who else has this problem?
nfh.org.uk/resources/Articles/ice_cream_vans/index.php

WTF?
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 21:06, 12 replies)

Fecking hell
some people are a bit sad
( Major Turd for tonight only, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 21:18, closed)

that sounds like it was written by the colonel.
20 points!
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 21:25, closed)

Some people
really don't have enough to worry about.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Wed 7 Oct 2009, 21:37, closed)

Well
I can see where they're coming from.

Whilst you might be fortunate enough not to have this as a local nuisance, not everywhere and everyone is so fortunate. Surely it's better to have specific guidelines to prevent pissing people off than to rely on the notoriously vague and difficult-to-enforce "reasonable"?
(The Incredible Sulk Finally remembered his password on, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 21:39, closed)

Why the 4 second rule?
I've always found it really annoying that only 4 seconds of the tune is played, its actually more irritating to me than playing all of it, makes it sound like a spastic with a triangle rather than a nice traditional English tune
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Wed 7 Oct 2009, 21:46, closed)

Spastics with triangles
are entitled to free ice-cream though
( willenium Fist bump for verification, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 21:57, closed)

One in my girlfriends village
plays Rudolph the red nosed reindeer, all year round.

I don't mind the noise, but then I love ice cream.

MmmmMMmMMMmm, ice cream
</homer>
( LemonEntryMyDearWatson This time, Moriarty, the hand is on the other foot, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 22:50, closed)

Yeah.
Try living in a relatively okay part of Glasgow, except every ten minutes the ice cream van comes round blasting chimes from 8am until 10pm when they are required by law to shut them off - so until 1am they blow a whistle. Eventually they've supplied all the knocked-off cigarettes and heroin they're going to for the day, so off they go unil 8am the next morning when it starts again.

Let's not even begin to talk about the one that goes around Scotstoun, Yoker and Knightswood with a fucking *gigantic* freezer engine that you can hear a mile off and is almost louder than the fucking chimes.

Oh, and the ice cream vans that play songs that are somehow construed as the wrong sort of football reference so that they play the opening bars of "The Entertainer" and are promptly besieged by baying mobs of blue-shirted football fans trying to smash the windows and let down the tyres.

Fuck ice cream vans. Ban the bloody lot.
(gordonjcp, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 23:27, closed)

And of course
Everyone knows that they only play their chimes when they've run out of ice cream anyway.
(Blue_in_Exile, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 7:47, closed)

My gf told me how
A fair few years ago when she used to be really depressed, she'd run outside for the icecream van everytime, so much in fact that it started parking outside her house.
( Crap Little Monkey Deathstar, so good they built it twice, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 8:48, closed)

I never quite understood why it's only ice cream
why don't shoe salesmen drive around in a little van blaring badly-distorted music? or the local greengrocer or newsagent?
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 10:10, closed)

Anyone else thinking of the Far Side cartoon
with the "Liver + Onions" van?
(The Incredible Sulk Finally remembered his password on, Thu 8 Oct 2009, 12:08, closed)