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austinsmirk

5,597 posts

122 months

Thursday 5th March 2015
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can someone tell me how to post pictures, or what site to sign up to, to host them.

I have 1000's of council pictures to share.


Munter

31,319 posts

240 months

Thursday 5th March 2015
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austinsmirk said:
can someone tell me how to post pictures, or what site to sign up to, to host them.

I have 1000's of council pictures to share.
What you quote this. At the top of the box you can type in, you'll see a link that says "Upload Pictures (beta)" or similar.

Try that. wink

AstonZagato

12,652 posts

209 months

Thursday 5th March 2015
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WD39 said:
J4CKO said:
WD39 said:
williamp said:
IroningMan said:
Pistonheads is self-evidently a bit council - it has a 'lounge' - so we're all guilty by association.
lounge is OK. "front room" is not.

This is a lounge, afterall...
What memories, what memories...

This 'Lounge' is on the original Pan Am B747 flights to London from New York. This would be 1969/1970.
It is on the 'upper deck', the short bubble in the fuselage stretching back from the flight deck.

I worked for BOAC(!) as cabin crew and we were a little late joining the race accross the Atlantic with our own 747's.

When we did our lounges were 'sheer luxury'. Relaxa chairs, a pair of love seats, banquettes, and a bar.It was very popular with passengers, first class only of course.

I worked up there many times and it was always a pleasurable experience.

It was definately NOT council.

Edited by WD39 on Wednesday 4th March 18:49
I have a bit of a thing for air travel back then, it just seems so properly glamorous, can imagine all the rich people and celebs dressed in Kaftans and stuff, smoking and drinking whilst sat on seats of various browns and oranges, now it just seems so commonplace and sterile.
It was certainly more glamorous in those days. Even my job was considered so. In a way it was, with a week in Barbados, three days in Sydney, two days in Hong Kong etc. Those days are now long gone.

Of course the first class passengers were truly 'first class', unlike in later years when FC travellers arrived in shorts and flip flops,tee shirts and ripped jeans.

Now that may be described as truly 'council'.
Makes me think of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVL4CKqBl8A

killysprint

193 posts

165 months

Thursday 5th March 2015
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SilverSixer said:
Adenauer said:
SilverSixer said:
Orange coloured cheddar.
D'you mean Red Leicester?
Nope.

http://groceries.morrisons.com/webshop/product/Mor...
Not knowing the difference between Orange coloured Cheddar and Red Leicester. Surely.

nicanary

9,751 posts

145 months

Thursday 5th March 2015
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killysprint said:
SilverSixer said:
Adenauer said:
SilverSixer said:
Orange coloured cheddar.
D'you mean Red Leicester?
Nope.

http://groceries.morrisons.com/webshop/product/Mor...
Not knowing the difference between Orange coloured Cheddar and Red Leicester. Surely.
"Council" cheese is surely those plastic slices of cheese flavour found in burgers?

shakotan

10,679 posts

195 months

Thursday 5th March 2015
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KFC said:


Putting flowers on memorials or graves of random people you've never even heard of before last week.
Add to this, putting flowers or memorials at the scene of a death rather than at their home or grave.

p1stonhead

25,489 posts

166 months

Thursday 5th March 2015
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nicanary said:
killysprint said:
SilverSixer said:
Adenauer said:
SilverSixer said:
Orange coloured cheddar.
D'you mean Red Leicester?
Nope.

http://groceries.morrisons.com/webshop/product/Mor...
Not knowing the difference between Orange coloured Cheddar and Red Leicester. Surely.
"Council" cheese is surely those plastic slices of cheese flavour found in burgers?
Yeah but those are incredible.

nicanary

9,751 posts

145 months

Thursday 5th March 2015
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p1stonhead said:
nicanary said:
killysprint said:
SilverSixer said:
Adenauer said:
SilverSixer said:
Orange coloured cheddar.
D'you mean Red Leicester?
Nope.

http://groceries.morrisons.com/webshop/product/Mor...
Not knowing the difference between Orange coloured Cheddar and Red Leicester. Surely.
"Council" cheese is surely those plastic slices of cheese flavour found in burgers?
Yeah but those are incredible.
Do you pay the rent in cash or by direct debit? biggrin

p1stonhead

25,489 posts

166 months

Thursday 5th March 2015
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nicanary said:
p1stonhead said:
nicanary said:
killysprint said:
SilverSixer said:
Adenauer said:
SilverSixer said:
Orange coloured cheddar.
D'you mean Red Leicester?
Nope.

http://groceries.morrisons.com/webshop/product/Mor...
Not knowing the difference between Orange coloured Cheddar and Red Leicester. Surely.
"Council" cheese is surely those plastic slices of cheese flavour found in burgers?
Yeah but those are incredible.
Do you pay the rent in cash or by direct debit? biggrin
cant beat fake cheese on a burger IMO hehe

soad

32,829 posts

175 months

Thursday 5th March 2015
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nicanary said:
Do you pay the rent in cash or by direct debit? biggrin
Standing Order, surely? wink

PurpleTurtle

6,940 posts

143 months

Thursday 5th March 2015
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wildcat45 said:
Not sure if "Lounge" is council. It's certainly lower class climbing up the oadderr wanting to appear posh and failing.

