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On 18/12/2016 13:37, DerbyBorn wrote:
I am the only one in our Avenue without LED lights! (for Xmas decoration that is) Avenue - does that make it posher than a Road or a Street?:-) -- Adam |
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ARW wrote: On 18/12/2016 13:37, DerbyBorn wrote: I am the only one in our Avenue without LED lights! (for Xmas decoration that is) Avenue - does that make it posher than a Road or a Street?:-) avenues are tree lined, so yes. -- from KT24 in Surrey, England |
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On Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:32:41 +0000, Terry Casey wrote:
In article , says... On 18/12/2016 13:37, DerbyBorn wrote: I am the only one in our Avenue without LED lights! (for Xmas decoration that is) Avenue - does that make it posher than a Road or a Street?:-) It depends: the 'avenue' we were living in until recently didn't have a single tree - and neither did any of the other three 'avenues' on the same estate! As for being 'posh', it might have been once but certainly not while we lived there ... The ultimate has to be this one, which I always thought rather good because of the full name: https://goo.gl/maps/Yj8ncoFMMZB2 -- My posts are my copyright and if @diy_forums or Home Owners' Hub wish to copy them they can pay me £1 a message. Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org *lightning surge protection* - a w_tom conductor |
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On Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:04:00 -0000, charles wrote:
In article , ARW wrote: On 18/12/2016 13:37, DerbyBorn wrote: I am the only one in our Avenue without LED lights! (for Xmas decoration that is) Avenue - does that make it posher than a Road or a Street?:-) avenues are tree lined, so yes. A lot of council estates get called posh names to make them sound better, they're still ********s. -- Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes? |
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On Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:32:41 -0000, Terry Casey wrote:
In article , says... On 18/12/2016 13:37, DerbyBorn wrote: I am the only one in our Avenue without LED lights! (for Xmas decoration that is) Avenue - does that make it posher than a Road or a Street?:-) It depends: the 'avenue' we were living in until recently didn't have a single tree - and neither did any of the other three 'avenues' on the same estate! As for being 'posh', it might have been once but certainly not while we lived there ... I remember 20 years ago the in thing was to save trees. Now apparently they are a health and softy hazard and people keep cutting them down. -- I want to die peacefully, in my sleep, like my Uncle Bob. Not screaming in terror like his passengers... |
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A lot of council estates get called posh names to make them sound better, they're still ********s. Never as posh as the developer's names for new developments. |
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On Fri, 23 Dec 2016 14:07:18 -0000, DerbyBorn wrote:
A lot of council estates get called posh names to make them sound better, they're still ********s. Never as posh as the developer's names for new developments. What like "Inch View" and Scholar's Road" - what's posh about those? -- He was so unlucky . . . Last week, his inflatable doll ran off with his airbag. |
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On 22/12/2016 22:12, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:32:41 -0000, Terry Casey wrote: In article , says... On 18/12/2016 13:37, DerbyBorn wrote: I am the only one in our Avenue without LED lights! (for Xmas decoration that is) Avenue - does that make it posher than a Road or a Street?:-) It depends: the 'avenue' we were living in until recently didn't have a single tree - and neither did any of the other three 'avenues' on the same estate! As for being 'posh', it might have been once but certainly not while we lived there ... I remember 20 years ago the in thing was to save trees. Now apparently they are a health and softy hazard and people keep cutting them down. Sheffield is chopping them down. -- Adam |
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On 23/12/2016 14:07, DerbyBorn wrote:
A lot of council estates get called posh names to make them sound better, they're still ********s. Never as posh as the developer's names for new developments. I thought all new posh new developments were called Mews or Courts - with the local councillors name (the one that supported the planning permission after taking a £1000 backhander) placed just before the word Mews or Court on the street sign. -- Adam |
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On 22/12/2016 22:12, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
On Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:04:00 -0000, charles wrote: In article , ARW wrote: On 18/12/2016 13:37, DerbyBorn wrote: I am the only one in our Avenue without LED lights! (for Xmas decoration that is) Avenue - does that make it posher than a Road or a Street?:-) avenues are tree lined, so yes. A lot of council estates get called posh names to make them sound better, they're still ********s. You have turned into Pounder. When was the last time a council built an estate? -- Adam |
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On Fri, 23 Dec 2016 17:42:53 -0000, ARW wrote:
