A bit council (Vol 3)
Discussion
alorotom said:
Spending is good. It keeps the economy going.
Whilst I take this point, it could also sound like an incredible example of justifying reckless behavious if you heard it from the mouth of someone who had just squandered their dole payment on fruit machines, lager and roll upsMJ85 said:
Oh yes.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6315265/H...
Excellent but when will these semi literate hacks learn that 'grizzly' pertains to a silver backed bear. It's 'grisly', you f
k wits.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6315265/H...
Excellent but when will these semi literate hacks learn that 'grizzly' pertains to a silver backed bear. It's 'grisly', you f
k wits. Jimmy Recard said:
alorotom said:
Spending is good. It keeps the economy going.
Whilst I take this point, it could also sound like an incredible example of justifying reckless behavious if you heard it from the mouth of someone who had just squandered their dole payment on fruit machines, lager and roll ups
SpeckledJim said:
There are limits, of course, but growing-up in a household committed to thrift is a good thing, on the whole.
IMHO.
I’m with you on a lot of your posts Jim, but I’m not so sure about this one.IMHO.
My brother-in-law would never go out for a meal, if he or his wife hadn’t clipped, or downloaded a coupon.
He and his wife came to Bilbao with me and my wife, (his sister), I walked out of the terminal, aiming for the taxi rank, he had disappeared, my wife said, ‘He’s gone to information, to see if he can get a bus to the hotel, he’d rather lump cases on and off a bus, then walk to the hotel, than waste his money on a taxi.”
He won’t go in a pub with me, because I don’t drink beer, only vodka or bourbon, he says, “I’m not buying you a vodka, and then have you buy me a lager.”
It doesn’t break my heart, but I have difficulty understanding it, I’ve always subscribed to the “can’t take it with you” theory.
My BILs wife says that our marriage works on a points system, my wife points to it, and if I’ve got the money, she can have it.
Of course, paying the bills, mortgage etc. was always covered, after that, anything goes.
I can’t be ar*ed looking for a greasy spoon, or a McDonalds, life’s too short, we’re only here for 70 odd years, it’s not a rehearsal, I’ll go to Club Gascon for escargots and duck confit.
Frank7 said:
SpeckledJim said:
There are limits, of course, but growing-up in a household committed to thrift is a good thing, on the whole.
IMHO.
I’m with you on a lot of your posts Jim, but I’m not so sure about this one.IMHO.
My brother-in-law would never go out for a meal, if he or his wife hadn’t clipped, or downloaded a coupon.
He and his wife came to Bilbao with me and my wife, (his sister), I walked out of the terminal, aiming for the taxi rank, he had disappeared, my wife said, ‘He’s gone to information, to see if he can get a bus to the hotel, he’d rather lump cases on and off a bus, then walk to the hotel, than waste his money on a taxi.”
He won’t go in a pub with me, because I don’t drink beer, only vodka or bourbon, he says, “I’m not buying you a vodka, and then have you buy me a lager.”
It doesn’t break my heart, but I have difficulty understanding it, I’ve always subscribed to the “can’t take it with you” theory.
My BILs wife says that our marriage works on a points system, my wife points to it, and if I’ve got the money, she can have it.
Of course, paying the bills, mortgage etc. was always covered, after that, anything goes.
I can’t be ar*ed looking for a greasy spoon, or a McDonalds, life’s too short, we’re only here for 70 odd years, it’s not a rehearsal, I’ll go to Club Gascon for escargots and duck confit.
Frank7 said:
He and his wife came to Bilbao with me and my wife, (his sister), I walked out of the terminal, aiming for the taxi rank, he had disappeared, my wife said, ‘He’s gone to information, to see if he can get a bus to the hotel, he’d rather lump cases on and off a bus, then walk to the hotel, than waste his money on a taxi.
LOL, my BIL who I mentioned a few pages back who asks for free shoes for his kids, is currently in Gran Canaria with the family and the MIL, instead of getting a taxi or bus to the hotel 1.5 miles away, he Insisted that they walked the 1.5 miles, in the rain! We used to hold a family BBQ in August for the MIL's birthday, we don't now as he always causes grief. Anyway we would provide salads, buns, sauces etc and asked that everyone else provide what meat they wanted and also booze, he never turned up with booze and only bought the bare minimum of meat (always reduced), and would end up drinking what I'd provided and I'd always run out, so one year I bought cider (I like cider far more than beer but bought beer so as to think of everyone else) he hates cider and spent the whole evening moaning that he had nothing to drink, there is a shop 5 minutes down the road but he refused to go.
Invite them round for dinner, they would bring a bottle of that awful flavoured "wine" which is about 3% alcohol, so it would only cost about £2.50.
We don't have a great deal to do with them now.
Edited by HTP99 on Friday 26th October 01:54
cheesesliceking said:
untakenname said:
Often see females wearing Wellies at festivals when it's not even raining and the ground is bone dry, that imo is council.
