Grumpy Old Man
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paper wasps-can't stand them. Flyspray so they are stunned then return later and plastic bag the unconscious evil little buggers.
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@antipodean said in Grumpy Old Man:
We convinced him for a good while it was racist.
Worked with one bloody woman years ago who kept banging on about "not offending Jesus" and how "the devil was all around". Hate that sort of shit.
Someone printed some pages with a faint image of the devil and slipped them into the paper of the photocopier she used a lot. Seriously freaked out when she noticed - she was convinced the bloody thing was possessed.
Fark, it was fun to watch.
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@voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:
People who carry dogs.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
We had that a few years back too. Our then cat - lethal little bastard - sorted them out one evening.
We barely have to feed our cat:
Not actually him (but identical). Rats, mice, and rabbits are too scared to come anywhere near our place with him around. So he goes and finds them and kindly brings them in to show off. Known as Mark Dennis (as in Dark Menace).
Rats are sorted -now I could start on fucking wasps...
Stupid ginger cünt.
That's the problem right there. Nothing good has ever come from a ginger.
I disagree
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That would be something good coming on a ginger
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
she was convinced the bloody thing was possessed.
Nice work.
My printer is actually possessed by Satan as well - which does make me seriously grumpy. Anything urgent it will just randomly print after a few hours, possibly all of it, up to it, I have no choice in the matter. Scanning may or may not appear at my computer, it may just go straight to hell rather than me. As a photocopier, you may get a copy or a blank page, that is up to Lucifer.
Bloody thing weighs a ton, has a service contract and they can't fix it. I have summoned Beelzebub but he just laughs at me. Prick.
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Fucken rates, I live on a rural property, so I have my own water and sewer, I get two bins collected once a fortnight down the end of my drive. The dirt road gets graded once a year. fluffybunnies make me pay $2000 a year in rates. Council recently spent $250,000 on some Christmas decorations....
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@chimoaus said in Grumpy Old Man:
Fucken rates, I live on a rural property, so I have my own water and sewer, I get two bins collected once a fortnight down the end of my drive. The dirt road gets graded once a year. fluffybunnies make me pay $2000 a year in rates. Council recently spent $250,000 on some Christmas decorations....
DO NOT FUCKING START ME!
Zero services, unsealed road, same rates as Auckland. I don't even get the rubbish collection.
Even installing all of the water. waste water, etc, is a pain in the ass and cost a fortune as the council that I am paying rates to for these services (that they don't provide) want bloody consents and charge for them. fluffybunnies. No wonder we have a housing shortage.
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I have a 130 year old one bedroom cottage that we use to go skiing. I have done some work on insulation, redecorated and put a good woodburner in, but it is still worth fuck all (not a high demand location).
I received a letter from Ruapehu council the other day telling me that they had re valued all of the properties and ours was over triple the value. There is not a hope in hell that I could sell it for that price and yet I am expected to pay the rates on that. Rates down there are horrendous anyway. The bach is worth 3.5% of the value of a house that I just sold up here but the rates are 66%.
Grumpy email has been sent, with the fuck off letter to follow.
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@chimoaus Yep. Been there too.
Bought a battery (Panasonic equivalent of a Powerwall - actually they are the same manufacturer) so that that I could beat the bastards and just save my power rather than basically giving it to them.
Not sure that it made financial sense at the time but it made me feel better.
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@chimoaus said in Grumpy Old Man:
Fucken rates, I live on a rural property, so I have my own water and sewer, I get two bins collected once a fortnight down the end of my drive. The dirt road gets graded once a year. fluffybunnies make me pay $2000 a year in rates. Council recently spent $250,000 on some Christmas decorations....
Better rates than Bodycorp fees. Fuck bodycorp fees
as soon as I saw his post I knew you would be next...