Anyone Want To Rant? About Anything? I Do.

[Baccus]

Ooooo I have a MASSIVE rant to get off my chest.

I posted some snails and a young marbled bristle nose off to a friend in a post pack that is supposed to be gaurenteed next day delivery. Well that was early Tuesday and after watching the mail tracker like a hawke for the past todays, the parcel finally turned up in the town but spent the entire day being carted all over the country side in a delivery van. Just now I checked the tracking number again and right when there is mere minutes to the post office closing, the (ah heck clean words fail me at the mo) #$@*&%^%&^ have now said they tried to deliver the parcel (which they haven't my friend has been home all day waiting for her parcel) and the parcel is now damaged.

I am ropable to say the least. Not only is the delivery a day late now they are going to want to send me back most likely dead fish and snails.

 

[Man of fish]

I have a big rant for the day:



My parents really don't understand anything I do for my fish and whenever something happens they don't know what or why when I do and they just assume. My dad says plants make water dirty so wants me to get rid of those and that sand is so dirty that nobody keeps it so won't let me get any. Well no that's not right and you don't know how to run my tanks so just let me do what I want to because I've bought every last piece of equipment I have so I'm going to do what I want god!!!!

 

[FishFanatic04]

I bet that the best route from there is to sit down and have a really researched and educated conversation. Show them examples of what you are trying to do, show them pictures of successful tanks with sand....etc. I used to get so mad at my mom, but when it was about something I was serious about, I always found that talking to her in a mature way, and with examples worked every time. If you really know your stuff and are confident in that, then hopefully they will be impressed with your dedication.

 

[This Old Spouse]

Well said!

 

[FishFanatic04]

These stupid fish that I bought with parasites have contaminated my two big tanks and none of them are getting better. I am so angry about it I could scream. I am using the best antibiotics/parasite medication available....not a store bought either, but an actual powered medication. I can't do anything with either tank because the fish are sick and all I want to do is pull everything out ans start over....a couple hundreds dollars in fish down the drain if I do.

 

[Mystil]

My rant....

*EX* neighbours who think that posting a nasty/ threatening letter through a postbox to basically say "shut up your dog because he was howing" after we had moved into the house the week before is a good way to introduce herself.

We did not know he howled (previous house had thick walls). Explained we would try to quiet him down via training and then the next week we had another rant from her saying basically that he was still howling.

Some dogs have separation anxiety. Not the owners fault, he is walked daily and mainly goes with my other half to work, so was not left at home many times. Separation anxiety takes alot of work to get under control, it is not a quick cure problem.

Not understanding at all. Got me completely paranoid in my own house about noise. Wish I had told her to go jump.

Now have very nice neighbours, who pop in to let him out of the house if he starts to make noise or we are out all day.

 

[FishFanatic04]

Just think...Your dog was annoying them, so in the end you were able to get revenge by having annoyed them until you moved

 

[Mystil]

Yeap. but they are the ones who moved.

Knocked my confidence completely for someone to be that nasty.
A simple chat would have had a better result.

 

[Le0n]

Nothing worse than having to listen to a neighbours dog howling its very annoying (speaking from experience lol) you are very lucky to have understanding neighbours now tho

 

[CezzaXV]

My sister lives in a flat. The people underneath think it necessary to shout unspeakable things if her cat runs across the floor making a tiny amount of noise but find it acceptable to blast out music all hours of the day. There's a bunch of other stuff they're doing which is really not on too. I'm trying to encourage my sis to report them to the police.

The sad thing is, the landlord had to get a court order to get the previous people who lived in that flat out as they were so bad. My sis thought that would be the end of it but it's gotten worse with the new neighbours

 

[Alm0stAwesome]

Bad neighbours are the pits. I live between two families that are related. They just shout across my back garden at each other instead of going over to each others' houses or picking up the bloody phone...oh and they have demented kids....and loud arguments....and....


...oh sorry...went into a trance there

 

[Squidward]

Ok, so a large part of England is apparently in drought. A hosepipe ban has been put in place and we are all urged to conserve water.

Mean time there are numerous flood warnings in place.
We have had the wettest spring on record.

There was some "beardie" on the news this morning saying that all this rain hasn't made a significant difference. Give me a break!

 

[fluttermoth]

This rain is getting to me too It is mental down here; my mum connected up a second, 200l, water butt to her first one last weekend, and it was full by the next morning It only gets the water from the porch roof, as well

 

[coldcazzie]

The rain is causing problems here too - in between the side of our garage and the abck of the neighbour's garage has accumulated a huge pile of mud and deflated footballs etc etc... they don't have guttering on the back of their garage so the water runs off the back, soaks through the pile of mud and seeps through our garage wall so we have a lake in our garage. Mental and annoying.

 

[Akasha72]

don't get me started on this rain!! (jumping on my soapbox now lol) There's a drought right (down south) but the rivers are overflowing into people gardens and homes ... why can't they send a tanker round, suck up the excess water from rivers, roads, fields etc and then drive to the resovoirs and dump it in? I mean, I'm no genius or anything but it seems simples to me!!

And another thing. I have a dog, I've spent a small fortune over the last 10 years on waterproof footwear, coats and trousers but why do I still come home with wet socks, jeans and jumpers ... talk about false advertising!!


...and breathe ...

*steps off my soapbox*