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Thread ID: 128320	2012-12-12 06:59:00	Westcott	pctek (84)	PC World Chat

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1317893	2012-12-12 06:59:00	Once, long ago, quite recently, there was a village called Stepford, Westcott . Admission to the village was strictly enforced, with checkpoints at the borders, committee members taking turns ensuring potential residents fit the criteria . No ethnic minorities, no residents under the age of 60, 40, no dirty hippies, no lower incomes, inbreeding encouraged . Occasionally such riff-raff as shopkeepers and chimney sweeps are bussed in from outlying areas to take care of the unmentionable necessities of running the place, but these are not permitted to linger after work hours have finished and are rounded up and sent home . Stepford, Westcott citizens must join the many committees, clubs, pheasant beating organisations and funnily dressed morris dancing groups . that are required, offered . The making of trifles and growing of oversized vegetables is necessary . A strict dress code is monitored, twinsets and pearls must be worn and tweed jackets for the men . Residents must attend to their gardens daily, vacuuming the driveway clean, trimming the lawn with nail scissors and communally licking the village buildings clean on their way past . Houses must conform to the correct and proper design and may only be stuffed to the gills, decorated with the correct and proper tea-sets, coats of arms, wood-wormed chippendale furniture, and taxidermied vermin that used to inhabit the countryside . However, a fly in the ointment had the misfortune to be born there . His father, a complete arse, a fine upstanding citizen of Stepford, Westcott, ensured Richard followed the rules exactly . One day he died and Richard, a lonely man, retreated to his home to quietly read his newspapers, hiding in fear and terror of the soulless citizens . After a while he became quite fond of his papers and started to keep them lovingly stored in the house . After some time it became rather crowded and the garden became overgrown . The citizens of Stepford, Westcott, raged at these blot on their landscape and dark mutterings were heard in the streets, threats of matches were made and COMPLAINTS TO THE COUNCIL were undertaken . Meetings were held and NOTICES WERE ISSUED . However Richard, a rather intelligent man, pointed out that as this was his personally owned residence, he could do what he damn well liked there . NEWSPAPER ARTICLES WERE WRITTEN, reporters descended and the citizens of Stepford, Westcott were forced to endure the shame and horror of the public blot on their creepy, unnatural, picture postcard landscape . However there was one young-ish citizen, a landscape gardener, who dared to find it all rather amusing, and took pity on Richard . He wandered down the pristine road, to the overgrown garden and had a rather pleasant chat with Richard . He found him to be quite nice, erudite and rather entertaining . He offered to help clear the garden and a start was made . Meal invitations were offered and Richard began to remove some of his loved possessions . Some of the Stepford, Westcott citizens, stricken with embarrassment and horror at the onslaught of BBC documentary makers, rushed to be seen to be helping . Richard and the gardener became friends and soon light was shone into his life, not to mention the home and they all lived happily ever after . Well, Richard and the gardener did anyway, the rest of the pinies probably didn't . . dailymail . co . uk/news/article-2076822/Richard-Wallace-hoarded-rubbish-seen-space . html" target="_blank">www . dailymail . co . uk	pctek (84)
1317894	2012-12-12 07:09:00	Astonishing, at least someone wasn't afraid to talk to him and offer to help unlike the neighbours	gary67 (56)
1317895	2012-12-12 07:20:00	, tv1 on Monday or sunday night it was shown	plod (107)
1317896	2012-12-12 07:51:00	I remember seeing a short clip on TV over the last few days. He was cooking his meals right next to piles of newspapers. This would be a real real fire hazard. It took him something like half an hour to get from his chair to the front door.	Bobh (5192)
1317897	2012-12-12 10:05:00	He seemed like a nice guy, I could recognize the behaviour, seen it in people I know and a bit in myself. I have old style transistors I have carried with me all the way from Africa intended for repairs, I will never use them but I can't bear to throw them away, plus quite a LOT of other stuff. The earthquakes have really upset my filing system, lol, quite a mess these days, tidied up after first big one but couldn't be bothered after the second. Tools and parts are scattered everywhere now. Often can't find what I need, that never used to happen. So my flat is quite a mess these days, however no crawling required so far, lol. Not newspapers, I don't care about them, broken electronics and computers I like to keep and fix when I feel the urge, also need to keep for spare parts.	zqwerty (97)
1317898	2012-12-12 10:41:00	My grandmother had an old friend, when he died his son inherited his house. The son seems to suffer an OCD hoarding disorder. Every 6 months or so the council would come and remove all the junk from his property sighting it was a fire hazard and promoting vermin to live in the area - fair enough too they were right. Then they would bill him, when he couldn't pay they took the house. You would see him living in junk filled cars around the streets. I really don't know if he would not accept some form of mental help or was just never offered it, pretty sad either way.	Alex B (15479)
1317899	2012-12-12 17:39:00	Astonishing, at least someone wasn't afraid to talk to him and offer to help unlike the neighbours Yeah......he was a ice guy, quite smart, just stuck in his collecting trap. Good on the gardener I say.	pctek (84)
1317900	2012-12-12 19:09:00	" Yeah......he was a ice guy, quite smart, just stuck in his collecting trap. " = Cool dude with magnetic personality. ;)	R2x1 (4628)
1317901	2012-12-13 19:29:00	Watched it earlier this week.We decided we wouldn't like to live there! Richard seemed a nice guy. It looks like I could fit a lot more in my garage!	Neil McC (178)
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