearth a suitably talented person (my cousin can play piano and is Jewish but is usually busy at weekends) but I would be inclined to obtain a suitable piano (even if its a smaller keyboard on a VST) and use loudspeakers to outplay this idiot.

                  Incidentally every time I hear the piano instrumental in Aeon of Revenge by Andrew Rayel it makes me think of Daft and his mate trying to give away a piano (which seems apt in this situation)

                  Alternatively Daft who is a real Londoner could write a letter to the Council about how he came to stay and the poorly tuned piano kept him awake, hurt his sensitive ears etc and that he had travelled from London specifically to get some peace and quiet and would actually be in breach of their license as they have caused distress and it wasn’t culturally appropriate etc…

                  #1257131
                  thelog
                  Participant

                    well if I point my speakers out the window and tune into PV raido, someone could do a livestream to the masses out the window and outplay the honkytonk man, now that would be funny. I would be like “big up the sounds of the PV crew slamming out the bad boi sounds direct from london to the heart of shoreham by sea……. rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrroll the bass”

                    #1257144
                    Chrispydelic
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                      Buy a Barnett Pro Diablo catapault and some 9mm bb ammunition and shut the fuckers up!

                      #1257142
                      know_hope
                      Participant

                        when i was in central tel aviv, they seem to have no respect in this way. the cleaners come so early and they make so much noise… also once we were living next to a building that was in construction and every morning at 9am (except shabbat) we woke to the sound of drill hitting concrete… was also jarring as well cos when its hot, if you’re asleep u want to stay asleep otherwise ur just really hot and cant sleep

                        #1257132
                        thelog
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                          He’s gone now, market closes at like 1230. I went down to get some supplies and I saw the honkytonk man packing up. its like a wheelbarrow honkeytong so its quite portable if I wanted to wheel it away.

                          #1257121
                          General Lighting
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                            @Chrispydelic 491165 wrote:

                            Buy a Barnett Pro Diablo catapault and some 9mm bb ammunition and shut the fuckers up!

                            if they got the piano and wheel barrow from London it might already have been target hardened.

                            they’ve got it all backwards FFS anyway.

                            even with traditional London culture you aren’t supposed to have the old joanna in the market at the crack of dawn – it would piss off the market stall workers who would be still hung over from drinking good London porter the night before and have to be up at a fucking stupid hour dealing with carts of fruit what would roll about everywhere if upset, large quantities of live poultry which used to include the skylark (sent over from EA in some numbers for the posh folk up west to eat until the RSPB was invented and put a stop to it), similar quantities of fish of dubious age and storage quality (and associated pong)

                            Any oaf stupid enough to wheel in a piano and play it in the middle of the market would be lucky only to be pelted with rotten produce, eventually someone would produce a revolver and discharge live rounds at the instrument or even the player as a strong warning to cease and desist from this practice or “sling yer ‘ook” as they would say. (one reason we got gun control in Bllighty in the early 20th century)

                            The proper place for the piano was at the pub or any other suitable space after work and this persisted into many areas of London – well until the nationalisation of the London Electricity Board and harmonisation of supply which only happened in the 1960s.

                            Many London homes had electric, but supplies were often direct current and the “leftovers” from keeping the Underground trains going. the voltage was nominally 200V DC but very variable depending how many trains were in use, contaminated by interference from the trains motors, and often thus unsuitable to power high volume amplifiers, as fluctations in current could burn out the valves.

                            Worse still, getting a audio amp to work on DC mains often resulted in the metal chassis being connected to one side of the mains to provide audio signal grounding, and thus a great electrocution hazard (such as the frame of the microphone alive to 200V!) this finished off more musicians than drugs in the 20th century! So the only alternative would have been be to haul batteries as heavy as a piano and brimming with unpleasant and corrosive acid, even so all the decent valves had been commandeered by the Post Office for the war to build wireless transmitters and encryption kit.

                            In comparison, the only hazards of piano playing are (other than RSI I guess) being knocked down by a runaway one, or the lid falling down painfully on the fingers of the player. These were far easier to mitigate against than the use of electronic music kit of the era, hence this instruments long popularity in the last century 😉

                            #1257140
                            DaftFader
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                              lol GL :laugh_at:

                              #1257122
                              General Lighting
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                                With a better selection of songs it would have been perfectly Ok if it started at 12:30 (you could then go to the pub and get a decent lunchtime pint of English ale) but from the1logs description it sounds like some of the worst middle class mockney bullshit imaginable and I would actually be complaining to the Council myself if I’d been prevented from sleeping by it.

