Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

PasturesNew

TV programme about taste and class is on Channel 4+1.

He's on a fairly new estate. Looking at the middle classes.

"They look like the houses of the working class, but there's no mess, no litter"

He's been invited to a cupcake party.

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

.... by using Quidco, you can use your savings to pay your exhorbitant library fees for having vaguely interesting books delivered to your small and inadequate local library

Once you move to the other place near where an NP's child goes to Uni, the libraries will be on a whole different scale. They'll go from being as big as a large living room to as big as a fair sized office block. A thousand or so items will multiply to hundreds of thousands. With a bit of luck they'll also allow you to register as disabled so you can access the service free of charge.

PasturesNew

Jamie Oliver cookware party.

Is it just me or .... I have always found any form of party planning sales very very "typical council" and tacky!!

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

Once you move to the other place near where an NP's child goes to Uni, the libraries will be on a whole different scale. They'll go from being as big as a large living room to as big as a fair sized office block. A thousand or so items will multiply to hundreds of thousands. With a bit of luck they'll also allow you to register as disabled so you can access the service free of charge.

Wouldn't they want some "proof"? Or do I just wobble up, twitch a bit and say it?

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

Jamie Oliver cookware party.

Is it just me or .... I have always found any form of party planning sales very very "typical council" and tacky!!

Brilliant programme suggestion, cheers Pastures. It did amuse me when they were at the Jamie party was the irony of their saying that they were getting away from the working class who can get the same sort of stuff at George. How bl**dy posh do they think Jamie Oliver is? They're avin a giraffe.

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

Wouldn't they want some "proof"? Or do I just wobble up, twitch a bit and say it?

It does depend from one authority to another. Here we don't ask for proof, you just check a box. Hopefully they will be the same.

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

It does depend from one authority to another. Here we don't ask for proof, you just check a box. Hopefully they will be the same.

It probably wouldn't be high on my list of things to do ... as I don't expect to have an address for awhile. I'll be using another address several hundred miles away for everything. . . and forms like an address and proof you live somewhere

So I expect to mainly be avoiding forms....

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

How bl**dy posh do they think Jamie Oliver is? They're avin a giraffe.

'es a chubby barra boi.

They equate "on the telly" with "posh" I think.

They probably buy Heat magazine....

I must say that (bearing in mind they're on best behaviour/the telly), their accents are quite common in the main. I'd trump their accents if I were at their cupcake party .... except I'd be booted out for taking the pee

PasturesNew

Most of the women married into it I bet.... so the men are middle-class suckers and the women are lucky hookers

vivatifosi

Don't rule out using a library though Pastures. For example, you can use free wifi in many without joining. Could be useful if you're between houses and have limited net access. You also tend to get free computer time if you are a member. All you need to do for most libraries is get a letter sent to your new address and bring the envelope in showing it, or have a formal doc with it on, such as a letting contract. If push comes to shove, e-mail me your address, I'll write to you and once delivered you can take it into your local library as proof of address.