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Closed for Business Time
14:55 / 26.10.07
Booze, bravado and BLUNTS! BAN THE WEED! On second thought ban fucking stupid evil shitemongerers.
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
15:09 / 26.10.07
Cheezus! that's... vile. Vile.

As is the linking of the story with weed and/or booze - neither of which turn you into a git who could do that to someone so obviously in distress. You have to have it in you already.
 
 
Talas
22:57 / 30.10.07
I am so angry I can barely think -- we moved into this apartment at the beginning of February, but a month later it was sold to some semi-corporate landlord across the country. This bastard has subjected us, since March, to a nearly unending string of worthless and semi-anonymous property managers, insufficient notice of entry, and near-constant renovations all summer starting with loud noises from 8AM to 8PM. Since announcing his intention to sell the building as (over-priced) condominiums in late August, we have been visited at least weekly to a string of strangers poking around our stuff and dragging dirt onto our carpets.

Finally, finally, last week we managed to find a new place with a friend, and we're moving in at the end of November. The day after we decided to move, we got a notice of entry with "PLEASE NOTE THE DATES", outlining their intention to host an open house weekly for the next six weeks, with their viewing time for our apartment conveniently situated during dinner time each week.

I am not a saint, nor do I have the patience of one, but I have been shockingly polite and patient during most of this colossal BS. The prospect of being out of this slum in a month's time had managed to relax me even further.

HOWEVER. This is the conversation I had with the latest emissary of the landlord, around a quarter after 5PM.

INCOMPETENT PROPERTY MANAGER: Hey, just wanted to let you know that we're having to turn the water off. Indefinitely.
ME: ... What. [beat] How indefinitely.
IPM: Well... there's water and sewage backing up in the laundry room, in the boiler room... I don't know how long it's going to take. We've got a plumber coming, but he's got to go get one of those long snake augers, and with rush hour traffic... Who knows.
ME: So tonight indefinitely...?
IPM: [weak laugh] I sure hope so!
ME: Because if we don't have water tonight, we're going to have some real... problems.
IPM: Yeah, I know, I just-- [helpless shrug]
ME: And if the water's not back on, what're you going to do for us?
IPM: I-- I just-- He's working on it right now, and I can leave a note on your door or something when I get a timeframe.
ME: ... Right.
IPM: So just to let you know, the water's already off.


Leaving me with no water except the cup or two I have in a pitcher in the fridge, no timeframe on when I might get water back, and my BURNING FURY.
 
 
Papess
23:06 / 30.10.07
I know it is not much, but I think you are totally justified in your rage. I would have clobbered someone or something by now.
 
 
Talas
23:20 / 30.10.07
I've really, really considered it, but going to federal prison for aggravated assault would hurt my chances of finishing immigrating, I think.
 
 
Closed for Business Time
23:40 / 30.10.07
I'm really surprised that I'm about to write this, but can you SUE THE MOTHERFUCKERS?
 
 
Talas
00:01 / 31.10.07
Other tenants have tried suing (or rather, following the procedure of taking it to mediation at the rental board, and then some variety of small claims court), but to little avail.

The rental situation in this town is dire. That's the only reason we've stuck around as long as we have, instead of packing our shit and leaving.
 
 
Papess
00:03 / 31.10.07
Well, Nolte may have a point. I don't know where you live, Talas, but you should have the right - the legal right - to live in a reasonably peaceful environment. There could be a landlord & tenent act and a tribunal available for your region. You could look it up online. If you put in complaint you may be awarded back some of your rent for your hardship.
 
 
Talas
00:14 / 31.10.07
I'll check it out -- I'm in Alberta in Canada, and I'm pretty well-versed in the actual legislation, but I'm still shaky on where to take my complaints. While litigation is so deliciously American, there's a landslide of issues to be dealt with.

In other, less need-to-throttle-someone news, one of the workmen just came upstairs and told me the water was on again. So now when I research how to milk them for every penalty legal, I will be hydrated!
 
 
Closed for Business Time
00:21 / 31.10.07
So others have taken a legal route and failed. I guess, from this vast distance I'm at, I can only pray that you have A Case. As in legally valid and relevant documentation of hardships you have suffered over and above what might be reasonably expected of you in these situations as stipulated by contract, law or other legal means.

But if you have the time - and A Case, An Anger, and A Yearning for Justice and Retribution, I suggest you sue them until their filthy balls explode.
 
 
Papess
01:00 / 31.10.07
I am in Canada as well, Talas. I have lived in three different provinces and they all have slightly different legislation.

Start, here for the Residential Tenancies Act, and Residential Tenancy Dispute Resolution Service for Alberta.

