A bit council (Vol 3)
Discussion
Torcars said:
These stranger panic things aren't new and predate Facebook by decades.
Around 1980, I was a kid in a slightly odd market town called Stamford in Lincolnshire.
It was a world away from the student bedsitter lands and red light districts of West Yorkshire.
Yet one day the rumour went round town that the Yorkshire Ripper was in town tonight. The rumour spread in school and I recall scared mums waiting at the school gates on Green Lane ready to scurry home to the safety of their homes. I heard of people phoning friends and relatives urging them to lock their doors.
Can you imagine the call to the local hotel? "Hello, can I have a single room for the night? My name? Sutcliffe, Peter Sutcliffe, but you'll probably recognise me as the Yorkshire Ripper."
The Stamford riots were another rumour and non event. As Brixton and Toxteth burnt, the word went round town that skinheads were Stamford bound intent on turning cars over, looting and burning shops and homes.
How the four town bobbies with their brace of Escort Popular and Sunbeam LS panda cars would have coped I have no idea.
People love a good panic, especially the usually less intelligent council classes. Access to things like Facebook just makes it easier for them to communicate.
Stamford, ' The best place to live in the UK', Sunday Times 2016. ( I think)Around 1980, I was a kid in a slightly odd market town called Stamford in Lincolnshire.
It was a world away from the student bedsitter lands and red light districts of West Yorkshire.
Yet one day the rumour went round town that the Yorkshire Ripper was in town tonight. The rumour spread in school and I recall scared mums waiting at the school gates on Green Lane ready to scurry home to the safety of their homes. I heard of people phoning friends and relatives urging them to lock their doors.
Can you imagine the call to the local hotel? "Hello, can I have a single room for the night? My name? Sutcliffe, Peter Sutcliffe, but you'll probably recognise me as the Yorkshire Ripper."
The Stamford riots were another rumour and non event. As Brixton and Toxteth burnt, the word went round town that skinheads were Stamford bound intent on turning cars over, looting and burning shops and homes.
How the four town bobbies with their brace of Escort Popular and Sunbeam LS panda cars would have coped I have no idea.
People love a good panic, especially the usually less intelligent council classes. Access to things like Facebook just makes it easier for them to communicate.
Edited by Torcars on Wednesday 21st February 08:42
nonsequitur said:
Stamford, ' The best place to live in the UK', Sunday Times 2016. ( I think)
I can only comment on living there 30 years ago, but it was a very insular place. I think it benefited from the '80s house price boom which attracted retired folk from London who injected a bit of the outside world into the place.
It had council estate, but certainly at the time it appeared to be respectable council. Scummy families were there, but scarce and pretty harmless by today's standards.
I still visit now and then, and it is a pleasant place to spend a couple of days.
MartG said:
bobtail4x4 said:
S11Steve said:
Check to see if you have a local Neighbourhood watch group too - fantastic entertainment as the local busybodies make a note of every white van that drives past, every person with a hoody...
Typical example.
man looking for mising cat?Typical example.
Torcars said:
Its a vicious place at night. Avoid eye contact, don't flaunt your wealth, keep your cameras etc locked away and always have travellers cheques, never cash. Murder and hostage taking of foreigners from places like Grantham and Peterborough is common place.
Not to mention the vicious turf wars between the pie barons from Melton Mowbray up the road. Is it still a staging point on the route for trafficking illicit Stilton to the North?Europa1 said:
Not to mention the vicious turf wars between the pie barons from Melton Mowbray up the road. Is it still a staging point on the route for trafficking illicit Stilton to the North?
Its out of control now the Harriers have left Wittering and Cottesmore. Little known fact is that they took out Stilton dumps with smart bombs at Little Bytham and Collyweston in 2010.Ari said:
Oh, and
Man spotted driving slowly in a Van in Chav-Ville, lock your doors, lock your doors!
Followed by masses of people tagged in by their 'anxious' friends Leanne, make sure youre doors are locked hun
Never mind that it was probably just a delivery driver looking for an address.
They're like f
king sheep, all getting anxious together.
Oh, and the occasional break in which is always something like
We was robbed in the XYZ area last night. I'd locked all the doors and windows except the downstairs kitchen window which I leave open so the cat can get in, but they still got in!
Well fk me, if only Mr. Burglar had realised that the downstairs kitchen window was only open for the cat and not for him, he'd have stayed out then.
Followed by masses of people tagged in by their 'anxious' friends Leanne, make sure youre doors are locked hun
Because obviously you leave all your doors unlocked unless Sharon up the road (her with the cats) gets burgled, then you lock them because your mate Chlamydia (her with the anxiety issues. And the cats) on Facebook Spotted tagged you in.
And still we pay these people to breed! Have more kids you stupid anxious bint, we'll give you more money and a bigger house, and the world needs more ADHD (AKA unparented badly behaved) chavs.
FFS.
I do equally love the ones where they share them and give the first bit of their postcode.Man spotted driving slowly in a Van in Chav-Ville, lock your doors, lock your doors!
Followed by masses of people tagged in by their 'anxious' friends Leanne, make sure youre doors are locked hun
Never mind that it was probably just a delivery driver looking for an address.
They're like f
king sheep, all getting anxious together. Oh, and the occasional break in which is always something like
We was robbed in the XYZ area last night. I'd locked all the doors and windows except the downstairs kitchen window which I leave open so the cat can get in, but they still got in!
Well f
k me, if only Mr. Burglar had realised that the downstairs kitchen window was only open for the cat and not for him, he'd have stayed out then.Followed by masses of people tagged in by their 'anxious' friends Leanne, make sure youre doors are locked hun
Because obviously you leave all your doors unlocked unless Sharon up the road (her with the cats) gets burgled, then you lock them because your mate Chlamydia (her with the anxiety issues. And the cats) on Facebook Spotted tagged you in.
