Re: What's going on outside your house?

by cosmictanya Sun Mar 15, 2020 11:17 pm

A motorbike race has now begun out there. Why would anyone want to have such antisocial exhausts? I'm not a fan of banning things even if I strongly disapprove, but I can't see any need for that noise level to be legal.

by Guest Fri Mar 27, 2020 8:42 am

https://pitchfork.com/news/beatles-iconic-abbey-road-crosswalk-gets-repainted-because-nobody-is-outside/

What's going on outside your house? - Page 7 AbbeyRoad1_GettyImages-1214477921

What's going on outside your house? - Page 7 AbbeyRoad1_GettyImages-1214477921

by Guest Fri Mar 27, 2020 8:43 am

Actually they're doing something with the drains or something just around the corner. Yesterday I had to cross the road to avoid the workers ~~sunbathing~~.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sun Mar 29, 2020 10:28 pm

There are crows outside, making a racket. But you never hear crows at night. scared

by Guest Sun Mar 29, 2020 10:50 pm

They're planning their takeover.

by cosmictanya Sun Mar 29, 2020 11:34 pm

by cosmictanya Sun Mar 29, 2020 11:36 pm

by cosmictanya Mon Mar 30, 2020 2:19 am

Very strange goings on as I enjoyed a cigarette out of the window. Two dark and seemingly unmarked vans pulled up, blocking each exit to this part of the street. Out jumped armed police and a quick conclave with lots of hand direction signs in the street. A group of them then went to a door further down the road. Within five minutes they were heading back to their vehicles with five people in handcuffs behind their backs. Two women in one van, three men in the other.

They've driven off into the silent night. I heard things exactly like this used to happen in Stalin's Moscow.

by Fangirl Three Mon Mar 30, 2020 8:50 am

My neighbour's got his 'key worker' cone outside his house again. He wants people to think he's a nurse or something, but he works in admin at the hospital. I hate him.

by Guest Thu Apr 02, 2020 1:43 pm

Next door have got the builders in. Should I grass them up to the authorities?

by Fangirl Three Thu Apr 02, 2020 2:27 pm

You know you want to Handy Vlada

by Fangirl Three Thu Apr 02, 2020 7:53 pm

Fangirl Three wrote:My neighbour's got his 'key worker' cone outside his house again. He wants people to think he's a nurse or something, but he works in admin at the hospital. I hate him.

I carefully timed this evening's Survivors watch so it wouldn't be interrupted by the hour of the clap.

But now I've got the urge to drunkenly reel outside at 8pm and pick up the cone out of his front garden and batter his car with it, shrieking incoherently.

by cosmictanya Thu Apr 02, 2020 7:59 pm

I would.

I have, but I was married to the cars owner, and it wasn't a traffic cone, it was a couple of tins of white emulsion.

Are you watching the 70's version or the 00's version?

by cosmictanya Thu Apr 02, 2020 8:02 pm

What you could do is just pop out much later, and move the cone quietly and discreetly into a nearby skip/your own shed/other appropriate place.

I'm sure I saw on the news weather that an extra blast of winter is predicted, in which case I can't recommend a bucket of water on his front steps strongly enough.

Obviously I learned that from Home Alone, but I'm pleased to report that it does actually work.

by Fangirl Three Thu Apr 02, 2020 8:05 pm

cosmictanya wrote:I would.
Are you watching the 70's version or the 00's version?

70s. Hence the avatar. :abbyhaughty:

What you could do is just pop out much later, and move the cone quietly and discreetly into a nearby skip/your own shed/other appropriate place.

He's got another one stored in his back garden, I can see it from here.

by cosmictanya Thu Apr 02, 2020 8:09 pm

Oh of course it is, yes. I was wondering what that picture reminded me of.

If you can climb over the back fence without making a noise, I'd hide that one too.