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Post by dogbot on Jun 14, 2022 12:20:47 GMT
Tbh, I think quite a lot of people here just burn their garden waste.
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Post by nexus6 on Jun 14, 2022 12:26:30 GMT
Do none of you pay council tax? Paying these weird fees to privateers and opportunists to come collect your trash. They probably scour it for identity theft docs and discarded Polaroids to pleasure themselves. We pay council tax yeah. Our council say the garden waste wasn’t covered by their service and that’s why it’s an extra charge. It’s still the council picking it up |
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Post by cubby on Jun 14, 2022 12:28:05 GMT
Our council tax seems to go mostly towards the accountants who figure out how much it should go up next year. Because it certainly isn't spent on the roads or other useful things like that.
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Post by X201 on Jun 14, 2022 13:20:42 GMT
Furniture and similar is a paid for special collection here.
£18 for a mattress
£25 for a sofa and chairs
£28 for a fridge.freezer etc
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Post by nexus6 on Jun 14, 2022 13:23:50 GMT
Furniture and similar is a paid for special collection here. £18 for a mattress £25 for a sofa and chairs £28 for a fridge.freezer etc Extra if the chair has been shat on? |
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Post by cubby on Jun 14, 2022 14:51:16 GMT
Why would you want to get rid of such an important piece of history?
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Post by Dougs on Jun 14, 2022 14:52:21 GMT
£40 for 4 bulky items here. Sod that, I'll get my mate to give me a hand with his pick up.
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Post by freddiemercurystwin on Jun 14, 2022 15:22:37 GMT
/stealth I've got mates post.
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Post by dam on Jun 14, 2022 15:23:14 GMT
The rotation element works quite well actually. The blue and green and grey are generally full when going out which is ideal. There used to be only grey and brown bins and the rest in bags or boxes so double the bins means the garden isn’t set up for it. But I resent the extra tax in having to take the brown bin out I wanted to pay for 2 brown bins, but they wouldn't do it! I have to stop gardening after filling the one bin. It's a great excuse to leave stuff half done. To hear some of the outrage at the £40, you wonder how some of the people can afford living in their massive hooses.... They all forget it's a relatively new service. Then can go back to humping it all to the dump if they want.... |
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Post by Danno on Jun 14, 2022 15:31:51 GMT
/stealth I've got mates post. A mate with a pickup no less |
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Post by Dougs on Jun 14, 2022 15:41:53 GMT
He's a blind man. As in, he makes blinds, not unable to see.
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Post by Dougs on Jun 14, 2022 15:42:04 GMT
And yes, he may have heard the joke.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2022 15:44:20 GMT
good thing if he's the one driving you
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Post by nexus6 on Jun 14, 2022 16:16:07 GMT
The rotation element works quite well actually. The blue and green and grey are generally full when going out which is ideal. There used to be only grey and brown bins and the rest in bags or boxes so double the bins means the garden isn’t set up for it. But I resent the extra tax in having to take the brown bin out I wanted to pay for 2 brown bins, but they wouldn't do it! I have to stop gardening after filling the one bin. It's a great excuse to leave stuff half done. To hear some of the outrage at the £40, you wonder how some of the people can afford living in their massive hooses.... They all forget it's a relatively new service. Then can go back to humping it all to the dump if they want.... I think we are both ERC if memory serves? I don’t mind the cost too much but it is a bit annoying. Not ‘complain on Facebook’ annoying right enough. I know what you mean about the lack of space in the brown bin. I fill it after doing half of one side of the big hedge each year |
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Post by freddiemercurystwin on Jun 16, 2022 19:47:31 GMT
In a rare moment I'm half cut sat outside on the patio enjoying a peaceful(ish) evening, Mrs Mercury is out with her choir practice, youngest watching some shite on his tablet, eldest playing some online shite and as I look out across the valley our house backs onto there are probably about a hundred or thereabouts other houses that all have to listen to a rather dubious mix of shite(ish) music blaring away, I have to say it really doesn't bother me much as it's thankfully quite a distance away so actually not too intrusive but fuck me there are potentially literally hundreds of people they could be being annoyed. Cunts.
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Post by freddiemercurystwin on Jun 16, 2022 20:03:00 GMT
At least they're playing a bit of The Clash now and I think they've turned it down a little.
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Post by スコットランド on Jun 16, 2022 20:06:22 GMT
Sitting or seated.
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Post by スコットランド on Jun 16, 2022 20:07:44 GMT
I always wonder how people can be so oblivious , if I listen to anything loud it's automatic to worry about bothering someone...