On 22/12/2016 22:12, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: On Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:04:00 -0000, charles wrote: In article , ARW wrote: On 18/12/2016 13:37, DerbyBorn wrote: I am the only one in our Avenue without LED lights! (for Xmas decoration that is) Avenue - does that make it posher than a Road or a Street?:-) avenues are tree lined, so yes. A lot of council estates get called posh names to make them sound better, they're still ********s. You have turned into Pounder. When was the last time a council built an estate? Decades ago, which is why they're all falling apart now, and they're spending millions giving them nice shiny new bathrooms at the taxpayer's expense. Why does someone on benefits need a new toilet? -- Joey's teacher sent a note home to his Mother saying, "Joey seems to be a very bright boy, but spends too much of his time thinking about sex and girls." The Mother wrote back the next day, "If you find a solution, please advise. I have the same problem with his Father." |
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On Fri, 23 Dec 2016 17:40:44 -0000, ARW wrote:
On 23/12/2016 14:07, DerbyBorn wrote: A lot of council estates get called posh names to make them sound better, they're still ********s. Never as posh as the developer's names for new developments. I thought all new posh new developments were called Mews or Courts - with the local councillors name (the one that supported the planning permission after taking a £1000 backhander) placed just before the word Mews or Court on the street sign. Round here "court" means council estate, usually stupidly designed with the front doors all facing each other and a path going along them, and the entrance roads round the back. So you can't drive to someone's front door. -- In 1961, 87-year-old Harry Meadows, a resident at the Haslemere home for the elderly in Great Yarmouth, England, achieved late-in-life notoriety when he accidentally killed another 3 residents of his care home by dressing up as the grim reaper and peering through the residents' lounge window whilst holding a scythe. The year before Harry's performance, another resident of the same home, the then 81-year-old Gladys Elton, for reasons best known to herself, had conceived the idea of performing a striptease for her fellow residents of the home; unfortunately such was the effect of Elton's performance that it caused the death of one resident by way of a cardiac arrest and the treatment for shock of five other residents. |
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Decades ago, which is why they're all falling apart now, and they're spending millions giving them nice shiny new bathrooms at the taxpayer's expense. Why does someone on benefits need a new toilet? New roofs for the 3rd time in my memory is the fad where I live. |
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On Fri, 23 Dec 2016 22:51:56 -0000, DerbyBorn wrote:
Decades ago, which is why they're all falling apart now, and they're spending millions giving them nice shiny new bathrooms at the taxpayer's expense. Why does someone on benefits need a new toilet? New roofs for the 3rd time in my memory is the fad where I live. Yes I've seen that too. -- What do Disney World & Viagra have in common? They both make you wait an hour for a five-minute ride. |
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On 23/12/2016 23:12, Huge wrote:
On 2016-12-23, ARW wrote: On 23/12/2016 14:07, DerbyBorn wrote: A lot of council estates get called posh names to make them sound better, they're still ********s. Never as posh as the developer's names for new developments. I thought all new posh new developments were called Mews or Courts - with the local councillors name (the one that supported the planning permission after taking a £1000 backhander) £1000? You must have cheapskate planners. Well it's only Doncaster:-) -- Adam |
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On 22/12/2016 21:59, Bob Eager wrote:
On Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:32:41 +0000, Terry Casey wrote: In article , says... On 18/12/2016 13:37, DerbyBorn wrote: I am the only one in our Avenue without LED lights! (for Xmas decoration that is) Avenue - does that make it posher than a Road or a Street?:-) It depends: the 'avenue' we were living in until recently didn't have a single tree - and neither did any of the other three 'avenues' on the same estate! As for being 'posh', it might have been once but certainly not while we lived there ... The ultimate has to be this one, which I always thought rather good because of the full name: https://goo.gl/maps/Yj8ncoFMMZB2 https://goo.gl/maps/igASoYaQznF2 although I would have just called it Boulevard. -- Adam |
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Bob Eager wrote:
On Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:32:41 +0000, Terry Casey wrote: In article , says... On 18/12/2016 13:37, DerbyBorn wrote: I am the only one in our Avenue without LED lights! (for Xmas decoration that is) Avenue - does that make it posher than a Road or a Street?:-) It depends: the 'avenue' we were living in until recently didn't have a single tree - and neither did any of the other three 'avenues' on the same estate! As for being 'posh', it might have been once but certainly not while we lived there ... The ultimate has to be this one, which I always thought rather good because of the full name: https://goo.gl/maps/Yj8ncoFMMZB2 Rather amusingly there is a "Letsby Avenue" in Sheffield. Tim -- Please don't feed the trolls |
