The moan about your neighbours thread - Stool Bloke returns...

[Dual]

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I've just picked up a new pressure washer from screwfix. Any tips?

[Victor Mildew]

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I've just picked up a new pressure washer from screwfix. Any tips?

Save it until the weekend, preferably run it from about mid day until just after tea time when the best of the weather has gone.

[Vermilion]

All hell broke loose for a few mins here last night, stool bloke's immediate neighbour (the one with the drunken skank wife with the awful laugh) ran out into the street and started shouting and swearing at a guy who lives across the way. From what i could gather it was (among other things) to do with parking, and got so heated i half expected him to punch the guy's lights out.

This street is fast becoming a tinderbox.

[Victor Mildew]

All hell broke loose for a few mins here last night, stool bloke's immediate neighbour (the one with the drunken skank wife with the awful laugh) ran out into the street and started shouting and swearing at a guy who lives across the way. From what i could gather it was (among other things) to do with parking, and got so heated i half expected him to punch the guy's lights out.

This street is fast becoming a tinderbox.

"Are you the strawberry floater who's been taking photos of stool bloke?!"

"Wait no, I don't know what you're talking about!"

*shows grcade on phone* "this angle looks like it's from your window!"

"But but" *gunshot*

[Albert]

[Prototype]

We have party animals in our stair now. A whole block of young families who are generally are decent people and then these clowns.Partying til half 5 this morning and a Just Eat order arriving at 7:30am

[Jenuall]

Double whammy of horror from one of our neighbours.

Someone nearby has been gardening for majority of the last two days which has not been a problem for the most part except they have now decided that instead of listening to Radio 2 at a relatively quiet volume they now need to blare out the soundtrack to Fame on repeat, and they've gotten bored of the basic pruning and planting jobs that they were doing and have turned their attention to spreading what I can only assume is some grade A manure all over their garden.

Stepping out in to my garden now both smells and sounds like pure gooseberry fool. They just need to hang a picture of Dominic Cummings over the fence to complete a trifecta of gooseberry fool spreading for the eyes, ears and nose!

[Victor Mildew]

Fame and manure, together at last!

It's pretty quiet here today thankfully, but then it is Friday so I assume most are working (I have an unpaid day off).

[Jezo]

I need your help guys. Next door have a young kid, probably like 4-7 years old or something. Every so often we would get woken up by him screaming his head off. More recently though, it's been happening almost every day. On the weekdays it's not so bad, cause you know, gotta get up for work anyway. But this weekend's been the last straw. Yesterday, a Saturday, we woke up to "DADDYYY I CAN'T HEAR YOUUUU" multiple times before it was even 8AM. I wish I had screamed back "BUT WE CAN strawberry floating HEAR YOU". He's always calling for his 'daddy' in the most obnoxious way. The neighbourhood we live in has a bunch of young kids, but we don't hear any other kid. There's a big dog the next door down that howls and barks on occasion and they're not even as loud as this kid. I think it was howling this morning because of the kid being so loud. This morning we were woken up at 9. Not terrible, but sometimes you're just exhausted and want a nice lie in, yanno? When the dog started howling this morning at like 9:30 it seems like they all went inside and now we can't hear the kid. Idk if that's just a coincidence, but the dog stopped when they did too. But it's too strawberry floating late. We're up and we're cranky.

[Jenuall]

My kids wake me up at 6 every day, this concept of "lie in" confuses me.

[Victor Mildew]

I get up at 5.40 every day, and my friends who have kids get up later, then tell me they get so little sleep and I have no concept of being tired.

[Qikz]

I get up at 8:30 every day for work now and like 10AM on weekends. I don't think I could ever handle having kids in terms of the sleep changes, strawberry float that.