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Post by Danno on Jun 16, 2022 20:12:00 GMT
At least they're playing a bit of The Clash now and I think they've turned it down a little. There is a negative chance of being able to enjoy a quiet time in the garden here. At least 3 households lock the Sesame Street UFC outside for a few hours from 7am and 6pm, there's the white reggae guy across the road and his rival, that just plays horrically autotuned ... shit... to drown out WRG's stuff, the constantly yelling child that sounds like it is being tortured (severe autism, the parents don't seem to be great at dealing given how much they yell back, but I can't comment from a position of knowledge) and the neglected cockatoo that screeches like nails on a blackboard. If it's hot then all of that happens at once. |
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Post by freddiemercurystwin on Jun 16, 2022 20:13:32 GMT
It's a mystery, I'm the same, although my kids are noisy as fuck but our adjoining (semi detached) neighbours are so laid back they're horizontal the others are grumpy as fuck so can do one. Thinking about getting the noisy little shits a trampoline?
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Post by freddiemercurystwin on Jun 16, 2022 20:16:16 GMT
At least they're playing a bit of The Clash now and I think they've turned it down a little. the constantly yelling child that sounds like it is being tortured (severe autism, the parents don't seem to be great at dealing giving how much they yell back, John that's not you next door is it? |
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Post by スコットランド on Jun 16, 2022 20:16:38 GMT
At least they're playing a bit of The Clash now and I think they've turned it down a little. There is a negative chance of being able to enjoy a quiet time in the garden here. At least 3 households lock the Sesame Street UFC outside for a few hours from 7am and 6pm, there's the white reggae guy across the road and his rival, that just plays horrically autotuned ... shit... to drown out WRG's stuff, the constantly yelling child that sounds like it is being tortured (severe autism, the parents don't seem to be great at dealing given how much they yell back, but I can't comment from a position of knowledge) and the neglected cockatoo that screeches like nails on a blackboard. If it's hot then all of that happens at once. You need to film it and sell it to Channel 5 as an Eastenders rival |
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Post by Danno on Jun 16, 2022 20:21:47 GMT
There is a negative chance of being able to enjoy a quiet time in the garden here. At least 3 households lock the Sesame Street UFC outside for a few hours from 7am and 6pm, there's the white reggae guy across the road and his rival, that just plays horrically autotuned ... shit... to drown out WRG's stuff, the constantly yelling child that sounds like it is being tortured (severe autism, the parents don't seem to be great at dealing given how much they yell back, but I can't comment from a position of knowledge) and the neglected cockatoo that screeches like nails on a blackboard. If it's hot then all of that happens at once. You need to film it and sell it to Channel 5 as an Eastenders rival I can only hear it. Fences and all that. Guess I could buy a drone but the urge to fit weapons to it for some peace and quiet would be a touch overwhelming |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2022 20:22:50 GMT
Danno been playing Watch Dogs Legion?
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Post by dfunked on Jun 16, 2022 20:23:59 GMT
Our neighbours a few doors down have a "pool" in a ridiculously skinny terraced garden. Can't see much of it, but it's some kind of raised thing that's barely deep enough to get your nads wet.
I normally catch a glimpse of it and think they're silly for wasting a huge chunk of their garden on that, but a couple of hours ago just stood at the window and thought "bastards!"
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Post by JuniorFE on Jul 13, 2022 16:45:07 GMT
Hey, I finally get to contribute to this thread!
So our next door neighbours, good friends (until now? That remains to be seen), came to us a couple days ago saying that they'd be making some renovations for a few days and apologizing in advance for the noise. All well and good, we're usually not even here in the mornings these days because we're either visiting my father in the hospital or running errands anyway.
Less well and good when today, here comes some idiot with a drill and hammer all of a sudden, pounding the hours away up to and including now... They did at least have a lunch break, evidently, but any chance of an afternoon nap (which we all needed) was well and truly shot hours ago...
I'm hoping it is indeed just a few days because we'll probably need to have words otherwise... If only because I'd rather not have someone in the house recovering from heart surgery (assuming the work takes long enough for Dad to come home) and having to deal with constant tool noises all the livelong day!
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Post by Dougs on Jul 13, 2022 17:25:20 GMT
Ain't much you can do about that other than suck it up. They had the good grace to tell you...and if it's hindering recovery, you could have a word I guess.
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Post by Nemesis on Jul 13, 2022 17:31:15 GMT
Gary upstairs can't just walk across the fucking room he has to let me know in exacting detail with every stomp just what direction he's heading.
Shut up Gary you Riverdance clomping cunt.
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Post by X201 on Jul 13, 2022 18:59:04 GMT
Thank you for having your music so loud that we could hear it in the next street.
Also, now that you’ve bugger’d off indoors, your Alexa is broadcasting “Low battery, please recharge” across the estate as well.
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Post by Nemesis on Jul 13, 2022 19:12:36 GMT
Go get it!
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