                                I was born in SE London, spent a lot of time there and also have family roots in Essex, so much of my culture and accent is from this area, and I tend to speak with an accent which could be described as “Estuary English” (though with slightly more East Anglian influences nowadays). Also the “knees up round the piano” was widely exported (along with the piano) to Malaya as though they did by then have leccy and the “gram”, there wasn’t always reliable power (still the case!) and folk like to sing in this country and still do.

                                A while back at work I was told by some senior managers that I should speak more “proper English”, they thought sometimes staff from some foreign nations did not understand me (this is more due to the influence of American English on how native Asians learn our language, and that explaining the working of multi site telephone systems isn’t as straightforward as it seems to non technical people, about 90% of people outside mainland Europe don’t realise what the “R” button is for and/or how to transfer calls – (european folk have been able to do that from home phones for about 30 years). So they wouldn’t understand immediately even if I did speak like David Cameron, and I’d also feel like a twat trying to speak like that.

                                Incidentally the locals have no problem with trying to understand me, except they initialy think I am from some exotic part of the world until I speak and then they just think I am from Chelmsford or Basildon 😥 Communicating with foreign staff is less of a problem these days, probably due to them watching TOWIE…

                                #1257133
                                thelog
                                Participant

                                  Well I have decided that i’m going to apply for my own market on a saturday where we do nice quiet things like sit down and chat and enjoy the peace and quiet.

                                  #1257146
                                  MC G-Tek
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                                    @General Lighting 491161 wrote:

                                    I don’t know if Daft can actually play piano or knows someone who can – even if he doesn’t I’m sure that asking amongst the Jewish folk around where he lives would surely unearth a suitably talented person (my cousin can play piano and is Jewish but is usually busy at weekends) but I would be inclined to obtain a suitable piano (even if its a smaller keyboard on a VST) and use loudspeakers to outplay this idiot.

                                    Incidentally every time I hear the piano instrumental in Aeon of Revenge by Andrew Rayel it makes me think of Daft and his mate trying to give away a piano (which seems apt in this situation)

                                    Alternatively Daft who is a real Londoner could write a letter to the Council about how he came to stay and the poorly tuned piano kept him awake, hurt his sensitive ears etc and that he had travelled from London specifically to get some peace and quiet and would actually be in breach of their license as they have caused distress and it wasn’t culturally appropriate etc…

                                    You’re a wise old owl GL, respect man!

                                    #1257123
                                    General Lighting
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                                      @thelog 491249 wrote:

                                      Well I have decided that i’m going to apply for my own market on a saturday where we do nice quiet things like sit down and chat and enjoy the peace and quiet.

                                      the older hippies round your way always are saying on transition network that young people should do stuff like this and they want folk like recovering addicts, young mums, ethnic minorities. I’m not sure if there are that many ethnic minorities in Sussex nowadays (every time I’ve gone there I seem to be the only one) but maybe Daftfader would count, as London clearly seems foreign enough to the natives, given the scale of the last weekends mockney cock-up…

                                      #1257134
                                      thelog
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                                        @General Lighting 491338 wrote:

                                        the older hippies round your way always are saying on transition network that young people should do stuff like this and they want folk like recovering addicts, young mums, ethnic minorities. I’m not sure if there are that many ethnic minorities in Sussex nowadays (every time I’ve gone there I seem to be the only one) but maybe Daftfader would count, as London clearly seems foreign enough to the natives, given the scale of the last weekends mockney cock-up…

                                        reminds me ok this second hand junk shop were the couple who ran it were on the brown. So we used to called it the junkie shop. LOL i’m funny god damn it. Lovely couple though, they were about as straight up and true as people can be when associated with that sort of life style.

                                        #1257147
                                        MC G-Tek
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                                          @General Lighting 491338 wrote:

                                          the older hippies round your way always are saying on transition network that young people should do stuff like this and they want folk like recovering addicts, young mums, ethnic minorities. I’m not sure if there are that many ethnic minorities in Sussex nowadays (every time I’ve gone there I seem to be the only one) but maybe Daftfader would count, as London clearly seems foreign enough to the natives, given the scale of the last weekends mockney cock-up…

                                          To be fair, daft would only count as a minority in certain areas. In Hove, however, he would not, lol. And what is the mockney cock up to which you refer GL?

