A bit council Vol 2
Discussion
Benmac said:
My wife had a similar experience just at the other end of the social spectrum a few weeks back. She was in her typical spot on the way home from London. Noisy family enter the carriage but it's too busy for my wife to risk moving. Family was mum, grandma and two kids circa 3-5 years old. Plummy accents and the volume and sense of entitlement that often goes with that. Anyway, they proceed to make a racket and be generally annoying. Train manager comes along looking for tickets and guess what, they only have standard class ones. He offers to upgrade them for the difference in cost but they decline when they hear how much, looking a mite sheepish after being a bit bullish about it. So, he asks them to move but they then protest about being split up. He goes off and returns having managed to find them two sets of two next to each other on the aisle a couple of carriages down. Oh no, not good enough. Off he goes again and amusingly returns with a young lass on her own. He makes a big show of thanking her for being so accommodating and mentions that her upgrade to first is therefore complimentary. Then shows the noisy, entitled f
kers to the table of 4 he'd managed to clear in standard 
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Unfortunately, first class isn't that much to write home about.kers to the table of 4 he'd managed to clear in standard DWent from Peterborough to York first class as a treat for my fiancée last October. Had our 1 year old with us.
I found the carriage to be filthy, smelly and not at all what you would expect for the extra price. The toilet was overflowing with pee (pain in the bum when trying to change my daughter's nappy), dirty cutlery and bits of food were all over the seats and trays, it didn't look like the carriage had been vacuumed for ages and the staff were useless. The only good thing about it was the extra seat and leg room.
Funnily enough, we had some people in there looking down their noses at us because we had a child with us. Didn't realise that children weren't allowed in first class.
Anyhow, I wrote to Virgin East Coast and complained. They replied with the usual 'not up to our standards, very sorry, blah, blah, blah' and sent me a £25 voucher.
Unchecked instant gratification is Council.
Crap food, booze, fags and drugs, maybe it is perhaps from not having much there is a mindset where you consume as much and as often as you can ? hence why you see so many big people from that demographic smoking and drinking, the middle classes generally dont smoke and arent massively obese, drinking is pretty universal but done a bit differently.
There was a programme about diabetes on recently, I know it can afflict anyone but if you are 30 stone its pretty much a certainty, almost everyone on it having bits removed seemed to have council tendencies.
I dont think this is an education thing as the message is out there loud and clear, loads of ads on the telly and I am guessing most people go to the doctors occasionally and get told but just say fk it and carry on smoking, drinking and eating crap and then expect the medical profession to sort it all out, sorry, thought i have a lot of respect for the medical establishment and medicine in general it is everyone's own responsibility to look after themselves and they arent miracle workers.
Crap food, booze, fags and drugs, maybe it is perhaps from not having much there is a mindset where you consume as much and as often as you can ? hence why you see so many big people from that demographic smoking and drinking, the middle classes generally dont smoke and arent massively obese, drinking is pretty universal but done a bit differently.
There was a programme about diabetes on recently, I know it can afflict anyone but if you are 30 stone its pretty much a certainty, almost everyone on it having bits removed seemed to have council tendencies.
I dont think this is an education thing as the message is out there loud and clear, loads of ads on the telly and I am guessing most people go to the doctors occasionally and get told but just say f
k it and carry on smoking, drinking and eating crap and then expect the medical profession to sort it all out, sorry, thought i have a lot of respect for the medical establishment and medicine in general it is everyone's own responsibility to look after themselves and they arent miracle workers.funkyrobot said:
MKnight702 said:
I bet the £25 didn't cover the difference in cost between standard and first class though!
It sure didn't. 
Jimmy Recard said:
I love buying loads of tat from Home Bargains. I went in once and came out with an enormous novelty lighter, a travel mug, five tins of various soup, a massive packet of Haribo, a CD of the Ally McBeal soundtrack and a Super Soaker. Brilliant shopping trip.
What an odd purchase, is it a particularly good soundtrack?
berlintaxi said:
No pictures of his other half. Disappointing.Edit: Wearing a beanie hat indoors. Council.
jamoor said:
this is shocking and also sad. people are gullible but also lack basic numeracy skills to know this.The daft thing is, we have smart buy shops to stop people getting into such a mess. many housing associations and councils offer such things.
eg you can buy from us, new, delivered a full size cooker, washing machine and full size fridge freezer for 838. pay 10.44 a week. total payable as there is interest, 1085. Now for risky clients, with bad credit etc, thats not too bad a deal.
we also do TV's, computing etc. it works better for us to have tnts purchasing like this than via dodgy cash/brighthouse type places.
obviously we do corner sofas as we all know they're as council as a bottle of blue wkd.
we don't do integrated TV bed systems yet, but maybe I'll suggest it.
austinsmirk said:
jamoor said:
this is shocking and also sad. people are gullible but also lack basic numeracy skills to know this.The daft thing is, we have smart buy shops to stop people getting into such a mess. many housing associations and councils offer such things.
eg you can buy from us, new, delivered a full size cooker, washing machine and full size fridge freezer for 838. pay 10.44 a week. total payable as there is interest, 1085. Now for risky clients, with bad credit etc, thats not too bad a deal.
we also do TV's, computing etc. it works better for us to have tnts purchasing like this than via dodgy cash/brighthouse type places.
obviously we do corner sofas as we all know they're as council as a bottle of blue wkd.
we don't do integrated TV bed systems yet, but maybe I'll suggest it.
Justayellowbadge said:
I see you follow Angry People in Local Newspapers on Facebook 
austinsmirk said:
jamoor said:
this is shocking and also sad. people are gullible but also lack basic numeracy skills to know this.KTF said:
Really is about time they cracked down on the likes of Brighthouse. You could say people should be smarter, but by that logic a company or fraudster should be free to try anything and it's the consumer's fault for falling for it.All that jazz said:
Why is it sad? They chose not to pay attention at school so they've only got themselves to blame. Besides there's enough self help stuff out there to easily educate yourself on such matters if you can be arsed. The fact is that the majority can't so they consider buying the latest telly from Brighthouse for £10 a week for the next 5 years a really good deal.
Apart from the ones that then pawn it straight away and then default on the payments. Knew somebody who used to work there and this is, apparently, a common occurrence 
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