Odd things your neighbours do?
Discussion
Nobody totally weird but we do have 'bin man' that lives down the road. It's a terraced street but there is enough space for everyone to park generally. However, bin man always puts his bins out in 'his' parking spot whenever they go out, regardless if there are loads of spaces around or not. The other week a neighbour had parked outside his house (must have moved his bins or he forgot on that occasion). Instead of him using a nearby space he parked in the middle of the road and left his car there until the other neighbour moved. I'm really considering on moving his bins miles away one night after the pub for a laugh 
cheddar said:
I got on well with my (odd) neighbour until I beat him in the finals of a golf tournament.
He gets free use of my paddock for his sheep, chats over the fence, delivers free firewood to me (i give him whisky for it which he likes) but then we played in this golf tournament and he did everything in his power (including cheating) to beat me. When he lost he just said "That's that then" walked off and hasn't spoken to me since.
He gets free use of my paddock for his sheep, chats over the fence, delivers free firewood to me (i give him whisky for it which he likes) but then we played in this golf tournament and he did everything in his power (including cheating) to beat me. When he lost he just said "That's that then" walked off and hasn't spoken to me since.
Monstrous t
t.Hope you told him to poke his sheep, figuratively and literally.
St John Smythe said:
Nobody totally weird but we do have 'bin man' that lives down the road. It's a terraced street but there is enough space for everyone to park generally. However, bin man always puts his bins out in 'his' parking spot whenever they go out, regardless if there are loads of spaces around or not. The other week a neighbour had parked outside his house (must have moved his bins or he forgot on that occasion). Instead of him using a nearby space he parked in the middle of the road and left his car there until the other neighbour moved. I'm really considering on moving his bins miles away one night after the pub for a laugh
Why do people put up with this crap; I am assuming it isn't actually his space he just likes to think of it as "his" space, if I was the neighbour who had parked there I would have just left my car there, it is as much the other neighbours space as this cretins space.handpaper said:
Assuming you meant that, I think you've demonstrated why making someone stateless is sometimes a perfectly reasonable act.
I'd have to agree with most of what he said.I don't know anyone who would have a flag outside their house or on their car.
Those that I have met who express a deep devotion to 'Inger-lund' have been racist, thug like, small minded people with very little grasp of history or geopolitics.
Same the world over, in my opinion, the more devoted you are to a country's identity the more intolerant you become.
Edited by jdw100 on Friday 21st November 10:10
Edited by jdw100 on Friday 21st November 11:31
jdw100 said:
handpaper said:
Assuming you meant that, I think you've demonstrated why making someone stateless is sometimes a perfectly reasonable act.
I'd have to agree with most of what he said.I don't know anyone who who have a flag outside their house or on their car.
Those that I have met who express a deep devotion to 'Inger-lund' have been racist, thug like, small minded people with very little grasp of history or geopolitics.
Same the world over, in my opinion, the more devoted you are to a country's identity the more intolerant you become.
Edited by jdw100 on Friday 21st November 10:10
St John Smythe said:
Nobody totally weird but we do have 'bin man' that lives down the road. It's a terraced street but there is enough space for everyone to park generally. However, bin man always puts his bins out in 'his' parking spot whenever they go out, regardless if there are loads of spaces around or not. The other week a neighbour had parked outside his house (must have moved his bins or he forgot on that occasion). Instead of him using a nearby space he parked in the middle of the road and left his car there until the other neighbour moved. I'm really considering on moving his bins miles away one night after the pub for a laugh
this sounds really petty, but i had bin man living next door to me.We had an alleyway behind our properties. every one else on the alley way would put their bins in their back garden or by their front doors
Bin man would just leave his in the alley way, not wide enough to squeeze past, got very annoying when you wanted to get some diy / bike / your bins in and out - you'd have to move his to the end of the alley way, move your own stuff past then put his bins back (not fare moving it outside someone else's house)
anyway i was doing a new kitchen with my dad, lots of coming and goings from the back door up the alley way to my car etc - every time he'd hear his bin move he'd come and move em back - id ask him if i could put them in my garden temporarily or whatever and he just made some excuse.
