A bit council (Vol 6)

A bit council (Vol 6)

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The Gauge

3,865 posts

23 months

Monday 2nd December 2024
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Mumble said:
Spent my first 21 years on a council estate, worked as an apprentice and then carpenter for the local authority till the age of 28, council enough for you amateurs.
Being 'council' has nothing to do with living on a council estate. As someone much earlier in the thread correctly pointed out, being council is a state of mind.

So you could be staggeringly rich and live in a mansion but if your TV is mounted on your chimney breast then thats council. Or you could live on the worst council estate in the UK, but as long as you don't have a sofa out the front of your house, or a ripped trampoline in an overgrown garden, or no 'love, laugh, live' picture on your wall, then you're not council whatsoever.

Tommo87

4,940 posts

123 months

Monday 2nd December 2024
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RustyMX5 said:
nismocat said:
We used to take our bikes into the big woods next to the house. We would come across dog walkers and families and no one would get angry (we did stop and turn off the bike though) all they did was say hello.

We'd push it across the main road into the farmers field after burning. Once we were pushing it across and a cop car stopped, put his lights on, and motioned for us to cross then just drove off with a wave.

We'd also have an airgun each slung over our shoulders. We were probably about 11yo.

People were much more tolerant of scrotes back then and I know for a fact some of the people getting enraged did exactly the same thing as kids.
The bold bits highlight the difference between 'then' and 'now', Whilst I wouldn't want to hazard a guess as to when your story took place, I remember a time in the late 70's and early 80's when kids had more respect for people around them. Nowadays, the kids will ride at a dog walker to get them to move out of the way and will ride on the main roads without giving a st.
Agree with Rusty. Looking back through rose tinted glasses about people having more tolerance for likeable scallywags is moot, when you consider the modern day equivalents have no respect for anything or anyone else.

Harry H

3,569 posts

166 months

Monday 2nd December 2024
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Tommo87 said:
RustyMX5 said:
nismocat said:
We used to take our bikes into the big woods next to the house. We would come across dog walkers and families and no one would get angry (we did stop and turn off the bike though) all they did was say hello.

We'd push it across the main road into the farmers field after burning. Once we were pushing it across and a cop car stopped, put his lights on, and motioned for us to cross then just drove off with a wave.

We'd also have an airgun each slung over our shoulders. We were probably about 11yo.

People were much more tolerant of scrotes back then and I know for a fact some of the people getting enraged did exactly the same thing as kids.
The bold bits highlight the difference between 'then' and 'now', Whilst I wouldn't want to hazard a guess as to when your story took place, I remember a time in the late 70's and early 80's when kids had more respect for people around them. Nowadays, the kids will ride at a dog walker to get them to move out of the way and will ride on the main roads without giving a st.
Agree with Rusty. Looking back through rose tinted glasses about people having more tolerance for likeable scallywags is moot, when you consider the modern day equivalents have no respect for anything or anyone else.
We had no choice as youngsters back then. A bit of disrespect to an adult usually ended in a thick ear or having heads banged together. It just wasn't worth the pain. Now the kids are untouchable is it any wonder they're completely feral.

The Gauge

3,865 posts

23 months

Monday 2nd December 2024
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Back in my day (70's/80's) you had decent kids and bad kids. I think scroates are a new middle category that never used to exist.

The everyday decent kids got up to mischief by going out into the woods to play, some took their dads air rifle and occasionally started small fires etc but didn't cause any real offence, harm or fear. The bad kids (I don't recall scroat ever being a word back then) did a bit worse.

Nowadays the decent kids don't/daren't get up to mischief, the modern day scroats whizz about on electric scooters being an absolute nuisance with little care, and the bad kids mug people and worse.

RustyMX5

8,402 posts

227 months

Monday 2nd December 2024
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Harry H said:
Tommo87 said:
RustyMX5 said:
nismocat said:
We used to take our bikes into the big woods next to the house. We would come across dog walkers and families and no one would get angry (we did stop and turn off the bike though) all they did was say hello.

We'd push it across the main road into the farmers field after burning. Once we were pushing it across and a cop car stopped, put his lights on, and motioned for us to cross then just drove off with a wave.