Countryside pursuits such as horse racing and shooting have become very popular over the past decade with the lower class, there was always the rural traveller element but nowadays you see people who a generation ago would go to the dogs turning up at the horses instead all dressed up in the morning then in a state and usually fighting by the evening.
Girls wearing wellies and summer dresses at festivals get me harder than Dogstar at a Doncaster Hen doCountryside pursuits such as horse racing and shooting have become very popular over the past decade with the lower class, there was always the rural traveller element but nowadays you see people who a generation ago would go to the dogs turning up at the horses instead all dressed up in the morning then in a state and usually fighting by the evening.
How about yelling and swearing at people in public then driving like a t
t, is that council too ?Frank7 said:
SpeckledJim said:
There are limits, of course, but growing-up in a household committed to thrift is a good thing, on the whole.
IMHO.
I’m with you on a lot of your posts Jim, but I’m not so sure about this one.IMHO.
My brother-in-law would never go out for a meal, if he or his wife hadn’t clipped, or downloaded a coupon.
He and his wife came to Bilbao with me and my wife, (his sister), I walked out of the terminal, aiming for the taxi rank, he had disappeared, my wife said, ‘He’s gone to information, to see if he can get a bus to the hotel, he’d rather lump cases on and off a bus, then walk to the hotel, than waste his money on a taxi.”
He won’t go in a pub with me, because I don’t drink beer, only vodka or bourbon, he says, “I’m not buying you a vodka, and then have you buy me a lager.”
It doesn’t break my heart, but I have difficulty understanding it, I’ve always subscribed to the “can’t take it with you” theory.
My BILs wife says that our marriage works on a points system, my wife points to it, and if I’ve got the money, she can have it.
Of course, paying the bills, mortgage etc. was always covered, after that, anything goes.
I can’t be ar*ed looking for a greasy spoon, or a McDonalds, life’s too short, we’re only here for 70 odd years, it’s not a rehearsal, I’ll go to Club Gascon for escargots and duck confit.
I wince to think of the people who have their basics for comfort and happiness covered by Tuesday lunchtime, and then work hard in jobs they don't enjoy for another 40 hours on top in order to buy the garnishes they don't need, but have cynically been persuaded that they can't be happy without.
I'm with you on the 70 years - it's not long. So why spend so much of it at work, just to pay the tick on the A5 and Evoque?
(Not 'you' per se. Anyone. If 'you're' happy in your work, then great. If you're not, then stop wasting your hard-earned money on nonsense and buy your time back from The Man instead)
Frank7 said:
SpeckledJim said:
There are limits, of course, but growing-up in a household committed to thrift is a good thing, on the whole.
IMHO.
I’m with you on a lot of your posts Jim, but I’m not so sure about this one.IMHO.
My brother-in-law would never go out for a meal, if he or his wife hadn’t clipped, or downloaded a coupon.
He and his wife came to Bilbao with me and my wife, (his sister), I walked out of the terminal, aiming for the taxi rank, he had disappeared, my wife said, ‘He’s gone to information, to see if he can get a bus to the hotel, he’d rather lump cases on and off a bus, then walk to the hotel, than waste his money on a taxi.”
He won’t go in a pub with me, because I don’t drink beer, only vodka or bourbon, he says, “I’m not buying you a vodka, and then have you buy me a lager.”
It doesn’t break my heart, but I have difficulty understanding it, I’ve always subscribed to the “can’t take it with you” theory.
My BILs wife says that our marriage works on a points system, my wife points to it, and if I’ve got the money, she can have it.
Of course, paying the bills, mortgage etc. was always covered, after that, anything goes.
I can’t be ar*ed looking for a greasy spoon, or a McDonalds, life’s too short, we’re only here for 70 odd years, it’s not a rehearsal, I’ll go to Club Gascon for escargots and duck confit.
If I've got the time, I'll always choose to walk rather than pay for taxis or public transport. It's better for me, and leaves me with money to spend on something else. If I'm at an airport with bags, then no, I wouldn't walk to the hotel unless it was literally in the airport itself, but given that many decent hotels near airports have free, regular shuttle services, surely not bothering to find out before spending £20+ on a taxi just underlines that notion of a fool and his money being easily parted?
The pub one does also piss me off somewhat as well. If drinks are similarly priced, then fine, but don't go ordering an expensive single malt or a double with mixer when you're out with others drinking pints, especially if you're then going to drink it much faster and offer to get your round in when everyone else is only half way down their pint or less. I used to work with a guy who would order a single house gin & tonic when it was his round, then ask for a large designer gin & tonic when it was someone else's round.
.HTP99 said:
Frank7 said:
He and his wife came to Bilbao with me and my wife, (his sister), I walked out of the terminal, aiming for the taxi rank, he had disappeared, my wife said, ‘He’s gone to information, to see if he can get a bus to the hotel, he’d rather lump cases on and off a bus, then walk to the hotel, than waste his money on a taxi.
