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I used to live next door to a pair of elderly naturists, only finding out about their hobby when they bade me a cheerful, saggy 'Hello' while I was 25 feet up a ladder repairing the chimney. Luckily, a bush broke my fall, but the memory of a fat, naked man in an ill-fitting wig will live with me forever.

(, Thu 1 Oct 2009, 12:41)
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Is that a real report they can give then?

(, Thu 1 Oct 2009, 16:55, 1 reply)
Not really.
I understand they'd have had to choose between the real options of "False Alarm with Good Intent" or "False Alarm with Malicious Intent" - since in both cases, there was probably* no danger to life or property. Now, while I don't know the full details; their decision would depend on the circumstances of the call. Neither existing option really fits the bill - they don't really want to encourage a pisstake caller by implying that it was sensible to call out and occupy three appliances for a joss stick, or a presumably similar turnout for a barbeque*; but they also don't want to be non-PC and imply that a clearly disturbed, self-identified minority, is a nuisance.

* I'm presuming the Joss stick wasn't sitting on a pile of combustibles, and the barbeque was attended at all time whilst lit, or else he'd have been technically correct - and that's the best kind of correct. But given the rest of his actions, I'm inclined to assume he was a bit of a petty idiot.
(, Thu 1 Oct 2009, 19:12, closed)
The joss stick was in one of those hippy looking brass holders, on a stone floor.
The barbecue had several people there.
He's not petty, he's just a twat.
(, Thu 1 Oct 2009, 21:45, closed)
Ah, I see.
Then he's a definite, pure-blood, arsehole.
(, Thu 1 Oct 2009, 22:16, closed)

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