Is it normal to watch TV in your garden in the UK?

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JohnCasey3306@reddit

Audibly no different to them having a radio in the garden -- I'm not sure we'd question that.

Whether music or TV, I'd hope they were considerate but it's unreasonable to expect them to never make any noise at all -- time of day is a factor of course.

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saltnvinegarwazere@reddit

Not normal but not unreasonable, no different noise wise to playing the radio or some music in your garden

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BriennesBitch@reddit

This is a perfect thread to demonstrate why Reddit isn’t the real world.

Thank fuck it’s not as you are some miserable fuckers!

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grafeisen203@reddit

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SilverstoneMonzaSpa@reddit

Agreed. I wouldn't have a radio in my garden, but don't think it's weird if someone did and a TV is just a radio with pictures that I still can't see.

As hard as it may be for the average user of this subreddit to believe. Some people have friends and enjoy having some music when they gather to socialise.

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As I said, it's fine to be pissed off about it but they are also entirely within their rights to do it anyway.

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stoatwblr@reddit

Actually they're not.

Statutory nuisance laws cover continuous noise issues and they apply at all hours. Just because something blaring away at 2am is more obvious doesn't mean obnoxiousness during the day is acceptable.

A loud TV isn't that much different to dogs barking all day and there's plenty of case law on that.

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APiousCultist@reddit

I think there are only very narrow circumstances where those laws would be at all applicable. Nuisance dogs get actioned because it's a behavioural issue that likely related to how they're being kept. People have been taking their TVs out or pointing them out of doorways for decades in countries with hot summers, and now we're one of them.

So long as the volume isn't excessive for what is necessary to be heard by the neighbours, isn't being played at unreasonable times, isn't being left on while the neighbours go off to work, and isn't playing highly objectionable content (i.e. porn, torture-porn horror movies) I cannot see those laws applying in the slightest.

I'd be happy if I never heard a barking dog, a different immediate neighbour inexplicably needing to mow their law every day of the week (how many people are in earshot for this to maths out), an overly boisterous pool party full of screaming, of the two hour long bell ringing session by church does every sunday but that's just life. A TV isn't materially different. The police don't even tend to come for the 2am (literal) fireworks, no one's going to bother because someone's watching Eastenders outside.

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colbysnumberonefan@reddit

It’s also entirely “within my rights” to place a boombox next to my garden fence and blast dubstep music all day by this logic. Would you find that acceptable?

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SunsetHaze@reddit

During the day, yes and have played loud music all day in my garden multiple times and been in ither gardens with loud music playing all day many times. My neighbors often have music playing when the weather's good, I don't see the oroblem with it. As long as it doesn't run late it's fine

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HistoryDisastrous493@reddit

Depends on whether you were just doing it to be a twat or not

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callisstaa@reddit

‘Let’s moan about something that didn’t even happen’

Insufferable people.

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Former_Intern_8271@reddit

If you were actively enjoying the music yes, if you were doing it purely as a form of harassment, no.

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Past-Obligation1930@reddit

And you are within your rights to have a bonfire and run your garden shredder all afternoon.

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Badger_1066@reddit

A TV could literally be turned on & emitting a lot of noise all day long

Could.

Talking also could emit noise and last all day long. Especially if drinking is involved. It doesn't make sense to fall out with neighbours and make your life difficult because they like to watch TV in their garden.

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callisstaa@reddit

Seeing posts like this makes me so thankful that we no longer live in the UK. ‘My neighbour’s daughter said hello, should I call the police’ etc.

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grafeisen203@reddit

Right? When I had a garden I would regularly be out in it listening to the radio and doing gardening. I don't really see how that is any different, nor would I consider it unusual or unacceptable.

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Actual-Sky-4272@reddit

Use earphones.

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And it being the second scenario has been made up wholesale by yourself.

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stoatwblr@reddit

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/noise-nuisances-how-councils-deal-with-complaints

Councils are responsible for looking into complaints about noise from:

premises including land like gardens and certain vessels (for example, loud music or barking dogs)

As an autistic person who has experienced the world getting ever louder during my lifetime, I totally agree with you.

