Odd things your neighbours do?

Odd things your neighbours do?

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FunkyNige

8,859 posts

274 months

Thursday 23rd June 2016
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To give him his due, he did the right thing by having a quiet word with your wife instead of banging on your door screaming his head off, calling the council, frozen sausages, etc., even if he initially came to the wrong conclusion...

CoolHands

18,496 posts

194 months

Thursday 23rd June 2016
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You should offer to fill in the holes yourself, as it will be in your own long term interest to do so. An hour with a couple of bags of soil and it'll be done.

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

254 months

Friday 24th June 2016
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My neighbour had a Britain Stronger In Europe sign in his front garden.

He is not happy. Looking forward to rubbing it in...hehe

MartG

20,622 posts

203 months

Friday 24th June 2016
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Not odd, but amusing ( to me anyway )

With the recent warm weather both myself and my ( Scottish ) neighbours have our windows open, and I can often hear them talking when they are in their kitchen. Last week they had a bit of a row, and I thought it was funny that as they got angrier their accents became stronger until they eventually became totally incomprehensible

giger

732 posts

193 months

Friday 24th June 2016
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750turbo said:
viscountdallara said:
conkerman said:
Does she have a bentley?
Very good !!! laugh

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PH never forgets...

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

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Mercury00

4,098 posts

155 months

Friday 24th June 2016
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I've just moved to a new area and must be be the weird neighbour. I go out at 7:30am and cut my grass with scissors. One neighbour exclaimed "you'll break your back doing it that way!" hehe It's for my guinea pigs.

AJXX1

334 posts

118 months

Friday 24th June 2016
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Every Thursday night (bin day), puts her bins out at circa 9 pm onwards and then does god knows what for the next hour or so. Each to their own, but the amount of noise this generates is astounding. No idea what she does, I assume she races them up and down the paving slabs between our house and hers to generate maximum noise/annoyance.

We're not far away from going out whilst she's doing it and telling her to fook off.

She also seems to have an onslaught of male friends, with a new one every other month (we're not spying on her, they all just park like arses outside our house). We've got a running joke in our house that she kills them and buries them in her garden as she has a very odd looking gravel area which is the perfect size/shape for a shallow grave....

Edited by AJXX1 on Friday 24th June 18:37

HayesDC2

285 posts

131 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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My neighbours seem to communicate via car horns in the morning. They will say goodbye to each other as they leave at the same time, then as they drive away they sound the horn. Rather bizarre.

Spare tyre

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9,458 posts

129 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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HayesDC2 said:
My neighbours seem to communicate via car horns in the morning. They will say goodbye to each other as they leave at the same time, then as they drive away they sound the horn. Rather bizarre.
We have that

No matter what time of the day they leave you get beeping

If one is sat in their car and wants the other family member inside the house to hurry up we get beep beep beep until they come out

Thankfully we are trying to move, but I am very close to going mad and marching out there and having a full melt down

A couple of times a night they wake me up

ApOrbital

9,942 posts

117 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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I bloody hate that blast the horn just as they are arriving home as a warning if someone is banging the other half.On leaving two blasts on the horn milkman/window cleaner i am leaving.

Johnnytheboy

24,498 posts

185 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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When I moved to my last village I mentioned to a few people that i thought the constant sounding of horns when arriving at/leaving people's houses, or when passing the house of someone you knew was a bit odd, and they looked at me as if I had two heads.

Apparently it's just what you did in that village.

surveyor

17,768 posts

183 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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Spare tyre said:
HayesDC2 said:
My neighbours seem to communicate via car horns in the morning. They will say goodbye to each other as they leave at the same time, then as they drive away they sound the horn. Rather bizarre.
We have that

No matter what time of the day they leave you get beeping

If one is sat in their car and wants the other family member inside the house to hurry up we get beep beep beep until they come out

Thankfully we are trying to move, but I am very close to going mad and marching out there and having a full melt down

A couple of times a night they wake me up
Idiots who drop my step-son off do this. I've protested a couple of times. I've threatened to rip the horn out of the car and place it where the sun don't shine.

PS I don't like being woken up smile

Spare tyre

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9,458 posts

129 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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surveyor said:
Spare tyre said:
HayesDC2 said:
My neighbours seem to communicate via car horns in the morning. They will say goodbye to each other as they leave at the same time, then as they drive away they sound the horn. Rather bizarre.
We have that

No matter what time of the day they leave you get beeping

If one is sat in their car and wants the other family member inside the house to hurry up we get beep beep beep until they come out

Thankfully we are trying to move, but I am very close to going mad and marching out there and having a full melt down

A couple of times a night they wake me up
Idiots who drop my step-son off do this. I've protested a couple of times. I've threatened to rip the horn out of the car and place it where the sun don't shine.

