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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...
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
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'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVL4CKqBl8A
SilverSixer said:
Adenauer said:
SilverSixer said:
Orange coloured cheddar.
D'you mean Red Leicester?http://groceries.morrisons.com/webshop/product/Mor...
killysprint said:
SilverSixer said:
Adenauer said:
SilverSixer said:
Orange coloured cheddar.
D'you mean Red Leicester?http://groceries.morrisons.com/webshop/product/Mor...
nicanary said:
killysprint said:
SilverSixer said:
Adenauer said:
SilverSixer said:
Orange coloured cheddar.
D'you mean Red Leicester?http://groceries.morrisons.com/webshop/product/Mor...
p1stonhead said:
nicanary said:
killysprint said:
SilverSixer said:
Adenauer said:
SilverSixer said:
Orange coloured cheddar.
D'you mean Red Leicester?http://groceries.morrisons.com/webshop/product/Mor...
nicanary said:
p1stonhead said:
nicanary said:
killysprint said:
SilverSixer said:
Adenauer said:
SilverSixer said:
Orange coloured cheddar.
D'you mean Red Leicester?http://groceries.morrisons.com/webshop/product/Mor...
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!
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 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
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!
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!
EFAMunter said:
berlintaxi said:
Benefits Agency pay it,surely?
No they now pay the tennant, who then Supposed to give the claimant a lesson in money management apparently.
Pah!
berlintaxi said:
kowalski655 said:
berlintaxi said:
Benefits Agency pay it,surely?
Only if they ate paying 15 years late!shakotan said:
KFC said:
Add to this, putting flowers or memorials at the scene of a death rather than at their home or grave.Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff