A bit council (Vol 3)

[shakotan]

Frank7 said:

Whistle said:

Have we have the tv series The Royle Family.. funny as feck.

Council at its finest.

Just my opinion of course, but I’d think that confessing to liking that dreck, is about as council as it is possible to get.
Granted I only caught some 8 -10 seconds of it, as it was on TV when we’d walked into my brother-in-law’s place, a man who thinks that eating in an Indian restaurant, instead of ordering take-out, is nouveau riche.
I gave my wife the car keys, and walked to the main road, hailed a taxi, and went home, I’d rather watch “Songs of Praise”, on a loop.

Didn't you say EXACTLY the same thing the other day, albeit about Mrs Brown's Boys, and this time it was at your Mother/Father-in-Laws?

ETA: Oops, just caught up with the tail of the thread!

Edited by shakotan on Wednesday 21st November 15:44

[AppleJuice]

easytiger123 said:

Rawwr said:

Why do people who can't afford to have kids, have so many kids?

"dance and drink and screw, because there's nothing else to do" You've obviously never lived like common people.

Are you suggesting that PHers sing along with the common people?

[S11Steve]

AppleJuice said:

Are you suggesting that PHers sing along with the common people?

We all do have a thirst for knowledge.

[kowalski655]

southendpier said:

ApOrbital said:

I take it frank likes his taxis?

and giving the wife the car keys.

Well,its good for her to have a ...<ahem>..."hobby"

[nonsequitur]

S11Steve said:

AppleJuice said:

Are you suggesting that PHers sing along with the common people?

We all do have a thirst for knowledge.

My man sings in my place. He's quite common.

[Antony Moxey]

shakotan said:

Frank7 said:

Whistle said:

Have we have the tv series The Royle Family.. funny as feck.

Council at its finest.

Just my opinion of course, but I’d think that confessing to liking that dreck, is about as council as it is possible to get.
Granted I only caught some 8 -10 seconds of it, as it was on TV when we’d walked into my brother-in-law’s place, a man who thinks that eating in an Indian restaurant, instead of ordering take-out, is nouveau riche.
I gave my wife the car keys, and walked to the main road, hailed a taxi, and went home, I’d rather watch “Songs of Praise”, on a loop.

Didn't you say EXACTLY the same thing the other day, albeit about Mrs Brown's Boys, and this time it was at your Mother/Father-in-Laws?

ETA: Oops, just caught up with the tail of the thread!

Edited by shakotan on Wednesday 21st November 15:44

And also professed to hating driving preferring to sit in the back reading the paper. Given that, why would he have the keys in the first place in order to toss them to his wife? Surely if she was driving she’d have them already?

[talksthetorque]

nonsequitur said:

My man sings in my place. He's quite common.

Could you not make it?

[Frank7]

easytiger123 said:

Frank7 said:

easytiger123 said:

Rawwr said:

Why do people who can't afford to have kids, have so many kids?

"dance and drink and screw, because there's nothing else to do" You've obviously never lived like common people.

I think I qualified as common people, my first wife called me a “two bob lorry driver”, my second, (and last), wife still refers to me as a “two bob cab driver”, even though I retired from driving Black Cabs in 2012.
I wasn’t much on dancing, but I did my share of drinking and screwing, difference was, I knew how birth control worked.
I could afford my two kids, and would have loved to have had more, but I put the handbrake on at two, and they never went without.
Now, they have two kids each themselves, and they’d dig ditches with teaspoons to make sure that those kids have shoes on their feet.
My youngest asked if I could help him out when he had some engine trouble with his wife’s 3 series BMW, I lent him 2K, he paid it back in three months.
When my eldest was getting married in Germany, in 1987, I gave him DM 4000 to help furnish the apartment he and my future daughter-in-law had rented.
He said it might take him a while to get it back to me, I told him that as long as he had a bottle of vodka in the freezer whenever I came over, just forget the money.

But if you called your dad he could stop it all?

No doubt the answer is staring me in the face, but you’ll have to explain that one, easytiger.

[talksthetorque]

For Frank7

https://youtu.be/yuTMWgOduFM

Edited by talksthetorque on Thursday 22 November 08:42

[Jimmy Recard]

Looks like there will be some sort of price cap on these BrightHouse type operations

I can’t say I feel sorry for them

[FunkyNige]

Jimmy Recard said:

Looks like there will be some sort of price cap on these BrightHouse type operations

I can’t say I feel sorry for them

To be fair, they are up front with their prices - there was an advert on TV last night for them and they said it's £8 a week for a £650 TV, you will pay a total of £1200 for it, that's and APR of 67% (numbers off the top of my head), etc. If you can't get a credit card and don't have £650 lying around I'm not sure what the alternative is?
Obviously the alternative is to save up for 10 weeks and buy a second hand TV, but for some reason that kind of forward planning and 'making do with second hand stuff for a bit' doesn't appeal to some.

