A bit council (Vol 3)
Discussion
As above - the best indicator of potential scum on a camping site is electrical hook up for tents, I've heard this a few times.
Get yourself on a 240v free site and it's a different matter. I take a spare car battery which I can use for lighting (less necessary these days with everlasting LEDs) and an inverter for anything that might need it. This seems to be beyond the ability of scrotes to figure out, and long may it be so.
Get yourself on a 240v free site and it's a different matter. I take a spare car battery which I can use for lighting (less necessary these days with everlasting LEDs) and an inverter for anything that might need it. This seems to be beyond the ability of scrotes to figure out, and long may it be so.
Dog Star said:
As above - the best indicator of potential scum on a camping site is electrical hook up for tents, I've heard this a few times.
Get yourself on a 240v free site and it's a different matter. I take a spare car battery which I can use for lighting (less necessary these days with everlasting LEDs) and an inverter for anything that might need it. This seems to be beyond the ability of scrotes to figure out, and long may it be so.
aGet yourself on a 240v free site and it's a different matter. I take a spare car battery which I can use for lighting (less necessary these days with everlasting LEDs) and an inverter for anything that might need it. This seems to be beyond the ability of scrotes to figure out, and long may it be so.
holes with VW T5s are as bad as electrified tenters.Camping should be a total delight, but it is too often ruined by other people, and once you're in place there's very little you can do about it.
captain_cynic said:
If "effort" is the measurement, camping is the laziest holiday you can go on, definitely council. Camping you just load stuff into a car, spend an hour setting up then 7 days in a fold up chair drinking and complaining that you don't like that foreign muck.
As opposed to the effort of loading nothing up but just checking in somewhere and then 7 days drinking and complaining that you don't like that foreign muck.CharlesdeGaulle said:
captain_cynic said:
Asda are far less council than Aldi or Lidl.
So very wrong. The latter are proper 'everyman' shops; the former is generally a ghastly experience. 
( Grear track listing BTW).
nonsequitur said:
ASDA, yesterday. Paid £3 for over two hours parking. Entered the store, nervously. Went straight to the CD section, bought ' 101 Jukebox Favourites' cost £4. Proceded to the checkout, avoiding as many patrons as possible. Presented my parking ticket for a refund of £3. Cost of CD £1 !!. Bargain! Good old ASDA I say.
( Grear track listing BTW).
Err... Think that through again, slowly.( Grear track listing BTW).
southendpier said:
I totally agree with this but I know many people who get a delivery. Many of them have kids so TBF going to the shops can be trickier - leads to Monday it's "Sossidges" Tuesday "boloknaze" Weds "Pizza nite". Just the same thing turfed out every day. Also I've noticed that people are often quite OCD so think nothing of doing the same thing over and over again. I think internet delivery of the same food every weeks is a part of that same mindset, one less thing to think and get worried about. You just don't know if Joey-Blue would like the Salmon, with Quinoa and Kale that Mum is desperate to cook because she saw "Joe Wicks off the telly cook it and he is well fit".
I'm the opposite, I feel slightly sorry for people who have nothing better to do than waste their Saturday afternoon shuffling round a supermarket.I have home delivery, but I enjoy cooking so each week i'm cooking new recipes. I go to the butchers for my meat, but having most of it home delivered saves me wasting sooo much time at a big supermarket trying to find rose harissa paste, or ras el hanout for example, items that aren't used and are therefore tricky to find if you don't know where to look. On-line ordering and its done in 10mins (let someone who works there find it), rather than lose an 1-2hours of my time going to a supermarket.
Lifes too short for that s
t.Edited by Dr Murdoch on Friday 23 February 11:34
nonsequitur said:
schmunk said:
nonsequitur said:
ASDA, yesterday. Paid £3 for over two hours parking. Entered the store, nervously. Went straight to the CD section, bought ' 101 Jukebox Favourites' cost £4. Proceded to the checkout, avoiding as many patrons as possible. Presented my parking ticket for a refund of £3. Cost of CD £1 !!. Bargain! Good old ASDA I say.
( Grear track listing BTW).
Err... Think that through again, slowly.( Grear track listing BTW).
