A bit council Vol 2

[Fun Bus]

Cotty said:

It ridiculous what people are saying, some of the crap that is being spouted like "astronauts are council"

Well they are - I bet they don't buy or own any of that equipment themselves? Government funded in some cases I'll bet. And pissing about in space instead of getting a proper job?

Council.

[Type R Tom]

Got to be someone on here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-382...

[nicanary]

SidJames said:

wildcat45 said:

I had a difference of opinion with an estate agent when selling a house. Told her to word the ad with term Living Room. Lounges are what pubs have in the other bar or what trying to be posh 1970s housewives called the living room in their new-build Wimpey Home.

I hate the term lounge but I'm not sure if it's council.

is "best room" or "front room" & "in the back" council? If so, I think I may be.

I live in a 3 reception, 4 bed house.

"Best Room" should be referred to as "the Parlour". Only opened up for funeral wakes,Christmas overflow, or when the vicar called for tea. Council wouldn't have a parlour, it'd be a smoking room "for the sake of the kids".

[SidJames]

Gunk said:

Well done you

turn on your ironic receivers mate.

apart from your troll response, do you have an opinion on the question at all?

[Adenauer]

SidJames said:

is "best room" or "front room" & "in the back" council? If so, I think I may be.

I live in a 3 reception, 4 bed house.

Is a 3 reception room house like a house with a dining room, a living room, and a kitchen, in the world that normal folk frequent?

[TheSurveyor]

WinstonWolf said:

I thought it was St Paul's Road/Shakespear Ave

Fulbridge Rd I think - Just one street out!

[Adenauer]

nicanary said:

Council wouldn't have a parlour, it'd be a smoking room "for the sake of the kids".

Gotta put them somewhere.

[can't remember]

nicanary said:

SidJames said:

wildcat45 said:

I had a difference of opinion with an estate agent when selling a house. Told her to word the ad with term Living Room. Lounges are what pubs have in the other bar or what trying to be posh 1970s housewives called the living room in their new-build Wimpey Home.

I hate the term lounge but I'm not sure if it's council.

is "best room" or "front room" & "in the back" council? If so, I think I may be.

I live in a 3 reception, 4 bed house.

"Best Room" should be referred to as "the Parlour". Only opened up for funeral wakes,Christmas overflow, or when the vicar called for tea. Council wouldn't have a parlour, it'd be a smoking room "for the sake of the kids".

Blimey, a room specifically for the kids to smoke in. Proper moneyed council.

[Jimmy Recard]

J4CKO said:

Even so, it is expensive, even if they are half price, a standard 20 a day habit is £35 a week, £140 a month.

Its probably contrived but all those benefits programmes have people smoking all the time, someone complaining about not having enough money to live off, i.e. provide essentials but still smokes like their life depended on it, for full effect be swigging a can of lager at 10 am.

Definitely expensive and a lot of families could stretch much further, were both parents to quit smoking.

I reckon your maths is actually low (ignoring roll ups) - it's difficult to find a pack of 20 cigarettes for £5 in the UK

[Cliftonite]

Jimmy Recard said:

Definitely expensive and a lot of families could stretch much further, were both parents to quit smoking.

I reckon your maths is actually low (ignoring roll ups) - it's difficult to find a pack of 20 cigarettes for £5 in the UK

20 Embassy Tipped were 4/7 (23p) when I used to sell them.

[Morningside]

Cliftonite said:

Jimmy Recard said:

Definitely expensive and a lot of families could stretch much further, were both parents to quit smoking.

I reckon your maths is actually low (ignoring roll ups) - it's difficult to find a pack of 20 cigarettes for £5 in the UK

20 Embassy Tipped were 4/7 (23p) when I used to sell them.

I remember a packet of 10 Super Kings was 79p

Hanging Happy Birthday messages on a sheet...and then leaving there for the next two months.

[thatsprettyshady]

Have we had leaving the Christmas lights on all night?

[jas xjr]

Morningside said:

I remember a packet of 10 Super Kings was 79p

Hanging Happy Birthday messages on a sheet...and then leaving there for the next two months.

you can buy imported cigarettes from dodgy shops . fake richmond and mayfair are cheaper

[ambuletz]

thatsprettyshady said:

Have we had leaving the Christmas lights on all night?

well that's not council, that's just something you find annoying. anyone can do it.

people are seriously losing sight of the point of this topic and it's just turning into snobbery and being offensive.

[Goaty Bill 2]

ambuletz said:

well that's not council, that's just something you find annoying. anyone can do it.

people are seriously losing sight of the point of this topic and it's just turning into snobbery and being offensive.

That happened 600+ pages ago
I have to admit to a single infraction on my own part in there somewhere (vol 1).


The OP;

Road2Ruin said:

Tuesday 13th January 2015


What things or items nowadays are starting to look 'a bit council'? Now before anyone jumps on me for being derogatory to council house tenants, I was raised in one.

The reason I raise this is I see a lot of people with overtly sized televisions in disproportionately small houses. So when I hear people saying "I need a 65"-70" tv" I immediately think 'council'.

Also bmws with poor after market mods....

Any more I am missing. ..just in case I am a bit ' council' myself.

[55palfers]

TheSurveyor said:

Large Santa hanging out of window in Gods own Peterborough town.

Not sure what to make of the C63 on Eastern European plates, outside a house that costs the same as the cars road tax.

I imagine he has paid the council their fee and is just waiting on the contractors to do the footway crossing...

[SidJames]

Adenauer said:

Is a 3 reception room house like a house with a dining room, a living room, and a kitchen, in the world that normal folk frequent?

Bathroom and kitchen, plus maybe a small utility are not part of "reception" rooms downstairs.

A dining room, study, and living room are.

I just call the living room a "front" or "best" room, and the study a "lounge". quite odd really. Mix of me and the wifes working class background. We can't decide whether to go full on lower middle, or stick with council.

[wildcat45]

SidJames said:

is "best room" or "front room" & "in the back" council? If so, I think I may be.

I live in a 3 reception, 4 bed house.

I think best room and front room - perhaps also parlour - are old school single fronted Victorian Terrace terms.

Working class - hard work, standards etc. Definitely not council.

[Merc 450]

55palfers said:

TheSurveyor said:

Large Santa hanging out of window in Gods own Peterborough town.

Not sure what to make of the C63 on Eastern European plates, outside a house that costs the same as the cars road tax.

I imagine he has paid the council their fee and is just waiting on the contractors to do the footway crossing...

He's being crafty you don't pay road tax until you put UK plates on and register it over here, most of our foriegn drivers have been doing that for years.
Reminds me of a definition of a C63 AMG owner i read on here:" Normally driven by drug dealers and people that wear thier baseball caps back to front"

[ferrariF50lover]

No way this is real. No one's this fking stupid.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/38250600/pot...