Feasibility of sleeping in a tent. In my bedroom.

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I'm thinking that maybe a thick tent would block out the sound coming through the wall I share with my neighbors. Maybe I could build a mini-yurt.

(Doesn't Momus sleep in a plastic bubble or something? Okay, well, he has or had one in his apartment. I wonder how much noise that blocks out.)

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Thursday, 12 August 2004 12:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm thinking about doing this too, but because I will be turning my room into a rainforest

― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Thursday, 12 August 2004 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I have actually pitched a tent in my bedroom and slept in it before, and it is mentalism. It will be THE HOTTEST BED IN THE WORLD, I should warn you.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

have you asked you neighbours nicely to pipe the fuck down?

― ENRG, Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Buy a box of wax ear plugs from Boots. They are extremely effective.

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)

ENRG, it's not their fault. The walls are thin. It's more like they need to fuck the pipe down, if you know what I mean.

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:05 (twenty-one years ago)

They could move the bed to the other side of their room. That would help. Maybe they are exhibitionists.

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

As much as I am an anti-noise nut, I will not complain to neighbors for excessively loud sex. That's a line I won't cross, obviously.

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I have never thought of canvas (or whatever modern tents are made of, hang on were ever actually made of canvas?) as very effective noise insulation. I think earplugs could be the way to go.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Help me convert my bedroom into a jungle

― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Or you could cultivate a mild perversion and try to get off on it.

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Ear-plus have failed me in the past, but I've never tried wax. I tried the bright yellow ones and some customized ones.

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

modern tents are made of non-natural fibres, usually two layers, both quite thin, hence the hottness MDC refers to. they usually have the groundsheet sewn in. earplus do work, also sleeping pills, booze, moving to the country.

― ENRG, Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:10 (twenty-one years ago)

you need to audio record the sex noise and loop it and play it back for them when they have company over

― kephm, Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Buy kudzu, pickaninnies, and a python and you're GO!

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Let me see if I get this; the noise made by your neighbors' unbridled sexing is making you want to pitch a tent?

― Eternal Seventh-Grader (Dan Perry), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

These are the earplugs you need. They work for me at least.

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― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

just pretend that you left the TV with porn on and that you were halfway through having a wank. you'll be asleep in no time.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:16 (twenty-one years ago)

My advice: if you can't beat them, join them. Not literally. Actually, what am I saying, yes literally.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:20 (twenty-one years ago)

*knock knock knock*

"I'm lonely and you seem to be having soooooo much fun, can I play too?"

― Porkpie (porkpie), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)

MAKE ME A JUNGLE

― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Start with jungle-bugs and work your way up. Leave open food containers on the floor for a week or two, and spread hummus on the wall. That'll give you a killer fucking surface-coat. Bring in kudzu vines and an anaconda (they're both invasive, natch) and start wearing a pith helmet. Saw off the bell of a trumpet and affix it to the front of a broom wrapped in electrical tape. Don't shower. If anybody gives you shit, shove the tape-wrapped broom & bell in their face, call them a "Baantu tramp" and ask how they'd like to taste your blunderbuss.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Just drop a couple of knowing nudge-wink comments to them, possibly relating to the amount of time it took, or anything unusual shouted at the moment of climax or something along those lines. They'll have moved that bed to the other side of the room before the end of the day.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm thinking about using empty food service containers for growing ferns

― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

earplugs are all very well until you can't hear the alarm in the morning.

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:33 (twenty-one years ago)

When things build to a crescendo, shout "YATZHEE!!!" at them. I guarantee they'll stop.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

ask how they'd like to taste your blunderbuss

That can be taken several ways.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

fight fire with fire

― ENRG, Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Or semen.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:07 (twenty-one years ago)

What happens on the dark continent, men, stays in the dark continent.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

this is kinda like the Royal Tennenbaums (sp, probs)

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

huh?

― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I really wanna make my room a jungle

― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

dude had a tent in his room in that film.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Have your sister over

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

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