The grumpy thread

[andy18s]

Stick a fence upon the council's defined boundary, then let him Prove he is the landowner

[AlabamaShrimp]

What he said ^^

[Richard]

Can't you go to the council and ask? You're entitled to know what you're paying rent for.

[MrDuke]

Became a road rage victim earlier on...

 

Tailgating + verbal abuse + refusal to accept an apology does not a victim make. Well done for showing him how a Real Man acts, though.

[Station]

What a twot! Start lowering yourself to his snidy level by marking your territory.

[Station]

Tailgating + verbal abuse + refusal to accept an apology does not a victim make. Well done for showing him how a Real Man acts, though.

It boils down to verbal abuse, if someone threatened to kill someone on a train, they'd be arrested. Why is different for road users? I wasn't tail gating as such, I was too close though, I'll admit that, and it's a problem, but it was for seconds from a red light. I think he'd just seen red and had maybe a bad morning. I'm not accepting an excuse (he didn't apologise) after he threatened to kill me and run me over. There was no excuse for his actions.

The police went round to his, I hope he's ashamed of himself.

[greengartside]

Can't you go to the council and ask? You're entitled to know what you're paying rent for.

 

I'll be going to the council anyway to ask about owning the house so I will mention it when I'm there. From the sounds of it, seems to be looking good for us...

[dugong]

It boils down to verbal abuse, if someone threatened to kill someone on a train, they'd be arrested. Why is different for road users? I wasn't tail gating as such, I was too close though, I'll admit that, and it's a problem, but it was for seconds from a red light. I think he'd just seen red and had maybe a bad morning. I'm not accepting an excuse (he didn't apologise) after he threatened to kill me and run me over. There was no excuse for his actions.

The police went round to his, I hope he's ashamed of himself.

Er....pass. 

 

Do you want me to bring an Enkei up north for you to try on the Nippa? Your phone's off and your PM box is full, mate.

[Timewaster]

Stick a fence upon the council's defined boundary, then let him Prove he is the landowner

Personally I'd weedkiller up to the boundary. But then I can be a small petty man.

[Station]

My old phone is broken and I have a brand new phone now, unfortunately it's an 073 number which is unrecognised by any networks so it doesn't work (in hindsight a possible mistake by Vodafone doing that). Did I tell you I was meant to be at my mates in London at 10am. I can't because I've been back and forth from Vodafone and Carphone Warehouse since 9am and it's still not sorted and I need a phone working for this weekend especially. I should've stuck to my 15 year old Nokia 5310.

[dugong]

Admiral Insurance. 

[EssDeeWon]

I'll be going to the council anyway to ask about owning the house so I will mention it when I'm there. From the sounds of it, seems to be looking good for us...

 

Sorry to be pessimistic (I don't want to be) but I don't think it does look good from what I have read.

 

Your dad handed over use of the land to the neighbour, so if the council want to sell this plot to the neighbour then they can, after all it is their land, they can sell it to whoever they want, effectively.

 

However, it is strange that the boundaries plan show this still part of your dads garden, but the paperwork proving the neighbour purchased that land from the council will be the gospel at the end of the day, not the boundary planner.

[greengartside]

Righto, thanks for that. I will ask the council when I go and see them and get it confirmed either way.

[doobietoo]

Why did 3 of the 4 diesel injectors I am taking off the rover slide out sweet as you like and the 4th wont budge for love or money I hate sods law....

[EssDeeWon]

Righto, thanks for that. I will ask the council when I go and see them and get it confirmed either way.

 

Unless..........the neighbour was bluffing and never purchased so much as a blade of grass! He could of just got the council round to measure up the plot then tell your dad he has bought it.

[hairnet]

It seems it's almost unthinkable that a bloke doesn't like boxing. I have no idea who's fighting, I care even less who wins, but some people I know can't get their heads round that.

last time i watched boxing it was rocky 4 or the olympics

 

[greengartside]

Unless..........the neighbour was bluffing and never purchased so much as a blade of grass! He could of just got the council round to measure up the plot then tell your dad he has bought it.

