Neighbours

[raemiel]

So i can get banned for telling the truth?

Sounds fair.

No, you'd get banned for perpetuating a racist stereotype that serves to belittle Korean and Asian people in general.

Anyway, I havent really met my neighbours yet (recently moved out of home into an apartment with a friend's boyfriend) as I never run into them on the staircase. One of them I love though since they have an unsecured wireless network and I currently have no job to pay for internet. One house always leaves its flyscreen open which blocks the whole staircase though so I make an effort to slam it every time I walk past...hasn't happened in a while.

 

[fix-the-spade]

Our neighbours robbed us. While we were in the house.
All they got was a wallet with five dollars in it, but even though we recognised them, the police couldn't do anything because it was our word against theirs.

So the Police weren't willing to do anything, sounds like an excuse to pay them a visit with a baseball bat and some cable ties, written confession in no time...

They sounded like lovely neighbours.

 

[Khedive Rex]

It's impossible to have a really good neighbor. Think about it, they're either openly crazy and ruining your life OR they're friendly, normal and quiet.

Friendly, normal and quiet is how every mass murder in the last century has been described by the people who lived next to them. I don't take chances. If my neighbor was always waving when he saw me, and never playing loud music and generally living an upright and respectable life, I'd take him out with my trusty sniper rifle. Better him than me!

Fortunately, all my neighbors have been horrendous so we've gotten along ... well badly. But without unnecessary bloodshed.

 

[Knight Templar]

My nextdoor neighbor is fucking hot, shes a junior

There are some differences between UK English and US English that make moments like these slightly uncomfortable.

(Junior in UK English is 7-10 year old)

Yikes. To be honest I read it the first time and thought he said "Janitor."

Hard to type, laughing! Wait what if he is english?

Anyway I seriously think my neighbours are drug dealing cat thiefs.

No really.

 

[BlazeTheVampire]

There USED to be panty vending machines, but those were removed rather recently. In any case, they only sold women's underwear.

... Just wow. See what knowledge is at the hands of an Asian Studies major? I pay thousands of dollars to know these things.

OMG it's on teh intarwebs it must b tr00!

Do you see the flawed logic in "It's on the internet, so it must be true"? Come on, Khell, I know you're smarter than that.

Everyone always uses the panty vending machine as a Japanese stereotype, not realizing that they stopped the manufacturing of them. It stays on the internet so people have something to make fun of.

 

[Saskwach]

There USED to be panty vending machines, but those were removed rather recently. In any case, they only sold women's underwear.

... Just wow. See what knowledge is at the hands of an Asian Studies major? I pay thousands of dollars to know these things.

Dude, you got ripped. There's this thing called the Interweb, Interplace, Inter... Inter something, and you can learn all sorts of things for free on it. Like how to build a pipebomb from household chemicals, what's the best way to euthanize catgirls, and even where to find pornz. Weeeeee!

 

[MRMIdAS2k]

So i can get banned for telling the truth?

Sounds fair.

Or is it? [http://www.snopes.com/critters/edibles/tourist.asp]

Yes it is.

I've seen a show called "Travel Sick" in which Grubb Smith goes round the world and samples some of the weirder/disgusting things about their culture.

During the show, he had raced an ostrich, camels, snails and crabs, has found the worlds most disgusting toilet (and cleaned it with a toothbrush) eaten snakes, scorpions, cockroaches, dog, larvae and all other types of stuff.

On the show, he had to send his korean guide into a back street restaurant to get his dog, as they're not keen on serving it to westerners with a camera crew.

and as for the negativ stereotype, I think we should all lighten up about that.

I'm from yorkshire, as a result of that, I'm supposed to be a hard-drinking, wife beating, breeder of whippets/pidgeons who works down a mine, wears a flat cap, and shortens every word possible.

Personally, I really don't give a fuck about the stereotype, but will go along with the joke if someone asks me if I do work down a mine, or breed whippets or whatever.

 

[fix-the-spade]

I'm from yorkshire, as a result of that, I'm supposed to be a hard-drinking, wife beating, breeder of whippets/pidgeons who works down a mine, wears a flat cap, and shortens every word possible.

pff, whippets? You must be from South Yorkshire then lad. 'Ere oop North we breed Jack Russel's. Then use 'em t'beat'ar'wives...

Last year I was living in an apartment block, where most of the flats on my floor were inhabited by people I worked with or went to Uni with. Best Neighbours ever. Best year ever.

