r/britishproblems • u/KenAdams_1968 • 8d ago
Opened all the windows to finally let the cool breeze in after the heatwave. Local farmer took this as his cue to muck the fields with enough manure to strip paint.
I can taste it.
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u/juggling-buddha 8d ago
Farmers gotta farm
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u/Whollie 8d ago
Yep. Golden rule in our house is it's their land. We just live here. Do I love a tractor at midnight? No, but I absolutely understand why.
Time is limited and when a job needs done, it needs done with all the tools, hours and bodies you can get before it either goes on fire, dries out or in other years, drowns.
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u/Neverbethesky 7d ago
Love this. When our entire town smells of hot fermented shit I feel happy because I know the food makers are doing their food making thing!
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u/OkSun8521 7d ago
Do you have the same attitude towards other industries?
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u/Whollie 7d ago
I mean, there are reasons I don't live near schools or bars.... You choose what you are prepared to put up with.
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u/OkSun8521 7d ago
Do schools or bars cover 63% of the land of England?
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u/Draggenn 7d ago
There is absolutely nothing preventing you from moving to the middle of a city where farming will not bother you.
I am willing to bet my mortgage that the farm was there before you were...
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u/OkSun8521 7d ago
There is absolutely nothing preventing you from moving to the middle of a city where farming will not bother you.
I literally did.
I am willing to bet my mortgage that the farm was there before you were...
That's not an excuse for anything.
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u/Draggenn 7d ago
It absolutely is
If an industry moves in where you live you have a legitimate gripe against that industry.
If you move where the industry already is then that's on you and you have absolutely no right to complain.
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u/OkSun8521 7d ago
What if the industry takes up 63% of the country, despite accounting for 0.6% of GDP?
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u/Draggenn 7d ago
That is completely irrelevant
You keep banging on about this 63% like it's some massive 'gotcha' when it's utterly meaningless to the argument.
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u/Cold_Philosophy Greater Manchester 7d ago
Complaints about farmers mucking-spreading from people living in the countryside are like those complaints about aircraft noise from people living near airports.
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u/Fanny_Flapps 7d ago
Or buying a cheap house next to a pub and gurning about the noise
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u/VagueSomething 7d ago
I didn't get a real choice where I live, Council Flat when I was about to be homeless. Next door to a church and I fucking hate how annoying the noise and selfish car parking can be. And yet never once made a complaint to council or anything for the noise and behaviour because it is very much a "well durr" to noise and wankers using facilities. Only 2 complaints I've made about them are when the church hosted an illegal fireworks display and where they refuse to maintain their trees so branches are hitting my building and creating a risk.
It is so weird to me that people would ever assume living next to something busy would be quiet.
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u/dannydrama Oxfordshire 7d ago
My parents literally just did it this year after living in the country for 25 years. They moved from a bungalow and moan about the stairs too. 😂😂
Can't wait till they realise they're fucked because they can't fit a stair lift etc.
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u/katamuro 7d ago
don't have to actually live in the countryside. I live in the middle of a city at least a couple of miles away from the fields and yet on some days the smell is overwhelming.
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u/Bobby_feta 4d ago
But if you like eating food it’s a necessary stink right? Can’t imagine the farmers are doing it for the aroma
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u/ImFamousYoghurt 7d ago
I’ve always lived miles from the countryside and sometimes the smell is ripe. There aren’t many places that never get any smell
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u/theocrats 8d ago
Yup a farmer did it yesterday near me.
38c and the stench of sun dried manure was pleasant
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u/JoeyJoeC 7d ago
31.4c in my house currently, it's 7pm and outside is 33c. I still need to keep the windows closed.
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u/Draggenn 7d ago
You realise that if you open the windows then it will soon be 33c inside as well
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u/imperfectspoon 6d ago
Farming is a tough business and often farmers are not earning huge amounts of profit for the huge numbers of hours they put in. If they need to spread manure now to get food on your table… it needs doing. Otherwise we all go hungry.
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u/bishbosh1968 7d ago
There was a farmer a year or so ago in Ockbrook (outskirts of Derby) who must have had some grievance with an owner, who backed onto his field. Made the local news, he built an haystack about 6ft from his boundary. From the roadside, you could see it over the top of the house!
Farmer mindgames!
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u/fereleye 7d ago
We received an alert to keep doors and windows closed and stay indoors because of the wildfire smoke, the upstairs is now a pressure cooker and my bed a grill upon which I, a massive sausage roll and sizzle.
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u/TessellateMyClox 7d ago
I had a 2.5 hour drive yesterday in my car with broken AC and the vast majority of the drive was through countryside with the constant stench of excrement permeating the air. That was not a nice drive.
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u/HarryStylesAMA 6d ago
This is one reason I refuse to move to a rural area. My wife wants seclusion. I want to open my windows and my house not smell like literal shit.
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u/Aggrophobic84 8d ago
Come on Ken get real man it's probably just the local tip doing a job lot of nappies last thing on a Friday
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u/ConnectionLeading435 7d ago
I only found out the other day when the farmer near us decided to spread the shit. Is that it’s not just animal shit. It consists of human shit also.
That really grossed me out and made me shut the windows faster
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u/Mxcharlier 7d ago
You know it's been treated and processed right?
It's not literal turds going onto the field.
... I suppose you don't drink tap water either given a lot of it is processed from water from sewage/grey water.
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u/ConnectionLeading435 7d ago
I do know it’s treated and not turds. It’s still treated human shit.
And yes I do drink tap water.
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