Odd things your neighbours do?
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Roofless Toothless said:
Spare tyre said:
Roofless Toothless said:
Why does it always seem to be bin day wherever you go on Google Earth Street View?
You talk rubbish, you wheelie do
Dashnine said:
Google use the refuse trucks to mount the StreetView cameras on as they cover the whole local area.
Good Lord, I didn't know that. That would tend to explain why Street View is so often either on the wrong side of the dang road or right in the middle of it. I only ever saw one at work, several years ago. It was a big contraption on top of a wee Vauxhall van.
Using the yuck-trucks seems like a sensible wheeze on the face of it.
Blimey, the things you can learn by accident eh!
RicksAlfas said:
Maybe urban SUVs will soon be fitted with "bin bars" to ram the offending bin out of the way?
Our neighbours constantly leave their bins for days, often until myself our one of the others on the shared development drags them the 20 feet to their door.A week or so ago the bin men left one partially blocking the drive, our neighbours are constantly in and out so must have driven around it two or three times.
If I’d been in the Landy I would have launched it into orbit on my way home from work
markymarkthree said:
Amazing how many on here have their bins emptied before 0730. WTF do the binmen do after 0730 ?
PS my bins are emptied at 0705, as we are sixth house after the start of the round.
Our rubbish is collected before 8, the recycling goes between 10 and 11, and the garden waste between 12 and 1.PS my bins are emptied at 0705, as we are sixth house after the start of the round.
The Wookie said:
Our neighbours constantly leave their bins for days, often until myself our one of the others on the shared development drags them the 20 feet to their door.
A week or so ago the bin men left one partially blocking the drive, our neighbours are constantly in and out so must have driven around it two or three times.
If I’d been in the Landy I would have launched it into orbit on my way home from work
I can confirm an old Landie makes an excellent weapon for moving errant wheelie bins. The recycling boxes not so much, as they tend to go under the wheels and get squashed A week or so ago the bin men left one partially blocking the drive, our neighbours are constantly in and out so must have driven around it two or three times.
If I’d been in the Landy I would have launched it into orbit on my way home from work
The Wookie said:
RicksAlfas said:
Maybe urban SUVs will soon be fitted with "bin bars" to ram the offending bin out of the way?
Our neighbours constantly leave their bins for days, often until myself our one of the others on the shared development drags them the 20 feet to their door.A week or so ago the bin men left one partially blocking the drive, our neighbours are constantly in and out so must have driven around it two or three times.
If I’d been in the Landy I would have launched it into orbit on my way home from work
There was a skip on their grass for months, gradually being filled but with cardboard just lobbed on the top, we had heavy winds and it was blown all over the street, along with other crap which had been happening for months due to the building works, I went round one day as we (residents) were just pissed off with having crap from their skip being blown into our front gardens, no answer so I gathered a load up and posted it through their letterbox and piled some up on their step.
There has been an old plastic loft cold water tank on their lawns for ages, I found it in the road one day, I just put it back across their front door.
Odd though as the house, whilst it is on a generic 60's estate, they clearly aren't short of a bob or 2 as they had extensive renovation works carried out over the course of 12m and the house itself sold (assuming to them) for £466,000 in October 22.
Our urban street housing was built in the 60s when there were fewer cars. Many houses now have driveways instead of front gardens, but most of these places have at least one late teens/early twenties offspring with a car who refuse to leave home, so street parking is at a premium.
We have one neighbour who seem to spend half their life making sure their two cars are in “their” place on the street, despite having a driveway on one side of their house which they never use .
Now there’s visitors in the street due to the time of year they have run some string across this driveway with “Warning: Private Parking” on some bunting.
USE YOUR f
kING DRIVEWAY YOU SELFISH ttS
These are the same couple who, after a large snowfall followed by most of the street’s residents (not them) spending a whole morning clearing snow, complained loudly about how the job wasn’t good enough. I don’t anyone has talked to them since,
We have one neighbour who seem to spend half their life making sure their two cars are in “their” place on the street, despite having a driveway on one side of their house which they never use .
Now there’s visitors in the street due to the time of year they have run some string across this driveway with “Warning: Private Parking” on some bunting.
USE YOUR f
kING DRIVEWAY YOU SELFISH ttSThese are the same couple who, after a large snowfall followed by most of the street’s residents (not them) spending a whole morning clearing snow, complained loudly about how the job wasn’t good enough. I don’t anyone has talked to them since,
generationx said:
Our urban street housing was built in the 60s when there were fewer cars. Many houses now have driveways instead of front gardens, but most of these places have at least one late teens/early twenties offspring with a car who refuse to leave home, so street parking is at a premium.
We have one neighbour who seem to spend half their life making sure their two cars are in “their” place on the street, despite having a driveway on one side of their house which they never use .
Now there’s visitors in the street due to the time of year they have run some string across this driveway with “Warning: Private Parking” on some bunting.
