Fucking barbecues...

[Hellbentwellwent]

The weather is gorgeous where we are, it’s been beautiful all week, perfect for line drying washing... except it’s not. Every last bastard on our road has decided to have a barbecue, pretty much Midday straight through to the evening there’s a bbq going somewhere. It’s driving me mad having to tumble dry our washing in this weather! I thought we were in luck earlier and put out my sheets... I’ve just had to go out to retrieve them as there’s at least two bbqs on the go now and my sheets now honk

Does anyone else think bbqs are antisocial or is it just me?

I've never had washing smell of bbq when people are having them

I've had several a week. I even do a roast chicken on mine to keep the heat out of the house.

But mine is gas, and I keep it clean, so there is no smoke and little smell.

Plus I only do it late afternoon.

I think bbqs smell rank and much worse than your average garden waste bonfire. However, yabu. It’s much more antisocial to think your washing trumps people enjoying cooking in their own gardens. There’s something fundamental about cooking outdoors.

People don't generally light up til 12ish, so if you put washing out at 8 you'd have 4 hours. It'd easily dry in 4 hours.

YANBU you'd think people didn't own an oven!

Bloody hell! Another barbecue dementor. Of course you are being unreasonable.

Let people enjoy their gardens ffs. I don't find a neighbour's barbecue has any noticeable effect on the washing when it is out, and I certainly don't panic about getting it in if someone lights one up.

By the way, who said barbecue briquettes are not an essential item? They are. Go and get some. You need to enjoy yourself however you can.

Our barbie is gas. A bottle of gas is therefore an essential item.😃

What is the problem with bbqs?!! Only on MN is it a cardinal sin to light one.

All you bbq haters, today not only did we have a bbq, we played some music and let dd play in the garden for most of the day. Oh, and I answer the door or phone. THE HORROR!

I'll probably get shot down in barbecuing flames but I've never seen the obsession with BBQ's 🙈 I'm always filled with dread when someone says "we'll have to get together for a BBQ" - I suspect because I've had so many I've had to go to where we only know the hosts and nobody else and I'm terrible in social situations!

The firelighters and aluminium trays smell disgusting as do smoky bbq's. I have to shut the windows because it sets off my asthma.

someone on local forum asked others not to put barbecue on Thursday, as they are key workers and don’t want to go in a stink uniform.

Only on MN would people suggest putting a note through the door to warn of a barbecue, to save washing. Just imagine it:

“Dear neighbour; I am holding a barbecue tomorrow, and you are not invited because of lockdown. I thought you might want to know, so you can avoid putting your washing out.”

Like Blackadder saying “here is a purse of monies, which I am not going to give to you.”

Well yesterday instead of the smell of bbqs someone within smelling distance decided to put manure on their garden. I’d rather have bbq smell personally!

As pp have said, it's the horrible smell of firelighters, and the billowing smoke that is unpleasant but I spend the the morning in the garden and eat inside in the pm. If our neighbour is BBQ'ing and it becomes unpleasant I just go inside and close the windows. I also find that BBQ's are really labour-intensive, meat usually burnt and the multitude of salads expected a PITA to make. Would much rather cook on a stove.

At this generally pretty miserable and depressing time, when out with the children having a walk or bike ride, nothing gives me more pleasure, nor such a sense of lovely normality, than the smell of barbecues. Yabvvu.

Yabu and I hate the smell of bbq as I don't eat meat 😂

We’ve just had a BBQ. We always check from an upstairs window for washing though.

We have a mixture of bonfires and barbecues here and it makes my piss boil.

I’ve normally just hung mine on the line when it starts.

So bloody inconsiderate
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My washing of course.

@changedmynameforlockdown so basically your all just sat inside bored?

You would all have a much better life if you just accepted you have neighbours, and with that comes noise. Then you could all me outside bbqing, trampolining and having a whale of a time!

I live in a city centre, part of that is having neighbours. We have bbqs, my ND neighbour has a trampoline. 3 doors down the DC are out on the bikes all the time. I accept their noise and they accept ours, and we are all much happier for it.

I persobally think it would be fairly antiaocial for me to impact all my neighbours lives by insisting they stopped living, we'd all be miserable because I couldjt accept that someone living 2ms away from me is going to have some impact on my life. If I didnt want neighbours I probably wouldnt live in a city centre, if I did its my own stupid fault really.

Good grief. It's a good job many of you don't live in my country where a BBQ is quite normal all year round.

I have never run outside to get washing off the line due to one of the neighbour's having lunch or supper.

Just enjoy being outdoors while you can. Life is too short to worry this much about washing.

We have neighbours who tell us when they are lighting a bbq as they see our laundry line is full. We really never smell bbq in our clothes so it doesn’t matter to us.

Just enjoy being outdoors while you can. Life is too short to worry this much about washing.

THIS! God, I cannot wait to leave this ridiculous country and go home as soon as physically possible.

Only in MNland are barbecues so smelly that they taint the neighbours' washing. It's never happened to me in real life.

They all have the noses of bloodhounds. And since people aren't using public transport as much and cinemas are closed, they can't complain about the horrible smells of anything a person within a mile radius consumes (other people don't eat or drink, either, they chomp, guzzle, slurp, crunch and stuff) that make them vomit and retch and ruin their entire day, possibly week. Pub gardens closed, too, so no fuming, raging, irate threads about smokers in them so their entire meal (possible lives) was ruined and their children are going to drop dead immediately from it. So BBQs it is.

Just you I’m afraid. You sound so miserable.