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Surprisingly, YouTube supplied me with an advertisement I took enough interest in to sit through a full viewing of it, passing the option to skip it. Unfortunately, it assumed I wanted to sit through its successor's whole, completely irrelevant rant about how to game legislation to install solar panels onto my house with no skip button to do away with it.

With all this talk of data collection, how companies know your address, name and age through association, it never fails to amaze me how ineffective it is at advertising anything remotely interesting to me. Surely, it should have had at least an educated guess that, its quite frequent user, is too young to own a house to put anything on it, younger still to find that even remotely appealing.

At least show me how double-glazed windows allow me to drop a feather inside my house without disturbance from even so much as a landing helicopter outside!

As a feather dropping enthusiast, the frequent helicopter landings outside my window drive me. Up. The. Wall.

Nevermind, who makes adverts nowadays? Who are these people - more pressingly, what is their grasp on reality like? If I am going to have a hundred of these things patronise me against my will everyday, could it at least not be something so outlandishly, brain-numbingly stupid like making the Fairy washing-up liquid baby some biker guy. Do- Do they know the associations I'm making?

Do they know very little teenage boys are in control of the household acquirement of washing-up liquid?
 
The_bup said:
With all this talk of data collection, how companies know your address, name and age through association, it never fails to amaze me how ineffective it is at advertising anything remotely interesting to me. Surely, it should have had at least an educated guess that, its quite frequent user, is too young to own a house to put anything on it, younger still to find that even remotely appealing.
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Yep. I just put it on mute, which is my only way of revenge! More than anything, I'm pretty cheesed off with how much they think I want to buy Always Ultra.
 
I should probably explain why I've not been around much.... (Strap in for an essay).

Our bedroom has had an ongoing mould problem for years. And our letting agents are useless. Back in 2017, they painted over the mould. Ever since, we've done our best to scrub it off when it turns up, but it's been a loosing battle. Not helped by 30+ year old textured wallpaper.

The real problem is not the landlord, it's the letting agent we have to go through. We went back through our every-six-months inspection reports for the last 22 years, and realised that although we keep pointing it out, and they take pictures of the problem.... those pictures are mysteriously missing from the report sent to the landlord!

The super wet winter has done us no favours. I submitted a formal complaint to them on the 10th of December. The letting agent's response was to constantly fob us off with "a contractor will be in touch".

The mould got so bad, that I've been sleeping in the living room since the end of January. M'lady admitted defeat and joined me not long after. Had no choice. The bedroom was starting to smell like Hex!!

At one point I told them, "Look, I have a whole week off work, I will start stripping the paper myself!"
Only to be told that under no circumstances was I allowed to do so (despite the fact that I redecorated the Lego room myself last summer, and the agents that inspect us complimented me on how good a job I did).

Eventually got urinated off enough that we reported the letting agent to the council (making it clear that the landlord has never been a problem when they hear about an issue.)

By shear co-incidence, two days after we reported them, suddenly things started to happen. Whodathunkit‽ Builders turned up. Wallpaper was stripped. Manky leaky old window was replaced. The whole room was replastered on Saturday, and now we are waiting for that to dry before painting can begin. Then the carpet will need replacing... but that's not signed off yet. If they don't approve it, we will bloody well do it ourselves and bill them.

The downsides are: Our bed, mattress, blind, and wardrobe all need replacing. Looking at a good couple of grand in total costs.
More to the point, we have been cooped up in the living room, on a sofabed together for almost 7 weeks now. The cabin fever is running strong. I don't even have access to my Lego room to zen out, as that's currently filled with bedroom stuff.

The real screw-us was when the letting agent phoned to ask if we were happy with our new room, because there's no way a repaint could take more than two days...... at a point when the walls were black, rotten dust, the radiator was on the floor, the light fittings were just dangling live wires, and the window was a gaping empty void. They really are [GOVERNMENT CENSORED] clueless!

Spent the last few days bed shopping. Agreed on a mattress, but not a bed frame yet. Much more replacement furniture will be required.

Looking at a good couple of weeks yet (at best!) until we have a usable bedroom. The urge to build my own Killdozer has never been higher.
 
DiogoJ42 said:
I should probably explain why I've not been around much.... (Strap in for an essay).

Our bedroom has had an ongoing mould problem for years. And our letting agents are useless. Back in 2017, they painted over the mould. Ever since, we've done our best to scrub it off when it turns up, but it's been a loosing battle. Not helped by 30+ year old textured wallpaper.

The real problem is not the landlord, it's the letting agent we have to go through. We went back through our every-six-months inspection reports for the last 22 years, and realised that although we keep pointing it out, and they take pictures of the problem.... those pictures are mysteriously missing from the report sent to the landlord!

The super wet winter has done us no favours. I submitted a formal complaint to them on the 10th of December. The letting agent's response was to constantly fob us off with "a contractor will be in touch".

The mould got so bad, that I've been sleeping in the living room since the end of January. M'lady admitted defeat and joined me not long after. Had no choice. The bedroom was starting to smell like Hex!!

