A bit council (Vol 5)

A bit council (Vol 5)

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FatboyKim

2,271 posts

29 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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Deranged Rover said:
Occasionally a purchase arrives from eBay and, when I open it, this fetid smell wafts out - something combining general dirt and dust, smelly feet and stale chip fat. It does make me wonder what the houses and the people themselves smell like...

On a cheerier note, the gorgeous smell from Elke's biscuits in Uttoxeter always told me we were nearing the end of our journey to stay with my godparents in Alton, as a child
A girl I used to work with was quite open that she used to buy old pairs of trackie bottoms from people on eBay, and almost immediately list them for sale on her account but with a seductive and alluring picture of herself wearing them and little else in a mirror, and get close to 10x the ££ for them.

I remember her saying that the range of aromas on the garments when they arrived was vast. Old fags, wet dog, heavy BO as a starter, but she wasn't council in the slightest. From what I'm told by a mutual friend, she's moved on to OF now and takes 'requests'.

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untakenname

4,953 posts

191 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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Saleen836 said:
Krupp88 said:
Roll me in Asda Lard and throw me to the council girls….
I had the mis-fortune of seeing this car on Saturday as it was parked up on display at Castle Combe, there is even a sticker on the rear window saying 'Powered by OF' rolleyes
Seems quite a popular way of funding a car, even though they have no shame I can't see the harm tbh.








Its Just Adz

13,945 posts

208 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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DannyScene

6,596 posts

154 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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untakenname said:
Seems quite a popular way of funding a car, even though they have no shame I can't see the harm tbh.





Top one is almost definitely a piss take

julianm

1,531 posts

200 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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Yorkshire smelly places - Tadcaster with the breweries is very pleasant.
Not sure if the M606 `TCP` still drifts around.
Thankfully the A653 Dewsbury road dripping works - sort of tasty for a couple of seconds then serious pong time, has long gone!

Dog Star

16,079 posts

167 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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Its Just Adz said:
Good grief! That must be thugball, right? That's off the scale!

Stan the Bat

8,842 posts

211 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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Dog Star said:
Its Just Adz said:
Good grief! That must be thugball, right? That's off the scale!
Looks like a pretty large house.

CourtAgain

3,766 posts

63 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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Dog Star said:
Its Just Adz said:
Good grief! That must be thugball, right? That's off the scale!
The words are a verse in Allez Allez Allez sung by Liverpool fans... stolen and modified from an 80s Italian pop song rolleyes

Ledaig

1,694 posts

261 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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Stan the Bat said:
Dog Star said:
Its Just Adz said:
Good grief! That must be thugball, right? That's off the scale!
Looks like a pretty large house.
3 houses



Stan the Bat

8,842 posts

211 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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Ok, the view on the first pic was deceptive. thumbup

austinsmirk

5,597 posts

122 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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dudleybloke said:
About 20 years ago I was going for a job interview for a maintenance engineer position at a company with a name like xxxx products Ltd. Had very little info to go on but the job description sounded OK.
It was a hot summer afternoon and as I drove into the car park I was hit with a smell worse than death, it was a pet food rendering plant.
I didn't even get out of the car, just turned round and drove home.
We’ve a small estate of 19th century houses. Not only are they horrible, small and in one of the worst areas ever: they overlooked ( like physically opposite) the above. And abattoirs etc. the stench is staggering. Hangs in the air everywhere!

austinsmirk

5,597 posts

122 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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Dog Star said:
anonymous said:
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My very first ever IT contract in January 1993 was for Yorkshire Water (VAX ACMS if anyone remembers that) right in the centre of Bradford. There was an abbatoir or something back in the centre back then and it was minging. I can still smell it now.

Depressing place, although the job was cool - it actually used to have a lady come round with a tea and biscuits trolley several times a day - big tea urn on it and everything. She used to shout out "trolleeeeeee!" and you'd scoot off and grab your tea and cake or whatever.

(As an off-topic aside - the locations that I used to work in would determine how much I liked a job; some places were just alien to me, like Bradford, Woking, London, Basingstoke (and it also makes me laugh that people in the SE seen to think that where they live is so posh - most places are definitely no better than anywhere else - they just cost ten times more) . So glad I gave up and went doing a normal job.)
Ah. I’ve just recounted your Bradford abattoir! It’s still there and it’s awful !

Castrol for a knave

4,639 posts

90 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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julianm said:
Yorkshire smelly places - Tadcaster with the breweries is very pleasant.
Not sure if the M606 `TCP` still drifts around.
Thankfully the A653 Dewsbury road dripping works - sort of tasty for a couple of seconds then serious pong time, has long gone!
add the dodgy fumes and thinners smell from Allied Colloids at Low Moor. Carried for miles.

