Crash is a miner?

Oh, that means I have to respect him from now on then.

I could be wrong but I think he is more the brains side of mining, an engineer maybe. I don't think he does the actual grunt work of mining with a pick ax.

My grandad was an engineer in a coal mine after WW2 he didn't use a pick axe either but he still had to go down the shaft with everybody else risking his life.

(01-12-2014, 07:04 AM)Duchess Wrote: You can't say that now! You turned your whole life upside down to move there. This is awful to read. It's because of the Jews, isn't it?

Oh God I need to stop worrying about you people -

Sally's trying to quit smoking & her husband broke her toe.
Clang still doesn't have a job & is considering the priesthood.
Mo is stressed to the max & wants to shoot somebody.
Ramsey is being harassed by a crazy Jew bitch & hates her new location.
Aussie is being mindfucked and has to work with at least one cunt.
User has created Great Adventure in her backyard & every 13 yr. in a 5 square radius spends their day at her house performing death defying stunts.
OP continues to shazzam in his underpants & his wife is in danger of finding out.

There's way more but I need coffee with artificial sweeteners that is slowly killing me.

-MS is paranoid about what the Minny bar flies will think if he hits the wrong note belting out "YMCA" at the Dew Drop In karaoke fest.
-FAHQTOO is being held hostage by the weather and a low-charging battery.
-Maggot's dreams of winning the cow eating contest have been quashed by a greedy 120 pound bitch who cares not an iota about world hunger!
-nrkerr is having sex amongst the dead.
-OTD's lost her filter, and now she's warming up her ball-kicking leg.
-NightOwl, Adub, sharit, and Tiki are MIA, damn it...

(01-11-2014, 02:27 PM)Duchess Wrote:

(01-11-2014, 02:19 PM)username Wrote: I'm insisting all the parents sign a liability waiver. Fuck if I'm going to get sued if some kid breaks his arm or something.

I don't say this to scare you, it's only something to consider. In many instances liability waivers aren't worth the paper they are written on & most courts will say that a parent doesn't have the right to sign away their child's rights.

I'm going to pretend I didn't read that. I honestly don't know that I even need to have one. People who own pools or trampolines or even trees that get climbed run a risk of someone getting injured on their property too. I don't know that a skateboard ramp is any different.

That said, I'm working on getting a $1 million umbrella policy. It's only about a $150/year and it's been something that we've been meaning to do anyway.

I warned our neighbors on our left that we were putting the damn thing in but not our neighbors on the right. Fuck them. They've lived here at least 5 years and I don't even know their names. They barely wave "hello" and the only thing I've heard about them is that they've bitched to our neighbors about our tree when it drops its leaves in the fall (of course they didn't talk to us about it--pussies). At the time, we did the neighborly thing and had our tree trimmed/thinned etc.

When we built this ramp, we did most everything we could to make it as quiet as possible (although I've since discovered that we can add a few things that might make it quieter still). Anyway, I found out this morning that the neighbor on the right is PISSED. They went to our neighbor on the left and bitched away about the noise. They plan on calling the city, state, blah, blah, blah. The neighbor on the left couldn't figure out why they were talking with her; she doesn't know them either. I guess they're trying to form a posse.

They can bitch all they want but I checked with our city building department before I built the damn thing and they said "go ahead and have fun with it". It's not considered a permanent structure. To me, it's no different than putting in a giant trampoline or pool--both or going to be fucking noisy when you put a bunch of kids in them.

The only way they can "get us" (as I understand it) is if the noise decibel level reaches a certain peak (which lowers as you get in to the late evening or early morning). If the damn thing generated the noise of a bulldozer all day long, we'd probably have problems but there's no way we're going to reach that decibel level. That's why/how people are able to have construction work done on their house all day long but are required to quit at a certain point at night. Speaking of which, they do a lot of god damn construction work over at their house.

So I'm finding the whole situation pretty damn amusing. I found this police report about a neighbor (not in our immediate area but close) who called the cops about noise from a skate board ramp:

Noise complaint: Occurred on Coolidge Ave. Neighbor built a skateboard ramp in his backyard and it’s being used every day by his son and his son’s friends. RP feels the noise is excessive and that it should be illegal. Responsibles advised of complaint.


Responsibles advised of complaint. Alrightee, then.

If I'm feeling neighborly, I *might* have some plywood installed on either end of the ramp which I've heard can cut the noise and I might work a little harder to get the kids to keep their damn voices down. I tell them to be quieter but it's like the volume control being broken on a radio. You turn it down and gradually it just increases up... I don't think they can help it much...teenage boys are just genetically LOUD. Have you ever heard a group of kids playing basketball whispering? Jesus.

I don't know what's bugging the neighbors more, the kid noise or the ramp noise. Stupid assholes could come talk to me but no...... Fuck them. I hope they spin their wheels right off trying to do something about it.

Didn't even have the balls to come to you. Damn! How the hell did they expect to express their displeasure if they don't talk to you? They complained to your neighbor instead. This is how 'hood wars start.

You have the blessing of your town. Good job!

Actually, I'd be pissed if someone put a skateboard park in their backyard right next door to me too.

Good thing that's not happening with my neighbors. They're older than dirt and their kids have moved out.

I don't think I'd like it either but I wouldn't like having neighbors period.

My son had skateboard ramps and they do make a lot of noise, not to mention all the kids. Most cities have a noise ordinance though and if they're not doing it in the morning or night then I don't see a problem with it.