Also: Service Alberta is responsible for administering the RTA. The department receives complaints, conducts investigations and enforces the RTA. For information, contact the Consumer Contact Centre:
Phone: 427-4088 (In Edmonton) Phone: 1-877-427-4088 (Toll-free in Alberta)
 
 
Talas
02:15 / 31.10.07
Thanks, Medulla. Phone numbers are a great help.
 
 
Quantum
08:26 / 31.10.07
Talas, withhold your rent. Let them sue you for the money. Seriously, you should be entitled to a rent reduction due to them not fulfilling their side of the contract (providing notice of entry, water etc.) so if you keep back what you consider fair compensation the onus is on them to do the legal work.
Of course, they may threaten to keep your deposit but frankly they will probably keep it anyway under some pretext, and if you're moving out anyway screw 'em- give them nothing and tell them to keep the deposit, and if they give you grief tell them you will give your keys to squatters when you leave if they don't shut up. Bastards.
 
 
Talas
21:03 / 31.10.07
Unfortunately, Quantum, I'm a good little tenant and already paid November's rent. And I don't think one month's rent is fair compensation anyway.

The bottom line is, I'm out in a month, and I need that deposit back -- I'm not so rich that I can just toss away $500 although I really wish it were an option. If I just walk, I'm out at least $1150 and put myself in a position to be taken to court by them.

From my POV, it makes more sense to scrape up the documentation I've got -- and a lot of it's circumstantial, like only giving us 12 hours notice instead of 24, or ear-shattering noises that I can't prove -- and take them to court once I'm out of their circle of influence. Because I know acutely how miserable they can make my life, and that's when I'm being a model tenant.
 
 
Papess
21:14 / 31.10.07
and a lot of it's circumstantial, like only giving us 12 hours notice instead of 24, or ear-shattering noises that I can't prove

It's not a murder trial! Get verification from neighbours about the noise. A written statement from other tenants may help and also set a precedent for them to recover some rent. I think you are on the right track, Talas. Even after you move out, you can still collect through a tribunal and your current landlord won't be able to do anything to you. The fact you are moving out may even bolster your case, as you couldn't take living in that environment any longer. At the very least, the landlord will be on record as be disruptive if you file a complaint.
 
 
grant
17:56 / 13.11.07


Veterans for Peace arrested at Veterans' Day Parade in Boston.

This is where we are now.
 
 
This Sunday
19:49 / 14.11.07
I want strike go away! So annoying!

I'm watching good people turn into frustrating scabs, because they see this as their ticket to a better income tax bracket. I'm watching talented people's work dwindle to disinterest because of the wait. I'm losing money, which - let's be fair - is saving people from having to see my work brought to fruition, but, y'know, I need that money to buy things. Like dinner.
 
 
Twice
18:55 / 15.11.07
Look, you arrogant fucking bullying witch: just because you're rich as fuck and live in a fucking castle doesn't mean that you are entitled to any more money from the state than anybody else just because you look after your mother who has Alzheimers. Just because it costs YOU £800 per week doesn't mean that social services should stump up the difference because you keep your mother safely 50 metres from your front door in a little annex which you built for her.

Just because Social Services say that she needs 24 hour care DOES NOT MEAN that Social Services have to pay to indulge your version of propriety. They will give you EXACTLY what it costs to provide care for EVERYBODY ELSE. And don't you try to bully me and then smile and be sweet as I'm walking out of the door of your castle in the expectation that I'm going to think "oooh, the nice rich lady likes me after all so I'll do whatever she wants me to".

If you feel that your mother's care is costing too fucking much you CAN RENT OUT A BIT OF YOUR FUCKING CASTLE.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
20:40 / 15.11.07
Twice Five Toes: Oh yeah. I hate people like that so so so bad. I was once on a government retraining course with a woman who kept on insisting that she should get more dole money becase she lived in a Grade Three listed building.
 
 
petunia
08:07 / 16.11.07
Mre sad than rageful, but..

My Love's bike has been stolen from the communal area of our house. No sign of breakage. Means either someone from another flat in the house, or someone they've let in, or someone the letting agent has let in has stolen it. Pretty shit.

It wasn't the best bike, but she'd only just got it given to her by her dad. She's just started to enjoy cycling to work and around the city and was dead proud of the thing.

I hate theives.
 
 
Triplets
08:24 / 16.11.07
That's really shit, petunia.
 
 
jamesPD
09:32 / 16.11.07
An appeal court in Saudi Arabia has doubled the number of lashes and added a jail sentence as punishment for a woman who was gang-raped.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
10:01 / 16.11.07
Horrific isn't it.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
12:39 / 16.11.07
Police tasered man in diabetic coma.