Johnnytheboy

24,498 posts

185 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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Gluggy said:
freakybacon said:
gazza285 said:
Occasionally work at the petfood factory next to the big Ikea in Birstall, that stinks, but not as bad as De Mulder's in Doncaster...
Having been made redundant September 2020, deep in coronavirus times, I ended up packing dog biscuits at that same place! My options were dog biscuits or human biscuits at Fox's in Batley, as there weren't even any jobs going in machine shops, let alone Quality Engineering jobs. 12 hour shifts were tough to start with, but conditions were good, and it kept First Direct off my back for the mortgage payments. To be fair, despite being a temporary job, the conditions were good (subsidised canteen, boots & uniform free,) and once you had proved yourself you could make a decent wage. If you hadn't done well at school but were prepared to work you could do a lot worse. Not the nicest smelling place though.

Taking any job going to keep a roof over your head- council!
Going to say not council. Council would be doing nothing to keep a roof over your head whilst blaming everyone / everything else and expecting the council to magic a house out of thin air for you to live in.

In all fairness, a big thumbs up to you for making the best of a bad situation and seeing the good points in a job that some would see beneath them.
Yep, taking any job to pay the bills is more or less the diametric opposite of Council.

Register1

2,129 posts

93 months

Wednesday 25th May 2022
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dudleybloke said:
About 20 years ago I was going for a job interview for a maintenance engineer position at a company with a name like xxxx products Ltd. Had very little info to go on but the job description sounded OK.
It was a hot summer afternoon and as I drove into the car park I was hit with a smell worse than death, it was a pet food rendering plant.
I didn't even get out of the car, just turned round and drove home.
That smelly factory in Widnes, that does the animal rendering?
Can't remember what they call themselves now.
Proper vile.

Tommo87

4,165 posts

112 months

Thursday 26th May 2022
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Johnnytheboy said:
Gluggy said:
freakybacon said:
gazza285 said:
Occasionally work at the petfood factory next to the big Ikea in Birstall, that stinks, but not as bad as De Mulder's in Doncaster...
Having been made redundant September 2020, deep in coronavirus times, I ended up packing dog biscuits at that same place! My options were dog biscuits or human biscuits at Fox's in Batley, as there weren't even any jobs going in machine shops, let alone Quality Engineering jobs. 12 hour shifts were tough to start with, but conditions were good, and it kept First Direct off my back for the mortgage payments. To be fair, despite being a temporary job, the conditions were good (subsidised canteen, boots & uniform free,) and once you had proved yourself you could make a decent wage. If you hadn't done well at school but were prepared to work you could do a lot worse. Not the nicest smelling place though.

Taking any job going to keep a roof over your head- council!
Going to say not council. Council would be doing nothing to keep a roof over your head whilst blaming everyone / everything else and expecting the council to magic a house out of thin air for you to live in.

In all fairness, a big thumbs up to you for making the best of a bad situation and seeing the good points in a job that some would see beneath them.
Yep, taking any job to pay the bills is more or less the diametric opposite of Council.
100% agree.

In fact I’m struggling to think of a scenario where it would even come close.


Roofless Toothless

5,612 posts

131 months

Thursday 26th May 2022
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Register1 said:
dudleybloke said:
About 20 years ago I was going for a job interview for a maintenance engineer position at a company with a name like xxxx products Ltd. Had very little info to go on but the job description sounded OK.
It was a hot summer afternoon and as I drove into the car park I was hit with a smell worse than death, it was a pet food rendering plant.
I didn't even get out of the car, just turned round and drove home.
That smelly factory in Widnes, that does the animal rendering?
Can't remember what they call themselves now.
Proper vile.
There used to be a glue factory in Marshgate Lane, Stratford (in East London) that reeked to high heaven as well. My wife once had a job in an office next door!

Triumph Man

8,670 posts

167 months

Thursday 26th May 2022
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Krupp88 said:
Roll me in Asda Lard and throw me to the council girls….
Ruined E36 in the background for extra council points.

Alorotom

11,907 posts

186 months

Thursday 26th May 2022
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Triumph Man said:
Krupp88 said:
Roll me in Asda Lard and throw me to the council girls….
Ruined E36 in the background for extra council points.
thats what's known in council circles as OEM+

Jules Sunley

3,933 posts

92 months

Thursday 26th May 2022
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Alorotom said:
Triumph Man said:
Krupp88 said:
Roll me in Asda Lard and throw me to the council girls….
Ruined E36 in the background for extra council points.
thats what's known in council circles as OEM+
Very good biggrin
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