To all you ''Residentent Association'' Types !

four18

Please stop this ''We are all in together crap'' and stop dropping crap through my letterbox. If you need a jump start of a morning..just knock !
No milk ? No problem, just knock !...need a loan ? just knock !
BUT I dont need to sit around a wonky table being best mates with you forever. Annoy elsewhere or get on a better plane with your partner/family and get down off the soapbox. My 268 piece toolset is there for all your DIY persuits, but I really dont see why we should be best mates just because we share a postal adress/driveway.
Rant Over
. Ps I humbly apologise for the error in my spelling of the word ''Resident'' ! I will explain the reasons in my next newsletter which will be distruibed at our next ''CLEAN UP ! Yay !

I cannot correct the spelling in the title, Only the post. The Mod that spots this and corrects same gets an extra star after their name and goes to the top of the class, and may,one day attain a ''SuperMod'' star for paying attention to small detail

starbelgrade

Miserable sod.

Mickey H

Any chance of a spoon of sugar?

MisterEpicurus

four18 wrote: »

Please stop this ''We are all in together crap'' and stop dropping crap through my letterbox. If you need a jump start of a morning..just knock !
No milk ? No problem, just knock !...need a loan ? just knock !
BUT I dont need to sit around a wonky table being best mates with you forever. Annoy elsewhere or get on a better plane with your partner/family and get down off the soapbox. My 268 piece toolset is there for all your DIY persuits, but I really dont see why we should be best mates just because we share a postal adress/driveway.
Rant Over.

If only you had the balls to say this to your ACTUAL neighbours.

four18

starbelgrade wrote: »

Miserable sod.

My door is always open !! I just dont need to go over to your place and see your holiday pics ! See My post above, Whatever you need, If I have it , Its yours !!

Dudess

It's not a bad thing OP. Where I live nobody knows anyone.

KeithM89_old

four18 wrote: »

Whatever you need, If I have it , Its yours !!

I need 5 grand, and some milk.

four18

MisterEpicurus wrote: »

If only you had the balls to say this to your ACTUAL neighbours.

I have said it !! In a nice way but I really dont want/need to see your second childs 5 month scan !

Cookie_Monster

and they didn't even ask you for money?

four18

Dudess wrote: »

It's not a bad thing OP. Where I live nobody knows anyone.

Thats all I mean !

starbelgrade

four18 wrote: »

My 268 piece toolset is there for all your DIY persuits,

Do you have fork handles?

Sauve

starbelgrade wrote: »

Do you have fork handles?

I need a blueberry.

Dudess

four18 wrote: »

I have said it !! In a nice way but I really dont want/need to see your second childs 5 month scan !

Wait til you get the placenta quiche visit. :cool:

Sauve

Dudess wrote: »

Wait til you get the placenta quiche visit. :cool:

*vom

four18

Dudess wrote: »

Wait til you get the placenta quiche visit. :cool:

Had a cowel type moment once !

stovelid

I was on a residents association before but gave up because the vast majority of other residents were miserable, selfish cunts who would happily take it up the ass from property developers all day long, welshed on paying for services (that they happily used of course) despite having fancy cars and didn't give a tit about the quality of life of others unless they needed something themselves.

I grew up in one of the worst areas of Dublin and the people there had ten times more balls and community spirit than the home owners in the supposedly nice area I live in now.

I never made them look at my baby pictures though, I swear!

KKkitty

Dudess wrote: »

four18 wrote: »

I have said it !! In a nice way but I really dont want/need to see your second childs 5 month scan !

Wait til you get the placenta quiche visit. :cool:

Jesus that's disgusting. Feel sick now. I would say hi to my neighbours but that's about it. I'm not in the area long enough to know anyone properly but even when I am the door won't be a free for all welcome wise.

mikemac1

Tidy towns are coming up

Get your tools ready, I want to see your garden sorted out, trim those trees and paint your walls
And when you've done that I need you elsewhere to help out

And I need it done by the middle of June

Dudess

four18 wrote: »

Had a cowel type moment once !

Simon?

four18

stovelid wrote: »

I was on a residents association before but gave up because the vast majority of other residents were miserable, selfish cunts who would happily take it up the ass from property developers all day long, welshed on paying for services (that they happily used of course) despite having fancy cars and didn't give a tit about the quality of life of others unless they needed something themselves.

I grew up in one of the worst areas of Dublin and the people there had ten times more balls and community spirit than the home owners in the supposedly nice area I live in now.

I never made them look at my baby pictures though, I swear!