[Bullett]

Sometimes you can't even give stuff like TV's away.
I had a very good flat/HD 40" ish TV about 8 years old that I had to dump in the end.

[MartG]

FunkyNige said:

Obviously the alternative is to save up for 10 weeks and buy a second hand TV, but for some reason that kind of forward planning and 'making do with second hand stuff for a bit' doesn't appeal to some.

Or wait for the Brexit food riots when they'll be able to loot a few

[Shuvi McTupya]

Bullett said:

Sometimes you can't even give stuff like TV's away.
I had a very good flat/HD 40" ish TV about 8 years old that I had to dump in the end.

I recently bought a perfectly good Samsung 40" from Gumtree for £40. I wouldn't entertain the idea of paying £1200 for a slightly newer, slightly bigger TV if money is tight.

[AppleJuice]

MartG said:

FunkyNige said:

Obviously the alternative is to save up for 10 weeks and buy a second hand TV, but for some reason that kind of forward planning and 'making do with second hand stuff for a bit' doesn't appeal to some.

Or wait for the Black Friday food riots when they'll be able to loot a few

FTFY

[PositronicRay]

Bullett said:

Sometimes you can't even give stuff like TV's away.
I had a very good flat/HD 40" ish TV about 8 years old that I had to dump in the end.

I sold a 40" Pioneer plasma, in good working order it only fetched a few quid on ebay. The guy who collected it was taking it some sort of shelter IIRC

[FerdiZ28]

PositronicRay said:

I sold a 40" Pioneer plasma, in good working order it only fetched a few quid on ebay. The guy who collected it was taking it some sort of shelter IIRC

On the flipside of that Ed I once sold a broken 14 year old LG 50" plasma (mine at uni and pretty much on all of the time most days, incredible innings. Black screened one day) for 50 sovs - chap came up from Brighton to buy it too, about a 2 hour drive.

No idea what his plan for it was.

[alorotom]

FerdiZ28 said:

On the flipside of that Ed I once sold a broken 14 year old LG 50" plasma (mine at uni and pretty much on all of the time most days, incredible innings. Black screened one day) for 50 sovs - chap came up from Brighton to buy it too, about a 2 hour drive.

No idea what his plan for it was.

Cling film it and sell it at a car boot sale for top dollar probably

[anonymous-user]

FerdiZ28 said:

On the flipside of that Ed I once sold a broken 14 year old LG 50" plasma (mine at uni and pretty much on all of the time most days, incredible innings. Black screened one day) for 50 sovs - chap came up from Brighton to buy it too, about a 2 hour drive.

No idea what his plan for it was.

A couple of years back some of the younger (more gullible) lads in our office purchased some flat screen tv's from the back of a transit van in the car park. Bargain they were, only £50 for a new, boxed 40" flat screen tv. The chap even showed them one out of the box and it was perfect. Except the boxes they opened when they got back in the office had either a broken, battered tv or some wooden blocks. Surprisingly enough the chap in the van had gone when they went back outside and was never seen again. The rest of the office had a good laugh about that for a few weeks after

[Kermit power]

Grahamdub said:

A couple of years back some of the younger (more gullible) lads in our office purchased some flat screen tv's from the back of a transit van in the car park. Bargain they were, only £50 for a new, boxed 40" flat screen tv. The chap even showed them one out of the box and it was perfect. Except the boxes they opened when they got back in the office had either a broken, battered tv or some wooden blocks. Surprisingly enough the chap in the van had gone when they went back outside and was never seen again. The rest of the office had a good laugh about that for a few weeks after

That reminds me of the scam a while back (not sure if it still goes on?) of blokes purporting to be a rep for a Swiss watch manufacturer coming up to people at motorway service stations saying they'd been in the UK for a trade fair and had realised they'd been given more display watches than were on the paperwork, so if you gave him a couple of hundred quid, he could sort you out with a £2k Omega or whatever from the boot of his car.

I experienced it at the Heston services on the M4 - well placed for him to pretend it was his last stop on the way to the airport - with a bloke claiming to be Jean-Paul from Geneva. Being as he was apparently from Geneva, I thought I'd be welcoming and reply to him in French. His answer was "You what"?