a bit council

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PurpleTurtle

6,940 posts

143 months

Tuesday 7th April 2015
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gazchap said:
irocfan said:
there was an explanation regarding this on another thread... something along the lines of "we'll help you in any and every way we can if you go public, nut if you don't and the red-tops find out (which they invariably do) then you're on your own..."
You get the same level of support whether you go public or not.
As I understand it, it is more a case of your options are:

1) try and stay anonymous, but the tabloids will be like a dog with a bone to find out who you are, and however much you try to keep it quiet, some bloke down the pub who knows your sister's best mate from bingo and saw her driving the smart new motor you've bought them on the quiet/strict instructions not to blab, will go to the tabloids for a pound of flesh, and once they are into you they'll never stop printing stories about you because they tracked you down and need to justify their existence.

or

2) give 'em their photo op with a bottle of champagne and a comedy sized cheque, and provided you don't have a murky/vaguely salacious past they will leave you in (relative) peace, unless your missus decides to knock off the bloke flogging her two brand new Audis, in which case you're extended fodder for The Daily Wail for a while.

Me, I'd be Foxtrot Oscaring out of Dodge the moment the money is in the bank until the heat dies down. See 1 though.

Justayellowbadge

37,057 posts

241 months

Tuesday 7th April 2015
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PurpleTurtle said:
As I understand it, it is more a case of your options are:

1) try and stay anonymous, but the tabloids will be like a dog with a bone to find out who you are, and however much you try to keep it quiet, some bloke down the pub who knows your sister's best mate from bingo and saw her driving the smart new motor you've bought them on the quiet/strict instructions not to blab, will go to the tabloids for a pound of flesh, and once they are into you they'll never stop printing stories about you because they tracked you down and need to justify their existence.

or

2) give 'em their photo op with a bottle of champagne and a comedy sized cheque, and provided you don't have a murky/vaguely salacious past they will leave you in (relative) peace, unless your missus decides to knock off the bloke flogging her two brand new Audis, in which case you're extended fodder for The Daily Wail for a while.

Me, I'd be Foxtrot Oscaring out of Dodge the moment the money is in the bank until the heat dies down. See 1 though.
Unless a record euromillions win, the tabloids surely won't give a tinker's cuss a week or so down the line.

AlexRS2782

8,023 posts

212 months

Tuesday 7th April 2015
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Copied over from the Badly Modified thread hehe

iacabu said:
Saw these at a cruise in Blackburn last night paperbag
She wasn't posing, she just got in the way...saw her driving the Porsche though. Not too sure if Biggie White in the background was in the Bentley

WD39

20,083 posts

115 months

Tuesday 7th April 2015
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AlexRS2782 said:
Copied over from the Badly Modified thread hehe

iacabu said:
Saw these at a cruise in Blackburn last night paperbag
She wasn't posing, she just got in the way...saw her driving the Porsche though. Not too sure if Biggie White in the background was in the Bentley
Regarding recent posts, lottery winners?? (or lad's mag owners)

andygo

6,786 posts

254 months

Tuesday 7th April 2015
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Is that red can filled with, er, 'coke'?

Max M4X WW

4,788 posts

181 months

Tuesday 7th April 2015
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Ari said:
Chav number plates beginning:
T15
B16
B19
A11
H1
H20
And then three initials.
Ooh I qualify laugh






Cliftonite

8,406 posts

137 months

Tuesday 7th April 2015
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J
Max M4X WW said:
Ari said:
Chav number plates beginning:
T15
B16
B19
A11
H1
H20
And then three initials.
Ooh I qualify smile





Not your initials, though, are they?

smile


Max M4X WW

4,788 posts

181 months

Tuesday 7th April 2015
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Cliftonite said:
J
Max M4X WW said:
Ari said:
Chav number plates beginning:
T15
B16
B19
A11
H1
H20
And then three initials.
Ooh I qualify smile





Not your initials, though, are they?

smile
The last two are, I don't have a middle name, even more council!

wildcat45

8,056 posts

188 months

Tuesday 7th April 2015
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No, middle names are council. Spend an hour in a Magistrates to hear the names eing caloed out. In my opinion, the older the middle name, the more likely you are to let the local authority take care of your accomodation.

