Are a blessing.
Lovely hot Sunday here, so it's time for me to mow our front and back lawn. Don me hat and put on some lawn mowing music* on the i-pod. Within five minutes of starting the wheels come off my mower, literally. So I'm standing there trying my own way of fixing things, which isn't working too well. (Hitting it with a hammer and swearing at it. It never works, but it downs make me feel better.)
Our Bogan neighbours notice this and come across. Pat and his son then spend thirty minutes trying to fix it for me. But as its knackered beyond fixing, and needs several new parts, it's beyond even these major petrol head's ability to resuscitated it. So I thank them, and come inside, secretly glad that I've got out of doing the lawns for a while.
Hen calls me to the window, Pat is on our front lawn, with his turbo-charged super-mower and is about to start mowing it for me! I rush down and thank him, but insist I do it for myself or I'll be very embarrassed, (honest I would.)
So I get the use of Pat's super-mower and piss through the front and back lawns in a quarter of the time it would normally take.
When we first moved into the house, one day while I was at work , Hen went out to mow the lawn, but accidentally burned her arm on the mower exhaust.(Quite badly, she still has the scar.) That time Pat came over, while Hen was unaware as she was in the bathroom running cold water over the burn, he did mow the whole bloody lot for us.
Lovely people, I've offered them that if they ever go mad, I'll sort them out in return.
The people next door on the opposite side however, are a pair of weird cunts.
What are your neighbours like?
*Grand Funk Railroad, "Live Album."
Bogan neighbours
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Re: Bogan neighbours
Love Pat and Carmel.
Am suspicious of Mr and Mrs Shorts, Socks, Sandals and Headlamp.
They're a weird lot.
Am suspicious of Mr and Mrs Shorts, Socks, Sandals and Headlamp.
They're a weird lot.
Bah!
Re: Bogan neighbours
Most of my neighbours are feral mountain people... all hair, Acca Dacca tees, and more tatts than teeth.
The neighbour to my left is a diamond bloke who would do anything for you while the neighbours on the other side are complete twats who we've had a couple of run-ins with...
The neighbour to my left is a diamond bloke who would do anything for you while the neighbours on the other side are complete twats who we've had a couple of run-ins with...
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
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MajGenl.Meade
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Re: Bogan neighbours
To the right - acacia thorn trees and a nice termite mound
To the left - a guy named Johan who's an air force 'copter fixer and angler and his wife who works down at the resort. I think we've spoken on four separate occasions over the year although he did take me fishing one afternoon.
Behind - a kopje with three dams atop
Front - trees, road, trees, high wall, two damn noisy invisible yappy dogs presumably owned by invisible deaf persons
Peripatetic - a rooster and five to eight hens who visit fairly regularly but never bring a contribution
To the left - a guy named Johan who's an air force 'copter fixer and angler and his wife who works down at the resort. I think we've spoken on four separate occasions over the year although he did take me fishing one afternoon.
Behind - a kopje with three dams atop
Front - trees, road, trees, high wall, two damn noisy invisible yappy dogs presumably owned by invisible deaf persons
Peripatetic - a rooster and five to eight hens who visit fairly regularly but never bring a contribution
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
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Our lots have an odd shape so "neighbor" isn't just left and right.
Lovely (retired Swedish couple with very nice old dog)
Lovely (older couple in Spanish house with enormous tree the local peregrines like to perch on.)
Very nice (emeritus professor of chemistry at UCSC with 3 startup companies)
Transient ( rental on opposite side, usually pretty nice people and they don't mind the beehive so that's alright )
Lovely (retired Swedish couple with very nice old dog)
Lovely (older couple in Spanish house with enormous tree the local peregrines like to perch on.)