You sure ? Hmmm ! I believe Lucan is fraught with dem !

four18

Dudess wrote: »

Simon?

No a skin dat covers the 2.4 childs face...appearently at birth. SEE This is exactly what I mean

stovelid

I'm not from Lucan.

I can drop over with some baby pics and scones though.

KKkitty

mikemac1 wrote: »

Tidy towns are coming up

Get your tools ready, I want to see your garden sorted out, trim those trees and paint your walls
And when you've done that I need you elsewhere to help out

And I need it done by the middle of June

+1000 My local area is the exact same and took 5 euro a month from all the households in the estate and I still have no idea where it went really because I don't see anything being done. The same cronies are involved in everything too so you'd have no point trying to get your own ideas across.

four18

stovelid wrote: »

I'm not from Lucan.

I can drop over with some baby pics and scones though.

Go away !!

four18

KKkitty wrote: »

+1000 My local area is the exact same and took 5 euro a month from all the households in the estate and I still have no idea where it went really because I don't see anything being done. The same cronies are involved in everything too so you'd have no point trying to get your own ideas across.

Its being spent on comittee kom-it-eee meetings

Dudess

four18 wrote: »

Thats all I mean !

What do you mean? I'm saying a residents' association is not a bad thing. Better than none.

four18

KKkitty wrote: »

+1000 My local area is the exact same and took 5 euro a month from all the households in the estate and I still have no idea where it went really because I don't see anything being done. The same cronies are involved in everything too so you'd have no point trying to get your own ideas across.

Paint the typical cronie ! What do they work at ?/ Drive ? Wife/ Brats names ?..Not actual,,,just typical !!

Bajingo

Hello Heckles.

four18

Dudess wrote: »

What do you mean? I'm saying a residents' association is not a bad thing. Better than none.

Ahh Welcome.. Mr Bond, We have been expecting you ! Please remove all courdroy clothing before proceeding any further and leave all lawnmowers at the door. Thank You

stovelid

KKkitty wrote: »

+1000 My local area is the exact same and took 5 euro a month from all the households in the estate and I still have no idea where it went really because I don't see anything being done. The same cronies are involved in everything too so you'd have no point trying to get your own ideas across.

When we had a committee, we always invited people that had concerns like yours to come along and get involved and help out. Sadly, I think they all took sick or died because they tended to disappear off the face of the earth shortly afterwards

four18

stovelid wrote: »

When we had a committee, we always people that had concerns like yours to come along and get involved and help out. Sadly, I think they all took sick or died because they tended to disappear off the face of the earth shortly afterwards

More of the same please ! Gold !!

leggo

I get the OP's problem, to be fair. A lot of the resident association types, I find, are the type who have too much time on their hands and use it to try and tell other's how to run their lives, or using it as an effort to force people to be their friends etc.

There was one who'd constantly hassle us in a local supermarket I worked in about things she was doing with the association. We didn't give a ****, but customer service meant that we couldn't say that to her. I remember her harassing me about a notice for a local meeting, demanding it be put at a key point of one cash desk (that would've had our merchandisers, who actually contributed financially to the store, hit the roof). I told her she could put it on the notice board like everyone else. She hassled my boss, and his boss, and our head office until she got her way. I took it down a day later. She also shook down a manager for €50 one time after 'forgetting her purse'. Terrible woman.

It's one of those things that, if used correctly, can be a great tool. Unfortunately the nature of it seems to attract bored housewives and/or absolute dickheads looking to make themselves feel important with so little else going on for them. I'm not referring to everyone involved in them, by the by, I'm sure there are plenty who do good work. They're just either a quiet majority or (more likely) a very small minority.

The King of Moo

Residentent, thanks for the rent.

KKkitty

Typical cronies in my area are businessmen, older women whose kids have all grown up and the people who seem to come out of the woodwork when it suits them. I just let them on with it. I'll look after my own patch but I'm not going to be a hypocrite at the same time. I did suggest an idea to get the small kids of the area involved somehow but I know it won't be implemented.

Son Of A Vidic

Ah OP - I know not your pain, because with my acreage, the nearest neighbour isn't visible to the naked eye.

four18

The King of Moo wrote: »

Residentent, thanks for the rent.

See OP !

four18

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

Ah OP - I know not your pain, because with my acreage, the nearest neighbour isn't visible to the naked eye.

You Jammy etc ! Oh They also do census work so you, In the back of yonder, They will get You !!

The King of Moo

four18 wrote: »

See OP !

I read it, but my song wouldn't work if I changed it, sorry.