Apparently he "looked Egyptian."
 
 
All Acting Regiment
12:48 / 16.11.07
For fuck's sake. Egyptian police wouldn't get away with 'he looked English'...
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
12:50 / 16.11.07
Gives you chills, eh.
 
 
Closed for Business Time
12:57 / 16.11.07
How the flying fuck does he look Egyptian? And he's lucky to be alive. According to the NY Times, 18 people have died after being tasered by Canadian police only since July 2003. So much for Tasers being a "non-lethal weapon"...
 
 
Lama glama
12:59 / 16.11.07
Is it me, or has this page of Urgh Fuck been full of mind-bendingly horrific stuff compared to every other page since. It's like concentrated people horror.
 
 
Closed for Business Time
11:30 / 17.11.07
This should probably go in a Switchboard thread, but I can't bring myself to investigate further, fearing that I'll come out the other end sounding every inch the twisted bitter conspiracy loonie.

Link

In brief, it's about how the evangelical Xtian right is infiltrating the US armed forces to promote their supremacist crusader agenda. It's also got some stuff about Eric Prince and the other senior operators in Blackwater which is frankly terrifying. What the fuck is wrong with these people? How should we go about stopping these people or at least curtailing their influence?
 
 
Jack Fear
16:16 / 17.11.07
There's a very simple solution: Bring back the draft.

And in one fell swoop, the military starts to look like a cross-section of America again, rather than like a separate culture.

(Well, I didn't say you were gonna like the solution, now, did I?)
 
 
Quantum
08:50 / 18.11.07
Classified ad in a local paper against a George cross background, word for word-

A MORAL DILEMMA
As an indigenous Englishman I now have some idea how Native Americans must have felt faced with perfidious politicians, mass immigration and loss of laws, lands and traditions. Some tribes fled, some rolled over and some (too late!) resisted.
Were those who resisted, racists and xenophobes or patriots? no. 25

Published by M. Cave (Independent English Nationalist)
who supplies his address which I will give anyone who asks.

Urgh. Anyone fancy emailing complaints to the newspaper with me?
 
 
Closed for Business Time
14:54 / 18.11.07
I'm not so sure your solution is that bad, Jack. If the draft was very hard to dodge, especially for the rich and privileged, and if it did not exclude women, LGBTs and others, it might actually have something going for it.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
08:46 / 19.11.07
Yes, it's a point, but I fear it would be a cross-section of the poor parts of American society, no?

Re: prick with his advert in the paper. Write a letter to the paper clearly and cheerfully stating the difference between what the native americans went through (several entire nations wiped out, nearly all the others dispossessed) and what the British are 'going through' (i.e. having some new British people from overseas willing to work in our abbatoirs and hospitals, and having to put up with an ever wider choice of restaraunts).

More seriously, point out that things like the housing crisis and unemployment have sod all to do with immigration.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
08:58 / 19.11.07
I can't help noticing that when these wankers are faced with actual unemployed people, the swarms of marauding immigrants who Come Over Here And Take Our Jobs™ seem to mysteriously evaporate in the white heat of Plenty Of Work Out There For Those Who Want It™.
 
 
Papess
19:39 / 26.11.07
I would just like to give a warning to people in Canada about these people. They call themselves the "Canadian Family Action Coalition". They were hitting me up for donations to the cause of child pornography, but are not officially recognized as a charity. Why? Upon further prying the agent revealed to me that they take a political stance on "certain issues". "What issues are those?" I pry further.

This issue.

This big issue.

And this shit here.

The only reason I didn't tell her to fuck off was because I didn't want to reinforce her ignorant opinions by being rude. Then her leaving the conversation thinking "Oh those ignorant gays..." because I don't agree with:

So let us start to come to grips with the intolerance of homosexual activists. I have often expressed my opinion, belief, scientific fact and reality regarding sodomy. For this I am accused of having no respect for diversity and equality. For being hateful and on and on.

First, diversity means difference, does it not? Different opinions , differing values. But my opinion, belief or values are somehow excluded from the diversity of ideas and dialogue by many “activists”.

That is what is narrow minded and hateful and violates Charter rights.

I have stated that sodomy is not equal to copulation or conjugal acts. And it is scientific fact that it is not equal. For stating this fact, not making it up, just stating it, I have been investigated for hate crime, I have received hate mail and even death threats.

FUCK OFF, BRIAN RUSHFELDT!, Executive Director of the Canada Family Action Coalition

You ignorant, hateful, flying-fuckin'turboscum! ("Douche" is too good for this one.) No. I will NOT donate to your fucking stupid cause, trying to misdirect me with issues of child porn.


FUCK YOU!
 
  

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