Annoying Covid-19 things your neighbours are doing to drive you to the brink.

Blazer

That reminds me that I must wash the car. I’m thinking at least 3-4 hours to give me a break from the missus and kids.

secondrowgal

Irish Water asking people to CONSERVE water - stop with all the fecking power washing lads...

josip

spookwoman wrote: »

If animals can get corona I hope the f*ck the neighbours dog gets it. Bad enough before but now people dropping their kids off from about 7am and she is leaving the psychotic little 1/2 breed out a lot more and this thing barks every time a sparrow farts.

Sounds like the dog skipped sparrow farting in socialising class when it was a pup.
Buy a dog whistle and blow it whenever the dog is inside, especially late at night when they're all asleep.
It will do nothing to fix the outdoor sparrow farting barking, but it will give you some satisfaction that your neighbours are now experiencing your pain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_whistle

dd973

Have one of those 'old woman' gob****e sort of blokes next door, out jet washing the front area of his house a few days back attracting curious and disapproving looks from passers by, talks nineteen to the dozen to all and sundry, he had a couple of council workers doing pre-arranged work outside his house the other day and true to form he was out there yapping away, not conforming to social distancing.

Rest of his clan are good as gold and you barely see them, it's funny how you get couples where either the bloke or the woman are like this and the spouse is almost the complete opposite.

1800_Ladladlad

secondrowgal wrote: »

Irish Water asking people to CONSERVE water - stop with all the fecking power washing lads...

All I have seen is the request from IW asking for people to conserve water by turning the tap off during the recommended period of 20 seconds a person is to wash/scrub there hands. That and the usual request for the c conservation of water in the bathroom. I haven't seen any notice for water conservation during this pandemic. Maybe I haven't seen what you have, but link?

dhaughton99

At it again with the power washer today. Past 3 hours to do the 4 ft x 24 ft path.

colm_mcm

Driving on their own in the car with a dust mask on.

greenpilot

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

It’s all yard work/gardening.

First World Problems.

colm_mcm

colm_mcm wrote: »

Driving on their own in the car with a dust mask on.

Saw someone in a 4x4 yoke doing similar today- they looked like a fool

ticklebelly7

I'm in central London where even the cats are on lockdown.

My neighbour, who is otherwise a nice person, obviously thinks she can bring the Brits out to sing like the Italians did. So we had Danny Boy through the front window at full bellow the other day. Unfortunately she can't hold a tune in a bucket. And those high notes probably put a few of the local magpies off mating this year.
Nobody seemed inclined to join in.
So next day she was out in the front garden and this time it was the Leonard Cohen classic: Hally Loo Hoo Hoo Hoooooooo Yaaaaah!
It was beautiful - like an orchestra of angle grinders.

I'm just waiting for Angels by Robbie Williams and I'm making a run for it, immuno-compromised or not.

un5byh7sqpd2x0

SteM wrote: »

Went to bring the dogs for a walk after work this afternoon and there was a woman up road standing out the front talking to her next door neighbour, both of them were wearing their pajamas. Then her daughter came out to join them and she was in her pajamas too.

Are things so bad that people aren't bothering to get dressed now?

I haven’t put trousers on in 4 weeks

Larbre34

ticklebelly7 wrote: »

I'm in central London where even the cats are on lockdown.

Images circulating widely of busy Tube trains every day suggest otherwise.

WTF is going on over there?

trisha e

ticklebelly7 wrote: »

I'm in central London where even the cats are on lockdown.

My neighbour, who is otherwise a nice person, obviously thinks she can bring the Brits out to sing like the Italians did. So we had Danny Boy through the front window at full bellow the other day. Unfortunately she can't hold a tune in a bucket. And those high notes probably put a few of the local magpies off mating this year.
Nobody seemed inclined to join in.
So next day she was out in the front garden and this time it was the Leonard Cohen classic: Hally Loo Hoo Hoo Hoooooooo Yaaaaah!
It was beautiful - like an orchestra of angle grinders.