And still we pay these people to breed! Have more kids you stupid anxious bint, we'll give you more money and a bigger house, and the world needs more ADHD (AKA unparented badly behaved) chavs.
FFS.
"Shared B14"
You're on the internet, posts can be shared across the country - nay, the world - and you think the postcode that you live in is relevant to all the people who don't live in your postcode that can see what you've shared?
Actually, why feel the need to say you've shared it? Does your ego need stroking that much you need to do that?
You wouldn't give blood because you hate needles, but you don't mind a tattoo and sharing random s
t on Facebook. https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-news/mum...
Check -
Compo face.
Asda.
4 kids, and on benefits.
Unemployed
Beans on toast.
“I got very stressed out, and I have anxiety as well'
Hardly The Queens English in the video.
Check -
Compo face.
Asda.
4 kids, and on benefits.
Unemployed
Beans on toast.
“I got very stressed out, and I have anxiety as well'
Hardly The Queens English in the video.
Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah said:
https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-news/mum...
Check -
Compo face.
Asda.
4 kids, and on benefits.
Unemployed
Beans on toast.
“I got very stressed out, and I have anxiety as well'
Hardly The Queens English in the video.
If her and her four kids have been on Beans on toast for 4 days solid they'll be using the compo to buy air fresheners.Check -
Compo face.
Asda.
4 kids, and on benefits.
Unemployed
Beans on toast.
“I got very stressed out, and I have anxiety as well'
Hardly The Queens English in the video.
Fermit The Krog and Sexy Sarah said:
https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-news/mum...
Check -
Compo face.
Asda.
4 kids, and on benefits.
Unemployed
Beans on toast.
“I got very stressed out, and I have anxiety as well'
Hardly The Queens English in the video.
She looks like Troy Deeney.Check -
Compo face.
Asda.
4 kids, and on benefits.
Unemployed
Beans on toast.
“I got very stressed out, and I have anxiety as well'
Hardly The Queens English in the video.
Adenauer said:
MartG said:
Reckon this ticks all the boxes...
Makes me laugh seeing the future of the UK after Brexit 
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4902007/syrian-man-r...
Edited by Kccv23highliftcam on Wednesday 21st February 15:54
I'm back.
been asked to oversee some videos of our housing stock, to show staff/potential customers what's out there.
As I chaired the meeting, I commented earlier, there is no need. Each week, at 8pm on Police Camera, Traffic cops interceptors there is usually an hour of footage of our housing estates in all their glory
Usually with the money shot of an R32, S3 smashing down the fence in one of our gardens.
On another note. A new name for the council mix.
bentleyjai. I honestly kid you not. With automatic diagnosis of autism.
been asked to oversee some videos of our housing stock, to show staff/potential customers what's out there.
As I chaired the meeting, I commented earlier, there is no need. Each week, at 8pm on Police Camera, Traffic cops interceptors there is usually an hour of footage of our housing estates in all their glory
Usually with the money shot of an R32, S3 smashing down the fence in one of our gardens.On another note. A new name for the council mix.
bentleyjai. I honestly kid you not. With automatic diagnosis of autism.
austinsmirk said:
I'm back.
been asked to oversee some videos of our housing stock, to show staff/potential customers what's out there.
As I chaired the meeting, I commented earlier, there is no need. Each week, at 8pm on Police Camera, Traffic cops interceptors there is usually an hour of footage of our housing estates in all their glory Usually with the money shot of an R32, S3 smashing down the fence in one of our gardens.
On another note. A new name for the council mix.
bentleyjai. I honestly kid you not. With automatic diagnosis of autism.
Do those kids get diagnosed as soon as they come out of the womb? been asked to oversee some videos of our housing stock, to show staff/potential customers what's out there.
As I chaired the meeting, I commented earlier, there is no need. Each week, at 8pm on Police Camera, Traffic cops interceptors there is usually an hour of footage of our housing estates in all their glory
Usually with the money shot of an R32, S3 smashing down the fence in one of our gardens.On another note. A new name for the council mix.
bentleyjai. I honestly kid you not. With automatic diagnosis of autism.
Triumph Man said:
austinsmirk said:
I'm back.
been asked to oversee some videos of our housing stock, to show staff/potential customers what's out there.
As I chaired the meeting, I commented earlier, there is no need. Each week, at 8pm on Police Camera, Traffic cops interceptors there is usually an hour of footage of our housing estates in all their glory Usually with the money shot of an R32, S3 smashing down the fence in one of our gardens.
On another note. A new name for the council mix.
bentleyjai. I honestly kid you not. With automatic diagnosis of autism.
Do those kids get diagnosed as soon as they come out of the womb? been asked to oversee some videos of our housing stock, to show staff/potential customers what's out there.
As I chaired the meeting, I commented earlier, there is no need. Each week, at 8pm on Police Camera, Traffic cops interceptors there is usually an hour of footage of our housing estates in all their glory
Usually with the money shot of an R32, S3 smashing down the fence in one of our gardens.On another note. A new name for the council mix.
bentleyjai. I honestly kid you not. With automatic diagnosis of autism.
austinsmirk said:
On another note. A new name for the council mix.
bentleyjai. I honestly kid you not. With automatic diagnosis of autism.
Mrs 1879 and I were looking at adopting a few years back; wanted to give a kid with a sh!t start a decent chance in life. They said in the preparation bit that obviously they didn't want kids to have their names changed if possible as they may feel like their identity was somehow less than valid. It would only be an option where kids had very distinct/unusual names. I rather naiively wondered how unusual a name could be but the scales have well and truly fallen from my eyes!bentleyjai. I honestly kid you not. With automatic diagnosis of autism.
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