Compilation albums: council?
I'm a 'yes'
CharlesdeGaulle said:
I love camping. My family members - all female - don't share my enthusiasm (unless the weather is good and they have comfortable beds) so I tend to go on my own more often than not. I must be more Council than I'd realised.
Camping's not council. Time out 'roughing it' is especially good for kids too.Camping on your own though...
... little bit... you know... >knowinglook<Unless you're in the SAS, of course.
Last time I went camping I slept in the back of a car high in the solitude of northern Spanish mountains with my adult son. We drove and walked for miles along deserted forest trails, drank beer for breakfast and watched the sunset over lots of wine, cooked food on an open fire, read books by torchlight and smoked extremely relaxing cigarettes, took a dump just like bears do and washed ourselves and our clothes in streams and lakes.
Sub Council or what
Sub Council or what
Jaguar steve said:
Last time I went camping I slept in the back of a car high in the solitude of northern Spanish mountains with my adult son. We drove and walked for miles along deserted forest trails, drank beer for breakfast and watched the sunset over lots of wine, cooked food on an open fire, read books by torchlight and smoked extremely relaxing cigarettes, took a dump just like bears do and washed ourselves and our clothes in streams and lakes.
Sub Council or what
As an aside - going for a beer with your dad. I've never ever been to the pub with my dad. My dad thinks that me having friends and going to the pub makes me "a weak character". He reckons that my lack of character and spine means that I feel the need to go down to the pub so that all my friends will greet me and buy me a beer.Sub Council or what
He delights in telling me how I will die a horrible death from something or other, usually involving a bleeding rectum and some form of cancer.
Not long ago we had a conversation that went as follows.....
Him: "You're going to die of a cirrhotic liver; you're just like your great grandfather, he was a womaniser and an alcoholic just like you. He died in agony, the drink killed him"
Me: "Gosh! How old was he?"
Him: "Eighty seven"
Jaguar steve said:
Last time I went camping I slept in the back of a car high in the solitude of northern Spanish mountains with my adult son. We drove and walked for miles along deserted forest trails, drank beer for breakfast and watched the sunset over lots of wine, cooked food on an open fire, read books by torchlight and smoked extremely relaxing cigarettes, took a dump just like bears do and washed ourselves and our clothes in streams and lakes.
Sub Council or what
Smug aSub Council or what
hole, more like. Jaguar steve said:
Last time I went camping I slept in the back of a car high in the solitude of northern Spanish mountains with my adult son. We drove and walked for miles along deserted forest trails, drank beer for breakfast and watched the sunset over lots of wine, cooked food on an open fire, read books by torchlight and smoked extremely relaxing cigarettes, took a dump just like bears do and washed ourselves and our clothes in streams and lakes.
Sounds like Brokeback Mountain with added incest 
talksthetorque said:
Camping in this country mainly council.
Bonus points for the following onsite facilities:
Bar with live entertainment
Kid's TV Room
Pool Table not in bar
Trampolines
Hairdresser
Waterslide
Supermarket
Crazy Golf
Launderette
Washing Line Area
Wifi
and the pi èce de resistance
Air Hockey table.
That looks more like a caravan park list. Camping sites are more:Bonus points for the following onsite facilities:
Bar with live entertainment
Kid's TV Room
Pool Table not in bar
Trampolines
Hairdresser
Waterslide
Supermarket
Crazy Golf
Launderette
Washing Line Area
Wifi
and the pi èce de resistance
Air Hockey table.
1. Grass
2. Tap
3. Err...
4. That's it
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5426115/Hu...
Article said:
She has a toddler who is 'medically disadvantaged' and acts as a full-time carer for both of her children.
Is this not called "motherhood"?Johnnytheboy said:
Article said:
She has a toddler who is 'medically disadvantaged' and acts as a full-time carer for both of her children.
Is this not called "motherhood"?
My thoughts exactly ! I know a couple of people who are "carers" for their children. Maybe when they are older you could call yourself that, but when they aren't even at school yet ? She has a toddler who is 'medically disadvantaged' and acts as a full-time carer for both of her children.
Is this not called "motherhood"?
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