# Wanna see who can make the most noise? I'll take that bet, motherfucker. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 31, 2007, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-see-who-can-make-the-most-noise-ill-take-that-bet-motherfucker/406250 "2007-05-31T21:42:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-see-who-can-make-the-most-noise-ill-take-that-bet-motherfucker/406250/21 "2007-06-01T04:38:50Z")
How about being really evil, and blasting something like Fish Heads, Star Trekkin, The Hampster Dance, or Drogostea Din Tei (The Numa Numa song.) on repeat. _evil grin_ ETA: Or the Llama song, or The Kittycat Dance, or Badger Badger Badger… The list goes on and on! ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-see-who-can-make-the-most-noise-ill-take-that-bet-motherfucker/406250/22 "2007-06-01T06:11:00Z")
Wagner: The Ride of the Valkyries, followed by every other soprano aria he ever inflicted upon a suffering humanity. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-see-who-can-make-the-most-noise-ill-take-that-bet-motherfucker/406250/23 "2007-06-01T08:29:58Z")
I don’t get it. Presumably he wasn’t just sawing and hammering and complete random, was he? I mean, wasn’t he _building something_? Wasn’t the hammering and sawing (albeit possibly inconsiderately-timed or something) necessary? Also, two wrongs make a right now? Did I miss a memo? ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-see-who-can-make-the-most-noise-ill-take-that-bet-motherfucker/406250/24 "2007-06-01T10:34:08Z")
Two wrongs don’t make a right, but they can make a happy. I have a neighbor who has spent the past two weekends, _all freakin’ day_, riding up and down the street on the world’s loudest moped. This is a grown man, and I can’t understand how this could possibly be a full day’s entertainment for an adult of even near-average intelligence, which he otherwise appears to be. Finally last Sunday I told him that \*my \* favorite hobby is target practice. Hey, how fast \*is \* that thing, anyway? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-see-who-can-make-the-most-noise-ill-take-that-bet-motherfucker/406250/25 "2007-06-01T11:01:59Z")
[QUOTE=DianaG] Two wrongs don’t make a right, but they can make a happy. [/QUOTE] Your mileage clearly varies to mine - I’ve never known retaliation to do anything other than inflame neighbour problems. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-see-who-can-make-the-most-noise-ill-take-that-bet-motherfucker/406250/26 "2007-06-01T11:30:03Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] Also, two wrongs make a right now? [/QUOTE] Man, you’re _way_ behind. They changed that in, like, 2004. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-see-who-can-make-the-most-noise-ill-take-that-bet-motherfucker/406250/27 "2007-06-01T12:01:59Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] Your mileage clearly varies to mine - I’ve never known retaliation to do anything other than inflame neighbour problems. [/QUOTE] Then you’re doing it wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-see-who-can-make-the-most-noise-ill-take-that-bet-motherfucker/406250/28 "2007-06-01T12:08:53Z")
[QUOTE=DianaG] Then you’re doing it wrong. [/QUOTE] I don’t think so. I didn’t say I was no good at dealing with neighbour problems, I just said I don’t think retaliation is an effective or sensible way to do it. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-see-who-can-make-the-most-noise-ill-take-that-bet-motherfucker/406250/29 "2007-06-01T13:04:24Z")
Bah, I live in a neighborhood of renters. If I can’t make 'em move, I’m not trying hard enough. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Flipshod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f19dbf/32.png) [@Flipshod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flipshod)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-see-who-can-make-the-most-noise-ill-take-that-bet-motherfucker/406250/30 "2007-06-01T13:14:32Z")
I lived downstairs from some guys who would play African drums. Some blasting syncopated System of a Down threw them off beat and sent them finding a new practice place. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-see-who-can-make-the-most-noise-ill-take-that-bet-motherfucker/406250/31 "2007-06-01T13:19:36Z")
What in the world is a “jerry rigged truck structure”? ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-see-who-can-make-the-most-noise-ill-take-that-bet-motherfucker/406250/32 "2007-06-01T13:38:34Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] Also, two wrongs make a right now? Did I miss a memo? [/QUOTE] Oooh… yeah. I’m also going to need for you to start putting a cover sheet on _all_ your TPS reports from now on? So if you could just go ahead and make sure to do that, that would be _great_. And I’ll make sure you get another copy of that memo. Mmm’kay? _Yeah_. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-see-who-can-make-the-most-noise-ill-take-that-bet-motherfucker/406250/33 "2007-06-01T14:28:41Z")
Next time try Wellington’s Victory (one of the copies with real cannon fire) or Whale Songs. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-see-who-can-make-the-most-noise-ill-take-that-bet-motherfucker/406250/34 "2007-06-01T14:37:40Z")
[QUOTE=Zabali\_Clawbane] How about being really evil, and blasting something like Fish Heads, Star Trekkin, The Hampster Dance, or Drogostea Din Tei (The Numa Numa song.) on repeat. _evil grin_ ETA: Or the Llama song, or The Kittycat Dance, or Badger Badger Badger… The list goes on and on! [/QUOTE] She only wanted to torture the neighbor, not herself. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-see-who-can-make-the-most-noise-ill-take-that-bet-motherfucker/406250/35 "2007-06-01T14:54:52Z")
If you have that impressively loud of a stereo, **Carmina Burana** should be your weapon of choice. **O Fortuna** makes 'em skedaddle. ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-see-who-can-make-the-most-noise-ill-take-that-bet-motherfucker/406250/36 "2007-06-01T14:55:39Z")
If you’re going to do it, go whole hog. Cannibal Corpse, Morbid Angel, Fear Factory, Deicide. You will drive away all neighbors and woodland creatures. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-see-who-can-make-the-most-noise-ill-take-that-bet-motherfucker/406250/37 "2007-06-01T15:12:04Z")
So your neighbor on the other side now has \* two \* jerks to be pissed at? ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-see-who-can-make-the-most-noise-ill-take-that-bet-motherfucker/406250/38 "2007-06-01T16:03:11Z")
Metal might be a bit of an obvious choice - he’ll just know you’re doing it to piss him off. Better to also make him think you’re unstable and dangerous. I think an extremely loud call to prayer in Arabic, just before sunrise. Then, some of that dark music Johnny Cash recorded just before he died - you can understand the words to that stuff. His cover version of Nick Cave’s _The Mercy Seat_ would be pretty good: _The face of Jesus in my soup Those sinister dinner meals The meal trolley’s wicked wheels A hooked bone rising from my food All things either good or ungood._ If that isn’t just the ticket when he’s munching on his corn flakes, I don’t know what is. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-see-who-can-make-the-most-noise-ill-take-that-bet-motherfucker/406250/39 "2007-06-01T16:21:04Z")
If you really really want to piss him off, play some military marching band music LOUD. Trust me 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2007, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-see-who-can-make-the-most-noise-ill-take-that-bet-motherfucker/406250/40 "2007-06-01T16:22:07Z")
Headbang to classical music, or a telephone busy signal, or even dialup modem handshaking tones (the horrible screechy noises made by analog dialup modems) mow your lawn…at midnight…with a mower with the muffler removed have vicious, vehement arguments with individual air molecules, liberal use of profanity helps have a large, powerful spotlight system installed, pointing directly into his bedroom window, have it turn on at 2 AM or so [QUOTE=Mangetout] Also, two wrongs make a right now? [/QUOTE] no, but _three_ do… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-see-who-can-make-the-most-noise-ill-take-that-bet-motherfucker/406250.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wanna-see-who-can-make-the-most-noise-ill-take-that-bet-motherfucker/406250.md?page=3)