Lord above some people are just... unbelievable!

[DuIcieDomum]

There's an Apache MK1 final flypast today [yawn] which DP and DS (autistic, this comes under one of his special interests) have been banging on about for days. They made flasks of cocoa and set up deckchairs in one of our fields (we live on a farm) to sit and watch it. Anyway it was delayed by 45 mins so they came in to eat lunch and then went back out...to find two men sitting on the deckchairs eating sandwiches waiting for the flypast . There was a third man with a dog with them, who actually asked DP to put our dog on a lead because his dog is nervous of other dogs!!

Now, this was in our field which is private land. The field is visible from a footpath but the footpath just goes past the gate and doesn't enter the field. They just saw our deckchairs and though it looked like a nice place to go and sit.

DP said sorry but no, they'd have to take the dog out of the field if it wasn't ok with other dogs, and that he and DS wanted their deckchairs back. A bit of harrumphing and the men left but... WTF?!?

It's the innate urge to conquer and push boundaries, so many weird things happened during the pandemic, worms escaped from cans and will not go back in.

Hot chocolate has added milk and sugar. You need several spoons of hot chocolate and it mixes easily. Cocoa is pure chocolate, like very dark chocolate. it has a stronger taste, you need only one spoonful, you need to add sugar, and it doesn't mix so well, so you have to mix with a tiny bit of milk/water into a paste before adding the rest.

It's late. Am I confused?
Am I really reading a thread about land ownership Vs entitled people?

@MereDintofPandiculation

Cocoa is much better than tea or coffee if you're sitting outside on a chilly days. Or are you thinking they should be drinking vastly overpriced hot chocolate instead?

Quite right. I have a large mug of very hot, strong, cinnamony/nutmegy cocoa most days. Utterly delicious and satisfying. 🌹

No it’s mostly just about cocoa now!

DS has the opposite. Extra car park for the estate, but the residents on the road where the car park is actually located have decided it's their personal carpark, for that road only, and have taken to letting down the tyres of any other car parking there.

School parents use our courtyard to turn their cars in after school drop off. They drive through the gate, past our farmhouse and barn opposite. Turn their cars and go out.

Except of course for a mum who uses it as a loo for her kid. She stops the car, takes son out of the car who then wees up against the barn. I’ve spotted it on my cameras, twice, so sent the images to the school.
Havent seen her recently 🤣🤣

We had a guy trespass today, accidentally caught him whilst jet washing moss off the roof. He got wet.oops!

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Some people are just awful. We live near a beautiful river walk where you can park on a verge and walk down to farmers field, where there is a footpath leading to the next village (about a mile. Great pub, and a lovely walk back too on the other side of the river).

If you just do the very first bit, the field slopes down to a weir and there is shallow water for children to play in, and a great, and fairly safe, deep swimming bit for older kids and adults. There is also a tree with branches at various heights with ropes dangling, where teenagers love to climb and jump. It's really popular in the summer, and the farmer/owner is either kind enough to allow it or has given up trying to stop it. But oiks insist on having BBQs and leave loads of rubbish and beer bottles etc - it's such a shame because if everyone took their rubbish away it's such a lovely spot.

A group of volunteers did a big clean up last year- but they shouldn't have to! And cattle run there at certain times - I just don't know why people feel so entitled these days......

We live opposite a local historical attraction in a traditional type house, and have noticed foreign tourists get more and more comfortable edging closer into the garden to take photos. Then last summer a group actually came and sat in our garden on our garden furniture snapping photos of themselves there! We thought it was hilarious, but it wouldn't be funny if it happened all the time.

Please share your cinnamon/nutmeg cocoa recipe

And the believability of drinking cocoa apparently.

Some people will pick a fight over anything.

Another vote for the recipe please

I think that poster needs to watch Clarksons Farm!

The outrage was tremendous on local FB groups when local farmer put up a new fence along the side of his field so that people had to stick to where the footpath goes and not traipse all over his fields letting their dogs crap all over his silage grass.

No one like it when I pointed out he was well within his rights, and they were trespassing.

I now get that lovely little footpath all to myself.

Yes. Coming from a farming family I can tell you it’s a very common issue. My uncle doesn’t allow dogs to roam free in his fields, they must stick to footpath and there’s signs up. He’s been told off for this because his dogs run all over the fields. They are sheep dogs. Herding livestock.

Ooh, I love a good glower

Recently moved to the middle of nowhere and people keep using the driveway or lane as public property.
I did give a good flower the other day and they had the temerity to wave at me!

Ha ha, this made me laugh. When I was about 8, another kid told me "this is my sledging hill - get lost" ... this was in my dad's field. I was a pretty timid kid, but I managed to rise to the occasion that time and put her straight about exactly whose sledging hill it was!

You gave a good flower? Maybe that’s why they waved? Try giving a bad flower next time. Arum Maculatum should do it. No one wants that and it makes your hands burn.

Your poor little dd! I hope she has forgotten it with time. How scary.

Spitting at her is extra horrific. Isn’t it actually assault to spit on someone?!

I had typed glower! But thanks for the tip!

I can't quite see what the people in OP's story are supposed to have done that justifies thinking they are cunts, fuckers, or indeed entitled? They say on some seats which were not being used, on some land which was not in use at that time. I don't think they took anything, broke anything or harmed anyone. Maybe they were tired.

I don't own any land at all, but I rent a house with a front garden. If we had some seats out in it and people needed a sit down and we weren't using it I don't think that would make me furious or that I would start a thread about it.

I've worked hard all my life as a teacher, never been out of work since I was 21, but but like lots of hard working people I am never likely to be in the position of owning even one field. If I ever do, I will be happy if people want to sit quietly on it and enjoy the view when I am not using it, if they are not breaking or damaging anything. If I have seats on it and people want to sit their for a while not hurting or harming anything, why wouldn't I let them? Why wouldn't I share my massive good fortune (should this come to pass) with others?

Alltipandnooceberg- she spat at and not on thankfully, and dd, now nearly adult, does not remember it. But I was very scared and veer closer to a stereotypical apologetic Brit stumbling over my self to say sorry and find a way out of the confrontation. I imagine it could have been filmed and would have proved a very funny skit.

Really?
Accidentally walking on the land and not realising it was private is one thing. Why on earth would you think it's OK to sit on someone's deck chairs? And have the audacity to tell someone to put their dog on a lead?? Jesus christ..