View Poll Results: Swelter or be deafened?
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Dilemma
Nov 20th 2003, 7:57 am
#1
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Dilemma
Do I shut the window and swelter or leave it open and let the outrageously noisy cicada deafen me?
Nov 20th 2003, 9:01 am
#2
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Re: Dilemma
Originally posted by bondipom
Do I shut the window and swelter or leave it open and let the outrageously noisy cicada deafen me?
Do I shut the window and swelter or leave it open and let the outrageously noisy cicada deafen me?
It depends how hot it is, but I'd think being deafened is a bit better....
Only YOU can decide!
Nov 20th 2003, 9:09 am
#3
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You could buy a fan and then be peaceful and cool all at the same time!
Nov 20th 2003, 9:18 am
#5
small steps long journey
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dont care....either way it is freezing here
when do you plan to head over WBB
Nov 20th 2003, 9:20 am
#6
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Get out there with a newspaper and silence the bugger.
Nov 20th 2003, 10:10 am
#7
(Jon) returning to NZ 04
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I love the sound of cicadas. funny how what you grow up with is what you end up loving - and others who aren't used to it just find it irrating!
Nov 20th 2003, 10:17 am
#8
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Originally posted by jandjuk
I love the sound of cicadas. funny how what you grow up with is what you end up loving - and others who aren't used to it just find it irrating!
I love the sound of cicadas. funny how what you grow up with is what you end up loving - and others who aren't used to it just find it irrating!
Nov 20th 2003, 10:45 am
#9
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Originally posted by jandjuk
I love the sound of cicadas. funny how what you grow up with is what you end up loving - and others who aren't used to it just find it irrating!
I love the sound of cicadas. funny how what you grow up with is what you end up loving - and others who aren't used to it just find it irrating!
OzTennis
Nov 20th 2003, 10:53 am
#10
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Originally posted by OzTennis
Yep, and the magpies, kookas and parrots in the morning; and the stream train chugging by sounding its whistle. The sounds of childhood eh?
OzTennis
Yep, and the magpies, kookas and parrots in the morning; and the stream train chugging by sounding its whistle. The sounds of childhood eh?
OzTennis
When i first got there, and heard them, my wife thought i was bonkers as i revelled in the realisation, of what the sound i had heard in neighbors was. I always wondered
Nov 21st 2003, 2:00 am
#11
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That cicada sounded as relaxing as a jackhammer. Unfortunatley the little bugger was unreachable otherwise he would have been dead. It was drowning out the noise of the TV. Temperature was not too bad but the humidity was high.
Nov 21st 2003, 2:14 am
#12
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Originally posted by bondipom
That cicada sounded as relaxing as a jackhammer. Unfortunatley the little bugger was unreachable otherwise he would have been dead. It was drowning out the noise of the TV. Temperature was not too bad but the humidity was high.
That cicada sounded as relaxing as a jackhammer. Unfortunatley the little bugger was unreachable otherwise he would have been dead. It was drowning out the noise of the TV. Temperature was not too bad but the humidity was high.
You could use ear plugs, which would also double as an additional defence against inner ear eating cockroaches
Nov 21st 2003, 2:45 am
#13
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And there was me thinking that I'd developed tintinitis!!
So, BP, you've just got ONE cicada? think yourself lucky - we went up to the mountains on Saturday, and there were literally millions of them up there - I know this because we had solid cicada noise for over five kilometres! On BOTH sides of the road.
So, BP, you've just got ONE cicada? think yourself lucky - we went up to the mountains on Saturday, and there were literally millions of them up there - I know this because we had solid cicada noise for over five kilometres! On BOTH sides of the road.
Nov 21st 2003, 3:52 am
#14
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Originally posted by downunderpom
And there was me thinking that I'd developed tintinitis!!
So, BP, you've just got ONE cicada? think yourself lucky - we went up to the mountains on Saturday, and there were literally millions of them up there - I know this because we had solid cicada noise for over five kilometres! On BOTH sides of the road.
And there was me thinking that I'd developed tintinitis!!
So, BP, you've just got ONE cicada? think yourself lucky - we went up to the mountains on Saturday, and there were literally millions of them up there - I know this because we had solid cicada noise for over five kilometres! On BOTH sides of the road.
Nov 21st 2003, 4:28 am
#15
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It took me years to work this out, opening the windows often lets in more heat than you had when closed, nothing like a boiling breeze coming through the window, just sends the temp up even more. We only open our easterly windows or southerlys that way the air is a bit cooler. Try it, work out your cooler aspects and just open them. As for Kookaburras, they start here at 3.42 (not that I bloody notice) right pain in the bum. Cicadas here can drown out the telly, and the frogs humping when it rains its so loud you cant help but laugh.