At one point I told them, "Look, I have a whole week off work, I will start stripping the paper myself!"
Only to be told that under no circumstances was I allowed to do so (despite the fact that I redecorated the Lego room myself last summer, and the agents that inspect us complimented me on how good a job I did).

Eventually got urinated off enough that we reported the letting agent to the council (making it clear that the landlord has never been a problem when they hear about an issue.)

By shear co-incidence, two days after we reported them, suddenly things started to happen. Whodathunkit‽ Builders turned up. Wallpaper was stripped. Manky leaky old window was replaced. The whole room was replastered on Saturday, and now we are waiting for that to dry before painting can begin. Then the carpet will need replacing... but that's not signed off yet. If they don't approve it, we will bloody well do it ourselves and bill them.

The downsides are: Our bed, mattress, blind, and wardrobe all need replacing. Looking at a good couple of grand in total costs.
More to the point, we have been cooped up in the living room, on a sofabed together for almost 7 weeks now. The cabin fever is running strong. I don't even have access to my Lego room to zen out, as that's currently filled with bedroom stuff.

The real screw-us was when the letting agent phoned to ask if we were happy with our new room, because there's no way a repaint could take more than two days...... at a point when the walls were black, rotten dust, the radiator was on the floor, the light fittings were just dangling live wires, and the window was a gaping empty void. They really are [GOVERNMENT CENSORED] clueless!

Spent the last few days bed shopping. Agreed on a mattress, but not a bed frame yet. Much more replacement furniture will be required.

Looking at a good couple of weeks yet (at best!) until we have a usable bedroom. The urge to build my own Killdozer has never been higher.
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Absolute see you near Tescos, the letting agents
 
One of my colleagues had rain leaking through his front door and the landlord sent a plumber 🙃

Another one sent his letting agent a video of water pouring through his roof when it rained. They told him it was just condensation and to buy a dehumidifier.

It’s a miracle (curse?) that some people ever figured out how to breathe.
 
Birds.

But not just any old bird… the songbird that’s been clawing at and defecating all over our cars on and off for 2 weeks.

It’s just been absolutely transfixed by our cars, for some inexplicable reason! It will just spend hours and hours and hours hopping all over a car, clawing at the windscreen, clawing all over the rubber, defecating all over it… and then it’ll move onto another one! And then it’ll move back to the one it started on!

This process has been ongoing, on and off, for 2 weeks. We’ve tried everything to get rid of it; we tried covering the windscreens with bedsheets, we tried putting a plastic hawk out to scare it (this was from previous bird issues affecting a different part of the house…), we tried buying car covers off Amazon… nothing seems to work! It seems scared of my dad when he sprays the hose at it, but we can’t just have him standing there constantly…

We initially thought the car covers had deterred it, as it seemed to go for a bit… but no, it came straight back a little bit later!

We’ve got absolutely no idea what to do… and absolutely no idea of what this bird’s deal is! How it’s got any faeces left in it, I have no idea…
 
Families.

But not just any old family... the family that's been parking their multiple cars right in front of my nest on and off for two weeks.

They're absolutely transfixed by these great hunking polluting hunks of metal and rubber, for some inexplicable reason! They will just spend hours and hours sitting there staring at me as I try my hardest to get them to shift their cars out of my view... I work on one, then I move to another one, and then I'll move back to the one I started on!

This process has been ongoing, on and off, for 2 weeks. I've tried everything to get rid of these cars: I've clawed all over the rubber, I've defecated all over their paint work... but nothing seems to work! I get incredibly annoyed when the father sprays the hose at me, but he can't stand there constantly...

I initially thought that my droppings and scratchings had deterred them, as their cars do leave during the day for a bit... but no, they came straight back a little bit later!

I've got absolutely no idea what to do... and absolutely no idea what this family's deal is. How they've got any water left in their hose pipe, I have no idea...
 
OK Matt, I will give you the human version...

Breeding season, pure and simple.

They are fighting off their own reflection for territory and the opposite sex.

Then they think that other bird is in the car...sheets or no sheets, it knows that damn bird is in there, trying to steal a new mate.

Don't knock the birds, only pets I have got left since the dog died.

Blackbird, thrush, and a pair of vicious robins.


Try putting an old mirror out and watch them go for that as well.



Old joke...

What do you do if a bird poops on your windscreen...

Finish with her.
 
rob666 said:
OK Matt, I will give you the human version...

Breeding season, pure and simple.

They are fighting off their own reflection for territory and the opposite sex.

Then they think that other bird is in the car.

Don't knock the birds, only pets I have got left since the dog died.

Blackbird, thrush, and a pair of vicious robins.


Try putting an old mirror out and watch them go for that as well.
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I still remember my dad once spotting a seagull constantly pecking at its own reflection in an alloy wheel or something when we were living in St Ives. He ended up videoing it and sending the tape into You've Been Framed (remember when that was a thing?). :p
 
I saw a great tit outside my kitchen window yesterday. Not seen one round these parts in years. [wonders if that will trigger the NannyBot?] Small birds seem to be a rarity these days. It's mostly pigeons, gulls, and various corvids. The parakeets are out in force today, in the sun. And the local red kite is circling.
 
