The trick is not to take the dog.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 18 Oct 2011, 16:05, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

Or at the very least stop using it as a 'sex aid'.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 18 Oct 2011, 16:06, Reply)

That would be a great idea.
If I could just completely soundproof the house, I could leave him alone for teh evening.

Trying to get him out for a piss in the evenings is fucking horrific during the months of November and December.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 18 Oct 2011, 16:07, Reply)

Drug him
and surely living in weston going outside at any point is 'fucking horrific'?
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 18 Oct 2011, 16:10, Reply)

But enough about your husband....

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 18 Oct 2011, 16:12, Reply)

Hahaha

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 18 Oct 2011, 16:14, Reply)

Roffle.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 18 Oct 2011, 16:15, Reply)

really?
Have you thought of kicking the fuck out of all the idiot pikeys within hearing distance, then? I think it's punishable by a public flogging up here to let off fireworks on anything other than Nov 5th, Dec 31st or the last day of the Tattoo. It's a sad day when yet again Scotland is demonstrably a more civilised country than England.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 18 Oct 2011, 16:13, Reply)

i think the poverty, lack of education, drug taking, alcoholism and generally being a shit province balance out the fireworks law

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 18 Oct 2011, 16:15, Reply)

I'm struggling to see any forms of poverty or drug taking where I live
the only alcoholism is my own and the education system in Scotland is and always has been far superior to England. And bear in mind I'm English. The only problem I have with the place is small-minded anti-Englishness occasionally. Mostly, though, you can weigh that up against people who think Scotland is full of drug-taking illiterates, when in fact that now describes pretty much any provincial town in England.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 18 Oct 2011, 16:22, Reply)

I'm not struggling to see any forms of poverty or drug taking where I live.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 18 Oct 2011, 16:25, Reply)

Oh hai Monty is that a mirror?
/has one of those mirrors as well
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 18 Oct 2011, 16:26, Reply)

*racks out lines on said mirror*

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 18 Oct 2011, 16:27, Reply)

+ *realises he doesn't have a credit card left to chop it out with*

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 18 Oct 2011, 16:28, Reply)

I have been in a 'has drugs but no note with which to snort them with' situation on a number of occasions.
Really living the champagne lifestyle dream right there. That and 'inhaling through your nose in a shit-splattered lavatory cubicle' really makes the dream complete.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 18 Oct 2011, 16:35, Reply)

The good thing is that you recognise this and are
taking meaningful to straighten out cracking on as normal
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 18 Oct 2011, 16:50, Reply)

No, that time it was just a really ugly person standing in front of him
but I can see why you would make that mistake.
(Bazongaloid, Tue 18 Oct 2011, 16:28, Reply)

yes, but when it's done with an air of raffish bravado, it's probably OK.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 18 Oct 2011, 16:27, Reply)

That's what I keep telling myself.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 18 Oct 2011, 16:28, Reply)

I think Edinburgh is like London, a beacon of hope amogst towns filled with cretinous lacklustre morons

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 18 Oct 2011, 16:29, Reply)

This might also be true, of course.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 18 Oct 2011, 16:31, Reply)

One of these days, I'm going to have to move home.
Free prescriptions, free eyetests, free care homes, and now I find there's no bastard random fireworkery as soon as it gets dark in teh evenings.

And teh house prices are cheaper, mostly.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Tue 18 Oct 2011, 16:16, Reply)

Er....we get fireworks going off for about a fortnight either side of Nov 5th,

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 18 Oct 2011, 16:20, Reply)

shush.
be very quiet, I'm hunting wabbits.

Edit - also, you live pretty near me don't you? I really can only remember hearing them on the friday or saturday either side, and my mate that runs one of the Edinburgh noise pollution teams says they come down like a ton of bricks on people doing it outside those times.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 18 Oct 2011, 16:22, Reply)

I work in Edinburgh but I live about 8 miles outside it.
I still pay Edinburgh council tax, but the council's attitude out our way is a little more laissez-faire.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Tue 18 Oct 2011, 17:00, Reply)

Just think of that shiney new tram your council tax is paying for...

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 18 Oct 2011, 17:02, Reply)