Things which are NOT COUNCIL at all.....

[Moonhawk]

schmunk said:

My dad taught three generations of at least one family. That school was extremely council.

Definately council if he taught them all at the same time

[SlimJim16v]

Countdown said:

Disastrous said:

What's not council, is your father making a couple of phone calls to some old pals and the whole thing mysteriously going away.

Clifford Norris?

Chuck Norris?

[Hoofy]

AstonZagato said:

I know a hedge fund multi-millionaire who has four Range Rovers and a Toyota Landcruiser across his various shooting and fishing estates. He has a new L405 through to old L322s. He has no idea which is which and really doesn't care. He only gets rid of them when they start going wrong - the only thing he cares about is "does it start?" and "will it get there?". He buys poverty spec ones because he can't be arsed to find out what the buttons do. There is no inverse snobbery - just that the type of car he is in is utterly unimportant to him.

I have a similar thinking these days. Also, the more kit you have, the more there is to go wrong.

[WestyCarl]

Olympics

[ThunderGuts]

Quiet self improvement.

[grumpy52]

WD39 said:

grumpy52 said:

Having a Rolls Royce given as a gift and still owning it 61 years later .
Being related to senior royalty and being very discrete about it .
Having title but not using it except on official documents .

Thank you, my lord grumpy.

Unfortunately not guilty .It was a couple that mum used to work for as housekeeper.
They always introduced mum as their friend .
I knew them for twenty years before I learned the wife had a title .
The husband would consult dad on most weekdays on crossword clues .
A privilege to know such people .

[Countdown]

Being taught Latin and Greek at secondary school.

[ThunderGuts]

Burgundy cars.

[BRISTOL86]

Not having your furniture pointing at a TV

[marmitemania]

ThunderGuts said:

Burgundy cars.

yehee!! I'm not council.........no wait, it's a Focus.

[FailHere]

ThunderGuts said:

Burgundy cars.

Does Garnet count? Mine still mostly has it on the sides, but the black is flaking off the top.

[98elise]

Shakermaker said:

Tango13 said:

Can't remember the exact relationship but where I went to school one of the kids was an aunt or uncle to another kid!

A mate of mine is a teacher and his younger sister is a pupil at the school...

My brother teaches at his old school. He's in his mid 20's so a lot of his old teachers are still there

[ThunderGuts]

marmitemania said:

ThunderGuts said:

Burgundy cars.

yehee!! I'm not council.........no wait, it's a Focus.

Ok OK, I concede :P

Eta- thinking about it, still faaaar less council than the silver version...

Edited by ThunderGuts on Monday 8th August 21:09

[Thankyou4calling]

WestyCarl said:

Olympics

The Olympics or more specifically team GB) is definitely NOT COUNCIL.

Firstly the football, which is a council sport, is very low on the list of highlights, GB aren't even in it.

And most of our competitors will have been raised in a traditional family group, taken to clubs by their parents as youngsters and dedicated themselves to their event avoiding many council activities.

Three day eventing, fencing, rowing, shooting, hockey, and so on are far, far from council.

[nicanary]

Modern Pentathlon.

("Council" could have their own version - fencing replaced by knife fighting, swimming replaced by drunken belly-flop, showjumping replaced by riding the kid's BMX through the neighbours' gardens, running and shooting replaced by....er....running and shooting, whilst wearing a grey trackie suit and carrying a neighbour's X-Box.)

[g3org3y]

Thread bump to balance the recent chav thread.

Are there things which were previously considered council/chav but now could be viewed as the opposite?

[anonymous-user]

PCP on a car?

[cootuk]

Paying for animals with guineas

[nonsequitur]

I asked this question of my butler. He had no idea

[silentbrown]

nonsequitur said:

I asked this question of my butler. He had no idea

Scrotum, the wrinkled retainer?