A bit council (Vol 3)

[silverfoxcc]

wildcat said in an earlier post

Incidentally these vibrating seats have a sheen on them similar to that seen on the face of a maroon haired past her sell by date German 'actress' who has just participated in a bukkake fest.

Hmm so descriptive it's as though he was there!

[Wildcat45]

silverfoxcc said:

wildcat said in an earlier post

Incidentally these vibrating seats have a sheen on them similar to that seen on the face of a maroon haired past her sell by date German 'actress' who has just participated in a bukkake fest.

Hmm so descriptive it's as though he was there!

Hmm indeed. What can I say? I've a vivid imagination! Honest. 😎

Edited by Wildcat45 on Thursday 26th April 08:33

[Europa1]

My neighbours.

For a long while there has been a trampoline in their back garden (you know the type with the vertical netting surround).

A couple of weekends ago, they erected a new, bigger one. There is no sign of the original being dismantled and taken away.

[Gad-Westy]

Europa1 said:

My neighbours.

For a long while there has been a trampoline in their back garden (you know the type with the vertical netting surround).

A couple of weekends ago, they erected a new, bigger one. There is no sign of the original being dismantled and taken away.

The MIL can be a bit on the council spectrum from time to time. She got a new TV recently to replace a broken one. Old one is now behind the sofa, sofa moved a few inches further into the room to accommodate it. Have no idea what the long term plan is that leads to this.

[alorotom]

Gad-Westy said:

Europa1 said:

My neighbours.

For a long while there has been a trampoline in their back garden (you know the type with the vertical netting surround).

A couple of weekends ago, they erected a new, bigger one. There is no sign of the original being dismantled and taken away.

The MIL can be a bit on the council spectrum from time to time. She got a new TV recently to replace a broken one. Old one is now behind the sofa, sofa moved a few inches further into the room to accommodate it. Have no idea what the long term plan is that leads to this.

hoarding TVs itself does seem to be a very council attribute and ive no idea why. my MiL is VERY council (owns a parrot, vapes like a steam train, dole pole, mobility car [not a vafira oddly], almost full council bingo) and has at LEAST 2 TVs for every room in the house - Ive never understood it, it mkes zero sense - she lives alone and mosty watched DVDs so they are even connected to aerials and she doesn't have Sky/Cable/etc.

[Wildcat45]

Parrot? Genuine question. Why are they council?

I ask because I think fish are council. The evidence. As a kid, some of my school friends lived in council houses (1970s Old school working class rather than dole scum estates.). Occasionally I'd end up in some of the rougher houses and invariably they would have massive fish tanks.

Is it just the parrot that is council or do other breeds of birds qualify?

[alorotom]

Wildcat45 said:

Parrot? Genuine question. Why are they council?

I ask because I think fish are council. The evidence. As a kid, some of my school friends lived in council houses (1970s Old school working class rather than dole scum estates.). Occasionally I'd end up in some of the rougher houses and invariably they would have massive fish tanks.

Is it just the parrot that is council or do other breeds of birds qualify?

Personally I’ve always classed all winged pets as council ... obviously pidgeon and budgie being the peak but it’s just shades of grey again

[Bullett]

Chickens?

[Gad-Westy]

alorotom said:

Gad-Westy said:

Europa1 said:

My neighbours.

For a long while there has been a trampoline in their back garden (you know the type with the vertical netting surround).

A couple of weekends ago, they erected a new, bigger one. There is no sign of the original being dismantled and taken away.

The MIL can be a bit on the council spectrum from time to time. She got a new TV recently to replace a broken one. Old one is now behind the sofa, sofa moved a few inches further into the room to accommodate it. Have no idea what the long term plan is that leads to this.

hoarding TVs itself does seem to be a very council attribute and ive no idea why. my MiL is VERY council (owns a parrot, vapes like a steam train, dole pole, mobility car [not a vafira oddly], almost full council bingo) and has at LEAST 2 TVs for every room in the house - Ive never understood it, it mkes zero sense - she lives alone and mosty watched DVDs so they are even connected to aerials and she doesn't have Sky/Cable/etc.