anyway - very petty but just bloody annoying - mentioned it to some friends at the time and every time they came home late at night from a night out, they'd lift his bins and put em somewhere else. eventually bin man gave up and put them in his garden
of course, now when his bins were out for collection he'd get very touchy about them being out by the kerbside, would wait for school kids to walk past then would stand in the window making sure his bins didnt move
Felt sorry for the guy, but he was a lazy little turd who only thought about himself.
jdw100 said:
handpaper said:
Assuming you meant that, I think you've demonstrated why making someone stateless is sometimes a perfectly reasonable act.
I'd have to agree with most of what he said.I don't know anyone who would have a flag outside their house or on their car.
Those that I have met who express a deep devotion to 'Inger-lund' have been racist, thug like, small minded people with very little grasp of history or geopolitics.
Same the world over, in my opinion, the more devoted you are to a country's identity the more intolerant you become
St John Smythe said:
Nobody totally weird but we do have 'bin man' that lives down the road. It's a terraced street but there is enough space for everyone to park generally. However, bin man always puts his bins out in 'his' parking spot whenever they go out, regardless if there are loads of spaces around or not. The other week a neighbour had parked outside his house (must have moved his bins or he forgot on that occasion). Instead of him using a nearby space he parked in the middle of the road and left his car there until the other neighbour moved. I'm really considering on moving his bins miles away one night after the pub for a laugh
Move his bins miles away. Replace them with a MASSIVE rusty van. Deny all knowledge.blindswelledrat said:
jdw100 said:
handpaper said:
Assuming you meant that, I think you've demonstrated why making someone stateless is sometimes a perfectly reasonable act.
I'd have to agree with most of what he said.I don't know anyone who who have a flag outside their house or on their car.
Those that I have met who express a deep devotion to 'Inger-lund' have been racist, thug like, small minded people with very little grasp of history or geopolitics.
Same the world over, in my opinion, the more devoted you are to a country's identity the more intolerant you become.
Edited by jdw100 on Friday 21st November 10:10
bxlbaz said:
I guess you would be suprised to see the number of national flags flown in Swedish gardens during summer, and I don't believe they are very intolerant. They are however very proud of their country, and proud to show it as individuals and as a society
If there's two thing I hate - its racists....and the bloody Swedes.
jdw100 said:
I don't know anyone who would have a flag outside their house or on their car.
Those that I have met who express a deep devotion to 'Inger-lund' have been racist, thug like, small minded people with very little grasp of history or geopolitics.
Same the world over, in my opinion, the more devoted you are to a country's identity the more intolerant you become.
What utter rubbish. I've had flags on my car and house during major football tournaments - doesn't mean anything other than I'm supporting my country's football team. If you think everyone that does this is as you describe, perhaps it's you who's the small minded one.Those that I have met who express a deep devotion to 'Inger-lund' have been racist, thug like, small minded people with very little grasp of history or geopolitics.
Same the world over, in my opinion, the more devoted you are to a country's identity the more intolerant you become.
jdw100 said:
I'd have to agree with most of what he said.
I don't know anyone who would have a flag outside their house or on their car.
Those that I have met who express a deep devotion to 'Inger-lund' have been racist, thug like, small minded people with very little grasp of history or geopolitics.
Same the world over, in my opinion, the more devoted you are to a country's identity the more intolerant you become.
See I see the other side of the coin. It is because of the preconceived ideas and bigotry from the 'anti' brigade that I don't fly and England flag (sans INGERLUND text) despite loving my Country for what it is. We are all quick to condemn the place but when you get a reality check and look about the world you realise that actually we are one of the, if not the, greatest places in the World. Yes we have our dI don't know anyone who would have a flag outside their house or on their car.
Those that I have met who express a deep devotion to 'Inger-lund' have been racist, thug like, small minded people with very little grasp of history or geopolitics.
Same the world over, in my opinion, the more devoted you are to a country's identity the more intolerant you become.
