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to ask my neighbour why in the hell they are constantly drying black bin bags

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KeiraKnightleyActsWithHerTeeth · 13/05/2017 18:29

My next door neighbours constantly have black bin bags on their washing line. Not in their main garden but in the side return, right next to our house. Our kitchens look into the other but we have a fence up which just about blocks us from seeing each other. However day and night for the past 2-3 months they have had black bin bags on their washing line. I wouldn't give a crap about what people have on their washing line ordinarily but it makes a right din, especially in the wind we have had recently. DS13's bedroom is at that end of the house and says he can hear them rustling really loudly all night long (which I know sounds ridiculous but they must have 4-5 bin bags rustling away at any one time).
These bin bags keep blowing up in the air too and our dogs are losing the plot about it, they don't usually bark much but 15ft glossy black apparitions springing up is sending them mad.

Every morning, when I'm in the office (we have an office annex in the garden so can see directly up their garden without effort) I can see her taking bags off the line and replacing them with new bags.

Come on, what am I missing here? Have a missed a bizarre trend? They are bizarre people as it is but I can't figure out wtf is going on here.

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MrsHandles · 16/05/2017 07:29

It is Tuesday! Please let this riddle be solved with an exciting and dramatic conclusion Grin

TipTop333 · 16/05/2017 07:31

Merry Binbagmas everyone!!!

glitterglitters · 16/05/2017 07:33

Happy Bin Bag Day everybody no pressure on the OP, just several hundred overly invested mnetters waiting patiently by their phone/tablet/computer today Grin

AllTheWittyNamesAreGone · 16/05/2017 07:35

I got up and had to come chrck

Justmadeperfectflapjacks · 16/05/2017 07:41

Have taken the day off to mnet all day!
Dh on standby to buy all the back bags in town incase we need them for some life changing reason. .

ShieldMaidenMamma · 16/05/2017 07:42

Marking a little place here, don't mind me! ;)

RebelRogue · 16/05/2017 07:44

Shameless place marking. Bought some extra bin bags this week in case I'm missing something essential.

Keepingupwiththejonesys · 16/05/2017 07:47

Im so glad I'm not the only one who's been interested sad enough to look for this today!

JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff · 16/05/2017 07:47

I am still sniggering childishly at

DP is a sportsman

In the context of this thread it totally sounds euphemistic....

ShieldMaidenMamma · 16/05/2017 07:50

I suspect it's going to turn out to be something absolutely genius we'll all wish we'd thought of. Or is that 'hope'...? I dunno, somehow even something mundane would be almost unbearably funny now

rizlett · 16/05/2017 08:00

Never mind about the darked on - what about the spider willies??

Maybe that's what they're doing - harvesting.

northernlites · 16/05/2017 08:18

It's bin day!
Waiting excitedly for the mystery of the black refuse bags to unfold 🤔

FacelikeaBagofHammers · 16/05/2017 08:22

No idea but your user name is hilarious.

PinkSquash · 16/05/2017 08:33

It's confrontation day. I have bin bag pom poms at the ready.

loaferloveforyou · 16/05/2017 08:43

I hope this isn't a thread where the OP never comes back. You wouldn't do that to us, would you OP??

murphys · 16/05/2017 08:51

Well its Tuesday morning, so I have also had to just make some stuff up of what is possibly could be:

  1. Bed wetter
  2. Frugal
  3. Paranoid OP is looking over the wall
  4. Scaring off the birds, and annoying ds13

But what is really is.... have you see those beach loungers?.. its like a long bag which you fling around to fill with air, and then roll it up quick to catch it all in there.... then do some sort of magical roly thing with it... and voila, beach lounger/pool floatation device.... except that OP's neighbour saw it on the telly, said bollocks to buying that, I am gonna use a black bag and bobs your uncle. So, every evening they tried to make said lounger, and when they put it in the Jacuzzi, well... it didn't work quite right with a black bag did it..... so she is drying them, to try again tonight.. its obvious isn't it.... Grin

So, yeah, I am also awaiting the update really...............

Grin
WhateverNameIsStillAvailable · 16/05/2017 09:08

Oh the suspense. .. munchespopcorn

glitterglitters · 16/05/2017 09:16

@rizlett a spider stud farm 😱

Gingerbreadmam · 16/05/2017 09:20

ooh the orgy suggestion is by far the best!

could be a madame who specialicises in 'sploshing' if that's what it is called fetish involving having food of the slippery kind chucked over you

Tigger83 · 16/05/2017 09:59

Shamelessly place-marking!

putdownyourphone · 16/05/2017 10:01

.

Sweetfa22 · 16/05/2017 10:04

First place mark ever.

metalmum15 · 16/05/2017 10:11

Placemarking while I just pop outside to take the bin bags off the line.

littlemummyfoofoo · 16/05/2017 10:17

When did Tuesday become so slow...

ParisGellar · 16/05/2017 10:19

Placemark McPlacemarkface.

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