LOL, my BIL who I mentioned a few pages back who asks for free shoes for his kids, is currently in Gran Canaria with the family and the MIL, instead of getting a taxi or bus to the hotel 1.5 miles away, he Insisted that they walked the 1.5 miles, in the rain! We used to hold a family BBQ in August for the MIL's birthday, we don't now as he always causes grief. Anyway we would provide salads, buns, sauces etc and asked that everyone else provide what meat they wanted and also booze, he never turned up with booze and only bought the bare minimum of meat (always reduced), and would end up drinking what I'd provided and I'd always run out, so one year I bought cider (I like cider far more than beer but bought beer so as to think of everyone else) he hates cider and spent the whole evening moaning that he had nothing to drink, there is a shop 5 minutes down the road but he refused to go.
Invite them round for dinner, they would bring a bottle of that awful flavoured "wine" which is about 3% alcohol, so it would only cost about £2.50.
We don't have a great deal to do with them now.
Edited by HTP99 on Friday 26th October 01:54
I don’t understand how people can be like that, if I/we want it, or need it, or it’s the best way, e.g., getting a bus or taxi versus walking in the rain, there’s no need to think about it, I/we just do it.
When I was single, in my late 20s, early 30s, a bunch, 4, 5, or 6 of us, would rent a pool home for 2 or 3 weeks, Spain, Portugal, Florida, and lay around the pool during the day, then go out for dinner in the evening, before hitting the bars.
We’d usually park the car somewhere, noting where it was, to get a cab back to get it next day, then walk around, looking for a restaurant that suited us.
One of our number, Bob, was a lighterman back home, on the Thames, a really well paid job in those days, the rest of us were printers, Black Cab drivers, one publican, one guy owned an office cleaning business, in short, we were not poor.
One evening, in Portimão, Algarve, after looking at 3 or 4 menus, one of the guys saw a Portuguese restaurant, that had swordfish on the menu, which he loved, something like 250 escudos.
We all aimed for the entrance, when Bob, the lighterman, said, “Hold up, I saw swordfish on another menu, back down the street, 240 escudos.”
One of the guys said, “Enjoy it Bob, you’ll find us in a bar somewhere later if you look hard enough!”
Frank7 said:
HTP99 said:
Frank7 said:
He and his wife came to Bilbao with me and my wife, (his sister), I walked out of the terminal, aiming for the taxi rank, he had disappeared, my wife said, ‘He’s gone to information, to see if he can get a bus to the hotel, he’d rather lump cases on and off a bus, then walk to the hotel, than waste his money on a taxi.
LOL, my BIL who I mentioned a few pages back who asks for free shoes for his kids, is currently in Gran Canaria with the family and the MIL, instead of getting a taxi or bus to the hotel 1.5 miles away, he Insisted that they walked the 1.5 miles, in the rain! We used to hold a family BBQ in August for the MIL's birthday, we don't now as he always causes grief. Anyway we would provide salads, buns, sauces etc and asked that everyone else provide what meat they wanted and also booze, he never turned up with booze and only bought the bare minimum of meat (always reduced), and would end up drinking what I'd provided and I'd always run out, so one year I bought cider (I like cider far more than beer but bought beer so as to think of everyone else) he hates cider and spent the whole evening moaning that he had nothing to drink, there is a shop 5 minutes down the road but he refused to go.
Invite them round for dinner, they would bring a bottle of that awful flavoured "wine" which is about 3% alcohol, so it would only cost about £2.50.
We don't have a great deal to do with them now.
Edited by HTP99 on Friday 26th October 01:54
I don’t understand how people can be like that, if I/we want it, or need it, or it’s the best way, e.g., getting a bus or taxi versus walking in the rain, there’s no need to think about it, I/we just do it.
When I was single, in my late 20s, early 30s, a bunch, 4, 5, or 6 of us, would rent a pool home for 2 or 3 weeks, Spain, Portugal, Florida, and lay around the pool during the day, then go out for dinner in the evening, before hitting the bars.
We’d usually park the car somewhere, noting where it was, to get a cab back to get it next day, then walk around, looking for a restaurant that suited us.
One of our number, Bob, was a lighterman back home, on the Thames, a really well paid job in those days, the rest of us were printers, Black Cab drivers, one publican, one guy owned an office cleaning business, in short, we were not poor.
One evening, in Portimão, Algarve, after looking at 3 or 4 menus, one of the guys saw a Portuguese restaurant, that had swordfish on the menu, which he loved, something like 250 escudos.
We all aimed for the entrance, when Bob, the lighterman, said, “Hold up, I saw swordfish on another menu, back down the street, 240 escudos.”
One of the guys said, “Enjoy it Bob, you’ll find us in a bar somewhere later if you look hard enough!”
nonsequitur said:
Escudo me for asking, but did Bob eat solo that night?
Yes he did, we loved him really, but he’d just gone too far with trying save 10 escudos that night.On that same trip, (I think), he bought a pair of shoes in Faro, wore them, walked around for a couple of hours, had a drink here and there, then walking back to the car, went in the shop and got his money back, saying that they were too tight, very apt, coming from him.
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