To think our neighbours are total wassocks????

[Hellbentwellwent]

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

Yeahit's inconsiderate. We only use on dry cold nights where there's no-one out.

Pillock is Norse for penis.

I didn't know that! I quite often use pillock when someone pisses me off. Not to their face obviously. I think it's a wonderful word. I didn't know I was saying that the person was a penis. Mind you, I have also been known to say that someone is a dickhead. Or a wanker or a tosser. Never mind my frequent use of fuck. Hmm, I've just realised I swear too much! I rarely did when I was young. It's not going too well this morning. I just said to my cat "Excuse me your fucking Royal Highness" after he swiped me because I annoyed him.

Kiwis use far worse IME anyway

Surely not. 😂 😂

I noticed smoke coming from a nearby chimney other day and couldn’t believe it, it’s been about 26 here. We have a woodburner and can’t imagine even thinking of putting it on

That's bonkers sparklepops123!

For those who care, wassock is a localised version of pillock. Pillock is Norse for penis

Did not know that, every day's a school day!

Yes!

Wassock is a fantastic word and I also intend to teach it to DC so they can spread it far into the vocab of their friends.
YANBU op. We bought a Swedish fire log and haven’t been able to light it yet because we wouldn’t dream of lighting it during a heatwave where people have their windows open. Although if it was just that wassock from number 4 with his windows open, I might be tempted.

A note of pronunciation, do you all pronounce wassock as if it’s got a z in the middle? I wouldn’t have spelled it with ss to be honest. It’s always seemed more wazzock (not that I’ve ever needed to write it down before this thread.

Wazzuck. I believe is the correct pronunciation. I am from Bristol and my DB taught me the word 45 years ago but I will admit there maybe a bit of a 'Brizzle' slant.

There are few and far between appropriate situations for the use of the word wassock, and I use them all when they arise. It’s the perfect word for feckless fuckers when I can’t be arsed to swear!

Hellbent I agree but wassock is often prefaced by 'fucking' eg 'Wot? You fucking wassock'.

Maybe they’re burning evidence 👀

Correct spelling as per Collins is wazzock. The OED agrees, as do the other online dictionaries I looked at; & wassock doesn't seem to appear as a variant spelling...

Neither Collins nor OED gave the pillock derivation; nor even the fact it's a genitalia-related insult. Am deeply disappointed in them, frankly. People need to know these things. Like how it's important most disparaging terms for women (in English, anyway) are related to sexual morality & have been basically since forever.

Um, that wee linguistic digression aside, YANBU unreasonable to think you're neighbours are wazzocks &/or any other word[s] of your choice to describe staggering daftness.

Pillock being of Norse derivation makes it sound like a small fish to me.

pinkgirl1234 can’t see pill CJ catching on in place of terakihi.

ZebraOwl glad I can still spell. Wazzock it is.

Barmpot and mugwump don’t have the same oomph.

My twatty neighbor once burned an entire carpet on a summers evening.

He burned loads of plastic a few weeks ago but it was nothing like that carpet.

I know why you mean OP I live out in the country with only one neighbour (old stone cottages) and they have their wood burner on every.day. Only been here 6 months and the smoke was bad enough in the winter but I thought give it a couple of months and it’ll be off for the summer but nope 10 mins after putting the washing out stinking smoke is billowing into my garden and the lot stinks

Homebird8
You're welcome - I mean, if you ever needed to include wazzock in a letter to your MP, for example, you'd want the spelling to be correct...