We'd also have an airgun each slung over our shoulders. We were probably about 11yo.

People were much more tolerant of scrotes back then and I know for a fact some of the people getting enraged did exactly the same thing as kids.
The bold bits highlight the difference between 'then' and 'now', Whilst I wouldn't want to hazard a guess as to when your story took place, I remember a time in the late 70's and early 80's when kids had more respect for people around them. Nowadays, the kids will ride at a dog walker to get them to move out of the way and will ride on the main roads without giving a st.
Agree with Rusty. Looking back through rose tinted glasses about people having more tolerance for likeable scallywags is moot, when you consider the modern day equivalents have no respect for anything or anyone else.
We had no choice as youngsters back then. A bit of disrespect to an adult usually ended in a thick ear or having heads banged together. It just wasn't worth the pain. Now the kids are untouchable is it any wonder they're completely feral.
Yep, and the local beat bobby commanded more than a degree of respect. Step out of line and you'd get a clip around the ear or worse, the holly would be brought out. But the demise of the beat bobby and the culture of suing the crap out of people for looking at a kid the wrong way has meant that a lot of kids now have little respect for anyone.

Strangely Brown

11,419 posts

241 months

Monday 2nd December 2024
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the-norseman said:
I like to call them UK pickups (Ford Rangers etc) chav chariots.
Nah. Chav chariots are "hot" hatch barrywagons.

Road2Ruin

5,681 posts

226 months

Monday 2nd December 2024
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The Gauge said:
Mumble said:
Spent my first 21 years on a council estate, worked as an apprentice and then carpenter for the local authority till the age of 28, council enough for you amateurs.
Being 'council' has nothing to do with living on a council estate. As someone much earlier in the thread correctly pointed out, being council is a state of mind.

So you could be staggeringly rich and live in a mansion but if your TV is mounted on your chimney breast then thats council. Or you could live on the worst council estate in the UK, but as long as you don't have a sofa out the front of your house, or a ripped trampoline in an overgrown garden, or no 'love, laugh, live' picture on your wall, then you're not council whatsoever.
In fact, that was mentioned in the very first post in the thread...a lot of years ago!

mac96

4,763 posts

153 months

Monday 2nd December 2024
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skyebear said:
Using a blanket nailed to a wall instead of purchasing curtains. Said blanket should only cover 50-75% of window.
If it’s by choice then agreed. But if it is because just moved in or can't afford curtains then I'd say not.

Poverty does not = council.

bigpriest

1,877 posts

140 months

Monday 2nd December 2024
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Harry H said:
Tommo87 said:
RustyMX5 said:
nismocat said:
We used to take our bikes into the big woods next to the house. We would come across dog walkers and families and no one would get angry (we did stop and turn off the bike though) all they did was say hello.

We'd push it across the main road into the farmers field after burning. Once we were pushing it across and a cop car stopped, put his lights on, and motioned for us to cross then just drove off with a wave.

We'd also have an airgun each slung over our shoulders. We were probably about 11yo.

People were much more tolerant of scrotes back then and I know for a fact some of the people getting enraged did exactly the same thing as kids.
The bold bits highlight the difference between 'then' and 'now', Whilst I wouldn't want to hazard a guess as to when your story took place, I remember a time in the late 70's and early 80's when kids had more respect for people around them. Nowadays, the kids will ride at a dog walker to get them to move out of the way and will ride on the main roads without giving a st.
Agree with Rusty. Looking back through rose tinted glasses about people having more tolerance for likeable scallywags is moot, when you consider the modern day equivalents have no respect for anything or anyone else.
We had no choice as youngsters back then. A bit of disrespect to an adult usually ended in a thick ear or having heads banged together. It just wasn't worth the pain. Now the kids are untouchable is it any wonder they're completely feral.
Hate to say it but violence breeds violence. You may be dishing it out one day and then find you're on the receiving end the next. Why would anyone grow up with respect after being slapped around? All sounds very council.

wildwesthero

268 posts

4 months

Monday 2nd December 2024
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mac96 said:
If it’s by choice then agreed. But if it is because just moved in or can't afford curtains then I'd say not.

