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AIBU to think that this philosophy is only O.K in certain circs?

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Ninks · 28/08/2009 21:49

Got chatting to my next-but-one neighbour the other day. He has long greasy dark hair, tattoos all over, badly-drawn ones, on his neck, hands, face and all. Dodgy beard and lives with his Mum. All very good for getting turned down for jobs even though you are young and fit as you like.

He admitted that he has a two year old "kid", but he is not allowed to "see it".

He has spent most of the summer holidays in his Mum's garden playing with DD, (sadly) and the other neighbour's DD and supposedly SAHD most days.

Anyway. Was hanging washing out when we had a chat and he said, "I don't care if someone's a teacher or social-worker or ... they are NOT better than me. Nobody is better than me! We are all the same!"

Now the bloody idiot has acquired a second-hand Staffie dog and already he is leaving it to its own devices in the garden and it is digging it's way under the fences to my toddler.

The oher day he heard that the nice couple across the road were wondering who he was and he confronted them on their doorstep swearing and shouting. He admitted trying to wind up the bloke by saying that his GF was ugly.

He told me this when I was hanging washing out. He admitted trying to make a bloke who has a job and supports his child, hit him and get in trouble and was amazed that he didn't. He couldn't see that the man was thinking and never will.

Is nobody better than him? AIBU?

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Ninks · 29/08/2009 19:02

Whoa, no no. My two year old goes into my garden as is his right. DS doesn't play with anyone! My DD aged 9 gets involved with speaking to him and playing DS games.

I don't think he does have LD on reflection, he does have quite an extensive non-sweary vocabulary so is intelligent IMO. I may be wrong about him being unemployable due to MH issues but he seems fit, strong and on-the-ball to me.

What is wrong with objecting to a 24 year old man not actively seeking work? And seeming to be proud of it?

Since he has lived in this gloriously quiet enclave of an admittedly dire council estate he has brought trouble.

Knocking on the door of the house opposite him because he had "heard" that they wanted to know about him and goading the lovely man who lives there into hitting him? And being amazed that he didn't, when he called the man's GF "a funny-looking c**t"?

He isn't mentally ill, he is, for example, a twat.

And his little second-hand dog too!

Oh, and it bit his nephew earlier. Boy went off to hospital for stitches and the dog is still there being shouted at.

I'm off to the X-Factor thread

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RumourOfAHurricane · 29/08/2009 19:09

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junglist1 · 29/08/2009 19:10

Ok call the RSPCA then. If he hasn't trained the dog and it's now bitten someone, he has no buisness looking after it. The dog has probably got a beating aswell for it. What a shitbag

RumourOfAHurricane · 29/08/2009 19:15

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Ninks · 29/08/2009 19:19

Ninkynork.

Not Tombliboob

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RumourOfAHurricane · 29/08/2009 19:28

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