It is hard for me to live in this society. I really think most neurotypicals must hear noise differently to me because I can’t imagine how it would feel to be able to hear noise like TV in a neighbour’s garden and not be bothered by it.

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RespectNo8823@reddit

I'm with you on this. I lived in a posh bit of London a few years back. Damp basement next to a family in a townhouse. Through the summer, they'd put on their own backyard cinema/Wimbledon in the garden. It was like torture. This was pre-big noise-cancelling headphones. I'm totally okay with children playing/barbecues/radio, etc., but the films were something else.

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Past-Obligation1930@reddit

I’d be having a nice bonfire, and firing up my garden shredder.

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IllMaintenance145142@reddit

A TV could literally be turned on & emitting a lot of noise all day long.

yeah but this is just you making shit up to get angry over. the neighbor COULD shoot you in the face. we could spend all day getting angry over stuff that COULD happen

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bluesam3@reddit

I mean, have you met children?

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daern2@reddit

It's pretty weird but making noise in the garden during the daytime is also completely acceptable.

Noises come in all different sorts, of course and some are far more annoying than others, despite not being as loud.

What would be unreasonable would be to act on this annoyance if the noise is not continuing late into the night or at excessive volume.

...or constantly, all of the time, every minute of the day. I know people (older relatives, normally) who literally have the TV on from when they get up in the morning until when they go to bed. Constantly, all of the time, endless shite blasting out. If you had a neighbour who did the same with a TV in the garden, and if you could hear it all of the time, I think that would absolutely drive you completely insane.

It's one of those things where the usage really matters - the odd sportsball game, the odd movie on an evening, music at a party? All fine. Constant, neverending noise, even if it's not really loud? Yeah, I can see that being unacceptable.

Unrelated, but we've got an adjoining neighbour who, about once a year, decides he really needs to move the leaves around in his garden. He spends an entire weekend with this stupid, petrol leaf blower - not running it consantly, but in 30 second blasts, with 30 seconds ticking over while he shuffles to the new pile of leaves he's just created. It's astonishingly annoying, but fortunately, he only ever seems to get the urge once a year before he realises how futile it is, and puts the stupid machine away until next year. Oh, and he never actually bags up a single leaf - he just moves them from one bit of the lawn to another. In a way, it's quite entrancing to watch, but also intensely frustrating too!

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schoolme_straying@reddit

When the letter comes from the council, they can go argue with the council and ask them “are you okay?? It’s just my television in the garden - I didn’t do anything!!”

Maybe they can appeal it and set a new precedent so we can all watch TV in our gardens everyday

🤓☺️

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blahblahblah1234_@reddit

Christ. The amount of emojis… What is with you and emojis and the excessive use of punctuations?

I’m not taking it personally, I literally said I don’t have a telly or use the radio in the garden. I think you dictating what people should and shouldn’t do is absurd especially if they’re not being a nuisance.

A chilled person would just speak to their neighbour like a normal human being if they’re annoyed by the noise rather than ‘report and report and report until they got some consideration into their heads.’

I’m not saying you should tell them that their telly shouldn’t be in the garden. They can have the telly in their garden if they want to, it’s a free country and it’s not illegal to have a telly in the garden. If the volume isn’t obnoxiously loud, it’s not your business. You’re not babysitting by asking them to lower the volume, you’re communicating like an adult.

What next, do we ban people from having BBQs cause it’ll be too noisy? Not have large gatherings cause it’ll be noisy? No kids outside cause they’ll be too noisy? No dogs in the garden because they might bark? How about no one goes out in the garden unless they are completely silent with absolutely no fucking sound coming out of them or anything?

You do not know what their set up is, the OP said they’ve a DIY bar in their garden, so they might already have an easy way for setting up a telly. They might just want to watch occasionally when they have guests. You do not know what’s happening but you’re assuming they’re sat there having it on full blast from 7 in the morning until midnight.

It’s ridiculous that you don’t see how ridiculous you’re being and how bizarre it is that you think reporting someone repeatedly rather than communicating with your neighbour is considered a ‘chilled’ behaviour.

