A bit council (Vol 6)

[paulw123]

GiantEnemyCrab said:

Davidos said:

Nextdoor notification:

"Thank you to the people at 62 Gainsborough road that accepted my kids Pizza last night rather than say they had the wrong address , I’m at 61 il post you the bill - kids cried , that was their Easter treat for good school reports and I can’t t afford to replace it again so I hope you ed enjoyed it"

.... just walk next door? Best to post online though.

Could have just said this to them when presenting them with the bill. Taking food you haven't ordered/paid for is pretty council too.

[Kowalski655]

Or just call the shop and say it's not been delivered, if #62 is the sort of council crack den that can't be approached. Not sure I'd want it anyway if it had been in someone else's house, who knows what was done to it....
Extra mozzarella?
https://youtu.be/IFldoz08BgU?si=J7WF9pnm8_9r-Opk

[Southerner]

Kowalski655 said:

Or just call the shop and say it's not been delivered, if #62 is the sort of council crack den that can't be approached. Not sure I'd want it anyway if it had been in someone else's house, who knows what was done to it....
Extra mozzarella?
https://youtu.be/IFldoz08BgU?si=J7WF9pnm8_9r-Opk

Exactly this, surely!

[Southerner]

siovey said:

Nominating myself. Currently enjoying my local Wetherspoons. We live in a decent area ( generally people have good incomes due to house prices). The Wetherspoons does attract some 'interesting ' people from 'out of town'

I see your outing to Spoons and raise you dinner on easter bank holiday weekend Saturday in a Hungry Horse in downtown Portsmouth.

It was every bit as utterly grim as you could ever wish to expect, from the TVs at the ‘dining’ tables to baseball capped angry dads effing and jeffing at their offspring, to vomit all over the floor closing one branch of the Gents and a total lack of soap in the other one; absolute council nirvana!

Being three weeks into a diet I was happy not to give too much of a sh*t and devour my ‘smallest thing on the menu’ 5oz gammon (council) without paying too much attention to the ambience!

Edited by Southerner on Sunday 31st March 04:56

[Spare tyre]

Southerner said:

siovey said:

Nominating myself. Currently enjoying my local Wetherspoons. We live in a decent area ( generally people have good incomes due to house prices). The Wetherspoons does attract some 'interesting ' people from 'out of town'

I see your outing to Spoons and raise you dinner on easter bank holiday weekend Saturday in a Hungry Horse in downtown Portsmouth.

It was every bit as utterly grim as you could ever wish to expect, from the TVs at the ‘dining’ tables to baseball capped angry dads effing and jeffing at their offspring, to vomit all over the floor closing one branch of the Gents and a total lack of soap in the other one; absolute council nirvana!

Being three weeks into a diet I was happy not to give too much of a sh*t and devour my ‘smallest thing on the menu’ 5oz gammon (council) without paying too much attention to the ambience!

Edited by Southerner on Sunday 31st March 04:56

I moved to Portsmouth (fratton) for a year as part of a placement, on our first evening me and colleague thought we,d head out for some food. Got to the end of the road and some geezer said “ what you cu nty nuggets looking at, I’ll spark you out you golden nuggets”

Whenever I see my colleague all these years later we still rattle that off.

Woke up the following morning ready to start placement to a knock on the door, was cops, neighbour had been murdered

Happy memories

[MDMA .]

Tim Cognito said:

Body shaming someone not behaving in a council manner enjoying a day out with their kid, stay classy PH.

Wearing a full replica kit (that doesn’t fit) whilst watching a lower level Championship team is as Council as it gets.

[x5tuu]

siovey said:

Nominating myself. Currently enjoying my local Wetherspoons. We live in a decent area ( generally people have good incomes due to house prices). The Wetherspoons does attract some 'interesting ' people from 'out of town'

Nah - bks - people do not travel from out of town to visit a Wetherspoons ... theyre local places for local (alcoholic) people (airport 'spoons excepted)

Trying to elevate your area blaming outsiders for Wetherspoons council-dom, Council.

[Tim Cognito]

MDMA . said:

Wearing a full replica kit (that doesn’t fit) whilst watching a lower level Championship team is as Council as it gets.

This is a niche football sub genre of council. Obviously football is inseperately intertwined with council, you could argue they exist in symbiosis.

Even knowing that this is a lower level team is... unfortunate.

[eldar]

Kowalski655 said:

Or just call the shop and say it's not been delivered, if #62 is the sort of council crack den that can't be approached. Not sure I'd want it anyway if it had been in someone else's house, who knows what was done to it....
Extra mozzarella?
https://youtu.be/IFldoz08BgU?si=J7WF9pnm8_9r-Opk

That, and a sprinkling of insanity sauce to liven up the party on return.

[siovey]

Southerner said:

I see your outing to Spoons and raise you dinner on easter bank holiday weekend Saturday in a Hungry Horse in downtown Portsmouth.

It was every bit as utterly grim as you could ever wish to expect, from the TVs at the ‘dining’ tables to baseball capped angry dads effing and jeffing at their offspring, to vomit all over the floor closing one branch of the Gents and a total lack of soap in the other one; absolute council nirvana!

Being three weeks into a diet I was happy not to give too much of a sh*t and devour my ‘smallest thing on the menu’ 5oz gammon (council) without paying too much attention to the ambience!

Edited by Southerner on Sunday 31st March 04:56

We had a Hungry Horse near our old house. One visit there was enough to put us off going again!