PS I don't like being woken up smile
When we get the ones who will beep, then sit there, beep, sit there beep - I wanna go out and knock on the neighbours door and let them know their visitor is here

Once we move I'm tempted to keep turning up and there house and just beeping at random

fkwits

Cfnteabag

1,195 posts

195 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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Before you move rig up a series of horns on a timer to go off and random times. Hide it well enough with enough time and variation on the time it goes off and it will never be found!

Blayney

2,948 posts

185 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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Probably revealing that I don't live in the best area (me n the mrs wanted our own place so bought what we could afford a year after uni). So aside from the neighbours across the street punishing each other by locking each other out and then (banging on the door or throwing the food waste bin at it) at all hours probably once every 2 months. Police have been called on occasion. Classy family. One of the daughters has a kid and the Dad has stopped turning up on weekends recently I think. They also seem to refuse to recycle... which is annoying as we had a warning off the council for not putting out the food waste when we were actually composting it.

Directly next door are either having bbq's and parties and swearing at their kids then being exceptionally loud at 2 in the morning (we are both mid terrace so it's not very thoughtful as the neighbours on the other side have a young kid) or they are arguing with each other the next morning - the walls are thick but they are loud.

Not sure on the neighbour on the other side. Caught her in our back garden a few times having climbed over the wall doing things to the side of her house that is against our property. I don't particularly mind to be honest but more concerned if she fell in our garden. She has a stream of different handy men that visit during the day and they always park outside our house. I know I have no rights to it but its still frustrating. Then in the evening it has often been a Range Rover or a Merc replacing the Vectra estate or the C2... I half joke that she's an over 50's prostitute. I'm really not sure.

Next door but one (other side of the noisy arguing neighbours) are a nice couple. Guy is a painter decorator. Asked him if he'd do the outside of the house. That was about 3 years ago. Remind him every couple of months. Still he helped me out when I had a puncture and didn't have the right socket with me (fool) and had walked a couple of miles home in the winter rain just before Xmas. My mrs got their daughter a job at her workplace so occasionally they lift share. The mum waves them off which my Mrs finds a bit odd.

Most annoying at the moment though is the new neighbour across the road. He's got a motorbike which is fine, not a nice sports bike but he clearly uses it for commuting. It's his only transport and is loud enough to rattle the weird indoor plastic window we have above the inner front door (old house). He fires the bike up and let's it warm up, which I completely understand... but he spends about 5 minutes blipping the throttle. Then turns it off for less than 5 seconds before firing it up again and riding off making as much racket as possible. I don't get it? Any ideas?

kowalski655

14,599 posts

142 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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Forgetting the odd neighbours for a sec,WTF is that about the council warning you for not recycling? Since when did it become compulsory?

Blayney

2,948 posts

185 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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kowalski655 said:
Forgetting the odd neighbours for a sec,WTF is that about the council warning you for not recycling? Since when did it become compulsory?
That was my feeling too. I was momentarily tempted to dump the contents of the composter on the curbside... but they'd not collect it if it wasn't in the correct bag!

castex

4,935 posts

272 months

Monday 27th June 2016
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Blayney said:
He fires the bike up and let's it warm up, which I completely understand... but he spends about 5 minutes blipping the throttle. Then turns it off for less than 5 seconds before firing it up again and riding off making as much racket as possible. I don't get it? Any ideas?
Have a friendly word with him about his bike, engines, neighbours, and how to care for them.


WD39

20,083 posts

115 months

Tuesday 28th June 2016
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castex said:
Blayney said:
He fires the bike up and let's it warm up, which I completely understand... but he spends about 5 minutes blipping the throttle. Then turns it off for less than 5 seconds before firing it up again and riding off making as much racket as possible. I don't get it? Any ideas?
Have a friendly word with him about his bike, engines, neighbours, and how to care for them.
Similar on my patch. I think it's a case of not knowing any better. They just 'do stuff' without a second thought or any consideration.

hondafanatic

4,969 posts

200 months

Tuesday 28th June 2016
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WD39 said:
castex said:
Blayney said:
He fires the bike up and let's it warm up, which I completely understand... but he spends about 5 minutes blipping the throttle. Then turns it off for less than 5 seconds before firing it up again and riding off making as much racket as possible. I don't get it? Any ideas?
Have a friendly word with him about his bike, engines, neighbours, and how to care for them.
Similar on my patch. I think it's a case of not knowing any better. They just 'do stuff' without a second thought or any consideration.
In the case of an old neighbour of mine it was a learnt behaviour from his father. I actually went and asked the chap why he sits for five minutes blipping the throttle before moving off. He was taught to do it and always has done. I explained that there isn't any need and the best thing you can do is drive off and have look in the manual/online for more information.

He never did it again. smile