A bit council (Vol 3)

[V8mate]

kowalski655 said:

Aren't"Benefit Shakes" usually called the DTs, or "drug withdrawal symptoms"?
As that's what you get when you have them.

Exactly. Or that feeling you get when the woman at the Post Office says 'No, benefits are one day late this week'.

[motco]

V8mate said:

Must be part of Waitrose's attempt at appealing to all sectors of society...

As might this be perhaps?

[Jimmy Recard]

Spare tyre said:

Delivery company ruined christmas

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/15792946._Delivery...

"Toys R Us resent some of the order by UPS which arrived on Christmas Eve."

If they were my customers and phoned me for 6 hours, resentment would be an understatement

[V8mate]

motco said:

V8mate said:

Must be part of Waitrose's attempt at appealing to all sectors of society...

As might this be perhaps?

Is the 'Universal Credits' version?

[CharlesdeGaulle]

motco said:

As might this be perhaps?

They're two products you wouldn't want to mix-up one bleary-eyed morning.

[Cliftonite]

[motco]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

They're two products you wouldn't want to mix-up one bleary-eyed morning.

[Digga]

lord trumpton said:

The youngest lads little face...looks a right little rascal

Good call. That's probably what actually ruined Christmas; that little tyke dismantling half the house for want of anything else to play with.

[anonymous-user]

V8mate said:

Must be part of Waitrose's attempt at appealing to all sectors of society...

Looking at the shelf label,Tory cuts are hitting there as well...

[CharlesdeGaulle]

anonymous said:

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I have a daughter named Flora; does this make me Council, or does the lack of a hyphen-something save me?

[kiethton]

anonymous said:

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Thing is they'll shoot themselves in the foot - if she's council she'll definitely not be the low fat version

[CanAm]

Berkshire bred said:

Paying for things in small change.

Also when you see some undesirable empty his pockets on the counter In the hope he has a forgotten 5p in there so he can have his baccy.

Saying things like 'I don't want to break into a 20'. Bunch of s

Surely real Council use those change machines in supermarkets and get ripped off.

[AppleJuice]

kiethton said:

Thing is they'll shoot themselves in the foot - if she's council she'll definitely not be the low fat version

[Algarve]

CanAm said:

Surely real Council use those change machines in supermarkets and get ripped off.

Hows it getting ripped off?

I don't live in UK so I don't use them, but I'd rather lose a single digit % of the £17.43 in my change jar, than queue up at the bank to pay it in and save 90 pence or something...

[kingston12]

Algarve said:

Hows it getting ripped off?

I don't live in UK so I don't use them, but I'd rather lose a single digit % of the £17.43 in my change jar, than queue up at the bank to pay it in and save 90 pence or something...

A lot of bank branches have exactly the same machines, but they don't charge a commission. No queuing, and the money goes straight into your account.

[Ari]

kingston12 said:

A lot of bank branches have exactly the same machines, but they don't charge a commission. No queuing, and the money goes straight into your account.

Do they? I've never noticed one. I'll have a look next time I'm in a bank (although thinking about it, that's pretty much never these days).

[DRFC1879]

HSBC definitely have them. My son has got several money boxes that we shove small change into throughout the year and pay in to an account through one of the machines for his holiday spending money. Usually ends up being ~£200 a year.

[captain_cynic]

Algarve said:

Hows it getting ripped off?

I don't live in UK so I don't use them, but I'd rather lose a single digit % of the £17.43 in my change jar, than queue up at the bank to pay it in and save 90 pence or something...

You're going to the wrong bank. Many have coin counting machines that don't charge commission and I haven't lined up at a bank for over a decade now. Hardly anyone goes to a branch any more so many banks have converted much of their floor space into lounge type areas where you can use internet banking.

[Filton-flyer]

Probably been done to death already but here goes:

McDonald's

I went to one last night in Newport on my way home from the velodrome.
It was Council to the max!
There was a child's birthday party in full swing and my son and I watched in amusement as the cake was wheeled out to the baying crowd of children.
All the parents (some probably biological, some maybe not so) had tattoos and pouches of tobacco, various scruffy pushchairs were littered over the seating area and lots of snotty looking children were basically running amok all over the place.
Two things that made me chuckle were when "Happy Birthday" was sung, very few of the "guests" actually knew the child's name which left a somewhat awkward silence during the singing.
The children appeared to have some well chosen names too, I counted an Ellie May, a Conner Bruce and a Jordan.
When I returned to the car park what did I find parked next to me?......... that's right a Vauxhall Zafira with all seven seats deployed.

[kingston12]

Ari said:

Do they? I've never noticed one. I'll have a look next time I'm in a bank (although thinking about it, that's pretty much never these days).

Yes. I hardly ever go into a branch any more, but when I do all of the larger ones seem to have one of these machines.