My late grandfather was a proper hoarder. Not particularly council, though he was a daily mail reader so there were some warning signs. Never chucked anything away but bought crap useless constantly. When he got a new TV, he just unplugged the old one and stuck the new in front of it. These were big CRT's and at one point they were three deep. Like a queue of telly's encroaching into the room, must have been 6 foot long. I was too young at the time to realise that this wasn't very normal.

[SpeckledJim]

Wildcat45 said:

Parrot? Genuine question. Why are they council?

I ask because I think fish are council. The evidence. As a kid, some of my school friends lived in council houses (1970s Old school working class rather than dole scum estates.). Occasionally I'd end up in some of the rougher houses and invariably they would have massive fish tanks.

Is it just the parrot that is council or do other breeds of birds qualify?

I've just this year started running a tropical fish set-up with my 6-yo daughter.

The rationale being that she wants a four-legged pet of some variety, so I've set her the challenge of proving she deserves to be in charge of an animal by doing a good job of looking after our fish.

(and I don't mind at all if she can't or won't, because I really like the fish)

My very snobby wife has gone up the wall. She thinks the fish are a total hand grenade to her carefully constructed (and entirely false) posh facade. She might be right, but I don't care. I like the fish.

[talksthetorque]

Bullett said:

Chickens?

Scottish Laird with Pheasant shoot and gamekeepers?
I see your middle class and raise you Aristocracy.

[anonymous-user]

talksthetorque said:

Bullett said:

Chickens?

Scottish Laird with Pheasant shoot and gamekeepers?
I see your middle class and raise you Aristocracy.

I think the gamekeeper regards them as HIS birds. That's according to my experience, anyway.

[Dog Star]

Gad-Westy said:

My late grandfather was a proper hoarder. Not particularly council, though he was a daily mail reader so there were some warning signs. Never chucked anything away but bought crap useless constantly. When he got a new TV, he just unplugged the old one and stuck the new in front of it. These were big CRT's and at one point they were three deep. Like a queue of telly's encroaching into the room, must have been 6 foot long. I was too young at the time to realise that this wasn't very normal.

My dad is proper bad. Their house is just stacked to the ceilings with boxes of stuff, mostly unopened. He's really tight with it too - for example he has four (4) cement mixers. All new. In the house. I live half a mile or so away. I asked if I could borrow a cement mixer. He refused as I might get it dirty. I ended up buying my own while my 78 year old dad has four that he will never ever use. Think of a brand new tool, and he has several, unopened. My mum is totally overwhelmed and has long since given up the fight.

It's a family trait, I think - his parents were similar and his sister, who is a couple of years older is actually worse. A couple of years ago her house was so full of hoarded boxes of stuff that you had to edge your way into her house through a tiny gap. She was sleeping curled up on the bottom few stairs as she couldn't get to her bedroom any more.

Thankfully I exhibit none of these traits, not that Mrs DS would tolerate this at all.

[Gad-Westy]

Dog Star said:

Gad-Westy said:

My late grandfather was a proper hoarder. Not particularly council, though he was a daily mail reader so there were some warning signs. Never chucked anything away but bought crap useless constantly. When he got a new TV, he just unplugged the old one and stuck the new in front of it. These were big CRT's and at one point they were three deep. Like a queue of telly's encroaching into the room, must have been 6 foot long. I was too young at the time to realise that this wasn't very normal.

My dad is proper bad. Their house is just stacked to the ceilings with boxes of stuff, mostly unopened. He's really tight with it too - for example he has four (4) cement mixers. All new. In the house. I live half a mile or so away. I asked if I could borrow a cement mixer. He refused as I might get it dirty. I ended up buying my own while my 78 year old dad has four that he will never ever use. Think of a brand new tool, and he has several, unopened. My mum is totally overwhelmed and has long since given up the fight.

It's a family trait, I think - his parents were similar and his sister, who is a couple of years older is actually worse. A couple of years ago her house was so full of hoarded boxes of stuff that you had to edge your way into her house through a tiny gap. She was sleeping curled up on the bottom few stairs as she couldn't get to her bedroom any more.

Thankfully I exhibit none of these traits, not that Mrs DS would tolerate this at all.

