So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

[tonyb]

^^^^^
I’ve been a renter and I’ve owned rental properties. I’ve never cared for the term “landlord.” I’ve never been a “lord” and I have no interest in becoming one. But I accept that these days, in this country, in most people’s minds, “landlord” is synonymous with “property owner,” so I just let it slide. Let two syllables do the work of five. And to hell with the history.

 

[Harp]

I normally have little toleration for those who have enjoyed white privilege ... whining about Political Correctness ( which, more often than not, is nothing more than courtesy or common decency)

Semantics aside, have you read Petitioners Supplemental Arlene's Flowers v State of Washington?

And the Court cannot answer this?

 

[LizzieMaine]

I've never in my life lived in a house where you'd call a bedroom anything else except "the one I sleep in" and "the one where I throw all the junk that doesn't have anywhere else to go."

 

[MisterCairo]

Get a barn cat. Problem solved.

Shed is enclosed and locked if not in use, and no other space/shelter to keep barn cats humanely.

 

[Touchofevil]

I’ll never forget gazing out the window of a coffee shop in downtown Tacoma one lovely spring day several years ago and witnessing two kids — 7 and 8 or so — running into a city planting strip and ripping up by the dozens the in-bloom daffodils planted there. Two “adults” — the little miscreants’ parents, presumably — did and said nothing to stop them.

Can’t say I’m a big believer in corporal “correction,” but those parents were in need of correction of one sort or another. Did they think letting their kids behave in such an antisocial manner was doing them any favors?

I am usually more annoyed with the parents than the kid(s). The parent who does not correct the behavior is the real problem. Corporal correction for the parent(s) will at least make me feel better for the moment even if it does not solve the problem.

 

[Touchofevil]

Shed is enclosed and locked if not in use, and no other space/shelter to keep barn cats humanely.

A yard cat?

 

[Touchofevil]

Jerky aggressive door-to-door salesmen who will not take “no” for an answer. Especially those who think that they are clever and want to argue.

 

[tonyb]

Jerky aggressive door-to-door salesmen who will not take “no” for an answer. Especially those who think that they are clever and want to argue.

I had a sign on the front door that said “No solicitors, survey takers, political canvassers, religious proselytizers, door hangers.” I think I threw in another category or two but memory is failing. The missus thought the tone bordered on the hostile and made me take it down. (We have a well-functioning democracy in this household; I get one vote, she gets two.)

I am most annoyed by the guys who open with, “We’ve been working with some of your neighbors … ” Sure you have, pal, and I’ve been working on your mother.

Can I muster a little sympathy for the poor shmuck so in need of SOME KIND OF GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT that doesn’t involve outright criminality that he would put up with having doors slammed in his face several times a day? Yeah, I suppose I can. I’ve done things I’d rather not have had to myself, out of pure economic necessity, and I don’t think I’m projecting too much to suppose that’s equally true of at least some of these kids (they ARE young enough, mostly, for me to call ’em kids) knocking on my door.

We’re shopping for a new front door. The existing one looks a little shabby alongside the new garage door and the fresh paint on the house. When we get around to installing it, I’ll get a little sign on a post reading “no solicitors” to stick in the flower bed out front.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I just make sure my house looks like I can't afford whatever they're selling, and they just pass me by. Of course, the rose bush that I let grow wild across my front door probaly helps too.

 

[Fifty150]

I pretend that I don't speak English

 

[Zombie_61]

...We’re shopping for a new front door. The existing one looks a little shabby alongside the new garage door and the fresh paint on the house. When we get around to installing it, I’ll get a little sign on a post reading “no solicitors” to stick in the flower bed out front.

If/when you have the opportunity, take the sign to the firing range and put a few well-placed bullet holes in it.

 

[GHT]

I had a sign on the front door that said “No solicitors, survey takers, political canvassers, religious proselytizers, door hangers.” I think I threw in another category or two but memory is failing. The missus thought the tone bordered on the hostile and made me take it down.

The English language as such, means that there's no polite way of saying **** off. You could add a thank you at the end of your notice. There again you could take a leaf out of the road runner's book when the coyote just won't take no for an answer.

 

[Trenchfriend]

When I see youtube videos about Donuts in the US, I'm wondering, if there are really nowhere savory Donuts instead all the sweet kiddy stuff??

 

[KILO NOVEMBER]

When I see youtube videos about Donuts in the US, I'm wondering, if there are really nowhere savory Donuts instead all the sweet kiddy stuff??

I can confidently report that after nearly 68 years of living in the U.S.A., I have seen nothing made of fried dough which is not sweet called a "doughnut".

Savory fried dough foods may exist, but they're not called "doughnuts" or "donuts". You will find empanadas anywhere there is a large Latin American immigrant population. These are fried pastries filled with meat, but they're not round with a hole in the middle.

 

[Turnip]

When I see youtube videos about Donuts in the US, I'm wondering, if there are really nowhere savory Donuts instead all the sweet kiddy stuff??

I would say there are, called Bagels…

 

[Edward]

The English language as such, means that there's no polite way of saying **** off. You could add a thank you at the end of your notice. There again you could take a leaf out of the road runner's book when the coyote just won't take no for an answer.
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I'm reliably informed being a middle-aged man with a reputation for answering the door naked tends to put off cold-callers, but I've never had the nerve to try it!

I've not received political callers since the 2010 general election campaign, when I quizzed them all on their policy on libel reform. I suspect I've been put on "a list".

 

[GHT]

I suspect I've been put on "a list".

And one of the best A-listers on The Lounge you are too, Edward.

 

[MisterCairo]

I had a sign on the front door that said “No solicitors, survey takers, political canvassers, religious proselytizers, door hangers.” I think I threw in another category or two but memory is failing. The missus thought the tone bordered on the hostile and made me take it down. (We have a well-functioning democracy in this household; I get one vote, she gets two.)

I am most annoyed by the guys who open with, “We’ve been working with some of your neighbors … ” Sure you have, pal, and I’ve been working on your mother.

Can I muster a little sympathy for the poor shmuck so in need of SOME KIND OF GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT that doesn’t involve outright criminality that he would put up with having doors slammed in his face several times a day? Yeah, I suppose I can. I’ve done things I’d rather not have had to myself, out of pure economic necessity, and I don’t think I’m projecting too much to suppose that’s equally true of at least some of these kids (they ARE young enough, mostly, for me to call ’em kids) knocking on my door.

We’re shopping for a new front door. The existing one looks a little shabby alongside the new garage door and the fresh paint on the house. When we get around to installing it, I’ll get a little sign on a post reading “no solicitors” to stick in the flower bed out front.

Will you still welcome barristers?

 

[MisterCairo]

Jerky aggressive door-to-door salesmen who will not take “no” for an answer. Especially those who think that they are clever and want to argue.

A long enough driveway tends to keep all but Jehova's Witnesses away from our door:

 

[tonyb]

Will you still welcome barristers?

Seeing how they’ve pretty well saturated the airwaves with advertising, I half expect them to start going door-to-door.