In the 1970s when I was a small kid we lived in some relatively new houses in a Cul-de-sac. You'd often hear the aspirational wives of Ford Granada driving Hubbies referring to their "lounge"

Our house had a "living room" and I was told I would find a lounge in a hotel or airport.

It's stayed with me.

A few years ago I sold a house and specifically told the estate agent to refer to the living room when writing up the blurb. She said potential buyers expected the word "lounge" I told her the house was not for sale to people who referred to the living room by any other term.

I got in trouble from my wife for that. She said I was being a superior snobbish tt. I was. I am. The house sold within a day or two to a nice middle class couple.

So Nerrrr. Stick your lounge and settee where the sun don't shine!

Edited by wildcat45 on Thursday 5th March 11:20
My Dad, who has done fairly well for himself despite being one of 10 kids born in a post-war two up two down council house (thus, 'a bit council' by birth, but a 70's social climber), always referred to it as 'the lounge', so that's what I grew up with.

In my thirties I was shacked up with a posh bird, wealthy stock, privately educated, farmed off to boarding school when she was five. That room in our house was to her 'the sitting room', a term which used to grate on me like fingers down a blackboard. It had connotations of "sit there, don't speak", whereas my Dad's far more council 'lounge' was a place for relaxation and fun.

No prizes for guessing who had all sorts of issues with her parents, and who gets on with his like a (council) house on fire. I'll stick with lounge or living room, but never sitting room. Anyone wants to argue can meet me outside a flat-roofed pub to 'ave a word!

BrabusMog

20,083 posts

185 months

Thursday 5th March 2015
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PurpleTurtle said:
No prizes for guessing who had all sorts of issues with her parents, and who gets on with his like a (council) house on chip-pan fire. I'll stick with lounge or living room, but never sitting room. Anyone wants to argue can meet me outside a flat-roofed pub to 'ave a word!
EFA

berlintaxi

8,535 posts

172 months

Thursday 5th March 2015
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soad said:
nicanary said:
Do you pay the rent in cash or by direct debit? biggrin
Standing Order, surely? wink
Benefits Agency pay it,surely?

motco

15,919 posts

245 months

Friday 6th March 2015
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Where do 'parlour' and 'drawing room' fit into this I wonder?

Munter

31,319 posts

240 months

Friday 6th March 2015
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berlintaxi said:
Benefits Agency pay it,surely?
No they now pay the tennant, who then pay the landlord. spunk it on drugs, alcohol and a new bike for the kid, and then get evicted and say it's unfair to "pick on them".

55palfers

5,893 posts

163 months

Friday 6th March 2015
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Munter said:
berlintaxi said:
Benefits Agency pay it,surely?
No they now pay the tennant, who then pay the landlord. spunk it on drugs, alcohol and a new bike for the kid, and then get evicted and say it's unfair to "pick on them".
Yes, that was a stroke of genius from the powers that be wasn't it.

Supposed to give the claimant a lesson in money management apparently.

Pah!

kowalski655

14,599 posts

142 months

Friday 6th March 2015
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berlintaxi said:
Benefits Agency pay it,surely?
Only if they ate paying 15 years late!

berlintaxi

8,535 posts

172 months

Friday 6th March 2015
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kowalski655 said:
berlintaxi said:
Benefits Agency pay it,surely?
Only if they ate paying 15 years late!
Count yourself lucky, I nearly put DSS, truly showing my age.

nicanary

9,751 posts

145 months

Friday 6th March 2015
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berlintaxi said:
kowalski655 said:
berlintaxi said:
Benefits Agency pay it,surely?
Only if they ate paying 15 years late!
Count yourself lucky, I nearly put DSS, truly showing my age.
Pah, you young 'uns. It used to be the Labour Exchange when I were a nipper. They couldn't call it that these days - the morbidly obese/bone idle can't offer "labour" in its true sense.

thatguy11

640 posts

122 months

Friday 6th March 2015
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shakotan said:
KFC said:


Putting flowers on memorials or graves of random people you've never even heard of before last week.
Add to this, putting flowers or memorials at the scene of a death rather than at their home or grave.
Agreed. Nothing says R.I.P. quite like a £3 bunch of Asda flowers sellotaped to a lamp post
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