To think this level of pettiness is embarrassing?

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’.

And coming onto a thread correcting someone’s SPaG when it wasn’t asked for isn’t? (Oh, and also telling people how they should and should not pronounce things!)

Tbh I would find this annoying. It's their bin so should remain in their property. There is no reason or need for them to push the bin on to your driveway. Would they pay damage to your car if the bin was to fall over etc?

@alwwyd if they do this again, I would be buying some posts and a roll of chicken wire to put a fence from the front right up to the hedge!

Bloody hell there are some argumentative and petty posters on this thread, and lately I’ve had my fill of pedantic arseholes on this site!

OP I’m with you, your neighbours are clearly being wankers, there is a definite line/boundary and they have actively moved your bin and placed there there, it’s not like a fucking cat knocked into it. Yeah shove it back, stare at them, ignore them, but ultimately remember, some folk are just FUCKING WEIRD!

To be honest, as petty as she is, putting them in her garden was a bit of an arsey thing to do. I’d have quietly cut them and put them in my own garden bin…

Also OP, I’m guessing there’s a lot more to this story because I really couldn’t get het up over a wheely bin being on my side of the shared driveway. What I will say is my NDN rarely drags her bin back in on bin day and it’s usually left outside our drive by the bin men (sometimes blocking our drive) so that does irritate me rather irrationally almost every week.

It's been decades since I heard Hecky thump 😂

And apparently I have never talked proper according to others from childhood. One year my school mates tried to teach me to say one and won, which sound the same to me. I ended up saying wun (almost like a gruff dog bark) for one just to shut them up. They seemed happy. Weirdos.

I had these really snobby neighbours. They used to leave their garbage bags (we don't have Wheely bins) alongside my railings, even though their house was three times the size with railings all across the other side.
When I wrote a note politely asking them not to. They got their cleaner (yes they had a live in cleaner) to dump three massive sacks full of used cat litter on my fucking doorstep!!
I got my revenge by blocking their planning application so they lost money on the sale. New neighbours are absolutely lovely!

@PuddlesPityParty How rude

Maybe a teenager moved it to get a ball or something?

To be honest I would have just put the odd bramble in my own bin. Hardly take up any room.

I suggest getting a hobby then.

They probably just moved it to get to something or to manoeuvre something big into or past the car and forgot to put it back. I doubt it would be deliberate, what's the point?

I’m enjoying a cup of tea and toasted tea cake while having a scroll. Your post really did make me laugh out loud, not something that usually happens to me!

I care.

I don’t think they were honey.

They just didn’t understand what the thread was about or the bin the drama - no one was confused about non vs none. And I’m with the other northerners - they’re pronounced the same!

I would wheel their bin to the next street, put my own back where it was, and then disclaim all knowledge if they ask where their one is.

Nah, you’re not talking proper @LittleGreenDragons! 😂
Yeah, scon, as in the bus’s scon - I’ve just missed it - or would you say “The bus has scoan”?
😂
”Nun”: a woman who has dedicated her life to religious service and contemplation, usually living in a monastery or convent.
Nowt to do with non or none. Hecky thump, LGD!

My scone rhymes with gone. As do non and none.
scone
gone
non
none
ALL RHYME 😂😂

@MasterBeth

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 condescending. Pretty sure I’m not personally responsible for the confusion of others’ understanding just because of how I speak 🤨 🤨

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)

I hope to goodness your scone doesn't rhyme with gone. Unless you meant to pronounce it as scon. Scone should rhyme with bone.

Non and none are the same as nun 😀

Still loving the green casper (just to keep the thread on track).

Could it be the dustbin men placing the bin back as they're not conscientious of which house it's come from??

I've had my neighbour's bin before & they've had mine even though it's got my house number on it, I know it's not my neighbour doing it on purpose.

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

Very much enjoyed the diagram.

What you need is an actual amphibious/reptilian type fence (as depicted), then they can’t pull this shit anymore.

I like your diagram!

I wish there was a gallery of all the diagrams.