Usually the middle names remember dead relatives I guess.

Imagine this 18 year old is in court.

Kyle (Council given name by sag mother in 1997)
Darren (Council given name of father if known. Killed in TWOC crash 2000 aged 15)
Stephen (Grandfather still extant Born 1979 had a YTS once)
Thomas (Gt grandfather Born 1960 the last employed family member)
Henry (Gt Gt Grandfather B 1935 Hard working skilled man)
Edward (Gt Gt grandfather killed in WWII)
Add surname here.

Morningside

24,110 posts

228 months

Tuesday 7th April 2015
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Where does Charles come in your list?

HTP99

22,443 posts

139 months

Tuesday 7th April 2015
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No middle name = Council?

I was watching an episode of One Born Every Minute a few years ago and I distinctly remember an extremely "Council" couple trying to come up with a middle name for their son; they had given him an awful first name that could only be described as "Council" but what was their reasoning for choosing a middle name? Was it a grand parents name, was it the fathers name, was it a great grand parents name; nope, it was a name that sounded "ok" when it came after the first name; that is Council, imagine a Jayden Keenan!

I don't have a middle name, my sister doesn't, my dad didn't; neither do his sisters, my grandad didn't, my youngest doesn't; oddly my eldest does!! We and all of the above are most certainly not "Council", it seems though that we are in the minority.

ShiningWit

10,203 posts

127 months

Wednesday 8th April 2015
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Tranny van parked outside loaded to breaking point with scrap.

Number 5

2,748 posts

194 months

Wednesday 8th April 2015
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HTP99 said:
No middle name = Council?


I don't have a middle name, my sister doesn't, my dad didn't; neither do his sisters, my grandad didn't, my youngest doesn't; oddly my eldest does!! We and all of the above are most certainly not "Council", it seems though that we are in the minority.
Someone saying that they are most certainly not Council


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Number 5

2,748 posts

194 months

Wednesday 8th April 2015
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Flat6er said:
Buying fuel from a supermarket petrol station. smile
Having a Porsche and your neighbours live in a semi with a MK 1 Ford Focus


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zcacogp

11,239 posts

243 months

Wednesday 8th April 2015
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grumbledoak said:
When in the wrong don't simply apologize, 'front' it out. rolleyes
Spot on, IMHO.

Taking responsibility for one's own actions is the very antithesis of 'council'.


Oli.

HTP99

22,443 posts

139 months

Wednesday 8th April 2015
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zcacogp said:
grumbledoak said:
When in the wrong don't simply apologize, 'front' it out. rolleyes
Spot on, IMHO.

Taking responsibility for one's own actions is the very antithesis of 'council'.


Oli.
In my experience; given where I work, the middle class are the worst at this.

ShiningWit

10,203 posts

127 months

Wednesday 8th April 2015
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Swearing. If you cannot express yourself without swearing you live or belong on a Council estate.


Studio117

4,250 posts

190 months

Wednesday 8th April 2015
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ShiningWit said:
Swearing. If you cannot express yourself without swearing you live or belong on a Council estate.
Wrong!!!

“The sort of twee person who thinks swearing is in any way a sign of a lack of education or a lack of verbal interest is just a fking lunatic.”


? Stephen Fry

You



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Edited by Studio117 on Wednesday 8th April 10:04

jw673

137 posts

115 months

Wednesday 8th April 2015
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HTP99 said:
zcacogp said:
grumbledoak said:
When in the wrong don't simply apologize, 'front' it out. rolleyes
Spot on, IMHO.

Taking responsibility for one's own actions is the very antithesis of 'council'.


Oli.
In my experience; given where I work, the middle class are the worst at this.
That would be the "London apology" i.e. abuse in lieu of contrition.

schmunk

4,399 posts

124 months

Wednesday 8th April 2015
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ShiningWit said:
Swearing. If you cannot express yourself without swearing you live or belong on a Council estate.
What a load of bks.
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