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Post by Aunt Alison on Nov 1, 2021 2:52:36 GMT
Apologies to conspiracy theorists but...
My neighbour is an elderly lady who is basically alright but after (I assume) having become ill or had some kind of accident, was away for a bit and now having returned, gets visits from some kind of carers at least twice a day. I don't know for sure if it's the same old lady but the window decorations are the same so I assume so (it'd be weird to move into someone else's house and keep stuff like that). Anyway, I gather she's no longer mobile and I haven't seen her out. I've only talked to her a little bit and been pulled in for chats/photo albuming a couple of times so she knows who I am. Recently she's had the TV on so fucking loud all day and night - literally only goes off when she gets visitors. I've just given up trying to sleep tonight, it's ridiculous. I'm sure she's sleeping right through it which I also find quite annoying.
I've never had to deal with a problem neighbour before and it's also tricky because I doubt she can answer the door and I also don't want to go round due to the covids anyway. How passive aggressive is posting a note through the door and how can I not sound like an arsehole doing so?
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Post by Tonka (🐑,🪤) on Nov 1, 2021 3:10:46 GMT
Dear neighbor
Turn off your tv at 9 PM
FFS
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Post by Aunt Alison on Nov 1, 2021 3:10:52 GMT
I thought I might start with
Dear Susan,
You hadn't been home for so long I thought you might have died. I'm glad you're OK. I see you've been getting some help and thought maybe you're unable to move around now. I didn't want to disturb you so thought I'd send you this letter instead. So your TV is a bit fucking loud.
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Post by Aunt Alison on Nov 1, 2021 4:49:19 GMT
I suppose I could avoid being passive aggressive by tying the letter to a brick and putting it through the window. If I aim for the television, I could kill two birds with one letter tied to a brick
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Post by dfunked on Nov 1, 2021 7:52:16 GMT
Dear neighbor Turn off your tv at 9 PM FFS Had this last night... Trying to get an early night for once but had the canned laughter from TBBT or some other shite seeping through the wall. Grrrr. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2021 7:53:01 GMT
Have a word with one of the carers next time you see them. It's probably them putting it on for her if she's immobile so she's "got something to keep her company" while they're not there.
That or the note.
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Post by GigaChad Sigma. on Nov 1, 2021 10:38:09 GMT
She's dying, her only companions? The TV and the occasional state sponsored carer.
You want to take away her one connection to humanity? Her one remaining pleasure in life?
You want her to spend her remaining days sitting quietly in the cold and dark terrified of moving in case the man next door might bang on the walls or her door.
Wow.
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Post by Aunt Alison on Nov 1, 2021 11:00:31 GMT
Basically
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Post by zagibu on Nov 1, 2021 11:12:01 GMT
I would sneak into her house in the night and install a power plug with a timer, so that the power to the tv is simply cut from like 23:00 to 07:00.
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Post by Aunt Alison on Nov 1, 2021 11:23:35 GMT
I would sneak into her house in the night and install a power plug with a timer, so that the power to the tv is simply cut from like 23:00 to 07:00. How much do you charge for your services? |
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Post by zagibu on Nov 1, 2021 12:25:20 GMT
I'm quite expensive, unfortunately, but I'm sure we can work something out *wink*
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Post by KD on Nov 1, 2021 15:21:53 GMT
Was sat out my back having a smoke listening to the girl next door complain about me to her mother. I'm mean apparently but tbh at least I do my bins proper, don't have a back garden full of dog shit and flies, don't leave a dog out in the rain and not a dick parking a work van in front of people's house windows.
Also unlike them I've not had police question neighbours about domestic fighting and screaming. I also own my house and not renting unlike them but yeah I'm mean.
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Post by dfunked on Nov 1, 2021 15:23:51 GMT
Spoken like a true meanie.
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Post by anephric on Nov 1, 2021 15:31:36 GMT
I also own my house and not renting unlike them but yeah I'm mean. This statement carries no weight unless I have an up-to-date property valuation Daily Mail-style so I can accurately judge what class you are, and if said location is 'leafy'. |
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Post by britesparc on Nov 1, 2021 15:33:15 GMT
We were staying in a hotel once, we'd had a little bit to drink, and in the middle of the night I got up to have a whaz. I was then - very slowly! - awakend a few hours later by someone banging, quite forcefully, on the door. It was hotel staff, who'd (apparently) already phoned the room several times and had been knocking for a good minute or two. Turns out when I went to the bathroom I'd left the light on, and therefore the extractor fan, and it was keeping the person in the adjacent room awake, so they'd complained to the front desk.
So loud it was keeping someone in the room next door awake, yet both me and my wife slept right through it, along with repeated attempts to get our attention.
Still quite proud of that.
I'm aware this is of no use to the OP.