Again, I would completely understand if the telly was obnoxiously loud and the neighbour was being a knob about it, but we do not know for certain if that is the case. You’re making assumptions and are being so self righteous about it.

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BriennesBitch@reddit

Every Karen loves emojis

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woahtheremate_@reddit

So that you can seethe more I’ll have you know - I reported someone in the past. Guess what happened? Noise stopped. Everyone could sleep and rest. The next door neighbours kids weren’t crying from the distress. The quiet girl in the room next door didn’t get continuous migraines.

I know you’re the type of person to do what OP is complaining about hence all the essays you’re writing about it. And I want you to know I would report you too - a million times ☺️🤗 and we’d all have a street party about it afterwards

Go cry on someone sides shoulder because I genuinely don’t care for any excuses for being obnoxious. What you gonna do? Report me? What’s ya charge officer? 🤪😜

Maybe cry on the councils shoulders about this. You ought to write this letter to their anti social behaviour team who define the aforementioned behaviour as ASB - not me babe 😬

Enjoy today! Put your TV in your garden at your own risk!😅🌞

Here are some more emojis for you to complain to the anti emoji behaviour team about - 🌞🤗🐱😎✨🤪🥳😈👻🙀😸🫶

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blahblahblah1234_@reddit

I can’t see the entirety of your response for some reason but for clarification, I’m not seething. I’m not sure why you think I am?

You probably should realise you are not a ‘chilled person’ seeing as you’ve said you reported someone in the past. Honestly, I feel awful for people that have to deal with you on a daily basis. Good bye.

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woahtheremate_@reddit

Ooohh - look it’s the commander in chief of defense of noisy neighbours writing me PhD theses, telling me who I am, angry about the law, about council rules and about basic consideration.

You shouldn’t waste your feelings of awfulness over me babe. Me and my neighbours get on like a house on fire.

Extend it to OP’s neighbours in the scenarios you’ve so creatively imagined 😍 they’d need it if they lived next door to me in your imagination 🤓

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blahblahblah1234_@reddit

Theses is plural, idiot.

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woahtheremate_@reddit

I said enjoy the day a longgggg time ago. You didn’t need to announce your exit but okay - here’s more attention 🤗☺️😊🥂🍻🍹🥃🌻🌷🌹💁‍♀️💁‍♂️🙇‍♂️

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I have a TV in a bar. I really don’t care too much if it annoys my neighbours. One has packet party’s that can last until 8am and the other days loud BBQ’s.

We all get on and just accept that we all make noise occasionally.

I’d hate a lot of the posters on here as neighbours they sound so Kareny.

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Buffsteve24@reddit

I use a projector sometimes in summer, from dusk onwards obviously, a couple of times a year we'll watch a film in the garden, is the sound booming absolutely not, my gardens enclosed if my neighbour came out would they hear it, probably, they cant hear it inside, am I causing a nuisance/offence? No and nor would I want to, I get on with my neighbour and would happily let her join if she wanted, recently watched Aliens

Of course they can hear it, they just put up with it.

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Fluffy-Eyeball@reddit

Unless you listen at a volume that I couldn’t watch a movie at and hear all of it, I’d probably be able to hear it inside. More so in good weather with the windows open.

Would I like it? Likely no. Would it bother me and would I consider it a nuisance? Also no, if it was an occasional thing, not at a volume such that it actually causes a disturbance etc. If it was every night or loud enough to cause me to not be able to , say, concentrate on what I’m doing or hold a conversation then I would definitely consider it a nuisance.

I think this is key here, the difference between someone opinion on another’s behaviour, and what is actually unreasonable. People watching sports in the, day, in the garden and in a diy bar, with all the additional noise that will result in, I would personally consider highly antisocial and unpleasant; however as a one off still wouldn’t be inclined to complain about it or consider them actually doing much wrong.

Normal TV, on for long periods, across multiple days of the week, again with diy bar and intoxicated noises? All in all basically likely constant unpleasant noise. I would consider it not only highly antisocial and scroaty behaviour, but also a nuisance and very much complain with an expectation the council would act on it.

