They’re supposed to tell chickens it’s safe. They are supposed to assert their dominance or whatever. They are supposed to start about an hour before sunrise.
However, it’s my birthday and this one decided to start 3:50am (sunrise being at 8?) - and it comes from a small plot of houses in the country side, from a neighbouring property.
Apart from the fact it should be indoors due to avian flu, the fuck would you want this outside your window every day?
@Smallman1 are you sure Nasser’s invites are getting through?
Maybe you’re not putting enough postage stamps on for them to get to Cyprus?
Air rifle should do the job Nass. 
My own personal hatred is for wind chimes and those wooden garden decs that clonk during the night. Proper selfish cunts tricks those things. Reckon Millsy has 8 of them.
All these things are more annoying in the countryside, because it is otherwise silent.
At the moment I live in a ground floor house which is right next to a subway station entrance. The trains rumble underneath and people are coming and going from 6am to 11pm. I can hear the vendors shouting in the street. I hear the other city noises such as loud sirens in the middle of the night. It all becomes ambient noise, but when I go back to the tranquility of the UK, if some cunt dares to start their strimmer at 10am on a Sunday I want to strangle them.
bosstrabs I live in a ground floor house which is right next to a subway station entrance. The trains rumble underneath and people are coming and going from 6am to 11pm. I can hear the vendors shouting in the street.
That’s pretty brutal. I’m so used to living in quiet areas.
Part of the problem I have is that my mind goes to whatever it is and thinks about scenarios involving it.
Like the train slowing to a stop would be: the people getting on, their different destinations, the workers, wonder what time they got in to keep the service running, driving one must be lonely, what if one breaks down, backup routes and other linking none-sense like that
If I’m woken up by it my real Achilles heel is where say on a scale of 0-10 (10 being woken up) if I get around a 7 my brain starts being able to think like that then it’s game over - I can’t go backwards and I just have to get up.
The cockerel literally got me onto my cousins 1990s BBC talking alarm clock - a white triangle thing that also had a COCK A DOODLE DO alarm. I then got onto the stress / cortisol levels of the cockerel and what must be troubling it as it seemed to be getting more intense as the minutes went by.
Pass me the tranquilliser (for me not the bird!)
Dubman At first it the train’s noise seemed quite loud as they rumbled past but within a few months you hardly noticed them
Totally get this. This one would be easy for me to handle eventually as the high speed rumble is nearly identical and nothing interesting happens.
Wally Air rifle should do the job Nass
Air rifle to mouth won’t do anything . Choose a 12 gauge all day long.
bosstrabs it’s quite interesting isn’t it. Your limbic system is clearly well-trained - doing a lot of “active noise cancelling” there.
If you think of all the environmental stimuli constantly hitting your senses - smell, touch, sound, colour etc - your survival depends on the ability of your neurological architecture to instantly translate these inputs into emotional responses, i.e. threat / reward / ignore
PTSD, for example, is essentially where everything is perceived as a threat and you’re constantly in flight / fight mode. I think schizophrenia is a similar thing, where your attention filter is broke and the internal signal to noise ratio is too low.
As to Nas’s specific case (happy birthday by the way Nas). I’ve lived near these birds in the countryside at home and on holiday. Amazingly you can get used to them and your brain won’t “hear” them but it was never an issue for me because I always felt such warmth and affection for these guys that the sound only ever evoked a happy and peaceful response in me. Even now the thought of it makes me think of a beautiful morning in the Majorcan countryside. So my advice to you Nas is simply: learn to love the cock. 
Cock for your Birthday.
Or winning!
Have a good one Nass
NasserAlazzawi That’s pretty brutal.
Yes, but I made this choice, for lifestyle (living in the old town) and convenience (next to a subway entrance), so I have to cope with it. I might be pissed off if someone had forced me to live here, but they haven’t.
TLDR; Dave sleeps better in a train station than Nas does in the countryside because his attention filter is fit but Nas’s is an underfed neurotic little bitch.
Good to see you’ve joined me on my ‘Nas is a waste of space’ bandwagon CJ.
C_J I always felt such warmth and affection for these guys that the sound only ever evoked a happy and peaceful response in me
I believe I would be the same if 1. I’d had long enough exposure (I got here 2 nights ago) and 2. They were a distant noise.
Come to think of it, had no issues with the birds and cicadas in May this year as they gradually introduced themselves from the trees and bushes in the distance, but weren’t at the window!
it’s no fun being ripped from your sleep during a period of convalescence is it mate.
I do feel for you bro.
There’s a mosque and government school opposite our apartment building, and we’re just about to pull the trigger on a ground floor apartment this month too. First two - three months drove me crazy, a year on and I actually enjoy the namaaz 5 times a day - some charm to it, and the street urchins going wild at lunch time on weekdays.
I do have a problem when it’s sports day or some shite on weekends and it sounds like a page out of lord of the flies. Friday lunch time also, the cleric at the mosque going crazy with his sermon. Plenty to complain about being a muslim in this country, so maybe fair play. When the baby was three months old, the missus called the cops on the mosque because the guy was going nuts on the mic (this might have been the time when the government banned hijabs in school), cop paused for like 10 seconds, “so what do you want me to do about it? Go in there and stop it?” lol.
Yeah, but would you let Kylie Minogue shit on your chest Rhouses?
Pure racism from rhouses in that post. 