I'm just waiting for Angels by Robbie Williams and I'm making a run for it, immuno-compromised or not.

This really have me a good laugh,thank you. I worry about my daughter who's frontline in HSE

odyssey06

colm_mcm wrote: »

Driving on their own in the car with a dust mask on.

Too lazy to hoover it

ablelocks

Blazer wrote: »

That reminds me that I must wash the car. I’m thinking at least 3-4 hours to give me a break from the missus and kids.

would you not send them out to clean the car - you'd definitely get a minimum of a 5 hour break.

feck, that reminds me, I better call mine back in. It's a gone a bit chilly.

em_cat

Have to say, I’m in stitches over this thread... We unfortunately live in an area where pjs during the day is the norm & apparently these circumstances don’t effect the drug trade. To answer the op, they exist, end of.

secondrowgal

1800_Ladladlad wrote: »

All I have seen is the request from IW asking for people to conserve water by turning the tap off during the recommended period of 20 seconds a person is to wash/scrub there hands. That and the usual request for the c conservation of water in the bathroom. I haven't seen any notice for water conservation during this pandemic. Maybe I haven't seen what you have, but link?

Yeah, that's it - they want us to turn off taps. I'm pretty sure that doesn't also mean "turn off the taps for the 20 seconds but work away with the 4 hour power washes lads"

JustAThought

watched my nice neighbour and this two toddler kids yesterday do ‘yard chores’ - I could smell them at it before I saw the smoke. Their chores entailed the toddlers sprinkling petrol or similar from little tin wateringcans on the leaves lying around the garden and the daddy coming along after with a welders blowtorch and burning them off :0 I **** you not. The little toddlers in their romper skisuits then poked at the burning leaves with little sticks to keep them in the flowerbeds and off the lawn. You couldnt make it up.

I left the back window when the smoke plume was 40 ft in their air - I couldn’t bear to watch anymore :0

Some people don’t need carona virus to be crazy.

amadangomor

JustAThought wrote: »

watched my nice neighbour and this two toddler kids yesterday do ‘yard chores’ - I could smell them at it before I saw the smoke. Their chores entailed the toddlers sprinkling petrol or similar from little tin wateringcans on the leaves lying around the garden and the daddy coming along after with a welders blowtorch and burning them off :0 I **** you not. The little toddlers in their romper skisuits then poked at the burning leaves with little sticks to keep them in the flowerbeds and off the lawn. You couldnt make it up.

I left the back window when the smoke plume was 40 ft in their air - I couldn’t bear to watch anymore :0

Some people don’t need carona virus to be crazy.

Farkin hell. Think you win the craziest neighbour contest hands down.

josip

JustAThought wrote: »

watched my nice neighbour and this two toddler kids yesterday do ‘yard chores’ - I could smell them at it before I saw the smoke. Their chores entailed the toddlers sprinkling petrol or similar from little tin wateringcans on the leaves lying around the garden and the daddy coming along after with a welders blowtorch and burning them off :0 I **** you not. The little toddlers in their romper skisuits then poked at the burning leaves with little sticks to keep them in the flowerbeds and off the lawn. You couldnt make it up.

I have a possibly misplaced admiration for this dad

1800_Ladladlad

secondrowgal wrote: »

Yeah, that's it - they want us to turn off taps. I'm pretty sure that doesn't also mean "turn off the taps for the 20 seconds but work away with the 4 hour power washes lads"

Again, please provide links to the IW requests where they have implemented water restriction measures rather than subjective witless opinions

ThewhiteJesus

Living.

secondrowgal

1800_Ladladlad wrote: »

Again, please provide links to the IW requests where they have implemented water restriction measures rather than subjective witless opinions

Nice. Quarantine must be getting to you as you’ve descended into insults with zero provocation.

I hope you & your family are safe & well.