USE YOUR fkING DRIVEWAY YOU SELFISH ttS
These are the same couple who, after a large snowfall followed by most of the street’s residents (not them) spending a whole morning clearing snow, complained loudly about how the job wasn’t good enough. I don’t anyone has talked to them since,
Next time you'll have to make sure that the mounds of snow go right in front of and behind their cars!We have one neighbour who seem to spend half their life making sure their two cars are in “their” place on the street, despite having a driveway on one side of their house which they never use .
Now there’s visitors in the street due to the time of year they have run some string across this driveway with “Warning: Private Parking” on some bunting.
USE YOUR f
kING DRIVEWAY YOU SELFISH ttSThese are the same couple who, after a large snowfall followed by most of the street’s residents (not them) spending a whole morning clearing snow, complained loudly about how the job wasn’t good enough. I don’t anyone has talked to them since,
SunsetZed said:
generationx said:
Our urban street housing was built in the 60s when there were fewer cars. Many houses now have driveways instead of front gardens, but most of these places have at least one late teens/early twenties offspring with a car who refuse to leave home, so street parking is at a premium.
We have one neighbour who seem to spend half their life making sure their two cars are in “their” place on the street, despite having a driveway on one side of their house which they never use .
Now there’s visitors in the street due to the time of year they have run some string across this driveway with “Warning: Private Parking” on some bunting.
USE YOUR fkING DRIVEWAY YOU SELFISH ttS
These are the same couple who, after a large snowfall followed by most of the street’s residents (not them) spending a whole morning clearing snow, complained loudly about how the job wasn’t good enough. I don’t anyone has talked to them since,
Next time you'll have to make sure that the mounds of snow go right in front of and behind their cars!We have one neighbour who seem to spend half their life making sure their two cars are in “their” place on the street, despite having a driveway on one side of their house which they never use .
Now there’s visitors in the street due to the time of year they have run some string across this driveway with “Warning: Private Parking” on some bunting.
USE YOUR f
kING DRIVEWAY YOU SELFISH ttSThese are the same couple who, after a large snowfall followed by most of the street’s residents (not them) spending a whole morning clearing snow, complained loudly about how the job wasn’t good enough. I don’t anyone has talked to them since,
They must have to go out at some point and if they moved one of their cars I would be moving one of my cars there:"I'm very sorry Vikingette2, when I take you back to Uni you're going to have to have luggage on your lap for 4.5 hours in the Shed, because the Passat Estate is parked in the d
head neighbours space..."Another neighbours parking complaint:
We have a single car driveway, which Mrs. TeeGTI uses. Next door to us, our neighbours have a double drive which for years had a shipwreck of a boat on a trailer using up all available space - thankfully this has now gone but the nickname "shipwreck" remains.
Between ourselves and five other neighbours (all with either single or double drives) we have four visitor parking spaces. If there's one available, I'll park there or if not, I'll park on the road outside my house.
Now the shipwreck has gone, the shipwreck neighbours only park one of their cars in the middle of their double drive. They have five cars within the household, all daily driven (kids are old enough to drive and each have a car, parents cars + a grandparent lives with them). Only parking one car on their own drive is daft and slightly annoys me, but it's their drive and they can do as they wish.
Some of the other neighbours with a single drive also have a second car, meaning the four visitor spaces are always used. When these spaces are full and the shipwreck neighbours still have cars to park, they will abandon their car outside our house, usually half way on the pavement. This is what really P's me off.
We have a single car driveway, which Mrs. TeeGTI uses. Next door to us, our neighbours have a double drive which for years had a shipwreck of a boat on a trailer using up all available space - thankfully this has now gone but the nickname "shipwreck" remains.
Between ourselves and five other neighbours (all with either single or double drives) we have four visitor parking spaces. If there's one available, I'll park there or if not, I'll park on the road outside my house.
Now the shipwreck has gone, the shipwreck neighbours only park one of their cars in the middle of their double drive. They have five cars within the household, all daily driven (kids are old enough to drive and each have a car, parents cars + a grandparent lives with them). Only parking one car on their own drive is daft and slightly annoys me, but it's their drive and they can do as they wish.
Some of the other neighbours with a single drive also have a second car, meaning the four visitor spaces are always used. When these spaces are full and the shipwreck neighbours still have cars to park, they will abandon their car outside our house, usually half way on the pavement. This is what really P's me off.
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Dashnine said:
Google use the refuse trucks to mount the StreetView cameras on as they cover the whole local area.
Good Lord, I didn't know that. That would tend to explain why Street View is so often either on the wrong side of the dang road or right in the middle of it. I only ever saw one at work, several years ago. It was a big contraption on top of a wee Vauxhall van.
Using the yuck-trucks seems like a sensible wheeze on the face of it.
Blimey, the things you can learn by accident eh!
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