We have one of those blue bins and pay 240 Baht for it on October 1st every year... yes, 20 Baht a month. It gets emptied twice a week.
To save the bin lorry reversing all the way down the lane we keep it maybe 100m up the lane at the junction with the 'main' road. I made it clear to the neighbours that they are more than welcome to use it - we rarely even half fill it between empties - but that 100m journey is too far for one neighbour (not the one with the the pretty girl I have my eye on) and they were constantly dumping all their plastic crap outside our wall.
I tried picking it up in front of them while muttering away, thinking it would shame them into keeping the place cleaner... but no. I think they just wondered what on earth I was doing. In the end I got so exasperated I made a very rude sign to request they refrain from dumping all their litter but the wife made a more polite sign which was eventually used (to be honest my expletives in English wouldn't have been understood anyway).
A combination of the sign and a chicken feed bag I leave outside their house every week has done the trick. They fill up my chicken feed bag with their rubbish and I take it to our bin once a week. To be fair the main householder is an elderly woman and she struggles to walk... but her house is shared by a couple of teenage waster Grandchildren who could try a bit harder.
Anyway, of course I shouldn't have to do this but the lane is now fairly rubbish free and I am relatively happy.
It's funny in a way, the masses will abide by rules if someone just tells them a few times and then people see others not doing it and give them the eye. Plus having your name mentioned by the Grand Poobah over the PA doesn't go over well at the local market. Especially when it has to do with burning. 8 years ago when we built our house everybody burned. After the no burn mandate and a few PA shamings that stopped and nobody burns which is really nice. I didn't mind the occasional weed burn but not when it was green and just smoldered then they tossed plastic on it for that heavy black soot smoke.
I take the wins as they come.
A mate of mine at school used to say that if you fed pigeons bicarbonate of soda, they would explode as they rose.
As kids we were all fascinated by this and wondered whether it was true until he did it one day in the school yard and all that happened was that we got even more of the fuckers coming back every day looking for food!
I'm not sure I'd want to risk feral pigeon. It's a bit like rats. Field rat, okay at a push, but town rat? Naa....I'll pass.
Want to borrow my rat killing cat ?
Success guaranteed or you have to keep the cat
Been trying to send a few greens but forum rules saying i need to spread the love. Just to let you know i love you all.
But don't get the wrong impression we will not be having sex or any intimate contact.
[QUOTE=klong toey;4454398 we will not be having sex or any intimate contact.[/QUOTE]
Where have I heard that before?
As well as cheese footballs i bought a 200g tub of mini twiglets, baked apparently not fried - well they don't taste the same, fookin orible and in the bin they went. Another British institution ruined.
How do you know you are Norf of the M4. Women who you'd not look once at in the saaaaf stand out in the crowd. When you see crowds of ugly women on a night out in the newspapers that is just normal ooop Norf, they all seem to get the same ugly stick treatment and then by 30 yo they are as wide as they are tall.
Closest answer wins?
I’m going with zero
Northern birds are genuine, have a laugh and get a round in then swallow your load without blinking a false eye lash.
Bollocks to all them fake , gold digger southern slappers who expect a platinum creditcard for looking at it .
^ Surely you jest. The neighborhood cats shit and piss in my garden. I hate them and their stinking leavings.
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