A bit council Vol 2
Discussion
grayze said:
alorotom said:
Meridius said:
TGI Fridays, Frankie and Bennys, Nandos, any pub described as a Carvery, Miller & Carter when you feel posh - all council.
Woah woah woahhhhhh I'll not have Toby dragged into this! 
king hateful places. If we were to have another Dunblane type incident, then a Toby Carvery would be a good target. Could probably be used as mitigation too. darker grapefruit said:
chibbard said:
My wife asked if we could have a Christmas door bow thingy and I said no it's a bit council. She hadn't a clue what I was on about. Who's with me on this one?
Oh, that's what they are. I used to think someone had died. Every day is a school day.And whilst plastic ones and frilly bows may be modern (and possibly council!) affectations, proper ones, made of holly and other evergreens are very traditional decorations/gifts, pre-dating Christianity.
V8mate said:
darker grapefruit said:
chibbard said:
My wife asked if we could have a Christmas door bow thingy and I said no it's a bit council. She hadn't a clue what I was on about. Who's with me on this one?
Oh, that's what they are. I used to think someone had died. Every day is a school day.And whilst plastic ones and frilly bows may be modern (and possibly council!) affectations, proper ones, made of holly and other evergreens are very traditional decorations/gifts, pre-dating Christianity.
OpulentBob said:
V8mate said:
darker grapefruit said:
chibbard said:
My wife asked if we could have a Christmas door bow thingy and I said no it's a bit council. She hadn't a clue what I was on about. Who's with me on this one?
Oh, that's what they are. I used to think someone had died. Every day is a school day.And whilst plastic ones and frilly bows may be modern (and possibly council!) affectations, proper ones, made of holly and other evergreens are very traditional decorations/gifts, pre-dating Christianity.
No, not at all.These days, we each get to decide whether we partake in tradition. But knowing about and valuing tradition is critical to who we are. Thanks to multi-culturalism, political correctness, materialism and the varying impositions of a nanny state, tradition has been so eroded in the UK we're in danger of becoming a cultural desert. And that leaves us open to all manner of social destruction.
Apart form Morris dancing. Obviously
93DW said:
I worked at Halfords for 3 years as a Bulb fitter (Council in itself I know) and my hands were constantly covered in cuts from fitting headlight bulbs. Customers always used to say in the pissing rain "Its only a fiver so I thought Id let you do it rather than me get wet and cold" Yeah cheers for reminding me pal 
I always got Halfords to do them on my Renault Megane-they seemed to go bang every other week at one point(tried not to go in when raining though,and always stood out in the cold with the,only fair) , as you needed teeny tiny hands with really long fingershttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3ToNZSkmRg
Should be the law-5 minutes with a spanner to change,or no type approval
kowalski655 said:
Should be the law-5 minutes with a spanner to change,or no type approval
Definitely. I knew that a couple of Renaults were a nightmare, but I didn't realise that the design idiocy was now so widespread. Working lights are, IMHO, critical, so they have to be part of the owner's maintenance responsibility, not a periodic service item.I've always carried spare bulbs as I've been driving onto the continent for 30 years, but those regs are certainly mis-placed if there's nothing you can actually do with the bulbs at the roadside.
If it needs a tool at all (doesn't on my BMW), it should be one which comes with the car.
MWM3 said:
Vaud said:
I had an A6 (3l, so fuller engine bay). Awful car to change the bulbs in. You needed to be a contortionist.
New car - Volvo XC60. Much, much easier.
The headlights on the xc60 are really easy to change, just pop the whole unit out, change bulb and pop back in. New car - Volvo XC60. Much, much easier.
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