Very nice (emeritus professor of chemistry at UCSC with 3 startup companies)
Transient ( rental on opposite side, usually pretty nice people and they don't mind the beehive so that's alright )
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North side is a youngerish widow. Never causes any distress. South side is Ken and Laurie. Ken had to quit work because his heart is failing. Needs a transplant but for that to take place the biggest player in the NFL would have to donate. To the rear are the quiet ones. We chat about 2 times a year over the back fence. Cattycorner SW are the neighbors from hell. If I am ever found to have a terminal condition I will be leaping into their yard with Molitov cocktails and lobbing them through their windows. I will be declared a heroine by the other neighbors as the house goes up in flames. SE cattycorner have a sometimes yappy Jack Russel but not often.
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Why am I not surprised? 
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
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Did you give them all shotguns as presents?Jarlaxle wrote:No neighbors at all.
Sometimes it seems as though one has to cross the line just to figger out where it is
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We are so lucky to have the neighbors we have. To the east is a young (to me, anyway... 
) couple with two little boys. To the west another young couple with two little dogs. Next to them, a newly single 30ish guy, and next to him, a very sweet couple in their early 60s. The neighborhood is fairly old, and most of the houses were built in the late 1800s, on tiny little lots. (So tiny that my kitchen window is about 8 feet from my neighbors to the west...) We bump into each other quite frequently and have nice chats, and there are exchanges of excess garden veggies, lending of tools and garden advice, and trading of cat and chicken sitting (I have three hens who finally started laying eggs last week, and the neighbors with the kids also have three hens). We do a progressive dinner party at Christmas time, which includes some of the folks around the corner, and a block party every summer on the (one block long) street around the corner.
It's without a doubt the nicest neighborhood I've ever lived in, and I hope we never have to move!
) couple with two little boys. To the west another young couple with two little dogs. Next to them, a newly single 30ish guy, and next to him, a very sweet couple in their early 60s. The neighborhood is fairly old, and most of the houses were built in the late 1800s, on tiny little lots. (So tiny that my kitchen window is about 8 feet from my neighbors to the west...) We bump into each other quite frequently and have nice chats, and there are exchanges of excess garden veggies, lending of tools and garden advice, and trading of cat and chicken sitting (I have three hens who finally started laying eggs last week, and the neighbors with the kids also have three hens). We do a progressive dinner party at Christmas time, which includes some of the folks around the corner, and a block party every summer on the (one block long) street around the corner.It's without a doubt the nicest neighborhood I've ever lived in, and I hope we never have to move!
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Re: Bogan neighbours
Living in suburbia for the past five years has been a much different experience than the city and inner-ring towns we came from. The (immediate) neighbors here are nice enough, but don't really socialize. On the left, Mike and Abby are in their mid-40s and childless; Mike likes to tend our chickens when we're away (he gets all the eggs). On the right, Juan and Ivory are recent arrivals from another inner-ring town, with three small children (much younger than ours). The oldest has some learning disabilities and as a result goes to a different school than our -- and other neighborhood --kids do. They are cordial, but their lives are centered mostly on their family and church. Across the street is Norm, a retired electrical engineer who is seldom seen. Behind us is an Orthdox synagogue and religious school.
In our old neighborhoods, everyone was much friendlier, in and out of each others' houses all the time; we had block partes, card parties and last-minute barbecues with each other on summer evenings; we'd hang at the playgorunds and schools and watch each others' kids. It's much different in this town -- people keep to themselves here. A different culture, I guess, but to me it's weird.
In our old neighborhoods, everyone was much friendlier, in and out of each others' houses all the time; we had block partes, card parties and last-minute barbecues with each other on summer evenings; we'd hang at the playgorunds and schools and watch each others' kids. It's much different in this town -- people keep to themselves here. A different culture, I guess, but to me it's weird.
GAH!
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MajGenl.Meade
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Sue, surely you didn't live on Kipling Road in Southwark?
"Their next door neighbour was Mrs April Simnel"
(Exterior in street; interviewer and Mrs Simnel. Line of gas men behind)
Mrs Simmel: "Kipling Road was a typical sort of Eastend street, people were in and out of each other's houses with each other's property all day. They were a cheery lot"
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
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I decided I wanted no neighbors after dealing with, at various times...MajGenl.Meade wrote:Why am I not surprised?