Poverty does not = council.
Yes, after I bought my first house I had no spare cash at all. Thankfully the previous owners had left the curtain rails, ideal for hanging my spare bed sheets on for some kind of privacy.

mickythefish

1,598 posts

16 months

Monday 2nd December 2024
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White fox jumpers?

Spare tyre

10,729 posts

140 months

Monday 2nd December 2024
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mickythefish said:
White fox jumpers?
Especially if combined with a collapsed Ugg boot in the rain

HTP99

23,543 posts

150 months

Monday 2nd December 2024
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mickythefish said:
White fox jumpers?
Lol, but yeah they seem to be everywhere now, sported by a certain female type, I guess they've moved on from "juicy" velour bottoms!

The Gauge

3,865 posts

23 months

Monday 2nd December 2024
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This is a poor install, theres clearly room for it to have gone just a little bit higher



The Gauge

3,865 posts

23 months

Monday 2nd December 2024
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This one confuses me, its height screams council but its size suggests not. Surely the laws of 'councillia' dictate a TV must be overly large, not undurly small (think I've just made up a new word)..



Alex Z

1,628 posts

86 months

Monday 2nd December 2024
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nismocat said:
People were much more tolerant of scrotes back then and I know for a fact some of the people getting enraged did exactly the same thing as kids.
Isn’t that part of growing up though? Teenage me did stupid stuff that I’d now think was dumb or antisocial

mac96

4,763 posts

153 months

Monday 2nd December 2024
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The Gauge said:
This one confuses me, its height screams council but its size suggests not. Surely the laws of 'councillia' dictate a TV must be overly large, not undurly small (think I've just made up a new word)..


Looks like a dentist's waiting room. High up to stop anyone fiddling with it?

Roofless Toothless

6,256 posts

142 months

Monday 2nd December 2024
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TV sets mounted so high up the wall always remind me of hospital waiting rooms, or restaurants in Italy, where a screen is always stuck up in a corner somewhere so the waiters can all watch the football and ignore the customers.

nismocat

850 posts

18 months

Tuesday 3rd December 2024
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The Gauge said:
This one confuses me, its height screams council but its size suggests not. Surely the laws of 'councillia' dictate a TV must be overly large, not undurly small (think I've just made up a new word)..


Is that an Iphone 16 pro?

nismocat

850 posts

18 months

Tuesday 3rd December 2024
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Tommo87 said:
RustyMX5 said:
nismocat said:
We used to take our bikes into the big woods next to the house. We would come across dog walkers and families and no one would get angry (we did stop and turn off the bike though) all they did was say hello.

We'd push it across the main road into the farmers field after burning. Once we were pushing it across and a cop car stopped, put his lights on, and motioned for us to cross then just drove off with a wave.

We'd also have an airgun each slung over our shoulders. We were probably about 11yo.

People were much more tolerant of scrotes back then and I know for a fact some of the people getting enraged did exactly the same thing as kids.
The bold bits highlight the difference between 'then' and 'now', Whilst I wouldn't want to hazard a guess as to when your story took place, I remember a time in the late 70's and early 80's when kids had more respect for people around them. Nowadays, the kids will ride at a dog walker to get them to move out of the way and will ride on the main roads without giving a st.
Agree with Rusty. Looking back through rose tinted glasses about people having more tolerance for likeable scallywags is moot, when you consider the modern day equivalents have no respect for anything or anyone else.
Yes, it was late 70s early 80s.

There was small caveat to that though.
In about 1983 i had a Yamaha DT125 that I used to ride in the woods. One day I came out of my house and was about to ride into the woods and a copper appeared out of knowwhere, he was sitting in his car behind my dads Transit tipper (council).

He beckoned me over and I knew I was fked, even though he said "We won't rub salt into the wounds" after he seized my bike. I got a court date a ban (before I even had my licence) a big fine and was grounded for two months by my parents. No insurance, no licence, no MOT, no road tax, faulty indicators!

Unfortunately that caused huge issues when I was eventually driving as it was impossible to get insurance or a job. bd.

Still, as my dad said, your fault no one elses.