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PARIS: Urbanites seeking peace and quiet in the bucolic French countryside will have more difficulty in taking farmers to court over crowing roosters, mooing cows and stinking pigs in the future after parliament passed a new law, reported German news agency (dpa).

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[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 122 points 2 years ago (4 children)

This is a legitimate problem in rural areas. People will move in next to a pig farm and then complain about the smell. Glad to hear the French farmers got a win.

[–] teft@startrek.website 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

A similar problem happens in cities. People move to cities not expecting all the road noise and people noise and complain about it. My buddy owns a rental and tells me about the complaints some people have and it always gets a laugh out of me.

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

A few years ago a concert venue was forced to shut down because the land next to it turned into a residential area and they all started complaining about the noise whenever there was a concert.

Imagine moving in next to a place that's sole purpose for existing is loud music and then complaining about the loud music.

Humans are fuckin dumb and I can't wait till we're gone

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Same thing happens with fire houses. People movie into a home directly next to or across from a fire house that has stood for over a hundred years and then complain about the siren.

[–] wahming@monyet.cc 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Got a link? Sounds interesting

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germain_Amphitheater

Though reading through it the noise complaints were only a part of the issues that caused them to close

[–] wahming@monyet.cc 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, looks like a pretty minor factor.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There are 2 Navy helicopter training bases here. This is not a new thing.

And people here as still upset, whine and sue the Navy.

They're very polite BTW. The choppers almost always get to significant altitude before moving around.

[–] grayman@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

It's happening around the Denver airport (again... happened at the old Stapleton airport too). You stupid idiots bought the house knowing it's next to a giant ass international airport! That's why it was so cheap!

[–] registrert@lemmy.sambands.net 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It goes both ways. I remember when I was a kid and visited my family outside the city... Couldn't sleep, it was eerily quiet.

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[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 46 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The pronunciation is meuuuuh.

Not sure about you folks, but I get my meat the way our good lord intended: naturally grown in a lab.

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 years ago

If we weren't meant to solve modern problems with modern solutions, we wouldn't have been given brains to do it.

[–] DerpyPoint@lemmy.world 44 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Where do the city dwellers think their organic food comes from?

[–] cryptiod137@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago
[–] GravityAce@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 years ago

NIMBY!!! /s

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[–] bedrooms@kbin.social 39 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But only when they moo in the proper french dialect.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 30 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Moue

(I tried "meaux" but that's just mo.)

[–] RustyNova@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

French here

It's "Meuuh". Pronounced "m-uh"

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Close enough, Meaux is a city famous for its Brie cheese.

[–] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

Hon Hon hon may I get ur milk hon hon hon

[–] theodewere@kbin.social 29 points 2 years ago

the cows mooed, the pigs oinked, the roosters crowed and the French Parliament has heard their voices

[–] saltnotsugar@lemm.ee 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do you moo, sir?

I do moo.

But do you moo at ME, sir?!

[–] NightAuthor@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do you bite your thumb at me, sir?

[–] Kase@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] NucleusAdumbens@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I was just trying to feed you some hay!

[–] Sprokes@jlai.lu 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That law is old news, it passed few years ago.

[–] DerpyPoint@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Could you share an older French source?

[–] Sprokes@jlai.lu 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

https://www.vie-publique.fr/loi/278224-loi-29-janvier-2021-protection-patrimoine-sensoriel-campagnes-francaises

The law project started in late 2019 and was adopted on January 2021.

Apparently they introduced something this week but I really didn't understand what is.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The French law, in its majesty, permits cows and people alike to moo in the countryside.

[–] vivadanang@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

Moooonsiours, Madamooooselles of the court, I moooove you to ignore these awful udderances and meat the cattle half & half way. The other side is milking this offal.

[–] gullible@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

And the award for the most endearing headline ever written goes to…

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