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Rental neighbours causing issues

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  • Dan-Dan
    Dan-Dan Posts: 5,279 Forumite
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    you wait till one scratches your car at the local hand car wash
    Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
  • freeisgood
    freeisgood Posts: 554 Forumite
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    Bantex you have issues. Why even mention the sex of their children or that they are two of them? That would so seem irrelevant according to you. You are just stirring. I read the opening post and read nothing into it. I have loads of Polish friends and colleagues. Didn't even occur to me that someone would see it as racist.
  • lighting_up_the_chalice
    lighting_up_the_chalice Posts: 9,615 Forumite
    freeisgood wrote: »
    Bantex you have issues. Why even mention the sex of their children or that they are two of them? That would so seem irrelevant according to you. You are just stirring. I read the opening post and read nothing into it. I have loads of Polish friends and colleagues. Didn't even occur to me that someone would see it as racist.

    Two trouble causing children will cause more trouble, like for like, than one. Boys tend to be more boisterous than girls. However, I don't believe the Polish have any specific characteristics that differ from any other European nationality.... So why mention it?
  • Bantex_2
    Bantex_2 Posts: 3,317 Forumite
    lighting_up_the_chalice wrote: »
    Two trouble causing children will cause more trouble, like for like, than one. Boys tend to be more boisterous than girls. However, I don't believe the Polish have any specific characteristics that differ from any other European nationality.... So why mention it?
    And then say would only mention in an email, but not in a letter. I am baffled as to the logic.
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    Being "not British born" could be an issue though - all countries have different laws. Maybe in another country it's common to have communal gardens and a lack of a fence means its communal.

    Maybe the neighbour simply doesn't understand boundaries without fences and their responsibilities to not cause a nuisance.

    It could be cultural, whichever country they're from .... or they could just be plain pig-ignorant t0ssers, which can apply to anybody from any country.
  • freeisgood
    freeisgood Posts: 554 Forumite
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    You are over reacting, and labeling someone as racist which is a disgusting thing to do quite frankly. Especially when he/she said they are not.
  • Bantex_2
    Bantex_2 Posts: 3,317 Forumite
    freeisgood wrote: »
    You are over reacting, and labeling someone as racist which is a disgusting thing to do quite frankly. Especially when he/she said they are not.
    Why not mention in a letter then?
  • lighting_up_the_chalice
    lighting_up_the_chalice Posts: 9,615 Forumite
    freeisgood wrote: »
    You are over reacting, and labeling someone as racist which is a disgusting thing to do quite frankly. Especially when he/she said they are not.

    Yet you seem free to label someone as over reacting.
  • freeisgood
    freeisgood Posts: 554 Forumite
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    Over reacting is not a "label". And ganging up on the OP and branding them a racist is putting a label on someone.
  • DRP
    DRP Posts: 4,287 Forumite
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    Blackpool_Saver wrote: »
    As soon as I heard the word Polish I lost sympathy, people are PEOPLE, the same all over. I have sympathy for the situation BUT anger for the mention of the word Polish. ALL the Polish I have met are really nice.

    That sounds a bit like you are generalising about the whole Polish race. :naughty:

    Unbelievable. ;)
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