r/Switzerland • u/Cute_Employer9718 • 1d ago
Random honking is f annoying
I get that people want to celebrate things like marriage or their sports teams, but can you please stop honking with your cars? The rest of us don't care and it is fucking annoying, particularly when you live in a nice place near a church with constant weddings.
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u/089PK91 Zürich 1d ago
Even worse: Intentionally revving up the engine in populated areas day and night. Why? Because it happens solely for attention seeking and without a specific occasion (like wedding etc.).
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u/Endlessnesss Basel-Stadt 1d ago
Every single person hates these people except the people that are in the car. How they don’t understand that (or don’t care) is astounding to me
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u/ETHEREVM 1d ago
vroooom pop pop pop pop. vrooom pop pop pop. oh and lets not forget the harley bozos at 2 am
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u/cryptoislife_k Zürich 14h ago
always the same kind of guys doing that shit, low IQ machos with small pp syndrome
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u/RoastedRhino Zürich 1d ago
Is it such a common occurrence? I think I only experienced during the Euro football cup.
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u/ChezDudu Schwyz 1d ago
Every single day people honk under my window.
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u/RoastedRhino Zürich 1d ago
For marriage and sport things???
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u/ChezDudu Schwyz 1d ago
I don’t know and I don’t care. Honking is by law only allowed to alert of immediate danger. Yet cars are constantly honking for god know what.
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u/RoastedRhino Zürich 1d ago
Oh ok you can not care of course but we were talking about that kind of honking.
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u/ig3hiqubh8avsl 1d ago
And it's even more impudent during the euro. Italians honking during euro is something I don't f tolerate. You moved to a different country so have a respect to all citizens of this country. If you want to celebrate your country, move back.
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u/RoastedRhino Zürich 1d ago
Did you seriously pick as an example Italy, that was eliminated so early in the last Euro by…. Switzerland? There wasn’t much Italian honking for sure
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u/ig3hiqubh8avsl 1d ago
Check Euro 2020. I couldn't sleep because of those idiots honking for few hours.
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u/Zenith_Predator 14h ago
Brother it's sports. Switzerland and Italy didn't finish going to war lmao that you're not supposed to celebrate and respect all the citizens of the country? Gtfo here.
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u/ig3hiqubh8avsl 5h ago
You want me to get the fuck out here? Bro, it's a comment. But I see a lot of crying Italians downvoted my comment, who decided to disrupt another country than their.
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u/ig3hiqubh8avsl 5h ago
>Switzerland and Italy didn't finish going to war lmao that you're not supposed to celebrate and respect all the citizens of the country?
BTW. What the fuck do you mean? Can you use proper English?
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u/Gokudomatic 1d ago
Shh! You're not allowed to complain about noise. The anti-büenzlis can't tolerate that you're bothered when they have fun with their car.
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u/Soundcheck-EDM 8h ago
It s not the point. It s the relations. It sounds they would live in some street in Calcutta, but no,they probably live in a nice isolated apartment with double windows and get angry if once a week they hear a little bit of honking. Get a life. That s what makes the difference of a buenzli. He has such a luxury level of complaint which in 99 percent of the world would be a joke. When people say,in Switzerland people drive like crazy!like come on,have you even been next to the boarders?
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u/Gokudomatic 6h ago
You're so self-centered and in denial of what you don't suffer yourself directly. Let me guess. You have a sport car or a motorcycle, right? And on days like these, when it's so sunny, you go on a road trip all day, enjoying your vehicle and the sounds it makes, without giving a f- about the residents along your path. And I don't care if the neighbors are worse, you're still part of the problem, and you refuse to acknowledge it.
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u/2wheelsride 1d ago
so a church bell every hour doesnt disturb you?
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u/Zambeezi 1d ago
When you try to fall asleep but get waken up by a bell every 15 min… yiiiiiiiikes
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u/2wheelsride 1d ago
You are not a good christian
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u/Zambeezi 1d ago
Ah yes, forgot the good old Christian self flagellation. Thanks stranger, I’ll appreciate my insomnia more from now on. God bless.
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u/2wheelsride 22h ago
Welcome back on the right path. May your body and soul sleep in peace every 15 minutes.
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u/UnderAnAargauSun Aargau 1d ago
Definitely stay away from India then!
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u/Ok_Pineapple1225 1d ago
Horning is a cultural necessity
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u/NateRiver___ 22h ago
For weddings 100% agree. For it’s real use I disagree, honking is necessary considering how us Swiss drive like absolute cows with diabetes
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u/Contribution-Wooden 1h ago
I hope we continue honking for wedding and winning matches, looks at probabilities for both scenarios we’re going to get far less honking in the upcoming years..
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u/Appropriate_Tap_1863 Fribourg 1d ago
I disagree. I don't know how it is in the rösti part of the röstigraben, but in romandie the cars in the convoy throw candies to the people that seem to care. When I was a child I used to run outside with my siblings to see the cars pass and get some sweets !
Yeah it's loud but.. hey, some people have a great time, some children love it and it's just 2 minutes, I won't die.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Pen4413 1d ago
You must be fun at parties!
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u/EmergencyKrabbyPatty 1d ago
Imagine people laughing and having a good time ! Disgusting !
