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To think this level of pettiness is embarrassing?

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alwwyd · 03/09/2024 15:19

My next door neighbours are just very inconsiderate people. They need their own thread.

Our houses are attached but we have separated driveways with a clear line of gravel between them and a partial hedge.

We both keep our bins on the driveway and today I’ve gone out to put my bin back and they’ve shoved my (different) bin and placed their bin on my driveway. I moved it back and it’s heavy so it didn’t blow across.

I know this is a none thread, but it does annoy me how petty some people are. Like just why do it? 🙄 anyone have other petty neighbour stories?

(yes I’ve been sad enough to go a diagram)

To think this level of pettiness is embarrassing?
To think this level of pettiness is embarrassing?
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Chonk · 05/09/2024 22:57

PointsSouth · 05/09/2024 22:22

@Chonk 03/09/2024 22:14
I've only ever heard 'none' pronounced in a way that it rhymes with gone

How do you pronounce ‘gone’?

In a way that rhymes with Ron.

Mustreadabook · 05/09/2024 22:48

PointsSouth · 05/09/2024 22:22

@Chonk 03/09/2024 22:14
I've only ever heard 'none' pronounced in a way that it rhymes with gone

How do you pronounce ‘gone’?

I pronounce it so it rhymes with none.
(sorry)

Mustreadabook · 05/09/2024 22:46

MasterBeth · 03/09/2024 16:24

For the record...

The prefix "non-" means "not" or "the opposite of."

The word "none" means "not any".

It's on Mumsnet that I first saw this confusion and I guess it comes from people who pronounce these two words the same.

How would you pronounce them differently?

edit sorry should have read to the end.

PointsSouth · 05/09/2024 22:22

@Chonk 03/09/2024 22:14
I've only ever heard 'none' pronounced in a way that it rhymes with gone

How do you pronounce ‘gone’?

PointsSouth · 05/09/2024 22:18

PuddlesPityParty · 05/09/2024 19:41

Nah. It’s petty and snobby. Has a touch of classism to it too.

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I didn’t comment at all on the spelling. I simply corrected you when you said no one cares.

OurFlossy · 05/09/2024 22:10

Puddles - I haven’t “got the hump”: CBA with you but I have to say you’ve come to my attention, and not for the best of reasons.
Rereading thread, I doubt I’m alone in this.

MasterBeth · 05/09/2024 22:01

Chonk · 03/09/2024 22:14

I've only ever heard 'none' pronounced in a way that it rhymes with gone.

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I mean, unless you've never heard a southern English voice on TV or radio, then sure...

MasterBeth · 05/09/2024 21:57

Notreat · 03/09/2024 22:54

It's not incorrect to pronounce none the same as non though it's just different from the way it is pronounced in the south. Just as it is not incorrect to pronounce bath with a short instead of as though it has an additional r as in barth.
The way if speaking in the south east is not automatically 'the correct way"
(Sorry to derail your post OP)

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You are 100% correct.

That's why I didn't make any comment at all about what was the right way to pronounce the words.

I explained to a confused poster who didn't understand what the OP had written that she had incorrectly written ""a none post" rather than "a non-post".

I suggested that this written mistake makes more sense if you pronounce both words the same, northern English-style. If they sound the same, why wouldn't you assume they are written the same?

PuddlesPityParty · 05/09/2024 21:50

OurFlossy · 05/09/2024 19:52

Actually, Puddles, the conversation moved on to pronunciation.
Who are you to tell me where to “stick my nose in”? Do you have the position of policing MN? Does HQ know?
Have you ever reflected upon how offensive you are? I think you should.

I do when you’re replying to me!! I know what I was talking about - you clearly do not. In fact I even mentioned the pronunciation issue in brackets after mentioning the SPaG issue, so maybe read things properly before replying?

Don’t get arsey with me when you got the hump first. Nice one not tagging me as well.

Hardly offensive is it - if you think it is you’ve lived a very sheltered and privileged life.

