Noise Nuisance Cures

Quiet man shoots neighbours' noisy dogs, neighbours and himself. In Singapore you call the police noise nuisance department. Avoid confrontation with neighbours. Most apartment complexes have rules about noise. Prevention is better than cure.

The Sixties

Swinging Sixties? Even if I were to agree that it was 'a different culture, for some it was even more repressive because parents had not been able to get divorce nor abortions. Some boys would ask girls, how old are you? or 'are you sixteen' so as not to break the law. Some men would swear their victims to secrecy or tell them not to tell parents or others - so they knew  .... And others would get withdrawn and upset or go away if a girl said no rather than force themselves on her.
We had an au pair girl who get pregnant.

I've been a tenant and a landlady

When working overseas we had to rent out our house to meet the cost of renting overseas so I was both a landlady and a tenant.
The landlord/landlady may be a pensioner who is getting less return on their money than if they invested in something else, or more because they are hoping to live on it, is expected to pay council tax on an empty property while hoping for a tenant, thousands renovating the flat, cannot rent until taking fire precautions - fireproof furniture, fire alarms, fire extinguisher (renewed every three years),  annual electricity checks, gas checks, energy efficiency check, etc, all sorts of expenses like the ten percent to the agent (first month's rent) more if the agent manages the property, repairs, maintenance charge for communal areas, repainting inside and outside of building, several thousand to put in a new bathroom, nearly a thousand just to put in a shower and pump and the cost of the plumber's time and the tiles and retiling, rocket high insurance - almost impossible to get for an empty property. Tenants demand Sky TV aerial put in, change fitted carpet to a wooden floor ...  and endless checklist, like painting the Forth Bridge.

Missing person found - in garden. If that's the answer, the question is ...

Recently at a Toastmasters' Speakers' club we were asked, if (love/that) is the question, what is the answer. If the answer to a missing person search is a body found in their own home, a house or garden, many people, including myself, question why police don't start at the home.
When somebody goes missing you should take sniffer dogs and do a spiral search or pie chart search or a marching chequerboard search from the place they were last seen. If it's their home you start with the house and garden in case they have hidden, fallen or been imprisoned. Then you span outwards.

New methods of crime reduction

Good news for travellers, stay-at-homes and those who perpetually feel guilty.
Researchers at the university of Zurich have found that you can stimulate an area of the brain to reduce crime.
Unfortunately despite having hanging and flogging in the old days crime has not gone away because
1 There's one born every minute
2 Prisons are full of people who did not care about the punishment because they thought they would get away with it
3 Criminals opt for pleasure (crime) today and pain (payback) tomorrow, unlike hard working people who opt for pain (work) today for pleasure (spending what you rightfully earned tomorrow.
If we can prevent crime by any method that must be good for the people who would otherwise go to prison as well as the victims of crime.

'Do as I do' - What people think and do and say

by Angela Lansbury

The Majority Of People (British People)

People do not want to hear that they are wrong. They want to hear that they are right.

They do not want to hear that they are ugly. They want to hear that they are beautiful.

They do not want to hear complaints. They want to hear praise.

They do not want to hear that you disagree. They want to hear that you agree.

They do not want to hear that you despise them. They want to hear that you admire and respect them.

They do not want to hear that their admirer and fan is an incompetent idiot. They want to hear that their rival is brilliant, but they are even better.

They do not want to hear I told you so. You never listen. You never learn.

If you say ‘you always’ the phrase should be followed by a compliment.

They are easily depressed and discouraged. Just say ‘you can’t’ and they will give up.

They are easily encouraged. Just say ‘you can’ three times and they will act.

People are not rational. They are unreasonably optimistic. They don’t think they will get caught for wrongdoing. They believe they will win the lottery.

People who are accident-prone and careless blame everything except themselves. They don’t think about science and cause and effect and that life is under their control. They think that they are just unlucky if they have an accident. They won’t avoid walking under ladders in case a ladder falls. They will avoid it because it is ‘unlucky’.

They will not avoid breaking mirrors because mirrors are expensive and make a dreadful mess when broken. But tell them they risk seven years bad luck and they will take care.

They identify with and support the loser and the underdog.

They are jealous of the winners. (Evil eyes.)

The Miniority

A small minority

This includes the Chinese who live in large families and compete to get ahead (kiasu).

When you tell them that they will never amount to anything that spurs them to work harder and get ahead.

Introverts (From my observation of Trevor.)

They do what they like. They are self-motivated. They think you cannot inspire others. They do not bother encouraging others because, they say, ‘motivation has to come from within’.

They like to train others. But they see no point in attending any kind of course or counselling because they are above average IQ and can research everything they need from books and the internet.

Route Planning Map & Directions

The RAC route planner site aerial view is good because it shows the kind of terrain, such as shops or woods.

I would like:

1) Clear indication of time travelled.

2) Clear list of directions like satnav as if from a passenger eg, a) Pass Paines Laine on your left, b) Passing park with trees and playground, signal turning left now, c) Turn left into two-lane Waxwell Lane.

3) I want landmarks I'll pass to know I'm on right route, eg, pass petrol station on left.

4) Aerial view shows rooftops but I want to see what I'm looking for when driving as on Google street maps eg the building's sign and front door, two storey frontage and style (eg black and white building, gabled timber building, brick building block of art deco flats with green tiled roof, or car park entrance.

5) I want directions for parking on arrival.

Is it yellow lines, nearest pay car park, or what?