This sounds about right to be honest. It's not as though he's using the land either. If I did manage to reclaim the land then I shall be posting up some HOT SHERPA SLIDEY DOOR ACTION as there is our old van sat there that's been idle for 30 years.

[Cavcraft]

My computer is having an epic spazz fit recently, as do others (in my house) running off my wifi thing. Here, eBay and many other internet pages/forums etc can often take an absolute age to load up and my missus can't access her fave online bingo site. 

 

I've done a test and download speed is 49.73mb/s and the upload speed is 10.16mb/s, does that mean anything? I'm using the perennially hateful and f*ck*ng awful Windows 8 by the way.

[jakebullet]

Ma recently made everyone suffer by watching that poldark thing on the haunted fish tank. I may have remarked "thank fuck that's over" a little* too loudly, as she's dusted off the vhs of the original series.

 

WHY? It's exactly the same, but with more bad wigs and shonky doctor who reject sets. Not like it's going to have a better plot is it?

[HH-R]

Those speeds are excellent. It may be worth switching your wireless router off/on again, though if it's working at those speeds there should be no bother web browsing.

[EssDeeWon]

Those speeds are excellent. It may be worth switching your wireless router off/on again, though if it's working at those speeds there should be no bother web browsing.

 

^That was what I thought.

 

In the 21st century 99.93% of device issues are resolved by switching off and on again.

[gordonbennet]

^That was what I thought.

 

In the 21st century 99.93% of device issues are resolved by switching off and on again.

 

How does that work when steer and brake by wire become common place?      Hello tree.

[Alan_Green]

This sounds about right to be honest. It's not as though he's using the land either. If I did manage to reclaim the land then I shall be posting up some HOT SHERPA SLIDEY DOOR ACTION as there is our old van sat there that's been idle for 30 years.

This is England & Wales, right? Run a land registry search. Also Google "Adverse Possession" for info on how he might have (or be trying to) acquire the land on the sly. But I don't get how your father could receive rent if council land at the time. But how many years since he received rent? Could be very important.

[D Spares & Tyres]

Tailgating + verbal abuse + refusal to accept an apology does not a victim make. Well done for showing him how a Real Man acts, though.

I agree up until the police bit.......

 

Tell tale twit springs to mind

[greengartside]

This is England & Wales, right? Run a land registry search. Also Google "Adverse Possession" for info on how he might have (or be trying to) acquire the land on the sly. But I don't get how your father could receive rent if council land at the time. But how many years since he received rent? Could be very important.

 

Land Registry will be my next port of call, for £3 I can find out exactly who owns what.

 

I don't think dad received the rent, he never mentioned anything about being paid rent. It was a case of neighbour asking if he could tend to the land whilst my dad got better and my dad agreed and it was OK'd with the council.

 

Both houses were council-owned at the time and they bought theirs later on.

[Alan_Green]

OK. Was because of this bit:

 

....so neighbour pipes up and asks if he can rent the land off dad, to which he says yes and it's all cleared by the Council etc.

 

[greengartside]

Yes it's all very confusing as dad's memory isn't the best anyway and this all happened well over 20 years ago now. I will try to get some better answers when I go to the council, they should be able to set things a bit more straighter for me!

[Station]

It seems it's almost unthinkable that a bloke doesn't like boxing. I have no idea who's fighting, I care even less who wins, but some people I know can't get their heads round that.

I think it's Buster Merryfield fighting some foreign bloke, a big square head with Terry Wogan hairdo.

[Negative Creep]

I think it's the truly obscene amounts of money and amount of unpleasant people involved that puts me off. Always found it odd that people are very quick to condemn footballers for their wages and any misdemeanours, yet boxing gets a free pass.

[bub2006]

Narrow brick lined bridge on a country lane with a sharp left hand bend as bridge ends. Twat in a silver corsa comes steaming round the blind bend in middle of road, clips my drivers door mirror and I instinctively swerve Hitting the wall. Bumper,wing and front and rear doors scuffed or scratched and dented. By time I'd spun car round to go after him I didn't know what way he went at the junction. Not fucking happy.