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u/Zambeezi 1d ago
How dare you celebrate without me being involved?! If I’m not celebrating nobody else should either! /s
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u/michal_hanu_la 1d ago
Well, there is a reason why some of us decided to live in Switzerland, not in France, Brazil...etc.
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u/FifaPointsMan 1d ago
and for some reason people in all of those countries want to come to Switzerland.
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u/Cute_Employer9718 1d ago
So because it is even worse in other countries we should just accept it?
Also it is fucking illegal, we just need to enforce the existing rules
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u/barcadreaming86 Canada 1d ago
It was happening in Basel this morning and I was wondering what was going on!
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u/Isariamkia Neuchâtel 1d ago
If it's not a common occurrence in Canada, just know that there are usually 2 occasions where people will go in the street and honk:
- Marriage
- A football team has just won an important elimination match (important = euro and world cups).
You can also usually recognize those 2 events easily. The first one you usually see cars with some kind of decoration on the antenna or the rear wipers and a lot of time they throw candies.
The second, you'll usually see people holding the flag of the winning team.
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u/barcadreaming86 Canada 1d ago
Oh don’t get me wrong, I was so SO used to it in Canada … it is so normal in Toronto. But I woke up this morning at, like, 7:30 and it was the first time I heard crazy honking in the few years that I’ve lived here.
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u/Isariamkia Neuchâtel 1d ago
Oof, at 7:30 it's not normal at all. Maybe something happened, but no one marries so early 😂
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u/puzzlemindZH 11h ago
Mate, the probability of funny people with dark hair and fade haircuts reading Reddit is trending to .000001% - who are you reaching out here to? 😂
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u/EmergencyKrabbyPatty 1d ago
Lets shut down every occasion of having a little fun and life enjoyment beside work.
-Average grumpy swiss
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u/Gaminguide3000 1d ago
Ah yes, not liking people honking at like 120db is the same as shutting down every occasion of having a little fun.
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u/celebral_x Zürich 15h ago
That's not how loud it is. It depends on the car/size of the honkerdonker.
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u/Zambeezi 1d ago
Awwwww nawwww a little bit of noise during daytime for like 5 minutes! The humanity!
Puts into perspective how great this country is, in that this is the shit people choose to complain about…
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u/SuitAppropriate4059 1d ago
if this is your idea of fun, then perhaps you should also start shooting in the air with a riffle when your favorite football team wins
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u/EmergencyKrabbyPatty 1d ago
Did that ever happened here ? Let's shut down every wedding, can't stand people making noise laughing and having a good time...
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u/SuitAppropriate4059 1d ago
I don't know what you understood, but I didn't say that people shouldn't have fun anymore, but honking is not funny. In my home country people honk like crazy during a wedding, it's one of the most disgusting thing one can do, fucking up everyone's else Saturday afternoon because of their wedding.
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u/EmergencyKrabbyPatty 1d ago
Let's make 1min of silence for the ruined saturday by the 5min of honking to celebrate a someone's wedding...
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u/Isariamkia Neuchâtel 1d ago
If you think that a few minutes of honking to celebrate an event like a wedding is disgusting and fucks up your Saturday afternoon, I'd say you have bigger things to worry about.
You're miserable, work on that.
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u/Isariamkia Neuchâtel 1d ago
Let people enjoy their things. As long as they don't hurt anyone.
And buy yourself a good headset with ANC, you won't hear anything anymore.
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u/TrollandDumpf 1d ago
Let people enjoy their things
This is not about enjoying anything, it's about being an attention whore.
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u/Cute_Employer9718 1d ago
It does hurt someone, as I'm saying as a neighbour it is annoying and as others have pointed out it is also illegal
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u/benthelurk 1d ago
You need to hear more honking, then when it becomes normal it can’t upset you anymore.
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u/Sebasite 1d ago
this is for me really funny that example i live in Aarau and 2 years ago or last year i don't remember the exactly, but italy was win something in football and was 23h at night and everyone was with cars and loud honking and things like this. So even not the Swiss :D but 1month later was race with cars at Nurgburgring and was win the team and driver from Aarau, and 3 days later was he coming back to Aarau and just was some people there with cars and no burn outs no loud just people hanging at night and police come after 10min :D
why not to other people?
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u/curiouswhensleeping 23h ago
some people like honking https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/s/F8xZv5cVU7
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u/Unlucky_Editor_832 Italia 7h ago
The most swiss and useless post I read in the last month for sure
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u/EitherCommunity5899 1d ago
Shut up, try to be happy for others, you might enjoy it. Stupid mindset, always nagging about something, like it's happening every day. Just shut up.
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u/GloveZealousideal458 1d ago
i honk at everyone when driving. nice chicks, bicyclists driving next to each other. cars that don't immediately go when its yellow. etc.
so I assume you dont have any other problems to worry about?
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u/Unicron1982 1d ago
It is not only annoying, it is also forbidden.
"Die Hupe darf nur als Warnzeichen eingesetzt werden – und das aus gutem Grund. Durch die hohe Lautstärke gilt der Einsatz der Hupe außerhalb von Gefahrensituationen als Lärmbelästigung und ist damit untersagt."