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Former_Intern_8271@reddit

Sometimes it's just nice to hear people having a nice time, I used to sometimes get woken up by my neighbours kid practicing some sort of wind instrument, she was honestly bloody awful at it, I think her bedroom must have been the opposite wall to mine, but I just think it was sweet that she was learning to play.

You are straying from the post's context though. You made a general statement:

But it’s not anti social to make noise outdoors.

It can be. It's not black and white.

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Of course the OP couldn't in any way be a curtain twitching sour whinging git whose entire existence is built around resenting the idea that someone, somewhere, might be having fun, could they?

A straw man argument is a logical fallacy where someone misrepresents, exaggerates, or fabricates an opponent's argument to make it easier to attack

There you go buddy. Thats what you did. The exaggerates part is what you focused on by interjecting a motorbike into a TV discussion. Have a good day.

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spidertattootim@reddit

I know what a straw man argument is, and there isn't one in my comment.

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john92w@reddit

I do understand and so do everybody else downvoting you.

Did you really try to “get me” with a second sentence that you edited in? Lol.

You were saying if a TV is fine in a garden because its for recreation, so is a motorbike. Thats a straw man sit.

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spidertattootim@reddit

You were saying if a TV is fine in a garden because its for recreation, so is a motorbike.

No I didn't. Not directly and not by implication. It was a question, not a statement.

For the final time, you have not understood the point I was making.

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john92w@reddit

Deny all you want but its there for everybody to see. Its the exact reason people are downvoting it.

Ba bye mate.

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spidertattootim@reddit

Its the exact reason people are downvoting it.

Argumentum ad populum is also a logical fallacy.

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john92w@reddit

Bla bla.

Go and edit some more sentences into your past comments that you didnt think of at the time. Haha.

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blahblahblah1234_@reddit

They’re clearly an absolutely fucking miserable person. Just ignore them.

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No it’s not normal to have a TV in the garden. I also feel a radio and a TV may make different noise unless of course someone is listening to the identical thing on either device. For example, I would be annoyed if my neighbour were in their garden listening to a loud sports game on radio OR on TV, but they are much more likely to watch it on TV. That said, as long as they are within the very reasonable noise ordinances set by the council that is their right and I have no problem with it.

he fact that the noise of a private space carries doesn’t make it anti social.

Thats precisely what makes it antisocial

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Maleficent_Public_11@reddit

No it’s actually not. Lots of noises can be heard outside the space. When I am in my garden I can often hear my neighbours having friends over, I can hear the children in the primary school at the end of the road, I can hear the crowd at the football, I can hear my neighbours child crying because he doesn’t want to get in the bath.

None of these are anti social.

Anti social noise is defined in law and in effect has to hurt your health or otherwise harm you.

So no, just being heard outside of a space doesn’t make it anti social.

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HeartyBeast@reddit

So this is where you have to think about the difference between ‘sounds’ and ‘noise’.

Obviously, there ads plenty of sounds that you can hear in your garden - sounds of people going about their business, the sounds of nature etc. They are pretty easy for the human brain to ignore. Where the sounds are persistent and distracting, it becomes noise. Having a TV on in the garden next door is likely to be noise. Not all sound is the same. -

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Maleficent_Public_11@reddit

Thanks for the patronising comment, but it isn’t ‘likely’ that a TV becomes noise because it isn’t likely that a TV causes harm to health or harms anyone.

That is what you have to think about.

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katspike@reddit

The OP’s question was “what would happen if we all did this?”.

In the link you provided it lists two relevant issues:

F4(fb)artificial light emitted from premises so as to be prejudicial to health or a nuisance;]

(g)noise emitted from premises so as to be prejudicial to health or a nuisance;

Lots of people work from home, and open their windows in the summer. Being surrounded by TV light and noise that is designed to demand attention is a nuisance and will negatively affect mental health.

any_excuse@reddit

No fuck that. We all live in a society, what we do with our lives has an impact on others.

Jonoabbo@reddit

I like to hear other people existing. I like the sound of other people doing stuff. I'm saying its okay because if my neighbors did it, I'd think it's cool that they are having a good time.