Edited by jdw100 on Friday 21st November 10:10
Edited by jdw100 on Friday 21st November 11:31
heads but there aren't many other places in the World where you can be as free to be what you want or are without risking the state, let alone knuckle draggers, removing your liberty from you. I love this place and our mongrel nation. I would like to show it more visibly than I do but it is 'not the done thing' and there are too many with closed minds who prevent this. Last week I was in Barcelona. Walking around every where you went you could see people flying the Catalan flag. Offices, hotels, apartments, everywhere from the roughest a
hole of a back street flat to the plushest apartments. It is the same in almost every single European country. National and provincial flags everywhere. st in the USofA it seems a criminal offence not to have at least one set of Stars and Stripes on your property.Sorry but I have to say that experience has taught me to put the 'show no flags' group into the same pot as the 'Ingerlund' mob.
bxlbaz said:
blindswelledrat said:
jdw100 said:
handpaper said:
Assuming you meant that, I think you've demonstrated why making someone stateless is sometimes a perfectly reasonable act.
I'd have to agree with most of what he said.I don't know anyone who who have a flag outside their house or on their car.
Those that I have met who express a deep devotion to 'Inger-lund' have been racist, thug like, small minded people with very little grasp of history or geopolitics.
Same the world over, in my opinion, the more devoted you are to a country's identity the more intolerant you become.
Edited by jdw100 on Friday 21st November 10:10
The flags are quite a bit smaller and usually on poles coming off the house though, not a beach towel sized flag that's been pinned to a window ledge...
BrabusMog said:
The flags are still flying now, well they were last weekend when I went to my girlfriends' parents place.
The flags are quite a bit smaller and usually on poles coming off the house though, not a beach towel sized flag that's been pinned to a window ledge...
I think that this is possibly the differentiator. The whacking great 4mx6m flag nail gunned to the side of a house with text is unlikely to belong to the sort who understands the history of the flag and the country. The flags are quite a bit smaller and usually on poles coming off the house though, not a beach towel sized flag that's been pinned to a window ledge...
Bit like those who trot out the "St George wasn't even English you know" line. Well f
k me sideways. Next you'll be telling me that there are no dragons!Antony Moxey said:
What utter rubbish. I've had flags on my car and house during major football tournaments - doesn't mean anything other than I'm supporting my country's football team. If you think everyone that does this is as you describe, perhaps it's you who's the small minded one.
Sorry but nothing says chav so much as a cheap plastic flag on a car.Might just be here of course - I can't comment on, say, North of England.
Same in my experience in USA, my USA colleagues are quite mortified by the flag-waving, national anthem singing in restaurant types (yes I have seen this happen - very embarrassing!), America=freedom kind of people.
Just my view of course and yours may differ!
jdw100 said:
Antony Moxey said:
What utter rubbish. I've had flags on my car and house during major football tournaments - doesn't mean anything other than I'm supporting my country's football team. If you think everyone that does this is as you describe, perhaps it's you who's the small minded one.
Sorry but nothing says chav so much as a cheap plastic flag on a car.Might just be here of course - I can't comment on, say, North of England.
Same in my experience in USA, my USA colleagues are quite mortified by the flag-waving, national anthem singing in restaurant types (yes I have seen this happen - very embarrassing!), America=freedom kind of people.
Just my view of course and yours may differ!
I think some people just try too hard to be offended.
STW2010 said:
St John Smythe said:
Nobody totally weird but we do have 'bin man' that lives down the road. It's a terraced street but there is enough space for everyone to park generally. However, bin man always puts his bins out in 'his' parking spot whenever they go out, regardless if there are loads of spaces around or not. The other week a neighbour had parked outside his house (must have moved his bins or he forgot on that occasion). Instead of him using a nearby space he parked in the middle of the road and left his car there until the other neighbour moved. I'm really considering on moving his bins miles away one night after the pub for a laugh
Move his bins miles away. Replace them with a MASSIVE rusty van. Deny all knowledge.Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff