Why do stupid people light bonfires during the day?

PinkLipgloss

squidge60 wrote: »

Maybe its best its only the bonfire that your neighbour lights when you see this......:eek::rotfl:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1215108/Couple-phone-Lanzarote-telling-garden-moved--door.html

ROTFPMSL :rotfl:

Some people have the most bizarre thought processes...."Neighbours are off on holiday - I know I'll steal all their garden stuff and put it in my garden!"

tandraig

if you always smell of smoke anyway you obviously dont mind it. some people do - those who live in suburban areas do - as they are usually 'smoke free zones'. and they dont paint their faces with wattle and daub - or was that your hovels (sorry meant houses)

geordie_joe

PinkLipgloss wrote: »

ROTFPMSL :rotfl:

Some people have the most bizarre thought processes...."Neighbours are off on holiday - I know I'll steal all their garden stuff and put it in my garden!"

You mis-read the article, the neighbours had gone to live in Lanzarote for good and were never coming back.

One of their mothers was checking the house in between them going and it being sold.

So now the neighbour is holed up in his house thinking "B*gger, if it wasn't for the mother I would have got away with it"

PinkLipgloss

ah - shouldn't have skimmed it (ooops!)

It makes a lot more sense now!

tbw

tandraig wrote: »

you think that was rude????

where were you brought up? by cistercian monks?

oh - and dont call my OH a !!!!!! - he is lovely - but i bet a lot bigger than you and was known as local rugbys teams 'hard centre'.
that was uncalled for and if you want to take me on - better than you have tried - and failed!

You and your DH appear to be just a touch beligerant - I'm beginning to feel sorry for your neighbours!

Stompa

maninthestreet wrote: »

No need for bonfires at all, IMO. They should be banned.

Given that I don't recall seeing anyone light a bonfire in at least 20 years, I had assumed that they were. It seems I was wrong though.

geordie_joe

PinkLipgloss wrote: »

ah - shouldn't have skimmed it (ooops!)

It makes a lot more sense now!

Don't worry, we all do that.

Skim read I mean, not nick our neighbours gardens

tandraig

tbw wrote: »

You and your DH appear to be just a touch beligerant - I'm beginning to feel sorry for your neighbours!

naw - we are laid back really - i even got her washing in for her if it rained -even tho she was in the house! she claimed to be agrophobic - but then i found out she had mobility car! agrophobic my a***
oh i get it you and spartacus mills ARE mr and mrs weird - you just too gutless to say it to our faces.

davidlizard

I confess that I have a bonfire fairly regularly. So do most of our neighbours, and theres often half a dozen going on a given weekend evening.

For us in our road, there is no other practical (and legal) way to get rid of garden rubbish - the council give us a tiny bin for garden waste which gets emptied every two weeks. I could easily fill 10 of these per week. The nearest dump is a 30 mile round trip, plus probably a queue of almost an hour.

Down our road, there is a sort of bonfire etiquette that is followed:
- No bonfires during the week.
- No bonfires before 5pm.
- No bonfires if the wind is blowing towards the houses so the street/cars look like Pompeii.
- No bonfires overnight in summer - if its still smoldering at 10, then put the hose on it so people can sleep with windows open.
- No bonfires if someone has a party on (except bonfire parties).
- If you have a need to get rid of anything particularly nasty, then burn it on bonfire night when everyone else is burning whatever they have had hanging around all summer and have been wanting to get rid of.

Down our road, everyone is fairly tolerant of bonfires, as we are all in the same boat regarding getting rid of the rubbish, and fortunately our gardens are fairly long so its not near houses.

tbw

tandraig wrote: »

naw - we are laid back really - i even got her washing in for her if it rained -even tho she was in the house! she claimed to be agrophobic - but then i found out she had mobility car! agrophobic my a***
oh i get it you and spartacus mills ARE mr and mrs weird - you just too gutless to say it to our faces.

I didn't say you weren't helpful - I said you and your DH appear a touch beligerant, given that he made what could easily be taken as an inflamatory comment when replying to the neighbour and you leap up on your horse and start making threatening comments on here.

I don't know spartacus, I'm not weird, I just believe that consideration, politeness and not making silly threats is a more laid back way of doing things.

I don't quite see the relevance of your final sentence - i haven't a clue who you are and I'm pretty sure you aren't one of my neighbours (thank God!) so I can hardly say anything to you face to face.