A bit council (Vol 3)

[ben5575]

Frank, I think CdG was suggesting that no matter what it is, according to this thread, everything is council. It is simply the way of the thread, accept it as such. The thread is a parody of itself, to be upset by that irony is to be truly council (or American - Redneck council).

The lesson being; just embrace the council, for we all have it in us.

PS: I like the differentiation/phrase 'clear spirits'.
PPS: Stella is council as fk.

[Frank7]

ben5575 said:

Frank, I think CdG was suggesting that no matter what it is, according to this thread, everything is council. It is simply the way of the thread, accept it as such. The thread is a parody of itself, to be upset by that irony is to be truly council (or American - Redneck council).

The lesson being; just embrace the council, for we all have it in us.

PS: I like the differentiation/phrase 'clear spirits'.
PPS: Stella is council as fk.

Thanks ben, in actual fact that thought had been knock, knock, knocking at my hippocampus for a while lately, and you’ve just consolidated that theory.
I tremulously await, Royal Weddings, COUNCIL, commuting in First Class, COUNCIL.
Like you, I’m a tad mystified at “clear” spirits, I guess that brandy and rum are okay.

[Jim the Sunderer]

Have we had lard yet? I want to give it a try before it becomes the next passé in-thing, like pulled pork or salted caramel.

[FerdiZ28]

jakesmith said:

This is utter codswallop

1) only some festivals attract ‘council’ crowds so you’re obviously part of that
2) frequently in my experience of possibly 30 U.K. festivals, they become muddy at some point and wellies are sensible attire
3) it can be a huge walk to your tent to change if the weather changes which it frequently does in the U.K. and who can be bothered with that when you’re out having a blast with your mates. Glasto it can easily be 90 minutes to get back to your tent and back
4) many people only take the bare minimum due to having to carry it or fear of theft from tent so wellies are a sensible option if you’re only taking one type of footwear

Big fail I’m afraid

Festivals, so utterly council. Went to Reading once, good god never again. Apart from the dreadful acoustics, the clientele left a lot to be desired.

[jas xjr]

V8mate said:

Deesee said:

alorotom said:

Deesee said:

^ that shirt is not even a official replica, council!

Point missed.

Council won’t wear unofficial, they’ll purchase the real deal no matter the cost or if they’ll have to go without their Stella for a week.

Not following this now, Stella council? Surely San Miguel for a mid strength, gold label or Tennets Super for a higher Abv of choice.

Stella has always been council. It's not known as 'wife beater' for nothing.

Council mostly drink weak lager.Carling at best.although Stella is very popular.I sold beer for 20 years. I sold up 20 years ago and things may have changed

[HTP99]

FerdiZ28 said:

jakesmith said:

This is utter codswallop

1) only some festivals attract ‘council’ crowds so you’re obviously part of that
2) frequently in my experience of possibly 30 U.K. festivals, they become muddy at some point and wellies are sensible attire
3) it can be a huge walk to your tent to change if the weather changes which it frequently does in the U.K. and who can be bothered with that when you’re out having a blast with your mates. Glasto it can easily be 90 minutes to get back to your tent and back
4) many people only take the bare minimum due to having to carry it or fear of theft from tent so wellies are a sensible option if you’re only taking one type of footwear

Big fail I’m afraid

Festivals, so utterly council. Went to Reading once, good god never again. Apart from the dreadful acoustics, the clientele left a lot to be desired.

Me and the wife do a fair few festivals, I can assure you that they aren't council, you don't get track suit wearers, skinny oiks with Nike ticks in their hair, gold bling etc at festivals, idiots yes, council no! That includes Reading.

[Shuvi McTupya]

Frank7 said:

Thanks ben, in actual fact that thought had been knock, knock, knocking at my hippocampus for a while lately, and you’ve just consolidated that theory.
I tremulously await, Royal Weddings, COUNCIL, commuting in First Class, COUNCIL.
Like you, I’m a tad mystified at “clear” spirits, I guess that brandy and rum are okay.

Royal weddings are paid for by the state. Council.

Travelling on Public transport..I think you know

[djc206]

HTP99 said:

Me and the wife do a fair few festivals, I can assure you that they aren't council, you don't get track suit wearers, skinny oiks with Nike ticks in their hair, gold bling etc at festivals, idiots yes, council no! That includes Reading.

I went to Reading every year when I was younger, there was no shortage of council there. Glasto especially if you go to the southeast corner around Block 9 and Temple also has its fair share, last year there were an inordinate number of scousers doing laughing gas and then getting in fights.

[g3org3y]

djc206 said:

HTP99 said:

Me and the wife do a fair few festivals, I can assure you that they aren't council, you don't get track suit wearers, skinny oiks with Nike ticks in their hair, gold bling etc at festivals, idiots yes, council no! That includes Reading.

I went to Reading every year when I was younger, there was no shortage of council there. Glasto especially if you go to the southeast corner around Block 9 and Temple also has its fair share, last year there were an inordinate number of scousers doing laughing gas and then getting in fights.

Scousers. Council.

