To think our neighbours are total wassocks????

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I’ve just been woken up by the smell of burning. All our windows are open as it’s fucking roasting. We live inner city in a row of terraces in a neighbourhood of terraces with small back gardens. I checked out all the windows and could see smoke rising from the back of the return on the house two doors down out of our top floor landing window. Obviously my first thought is house fire and in this weather everything’s dry as a bone and being terraced I go into high alert. So I’ve just got up and put on some clothes to run next door and knock our neighbours to warn them.... apparently it’s ok, it’s just their next doors wood burner??!!!! Wtf? Who burns wood on the Thursday night at 11 o’clock in this feckin heat?
I’ve had to close all the bloody windows as well now to add further insult as the smoke is clawing so there’s not even a breath of air to relieve the heat.... wassocks

Try living next door too tears who constantly smokes weed and it permeates your house.

I have the right to have my Windows open without bein made to feel nausea by this smell.

Not tears twats

Could it be an outdoor fire pit? Are they sitting outside. Goodness knows what they are burning on it though if it that smelly!

Possibly a case of performance parenting so Tarquin can empathise with those living near Saddleworth moor? I really hope they are just twats.

We smelt burning a few weeks back at about 8.30am but put it down to our neighbours who love to bbq all time of day/night/year... turns out there actually was a house on fire, I felt bad

Can’t imagine putting a fire on in this weather but I’m in London, what’s the temp like where you are?

It’s 19 degrees here! Hottest day on record in 175 years for us and yet that’s the day they choose to light a fecking woodburner.... just why?????

Should clarify, it’s 19 degrees now, it hit 30.4 earlier

YANBU. Also wassock is a brilliant word.

YANBU. Got a fire extinguisher? Walk over, in pyjamas and slippers, not a word, put it out.

YANBU. Not normal behaviour in this heat!

How bizarre. Why would they be doing that?

Oh I long for a woodburner. It's winter here and we got a heat pump put in a couple of years ago after all the hype about them. We hate the bloody thing. Sorry, off topic.

I live on a dreary suburban street and a neighbour a few doors up regularly burns "something" on her patio. Smoke billows from it all up the street and it stinks. I've no idea what it is. Plus it's illegal to do it, although I'm not such a cow as to report it. It just mystifies me what she's burning.

YANBU, and especially even more so for the use of the word wassock. A highly under used word that needs to be aired more!

Were your neighbours spawny eyed parrot faced wassocks?

To all the ‘wassock’ users. Thank you. I have recently been explaining the need of the word to my two teens who are at risk of becoming unfamiliar due to our living in NZ. Heritage is everything.

Haha @Homebird8. I am a NZer (living here) and I love "wassock". I think I'll start saying it to people who piss me off.

I'm still intrigued as to why the OP's neighbours were using their woodburner though.

And I still want a woodburner. i have serious woodburner envy whenever I see smoke coming from those around us.

I can only think they're burning evidence of something ....

Yes...

The term 'Complete Wassock' definitely needs to be used in more circumstances. Will definitely try and pop it into conversation tomorrow with our teens!!!

YANBU - mainly cos of the word wassock which I haven't heard for years!!

YANBU. Thoughtless stinky buggers.

My upstairs wassock neighbour keeps tumble drying with the balcony door open. We have ours open too because the living room is like a greenhouse because a lot of wall space is window. She's got her tumble drier in the god damn living room so not only can I hear it fucking constantly but she is stinking us out with some sort of fabric softener that smells like someone is burning refreshers/love hearts sweets on a fire of always sanitary pads. It's sickly sweet smelling, gets right in your clack.

I'm convinced she's running a laundry business, which is not allowed in the tenancy agreement. No single person needs to wash almost 24 a day like she does. You would need to be shitting the bed every 5 minutes for the number of times I hear her washer and dryer start up.

Our wood-burner neighbours seem to have an inexhaustible supply of old fence panels and railway sleepers (all soaked in decades of creosote) and the smoke smells truly appalling. For all I know, they are also incinerating thousands of old socks and whiffy trainers as well, it smells like it sometimes. Luckily, they haven't been burning anything in recent days.

For those who care, wassock is a localised version of pillock. Pillock is Norse for penis. Having a wazz is also used for urination.

@pinkgirl1234 I find wassock an excellent addition to business jargon. Just enough that the person knows they’ve caused eyes to roll, just gentle enough not to offend (especially as nobody knows what it means). Kiwis use far worse IME anyway and it adds a certain colour to proceedings.

A Newcastle (Tyneside) man I once worked with always used 'geet (h)airy wazzock' as his insult of choice. Said in his most accented 'Geordie'.