The sound of other people doing stuff doesn't bother me.

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derattler@reddit

100%

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EmFan1999@reddit

Personally I think music is acceptable in the right circumstances but not TV or someone watching videos on their phone

I think people like a quiet tranquil garden and it should be respected

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Impossible_Pie4091@reddit

What would happen if someone at night jumped over the fence into your neighbours garden and put a glass of water through the tv vents. It would be hard for the neighbour to watch tv again.

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Fit-Fault338@reddit

Never known that before.

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Becci92xo@reddit

Of course come to reddit and ask all the other miserable weirdos that will get you a balanced opinion

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MorgRiot@reddit

Comments on this are ridiculous

AugustusReddit@reddit

It's not normal British behaviour.

Jonoabbo@reddit

People on reddit have a really, really weird reaction to other humans making noise.

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Sandy_Bananas@reddit

Plebeian shit.

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Sandy_Bananas@reddit

What’s the meme: wonky hands fallout man; says “excuse me, what the fuck?”

No. Absolutely not.

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Temporary_Ebb9486@reddit

Sounds lovely to me, I would let them have their pleasures. But I’m not you

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Is there any explicit language being heard?

If you cannot hear it inside, no foul language is being heard and it's not an all day thing, and only being used during sociable hours then mind your damn business.

Do you make noise complaints about cars using the street, dogs barking, children laughing and playing in their gardens, lawn mowers being used?

I don't have a TV in my garden, we very, very rarely play music in the garden, we've had one outdoor gathering in about 5yrs but my neighbours do play music, they do have gatherings and we let them just enjoy their fucking garden. I have kids and I let them play and laugh and be loud during the day in the garden, as long as it isn't kicking off and arguing with each other. If someone told me to keep it down, I'd tell them to fuck right off. Everyone is entitled to use their garden how they want as long as it's during sociable hours and you can reasonably escape from the noise if it becomes too much, i.e. indoors.

Dethark@reddit

I take it you don't get out much?

Lots of beer gardens have TV's in them. Mainly for sporting events.

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NobleRotter@reddit

I get out. Definitely not to anywhere that'd put a TV in the garden though. Never seen it.

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NobleRotter@reddit

I get out. Definitely not to anywhere that'd put a TV in the garden though. Never seen it.

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ThriceNightly_Whitey@reddit

Maybe I grew up with more space than most, neighbours would have to be up the fence to hear the TV in our garden, which was a regular when tennis or snooker was on and the weather was guaranteed not to rain.

Using the word normal implies enjoying a space you own can be abnormal somehow. The phrasing is weirder than the activity.

Put your telly on the garden but on a different channel. It’d be very distracting for them. Or, put the same channel on and the sound will probably be out of sync which is just as annoying.

I spend most days looking around the sea of vulgarity surrounding me.

MillsOnWheels7@reddit

FA cup semi final

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Gornal-Annie6133@reddit

Where I live, many people built outside bars, especially during Covid and man/woman caves. I know loads of people who have tvs in their garden bars and tend to watch the football, whilst having a drink or two with mates. As long as it’s not overly loud, late at night or persistent, what’s the problem?

If it’s an issue, start a case with your councils ASB team and keep a log of the problems.

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Scottie99@reddit

Definitely not.

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CrowApprehensive204@reddit

I'd sooner listen to a TV than my next door neighbours three kids screaming and squawking and then one of the adults shouting at them. They don't seem to do bedtime either as it's now 20:56 and they're now screaming and squawking in the living room

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Scarred_fish@reddit

Why the fuck, if you are in the garden, or indeed anywhere outside or even where you can see a window, would you watch TV???

bowen7477@reddit

If the tv is on, yes.

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Free_Ad7415@reddit

No I find this very very odd indeed.

Tbh me and my neighbours are all very considerate and wouldn’t even have music in our gardens. But yeah TV is very strange to me

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AnxiousAudience82@reddit

I know a few people that have this set up, I think people really invested in their outside space over covid and now with everything being so expensive are sticking to it. Is it annoying yes, is it any more inconvenient than kids playing, dogs barking and just generally people existing probably not. If it goes outside of allowed hours report it but other than that it’s just the rub of living near others.

