Buy a house built on a flood plain
Then act all surprised and hard-done-by when it gets flooded.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Fri 19 Nov 2010, 14:42, 11 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

^oh yes^

( Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Fri 19 Nov 2010, 14:48, Reply)

I feel the same way about all those people who buy houses on fault lines
then complain when they fall over
( Peej, Fri 19 Nov 2010, 15:00, Reply)

Any housing development
with the word 'Carr' in it is asking for trouble. They are always new builds and nobody seems to stop to think "why has nobody ever built on here before?". For example, in June 2007 the newly built area in Hull called Kingswood was knacker-deep after all the rain.
Seeing that the word Carr is the old Norse worse for swampy fenland. The same goes for anything with "Holme" in it.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 19 Nov 2010, 16:49, Reply)

This also works for comedians.

( Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Fri 19 Nov 2010, 17:15, Reply)

And Slough also means 'miry place', or 'bog' or toilet (bathroom, American cousins).
(Hudekin ( . )( . ) - cos i can't use photoshop.., Sat 20 Nov 2010, 5:41, Reply)

Maxine Swampy-Fenland?

( Ghoti Fingers, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 8:36, Reply)

it's her new
eco-warrior identity.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 8:55, Reply)

Also good...
are those who buy a house near an industrial estate, farm etc. Which could be expected to run noisy machinery at less-than sociable hours, then act all indignant about the lorries/tractors driving past the window while they're having tea/watching the x factor.
"Oh, I'm sorry sir, was I disturbing you? I'll just flip the switch that turns my 12 litre, 400 horsepower engine into 'quiet' mode shall I?"
Some tried to turn us in to the council for disturbing the peace. Fortunately, what with the yard having existed for 20 years before anyone even thought of building houses down that end of town, it always comes to naught.
The fact that the company owner happens to be on the borough council probably doesn't hurt, either.
(Hairy Bob, Fri 19 Nov 2010, 23:38, Reply)

This reminds me of a letter
published in the local paper of the part of Dorset where I grew up.

This was at the time when people from London started to move in and price local people out of the market.

The letter went something like this:
"Why do the farmers in the farm next door to me allow their cows to foul all over the road when they move them from the field to the dairy? Something really should be done to stop it.
Added to this the dairy farm is beginning to really smell now the weather is getting warmer. I did not move here from London to be surrounded by bad smells."

I think it may have been a joke just to get us upset!
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sat 20 Nov 2010, 13:53, Reply)

I grew up in the wilds of Zummerzet.
The local chicken farm smelt fucking grim in the summer.

That said, anyone coming from London and complaining about the smell needs a serious irony-detection overhaul.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Sun 21 Nov 2010, 17:39, Reply)

Oh yes farms can proper hum
It's just that people don't realise that the countryside is, or was, a working place and no just put there for them the enjoy at weekends.
Farms stink of shit, but this doesn't fit with some peoples idea of a rural idyll.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Sun 21 Nov 2010, 17:59, Reply)