[siovey]

x5tuu said:

Nah - bks - people do not travel from out of town to visit a Wetherspoons ... theyre local places for local (alcoholic) people (airport 'spoons excepted)

Trying to elevate your area blaming outsiders for Wetherspoons council-dom, Council.

Much of what you say is true. All of the alkies we used to see in the other locals have now gone there.
But our village does attract people from out of the immediate area due to the numerous bars and restaurants.
We do have a pub 100 yards away from our house and, due to new management, that now attracts more scrotes than Wetherspoons - the mrs now refuses to go in there and prefers Wetherspoons!

[MDMA .]

Tim Cognito said:

MDMA . said:

Wearing a full replica kit (that doesn’t fit) whilst watching a lower level Championship team is as Council as it gets.

This is a niche football sub genre of council. Obviously football is inseperately intertwined with council, you could argue they exist in symbiosis.

Even knowing that this is a lower level team is... unfortunate.

I only know as we’ve had a box at United for the last 20 years and Millwall has never been an option to offer to suppliers

[paulw123]

There are some wetherspoons in nice affluent areas near me however the Hungry horse pubs are all on the fringes of dodgy housing estates.
Went to a hungry horse a few years ago and never again. However I have no problem with going to wetherspoons for cheap and cheerful food/drink. Wouldn't go there for a 'nice meal out' but they deff serve a purpose.

[Southerner]

paulw123 said:

There are some wetherspoons in nice affluent areas near me however the Hungry horse pubs are all on the fringes of dodgy housing estates.
Went to a hungry horse a few years ago and never again. However I have no problem with going to wetherspoons for cheap and cheerful food/drink. Wouldn't go there for a 'nice meal out' but they deff serve a purpose.

To be fair (bear with me…), Ungry Orse do seem to have at least upped their food game a bit lately; don’t get me wrong it’s still Wetherspoons level cheap trough fodder, but I’ve suffered it twice in the past six months or so and on neither occasion was it awful, albeit hardly posh nosh. The ambience and clitentelle are as rough as f’ck still, obviously.

[Saleen836]

Southerner said:

paulw123 said:

There are some wetherspoons in nice affluent areas near me however the Hungry horse pubs are all on the fringes of dodgy housing estates.
Went to a hungry horse a few years ago and never again. However I have no problem with going to wetherspoons for cheap and cheerful food/drink. Wouldn't go there for a 'nice meal out' but they deff serve a purpose.

To be fair (bear with me…), Ungry Orse do seem to have at least upped their food game a bit lately; don’t get me wrong it’s still Wetherspoons level cheap trough fodder, but I’ve suffered it twice in the past six months or so and on neither occasion was it awful, albeit hardly posh nosh. The ambience and clitentelle are as rough as f’ck still, obviously.

They replaced all the microwaves for newer models

[Spare tyre]

GiantEnemyCrab said:

Davidos said:

Nextdoor notification:

"Thank you to the people at 62 Gainsborough road that accepted my kids Pizza last night rather than say they had the wrong address , I’m at 61 il post you the bill - kids cried , that was their Easter treat for good school reports and I can’t t afford to replace it again so I hope you ed enjoyed it"

.... just walk next door? Best to post online though.

I see a similar thing here pretty often

“We received a letter for mr jones of 69 nobsuck avenue, ne1 no who dis is”

A few people suggest it’s the fella at 69, post it through his door

But that seems easier


The other one is when someone finds a drivers licence, they are baffled what to do with it

People suggest posting it through the door, but the plonkers always come back with “they might have moved away”

Mind blowing stuff

[Spare tyre]

A mate sent me this YouTube channel

Depressing viewing really

https://youtu.be/mR7DyIjFIoo?si=A6Dj23kDUm5VI-9X

[ChemicalChaos]

A new Farmfoods has opened up locally to me.

I ventured in the other day to see what it would be like, noticed a definite lack of whatever the UK equivalent of "Walmartians" is but then it is a brand new store!

Avoiding the ultra processed foods of dubious ingredients, I did come away with some "salt and pepper takeaway style" oven chips and noticed they do stock industrial sized packages of branded laundry consumables and the like for very low prices, which could be quite useful....

[Spare tyre]

ChemicalChaos said:

A new Farmfoods has opened up locally to me.

I ventured in the other day to see what it would be like, noticed a definite lack of whatever the UK equivalent of "Walmartians" is but then it is a brand new store!

Avoiding the ultra processed foods of dubious ingredients, I did come away with some "salt and pepper takeaway style" oven chips and noticed they do stock industrial sized packages of branded laundry consumables and the like for very low prices, which could be quite useful....

I’ve always assumed they were watered down, like tricking people with ready made screen wash

[Red9zero]

ChemicalChaos said:

A new Farmfoods has opened up locally to me.

I ventured in the other day to see what it would be like, noticed a definite lack of whatever the UK equivalent of "Walmartians" is but then it is a brand new store!

Avoiding the ultra processed foods of dubious ingredients, I did come away with some "salt and pepper takeaway style" oven chips and noticed they do stock industrial sized packages of branded laundry consumables and the like for very low prices, which could be quite useful....

We used to use one for selected items, but the staff and the other customers made it unbearable. As one example, the customer in front of us spilled some fabric conditioner on the conveyer belt and neither they nor the checkout person made any attempt to clean it up, so we had to try and clean it ourselves before we could put our shopping on. On our last visit we saw an argument over a parking space before we even got in the store, then screaming kids running up and down the aisles when we got inside. We ended up abandoning our trolley (with £1 still in it) and going to Sainsburys.