The Ranting Room

^^at my Youth Hostel, I have between 25-30 nesting pairs of House Sparrows, both in boxes around the building, and in the holly hedge around the edge of the car park...

Blacksword wrote: Lets see a program about a real young couple, without a pot to p1ss in, struggling to get together the smallest of deposits, to part buy/part rent some housing asscociation cupboard

Andy - such a programme highlighting issues faced by real people would not get the ratings required by the robber baron TV networks...



...unless it were entitled something like "Police Camera Scum Property Ladder" with grainy footage (taken from a helicopter with plenty of snap-cuts) of a young couple going into an estate agent, there to be met by Noel Edmonds with a row of boxes, one of which contains the key to a 1 bedroomed flat on a sink estate (which is all they can afford) & the other 15 boxes contains viral anthrax (which to be honest is preferable), they then get chased by a police car to the estate they can afford (with plenty of cutaway shots to an estate agent giving platitudes like "I did recommend a possible shared ownership scheme whereby they only pay £600 per month mortgage to own 1% of a new-build house made of cardboard & cheese + £750 a month rental on the remainder - this way they get 2 different chances for eviction, as they only earn £20,000 pa between them, but they wouldn't listen") where they're met by Chris Tarrant & Ann Robinson to take part in a gameshow format style property auction where they may get the house, but will definitely lose any shreds of dignity remaining after they'd already spent the last 12 months being told "you don't earn enough" by every mortgage lender in the high street & can only afford the 1 bedroomed sink estate flat as Dodgy Barry gave them a sub-sub-sub-sub prime mortage at an APR of 67% secured on their property, their parents' property, their dog and great uncle albert's remaining kidney...

Still - they may get an additional income from the 20p repeat fee every time it's shown on every single bloody sattelite channel every afternoon, evening & weekend, inbetween re-runs of 'Grand Designs' (and don't even get me started on that)!



Sorry, what was the question again...?

Edited by Jim Garten - June 24 2008 at 07:38

Bailiff:

"You are the biggest peasant - Goodbye"

Perfect, Dean, just perfect!

"Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse, the TV production team have cajoled him into hiring a crane and pointlessly filming it in the pouring rain. To add to his misery, I'm now gurning at the camera in a smarmy way and sounding dramatically concerned

Yes, Yes, Yes!



To think - all over the world, there are bemused prog fans thinking to themselves "what the bloody hell are those English people on about?"

In the U.S. the big annoyance is "McMansions", of which there are oodles of little developments in my area...I drive past and wonder, where the hell is everyone getting this money - I must be in the wrong line of work!  

I bought a new PC for work the other day and it came packed in shredded paper. Lots of it. A complete bin-full.

fandango wrote: ^^at my Youth Hostel, I have between 25-30 nesting pairs of House Sparrows, both in boxes around the building, and in the holly hedge around the edge of the car park...   already this season, I've had 2 complaints from customers, saying they had been woken up at 5am (ish) by the dawn chorus.  both were from London, where they've murdered most of their sparrows...   ..one customer (in all seriousness) suggested that I give customers advance warning that if they take a bedroom at the front of the hostel, they are likely to have their sleep disturbed...   ...I know you all think I'm making it up, but I kid you not....

I can believe that Jared. When these people complained, what did they expect you to do about it exactly?
Shoot the birds?
I'm off camping again this weekend so I know I'm going to be woken up at 4am again on Saturday and Sunday morning.

NaturalScience wrote: Find out what's cheaper, disposing of the shreds or sending the empty box with shreds back to the vendor.

fandango wrote: NaturalScience wrote: Find out what's cheaper, disposing of the shreds or sending the empty box with shreds back to the vendor.    the cheapest option would be to take them down to the local bottle bank, in your Sainsbury's car park, at 7am before anyone's looking...   that's what I do...

But Dean - think of the quality of life the residents of the newly built houses (which will no doubt be constructed of the usual cheese/cardboard mix they use nowadays with all the architectural merit on a 1940's Anderson shelter) will bring to village living on the one weekend in four they actually reside there.