 

[Girlysprite]

I've been living in old schools and offices for a while. One of these places I had a child day care on the floor right above my room, so every morning around 9 o'clock I would awake at the noise of a dozen toddlers running around.

Really, whats up with the phrase 'pitter patter of little feet', cause I know that toddler do *not* pitter-patter.

 

[Drong]

my Neighbor opposite is the original nosy neighbor and the biggest gossip this world has ever seen.

The guy who used to live next door was in his early 30's and when he broke up with his long term girl friend he took to inviting kids of school leaving age (15/16/17) round his for all night parties and goes in his hot tub and stuff like that, kids running around the back garden naked and nearly naked, had the cops out to him all the time and on one occasion we got so pissed off with it that we threw a couple of smoke greandes over the wall.

Eventually he moved out and we have a nice family living there now.

 

[MRMIdAS2k]

my Neighbor opposite is the original nosy neighbor and the biggest gossip this world has ever seen.

The guy who used to live next door was in his early 30's and when he broke up with his long term girl friend he took to inviting kids of school leaving age (15/16/17) round his for all night parties and goes in his hot tub and stuff like that, kids running around the back garden naked and nearly naked, had the cops out to him all the time and on one occasion we got so pissed off with it that we threw a couple of smoke greandes over the wall.

Eventually he moved out and we have a nice family living there now.

and you didn't invite these drunken naked teens over WHY?!?!?!?!?!?!?

 

[BlazeTheVampire]

my Neighbor opposite is the original nosy neighbor and the biggest gossip this world has ever seen.

The guy who used to live next door was in his early 30's and when he broke up with his long term girl friend he took to inviting kids of school leaving age (15/16/17) round his for all night parties and goes in his hot tub and stuff like that, kids running around the back garden naked and nearly naked, had the cops out to him all the time and on one occasion we got so pissed off with it that we threw a couple of smoke greandes over the wall.

Eventually he moved out and we have a nice family living there now.

and you didn't invite these drunken naked teens over WHY?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Methinks that having parents present might make things a teeny bit awkward.

The people caddy-corner from us have two young children. I'd say in the ball park of 7 and 5. Their black lab puppy escaped this morning, and upon seeing a five year old in a pink dress running after it, I went out to help. We live on a busy street, so I didn't want the puppy to run off and get hit. Not only did that little five year old not want me ANYWHERE near her puppy, but I never did catch the thing either. Her brother did, luring it with a pig's ear. When they got to the porch, he started beating the shit out of that puppy. This seven year old boy was hitting the puppy! And then it hit me: where were his parents, anyways? Or even a babysitter!? Why were these kids alone!? And outside, on a busy street!? And where did that kid learn to beat the dog!? Not even a "no" hit, I know those, he was BEATING the puppy! So we're going to watch them a little more closely and call appropriate places if it turns out the kids are being left alone all day... 7 and 5... seriously...

 

[BigCat91]

My neighbors currently are extremely nice im lucky. we have BBQs and share pastries with each other. I'm not kidding we are seriously that tight with each other not one dispute ever!

 

[kinch]

I have one neighbour who isn't bad... except for the teenage son who has the mistaken idea that he can play a guitar... and the even more mistaken idea that if he plays it with the amp at full volume it sounds better. Other than that, I don't know, speak to, or interact with any of them, and that suits them (and me) just fine.

 

[poleboy]

I've not had any neighbours from Hell yet, thank god. Moving in July so it can still happen, I suppose. The worst I've experienced was this alcoholic-looking guy right next door (in an apartment complex) who would drill and hammer on things for hours for no apparent reason. When I asked him about it, he said he was putting up shelves or something.
Um... you put up shelves a couple of hours EVERY WEEK? Strange. He's stopped doing it since, thankfully. I still think he was building some sort of doomsday device or maybe a gallows.

 

[JC123]

At the moment I have a primary school on one side, and a daycare on the other. It's horrible to be woken up at 7am with a hangover by screaming kids, but it's awesome to not have any neighbours effectively once it reaches about 5pm, and the added bonus of quite a few yummy mummies walking past is not bad either.

I think the worst neighbours you can have are either A) extremely noisy or B) complain far too easily. Having the cops called when it's a Saturday night at 10pm and you have music playing at a mild level is just pathetic.

 

[Conqueror Kenny]

Well wherever i live one of my neighbors seems to have a baby so I get no sleep. Now that the baby has stopped crying during the night i find out she is pregnant again. I hate my neighbors.