AIBU: neighbours flag pole (lighthearted)

[MayMorris]

So my next door but one neighbour has a flag pole in their garden. Proper one. No flag since I moved in a year ago- although I’m looking forward to a suitable jubilee one.
Since the storms it has leaned further and further aka tower of Pisa and now at an angle of precisely 17 degrees to vertical (yes I held up a protractor to check)
I can see it form my living room window
AIBU to now want to give into my increasing urge and mild irritation when I look at it, and go round and tweak it into a proper vertical position. It’s just so damned annoying to look at it in that wonky angle and I now can’t not look at it 🤣🤣🤦‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️

That would drive me nuts. Can you put it straight under cover of darkness OP?

I should add that until today I was distracted by my own broken fence that is in the foreground . Broken as result of same winds. That was fixed yesterday . Nothing to distract my attention now

@heldinadream

That would drive me nuts. Can you put it straight under cover of darkness OP?

I should have gone in under cover of darkness when my fence was down- didn’t think about .

Flagpoles need planning permission and building control, what happens if it falls down and damages anything or anyone? I'm a killjoy I know but also an engineer and take safety and liability seriously.

Good you can be lighthearted about it! Erecting something with the clear intention for it to be seen by your neighbours when they’re in/on their own properties is pure selfishness. Why can’t people use a bracket at a lower level? Very popular in the US and allows you to decorate your own home without being a visual nuisance.

Advertise it as a local visitor attraction on Facebook. "The leaning flagpole of town". Or hoist a pair of pants up it.

@MayMorris

I should add that until today I was distracted by my own broken fence that is in the foreground . Broken as result of same winds. That was fixed yesterday . Nothing to distract my attention now

This is your problem and your solution.

Have the fence company come out and un-repair the fence.

A undulating fence line will allow the flagpole to merge back into the background.

Pop an anonymous note through the neighbor's letterbox. Keep it simple... "please straighten your wonky pole"

Job done 😂

@ClafoutisSurprise

Good you can be lighthearted about it! Erecting something with the clear intention for it to be seen by your neighbours when they’re in/on their own properties is pure selfishness. Why can’t people use a bracket at a lower level? Very popular in the US and allows you to decorate your own home without being a visual nuisance.

Hold off.

She never said anything about knocking the neighbours.

She is only pointing out the neighbours flagpole is at half mast.

@Daftasabroom

Flagpoles need planning permission and building control, what happens if it falls down and damages anything or anyone? I'm a killjoy I know but also an engineer and take safety and liability seriously.

Well it’s aiming into his garden. He is elderly, but very fit(he still goes to a gym!, ) lives on his own. So I think he can dodge it!

Hold off what, @SolasAnla? I wasn’t criticising the op (who likely has far healthier blood pressure levels than me).

@ClafoutisSurprise

Good you can be lighthearted about it! Erecting something with the clear intention for it to be seen by your neighbours when they’re in/on their own properties is pure selfishness. Why can’t people use a bracket at a lower level? Very popular in the US and allows you to decorate your own home without being a visual nuisance.

I assume it’s been up for years. It goes with his gnomes

Burn it OP.

You won’t be lighthearted when they do put a flag on it and it constantly flaps about and the ropes constantly twang against the pole. My neighbour put one up and it drove me mad . I’ve moved since thank fuck but peaceful summer evenings in the garden used to be ruined by the bloody thing.

To be fair we were on the coast and it was always windy but still..

Shuddering at the memory

@ClafoutisSurprise

Hold off what, *@SolasAnla*? I wasn’t criticising the op (who likely has far healthier blood pressure levels than me).

Just her elderly, but fit, neighbour with a erect flag pole?

He may have bad blood pressure too😏

@TangMustang

Burn it OP.

You won’t be lighthearted when they do put a flag on it and it constantly flaps about and the ropes constantly twang against the pole. My neighbour put one up and it drove me mad . I’ve moved since thank fuck but peaceful summer evenings in the garden used to be ruined by the bloody thing.

To be fair we were on the coast and it was always windy but still..

Shuddering at the memory

It’s metal! How do I burn it? if I had a rocket launcher I could aim it form mine, over my neighbours into his. But it’d need to be very accurate as the flag pole is the standard narrow type.

Maybe that’s why it’s never had a flag on it since I moved in - the noise drove him nuts as well. Or disturbed the gnomes from their permanent contemplation

I think the solution is to either adapt your patio outside to also tilt at an angle - so that when you sit on chairs outside it will look straight.

Or alternatively I this is through glass you need to add a wedge on the bottom of your slippers. That will also resolve the problem.

Silas, I am trying very hard not to think about this innuendo…he’s a lovely bloke but that is waaaaaay tooooo much 😱🥴

@Mumdiva99

I think the solution is to either adapt your patio outside to also tilt at an angle - so that when you sit on chairs outside it will look straight.

Or alternatively I this is through glass you need to add a wedge on the bottom of your slippers. That will also resolve the problem.

Genius idea…now this is more like it. Cheap and effective.

Glue his gnomes to it so they looks like they are escaping up it??

Loved your very sensible solutions mumdiva99

You're lucky it's just wonky. My neighbours have a flagpole with flag in their garden. I presume it's the country of heritage, I know he was born here. I'm really not sure what the purpose is, only he and a few neighbours can see it (back garden)
It always reminds me of the Eddie izzard sketch about conquering countries with the clever use of flags.

Dear

Could you tilt your head to one side at 17 degrees when in pole position?

(Neighbour might also be able to recognise you as a Mumnetter, so potentially outing)

The Americans have a catchy phrase (which I've only half remembered) something like flag on the porch, gun in the closet.
Has he got a gun, OP? Best not tamper with anything in case you find out the hard way!

@ThePlatypusAlwaysTriumphs

Glue his gnomes to it so they looks like they are escaping up it??

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