a bit council

[Monkeylegend]

marmitemania said:

mrtwisty said:

WD39 said:

Parking their 51 reg. BMW 1 series or other council type vehicles in a disabled bay

That would be quite tricky, considering the 1 Series has only been around since 2004...

I so wanted to post this /\ but didn't want to come across as a pedant.

Personal/private plate, so could happen.

[simoid]

mrtwisty said:

WD39 said:

Parking their 51 reg. BMW 1 series or other council type vehicles in a disabled bay

That would be quite tricky, considering the 1 Series has only been around since 2004...

Council round my way haven't moved onto the 1 series yet, still mainly on E36, E46 and the odd 316ti (good for driftin roundabouts innit).

One I'm not sure has been mentioned: oversized aftermarket alloys (usually 5 spoke) on decade old, 1.2l superminis. Often Fiestas round my way.

[soad]

Willy Nilly said:

Has anyone come out of this thread council free?

Council Baby?

[Silverbullet767]

Willy Nilly said:

Has anyone come out of this thread council free?

I think the Queen, maybe? Or does the amount of visitors to Buckingham Palace every year make it a bit council?

[simoid]

Silverbullet767 said:

I think the Queen, maybe? Or does the amount of visitors to Buckingham Palace every year make it a bit council?

Too many state funded homes?

[WD39]

whoami said:

WD39 said:

Still quoting...'lubbly jubbly'

Or even "lovely jubbly".

If you listen carefully to the dialogue, it is 'Lubbly jubbly'

[WD39]

marmitemania said:

mrtwisty said:

WD39 said:

Parking their 51 reg. BMW 1 series or other council type vehicles in a disabled bay

That would be quite tricky, considering the 1 Series has only been around since 2004...

I so wanted to post this /\ but didn't want to come across as a pedant.

All that was required in my post, and in keeping with the traditions of this thread, was to quote a vehicle that can be found in abundance on our nearby local authority estate. The 51 reference was generic to all the other 51 plates,on other makes, that litter the verges. It would appear that a 51 plate is the absolute maximum acceptable. Although there are a couple of X and Y, and a few 12 and 13.

Edited by WD39 on Thursday 19th February 11:43

[soad]

WD39 said:

whoami said:

WD39 said:

Still quoting...'lubbly jubbly'

Or even "lovely jubbly".

If you listen carefully to the dialogue, it is 'Lubbly jubbly'

Lovely jubbly. Notice the pronunciation, 'lovely jubbly'. There is a kind of resonance there, a rhyming resonance, which is part of the attraction of the phrase.

It's a jocular exclamation. It means excellent, brilliant, great. It's the sort of thing you'd say when you got some good news or had a stroke of luck, 'ah, lovely jubbly'.

Well, would you use it? It depends whether you're influenced by television, I suppose, more than anything else. It's one of the slang phrases that was used by Dell Boy in the television series 'Only Fools and Horses', back in the 1990s. It actually goes back longer than that. These script writers are well aware of some of the earlier usages of phrases like this. In fact, you can take it right back to the 1950s, when there was an ice lolly called a jubbly, and there was an advertising catch phrase, 'lovely jubbly', and the Dell usage, I suppose, has come from that.

It later moved into London slang, mainly, I've heard it elsewhere but mainly in London, for anything that was excellent. I've heard it with reference to food - very tasty food is lovely jubbly food. Lovely jubbly antiques, there are - beautiful antiques, lovely jubbly people. And I guess these programmes are lovely jubbly programmes!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/...

[Hooli]

austinsmirk said:

I'd cease council/social housing sales tomorrow if I could...... all its done is create profitering.

social housing should be available for those, in work, on a low wage in expensive areas of the country.

I would quite happily cease to house anyone on benefits though, unless retired or actually properly disabled. (not pretending like most of them I meet).

I'll agree with all that.

Social housing should exist to help those who need help & help themselves. Unless they are properly disabled or retired as said.

