A bit council Vol 2
Discussion
Pulled into McD's for a mid journey breakfast on Saturday (OK, council I know). Tracksuited family in a Zafira, no seatbelts for the kids, pulls straight into the disabled space nearest to the door. No hint of disability or blue badge visible anywhere. As this is a pet hate of mine, I give a suitably disapproving look. Mother's reaction was to screw her face up and then blow me a sarcastic kiss. Charming.
Don't get me started on Maccy D's!
My daughter works there part time.
When picking her up at the end of the shift there's always a family parked in a Disabled place (no blue badge) who are too fat to actually leave the car but want to park as close to the building as possible to take advantage of the free wifi!
They send the least obese member of the family (usually the father) to collect the food which invariably takes 2 trips due to the shear volume of crap they order.
They then eat food in silence while on their mobile devices.
In fact the whole car park is like a council perfect storm :-)
I turn up 10 minutes early just to observe.
My daughter works there part time.
When picking her up at the end of the shift there's always a family parked in a Disabled place (no blue badge) who are too fat to actually leave the car but want to park as close to the building as possible to take advantage of the free wifi!
They send the least obese member of the family (usually the father) to collect the food which invariably takes 2 trips due to the shear volume of crap they order.
They then eat food in silence while on their mobile devices.
In fact the whole car park is like a council perfect storm :-)
I turn up 10 minutes early just to observe.
Goaty Bill 2 said:
skeggysteve said:
From a promoted Tweet:
For the life of me, I can not see how this could work in any practical way.All the compartments are too small to perform their tasks, aside from warming the beans and just maybe frying the eggs sunny side up.
Glorified warming tray for people who don't like their food items to touch.
Do I get a parrot?
The frying pan was used daily - for frying, (obviously) but also for casseroles, curries, and soups. It also had inserts like those in the picture to cook stuff separately.
Since the kitchen was completed, we've only used it twice though.
S11Steve said:
When we had a new kitchen installed a couple fo years back, we had no proper kitchen area for 6 weeks - a hosepipe into a large bucket, a microwave, toaster, kettle...
Imagine the ruckus, compo faces and sheer ECHR outrage if that had to be endured by a council tenant while they were waiting for their free kitchen?one of the things I've got involved with at work is the installation of central heating systems.
removal of electric storage heaters.
fit wet gas c.h.
this is done in a day and fully operational in one day. snagging (eg pipe boxing and bits) on day two.
I've even done the financials to show how its cheaper and will save tnts money.
BUT: getting them to turn heaters off the night before (so yr not handling red hot bricks) is near impossible
getting them to say yes, - blimey- worse scheme we did- about 55% take up.
getting them to cope with the impact of feckin off out of the house for a day..........
bloody snowflakes the lot of them.
imagine if I rocked up at yr house and offered a full new heating system, for FREE, done in a day............ I think you might accommodate us ?
what do you think !
oh and the stupidity............ so explaining- you have 1 x electric bill now. this will reduce now and you will have 2 x bills. one electric, one gas.
it WILL be cheaper. we will sign you up, sort duel fuel- wipe your bum you thickos. you have nothing to do.
NO, it must be more expensive, as I have one bill now, whereas I will now have 2 bills.
cue much banging of heads against walls. how these people even function in a day and put a piece of bread in a toaster and make it work, I have no idea.
removal of electric storage heaters.
fit wet gas c.h.
this is done in a day and fully operational in one day. snagging (eg pipe boxing and bits) on day two.
I've even done the financials to show how its cheaper and will save tnts money.
BUT: getting them to turn heaters off the night before (so yr not handling red hot bricks) is near impossible
getting them to say yes, - blimey- worse scheme we did- about 55% take up.
getting them to cope with the impact of feckin off out of the house for a day..........
bloody snowflakes the lot of them.
imagine if I rocked up at yr house and offered a full new heating system, for FREE, done in a day............ I think you might accommodate us ?
what do you think !
oh and the stupidity............ so explaining- you have 1 x electric bill now. this will reduce now and you will have 2 x bills. one electric, one gas.
it WILL be cheaper. we will sign you up, sort duel fuel- wipe your bum you thickos. you have nothing to do.
