a bit council

[RobinBanks]

lowdrag said:

Take Hippopotamus for example; hippos is greek for horse and potamos is river, so river horse. Which explains also where the river Potomac comes from - it's the river River!

I think you're mistaken and that 'Potomac' is from simply how settlers spelt the Native American name for it.

[kowalski655]

That's what Wikipedia was

Potomac" is a European spelling of Patowmeck, the Algonquian name of a Native American village, perhaps meaning "something brought".[

[lowdrag]

One learns every day. Thank you all. And, back to the thread, I thought it was all about concealing cannabis under your raincoat

[jas xjr]

RobinBanks said:

lowdrag said:

Take Hippopotamus for example; hippos is greek for horse and potamos is river, so river horse. Which explains also where the river Potomac comes from - it's the river River!

I think you're mistaken and that 'Potomac' is from simply how settlers spelt the Native American name for it.

You sure Potomac does not mean dirty screwdriver thieving bds ? Lol

[jogger1976]

My job involves going to some pretty rough areas. This doesn't really phase me because (a) I've been doing it a fair while and (b), I was born and bought up on various council estates.

However, some things still make me think WTF!

These include: the consumption of lager. Particularly super-strength. On a weekday. Before noon. While obviously already pissed!

Shouting and swearing at your kids E.g., Oi! Mason! Get eeeeer naaaaw, you fking little st!

Make almost no attempt to hide the fact that you consume industrial levels of weed and have a little side do in dealing

Having large, aggressive and intimidating "status" dogs, who you leave unattended around young children

Committing repeated acts of petty crime, then moaning that you are constantly hassled by the Police

Causing damage to your council/housing association property and then expecting said organisations to drop everything and come out immediately

Having children and then whining and bhing that they get in the way of the above lifestyle choices

There are probably more, but I don't want to depress myself

[motco]

lowdrag said:

motco said:

Wasn't Enoch Powell a classical scholar? Just asking...

Yes, and of course one can see where you are coming from. I had the privilege of having dinner with him in Portsmouth in, IIRC, 1968. A more erudite, intelligent and charming man you would have difficulty in finding.

When time allows (I tell myself) I shall go through the 'Rivers of Blood' speech and translate it into language more usually used in 2015 and try to assess whether it is still as offensive as the (professionally offended?) pundits say. I did not have that privilege of meeting him, but what I have seen, both at the time and in archive records, suggests that he was seriously misunderstood, but somewhat insensitive to the effect his candour had on his audience.

[Dogwatch]

jogger1976 said:

Causing damage to your council/housing association property and then expecting said organisations to drop everything and come out immediately

There was a story a while back of a bloke who took out a dividing wall between two ground floor rooms in his council house - without consulting anyone. One day his kid jumped off the top bunk in the room above and went straight through to the room below as there was now no support for the joists. Naturally 'it had always been like that' and the removal of the dividing wall was nothing to do with him. So council had to sort out the mess.

[Saddle bum]

lowdrag said:

AstonZagato said:

We used to do ancient O level papers as A level practice when I was at school in the early 80s. They were hard.

I read Classics at Cambridge 30 years ago and I couldn't do those Latin and Greek papers today (it would have been easy 30 years ago though - not used anything I've learnt then, so it has slipped away). But I couldn't have done them aged 13. I thought the French paper was far easier on a relative scale.

I have found that the grounding in the classics has helped me all my life. Don't ask me to sort out the electrics on my car, but I do know the origin and meaning of most words. Take Hippopotamus for example; hippos is greek for horse and potamos is river, so river horse. Which explains also where the river Potomac comes from - it's the river River!

Another: Rhinoceros, it's very wealthy animal.
Rhino means money and sore-arse means piles. So it has piles of momey.

[NickM450]

Snozzwangler said:

Uncle John said:

zygalski said:

Morningside said:

Anyone who calls their partner "Babe".

Oh dear. That's me out then, despite never having claimed benefits or ever having resided in a council house.

Me as well......

st...

Must mean I'm common as muck.



At least I don't have a Zafira though! phew.

Anyone who calls there girlfriend/boyfriend, wife/husband 'partner'.

The very epitome of Jeremy Kyle-ness.

[Morningside]

NickM450 said:

Snozzwangler said:

Uncle John said:

zygalski said:

Morningside said:

Anyone who calls their partner "Babe".

Oh dear. That's me out then, despite never having claimed benefits or ever having resided in a council house.

Me as well......

st...

Must mean I'm common as muck.



At least I don't have a Zafira though! phew.

Anyone who calls there girlfriend/boyfriend, wife/husband 'partner'.

The very epitome of Jeremy Kyle-ness.

I would say wife/husband but I thought it was the modern term.

[Greg_D]

Cliftonite said:

MajorProblem said:

Did someone say Vauxhall Zafira?

http://youtu.be/ULAZ7gcWIVE

I admire the way the policeman stayed cool, polite and professional when dealing with this lowlife.

How did the video come into the public domain?

surprisingly enough, where she lives doesn't appear to be Local Authority housing....

[bristolracer]

I heard of a HA tenant ringing up and asking for a new kitchen as he had sold the kitchen in his 3 month old house as he needed a drink!
HA rolled over and fitted a new one for him!

HA tenants are always ok to me as im repairing their aerial or communal sky dish, most places do stink of weed or never cleaned etc. You do get some good tenants but most are benefits blaggers.
They never answer their mobile when you try to arrange to do some work,leave a message or a text saying you want to fix their sky telly and suddenly they return the call. Guess they are trying to avoid the wonga recovery dept.

[InductionRoar]

Prefixing Asda with "The"
Blacked out/tinted number plates
Self-adhesive "race-parts" such as filler caps, louvres etc

[Impasse]

Being turned away from a sporting event for not adhering to the dress code.

[Steamer]

InductionRoar said:

Prefixing Asda with "The"

I like that one

[anonymous-user]

AstonZagato said:

Classics (the very epitome of "a bit PH private") is an excellent all round education. One gains an understanding of the languages, literature, history, philosophy, art and architecture that shaped the modern world. Also, the logical structures of the language make it a surprisingly useful basis for learning computer programming.

I don't know about computers, but a good knowledge of Latin means you can travel around most of Western and southern Europe and reasonably easily understand most languages.

Ecce! Puellae sub arboram assiebus! (or something like that)

[anonymous-user]

Steamer said:

InductionRoar said:

Prefixing Asda with "The"

I like that one

That's the whole of Liverpool then...

[lowdrag]

I thought they were "stick on" bullet holes on the screen. I am now informed that they now tend to be real in the council world.

[jbudgie]

Impasse said:

Being turned away from a sporting event for not adhering to the dress code.

You are ASH 73.

[GSE]

Taking a trip to the town centre variety shop where all goods are priced at exactly one pound, in the hope of securing a bargain .... as a leisure activity during your workplace lunch hour. At 12:30 out would go the call "Whoooooose goin daaaaaaaaan the paaaaaaaaaaaand shop!"