A bit council Vol 2
Discussion
Max5476 said:
Lance Catamaran said:
I have this in my hallway, does it class as council?
Although the reason I do have it is it was left to me by my grandparents. I think it looks awful but would feel guilty getting rid of it, and it doesn't work but I can't see any way of winding it on
On the clock face three key holes, one under the minute hand, and one each above the 4 & 8. One will be for the hour chimes, one will be the melody on a quarter of an hour, and one will be the clock itself. If you don't have the key to turn it, you will have to measure and order one on line.Although the reason I do have it is it was left to me by my grandparents. I think it looks awful but would feel guilty getting rid of it, and it doesn't work but I can't see any way of winding it on
You'll need to set the pendulum off as well.
Adjust the time by moving the minute hand clockwise, but stop before the hour and every quarter of an hour to allow it to chime. It might be easier to just set it off at the right time.
Problem is it still looks a bit naff to me (sorry Nan)
CharlesdeGaulle said:
OzzyR1 said:
Hopefully suitable for this thread:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QijDKh1rGqE
Don't usually agree with the fetishists on here who prize the council "look" but must admit I may change my mind if faced with someone like this!
Brilliant. Buit too funny and too literate to be truly Council. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QijDKh1rGqE
Don't usually agree with the fetishists on here who prize the council "look" but must admit I may change my mind if faced with someone like this!
nonsequitur said:
lord trumpton said:
Watching ITV...It's a bit council methinks.
My Lord, I'm sure that you have your man watch it for you.I'm sure it's probably been mentioned previously, but if not, Toby Carvery.
After a weekend with no kids we went a bit heavy on the DIY and gardening stuff, so by late Sunday afternoon cooking was the last thing on our mind. We fancied a roast so embraced our inner council and went off to the Toby.
Food was actually alright - seemingly if it is busier, the food is fresher as they keep cooking and serving all day. Decent sized portions, two yorkshire puddings (made from real batter too) and enough to vegetables for a good 18 hours of flatulence.
The place though.... It was awash with shaven-headed, vest-wearing, tribal tattooed, monosyllabic, staffy-dragging grunts, leading tribes of feral kids through to the free refill coke machine. And that was just the women.
The noise inside was deafening, and outside was full of swearing smokers and kids running mental.
It's either post a review here, or get lynched on TripAdvisor where it has decent reviews.
After a weekend with no kids we went a bit heavy on the DIY and gardening stuff, so by late Sunday afternoon cooking was the last thing on our mind. We fancied a roast so embraced our inner council and went off to the Toby.
Food was actually alright - seemingly if it is busier, the food is fresher as they keep cooking and serving all day. Decent sized portions, two yorkshire puddings (made from real batter too) and enough to vegetables for a good 18 hours of flatulence.
The place though.... It was awash with shaven-headed, vest-wearing, tribal tattooed, monosyllabic, staffy-dragging grunts, leading tribes of feral kids through to the free refill coke machine. And that was just the women.
The noise inside was deafening, and outside was full of swearing smokers and kids running mental.
It's either post a review here, or get lynched on TripAdvisor where it has decent reviews.
lord trumpton said:
nonsequitur said:
lord trumpton said:
Watching ITV...It's a bit council methinks.
My Lord, I'm sure that you have your man watch it for you.Some council boxes ticked with this story:
http://www.devonlive.com/mother-and-daughter-ridde...
"A girl and her mother were subjected to a torturous two-and-a-half-hour hoax in Barnstaple's Poundworld last week during which they were ridden like horses by members of staff and forced to lick their feet by a prank caller who was impersonating a charity worker ... Poundworld has apologised to the family and offered them a £200 Poundworld voucher. "That was it. It's ridiculous," said Naomi. "We want to sue but we can't because the police don't know who it is," she said."
- Poundland, tick
- Falling for improbable hoax, tick
- Willing to be ridden like a horse and lick strangers feet at the prospect of receiving £3000, tick
- Offered gift voucher in compo, tick
- Wants to sue someone, tick
http://www.devonlive.com/mother-and-daughter-ridde...
