OT: Moaning council

Typical moaning councils, do they ever do anything constructive?

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James Wilkinson
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I've been thinking about retarmacing the top few metres of our drive (it's mostly paving stones, but the end is tarmac), since it's been looking a bit tired recently. I can home one day last month to find that it had been done for me. I've still no idea why - it wasn't particularly bad, and they didn't do anywhere else in our road. I assume the council had something to do with it.

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Dan S. MacAbre

Regularly breaking the rules by loutish behaviour has netted Top Gear's high rollers a small fortune. I'm not sure I sympathise with their difficulties especially when they're littl emore than publicity stunts.

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"What DO Top Gear's high rollers spend their ?55million fortune on? From Clarkson's country estate to Hammond's helicopter and James May's private plane... the luxury lives of three BBC kings"

Reply to
pamela

If you're saying their accumulated wealth is a problem, then I don't see why. They put their energies into making a successful TV series and reaped the rewards.

Open for anyone to do the same or similar...

Reply to
F

And spending is re-cycling the money to others with an offtake to HMRC.

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Reply to
Tim Lamb

The HMRC is the biggest organised crime unit ever made.

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Reply to
James Wilkinson

Rules are for the obedience of fools.

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Reply to
James Wilkinson

I have a tarmac drive end that they maintain, very odd. Stupid way the estate was built by Bett Homes I guess. Mind you, since they gave up the bush area and told me to maintain it (which I loved - I didn't even know it was mine! - it's now part of my front garden), they may stop doing the tarmac bit. Might have to get more monoblock done....

Reply to
James Wilkinson

It's the charade I object to. Rich boys pretending to be poor yobs.

Even the Daily Mail agrees with me! :-)

Reply to
pamela

Did you read that wisdom on the back of packet of cornflakes? :-)

Reply to
pamela

No, he tries to avoid breakfast foods with a higher intellect than himself.

Reply to
John Rumm

It's common sense. Rules are made by other people with differing opinio= ns. Why should I do what others want me to instead of what I want to do= ?

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James Wilkinson

Your wit is so terrible, I rate you at a jar of marmalade.

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James Wilkinson

But most don't, which is why they get such good ratings. And the boring= ones like Chris Evans failed.

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Reply to
James Wilkinson

I think Chris Evans comes over as big a yob as Jeremy Clarkson but there isn't that "lads about town" feel to his Top Gear.

Both have made a fortune by not over estimating the tastes of the public.

Reply to
pamela

I sometimes hear that sort of philosophy from my teenage nephew. I expect he'll grow out of it soon.

Reply to
pamela

For the overall collective good, you wombat.

Otherwise, you'd have people dropping in to piss against your front wall "as that's what people do where they live".

Reply to
Tim Watts

Or to put it another way, James Rod Speed Wilkinson, no problem if you don't mind me beheading you for doing what you want to do.

Because it's what *I* want to do.

Basic game theory.

Reply to
The Natural Philosopher

99.999% of us don't like that sort of thing, hence you'd be killed.
Reply to
James Wilkinson

Fuck off, nobody gets to be in charge. Nobody can say they're right and everyone else is wrong.

No, most people aren't like that. Anyway, I'd kill them.

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James Wilkinson

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