Little Things That Irk You IX

[teddymeow]

It's a juggling act. The fact you have to start planning it in October is also annoying.

Yeah, at least let us celebrate the sacred festival that is Hallowe'en, first!!!

[teddymeow]

Unfortunately the doors are not wide enough at my new place no matter what way i rotate it the pin wouldn't go through even if the backbox was removed,

Can you not take the legs off and do the whole Friends "pivot" scenario?

[importaku]

The legs have to come off anyway to move it but even if i took the backbox off the main base part even rotated on it's side is a few inches wider than all the doorways in the bungalow we are moving to and there's no way i could take any the frame off the outer door to get it in as they are security doors so the frame & door is stupidly strong. Annoying with pin tables they really weren't designed for normal houses unless you are lucky, thankfully i have about an inch where it is now to get it through the doors but i warned arcade club they are going to have to disassemble the backbox to get it out but they seem ok with that.

I could have probably got more for it with more time to sell but time is not something i have on my side now as if we are not out of this flat by the 9th then we forefit the 8 grand relocation compensation the council owe us for booting us out of here. For what i got that's a couple of grand more than what i originally paid for it and i can use those funds to get some nice bits for my new room/gaming stuff very tempted by a retrotink 4K & a new tv to replace my super burned & speckled plasma screen

[cutmymilk]

Out of curiosity how do you even qualify for a council house? You have more disposable income than anyone on here!

[Lebowski]

My danger alarms are going off you don't know peoples personal circumstances, that's a very leading question your kind of getting into "how can people who are on benefits afford to drink and smoke and pay for sky TV" territory.

[Hirst]

You don’t have to be low income to have a council house, it’s just that in recent years it’s very difficult to get one in the first place. If you’ve already got one and you end up getting a well-paid job, they don’t take it back off you. Once you’re given the tenancy, you could win the lottery or become the CEO of a diamond mine and you’re still able to keep the house.

[Lebowski]

You don’t have to be low income to have a council house, it’s just that in recent years it’s very difficult to get one in the first place. If you’ve already got one and you end up getting a well-paid job, they don’t take it back off you. Once you’re given the tenancy, you could win the lottery or become the CEO of a diamond mine and you’re still able to keep the house.

If you live in a rich Area and paid 10 grand to buy your council house in the 80's you could be sitting on a property worth half a million in Today's crazy property market.

[Neon Ignition]

It's still a wonder how the Tories ever developed a reputation for having a strength on finances when they've overseen so many blindingly moronic decisions

[cutmymilk]

My danger alarms are going off you don't know peoples personal circumstances, that's a very leading question your kind of getting into "how can people who are on benefits afford to drink and smoke and pay for sky TV" territory.

Curiosity killed the cat I guess. I dont want to upset Importaku as he is an amazing forum member so apologies if I did. I guess it answers how he can afford to spend a grand a month on amazon Japan though!

[MonkeyJuggleDX]

You don’t have to be low income to have a council house, it’s just that in recent years it’s very difficult to get one in the first place. If you’ve already got one and you end up getting a well-paid job, they don’t take it back off you. Once you’re given the tenancy, you could win the lottery or become the CEO of a diamond mine and you’re still able to keep the house.

Yup. A lad I grew up near and played football with lived in a council house with his mum and she won the lottery TWICE! Still lives in the same house!

[Anpanman]

You don’t have to be low income to have a council house,

I'm the product of a council estate - a rough one, when I was a kid you deffo had to be poor to live on one.

Although I suppose we were lucky to live in a house, though when I say house it was only a hole in the ground covered by a sheet of tarpaulin.

[Golgo]

You were lucky. We used to dream of livin' in a hole in the ground.

[Hirst]

I was off a council estate too, was the biggest one in the world for some time (don't think it is now). Wasn't that rough at our end, but it had pockets where it was definitely rough - anywhere towards the centre was bad, as well as one area where they had a lot of single-occupant households (my folks explicitly said I wasn't to go near it).

I think we got it because my dad was leaving the Royal Navy after I'd been born, the council had some legal responsibility at that time to sort out housing to ex armed forces. But almost all of my family at that time lived in council houses and were either retired or working in jobs that ranged from pretty ordinary to quite decently paid. My grandad owned and managed a large Working Mens Club and still lived in his rented council house.

Something that got me thinking though, the private rented sector around here must have been absolutely tiny back then. Everyone I knew either seemed to have a mortgage or was renting a council house. I can't think of anyone who rented who wasn't paying the council for it, it would have seemed daft to do so - the council houses were mostly large 3-bed semis with a driveway, gardens front and rear. Repairs were guaranteed, sometimes reluctantly, but they'd sort it. Rents were fair and there were no shady landlords threatening to evict you if you complain about the boiler leaking. It's a disgrace really that we've allowed that system to be degraded so much.

[fishbowlhead]

I'm the product of a council estate - a rough one, when I was a kid you deffo had to be poor to live on one.

Although I suppose we were lucky to live in a house, though when I say house it was only a hole in the ground covered by a sheet of tarpaulin.

You had a Tarp? Well look a this fancy pants over here with his tarp.

[Anpanman]

You were lucky. We used to dream of livin' in a hole in the ground.

You had a Tarp? Well look a this fancy pants over here with his tarp.

Classic!