Odd things your neighbours do?

[jas xjr]

RobinBanks said:

rambo19 said:

Nope, I do the same.
Radio 4 is additive.

Yeah. I use it instead of Redex.

Hoho

Whilst radio 4 is addictive , I pull up on the drive and leave the radio on whilst I turn on the radio app on my phone. I thought everybody did that

Edited by jas xjr on Thursday 25th December 10:43

[jas xjr]

RobinBanks said:

rambo19 said:

Nope, I do the same.
Radio 4 is additive.

Yeah. I use it instead of Redex.

Hoho

Whilst radio 4 is addictive , I pull up on the drive and leave the radio on whilst I turn on the radio app on my phone. I thought everybody did that

Edited by jas xjr on Thursday 25th December 10:43

[The Nur]

jas xjr said:

Hoho

Whilst radio 4 is addictive , I pull up on the drive and leave the radio on whilst I turn on the radio app on my phone. I thought everybody did that

Depends how far off the show is from finishing for me. If they are wrapping up I'll stay in the car for a bit, if not I'll transfer to the app.

[Blown2CV]

on the subject of weird behaviour from older people, how much do we think might be attributable to medication? Clearly they are more likely to be taking a massive cocktail of drugs every day just to stay alive, some might have odd side-effects...

[The Nur]

Blown2CV said:

on the subject of weird behaviour from older people, how much do we think might be attributable to medication? Clearly they are more likely to be taking a massive cocktail of drugs every day just to stay alive, some might have odd side-effects...

Remember that older people have also had more time available to them to turn weird naturally. The medication just furthers this.

[Blown2CV]

The Nur said:

Blown2CV said:

on the subject of weird behaviour from older people, how much do we think might be attributable to medication? Clearly they are more likely to be taking a massive cocktail of drugs every day just to stay alive, some might have odd side-effects...

Remember that older people have also had more time available to them to turn weird naturally. The medication just furthers this.

this too, and loneliness will definitely contribute. Go visit your elderly weird neighbours today, you might (stress might) be glad you did. They might even be glad themselves!!

[ESOG]

Blown2CV said:

Indeed. Amazing in a country of so many 'patriots' that no-one gives a fk about St George's Day. They'd all rather stick stupid green hats on and drink guinness on 17 March, or adopt stupid american traditions and holidays... or start celebrating Xmas in October because the shops tell us to. But no, I've got a FLAG and I will tt you if you question me about it. So there we go.

There are no flags where I live either on houses or cars, and I am sure there is no less feeling of genuine Englishness, but quite possibly it isn't the same Englishness felt in the council estates.

Anyway back to your fking weird neighbours!!

Edited by Blown2CV on Saturday 22 November 16:10

So, just curious, but what specifically are the "stupid American holidays" you speak of that is emulated?

[jimbop1]

Dr Murdoch said:

Apt username...

My neighbours son (40ish) comes to visit fairly regularly, all he does when he is there is walk up and down the front path, for hours. He will get to the front gate, look right then left, walk back towards the house.....then repeat.

Most bizarre to witness, I think he is a bit mental, poor bugger

made me laugh.

[Jasandjules]

Our new neighbours like to talk. Isn't that sweet?

Well, no, because they just talk to each other. Very loudly. On their driveway.

When I say loud, I mean my kitchen door is around 100 feet away, but if I step out to call the cats in, I can "listen in" to their conversation. Not sure why they don't prefer to chat inside their own house.

Oh, and this isn't the "once in a blue moon" type of event, but 3-4 times a day. It can be at 6am, or 11pm.

[br d]

The Nur said:

jas xjr said:

Hoho

Whilst radio 4 is addictive , I pull up on the drive and leave the radio on whilst I turn on the radio app on my phone. I thought everybody did that

Depends how far off the show is from finishing for me. If they are wrapping up I'll stay in the car for a bit, if not I'll transfer to the app.

I do this. Once I'm on the drive and in my WiFi zone I stick radio 4 on in the kitchen through Sonos. It runs about 10 seconds behind the normal broadcast so I grab my stuff from the car, lock up and pick it up in the house where it left off in the car.

[The Nur]

br d said:

I do this. Once I'm on the drive and in my WiFi zone I stick radio 4 on in the kitchen through Sonos. It runs about 10 seconds behind the normal broadcast so I grab my stuff from the car, lock up and pick it up in the house where it left off in the car.

I fking love modern technology.

[Spare tyre]

one of mine has started parking their car on the verge despite there being ample space

i'd say there are about 3 times more spaces than cars, annoying as it just chews up the grass for no gain

[RobinBanks]

Mine has started playing that Frank Skinner football song loud. On repeat. I always check to see if there's a big match on when he does, but I usually don't find anything

He must just really like the song

[Catweazle]

MartG said:

Johnnytheboy said:

In my view, part of being English involves not making a big deal about being English.

This - we don't need to make a big song and dance about it as we instinctively know we are the best

https://youtu.be/EdY1Y5XNJBY

[Spare tyre]

Have some new ish neighbours a couple of doors up, they keep going to about 4 houses either side of them asking if they have their parcels

I say I've not seen any delivery vans yet and if I do take it in I'll bring it round asap

They just look at you as if you've stolen their parcel

So they come back an hour or so later asking, and you ask what the card says, they just look at you confused and say there is no card, this can repeat for days.

I'm tempted to start sending them spot cards!

[toon10]

I have a neighbour who can't turn right onto her drive so she drives her Corsa to the bottom of the street, reverses around the cul-de-sac and then drives onto her drive from the left (which is harder as she has to swing out.) It makes no sense. She can't reverse off the drive without going straight onto my next door neighbours drive either rather than turning the wheel. I wondered why her husband always parks outside his next door neighbours house rather than his own but he's probably safer away from her manouvers!

[thetapeworm]

One of my retired and seemingly bored neighbours decided to trim about 1ft of my perimeter hedge the other day - I can't work out why he's done it as it doesn't appear to offer any benefit to anyone or give increased visibility of anything from anywhere. He's also done it in a curve whereas I'm much more of a 90 degree angle kind of chap.

When he goes out at some point this week I'm going to paint half of his front door pink.

[All that jazz]

My neighbour evidently has some sort of car door lock paranoia which amuses me and my friends greatly. Despite his car having remote central locking he always grabs the drivers door handle 3 times as he walks from his boot to his house to check it's locked, but then upon reaching his doorstep will then return all the way back to his car and grab the door handle an additional 3 times before returning back to his house and finally going inside. It's EVERY single time he uses it and it's funny to watch .

[Timmy40]

Not necessarily odd, but unpleasant, I used to live next to a South African chap, he was nice enough, but one summer morning I heard a bizzare gurgling/growling sound and went to the window investigate and there he was in his dressing gown, urinating in the middle of his lawn, belching loudly and holding a can of lager. This was a work morning at about 7am.

Classy.

[BigsimonY]

My neighbor has a self locking and opening car. Every time he parks up he jumps out and walks up to my kitchen window and put his key/card thing on the sill, then run back to make sure the car is locked. It always is!!!