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Post by Danno on Nov 1, 2021 15:34:42 GMT
Was sat out my back having a smoke listening to the girl next door complain about me to her mother. I'm mean apparently but tbh at least I do my bins proper, don't have a back garden full of dog shit and flies, don't leave a dog out in the rain and not a dick parking a work van in front of people's house windows. Also unlike them I've not had police question neighbours about domestic fighting and screaming. I also own my house and not renting unlike them but yeah I'm mean. You monster. |
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Post by KD on Nov 1, 2021 15:41:15 GMT
I also own my house and not renting unlike them but yeah I'm mean. This statement carries no weight unless I have an up-to-date property valuation Daily Mail-style so I can accurately judge what class you are, and if said location is 'leafy'. I can understand that, but it's just a respecting where you live thing, they don't and so over run with kids and pets it's a bit shit to live near, they are better than the coke dealing fuckers before them, these guys just do the stuff. Just wears you down after a while. |
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Post by anephric on Nov 1, 2021 16:53:55 GMT
The guy next door to me owns his house outright, bought with cash, no mortgage, and he's the absolute biggest prick I've ever encountered (and believe me, I have encountered many large pricks) so... I tend to find people are pricks wherever.
My mum lives in a posh area (not London, houses are £1m+) and she's been at war with nextdoor there (a finance guy) for years, literally a decade of litigation and bad blood and the neighbor on the other side moving out because of it. In the end, and this is a hedge-manager type, he started throwing his fag ends over the fence out of spite and having loud outdoor parties just to wind her up more.
The moral of the story - people are dicks in general.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2021 16:56:53 GMT
Remember, if you haven't got a cunt neighbour it means you're the cunt neighbour.
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Post by freddiemercurystwin on Nov 1, 2021 17:08:06 GMT
Was sat out my back having a smoke listening to the girl next door complain about me to her mother. I'm mean apparently but tbh at least I do my bins proper, don't have a back garden full of dog shit and flies, don't leave a dog out in the rain and not a dick parking a work van in front of people's house windows. Also unlike them I've not had police question neighbours about domestic fighting and screaming. I also own my house and not renting unlike them but yeah I'm mean. Clearly more to this, why does she think you're mean? |
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Post by sport✅ on Nov 1, 2021 17:24:59 GMT
Was sat out my back having a smoke listening to the girl next door complain about me to her mother. I'm mean apparently but tbh at least I do my bins proper, don't have a back garden full of dog shit and flies, don't leave a dog out in the rain and not a dick parking a work van in front of people's house windows. Also unlike them I've not had police question neighbours about domestic fighting and screaming. I also own my house and not renting unlike them but yeah I'm mean. Clearly more to this, why does she think you're mean? The guy's an arsehole, fred. |
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Post by richardiox on Nov 1, 2021 17:26:10 GMT
FHUTA
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Post by bindipper3d on Nov 1, 2021 17:29:05 GMT
My gripe is not on the scale of some of the others on here - but still infuriating.
Our next door neighbour died of old age a few years ago and left the house to a friend in his will. The friend is a builder and because the property needed some TLC he's basically been using the front and rear gardens as his "yard" ever since. He is very, very slowly doing up the property, but after 2 years we are getting tired of the constant noise, mess and endless streams of skips, portaloos and vans.
I've been very friendly to the guy since he started work, but in the spring I suggested to him that it might be nice if he got the job finished before the neighbours (i.e. me and the rest of the residents in our street) started to revolt. He assured me he'd be done in three months.
Here we are in November, and the mess is worst than ever. Surely there has to be regulations in place to prevent this sort of stop/start work when it's winding everyone up and actually impacting people's ability to sell their property.
Anyone have any experience of this? I'm at the point of getting on to the council, but not sure what rights we have.
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Post by sport✅ on Nov 1, 2021 17:38:10 GMT
Get your gloves on and help the poor fella out, FFS!
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Post by sport✅ on Nov 1, 2021 17:39:03 GMT
Like the Amish.
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Post by Danno on Nov 1, 2021 17:40:33 GMT
bindipper3d Would have thought you'd be jumping for joy at all those skips It likely falls under nuisance laws, which vary a bit by local authority amd unless it's interfering with your property/environment you're probably SOL. Worth digging around your council's website
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Post by freddiemercurystwin on Nov 1, 2021 17:56:37 GMT
It could be just like the scene from Witness if you and the neighbours helped him out. Talk about mean.
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Post by anephric on Nov 1, 2021 18:00:34 GMT
Yep, the aforementioned prick guy next to me is a builder and spent about a year fucking around with his house. Endless skips, hiabs, aggregate being dumped, days of him levelling the garden etc. Endless noise for something that could have been done in two weeks by a proper gang.
There's home improvement, and then there's wanting to murder someone because he's smashing up panes of glass for the third week running in a skip ten feet from your bedroom window at 7.30am on a Saturday morning.
He's a massive prick, basically. My missus made a mealy-mouthed quiet sort of complaint to him (we'd already spoken several times in a friendly way before that) and he absolutely exploded at her - he's been endlessly condescending and patronising towards her since then.
He's absolutely your stereotypical builder cunt, complete with St George flag flapping in the breeze and tinnies of Carling and screaming at the football on the radio in his garden. His missus is an absolute fishwife. He pretty much turned his front garden into his business's yard as well (not sure how legal this is) so he's forever there preparing materials for his next job, endless lumber being sawed etc.
You may have established by now I fucking despise him.
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Post by freddiemercurystwin on Nov 1, 2021 18:20:02 GMT
Sounds like you may have found your next builder for your extension.
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Post by zagibu on Nov 1, 2021 18:47:01 GMT
He pretty much turned his front garden into his business's yard as well (not sure how legal this is) so he's forever there preparing materials for his next job, endless lumber being sawed etc. That is definitely not legal. At least it wouldn't be where I live (which is not GB, thankfully). |
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