DiogoJ42 said:
I should probably explain why I've not been around much.... (Strap in for an essay).

Our bedroom has had an ongoing mould problem for years. And our letting agents are useless. Back in 2017, they painted over the mould. Ever since, we've done our best to scrub it off when it turns up, but it's been a loosing battle. Not helped by 30+ year old textured wallpaper.

The real problem is not the landlord, it's the letting agent we have to go through. We went back through our every-six-months inspection reports for the last 22 years, and realised that although we keep pointing it out, and they take pictures of the problem.... those pictures are mysteriously missing from the report sent to the landlord!

The super wet winter has done us no favours. I submitted a formal complaint to them on the 10th of December. The letting agent's response was to constantly fob us off with "a contractor will be in touch".

The mould got so bad, that I've been sleeping in the living room since the end of January. M'lady admitted defeat and joined me not long after. Had no choice. The bedroom was starting to smell like Hex!!

At one point I told them, "Look, I have a whole week off work, I will start stripping the paper myself!"
Only to be told that under no circumstances was I allowed to do so (despite the fact that I redecorated the Lego room myself last summer, and the agents that inspect us complimented me on how good a job I did).

Eventually got urinated off enough that we reported the letting agent to the council (making it clear that the landlord has never been a problem when they hear about an issue.)

By shear co-incidence, two days after we reported them, suddenly things started to happen. Whodathunkit‽ Builders turned up. Wallpaper was stripped. Manky leaky old window was replaced. The whole room was replastered on Saturday, and now we are waiting for that to dry before painting can begin. Then the carpet will need replacing... but that's not signed off yet. If they don't approve it, we will bloody well do it ourselves and bill them.

The downsides are: Our bed, mattress, blind, and wardrobe all need replacing. Looking at a good couple of grand in total costs.
More to the point, we have been cooped up in the living room, on a sofabed together for almost 7 weeks now. The cabin fever is running strong. I don't even have access to my Lego room to zen out, as that's currently filled with bedroom stuff.

The real screw-us was when the letting agent phoned to ask if we were happy with our new room, because there's no way a repaint could take more than two days...... at a point when the walls were black, rotten dust, the radiator was on the floor, the light fittings were just dangling live wires, and the window was a gaping empty void. They really are [GOVERNMENT CENSORED] clueless!

Spent the last few days bed shopping. Agreed on a mattress, but not a bed frame yet. Much more replacement furniture will be required.

Looking at a good couple of weeks yet (at best!) until we have a usable bedroom. The urge to build my own Killdozer has never been higher.
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We had a similar situation with our last land lords.

Simply, if I complained to the agents. Nothing got done. HOWEVER, if the neighbours complained straight to the landlord (daughter of the old woman who lived there for years) straight away done.

The flat roof, shed roof, garage roof all got sorted. Even though I never reported an issue. No leek in out house. Flat roof fine. Shed, didn't need to use it. Garage I had no access to.

NO issue until we were evicted. We had an agreement for a dog. Paid extra so we could get a second dog. All is fine. Then the neighbours complained about it. So the dogs got evicted (basically about the noise, especially in the middle of the night. Which must have been horrific as I nor Mrs slugjc were never awoken, especially as both slept on the landing). Didn't even bark when their child, smashed the front window atn1 in the morning.

Landlord sent people round, to check on the property. Report comes back of the excessive amount of damage caused by the dogs. Now before we moved in, the electrics had been done. Plus a stair lift removed. The report stated The dogs managed to to cause 3 rectangles holes in wall makes along the wall going up the stairs, plus, a hole in the ceiling of the spare room and living room.

Luckily, I had kept a copy of our agreement and when I moved in, pointed out everything to the meeting agent. 3 rectangles on wall. Plug sockets now removed. Marks of wall and bannister. Ye olde stair lift AND I can't believe I had to point this out. The holes in the ceiling, both my dogs at the time where German Shepherds. Big lads I grant you. To cause a hole in the ceiling, not having it. Especially as the marks were left by the light fittings that had been moved.

We got out full bond back. Much the anger of the landlord (who threatened to sue the deposit protection people.) and the neighbours that bitched and moaned about us to the new neighbour who lived a few doors up in the months after (my mother in law.) as much as the report was good.

What it failed to point out was the actual damage caused by the puppy (chewed skirting boards, roughly sanded down by yours truly.) oh and the cooker that was left, the itemized list of items only stated a cooker. Didn't state which, the one provided went kaput and I replaced. Then replaced our replacement with my mother in laws. As hers packed in just before we moved ,so I swapped.

As for the noise, if they did make a noise I can only apologise to the old neighbour, if I wanted to. I could here him pee, cough, his Tele, his teenage kids and him hitting his wife and his teenage kid. So no, and take those flags down you melt.
 
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