[Prototype]

I need your help guys. Next door have a young kid, probably like 4-7 years old or something. Every so often we would get woken up by him screaming his head off. More recently though, it's been happening almost every day. On the weekdays it's not so bad, cause you know, gotta get up for work anyway. But this weekend's been the last straw. Yesterday, a Saturday, we woke up to "DADDYYY I CAN'T HEAR YOUUUU" multiple times before it was even 8AM. I wish I had screamed back "BUT WE CAN strawberry floating HEAR YOU". He's always calling for his 'daddy' in the most obnoxious way. The neighbourhood we live in has a bunch of young kids, but we don't hear any other kid. There's a big dog the next door down that howls and barks on occasion and they're not even as loud as this kid. I think it was howling this morning because of the kid being so loud. This morning we were woken up at 9. Not terrible, but sometimes you're just exhausted and want a nice lie in, yanno? When the dog started howling this morning at like 9:30 it seems like they all went inside and now we can't hear the kid. Idk if that's just a coincidence, but the dog stopped when they did too. But it's too strawberry floating late. We're up and we're cranky.

I'm up no later than 7am every day and i've got a 4 year old and I wouldn't stand for her doing that as we live in flats and I know how much that gooseberry fool carries. She understands the concept of keeping her voice down and not jumping about until it's at least 9am.

What is speaking to your neighbours going to achieve though? If they haven't bothered teaching them not to act like that before now, it's unlikely speaking to them will change this. Only you know what they're like though.

My neighbours have 3 kids and they slam doors all the time but i've already had words with them about using a tumble dryer 7 hours a day. That's stoppped now and so I figure ive used my complaint card already.

It's absolutely annoying as strawberry float but at the end of the day, kids gonna be kids.

The other thing to consider is that perhaps the child has learning difficulties and his/her parents are sick of this gooseberry fool as well and have tried to get the kid to stop. It is surprisingly difficult to reason with someone of that age.

[Drumstick]

I am certainly far more tired in general now as a parent than I ever was before. It is not just the sleep deprivation, it's the actual parenting that can be exhausting. I don't know if non-parents can understand how mentally gruelling it can be.

I get up at 5.40 every day, and my friends who have kids get up later, then tell me they get so little sleep and I have no concept of being tired.

Case in point.

[Moggy]

I was shocked this morning as my 4 year old was up at 8am. The lazy little gooseberry fool isn't normally up until 9.30/10am.

He's a pain in the arse when going to bed though, he won't go to bed early, he'll still be awake at 11pm or later and nothing we've tried has worked with getting him to sleep earlier.

[7256930752]

I get up at 5.40 every day, and my friends who have kids get up later, then tell me they get so little sleep and I have no concept of being tired.

Same although it's 4.50. Getting up at 8.30 world be the dream scenario lay in.

[Zilnad]

Getting up between 5 and 6 every morning ensures I get a couple of quality hours gaming done every day.

[Victor Mildew]

I am certainly far more tired in general now as a parent than I ever was before. It is not just the sleep deprivation, it's the actual parenting that can be exhausting. I don't know if non-parents can understand how mentally gruelling it can be.

I get up at 5.40 every day, and my friends who have kids get up later, then tell me they get so little sleep and I have no concept of being tired.

Case in point.

3 posts before someone went for it

[Victor Mildew]

Fingers crossed for some sort of quiet day today. It's like people were taking turns to be extra noisy yesterday. On of the gatherings we could loudly hear had a woman in it who was laughing hysterically at everything that was being said, but it wasn't funny stuff. It was like Richie from bottom laughing at everything.

"we had the new boiler put in, and the guy was late"

"....hah ah aha hah AHAHAAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHHA HE EHE EHEHEHEEH!"

[Drumstick]

Party neighbour has gone out. Whether it's for shopping or to party at someone else's place (for once), I'm not sure. Hopefully the latter.

No noise from pressure wash neighbour yet either, although he was banging away with a hammer for several hours yesterday, at what I don't know, which led me to say the following to my wife, loud enough for him to hear:

"How, HOW can one guy need that many nails?"

It stopped shortly after.

Edit: FFS, party neighbour is back and the music has started.