A bit council Vol 2

[Saleen836]

SlimRick said:

I strayed even further into "Council" over the weekend. With a new Toby Carvery opening in town, I thought I'd save the effort of cooking the usual Sunday roast and pay a visit there. The vehicles in the car park summed up the clientele perfectly.



But the food and service was excellent!

Is that Trowbridge?

[Goaty Bill 2]

berlintaxi said:

Words fail me:
http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/p...

Of course you were referring to the reader comment by Hookem;

Hookem said:

It's still possible that there may have been WWII veterens at the event and it's almost certain there were people who were alive during the war there who I'm sure would have been disgusted to see someone glorifying the SS.

Not knowing the difference between a Kriegsmarine flag and an SS flag is definitely council.

[can't remember]

berlintaxi said:

Words fail me:
http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/p...

I've been saying for years that we should get all of the long term unemployable and put them in civil work gangs. One of the first thing I would detail these gangs to would be re-digging Offa's Dyke.

[nicanary]

can't remember said:

berlintaxi said:

Words fail me:
http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/p...

I've been saying for years that we should get all of the long term unemployable and put them in civil work gangs. One of the first thing I would detail these gangs to would be re-digging Offa's Dyke.

I'm with you brother. I've been called a quasi-Nazi on here before now, but I want to see these numpties actually work for their benefits. Most of them have never paid into the system in their life, so they can't claim they're getting paid back. It's not Offa's Dyke I'm concerned about, just getting jobs done that local authorities don't seem to have the money for. My town has countless overgrown verges and roundabouts which could be cleared by unskilled labour (I don't see why they couldn't have a crash course in pothole filling as well), litter all over the place, the usual things which these oiks could deal with.

While we're about it, what exactly do people on "community service" actually do? I've never seen anyone working for the benefit of the community, so where are they dispersed? Are they really sitting in a spare room at the probation office puffing on e-fags and attempting the Sun crossword?

[alorotom]

I to ventured into the murky underbelly of council eateries for Bank Holiday and visited a "Flaming Grill" establishment

after perusing the menu of delectable (and mostly deep fried) dishes I settled on a dish known as Mother Clucker - a fest of fried chicken in a HUGE brioche loaf (standing 13cm high no less)

was it bad, yes
did it taste good, hell yes
will I return, quite possibly

[KTF]

alorotom said:

mp3manager said:

Queuing up to get a bee tattoo to show support for the victims in Manchester.

Thick as mince, the lot of them! Now they can't give blood for 12 months.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4544450/Ma...

Meant to post this the other day ... fooking ludicrous and £50!! Comical

I realise who they are and what they have gone through but still.... Plus every single time someone asks about it (and they will as its not exactly subtle), you drag the past up again.

[SlimRick]

Saleen836 said:

SlimRick said:

I strayed even further into "Council" over the weekend. With a new Toby Carvery opening in town, I thought I'd save the effort of cooking the usual Sunday roast and pay a visit there. The vehicles in the car park summed up the clientele perfectly.



But the food and service was excellent!

Is that Trowbridge?

Sssshhhhh!!! That will confirm the council element.

[SilverSixer]

I think there must have been an unofficial Festival of Council on Llansteffan beach yesterday. Bank Holiday Monday, of course. Quad bikes. Electric micro-motorbikes ridden by three year olds. Fish and chip droppings everywhere. Dozens of out-of-control dogs marauding off-lead in a dogs-on-lead area, also the dogs-banned-from-beach-area (between 1st May and 1st October). Tattoos. Oh the tattoos. Grotesquely obese individuals lounging on the rocks. Olympic levels of swearing at Olympic volume levels. Coach parties. Parking on grass verges. Shaven bonces.

I expect I’ve missed several other standards.

Beautiful place. Must remember not to bother on Bank Holidays in future.

[schmunk]

SilverSixer said:

Wales

[SilverSixer]

schmunk said:

SilverSixer said:

Wales

And they bloody charged me £6.70 to get in.

[Triumph Man]

On my way to my hotel in Newport Pagnell from Santa Pod on Sunday evening, I passed a street in some village called "Council Street" and indeed it was. This thread instantly came to mind.

[davgar]

This facebook group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/450156275119559/

CARS FOR £200 OR LESS!
100k members!

[jbudgie]

nicanary said:

can't remember said:

berlintaxi said:

Words fail me:
http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/p...

I've been saying for years that we should get all of the long term unemployable and put them in civil work gangs. One of the first thing I would detail these gangs to would be re-digging Offa's Dyke.

I'm with you brother. I've been called a quasi-Nazi on here before now, but I want to see these numpties actually work for their benefits. Most of them have never paid into the system in their life, so they can't claim they're getting paid back. It's not Offa's Dyke I'm concerned about, just getting jobs done that local authorities don't seem to have the money for. My town has countless overgrown verges and roundabouts which could be cleared by unskilled labour (I don't see why they couldn't have a crash course in pothole filling as well), litter all over the place, the usual things which these oiks could deal with.

While we're about it, what exactly do people on "community service" actually do? I've never seen anyone working for the benefit of the community, so where are they dispersed? Are they really sitting in a spare room at the probation office puffing on e-fags and attempting the Sun crossword?

Around here, they turn up in a van marked 'Community Payback' and wear Tabards with the same logo.

Normally about a dozen of them--- of which 2 or 3 will cut the grass around the graves in the local churchyard and the rest troop backwards and forwards to the local shop to get pop and pies and seem to lounge around most of the time shooting the breeze with the supervisors.

[anonymous-user]

davgar said:

This facebook group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/450156275119559/

CARS FOR £200 OR LESS!
100k members!

i'm on that you never know.

[Jimmy Recard]

I want to be in the £200 or less cars group!

£200 snotters are my favourite kind of cars

[Lance Catamaran]

baldy1926 said:

4 Stating how the grass in her back garden was waist deep. Tick.
5 Trampoline in back garden . Tick

Just like my next door neighbour - the grass at the house end has been trampled down but towards the back it's waist high. My garden is hardly award-winning, but it's not difficult to spend 10 minutes a week running the mower over it.

[Don1]

Lance Catamaran said:

Just like my next door neighbour - the grass at the house end has been trampled down but towards the back it's waist high. My garden is hardly award-winning, but it's not difficult to spend 10 minutes a week running the mower over it.

Proactive work? Isn't that the very definition of non-council?

[Poisson96]

The Spruce goose said:

i'm on that you never know.

You aren't the only one, so am I

[anonymous-user]

Poisson96 said:

You aren't the only one, so am I

i laughed when someone posted the link in the BB thread but i had a look and it is quite interesting, yes 99% junk but you never know.

[HTP99]

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...