A family of fundie lunatics.
A couple that engaged in screaming matches at all hours.
A family with nine children that was even louder.
A shiftless drunk that took a shit in my driveway.
A peeping Tom, and, the final straw...
A "family" of drug dealers.
That's when I started looking in the real estate listings for the words "rural location".
Though at this point, I wish I hadn't bought my house. Much as I love it...I could rent a nice place to live just for the property tax I'm paying.
Treat Gaza like Carthage.
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Jarl, I can't speak for RI, but rents around here have skyrocketed the last several years, while my property taxes have held steady.
As is typical in beach neighborhoods, the lots are very small here. There are five homes (including mine) which all have abutting "backyards" read -- small patios/decks and then there is a two-flat on one side of me. The two-flat folks have always been quiet and polite, although I rarely see them (which is fine with me). My "backyard" neighbors are all terrific -- three of them are summer folk, so they aren't around much now; a different three grew up in town, and the now summer cottage was their family home at one time; two of them have siblings and/or parents on the same street; and the one directly behind me -- who is a foreigner like me -- is one of the friendliest people I've ever know. He will help anyone with anything. And he brings me lobster!
All in all, I've done well in the neighbor department, and I'm thankful for that.
As is typical in beach neighborhoods, the lots are very small here. There are five homes (including mine) which all have abutting "backyards" read -- small patios/decks and then there is a two-flat on one side of me. The two-flat folks have always been quiet and polite, although I rarely see them (which is fine with me). My "backyard" neighbors are all terrific -- three of them are summer folk, so they aren't around much now; a different three grew up in town, and the now summer cottage was their family home at one time; two of them have siblings and/or parents on the same street; and the one directly behind me -- who is a foreigner like me -- is one of the friendliest people I've ever know. He will help anyone with anything. And he brings me lobster!
All in all, I've done well in the neighbor department, and I'm thankful for that.
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
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Why, someone getting married?keld feldspar wrote:Did you give them all shotguns as presents?Jarlaxle wrote:No neighbors at all.
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rubato
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Don't know bout that, it was more a commentary on how he insists someone stick a shotgun in their mouth...rubato wrote:Why, someone getting married?keld feldspar wrote:Did you give them all shotguns as presents?Jarlaxle wrote:No neighbors at all.
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rubato
Sometimes it seems as though one has to cross the line just to figger out where it is
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Jarlaxle wrote:I decided I wanted no neighbors after dealing with, at various times...MajGenl.Meade wrote:Why am I not surprised?
A family of fundie lunatics.
A couple that engaged in screaming matches at all hours.
A family with nine children that was even louder.
A shiftless drunk that took a shit in my driveway.
A peeping Tom, and, the final straw...
A "family" of drug dealers.
That's when I started looking in the real estate listings for the words "rural location".
Though at this point, I wish I hadn't bought my house. Much as I love it...I could rent a nice place to live just for the property tax I'm paying.
Well that's understandable. One question: did the drunk return it to you?
Meade
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Re: Bogan neighbours
One side (north) is a rental house. It's the house (ex-bungalow) the owner grew up in. Nobody living there at the moment. Previous tenents were never around. Tenents before them were great (went to their wedding) and is the son of the people living on the other side (south) of me.
On the south is the grandson of the lady who lived there for 50 years. When she passed, the grandson got/bought (don't know which) the house and lives there with his wife. Behind us is one of my kids teachers who are retired. Don't see them that much as there is a big hedge between the properties. Across the street is another rented house and they are great. Me, the guy across the street and the grandson to the south go motorcycle riding together.
All in all a nice block.
On the south is the grandson of the lady who lived there for 50 years. When she passed, the grandson got/bought (don't know which) the house and lives there with his wife. Behind us is one of my kids teachers who are retired. Don't see them that much as there is a big hedge between the properties. Across the street is another rented house and they are great. Me, the guy across the street and the grandson to the south go motorcycle riding together.
All in all a nice block.