"A girl and her mother were subjected to a torturous two-and-a-half-hour hoax in Barnstaple's Poundworld last week during which they were ridden like horses by members of staff and forced to lick their feet by a prank caller who was impersonating a charity worker ... Poundworld has apologised to the family and offered them a £200 Poundworld voucher. "That was it. It's ridiculous," said Naomi. "We want to sue but we can't because the police don't know who it is," she said."
- Poundland, tick
- Falling for improbable hoax, tick
- Willing to be ridden like a horse and lick strangers feet at the prospect of receiving £3000, tick
- Offered gift voucher in compo, tick
- Wants to sue someone, tick
S11Steve said:
I'm sure it's probably been mentioned previously, but if not, Toby Carvery.
After a weekend with no kids we went a bit heavy on the DIY and gardening stuff, so by late Sunday afternoon cooking was the last thing on our mind. We fancied a roast so embraced our inner council and went off to the Toby.
Food was actually alright - seemingly if it is busier, the food is fresher as they keep cooking and serving all day. Decent sized portions, two yorkshire puddings (made from real batter too) and enough to vegetables for a good 18 hours of flatulence.
The place though.... It was awash with shaven-headed, vest-wearing, tribal tattooed, monosyllabic, staffy-dragging grunts, leading tribes of feral kids through to the free refill coke machine. And that was just the women.
The noise inside was deafening, and outside was full of swearing smokers and kids running mental.
It's either post a review here, or get lynched on TripAdvisor where it has decent reviews.
I feel your pain, Kingsize between 8 feral kids?After a weekend with no kids we went a bit heavy on the DIY and gardening stuff, so by late Sunday afternoon cooking was the last thing on our mind. We fancied a roast so embraced our inner council and went off to the Toby.
Food was actually alright - seemingly if it is busier, the food is fresher as they keep cooking and serving all day. Decent sized portions, two yorkshire puddings (made from real batter too) and enough to vegetables for a good 18 hours of flatulence.
The place though.... It was awash with shaven-headed, vest-wearing, tribal tattooed, monosyllabic, staffy-dragging grunts, leading tribes of feral kids through to the free refill coke machine. And that was just the women.
The noise inside was deafening, and outside was full of swearing smokers and kids running mental.
It's either post a review here, or get lynched on TripAdvisor where it has decent reviews.
We're midway through a kitchen install so popped to our local one a couple of times mid week for a feed and it was fine but we went Sunday and it was a totally different ball game and much like your experience!
We witnessed a drunken domestic in the car park between a bald man in his 60's wearing a vest, awful 3/4 length Umbro tracksuit bottoms and Nike airmax trainers and his wolf fleece wearing council wife which topped it all off nicely. Not sure what she had done, maybe lost his fags but he was ever so cross.
stevesuk said:
Some council boxes ticked with this story:
http://www.devonlive.com/mother-and-daughter-ridde...
"A girl and her mother were subjected to a torturous two-and-a-half-hour hoax in Barnstaple's Poundworld last week during which they were ridden like horses by members of staff and forced to lick their feet by a prank caller who was impersonating a charity worker ... Poundworld has apologised to the family and offered them a £200 Poundworld voucher. "That was it. It's ridiculous," said Naomi. "We want to sue but we can't because the police don't know who it is," she said."
- Poundland, tick
- Falling for improbable hoax, tick
- Willing to be ridden like a horse and lick strangers feet at the prospect of receiving £3000, tick
- Offered gift voucher in compo, tick
- Wants to sue someone, tick
Pretty standard for Barnstaple I should imagine, the place is a hole. The article mentions that Pamela has one arm, but fails to mention that she and the other mare involved only have one brain cell. Each.http://www.devonlive.com/mother-and-daughter-ridde...
"A girl and her mother were subjected to a torturous two-and-a-half-hour hoax in Barnstaple's Poundworld last week during which they were ridden like horses by members of staff and forced to lick their feet by a prank caller who was impersonating a charity worker ... Poundworld has apologised to the family and offered them a £200 Poundworld voucher. "That was it. It's ridiculous," said Naomi. "We want to sue but we can't because the police don't know who it is," she said."