[motco]

It was a Tetrapac orange drink (Jubbly) but most vendors kept them in the freezer and school children would suck them from the (split) pack. They were popular in the late 1950s onwards into the 1960s at least.

[vixen1700]

motco said:

It was a Tetrapac orange drink (Jubbly) but most vendors kept them in the freezer and school children would suck them from the (split) pack. They were popular in the late 1950s onwards into the 1960s at least.

I mention jubblies to younger people at work and they just look at me like this --->

Still eating them into the early '80s.

[Hooli]

vixen1700 said:

motco said:

It was a Tetrapac orange drink (Jubbly) but most vendors kept them in the freezer and school children would suck them from the (split) pack. They were popular in the late 1950s onwards into the 1960s at least.

I mention jubblies to younger people at work and they just look at me like this --->

Still eating them into the early '80s.

We've got some in the freezer, can't remember what shop they came from though.

[RobinBanks]

I'm sure I remember those or similar into the 1990s. You can probably still get them now - I haven't bothered to look.

[vixen1700]

Calypso was the name of the jubblies.

Once all the juice was sucked out of them, the lump of ice was generally chucked at a kid in a lower year.

Kids were horrible in the '70s too.

[motco]

vixen1700 said:

Calypso was the name of the jubblies.

Once all the juice was sucked out of them, the lump of ice was generally chucked at a kid in a lower year.

Kids were horrible in the '70s too.

I recall that one end was particularly richly flavoured, whilst the opposite end was almost clear ice with little taste at all. I bought mine from a shop called Forbuoys (I think) just outside the school gates.

[handpaper]

Willy Nilly said:

Has anyone come out of this thread council free?

I think just about everyone has some 'council' attributes.
For instance, Brian Sewell, of whom it is said that Brenda refers to him as 'that posh-sounding chap', is a massive banger racing fan, and thus, according to this thread, definitely council.

As the inhabitant of an ex-council house, on one of the largest council estates in Europe, which is still about 40% council-owned, it would be hard to be more council than me without working for them.
I even went to the same school as Mr Sewell, which gets me coming and going!

[Munter]

RobinBanks said:

I'm sure I remember those or similar into the 1990s. You can probably still get them now - I haven't bothered to look.

Yours for £1.69 (for 8)
https://www.ocado.com/webshop/product/Calypso-Jubb...

[motco]

Munter said:

RobinBanks said:

I'm sure I remember those or similar into the 1990s. You can probably still get them now - I haven't bothered to look.

Yours for £1.69 (for 8)
https://www.ocado.com/webshop/product/Calypso-Jubb...

The original Jubbly was about 200ml not 62ml like those.

Edited by motco on Thursday 19th February 14:42

Edited by motco on Thursday 19th February 16:18

[Ganglandboss]

Monkeylegend said:

You lot seem to know so much about this, I am thinking that some of you must live in council or ex council properties.

Anybody dare own up?

I've bought an ex-council house. It needs a lot of work doing, so I'm not living in it yet. It is on a cul-de-sac of ten semis, but on quite a large estate of mostly council / ex-council properties.

The people on my street seem okay, apart from one house. There are kids toys, bags of st, old fence panels etc strewn across the garden. If I walk out of my front door when it is dark, it is impossible not to see the massive telly on the chimney breast, as it lights up the street. They have too many kids to count and they are horrible little sts.

Driving down the road leading to mine, you can tell which houses are privately owned and which are still council (or housing association, I should say). Most privately owned houses are altered in some way. Some have fairly taistefull extensions etc, but some look tatty as fk. One has added a canopy over the front door, with classical pilasters and capitals, lovingly crafted by skilled artisans in the medium of finest quality uPVC. The worst example of making their mark on their ex-cahncil house is this one:

[Munter]

Ganglandboss said:

The worst example of making their mark on their ex-cahncil house is this one:

Jesus.


3 CCTV cameras is a bit much.