Sounds very, very similar. Multi buys of unused stuff, tools being a favourite. Everything bought with some notion of it being useful one day for something but slowly gets covered over and forgotten about when more new crap arrived. Whole rooms became out of bounds as the only space in the entire volume was the space required for the door to be opened. The Son, my uncle is very similar. Doesn't see the issue. My mother has some of these tendencies, replaces a toaster, old one goes in the loft, not in the bin. The reasoning being it's there just in case, along with the three previous toasters. But she doesn't do the overbuying thing or live with mess. Next generation down, myself and cousins all seem to prefer minimalist almost to a fault. Suspect it's some sort of psychological rebellion.

Thinking about it, the house I'm talking about (still in the family) is a bit on the council side. It's quite a big detached house in a nice little village but the garden and long drive way is full of rotting vehicles, caravans full of crap, barbecues with bottoms rusted through and general crap everywhere.

[CharlesdeGaulle]

SpeckledJim said:

Wildcat45 said:

Parrot?

I ask because I think fish are council.

I've just this year started running a tropical fish set-up with my 6-yo daughter.

The rationale being that she wants a four-legged pet of some variety, so I've set her the challenge of proving she deserves to be in charge of an animal by doing a good job of looking after our fish.

(and I don't mind at all if she can't or won't, because I really like the fish)

My very snobby wife has gone up the wall. She thinks the fish are a total hand grenade to her carefully constructed (and entirely false) posh facade. She might be right, but I don't care. I like the fish.

I have some vested interest here. I have a large and quite attractive outside pond in my new house. Currently, it's full of newts (remember them?) but the plan is to re-introduce some fish in due course. They will almost certainly be orange and very much non-exotic. By so doing, will I earn the scorn of my neighbours? I probably need to know.

[bobtail4x4]

My large pond has newts, I took the fish out a few years ago, as I prefer the newts,

the fish WILL eat the newt eggs and young.

[alorotom]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

I have some vested interest here. I have a large and quite attractive outside pond in my new house. Currently, it's full of newts (remember them?) but the plan is to re-introduce some fish in due course. They will almost certainly be orange and very much non-exotic. By so doing, will I earn the scorn of my neighbours? I probably need to know.

That depends on if the neighbours are decidedly more council or not ... if they are more they’ll aspire to such waterific wonderment but may get confused as to why you don’t bathe in it ... if they are less then they may deride and reducible lol

[motco]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

I have some vested interest here. I have a large and quite attractive outside pond in my new house. Currently, it's full of newts (remember them?) but the plan is to re-introduce some fish in due course. They will almost certainly be orange and very much non-exotic. By so doing, will I earn the scorn of my neighbours? I probably need to know.

Likewise. The house I bought about five years ago has a raised pond with a small island and a water feature. We were told that the executor of the will of the previous owner (deceased, obviously) had removed all the fish so we needn't worry about feeding them. They may have taken some, but about fifty must have been hiding under the island or lily pads because it's bloody teeming with the little sods now! I suspect fish indoors rate differently from those outside.

[SpeckledJim]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

I have some vested interest here. I have a large and quite attractive outside pond in my new house. Currently, it's full of newts (remember them?) but the plan is to re-introduce some fish in due course. They will almost certainly be orange and very much non-exotic. By so doing, will I earn the scorn of my neighbours? I probably need to know.

Outside ponds are MILES posher than inside ponds. Nice one. Call it a 'pool' though. Makes a difference. You're limited in terms of what you can put in it because most things will die of cold. However, you can spend a fortune on koi if you want. They're not posh at all, but they're very expensive, which is almost as good.

And your newts will be worth a fortune to your local nimbys.

Move house
Feel posh about pond and newts
Buy fish
No longer feel posh
Sell newts
Profit!
No longer care whether posh or not. SWAG, baby. SWAG.

I know your type.

[SpeckledJim]

motco said:

Likewise. The house I bought about five years ago has a raised pond with a small island and a water feature. We were told that the executor of the will of the previous owner (deceased, obviously) had removed all the fish so we needn't worry about feeding them. They may have taken some, but about fifty must have been hiding under the island or lily pads because it's bloody teeming with the little sods now! I suspect fish indoors rate differently from those outside.

You're right. Outdoor fish are a lot posher than indoor fish.