OurFlossy · 05/09/2024 19:52

Actually, Puddles, the conversation moved on to pronunciation.
Who are you to tell me where to “stick my nose in”? Do you have the position of policing MN? Does HQ know?
Have you ever reflected upon how offensive you are? I think you should.

PuddlesPityParty · 05/09/2024 19:41

PointsSouth · 04/09/2024 17:54

You should. It might be interesting.

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Nah. It’s petty and snobby. Has a touch of classism to it too.

PuddlesPityParty · 05/09/2024 19:40

OurFlossy · 04/09/2024 19:21

SPaG is spelling, punctuation and grammar - nothing to do with pronunciation.

The initial person was talking about non versus none - so … maybe don’t stick your nose in where it doesn’t belong?

eastegg · 05/09/2024 08:06

Could it have been the binmen? Our binmen move bins round all over the place. I don’t mean leave them roughly where they were left out but untidily, I mean quite neatly against the wall separating houses from pavement but outside the wrong house, sometimes some distance down the road. I once had 5 recycling bins lined up against my front wall.

halava · 04/09/2024 21:49

You need to give Caspar the Alien a bit of growth hormone so that he goes all along the drive right up to the door. That'll sort them out.

Iloveburgerswaymorethanishould · 04/09/2024 21:45

takealettermsjones · 03/09/2024 16:22

That is odd. Your hedge looks like Casper the Friendly Ghost. I like it. 😊🤣

I can see the grinch!!! And facing either left or right it seems to have a winky and a tail!!! Made me chuckle!!
In all seriousness though the rearrangement of bins is something I would be very petty about!! My bins are sacred and when one of my neighbours continuously stole my favourite one it sent me into full on binwar!! It’s ongoing now 20 months later!! (As I said SACRED!!)….. now I’m off to chuckle some more about Mr Grinch winky-tail, whilst watching my neighbour look for her new bin…. “Jokes” (not a joke!)……

Dogsbreath7 · 04/09/2024 21:30

Was it them or careless refuse collectors returning them randomly?

Missmarymack2 · 04/09/2024 21:18

Sorry I don’t get it. Who cares where the bin is ? I don’t understand the diagram at all

OurFlossy · 04/09/2024 20:55

@Isinglass20 👍
❤️ the black treacle suggestion @MarvellousMonsters.

Isinglass20 · 04/09/2024 20:48

Scone pronounced as in gone. Scone as in own is very Mrs Bucket pronounced Bouquet

Cantrushart · 04/09/2024 20:46

Just to drag this thread - like the proverbial bin - back to where it belongs, do you think they pushed the bin over the gravel/hedge, or did they march it right up your driveway from the street? A nudge over the boundary could be casual, but to make the decision to use your drive right back at the street shows serious intent.

MarvellousMonsters · 04/09/2024 19:52

If this is the first time they've done this, ignore it. If it happens repeatedly, put black treacle on their bins handles.

Top marks for the diagrams.

Sennelier1 · 04/09/2024 19:42

We have specific bags for kitchenwaste. My neighbour puts his leaking stinking bag in front of my house, under my window. Every week. I wait till he's out and put it next to his frontdoor. Also every week.

OurFlossy · 04/09/2024 19:21

SPaG is spelling, punctuation and grammar - nothing to do with pronunciation.

PointsSouth · 04/09/2024 17:54

PuddlesPityParty · 04/09/2024 17:52

Wow, you got me… I’m so impressed.

I studied language and much prefer the dialectal and colloquial side of it, but I don’t bring it up on a thread that has nothing to do with it!

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You should. It might be interesting.

PuddlesPityParty · 04/09/2024 17:52

PointsSouth · 04/09/2024 14:08

Language is my hobby. Also my profession.

Intereresting word ‘hobby’. Do you know the Latin name for the Eurasian hobby, which is a sort of falcon?

It’s ‘subbuteo’. The football game’s name means ‘the hobby’.

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Wow, you got me… I’m so impressed.

I studied language and much prefer the dialectal and colloquial side of it, but I don’t bring it up on a thread that has nothing to do with it!

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