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0james0@reddit

It's the UK, it rains a lot, they won't be out there often!

Doesn't stop it being annoying, but also a perfectly acceptable thing for them to do.

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PrincessPK475@reddit

Noise in the garden is one of those things that just because it's normalised and we can... Doesn't mean we should.

Times have changed... The sheer number and amount of power tools etc. personally I'm all for changing and updating the status quo that we need to be more considerate of our neighbours and noise whatever the day and time.

Life isn't like it was even 25 years ago and people desperately need a break from the never ending sensory overwhelm of modern living.

But that's just my whimsical idealistic dreams and personal ethos... Fact is you're going to get a split camp and need to choose the hills you are prepared to die on.

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hippiehappos@reddit

Ours have a hot tub with a tv and play obnoxious music and sing, also terrible music with the windows open every summer weekend and our farm wraps around their house/garden because they live in the barn conversion

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Raisinsandfairywings@reddit

I reckon the really varied responses might be because there’s such a variety of different sized gardens.

My instant reaction to the post was “that’d piss me off” but on my street our gardens are all relatively small and back directly onto each other so we’re all cramped in. If someone was watching telly the noise would be inescapable, it’d be like you’re being forced to sit and “watch” it with them without being able to see the screen. I can imagine hearing a bit of tv floating over from the other side of a big garden wouldn’t be too bad though.

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mcrrob@reddit

Sat in the garden, in the sunshine 🌞 watching something like the football or listening to music, I dont see anything wring with that. Just keep it down in the evening.

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Say10sadvocate@reddit

We take a TV outside once a year for our Eurovision party, that can go on pretty late and be pretty loud.

Luckily my neighbours are pretty cool, we operate a live and let live kinda vibe, you don't moan and bitch about our parties, we don't moan and bitch about anything they do.

Works pretty well.

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anotherMrLizard@reddit

Some people do it when there's a big sports event on. For normal TV - no, that would be fucking weird.

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HanleySoloway@reddit

sounds like sprinkler season to me

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jamnut@reddit

I was sat in my garden watching the football earlier off my laptop doing a bit of sunbathing after some gardening

The volume was loud enough for me to hear from where I was led, and quiet enough that you couldn't hear it if I walked away from it.

It's not tacky, but disturbing your neighbours is.

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Ok-Direction-8257@reddit

It's normal if you're scum.

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No-Photograph3463@reddit

Not particularly normal tbh. Would be normal however for you to spend all day mowing the grass, strimming and trimming hedges, which might put them off a bit

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Plenty_Suspect_3446@reddit

I'd be annoyed. I sometimes have the radio on in my garden when I do my gardening but thats music. TV on a sunny Saturday is a step too far. I like to read in the garden under my apple tree and spent two hours out there today and would be fuming if TV noise was disturbing my reading.

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HendersonsFineRelish@reddit

Perfectly normal.

People saying otherwise have probably never owned a garden big enough to build their own bar. Or lack the DIY skills. Or (being more fair) probably don't want to build a bar in their garden.

It's up there with any other wee garden project.

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glitterstateofmind@reddit

Agree. I know a few people who have built bars in their garden to a greater or lesser extent (myself included). It became a bit of a fad during lockdown from what I recall.

A lot of the negative comments are probably from a place of envy tbh. It’s no different to having to hear someone playing music or the radio in their garden, which is entirely normal and has been for decades. Rather that than kids screaming obnoxiously all day long (which seems to be socially acceptable).

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lungbong@reddit

I once took my laptop out to watch the F1 in the garden, that's the only time in 50 years.

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PullUpAPew@reddit

Find out what they're watching and play the same thing through speakers, but with a slight delay

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DylboyPlopper@reddit

That sounds far less annoying than the sound of children having fun

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carnage2006@reddit

I'm confused by many posts here.

Yeah I feel for the occasional event it's fine. Everybody has to put up with neighbours being a bit noisy at times.