                                          #1257124
                                          General Lighting
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                                            the whole fiasco of the piano playing in the first place – it was supposed to represent some allusion to London culture but was completely inaccurate on so many levels…

                                            If Hove is full of Londoners they have probably only come there to get away from outdated stereotypes of Londoners in the first place…

                                            #1257135
                                            thelog
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                                              @General Lighting 491343 wrote:

                                              the whole fiasco of the piano playing in the first place – it was supposed to represent some allusion to London culture but was completely inaccurate on so many levels…

                                              If Hove is full of Londoners they have probably only come there to get away from outdated stereotypes of Londoners in the first place…

                                              Nah I think he means that hove is the only area in brighton that has a visible multicultural presence. But then again its not the whole of hove it’s just the south of the old shoreham road or portland road areas that have a dense Muslim population. But as I say its very mixed up. I used to work almost next door to one of hoves busiest Mosks and on a friday afternoon the pavements would be packed with familys attending the Mosk. They old guy who ran the bed shop I worked for was notoriously racist though. He used to say things like oh if you go to the nip next door to the factory watch out that them mad muller don’t blow you up”. I used to think if only the world knew what a rascit old basted you are, your business would be in tatters. The irony of it is that some of our best customers are Muslim. Sometimes I used to dred dealing with certain familys. Cos they would barter so hard and I would be under pressure to get the sale but at the same time get in shit if I sold it too cheap but if the price wasn’t right the customer would walk away. It was fucking difficult man> but on the flip side some of the hard bartering customers would be the most friendly towards me.

                                              Hmm I miss those days, shame I ended up pocketing cash sales for heroin and crack. I’m sure the old racist fuck has retired by now and things would have been easier on me. It was nice to work in sales where I had a free hand. Now days you go to DFS or comet, currys etc, you get the price thats displayed and thats it. no bartering noting. Well I think some big furnature shops have scripted discounts where they say “i’ll phone through to head office” and then surprise surprise you get £100 pound off the asking price. Such a farse, then they say thin gs like “I’ll tell you what i’ll do it for this price for you which means I won’t get any commision on it but since its you I don’t mind doing it for you” such bullshit man

                                              WOW

                                              how’d I get here, another fucking tangent, stupid over-active thought process. I should get back to my music

                                              #1257148
                                              MC G-Tek
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                                                @General Lighting 491343 wrote:

                                                the whole fiasco of the piano playing in the first place – it was supposed to represent some allusion to London culture but was completely inaccurate on so many levels…

                                                If Hove is full of Londoners they have probably only come there to get away from outdated stereotypes of Londoners in the first place…

                                                It’s not that full of Londoners to be fair, it’s just they seem to be the only ones with enough money to be able to buy in Hove! Trouble is, there are so many different stereotypes of Londoners these days that by the law of averages, a few of them will ring true. Stereotypes, for all the negative attention they receive these days, (unless of course the police do it & then they call it profiling – fkin Orwellian double speak!) are borne out of the fact that a (predominantly) large number of people in any social group / race / religion etc will exhibit certain common characteristics / traits that are then used to ‘tar them all with the same brush’ so to speak.

                                                #1257125
                                                General Lighting
                                                Moderator

                                                  @thelog 491347 wrote:

                                                  The irony of it is that some of our best customers are Muslim. Sometimes I used to dred dealing with certain familys. Cos they would barter so hard and I would be under pressure to get the sale but at the same time get in shit if I sold it too cheap but if the price wasn’t right the customer would walk away. It was fucking difficult man> but on the flip side some of the hard bartering customers would be the most friendly towards me.

                                                  doesn’t surprise me, I remember having this discussion about culture and expectations etc with my work colleague who was Muslim and the same age as me. He was surprised that my own family have not had me “sent back to the ancestral country to be married” (believe you me some of them tried, its not just a Muslim thing!) and explained that in his culture this was done and you and your wife were expected to produce a good number of babies as part of religious duties, as many as you can easily bring up to the usual standards without resorting to benefits etc…

                                                  This also once happened amongst Westerners and another reason was that life expectancy the world over was lower and kids often got eaten by tigers, wolves and bears (depending where they grew up and what large predators were found in the woods). OK this is less common in most countries but some cultures still value larger (but stable) extended families and having lots of kids.

                                                  This requires a considerable number of beds, both for making them and putting the resulting kids in when they are born.

                                                  #1257126
                                                  General Lighting
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                                                    PS: this is the track with the piano bit (from 2:25 onwards) what makes me think of DF and his mates playing a piano in the street (I don’t even know if any of them can play piano lol)

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                                                    #1257136
                                                    thelog
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                                                      How elegant, I could imagine XD

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