NO, it must be more expensive, as I have one bill now, whereas I will now have 2 bills.
cue much banging of heads against walls. how these people even function in a day and put a piece of bread in a toaster and make it work, I have no idea.
austinsmirk said:
one of the things I've got involved with at work is the installation of central heating systems.
removal of electric storage heaters.
fit wet gas c.h.
this is done in a day and fully operational in one day. snagging (eg pipe boxing and bits) on day two.
I've even done the financials to show how its cheaper and will save tnts money.
BUT: getting them to turn heaters off the night before (so yr not handling red hot bricks) is near impossible
getting them to say yes, - blimey- worse scheme we did- about 55% take up.
getting them to cope with the impact of feckin off out of the house for a day..........
bloody snowflakes the lot of them.
imagine if I rocked up at yr house and offered a full new heating system, for FREE, done in a day............ I think you might accommodate us ?
what do you think !
oh and the stupidity............ so explaining- you have 1 x electric bill now. this will reduce now and you will have 2 x bills. one electric, one gas.
it WILL be cheaper. we will sign you up, sort duel fuel- wipe your bum you thickos. you have nothing to do.
NO, it must be more expensive, as I have one bill now, whereas I will now have 2 bills.
cue much banging of heads against walls. how these people even function in a day and put a piece of bread in a toaster and make it work, I have no idea.
You're forgetting about the 'compo' they expect for the damage to their 'decoration' when the house was like a bus top in the centre of Newcastle on a Saturday night before the job started.removal of electric storage heaters.
fit wet gas c.h.
this is done in a day and fully operational in one day. snagging (eg pipe boxing and bits) on day two.
I've even done the financials to show how its cheaper and will save tnts money.
BUT: getting them to turn heaters off the night before (so yr not handling red hot bricks) is near impossible
getting them to say yes, - blimey- worse scheme we did- about 55% take up.
getting them to cope with the impact of feckin off out of the house for a day..........
bloody snowflakes the lot of them.
imagine if I rocked up at yr house and offered a full new heating system, for FREE, done in a day............ I think you might accommodate us ?
what do you think !
oh and the stupidity............ so explaining- you have 1 x electric bill now. this will reduce now and you will have 2 x bills. one electric, one gas.
it WILL be cheaper. we will sign you up, sort duel fuel- wipe your bum you thickos. you have nothing to do.
NO, it must be more expensive, as I have one bill now, whereas I will now have 2 bills.
cue much banging of heads against walls. how these people even function in a day and put a piece of bread in a toaster and make it work, I have no idea.
S11Steve said:
Goaty Bill 2 said:
skeggysteve said:
From a promoted Tweet:
For the life of me, I can not see how this could work in any practical way.All the compartments are too small to perform their tasks, aside from warming the beans and just maybe frying the eggs sunny side up.
Glorified warming tray for people who don't like their food items to touch.
Do I get a parrot?
The frying pan was used daily - for frying, (obviously) but also for casseroles, curries, and soups. It also had inserts like those in the picture to cook stuff separately.
Since the kitchen was completed, we've only used it twice though.
PH XKR said:
kdri155 said:
Honk said:
Will that be High Street to the Reso? 
You might think so, but no Bruton....aR53GP said:
V8mate said:
aR53GP said:
Table of 8. Four of them on devices throughout the meal. Sad really
A least it stopped the little f
kers from running round the restaurant screaming and annoying other diners though, eh?
nonsequitur said:
Not that great then.
It had it's uses, however we did find it was a PITA to clean - it can't go in the dishwasher or even the kitchen sink. It was even harder when the "sink" was a hosepipe into a clean builders tub! Similar to a toasted sandwich maker (which I'm guessing is very council) how do you properly clean the greasy dried on cheese of those things?
schmunk said:
S11Steve said:
Similar to a toasted sandwich maker (which I'm guessing is very council) how do you properly clean the greasy dried on cheese of those things?
You don't - it's like a wok, the 'matured' cheese adds an incomparable umami flavour to future sandwiches...
Triumph Man said:
PH XKR said:
kdri155 said:
Honk said:
Will that be High Street to the Reso?
You might think so, but no Bruton....Sheets Tabuer said:
schmunk said:
S11Steve said:
Similar to a toasted sandwich maker (which I'm guessing is very council) how do you properly clean the greasy dried on cheese of those things?
You don't - it's like a wok, the 'matured' cheese adds an incomparable umami flavour to future sandwiches...
I've also recently bought this sandwich toaster, which is less council...
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