A bit council Vol 2

[Shakermaker]

aR53GP said:

Whatever happened to kids just sitting at the table like good children?

do they just do that without question? Or do they only do it after several previous occasions where they have pushed the boundaries and overstepped them/acted up on previous occasions, been punished, and learned not to do it the next time?

[TwistingMyMelon]

Bit spineless taking a photo of another family enjoying their lunch just because you disagree with them being on the phone

[Shakermaker]

TwistingMyMelon said:

Bit spineless taking a photo of another family enjoying their lunch just because you disagree with them being on the phone

Not to mention the hypocrisy of using his phone to take said photo. A bit like the "He had his eyes open during grace!" argument

[Don1]

Stickyfinger said:

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....

Bruton, like Cary, once lovely places but now ruined by townies moving in. Look towards Frome for a warning of things to come

Bloody Fromies and their Frome-ness. Warminster is where it's to.

I think you will find Shepton takes that award by a country mile, go south & Gillingham scores even higher on the council league table.

Ha - I left Kings School back in the early 90's - apparently things have changed there...

[S11Steve]

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...

Or buy one with removable plates.

We've got one like that, but it's the cheese that oozes out past the plates and welds itself to the main body that is the first world struggle to contend with.



Maybe I need more household staff - A Breville Butler perhaps?

[The Vambo]

aR53GP said:

Table of 8. Four of them on devices throughout the meal. Sad really

4:3 tv

Council.

[Willy Nilly]

anonymous said:

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The German cars in question are normally rather long in the tooth too.

[nonsequitur]

TwistingMyMelon said:

Bit spineless taking a photo of another family enjoying their lunch just because you disagree with them being on the phone

This post was inevitable.

However the photo highlights a modern menace, that of using a 'device' at all times of the day and night. I would argue that this is unacceptable in any social occasion.

And this includes funerals, where two have rung at recently attended services.

Edited by nonsequitur on Tuesday 2nd May 18:13

[S11Steve]

nonsequitur said:

And this includes funerals, where two have rung at recently attended services.

I recently attended the funeral of a guy I've known for 15 years, spoke to on a weekly basis for most of the last 7 or 8, along with a dozen or so others who knew him as well as I did.

But we had never met in person, similarly with a few other people at the funeral - it was the first that we had actually met face to face.

It occurred to us that online friendships are definitely now a thing, and under the circumstances of our friends death, a few people realised that their circle of "real life" friends is incredibly small, but there are people online that we consider close enough to share our innermost thoughts with. My now deceased friend shared his battle with cancer in candid detail to a group of 100 or so people online, very few of whom had ever met in real life, but all had many interests in common.

His funeral was live-streamed on a private Facebook group after he himself requested it for his many online friends that couldn't be there - "I've lived online, so why not die online?" And he had a point. His mother felt great comfort in the fact that despite being a very small funeral, there were another 100 so people from around the world who were "there in mind".

Although I personally didn't like the idea of the funeral being broadcast, it was his dying wish, and also had the blessing of his mother, and the majority of his online friends.

That said, nobody was texting or talking calls during the service.

Edited by S11Steve on Wednesday 3rd May 09:21

[Fallingup]

schmunk said:

Indeed - we put ours in the dishwasher...



I've also recently bought this sandwich toaster, which is less council...

Surely the cheese or whatever contents of the sandwich are going to melt all over the innards of the toaster. Wouldn't it be more practical to get the toast bags that tesco sell.

[Fallingup]

I can recommend these ones

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kitchen-Craft-Non-Stick-R...

[anonymous-user]

pranking (abusing) your kids and swearing at them to get viewers then making a sad face video apologising.

http://metro.co.uk/2017/05/02/father-who-brutally-...

video can still be found online if you have a look.

[Gunk]

aR53GP said:

Table of 8. Four of them on devices throughout the meal. Sad really

That's not necessarily council, we were in in Browns in Oxford recently and the middle class family next to us with kids dressed head to toe in Boden were all on their iPhones and iPads the whole evening, no one said a word to each other. Just a depressing sign of the times, not class related

[johnwilliams77]

Gunk said:

That's not necessarily council, we were in in Browns in Oxford recently and the middle class family next to us with kids dressed head to toe in Boden were all on their iPhones and iPads the whole evening, no one said a word to each other. Just a depressing sign of the times, not class related

There is probably less of this in upper class families.

[vonuber]

johnwilliams77 said:

There is probably less of this in upper class families.

True, the kids will either be at boarding school or outsourced to nanny.

[Gunk]

vonuber said:

johnwilliams77 said:

There is probably less of this in upper class families.

True, the kids will either be at boarding school or outsourced to nanny.

You'll be surprised, I really don't think it's a class thing, it's where the parents make a conscious decision to include their children in conversation. Many see the iPad as a way of absolving any responsibility from including their children when out in a social situation. I've seen many parents with the upper class uniform of pink chinos and Gucci loafers who are no are no better.

[nonsequitur]

johnwilliams77 said:

Gunk said:

That's not necessarily council, we were in in Browns in Oxford recently and the middle class family next to us with kids dressed head to toe in Boden were all on their iPhones and iPads the whole evening, no one said a word to each other. Just a depressing sign of the times, not class related

There is probably less of this in upper class families.

A mobile what? they might say.

[aR53GP]

TwistingMyMelon said:

Bit spineless taking a photo of another family enjoying their lunch just because you disagree with them being on the phone

Was it you?

I'm hardly likely to ask them for permission am I?

Shakermaker said:

Not to mention the hypocrisy of using his phone to take said photo. A bit like the "He had his eyes open during grace!" argument

Yeah ok. It took me 30 seconds to take the phone then my phone went back in my pocket.

Boy 1 below eventually put his tablet on his lap to continue playing whilst he forked his Spaghetti into his mouth.

Man 2 as you can see has is eyes downward. Pointing at his iPad that was there throughout the meal.

Boy 3 - played a game throughout.

Boy 4 - (yes it's a boy) - messing on a tablet

Boy 5 - on his phone

Maybe it's not council but it wasn't nice to see. My pizza was nice though!

[Shakermaker]

I don't mind Prezzo pizza but if I am going out for a meal of that nature I am nearly always inclined towards Pizza Express!

[TwistingMyMelon]

aR53GP said:

TwistingMyMelon said:

Bit spineless taking a photo of another family enjoying their lunch just because you disagree with them being on the phone

Was it you?

I'm hardly likely to ask them for permission am I?

Shakermaker said:

Not to mention the hypocrisy of using his phone to take said photo. A bit like the "He had his eyes open during grace!" argument

Yeah ok. It took me 30 seconds to take the phone then my phone went back in my pocket.

Boy 1 below eventually put his tablet on his lap to continue playing whilst he forked his Spaghetti into his mouth.

Man 2 as you can see has is eyes downward. Pointing at his iPad that was there throughout the meal.

Boy 3 - played a game throughout.

Boy 4 - (yes it's a boy) - messing on a tablet

Boy 5 - on his phone

Maybe it's not council but it wasn't nice to see. My pizza was nice though!

No fraid not me no phones at table rule when we eat together, my misses would probably allow it, we are quite council though .

Prezo is council, I eat there sometimes but its a sit down mcdonalds of italian food

Still think it is pathetic and spineless to post a picture of a family online just because you don't agree with what they are doing