Opera in the ‘Burbs.

This afternoon, Daleyacunt and Fuckin’ Fuckhead were gobbing off at each other outside my kitchen window again… sigh… yes again!  Though I am no longer surprised by it, I’m still exceedingly agitated by it.   I am so sick of hearing them carrying on like squabbling fishmongers nearly every day. I shouldn’t have to listen this absolute garbage, and feel quite strongly that the Small Child shouldn’t be unnecessarily exposed to language that would make a roughty toughty tank soldier blush either.

“I fuckin’ hate that cunt, what’s he comin’ here for, ya Fuckin’ Fuckhead?!” and many other equally fatuous observations appear to be a normal everyday conversational gambit for these people.  On and on and on it goes, until you can’t even follow what they’re talking about – because ‘fuck’ appears comprise about 80% of Daleyacunt’s entire vocabulary so he presses it frequently into service.  It seems to be the only verb, noun, adverb, adjective, pronoun and term of endearment he possesses and as such he trolls it out with alarming regularity. How much of this banal bullshit can we be expected to put up with?  Seriously?  🙁   It’s so depressing to have this daily reminder of how the hairy unwashed choose to conduct themselves.

Well, after weeks of this, I’ve had enough.  And have no desire to hear it anymore!  I don’t want to know these people and I don’t want to know what is going on in their lives.  I don’t want to know about their petty disagreements and I don’t want to hear them planning their future domestic arrangements.  I don’t want to know about their complete inability to communicate with a modicum of decorum and I really don’t want to know anything about them at all.  And yet, because they do not appear to be in possession of ‘inside voices’ here we are!

So, while primarily motivated to preserve what little sanity remains to the long suffering inhabitants of Azerbaijan, and in a slightly retaliatory mood, I put on the stereo and cranked up some of my favourite opera classics.  Ostensibly I planned to merely drown out their gutter sniping, but it turns out, Dalyacunt and Fuckin’ Fuckhead mustn’t be overly fond of opera, as it had the added benefit of driving them indoors; and with then went their profanity peppered pugilistic palaver.   Bonus!

The moral of today’s story?  Music not only does music tame the savage beast… but it also bests the brain dead bogan!

 

How’s the serenity?

Children are playing, a baby giggles nearby, a dog barks excitedly on the other side of the fence and a chorus of magpies are chirping away. In the near distance a council truck rounds the corner with it’s brakes sporadically complaining and the heavy plastic thud-thuds of wheelie bins being emptied. An aircraft goes overhead which temporarily drowns out the sounds of the traffic from the nearby motorway. Typical sounds of suburbia really… it’s a Tuesday.

She: When are we getting married?
He: Fuckoff! Just fuck off!
She : Wot? Why aren’t we fuckin’ gettin’ married?
He: Why would I wanna marry you? Ya fuckin’ fuckhead.

And so on and so forth. I knew it was too good to last.  All has been quiet on The Northern Front for little over a week now and it felt like life as we knew it had been returned to us. I figured that one of them was out of town, or temporarily absent as there have been scant few expletives floating over the fence for the duration. But whether it was Daleyacunt who was away, or FuckinFuckhead who went a-visiting is both unknown and completely irrelevant. They’re back now. And the combative tirade of profanity from next door appears to have resumed – full speed ahead. 😐

The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire…. no hang on it’s just shaking to pieces in front of us.

It’s late.  Again.  And it’s noisy.  Again.   And I’m tired.  Again.

Like sands through an hourglass… this is the soundtrack to my life  😐


Really really  tired…. and feeling really rather… oh what’s the word I’m looking for…  PISSED OFF!!!  Yes I think that’s about it at this point  The roadworks are still going and we’re so sick of the ceaseless bloody noise from out the back.  I thought the truck reversing beepers were the worst.  Then after a while I was proven wrong and it was the constant screeching of metal on metal from the track of the bulldozers and escavators that I thought was the worst bit.   But no!  Proven wrong again – for they had new torture up their sleeves for us.  There’s some damn machine out there that is some sort of vibrating roller thing that rips up the old bitchumen which emits a low pitch pulsating vibration (which is something one isn’t ordinarily adverse to 😉  that has been going incessantly for weeks.  It literally is hurting my  eardrums after a few hours… actually my left ear kinda feels like it’s bleeding which I know it’s not.

