Housing Association Complaints

[Timo]

Extracts from actual letters sent to various councils and housing

associations throughout the UK:

1. I want some repairs done to my cooker as it has backfired and burnt

my knob off.

2. I wish to complain that my father hurt his ankle very badly when he

put his foot in the hole in his back passage.

3. .. and their 18 year old son is continually banging his balls against

my

fence.

4. I wish to report that tiles are missing from the outside toilet roof.

I

think it was bad wind the other night that blew them off.

5. My lavatory seat is cracked, where do I stand.

6. I am writing on behalf of my sink, which is coming away from the

wall.

7. Will you please send someone to mend the garden path. My wife tripped

and fell on it yesterday and now she is pregnant. We are getting married

in

September and we would like it in the garden before we move into the

house.

8. I request permission to remove my drawers in the kitchen.

9. ..50% of the walls are damp, 50% have crumbling plaster and the rest

are plain filthy.

10. I am still having problems with smoke in my new drawers.

11. The toilet is blocked and we cannot bath the children until it is

cleared.

12. Will you please send a man to look at my water, it is a funny colour

and not fit to drink.

13. Our lavatory seat is broken in half and is now in three pieces.

14. Would you please send a man to repair my spout. I am an old age

pensioner and need it badly.

15. I want to complain about the farmer across the road; every morning

at 6am his dangler wakes me up and its now getting too much for me.

16. The man next door has a large erection in the back garden, which is

unsightly and dangerous.

17. Our kitchen floor is damp. We have two children and would like a

third so please send someone round to do something about it.

18. I am a single woman living in a downstairs flat and would you please

do something about the noise made by the man I have on top of me every

night.

19. Please send a man with the right tool to finish the job and satisfy

my wife.

20. I have had the clerk of the works down on the floor six times but I

still have no satisfaction.

21. This is to let you know that our lavatory seat is broken and we

can't get BBC2.

22. My bush is really overgrown round the front and my back passage has

fungus growing in it.

23. ... and he's got this huge tool that vibrates the whole house and I

just cant take it anymore.

24. ... that is his excuse for dogs mess that I find hard to swallow

[Learner_Phil]

I had to stop reading half way through I as was laughing so loud people were beginning to stare!

[Mrs Catflap]

Yup people in my office are looking at me odd too!!  

[minghis]

It constantly amazes me how people that give nothing to society are always the first ones to complain and insist that someone does something for them at someone elses expense.

There are letters every week in our local paper from these people that are either:

1. Single mothers with 7 kids (all from different fathers) who can be regularly seen buying cigarettes and booze from the local shop just after alighting from the taxi they've just arrived in courtesy of the 'taxi tokens' the council give them complaining about the colour of the paint the council have just decorated their fully funded houses in.

2. Unemployed 'men' who are physically fit and can be seen at every local car boot sale in their new Transit vans selling obviously dodgy goods making wads of tax free cash but 'just cannot find a job' complaining about the council not cutting the grass in their street often enough.

3. So called 'parents' of tribes of illeterate kids who run around in the roads all over the place having had no manners or road sense tought to them by their equally illeterate and ignorant parents complaining bitterly about the fact that the roads are dangerous and their kids could be injured if the 'council don't put speed humps in our street'

4. Life long fully supported benefit recipients moaning about the fact that the council arranged to have their homes fitted with nice new expensive double glazing at absolutely no cost to them and the workmen 'left some mess that they had to clean up'

5. Mr and Mrs no kids 'cos they've all left home now they're old enough' still benefitting from a 4 bed huge council house with a garden equally as big in their 30th year of occupation starting a petition about the unfairness of them paying the same ammount of rent as the people down the road who have 'a bigger dining room' than them.

I could go on but it's getting me a little angry....

Minghis.

Oh, and something else, why is it that the people in society who are obviously never going to be able to provide a stable environment for kids always seem to have so many of them?

[peterg]

yeah, a lot of people with kids should never have been allowed to have them (and certainly not SO MANY of them)  

a bit like politicians.....anyone who 'desires' to be one is most  probably the worst type of person to actually be one.  

[neilwillis]

It could be pointed out that you have to have a licence to drive, but any idiot can bring up kids  

[Blatman]

Isn't that from the film Parenthood?

"You need a licence to drive a car. ####, you need a licence to buy a dog, but they'll let any butt reaming ####### be a dad"

Keanu Reeves........

Note to self: Must get a life.......

[Mrs Westy]

me and the wife.

Two testicles, you seem to have forgotten that when you first appeared on the WSCC boardroom scene, you were masquerading as a female...

[Two Testicles]

Two testicles, you seem to have forgotten that when you first appeared on the WSCC boardroom scene, you were masquerading as a female...

    .....forgot to mention, I've also spunked a gratis sex change off our over-worked NHS

[Mrs Westy]

    .....forgot to mention, I've also spunked a gratis sex change off our over-worked NHS

Uhuuuu...

So what is your take on the anecdotal evidence of hallucinogenic effects of dimenhydrinate at altitude

[Two Testicles]

.....are anti-emetics big in Essex then? Don't want get the shell-suit messy after 14 Babychams.

[Mrs Westy]

.....are anti-emetics big in Essex then? Don't want get the shell-suit messy after 14 Babychams.

err..something like that.  And I'm genuinely curious.  And why was it banned in the UK in 2000 yet is still freely available in most other civilised countries around the world.  I figured that if anyone on the WSCC boardroom knew, or could find out, the answers to these questions, it would be you  

[Phssthpok]

....Mrs Westy, the laws and licensing agreements surrounding the availability for a whole range of common drugs, both prescription and non-prescription, are riddled with a mixture of inconsistent governmental regulation and drug company self-interest/apathy. For example, Naltrxone Hydrochloride, a drug routinely used for the treatment of opiate addiction in this country, is used for the treatment of alcohol addiction in America. But, as it's not been licensed in GB for the treatment of alcohol addiction, we can't use it as such. Anyone who has travelled aboard will have seen a whole range of non-prescription drugs, not available in GB, on sale. Often it's one constituent of the drug that is not licensed in this country rather than the major active ingredient; anti-histamines often fall foul of this for containing controlled stimulants. The matter is made more complex by generic and trade names and what doctors can and cannot prescribe; which means that drug companies will routinely not seek a licensed,or allow a licence to expire,  because their (trade name) product will be undercut by a generic equivalent: Diazepam and Vallium being an example. So, the answer your question as to why dimenhydrinate is not available in this country is that I simply do not know, but hope the above will be so boring that you have not read down this far and if you have might make you think I could know if I could be bothered finding out. On a subject closer to your heart, did you know shell-suits are banned in Singapore?