Grumpy Old Man
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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
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Young ladies in g string bikinis. Why the hell didn't they wear them when I was young enough to have a shot? Now I have to try not to look like a dirty old man while being a dirty old man.
Yes, I see the bad in everything....
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@Crazy-Horse said in Grumpy Old Man:
Young ladies in g string bikinis. Why the hell didn't they wear them when I was young enough to have a shot? Now I have to try not to look like a dirty old man while being a dirty old man.
Yes, I see the bad in everything....
You could just not go to the strip bar.
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@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Crazy-Horse said in Grumpy Old Man:
Young ladies in g string bikinis. Why the hell didn't they wear them when I was young enough to have a shot? Now I have to try not to look like a dirty old man while being a dirty old man.
Yes, I see the bad in everything....
You could just not go to the strip bar.
It's years since I have been to one of them. Too tight with my money.
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@Crazy-Horse said in Grumpy Old Man:
Young ladies in g string bikinis. Why the hell didn't they wear them when I was young enough to have a shot? Now I have to try not to look like a dirty old man while being a dirty old man.
Yes, I see the bad in everything....
It's funny you mention this, I spotted a very attractive young lady today and I literally told myself off, saying stop being a dirty old man and look away. It took a lot of effort to keep my eyes on the road.
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@Crazy-Horse said in Grumpy Old Man:
Young ladies in g string bikinis. Why the hell didn't they wear them when I was young enough to have a shot? Now I have to try not to look like a dirty old man while being a dirty old man.
Yes, I see the bad in everything....
I fucken hate this too. I live in a beach area, bloody schoolgirls everywhere on the weekend and nine of them bother to cover their arse cheeks. I find it genuinely painful.
When my daughter hits 15, she's giving to be wearing a bloody wetsuit around.
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@chimoaus said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Crazy-Horse said in Grumpy Old Man:
Young ladies in g string bikinis. Why the hell didn't they wear them when I was young enough to have a shot? Now I have to try not to look like a dirty old man while being a dirty old man.
Yes, I see the bad in everything....
It's funny you mention this, I spotted a very attractive young lady today and I literally told myself off, saying stop being a dirty old man and look away. It took a lot of effort to keep my eyes on the road.
It happens over night. I swear I went to bed one night still having a chance then when I woke up the next morning I was being ignored. And I don't mean by Mrs Crazy Horse. She would never ignore me.
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@voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Crazy-Horse said in Grumpy Old Man:
Young ladies in g string bikinis. Why the hell didn't they wear them when I was young enough to have a shot? Now I have to try not to look like a dirty old man while being a dirty old man.
Yes, I see the bad in everything....
I fucken hate this too. I live in a beach area, bloody schoolgirls everywhere on the weekend and nine of them bother to cover their arse cheeks. I find it genuinely painful.
When my daughter hits 15, she's giving to be wearing a bloody wetsuit around.
Way to go up a level Mr Specific.
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@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
@voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Crazy-Horse said in Grumpy Old Man:
Young ladies in g string bikinis. Why the hell didn't they wear them when I was young enough to have a shot? Now I have to try not to look like a dirty old man while being a dirty old man.
Yes, I see the bad in everything....
I fucken hate this too. I live in a beach area, bloody schoolgirls everywhere on the weekend and nine of them bother to cover their arse cheeks. I find it genuinely painful.
When my daughter hits 15, she's giving to be wearing a bloody wetsuit around.
Way to go up a level Mr Specific.
It's disturbing the way he counted them. There is always one that turns an innocent conversation creepy.
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@Crazy-Horse said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
@voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Crazy-Horse said in Grumpy Old Man:
Young ladies in g string bikinis. Why the hell didn't they wear them when I was young enough to have a shot? Now I have to try not to look like a dirty old man while being a dirty old man.
Yes, I see the bad in everything....
I fucken hate this too. I live in a beach area, bloody schoolgirls everywhere on the weekend and nine of them bother to cover their arse cheeks. I find it genuinely painful.
When my daughter hits 15, she's giving to be wearing a bloody wetsuit around.
Way to go up a level Mr Specific.
It's disturbing the way he counted them. There is always one that turns an innocent conversation creepy.
The way he's livid at schoolgirls for covering their arses prolly means you can look him up on one of your registers...
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@chimoaus I'm at the gym, on a machine and some hotty in lycra starts doing some exercises on the next machine, right in my eye-line...
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@taniwharugby is even worse when they take the machine behind you, right in your eyeline...
as soon as I saw his post I knew you would be next...