I know I couldn't hear it inside my house unless it was right under my window, so I doubt the neighbors could hear it from theirs. It's not like she's going to have a bunch of kids partying outside of her house in the middle of the night, at least I don't think. People love to make a big stink about nothing.

Don't bring up the 12 pack. That's a legitimate complaint.

(01-13-2014, 07:28 PM)sally Wrote: People love to make a big stink about nothing.

Don't bring up the 12 pack. That's a legitimate complaint.

Hahaha!

(01-13-2014, 06:12 PM)Midwest Spy Wrote: Actually, I'd be pissed if someone put a skateboard park in their backyard right next door to me too.

Good thing that's not happening with my neighbors. They're older than dirt and their kids have moved out.

It's not a park; unless I decide to add on to it. They moved in when my kids were 8 or 9 or so. The neighbors on the other side of them have a pool and 2 kids and I can hear them from my house when they're outside swimming with their friends over.

Fuckers should have moved to an all adult community if they wanted peace and quiet. Or, like Duchess, found a property with enough land around them that it wouldn't be an issue.

I have friends that have a pool, trampoline and basketball court in their backyard. I'm willing (maybe) to put the extra plywood on the sides that might muffle the noise some but probably not until I let them twist in the wind a while and complain to every neighbor, the city, state and local authorities. Maybe they'll actually come talk to me when they're about ready to explode (although at this point, they've already demonstrated that they're pretty fucking irate...if they come over name calling and start reading me the riot act, I'm probably just going to tell them to fuck off and close the door in their face). If they come over ready to have a reasonable conversation, I'll listen...and suggest that they probably should have spoken with us first before approaching the other neighbors. Assholes.

(01-13-2014, 07:28 PM)sally Wrote: Don't bring up the 12 pack. That's a legitimate complaint.

Too late!

Your rank hypocrisy has already been added to the archive for posterity!

Sal - “I'm not that petty......except when I am!”

Lol.

(01-14-2014, 12:12 AM)username Wrote: It's not a park; unless I decide to add on to it. They moved in when my kids were 8 or 9 or so. The neighbors on the other side of them have a pool and 2 kids and I can hear them from my house when they're outside swimming with their friends over.

Fuckers should have moved to an all adult community if they wanted peace and quiet. Or, like Duchess, found a property with enough land around them that it wouldn't be an issue.

I have friends that have a pool, trampoline and basketball court in their backyard. I'm willing (maybe) to put the extra plywood on the sides that might muffle the noise some but probably not until I let them twist in the wind a while and complain to every neighbor, the city, state and local authorities. Maybe they'll actually come talk to me when they're about ready to explode (although at this point, they've already demonstrated that they're pretty fucking irate...if they come over name calling and start reading me the riot act, I'm probably just going to tell them to fuck off and close the door in their face). If they come over ready to have a reasonable conversation, I'll listen...and suggest that they probably should have spoken with us first before approaching the other neighbors. Assholes.

Pools, trampolines, basketball courts?

If they come to your door complaining tell them they can kiss your ass.

(01-13-2014, 06:12 PM)Midwest Spy Wrote: Actually, I'd be pissed if someone put a skateboard park in their backyard right next door to me too.

If I lived next door to you and put a perfectly legitimate and legal skateboard ramp up in MY back garden and you came to my door and complained? My second word to you would be “off” and I'd slam the fucking door in your face.

I might also start using a jackhammer at 5 am at weekends because you had the nerve to come to my door and complain about literally sod all. You might not have had a neighbour from hell before but you got one now buddy! If you want something to complain about I'll give it to you mofo!

Lol.

I just read about a show called "My Strange Addiction". It profiled a woman who reminded me of the hoarder who eats poop. *gags* This particular woman likes to eat urine filled diapers. She gets them from friends and strangers and she keeps them all over her home for when the snack craze strikes, there's some in the kitchen for when she's cooking dinner, in her handbag, in her dresser drawers, etc. There was a video included in the story but I didn't dare watch it, I might heave for reals.

I would bring my sleeping bag to usernames skatepark and sleep. In the morning she could bring me coffee and we could roll each other up and down the ramps in an old inner tube until we were so dizzy we could not stand or even slap each other.

(01-14-2014, 03:46 PM)Cynical Ninja Wrote:

(01-13-2014, 07:28 PM)sally Wrote: Don't bring up the 12 pack. That's a legitimate complaint.

Too late!

Your rank hypocrisy has already been added to the archive for posterity!

Sal - “I'm not that petty......except when I am!”

Lol.

Complaining about being told to fuck off when asking for another 12 pack after the first one you paid for fell apart inside of the store is not unreasonable. You can't compare that to some nosey old bastard complaining about the neighbor's kid skateboarding in his own yard after school when they can't even hear it from inside their house.

My complaint was perfectly normal and reasonable, the other is not.

(01-15-2014, 10:37 PM)sally Wrote: Complaining about being told to fuck off when asking for another 12 pack after the first one you paid for fell apart inside of the store is not unreasonable. You can't compare that to some nosey old bastard complaining about the neighbor's kid skateboarding in his own yard after school when they can't even hear it from inside their house.

My complaint was perfectly normal and reasonable, the other is not.

No, sorry!

You clearly felt the need to cover your ass in the post I referenced.

Which means for a fact you know yourself you are just as much of a drama llama as Users neighbour!

You can't bring that boat back to port honey! She has already sailed!

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