A bit council (Vol 6)
Discussion
nuyorican said:
-Cappo- said:
Nothing council about flagrantly disregarding spiteful, peevish, pointless little signs. They're everywhere. A blight on our country.It may even be something that the underclasses and the upper class have in common, It's generally the anxious middle classes that slavishly and fearfully adhere to every sign, warning and 'polite' notice.
- Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the obedience of fools.
nuyorican said:
Nothing council about flagrantly disregarding spiteful, peevish, pointless little signs. They're everywhere. A blight on our country.
It may even be something that the underclasses and the upper class have in common, It's generally the anxious middle classes that slavishly and fearfully adhere to every sign, warning and 'polite' notice.
- Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the obedience of fools.
This is bIt may even be something that the underclasses and the upper class have in common, It's generally the anxious middle classes that slavishly and fearfully adhere to every sign, warning and 'polite' notice.
- Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the obedience of fools.
ks. Most councils put up signs to mitigate against being sued. Mostly by council types who know how to abuse the system. It's a sad reflection on the world we live in. Blame the United States and our over payed lawyers. Dr Murdoch said:
Haringay have gone one better. https://www.google.com/maps/@51.6024073,-0.0630195...
Check out #64
(Apologies, I'm to much of a luddite to know how to upload the photo --- Council??)
Rusty Old-Banger said:
Roofless Toothless said:
As soon as you apply to the council for a ‘dropped kerb’ you soon discover that it is officially known as a ‘crossover’. It is not just a matter of getting rid of an inconvenient bump up the kerbstone.
It costs thousands to do this, and not only for the physical labour and materials, but the searches that are made about the utilities that may be passing your house beneath the footpath, and if their conduits are robust enough to withstand vehicles driving over them. In my own case I recall they even contacted the utility companies for their future plans in the road. Both the town and county councils may become involved on matters of road safety and public amenity.
Driving merrily across the pavement may seem innocuous to some, but wait until you collapse a gas main or sewer pipe, and it won’t seem so funny having to fork out perhaps tens of thousands for the repair.
This is EXACTLY it. It costs thousands to do this, and not only for the physical labour and materials, but the searches that are made about the utilities that may be passing your house beneath the footpath, and if their conduits are robust enough to withstand vehicles driving over them. In my own case I recall they even contacted the utility companies for their future plans in the road. Both the town and county councils may become involved on matters of road safety and public amenity.
Driving merrily across the pavement may seem innocuous to some, but wait until you collapse a gas main or sewer pipe, and it won’t seem so funny having to fork out perhaps tens of thousands for the repair.
(Highways engineer who deals with this crap every day)
There are other issues too - road classification, visibility to/from hazards, removal of on-road parking availability, suitability of off-road parking area (if it's too small to realistically park a car/van), if the house already has an access (separate in and outs are generally refused), all sorts of things.
Roofless, I think you are in my area so you may well be familiar with this guidance: https://www.essexhighways.org/applications/vehicle...
In my experience, it's about £3k to install a dropped crossing, so really not very much in the grand scheme of things. Break a utility and it can easily run to 6 figures to repair. I've just "paid" £400k to BT to lower a chamber in a footway, for example.
Edited by Rusty Old-Banger on Wednesday 22 May 14:22
Fast forward to last week when I happened to pop in to see the old stomping ground (moved out when I was 18 but family lived there till about 2000) and there is a curb and path now! Apparently the house was split into two (1and 1A) and the council found out the path was illegally dropped and reinstated it. The silly thing is the owners of the two houses ust bump up the curb and when any council person comes knocking they just say the cars never mived since they put the curb in!
hidetheelephants said:
nismocat said:
How can you tell they have sleeve tattoos?
Does it stop being a sleeve because it's on a leg rather than an arm? Is a trouserleg tattoo a thing? IDK.I am not a fan of tattoos all over the arms and legs, my daughter is covered but not on the face, but it is very popular now with the 20 to 30 age group.
hidetheelephants said:
nismocat said:
How can you tell they have sleeve tattoos?
Does it stop being a sleeve because it's on a leg rather than an arm? Is a trouserleg tattoo a thing? IDK.I prefer 'a trouser'
Gary29 said:
I was waiting for this to crop up after seeing it on social media a few days ago. Got to be a thread winner.
Obviously he's still someone's son / father, so feels a bit crass to laugh at it, but this is next level council.
Laugh at it? Nothing wrong with that at all, in my view. Scum of the earth. Obviously he's still someone's son / father, so feels a bit crass to laugh at it, but this is next level council.
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