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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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SemiNormal · 13/05/2017 23:28

Perhaps they are bats. Very big bats.

mellicauli · 13/05/2017 23:29

My older son told me yesterday that they had now invented so many Pokemons that the latest ones were just a bin bag with eyes on. Could there be a connection?

tapdancingmum · 13/05/2017 23:37

I don't know how to bookmark on my laptop so am doing it the old fashioned way. Now do I set a reminder that I need to come back on Tuesday (do we have a time?) or will I remember Wink

viques · 13/05/2017 23:39

My neighbour only hangs sandwich bags on the line. I am SO fed up of living next to boring people.

loaferloveforyou · 13/05/2017 23:58

IF it was because of water sports / bed wetting how awkward is that conversation going to be Blush

Go and ask now. Go on. Do it. Do it

Do we get a pic? It might help us to see if they have been darked on and to what extent

nicknameofawesome · 14/05/2017 00:06

I was ready to go with dementors or darked on bedding until I saw Or they're setting out a landing path for goth alien visitors this is now my new favourite theory. Check for flashing torches being used as landing lights...

StarryCorpulentCunt · 14/05/2017 00:06

Don't be fucking ridiculous! All of you, just stop with the silly suggestions. She can't possibly go round there now, she'll get DARKED on!!!

Grin Oh who am I kidding. Come the fuck ON, Op, we need to knoooooow.

TeslasDeathRay · 14/05/2017 00:09

Definitely to reuse for their next victims. They're environmentally-conscious, frugal murderers.

Waddlelikeapenguin · 14/05/2017 00:13

Darked on GrinGrinGrin

Tigger365 · 14/05/2017 00:13

I'm another one overly invested...I need to know!!!

MrsHandles · 14/05/2017 00:21

Glitter has hit the nail on the head: definitely darked on bedding. You must visit them if only to explain the rules of laundry drying!

SaltySalt · 14/05/2017 00:35

Is it Tuesday yet?

WetsTheFinger · 14/05/2017 00:37

Have you read the thread in classics about super tight people? Lots of washing and reusing plastic bags and bin bags on there. So perhaps they just don't like throwing them away?

SemiNormal · 14/05/2017 00:59

Please post an anonymous note telling them the dangers of being darked on!

Dear neighbour,

It has been brought to my attention that you have been airing your sacks each night by wafting them about the garden. Please be aware that doing so could result in you and your sacks being darked on! I have experienced this myself and it once you've been darked on you can't ever be darked off. Keep waving your sacks about at your peril!

Your Neighbour

PS I couldn't approach you about this in daylight as the first rule of being darked on is not to talk about being darked on, doing so could result in me being doubly darked on and we wouldn't want that now would we!

Glitterbaby17 · 14/05/2017 01:02

This is so bizarre I want to know!

mammyoftwo · 14/05/2017 01:16

first ever placemark!

ZigZagIntoTheBlue · 14/05/2017 01:17

This has had me chuckling through a night of babysitting, I too am now overly invested in this!

GiraffesCantPlayHopScotch · 14/05/2017 01:25

Go and cut holes in them

toffeeboffin · 14/05/2017 01:46

Howling at people thinking she has 13 kids.

It's obviously some sort of kinky fetish sex thingy that people in the suburbs do.

Still, reusing bins bags
Confused

Probably from Lidl or somewhere, if they are not Morrisons fans.

requestingsunshine · 14/05/2017 01:46

They must be reusing them , that's really odd but I cant think of anything else to explain it Confused

toffeeboffin · 14/05/2017 01:49

Just googled 'why wash black bin bags' and this thread came up Hmm

AbernathysFringe · 14/05/2017 01:50

Scrolled through 6 pages to find what 'darked on' meant...Is it when a dark item accidentally ruins a light wash? I didn't know it was a phrase...
Hmmm.

cantbefaffedd · 14/05/2017 01:58

Marking. I need to know Grin

toffeeboffin · 14/05/2017 02:10

Abernathy Grin

That's an hour of your life you won't see again!