Neighbour finds our christmas lights "annoying"...

Welshwoofs

catkins wrote: »

My nets are quite nice and certainly do not make everything inside dingy - that is just a ridiculous comment.

It's not a ridulcous comment at all because unless nets are 100% transparent they will obviously cut down the light in the room. It does make me chuckle however that you're getting your knickers in a twist just because someone doesn't like net curtains and you happen to have them.....why does it matter?

You really are a snob aren't you?

I have already said I'm a snob. Twice in fact. Having said that I'm also hamming it up a bit as I have to admit that I'm finding it amusing just how much and how easily people are getting wound up about their decoration choices being disliked. It's odd just how much people seem to feel the need to have their choices validated by others.

Also do you never go away and leave the house empty? Someone who has seen what you have may decide to come back and steal it but then again in the idyll you live in that is probably unlikely

Why would I worry about getting burgled? The house is locked up if I'm away and if someone breaks in well....that's what contents insurance is for. And yes it is unlikely, there has been a burglary in the last 3 years - anti-social behaviour and car thefts, yes. Burglary, no.

rhubarbpie wrote: »

Net curtains provide privacy or just decorate the room. It is nothing to do with wanting them because you live in an area with a high crime rate or nosy neighbours.

*I* didn't say they were anything to do with crime or nosy neighbours, someone else did. I have no idea why anyone would want them under any circumstance. Horrid things.

pimento

Call them voiles and buy them in John Lewis and they're OK...

adouglasmhor

Welshwoofs wrote: »

No, a Neapolitan Mastiff is not a 'chav' dog. In fact I doubt you'd ever have seen one; they're pretty rare.

I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I don't own a parka, pajamas or Ugg boots. Oh, we don't have a park either.

I have seen several - drug dealers and thugs like them and I first saw one over 10 years ago in Tralee, they used to be very popular with highland lairds in the time of the Jacobite risings but I never saw one till I was in my late 30s. Probably see about one a week - not as exclusive as you seem to think. As you don't own a parka and Uggs do you just wear your shell suit and trainers while walking it?

Welshwoofs

pimento wrote: »

Call them voiles and buy them in John Lewis and they're OK...

Hell no, they're still pointless bits of material blocking the view whatever people choose to call them and wherever they're bought.

They go into my mental bucket of 'pointless crud' along with toilet roll covers, tea bag strainers and the fashion of having a dozen bloody cushions on the bed to 'dress' it.

pimento

Is there anything you don't think is pointless or naff? I have a mental image of you looking like this..

adouglasmhor

Having a dog the size of a small horse and pooh piles to match.

Seriously they are lovely dogs and good natured though, just become a status dog for some bad'uns. Doesn’t mean I really think WW is a chav or a townie or a crook.

Welshwoofs

adouglasmhor wrote: »

I have seen several - drug dealers and thugs like them and I first saw one over 10 years ago in Tralee, they used to be very popular with highland lairds in the time of the Jacobite risings

Neapolitan Mastiffs were not introduced to the UK until the 1970s so it would have been a wee bit difficult for highland lairds to have them during the Jacobite uprisings.

As you don't own a parka and Uggs do you just wear your shell suit and trainers while walking it?

Nice try but no biscuit douglas. I own no shellsuit nor any trainers :P

Welshwoofs

pimento wrote: »

Is there anything you don't think is pointless or naff? I have a mental image of you looking like this..

Yes, that's me on the right.

Here's something else I think is pointless - personal insults because you don't like somebody else's opinions on home decor.

Marisco

Welshwoofs wrote: »

Hell no, they're still pointless bits of material blocking the view whatever people choose to call them and wherever they're bought.

They go into my mental bucket of 'pointless crud' along with toilet roll covers, tea bag strainers and the fashion of having a dozen bloody cushions on the bed to 'dress' it.

Must agree with the pointless stuff - apart from teabag strainer!!!!!!!:eek: I had one in work, well it was a "squeezer" really:D Is your dog a "Hooch" type dog? One used to pass my work every day, nice dogs apart from the drooling!

adouglasmhor

Welshwoofs wrote: »

Neapolitan Mastiffs were not introduced to the UK until the 1970s so it would have been a wee bit difficult for highland lairds to have them during the Jacobite uprisings.

Nice try but no biscuit douglas. I own no shellsuit nor any trainers :P

They were re-introduced, they brought them back from their "Grand Tours".

From wiki (I know not the best source),

The Neapolitan Mastiff is one of the Molosser type of dogs, which probably descend from a common stock; whether this was the Molossus attested in antiquity is controversial.

Despite centuries of popularity throughout Europe, this type of dog was almost lost after World War II.

They are specifically mentioned in the writings of Neil Munro - in his novel New Road and as he died in 1930 it's unlikely he saw one in the 70s and wrote about it.