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JonTravel@reddit

I listen to music when I'm in the garden relaxing or working. I have the radio on or some music. Would you find that unreasonable also?

I only ask because I'm 60 and it's something that's been happening as long as I can remember. My neighbor's used to have music if they were using the BBQ or if the kids were outside playing. It never bothered me, im not sure a TV is any different.

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Round-Bandicoot-5829@reddit

No more annoying than hearing the loud noise of garden tools and mowers constantly throughout the day, literally as soon as anybody sees a bit of sun! TV definitely unusual. Radios more common, especially if there are workmen around, as they play it louder because they don’t have neighbours.

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patchworkcat12@reddit

Still antisocial , our neighbour plays her radio loud, hasn’t she heard of headphones?

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9162T1@reddit

Must be turned up really loud, or the speakers are facing you. We've got a TV in our summerhouse at the end of our garden. I put our old surround sound system out there when we upgraded in the house. I'm conscious of not annoying the neighbours so I check the sound outside. Even with the door open, the TV can't be heard from more 10ft from the door.

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Watchkeys@reddit

What sort of chaos?

Did you want everybody to fit into what some random people on Reddit would define as 'normal'? Why?

If you don't like what your neighbours are doing, ask them not to, or choose to ignore it. It's not about being 'normal'. People do all kinds of stuff.

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cregamon@reddit

Reddit is the worst place as well to ask people to define what is ‘normal’.

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Watchkeys@reddit

Yup. Any forum is because people read the thread title and only comment if they have strong feelings.

Plenty of people put TVs in the garden on nice days. Normal? Define normal! Just remember that their are probably things you define as normal that others find odd!

Using a TV in the garden is no worse than using a radio and probably nowhere near as bad as hanging home entertainment speakers out a window. As for the loudness - probably not breaking any laws [within time restrictions]. I know only too well how annoying it can be when a neighbor plays loud music - we have a neighbor who is generally considerate but a friend comes round from time to time and turns car stereo up to ear blistering levels.

Is this behavior normal? Yes [for some]! Annoying? Sometimes. Illegal? Not likely [if within legal time limits]. Inconsiderate - of the 'offender' or of you for being intolerant and trying to dictate how others should 'behave'? It's all about perception!

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FewAnybody2739@reddit

It's not normal because either it's bright or rainy, neither of which is good for watching TV.

No not really unless the footballs on and you’ve got your mates round in summer , obviously if it’s Tottenham it’s a no go haha , but I don’t know many people who watch tv outside lol

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MillsOnWheels7@reddit

Probably watching the FA cup semi final.

It sounds like a one off, occasional thing, so I don't see what the issue is.

It's nice weather (across most of the UK), nothing wrong with sitting in the garden watching the football and having a few beers.

If its obnoxiously loud, then have a moan, fair enough. Or maybe stick on classical FM to drown them out.

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Left_Set_5916@reddit

I wouldn't say it's normal but it's also their backagraden and as long it's reasonable hours at reasonable volume then let them be.

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doegrey@reddit

I don’t know,but I have to say when I was in my first rental we unashamedly set up a massive screen with a bedsheet in our back garden and used a projector to watch movies.

No one complained and it was AMAZING!

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Adorable_Stable2439@reddit

Oh…. So the little 20 inch tv that’s in the corner of our summer house that I occasionally get out in the evening to sit and watch in the garden is diabolically rude? Heh, you learn something new every day

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TheNelliephant@reddit

Innit, best not listen to music in the sun either

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Many_Income_2212@reddit

I assume if you’re playing loud enough for me to hear on the street, I’m allowed to join? I can bring beers

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Sonic_The_Hamster@reddit

It's not normal honestly but but nothing wrong with it. I usually listen to music and it can be via headphones/earbuds or it can be via speaker.

MadameVP@reddit

We have a TV in our garden an we are in the UK. We have lean to which is like an outdoor lounge area and we enjoy sitting out and watching different sports during the day. Stick the log burner on and watch a film in the evening although I will add we don’t have it on loud and we don’t do it every night until late.

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