Reply to: Church bells and hammering.

[Paddy]

If you lived in Istanbul before the authorities put their foot down you would have started to hate.

The call to pray used to last ten minutes as no to mosque started the announcement at the same time. It then started to get earlier and earlier as each Mosque raced to be the first to announce it.

They still do it at 5 am in Istanbul. Outside the City, everything stops for the evening call with the exception when there is football on the TV.

[Mich the Tester]

If you lived in Istanbul before the authorities put their foot down you would have started to hate.

The call to pray used to last ten minutes as no to mosque started the announcement at the same time. It then started to get earlier and earlier as each Mosque raced to be the first to announce it.

Could be a good sales opportunity for high powered tannoys. Yes, Mr Imam, this new 50,000 watt megablaster turbo 50X is even more powerful than the nextdoor neighbours!

[NotAllThere]

Swiss law doesn't permit noise after 10pm, or on Sundays. Except the bloody church bells.

[eek]

I quite like both. Time and a place and all that, of course.

If you lived in Istanbul before the authorities put their foot down you would have started to hate.

The call to pray used to last ten minutes as no to mosque started the announcement at the same time. It then started to get earlier and earlier as each Mosque raced to be the first to announce it.

[Mich the Tester]

I quite like church bells. Beats the 5am call to prayer that wakes you up if you're staying in a Muslim city.

I quite like both. Time and a place and all that, of course.

[Clippy]

Oct '10. There's two of them?

Black and gay!

The village must be in turmoil.

[eek]

Dont be so fricking clueless. Do you have any idea how far away you can hear Church bells. The fella next door with the hammer is not as loud as the church which is a mile away!

He lives at most 100 feet away from the church. If it was a mile away I could have understood his complaint but given the distance it was blindly obvious he was a clueless numpty.

[suityou01]

Dont be so fricking clueless. Do you have any idea how far away you can hear Church bells. The fella next door with the hammer is not as loud as the church which is a mile away!

Why not sign up to the local satanic cult (with a false name and address) and encourage them to desecrate the church. Then resign from the cult and feign surprise when told about the devastating news about the church.

[MarillionFan]

You remind me of the chap who bought a "fancy" flat by the local village green. He arrived one Sunday morning to complain about the church bells going off as it disturbed his wife's sleep.

I managed to keep a straight face up to the point he said that he wouldn't have bought the flat if he had known there was a church with bells nearby. I did think that a 150 year old church building with obvious bell tower would be a bit of a clue to anyone but clearly this wasn't the case.

Dont be so fricking clueless. Do you have any idea how far away you can hear Church bells. The fella next door with the hammer is not as loud as the church which is a mile away!

[eek]

20.45 and the local church must have bell
ringing on. Peeling away at this time.

You remind me of the chap who bought a "fancy" flat by the local village green. He arrived one Sunday morning to complain about the church bells going off as it disturbed his wife's sleep.

I managed to keep a straight face up to the point he said that he wouldn't have bought the flat if he had known there was a church with bells nearby. I did think that a 150 year old church building with obvious bell tower would be a bit of a clue to anyone but clearly this wasn't the case.

[shaunbhoy]

Here is a photo of my local councillor.................Winston.



Great bloke. Smells a bit but he has a heart of gold.

[MarillionFan]

Oct '10. There's two of them?

No. That turned out to be a Morris Dancer.

[mudskipper]

I heard about that. Last March wasn't it.

Oct '10. There's two of them?

[MarillionFan]

No, you're right. A black guy popping into the village shop was newsworthy enough for the in-laws to tell us about it when we visited two weeks after the event.

I heard about that. Last March wasn't it.

[minestrone]

20.45 and the local church must have bell
ringing on. Peeling away at this time.

Meanwhile next door some twunt is still hammering away at his extension.

Down in Devon for the week visiting folks. Never ceases to
amaze me what a bunch of inbred monkeys live in this part of the world.

Yee ha.