[Gareth1974]

Deesee said:

This is unreal,

Stella council...

Ok what self respecting fizzy yellow 5% ish liquid is not council?

Anything served from a keg, such as lagers, ‘creamflow’ bitters etc is council.

Cask beers = not council

Edited by Gareth1974 on Monday 29th October 08:12

[handpaper]

Non-council lagers?
Warsteiner
Bitburger (except in Germany, where it is)
Sapporo
Staroslav

Basically anything tasty and distinctive that hasn't been ruined by being brewed several hundred kilometres away from, and with different water to, the half-decent original.
Stella, which for the UK market is brewed in Magor, South Wales, using water which would otherwise be usefully flooding the Severn rail tunnel, definitely fails in this regard.
And for my clearly heinous sins I have 27 tons of it in the trailer behind me as I type, waiting to be unloaded at a South London cash-and-carry.
"I am become council, the shatterer of marriages".

[jet_noise]

Jim the Sunderer said:

Have we had lard yet? I want to give it a try before it becomes the next passé in-thing, like pulled pork or salted caramel.

No fat-cooked potato is complete unless it has been prepared in lard.

Call it dripping and it becomes non-council

[untakenname]

jakesmith said:

This is utter codswallop

1) only some festivals attract ‘council’ crowds so you’re obviously part of that
2) frequently in my experience of possibly 30 U.K. festivals, they become muddy at some point and wellies are sensible attire
3) it can be a huge walk to your tent to change if the weather changes which it frequently does in the U.K. and who can be bothered with that when you’re out having a blast with your mates. Glasto it can easily be 90 minutes to get back to your tent and back
4) many people only take the bare minimum due to having to carry it or fear of theft from tent so wellies are a sensible option if you’re only taking one type of footwear

Big fail I’m afraid

1.What music festivals have you been to with mainstream artists that haven't been council? Off the top of my head the only ones I've been to in the last decade or so with major artists was the Hop Farm festivals.

Glastonbury is council with a mixture of annoying teenagers on their gap year thrown in.

2.Not with the weather we have had this summer, why anyone would wear wellies when it's 30 degrees plus outside on bone dry packed ground beats me.

3. I'd rather get wet feet then boil my feet in non breathable footwear, it's easy enough to keep a disposable poncho with you at all times.

4.Surely if your at event which has a theft problem then that in itself is very council? I've always left my things in my tent at festivals (kept my phone and wallet on me at all times) and never had any issues, the secret is to go in a group and make it look like your area is occupied even if it isn't.

[Frank7]

Shuvi McTupya said:

Royal weddings are paid for by the state. Council.

Travelling on Public transport..I think you know

Thanks Shuvi, at least you’ve confirmed ben5575’s theory, I was just about to ask if I was okay when I flew 1st Class on Lufthansa, and Air France in the past, plus Connoisseur Class on United Airlines, but a little light came on in my brain, and I thought, ‘will I never learn?’

[nonsequitur]

Frank7 said:

CharlesdeGaulle said:

FFS lads, everyone knows that lager is council. Not just Stella, Heineken or whatever, all lager. Fact. It's the thread way.

Jeez, am I glad that I average around one beer every 5 or 6 years, maybe a Coors in Florida, or a Texas Lone Star In guess where, or maybe a long neck Jax anywhere I find it.
I’m not a fan of beers, but if the mercury hits 33c or 34c, they look tempting in a frosted glass.
I usually go for Grey Goose, Absolut, or Stolychnya vodka, but I’m happy to go with Smirnoff if my first three aren’t available, promise me that Smirnoff isn’t council.

What about teetotallers? Unless of course, they are c......

[berlintaxi]

Shuvi McTupya said:

Travelling on Public transport..I think you know

Started using public transport a bit more,travelling to meetings/exhibitions, just more convenient than trying to get around the UK in a car, ergo I am council and proud.

[untakenname]

Depends on what time of day, from 7-9am the trains (I live in S/E and commute into London) aren't council.
During rush hour the commuter is generally slim and in decent attire and not eating, contrast this if you get the train after 10am then it most definitely is council as it's full of tracksuits, obese single mothers glued to their phones whilst their offspring run riot and the stench of fast food and weed.

[SpeckledJim]

Frank, your humblebrags are tiresome.

I thought as much when I was reading PH whilst having a boring conversation on the phone with the queen.

[Cold]

SpeckledJim said:

Frank, your humblebrags are tiresome.

I thought as much when I was reading PH whilst having a boring conversation on the phone with the queen.

Oh, that's who Liz was speaking to. She made it difficult to hear the telly with her incessant chatting on the phone. Hogs the sofa, too.

[SpeckledJim]

Cold said:

SpeckledJim said:

Frank, your humblebrags are tiresome.

I thought as much when I was reading PH whilst having a boring conversation on the phone with the queen.

Oh, that's who Liz was speaking to. She made it difficult to hear the telly with her incessant chatting on the phone. Hogs the sofa, too.

Betty dunner half drone on.

That's what Taylor Swift always says when she's texting me about getting me to ask Vlad Putin to get Elon Musk to hire her for his birthday.