Here’s a link where they ask for general conservation. Even if it’s not explicit it’s surely common sense that power washing uses a lot of water. And since IW are asking us to conserve water and using turning off taps while washing our hands as an example, excessive power washing is excessive usage.

https://www.google.ie/amp/s/amp.independent.ie/world-news/coronavirus/call-to-turn-off-tap-while-washing-to-save-supply-39059974.html

MOH

Thought whoever's in the apartment above my bedroom had decided lockdown was the perfect time to learn to play guitar. Since realised it's closer to a banjo. Either way, same two notes, over and over and over .... I was getting quite close to this during the week.
Now think they might also have bought a treadmill.

irishgrover

secondrowgal wrote: »

Nice. Quarantine must be getting to you as you’ve descended into insults with zero provocation.

I hope you & your family are safe & well.

Here’s a link where they ask for general conservation. Even if it’s not explicit it’s surely common sense that power washing uses a lot of water. And since IW are asking us to conserve water and using turning off taps while washing our hands as an example, excessive power washing is excessive usage.

https://www.google.ie/amp/s/amp.independent.ie/world-news/coronavirus/call-to-turn-off-tap-while-washing-to-save-supply-39059974.html

In fairness, given the current circumstance, if you come on here and say that IW are requesting water conservation, it gives the impression (accidental or otherwise) that IW has explicitly asked people to conserve water, above and beyond that standing general request of "please don't waste water".
This could easily lead to false rumors and cause the same idiots who panic stock pile toilet roll to do the same with water, to start randomly filling their baths with water and telling other idiots that he government is about to start rationing water.

secondrowgal

Ah lads. In fairness if IW give an example of turning off taps to conserve water and also say they’re seeing high demand, is it not logical to assume that the message is conservation? Do we really need an exhaustive list? That press report was very short and sweet. If ye don’t agree, no bother. We’ll just agree to disagree.

Anyway, as I said, I hope ye are all safe and well.

s1ippy

Our neighbours are putting an extension on their house. They moved out last week and the builders started work, tearing the back of the house down. It was inconvenient having noise from 8am to 6pm all day every day while I'm trying to work from home and they even worked through last weekend.

I was sympathetic but relieved last night at the announcement to say the builders wouldn't be arriving this morning. Several could be heard coughing hard constantly. When I was putting stuff in the wheelie bin in between our two houses yesterday, I overheard one saying to another than one of the lads they work with is in self isolation. I have a lot of sympathy for builders in all of this and I hope those lads didn't catch anything from their colleague.

There was a knock at the door today, the first person to call to our house in weeks. It was one of the neighbours to say that the man who lives on the other side noticed their front door was open this morning and he called the Gardaí. We had noticed them cruising by earlier but thought they were just doing an inspection of the area. The neighbour said that somebody stayed in the house last night and it looks like they intended on staying tonight as well.

There are a lot of junkies around here, three murders on the road in the last six months including one homeless man decapitated so we're fairly freaked about tonight.

Igotadose

Neighbor with holiday home down the road, who is never here, is here staying in the holiday home. Said home is 'overdressed' for the neighborhood - new paved driveway with the only automatic gate around, despite a very short distance between the road and the gate, like, you can barely pull off in their mondo Range Rover SUV anyway, might as well get out and open the gate.

Today, day 1 of 'lockdown,' one of the more disreputable local 'handymen' is over there drilling in the side of their house, apparently installing some sort of electrical service like an outside electrical box. He was there most of the day, too, showed up around 10 and left around 5. He's well known for poor work especially electrical, and badly ripping off people that hire him.

The local handyman seems to also run an ad-hoc errand/delivery service, we see him driving back and forth to the local big town pretty regularly. So, nicely done neighbor, despite the instructions from the govt you had someone show up all day doing nonessential work for you, someone likely to be bringing Covid in from elsewhere.


Rumor has it, the homeowners in question are Doctors. I doubt it, not with this behavior. ****.

lawred2

Igotadose of curtain twitching and begrudgery

Power washing again today. You can believe it or not believe it or ask me hole, but like clockwork again. Only did about half the time today though.