We had a gaggle of suits who turn up here this evening to meet with us after Mr K was ranting at them at 1130, 1245 and 0200 last night (third day running that he’s been calling every night I think) to let us know they are ‘taking our concerns very seriously’. 

All the Leighton Abigroup Joint Venture Upgrade Project bigwigs here –
The actual Director of the entire Gateway Upgrade project thinga-me-doova
The Head Honcho Structural Engineery dood whose name I’ve already forgotten
The Manager Community Liaison at Leighton Abigroup Joint Venture
and some other guy whose name and job I missed entirely.

So all them got an advance copy of the nasty arse Ministerials I’ve been penning that are going in the mail tomorrow bitching about the whole friggin’ mess… 

Craig Wallace – Qld Govt Minister for Main Roads
Rachel Nolan – Qld Govt Minister for Transport
Steve Kilburn – Member for Chatsworth
David Wright – General Manager Gateway Upgrade Project
Hugh Boyd – Project Director Leighton Abigroup Joint Venture Project

Apologies to anyone who might be an underling working for one of these Ministers and high faluting over paid stuffed shirts cos by the time I finished with my various complaints it was a ten page epic that will have to be pulled apart and send to ten different divisions within each organization and then some poor bastards going to have to spend a few days compiling all the shit they got from the underlings before they write me a letter that goes something like ….

‘we’re very concerned about your concerns because your situation is very concerning and we are taking your concerns very seriously, however we have no concerns strategy for dealing with your particular concerns because your concerns dont really affect our concerns so we are going to pretend to empathize with your concerns for a while so you think we are concerned about your concerns before making a concerted effort to do nothing to ameliorate any of your conncerns… blah blah di- fucking blah.

Maybe I should send it onto Anna too….

Too much to do… too little time to do it in.

Got the time.

Wake up, got another day to get through now
Got another man to see
Got to call him on the telephone
Got to find a piece of paper

Sit down, got another letter to write
Think Ill got to get the letter just right
Theres a ringing on the telephone
Oh no, got to write a little later
No such day as tomorrow, only one two three go!

Time – got the time tick-tick-tickin in my head
Time – got the time tick-tick-tickin in my head
Time – got the time tick-tick-tickin in my head
Tickin in my head, tickin in my head, tickin in my head

If I tell you what Im doing today
Will you shut up and get out of my way?
Someone asked me what the time is,
I dont know
Only know I gotta go now

No time – trying to get a watch repaired
No time – never got a thing to wear
Hear the ringin of the telephone no no
Hear a ringin in my head now
No such thing as tomorrow, only one two three go!

Time – got the time tick-tick-tickin in my head
Time – got the time tick-tick-tickin in my head
Time – got the time tick-tick-tickin in my head
Tickin in my head, tickin in my head, tickin in my head

Time – got the time tick-tick-tickin in my head
Time – got the time tick-tick-tickin in my head
Time – got the time tick-tick-tickin in my head
Tickin in my head, tickin in my head, tickin in my head

Actually, no I think it’s the Anthrax version that won’t leave me alone at the moment… and I have to admit it is way cooler than Joe Jacksons.  :P.

Got wood?

I’ve been shopping for timber planks.  Nothing fancy just plain dressed pine planks of furniture grade suitable to make bookcases out of so a few knots here or there is okay but doesn’t have to be perfect.  But do you think I can find anywhere to buy bulk pine?  For some reason all the major timber suppliers in the BrisVegas metro area mostly sell structural timber only.  So where do all the dudes making furniture buy their all their good wood? (enough with the giggles from the peanut gallery please).

So far I haven’t got a lot of faith in the industry with quotes coming from Finlaysons for 290mm x 19mm planks of various lengths at $31.58/meter and the only other quote I’ve managed to obtrain was from John Gill (yep _that_ John Gill the Timber Man) for the same size 290mm x 19mm planks at $9.60/meter.  Which means either Finlaysons are charging their customers sandy lube prices or the quality of this stuff varies enormously…. and while I want good quality timber – the rather ambitious scope of my little L-shaped bookcase would probably rendered the project as prohibitively expensive if I have to pay anywhere near $31/meter.

Hmmm… I definitely need more wood…. Quotes.


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