Council telly is

[Fort Jefferson]

Living below the poverty line, is not having Sky tv. You need something to watch when your sitting on your arse all day. People who have lives, don't need 500 TV channels to watch.

[freecar]

FFS guys, only quoting my first line?

It only works with the bottom line added, tts!

It was a three line gag, have none of you the patience to read three lines before you hit "quote"

[Jobbo]

freecar said:

FFS guys, only quoting my first line?

That was the wholly inaccurate bit which ruined the rest of your post

[thinfourth2]

freecar said:

It may be that people feel that the majority of folk on benefits have SKY they do not, they have virgin!!!

Then why are council estates a sea of sky dishes?

[DrTre]

BSB/Sky (albeit counterintuitively now that it has actually taken off)

[freecar]

thinfourth2 said:

Then why are council estates a sea of sky dishes?

Once more for those that STILL didn't read, it was a JOKE, as such it was never intended to contain factual information.

[Mobile Chicane]

The old joke being, "What's that thing on the back of a satellite dish?"

"A council flat."

[Jobbo]

freecar said:

it was a JOKE

Shame you didn't use an emoticon so we could tell

[freecar]

Jobbo said:

freecar said:

it was a JOKE

Shame you didn't use an emoticon so we could tell

Maybe one on each line just in case?

[marksx]

Free to air = National health telly.

[Strangely Brown]

Council telly is ITV1,2,3,4 and the sky channels with people like Derek Acorah.

You only have to look at all the nice bold primary colours.

[thinfourth2]

freecar said:

Once more for those that STILL didn't read, it was a JOKE, as such it was never intended to contain factual information.

Things that normally identify a joke

1) Its funny

OR

2) It ends with "BOOM BOOM" and you have some ones hand up your arse

[RedYellowGreen]

So we're quite hacked off now that Bernie has finally done the deal with the devil? Sorry I mean ol Rupe

[freecar]

thinfourth2 said:

freecar said:

Once more for those that STILL didn't read, it was a JOKE, as such it was never intended to contain factual information.

Things that normally identify a joke

1) Its funny

OR

2) It ends with "BOOM BOOM" and you have some ones hand up your arse

Oh do fk off it is getting tiresome now.

[Morningside]

Radio Rentals? £1 coin meter that gives 5 hours?

Granada branded TVs and video recorders.

THAT is council telly.

not got the hang of this thread have I

Edited by Morningside on Tuesday 2nd August 22:33

[BigBen]

Mobile Chicane said:

The old joke being, "What's that thing on the back of a satellite dish?"

"A council flat."

Or "what's small, brown and attached to a satellite dish?"

[hidetheelephants]

Morningside said:

Radio Rentals? £1 coin meter that gives 5 hours?

Granada branded TVs and video recorders.

THAT is council telly.

not got the hang of this thread have I

Edited by Morningside on Tuesday 2nd August 22:33

Mmm, Rumbelows; remember them?

[Blue Oval84]

Skanky freeview is council telly IMO.

Sky may be popular amongst the council estates but it's pretty damn close to 100% market penetration on the privately owned estate I live on as well so I think to relate it to council houses is a bit behind the times.

[voyds9]

Council pop = water
Council telly = free to air

[Strangely Brown]

Council telly is not one particular delivery method over the other. Council telly is about the content. ITV primary colour television is council telly. Bid-Up TV is council telly. Any lowest common denominator programming is council telly. It has nothing to do with Free vs Pay.