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!
Wagner: The Ride of the Valkyries, followed by every other soprano aria he ever inflicted upon a suffering humanity.
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?
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?
Your mileage clearly varies to mine - I’ve never known retaliation to do anything other than inflame neighbour problems.
Man, you’re way behind. They changed that in, like, 2004.
Then you’re doing it wrong.
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.
Bah, I live in a neighborhood of renters. If I can’t make 'em move, I’m not trying hard enough.
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.
What in the world is a “jerry rigged truck structure”?
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.
Next time try Wellington’s Victory (one of the copies with real cannon fire) or Whale Songs.
She only wanted to torture the neighbor, not herself.
If you have that impressively loud of a stereo, Carmina Burana should be your weapon of choice. O Fortuna makes 'em skedaddle.
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.
So your neighbor on the other side now has * two * jerks to be pissed at?
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.
If you really really want to piss him off, play some military marching band music LOUD.
Trust me
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
no, but three do…