Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Block Noise In a Dorm? 561
First time accepted submitter zmitch32 writes "I live in a dorm, and I have ADHD, so every little noise distracts me. I know this annoyance isn't limited to those with ADHD, so how does everyone else block out the noise? I can't really cover my walls in soundproof foam because I live in a dorm. I can't just listen to music because I find it too interesting and just end up getting distracted by it. I use ear plugs to block out small noises, but they don't block out human voices very well at all. What do you guys/gals recommend?"
I covered my dorm room with Pink Floyd... (Score:5, Funny)
... and Phish tapestries.
No reason you can't put up foam and cover it with... Pink Floyd and Phish tapestries.
Obvious answer... (Score:5, Funny)
Smoke weed. Lots and lots of weed.
Re:I covered my dorm room with Pink Floyd... (Score:4, Funny)
Do your headphones help you ignore the freaks doing bong hits 4 feet away from you?
Ear Buds (Score:5, Funny)
If you find music too distracting, just put the ear buds in and turn the device WAY up for a while. After a while you'll have completely destroyed your hearing. Problem solved! You're welcome!
Re:odd technique (Score:5, Funny)
Re:odd technique (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I covered my dorm room with Pink Floyd... (Score:5, Funny)
I wish I had mod points, that was funny!
With so many geeks here... (Score:5, Funny)
There's many ways duct tape can solve this. Some of them are probably even legal.
Definitive best way to block noise (Score:4, Funny)
Fill the room with breasts. Attached to beautiful coeds. You won't hear a thing.
Air is your enemy (Score:4, Funny)
Suck all the air out of the room. Problem Solved!
No ticket (Score:5, Funny)
Butler: [Answering door] Yes?
Indiana Jones: [In Scottish accent] Not before time! did you intend to leave us standing on the doorstep all day? we're drenched
[sneezes in butler's face]
Indiana Jones: Now look, I've gone and caught a sniffle
Butler: Are you expected?
Indiana Jones: Don't take that tone with me my good man! Now buttle off and tell Baron Brunwald that Lord Clarence McDonald and his lovely assistant
[Drags Elsa towards him]
Indiana Jones: are here to view the tapestries
Butler: Tapestries?
Indiana Jones: The old man is dense, this is a castle isn't it? there are tapestries
Butler: This is a castle and we have many tapestries, and if you are a Scottish lord then I am Mickey Mouse!
Indiana Jones: How dare he?
[punches butler in face]
Re:Go to the f-ing library (Score:5, Funny)
Man, have you tried masturbating in a library? It's hard.
Re:Definitive best way to block noise (Score:5, Funny)
Fill the room with breasts. Attached to beautiful coeds. You won't hear a thing.
But I have ADHD. Every time a new pair of breasts comes in, I forget all about the pair in my face!
Re:Definitive best way to block noise (Score:3, Funny)
Fill the room with breasts. Attached to beautiful coeds. You won't hear a thing.
I'm sorry I cant hear you, I have breasts on my ears.
Re:Noise canceling headphones (Score:4, Funny)
If you must, feed them white noise to drown out what remains.
As an added bonus, you'll soon be driven insane, and have a genuine illness to worry about rather than the largely imaginary First World Problem of ADHD.
Re:Or White Noise + EGG Chair (Score:2, Funny)
Decades back I sat in a large egg shaped shell with a small opening with a padded interior you could sit in with stereo speakers in it.
Then you befriended one of the indigenous females, and moved into her attic. Of course it was all part of your mission to observe human culture.
Re:Go to the f-ing library (Score:4, Funny)
It's hard.
It would have to be..
Re:No ticket (Score:2, Funny)
Of course, what do you expect? Mickey Mouse isn't Scottish!
Re:Definitive best way to block noise (Score:4, Funny)
Is that how you catch hearing AIDS?