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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 114 points 1 year 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 21 points 1 year 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 18 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago (1 children)

Got a link? Sounds interesting

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

Yeah, looks like a pretty minor factor.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago (1 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.

[–] Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should sue the countruside for being too quiet.

[–] registrert@lemmy.sambands.net 1 points 1 year ago

I'm an adult now, I solve problems in the adult way. I just leave the car running overnight and shut the family cat in there, it always bumps into the horn rummaging around in there. Cars and horns. Just like home in the big city.

[–] space@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

But what do you do if a pig farm moves next to you?

[–] muix 0 points 1 year ago

Animal agriculture can be a detriment for other farmers through soil and air pollution, and smell can be a good indication.

[–] DerpyPoint@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago (8 children)

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

[–] cryptiod137@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago
[–] GravityAce@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 year ago

NIMBY!!! /s

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[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year 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 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] bedrooms@kbin.social 37 points 1 year ago

But only when they moo in the proper french dialect.

[–] saltnotsugar@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you moo, sir?

I do moo.

But do you moo at ME, sir?!

[–] NightAuthor@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you bite your thumb at me, sir?

[–] Kase@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] NucleusAdumbens@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I was just trying to feed you some hay!

[–] theodewere@kbin.social 26 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Sprokes@jlai.lu 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] DerpyPoint@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Could you share an older French source?

[–] Sprokes@jlai.lu 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] vivadanang@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year 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 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] bedrooms@kbin.social -4 points 1 year ago

But only when they moo in the proper french dialect.

[–] bedrooms@kbin.social -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But only when they moo in the proper french dialect.

[–] threeduck@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago

But only when they moo in the proper french dialect, you say?