- Poundland, tick
- Falling for improbable hoax, tick
- Willing to be ridden like a horse and lick strangers feet at the prospect of receiving £3000, tick
- Offered gift voucher in compo, tick
- Wants to sue someone, tick
stevesuk said:
Some council boxes ticked with this story:
http://www.devonlive.com/mother-and-daughter-ridde...
"A girl and her mother were subjected to a torturous two-and-a-half-hour hoax in Barnstaple's Poundworld last week during which they were ridden like horses by members of staff and forced to lick their feet by a prank caller who was impersonating a charity worker ... Poundworld has apologised to the family and offered them a £200 Poundworld voucher. "That was it. It's ridiculous," said Naomi. "We want to sue but we can't because the police don't know who it is," she said."
- Poundland, tick
- Falling for improbable hoax, tick
- Willing to be ridden like a horse and lick strangers feet at the prospect of receiving £3000, tick
- Offered gift voucher in compo, tick
- Wants to sue someone, tick
- Went straight to the local press with a totally non-news story, tick
I added one for you. http://www.devonlive.com/mother-and-daughter-ridde...
"A girl and her mother were subjected to a torturous two-and-a-half-hour hoax in Barnstaple's Poundworld last week during which they were ridden like horses by members of staff and forced to lick their feet by a prank caller who was impersonating a charity worker ... Poundworld has apologised to the family and offered them a £200 Poundworld voucher. "That was it. It's ridiculous," said Naomi. "We want to sue but we can't because the police don't know who it is," she said."
- Poundland, tick
- Falling for improbable hoax, tick
- Willing to be ridden like a horse and lick strangers feet at the prospect of receiving £3000, tick
- Offered gift voucher in compo, tick
- Wants to sue someone, tick
- Went straight to the local press with a totally non-news story, tick
i sorry but 
they left the store and went back in how stupid are people, all for three grand.
it does remind me of the Prank caller convinces Burger King workers to bust out windows
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/09/us/minnesota-bur...
there was a group who did loads of pranks cant remember the name.
edit Pranknet
they left the store and went back in how stupid are people, all for three grand.
it does remind me of the Prank caller convinces Burger King workers to bust out windows
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/04/09/us/minnesota-bur...
there was a group who did loads of pranks cant remember the name.
edit Pranknet
Edited by The Spruce goose on Tuesday 23 May 00:32
stevesuk said:
Some council boxes ticked with this story:
http://www.devonlive.com/mother-and-daughter-ridde...
"A girl and her mother were subjected to a torturous two-and-a-half-hour hoax in Barnstaple's Poundworld last week during which they were ridden like horses by members of staff and forced to lick their feet by a prank caller who was impersonating a charity worker ... Poundworld has apologised to the family and offered them a £200 Poundworld voucher. "That was it. It's ridiculous," said Naomi. "We want to sue but we can't because the police don't know who it is," she said."
- Poundland, tick
- Falling for improbable hoax, tick
- Willing to be ridden like a horse and lick strangers feet at the prospect of receiving £3000, tick
- Offered gift voucher in compo, tick
- Wants to sue someone, tick
Thanks, I enjoyed that!http://www.devonlive.com/mother-and-daughter-ridde...
"A girl and her mother were subjected to a torturous two-and-a-half-hour hoax in Barnstaple's Poundworld last week during which they were ridden like horses by members of staff and forced to lick their feet by a prank caller who was impersonating a charity worker ... Poundworld has apologised to the family and offered them a £200 Poundworld voucher. "That was it. It's ridiculous," said Naomi. "We want to sue but we can't because the police don't know who it is," she said."
- Poundland, tick
- Falling for improbable hoax, tick
- Willing to be ridden like a horse and lick strangers feet at the prospect of receiving £3000, tick
- Offered gift voucher in compo, tick
- Wants to sue someone, tick
Jonmx said:
Pretty standard for Barnstaple I should imagine, the place is a hole. The article mentions that Pamela has one arm, but fails to mention that she and the other mare involved only have one brain cell. Each.
That is pure comedy gold. I love the bit where they even went back for more!Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff