Fucking barbecues

[Polodriversclub]

I live in a quiet part of a street, and we're mid terrace. Every neighbour has decided to have a fucking barbecue, every day. Don't get me wrong, it's up too them in their own gardens but does no one have any common courtesy anymore to knock or shout over the fence as say 'oh we're having a barbecue, you might want to take your washing in!' I'm getting so sick of it. We can't have a out back doors open because the smell is so strong and the smoke so intense it just smothers everything. I used to really love summer and now thanks to people who really don't give a shit, it gets ruined. Can't sit in the garden as you other get smoked out of some twat kicks a fucking ball over the fence, or even worse at your fence. Roll on a lottery win so I can move to a house in a big field!

Literally wouldn't occur to me to inform my neighbours of my meal plans.
But they smoke and don't tell me when they plan to have a fag so guess we are quits

It's weird the way Brits moan about BBQs. I moved to Oz a few years ago and I'd get laughed off the street if I complained! It's constant here...and your nose must be very oversensitive!

I thought I was the exception. I can't abide the taste of barbecued food, nor can I abide the smell of them. Op I feel your pain.
No answers, as they seem v popular.

completely agree OP. right now i am sick of neighbours and wish i could move to a rural place away from neighbours who are too close. loud music, loud screaming/talking, stinking bloody barbecues. whoever said they don't smell is talking utter bollocks, obviously written by someone who has a lot of the fucking things.

Firepits. Whatever accelerant is used in them? It stinks

I absolutely love the waft of a bbq on a summers day.

Our neighbours behind. Have a bonfire EVERY DAY except when chucking down. Even Xmas day!
They can be S early as midday. Or start at midnight. Recently there was one at 2am.could hear the cracking and popping sounds.
They collect waste and burn in garden.
They're not desirable so can't say anything. Environmental health didn't want to know.

Nothing wrong with a bar b q but everything wrong about having one when your neighbour has their washing out and you don't tell them. Luckily we are have considerate neighbours here who knock on our door beforehand but it would equally nark me off if they were not so considerate. Don't get me started though on bonfires,,,,

I think you're just looking for reasons to be grumpy. Put your washing out the night before. You can get 2 loads dry before 3pm and hardly likely to be many bbqs going by then.

Well it depends on how much of an affect whatever you are doing is going to have on your neighbours. It's not particually usual to tell your neighbours you are planning on having fireworks on bonfire night. But I wish my neighbours had told me before they started letting them off next to my car on our shared drive, so I could have moved it out the way beforehand .

By all means enjoy yourself, but a little bit of awareness for your neighbours goes a long way!

I understand your feelings but would swap your bbq'ing neighbours for our scummy weed smoking terrace neighbours currently forcing us indoors with closed windows on a lovely evening. Roll on winter.

😂 op it probably wasn't your intention but your post has made me really laugh! It's the smoked out but that got me !!

I’m not a fan but it’s only feasible about ten days a year. The rest of the time I just feel sorry for people.

These sort of neighbour threads come up pretty regularly. Bottom line is that if you live in close proximity to many other people, there are certain behaviours deemed "normal" by the majority of society that you thus have to accept. That or move away to somewhere more isolated.

Examples include:

barbecues on a sunny day
kids laughing or crying in the day time
people practicing piano in the day time
people having hot tubs
people mowing their lawn

And many more

@3LittleDucksQuack

Our neighbours behind. Have a bonfire EVERY DAY except when chucking down. Even Xmas day! They can be S early as midday. Or start at midnight. Recently there was one at 2am.could hear the cracking and popping sounds. They collect waste and burn in garden. They're not desirable so can't say anything. Environmental health didn't want to know.

Tbh I would report that to environmental health.

Gasp! I am full on MNnetter now😂 Report.

On a serious note, burning rubbish can be dangerous and absolutely shouldn't happen every day even if neigbours around are lenient. That's disgusting behaviour

Every single kiwi or Aussie reading this thread will be sweating and suffering from nervous hysteria that there’s a hatred of bbqs out there. Gulp. We bbq at home, we bbq at school for any event, we bbq outside of shops for fundraisers, we bbq at the beach (and no we don’t bring our own bbq - they’re provided by the council, gas and all -although I’m always a little iffy about hygiene there but it’s no biggie).

