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motco said:
I'm still ploughing on with a massively heavy 26" JVC cathode ray tube set - wide screen admittedly but no HD, no HDMI, no tuner that can receive anything any more, supplied with signal by an aging Humax PVR, a DVD player/recorder, and a video cassette machine that might not even still work. The television still works, and while it does, it stays!
'Telly' is pretty council, 'TV' not far off, any semi-humourous terms like 'goggle-box' or 'idiot lantern' are silly affectations. 'Television', if it has to be referred to all, is just acceptable.
JVC is council. Always has been. Sorry chum! 'Telly' is pretty council, 'TV' not far off, any semi-humourous terms like 'goggle-box' or 'idiot lantern' are silly affectations. 'Television', if it has to be referred to all, is just acceptable.
"Full time mummy" on Faceache, LinkedIn etc. As if it's an excuse for not having a job. Always makes me think they're justifying being on benefits, and as such are as council as they can get.
Yes, I've had a "someone you may know" on LinkedIn who describes her profession as "full time mummy". Er, then you're not going to want other job offers, are you, you stupid cow.
Yes, I've had a "someone you may know" on LinkedIn who describes her profession as "full time mummy". Er, then you're not going to want other job offers, are you, you stupid cow.
Ganglandboss said:
krunchkin said:
northwest monkey said:
HD televisions with no HD source.
Very council.
I'm not sure that is possible is it? Basic Freeview comes with HD channels nowVery council.
The only input device on my telly is the DVD player, which is not HD. There are a few genuinely council things on this thread I will own up to, but this is not one of them. Sitting on my arse watching telly does not sit very high on my list of priorities, so I couldn't give a toss if I have no HD source. Personally, I think the higher the specification of your telly, the more council you are. A typical council setup will comprise the following:
- Massive telly from Brighthouse - 60" minimum, but always massively oversized considering the sze of the room. The telly will be mounted on the chimney breast, with the cables on show.
- One of every games console - PS4, X Box and Wii, all of which have HD outputs.
- Sky - the epitome of council.
t DVD player. Chances are the TV wont work most of the time as the meter will need topping up with electric. When the TV is off, the room will be cold & dark as very often the TV is the main source of heating & lighting in the room. There will also be old (full) ashtrays dotted around the room which were stolen from pubs years ago.Another council characteristic is the refusal to use the recycling bins properly. Blue for recyclables, grey for cardboard, brown for garden, green for everything else etc. Not a difficult concept to grasp, but here's the thing - it involves doing something for yourself & council people can't deal with that as they are used to having everything done for them. Hence they end up with binbags all over the garden as the council refuse to empty their bins.
Last one for today is internal doors with holes in or hanging off completely. I've owned my current house for 10 years & can't recall one of my internal doors ever "falling off" or having a hole in that "I can't explain how that happened". As a Landlord, I've probably replaced about 15-20 doors in my rentals in the same period of time. All of them a mystery as to how they came to be in the condition they're in.
hora said:
northwest monkey said:
HD televisions with no HD source.
Very council.
I'm fairly sure my flatscreen is HD and we don't have a HD source. We also don't have Sky because I think its TOO EXPENSIVE to spend money on...but we do have a Bang & Olufsen TV Very council.
Council.
SKY TV is hugely council on it's own, isn't it?
My grandmother would have been appalled at the notion of satellite television and my parents didn't get a colour TV until at least the late 80's. Home entertainment is just so gauche somehow. It implies one has nothing better to do, doesn't it? Just slumped there, slack-faced, watching it blinking at you like some sort of angular council cyclops. Awful really.
You should be walking the dogs of an evening, not watching TV.
My grandmother would have been appalled at the notion of satellite television and my parents didn't get a colour TV until at least the late 80's. Home entertainment is just so gauche somehow. It implies one has nothing better to do, doesn't it? Just slumped there, slack-faced, watching it blinking at you like some sort of angular council cyclops. Awful really.
You should be walking the dogs of an evening, not watching TV.
Disastrous said:
SKY TV is hugely council on it's own, isn't it?
My grandmother would have been appalled at the notion of satellite television and my parents didn't get a colour TV until at least the late 80's. Home entertainment is just so gauche somehow. It implies one has nothing better to do, doesn't it? Just slumped there, slack-faced, watching it blinking at you like some sort of angular council cyclops. Awful really.
You should be walking the dogs of an evening, not watching TV.
Is satellite TV council?My grandmother would have been appalled at the notion of satellite television and my parents didn't get a colour TV until at least the late 80's. Home entertainment is just so gauche somehow. It implies one has nothing better to do, doesn't it? Just slumped there, slack-faced, watching it blinking at you like some sort of angular council cyclops. Awful really.
You should be walking the dogs of an evening, not watching TV.
If you're blinkered, then I suppose it is. Beyond the SKY Movies / Sports / MTV Base etc, there are some excellent shows to watch but if you have a prejudice then you wouldn't know that.
Not liking something because your parents, or your parent's parents didn't seems a bit odd. 200 years ago, the concept of an indoor toilet would have been both alien and pretty disgusting but I take it you don't s
t in a hole in the garden?northwest monkey said:
Is satellite TV council?
Yes, indisputably so. Even Netflix et al is preferable as it's recent enough to have avoided the stigma associated with satellites in the early 90's.northwest monkey said:
If you're blinkered, then I suppose it is. Beyond the SKY Movies / Sports / MTV Base etc, there are some excellent shows to watch but if you have a prejudice then you wouldn't know that.
MTV Base/Sports?? Sounds ghastly. No idea what you're on about I'm afraid.northwest monkey said:
Not liking something because your parents, or your parent's parents didn't seems a bit odd. 200 years ago, the concept of an indoor toilet would have been both alien and pretty disgusting but I take it you don't st in a hole in the garden?
My parents taught me not to discuss toilet habits in polite company t in a hole in the garden?
May have had this one already:
Using crutches when not obviously having a limp or form of movement impairment e.g. just having one or both crutches hanging off bingo-winged arms and occasionally touching the rubber 'feet' against the floor once every three wobbling lardy arse steps.
Presumably coz cripple benefit innit.
Using crutches when not obviously having a limp or form of movement impairment e.g. just having one or both crutches hanging off bingo-winged arms and occasionally touching the rubber 'feet' against the floor once every three wobbling lardy arse steps.
Presumably coz cripple benefit innit.
southendpier said:
May have had this one already:
Using crutches when not obviously having a limp or form of movement impairment e.g. just having one or both crutches hanging off bingo-winged arms and occasionally touching the rubber 'feet' against the floor once every three wobbling lardy arse steps.
Presumably coz cripple benefit innit.
Carrying on from that. Visible knee supports. Most people would have them under their trousers but no they must be on full display so you can see how disabled you are. Using crutches when not obviously having a limp or form of movement impairment e.g. just having one or both crutches hanging off bingo-winged arms and occasionally touching the rubber 'feet' against the floor once every three wobbling lardy arse steps.
Presumably coz cripple benefit innit.
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