Cookie_Monster

stovelid wrote: »

When we had a committee, we always invited people that had concerns like yours to come along and get involved and help out. Sadly, I think they all took sick or died because they tended to disappear off the face of the earth shortly afterwards

residents committees seem to have that effect on people, I can't imagine why:pac:

Jester252

People in any position abuse it a bit
and People like to bitch about people in positions higher then them

Fulton Crown

Resident Assoc man he com to my door to ax fer de money !

I say" hello Mr Resident Assoc man what yo want dis money for ?"

"To clean up the communal areas" he reply politely.

"What % of de residents contribute" ? I says

" Not sure orf de top o my head ..but say about 15%" he guess.

"So the 15% is payin to clear up de comms areas an 75% is payin fuck all ?
I rejoind.

"Would seem so" he said

I shake him by the hand and say"Well you can now fuck off outta here pal...nothin personal !"

OldNotWIse

Humbug

OldNotWIse

Cant believe the "bored housewives" types still exist but clearly they do! I imagine them out painting the little wooden borders on their flowerbeds and baking wholewheat muffins for the neighbours so that they can drop around and have a snoop and look down at you for not having your letterbox painted and having scruffy kids lol

I am lucky to live in an area where there's about quarter of a mile between each house (more or less) so people stay out of your way but having said that, the neighbours are great. They are not in your face but when you need anything you know you can rely on them 100%

Formosa

Fulton Crown wrote: »

Resident Assoc man he com to my door to ax fer de money !

I say" hello Mr Resident Assoc man what yo want dis money for ?"

"To clean up the communal areas" he reply politely.

"What % of de residents contribute" ? I says

" Not sure orf de top o my head ..but say about 15%" he guess.

"So the 15% is payin to clear up de comms areas an 75% is payin fuck all ?
I rejoind.

"Would seem so" he said

I shake him by the hand and say"Well you can now fuck off outta here pal...nothin personal !"

And the other 10?

Jester252

Formosa wrote: »

And the other 10?

They are paying for something else?

Sleepy

I think it's an awful shame people think this way tbh.

I was raised in a number of different estates and the Residents Associations were quite good when I was a kid: there'd be a clean-up day of the estate once or twice a year where all the kids would help pick up the litter whilst the adults did some landscaping on the common areas etc.; an annual children's party where they'd rent out a bouncy castle, fill us with coke and sweets and let us run riot and an annual barbeque for adults to get locked and get to know their neighbours.

It led to a sense of community, of knowing who your kids were playing with on the road and friendships between a lot of the neighbours.

Now, I always lived in small estates of 20 - 30 houses where it was probably easier to organise this kind of thing than in the monstrous "developments" that sprung up during the 90's so maybe that made a difference. We live in a similar size estate now ourselves and, tbh, if we weren't renting, I think I'd be having a go at setting up a similar residents association to the ones my mother would have been involved with when I was a child.

I think the sense of community in the area you grew up in is a sadly missed part of Irish life from the 80's and, looking at the Diarmuid Gavin Tidy Towns thing on RTE lately, was hoping that maybe the one good thing to come out of this recession might be the resurrection of such community groups.

Fulton Crown

Formosa wrote: »

And the other 10?

Heh heh ! Clean headshot Buddy ! 85% !

mikemac1

Sleepy wrote: »

an annual children's party where they'd rent out a bouncy castle, fill us with coke and sweets and let us run riot

Couldn't do that anymore

A child hurts themselves and parents would sue you

Coriolanus

mikemac1 wrote: »

Sleepy wrote: »

an annual children's party where they'd rent out a bouncy castle, fill us with coke and sweets and let us run riot

Couldn't do that anymore

A child hurts themselves and parents would sue you

I was reading about the jubilee celebrations. The last one 80s probably had bouncy castles and a tig of war. Can't now for lack of insurance. If the fsckin queen can't swing it what hope for some estate in lucan

flutterflye

The amount of shyte they go on with really pi$$es me off too.
Letters about unsightly grass verges, and how cars shouldn't be parked in this place and that place, and trying to convince everyone to go out and tidy up this saturday at this particular time.
Fuck off!!!
I sleep at that time on a saturday!!!

Cookie_Monster

Fulton Crown wrote: »

Resident Assoc man he com to my door to ax fer de money !

I say" hello Mr Resident Assoc man what yo want dis money for ?"

"To clean up the communal areas" he reply politely.

"Don't the council do that anyway?" says I

"yes" he says "but they won't replace the perfectly good street sign with a giant rock with the name carved in it with a little flower bed around it for us."