My husband could not go on without sausage sizzles. Please leave it be and kill this thread or two whole nations could perish

@HappySwordMaker

Every single kiwi or Aussie reading this thread will be sweating and suffering from nervous hysteria that there’s a hatred of bbqs out there. Gulp. We bbq at home, we bbq at school for any event, we bbq outside of shops for fundraisers, we bbq at the beach (and no we don’t bring our own bbq - they’re provided by the council, gas and all -although I’m always a little iffy about hygiene there but it’s no biggie).

My husband could not go on without sausage sizzles. Please leave it be and kill this thread or two whole nations could perish

Please bear in mind this is just one or two people. Most replies have been telling OP she's unreasonable. Because barbecues are amazing and the English would do them as often as the Ozzies if the weather allowed it!

I’d rather the smell of a bbq than a summers day ruined by endless yapping dogs. That’s far more annoying than any smell from a bbq

@ErykahBaddy

These sort of neighbour threads come up pretty regularly. Bottom line is that if you live in close proximity to many other people, there are certain behaviours deemed "normal" by the majority of society that you thus have to accept. That or move away to somewhere more isolated.

Examples include:

barbecues on a sunny day
kids laughing or crying in the day time
people practicing piano in the day time
people having hot tubs
people mowing their lawn

And many more

and yapping dogs

@ErykahBaddy

These sort of neighbour threads come up pretty regularly. Bottom line is that if you live in close proximity to many other people, there are certain behaviours deemed "normal" by the majority of society that you thus have to accept. That or move away to somewhere more isolated.

Examples include:

barbecues on a sunny day
kids laughing or crying in the day time
people practicing piano in the day time
people having hot tubs
people mowing their lawn

And many more

I live in a terrace and accept ordinary noise goes with the territory but when you have truly anti-social neighbours with zero consideration its a whole different ballgame and it only takes one or two houses to ruin it for others a terrace neighbourhood.

We never have bbqs now because it's a ridiculous amount of work for little reward but when we did we would always mention it to neighbours. However, we used the right stuff so it wasnt overly smokey.

My ex neighbours bbqs most nights and it would smoke a bit but smell awfully of burning fat.

I used to quite like the smell of a bbq but I do not any longer.

Now op.there prone to hyperbole. Anc there’s you.

😂

@HappySwordMaker

Every single kiwi or Aussie reading this thread will be sweating and suffering from nervous hysteria that there’s a hatred of bbqs out there. Gulp. We bbq at home, we bbq at school for any event, we bbq outside of shops for fundraisers, we bbq at the beach (and no we don’t bring our own bbq - they’re provided by the council, gas and all -although I’m always a little iffy about hygiene there but it’s no biggie).

My husband could not go on without sausage sizzles. Please leave it be and kill this thread or two whole nations could perish

I'm pmsl! We now have a bbq pretty much every Sunday to do saussie in a bun to replicate the Bunnings/Mitre 10 experience! Cheap white bread, watties tomato sauce, onions, and a saussie. . . can't be beat.

and no we don’t bring our own bbq - they’re provided by the council, gas and all -although I’m always a little iffy about hygiene there but it’s no biggie).

Never cook straight on the hotplate on a public BBQ. Always use foil.

Somebody my husband knows works for a local council and cleans them. He has some horror stories that I won’t repeat.

“I'm pmsl! We now have a bbq pretty much every Sunday to do saussie in a bun to replicate the Bunnings/Mitre 10 experience! Cheap white bread, watties tomato sauce, onions, and a saussie. . . can't be beat.”

😂 I’ll be on a sausage sizzle fundraiser at Bunnings in a couple of weeks! They’re giving us free vouchers to raffle at the same time, and if we buy our pre-cooks from the pak n save next door they’ll throw in the bread and sauce for free. But it goes without saying that even though the bread will be store branded sandwich slice, the sauce must be Watties!