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On 22/12/2016 22:12, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: On Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:04:00 -0000, charles wrote: In article , ARW wrote: On 18/12/2016 13:37, DerbyBorn wrote: I am the only one in our Avenue without LED lights! (for Xmas decoration that is) Avenue - does that make it posher than a Road or a Street?:-) avenues are tree lined, so yes. A lot of council estates get called posh names to make them sound better, they're still ********s. You have turned into Pounder. Just for once Mr Hucker is correct! When was the last time a council built an estate? This is the new name for council estates: https://www.blackpool.gov.uk/Residen...spx#ad-image-0 I understand that the occupants of these kennels have already managed to turn the area into a drug infested ghetto. Scum is as scum is. |
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On Sat, 24 Dec 2016 18:02:43 -0000, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:
ARW wrote: On 22/12/2016 22:12, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: On Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:04:00 -0000, charles wrote: In article , ARW wrote: On 18/12/2016 13:37, DerbyBorn wrote: I am the only one in our Avenue without LED lights! (for Xmas decoration that is) Avenue - does that make it posher than a Road or a Street?:-) avenues are tree lined, so yes. A lot of council estates get called posh names to make them sound better, they're still ********s. You have turned into Pounder. Just for once Mr Hucker is correct! When was the last time a council built an estate? This is the new name for council estates: https://www.blackpool.gov.uk/Residen...spx#ad-image-0 I understand that the occupants of these kennels have already managed to turn the area into a drug infested ghetto. Scum is as scum is. That's good coming from an alcoholic. -- 404 error - signature not found. |
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"Mr Pounder Esquire" wrote in message news ARW wrote: On 22/12/2016 22:12, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: On Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:04:00 -0000, charles wrote: In article , ARW wrote: On 18/12/2016 13:37, DerbyBorn wrote: I am the only one in our Avenue without LED lights! (for Xmas decoration that is) Avenue - does that make it posher than a Road or a Street?:-) avenues are tree lined, so yes. A lot of council estates get called posh names to make them sound better, they're still ********s. You have turned into Pounder. Just for once Mr Hucker is correct! When was the last time a council built an estate? This is the new name for council estates: https://www.blackpool.gov.uk/Residen...spx#ad-image-0 What a stupid design with those boxes above the front door. I understand that the occupants of these kennels have already managed to turn the area into a drug infested ghetto. Scum is as scum is. |
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On Sat, 24 Dec 2016 23:10:38 -0000, John wrote:
"Mr Pounder Esquire" wrote in message news ARW wrote: On 22/12/2016 22:12, James Wilkinson Sword wrote: On Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:04:00 -0000, charles wrote: In article , ARW wrote: On 18/12/2016 13:37, DerbyBorn wrote: I am the only one in our Avenue without LED lights! (for Xmas decoration that is) Avenue - does that make it posher than a Road or a Street?:-) avenues are tree lined, so yes. A lot of council estates get called posh names to make them sound better, they're still ********s. You have turned into Pounder. Just for once Mr Hucker is correct! When was the last time a council built an estate? This is the new name for council estates: https://www.blackpool.gov.uk/Residen...spx#ad-image-0 What a stupid design with those boxes above the front door. Agreed - looks like lego gone wrong. -- The longest palindromic word is saippuakivikauppias - a Finnish word meaning a travelling salesman who sells caustic soda to the soap industry. |
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"jim" k wrote in message o.uk... Tim+ Wrote in message: Bob Eager wrote: On Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:32:41 +0000, Terry Casey wrote: In article , says... On 18/12/2016 13:37, DerbyBorn wrote: I am the only one in our Avenue without LED lights! (for Xmas decoration that is) Avenue - does that make it posher than a Road or a Street?:-) It depends: the 'avenue' we were living in until recently didn't have a single tree - and neither did any of the other three 'avenues' on the same estate! As for being 'posh', it might have been once but certainly not while we lived there ... The ultimate has to be this one, which I always thought rather good because of the full name: https://goo.gl/maps/Yj8ncoFMMZB2 Rather amusingly there is a "Letsby Avenue" in Sheffield. Tim Istr that's near the "Evening Hall" retirement home? Lets all go there, it's only 00:45 |
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Tim+ Wrote in message:
Bob Eager wrote: On Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:32:41 +0000, Terry Casey wrote: In article , says... On 18/12/2016 13:37, DerbyBorn wrote: I am the only one in our Avenue without LED lights! (for Xmas decoration that is) Avenue - does that make it posher than a Road or a Street?:-) It depends: the 'avenue' we were living in until recently didn't have a single tree - and neither did any of the other three 'avenues' on the same estate! As for being 'posh', it might have been once but certainly not while we lived there ... The ultimate has to be this one, which I always thought rather good because of the full name: https://goo.gl/maps/Yj8ncoFMMZB2 Rather amusingly there is a "Letsby Avenue" in Sheffield. Tim Istr that's near the "Evening Hall" retirement home? -- Jim K ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ |
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On 24/12/2016 11:10, Tim+ wrote:
Rather amusingly there is a "Letsby Avenue" in Sheffield. I looked. It's not an accident since it's at the back of the Police... Andy |
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