Instead of wasting a couple of hundred quid on a night out at a swanky and ove-priced restaurant/hotel surrounded by braying half-cut Hooray Henrys, my good lady and I spent the cash on a nice 42" HD LED telly.
We are now worried that our visitors will (quite unjustly) think we have become members of the "chav" class.
Being persons of the real world, is there any remedy you or your correspondents could recommend to ease our worries?
Meanwhile, we hope you have a prosperous and fruitful 2012. Like John Henry did, keep on chugging down the line...
PS:: Agree with you about the fireworks. We thought we were under some austerity programme or other - at least that's what the BBC keep telling us. Be interesting to know just who paid - and how much - for that brief but extravagant display of how to burn money in one easy lesson. Do they teach these things in schools nowadays? Can't wait for the Oh Limp Hicks to arrive now.
Happy New Year E-K. I gave up on all the New Year bollocks ages ago. Pubs full of drunken wankers screaming and shouting 'appy noo yeer' and I had come to realize that your credit card bill will still land on your mat and nothing really changes. For all the so called austerity measure we are told about it seems there are millions if not billions available to spunk on fireworks and Limpick transport plans. Many more will be spunked to before the year is out. Plenty to rant about!
Viz large LED tellys: In my opinion you can only really be considered a 'chav' if you have it hanging on a wall, on a chimney breast over a fireplace where traditionally a large mirror or picture would have hung. It is best if it can be seen through one's front window and even better if it is a 52" one which can be seen from the moon!
Happy New Year Kev & folks. I like sport as much as the next guy but this limpick stuff does seem to be an incredible piss take; does everything have to be new only to be mothballed after a few weeks?
As per large tellys, well, they do seem cheap these days and my old 32" has the added benefit of incurring hernias should the wish to dust behind it takes hold.
Dick and Ranter - thank you for your opinions. The telly is not on a wall (our dodgy bricks and plaster would pretty soon ensure it was on the floor!), it is on a solid sideboard alongside a window and so cannot be seen from outside. We agree about the incredible weight of the old tv's. Quite impossible to move, even to dust behind, for ald folks like us. Happily though, the two fellows who delivered our new one carried the old one to the new place we want it to be. Grandma and I can manage to move the new one by ourselves.
So, we have definitey not unwittingly become "chavs", which is nice to know - plus we don't now need to go and buy new specs either as we can read the runners at the bottom of the screen quite easily now,
On the subject of large screen TVs,in his New Year Speech, my good friend the Archbishop of Canterbury blamed a lack of them in poorer households for causing the summer riots.
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Happy New Year Kev. We are so jaded we left the party at 11.45...xxx
Happy New Year. I've drunk quite a lot of the sloe gin I bottled last year, so I'm not fit to hold an opinion on anything.
Dear Kevin,
Instead of wasting a couple of hundred quid on a night out at a swanky and ove-priced restaurant/hotel surrounded by braying half-cut Hooray Henrys, my good lady and I spent the cash on a nice 42" HD LED telly.
We are now worried that our visitors will (quite unjustly) think we have become members of the "chav" class.
Being persons of the real world, is there any remedy you or your correspondents could recommend to ease our worries?
Meanwhile, we hope you have a prosperous and fruitful 2012. Like John Henry did, keep on chugging down the line...
PS:: Agree with you about the fireworks. We thought we were under some austerity programme or other - at least that's what the BBC keep telling us. Be interesting to know just who paid - and how much - for that brief but extravagant display of how to burn money in one easy lesson. Do they teach these things in schools nowadays? Can't wait for the Oh Limp Hicks to arrive now.
Happy New Year to all at the Elecs Household!
We slept through the whole show!
Happy New Year E-K. I gave up on all the New Year bollocks ages ago. Pubs full of drunken wankers screaming and shouting 'appy noo yeer' and I had come to realize that your credit card bill will still land on your mat and nothing really changes. For all the so called austerity measure we are told about it seems there are millions if not billions available to spunk on fireworks and Limpick transport plans. Many more will be spunked to before the year is out. Plenty to rant about!
Viz large LED tellys: In my opinion you can only really be considered a 'chav' if you have it hanging on a wall, on a chimney breast over a fireplace where traditionally a large mirror or picture would have hung. It is best if it can be seen through one's front window and even better if it is a 52" one which can be seen from the moon!
yes, HNY Kev, keep the music flowing
Happy New Year Kev & folks. I like sport as much as the next guy but this limpick stuff does seem to be an incredible piss take; does everything have to be new only to be mothballed after a few weeks?
As per large tellys, well, they do seem cheap these days and my old 32" has the added benefit of incurring hernias should the wish to dust behind it takes hold.
All the best.
Dick and Ranter - thank you for your opinions. The telly is not on a wall (our dodgy bricks and plaster would pretty soon ensure it was on the floor!), it is on a solid sideboard alongside a window and so cannot be seen from outside. We agree about the incredible weight of the old tv's. Quite impossible to move, even to dust behind, for ald folks like us. Happily though, the two fellows who delivered our new one carried the old one to the new place we want it to be. Grandma and I can manage to move the new one by ourselves.
So, we have definitey not unwittingly become "chavs", which is nice to know - plus we don't now need to go and buy new specs either as we can read the runners at the bottom of the screen quite easily now,
Happy New Year all.
Happy New Year to you E-K!
On the subject of large screen TVs,in his New Year Speech, my good friend the Archbishop of Canterbury blamed a lack of them in poorer households for causing the summer riots.
Lilith - I hope you're feeling better now.
Woman - I bet you could still hold a better opinion than most.
SLCG - It's only a chav TV when it takes up most of the room.
Scrobs - To you too.
Ranter - An ostentatious waste in my view.
Nick - To you too.
Dick - I'm glad I'm nowhere near the 'limpics.
Lakelander - We should be due riots in the next four years when the tellies they nicked start to pack up.
Happy New Year All.
got up early and shot the shit out of stuff...happy happy!
Welcome, Peanut. I have a feeling I know who your Pa is.
Happy New Year !
That girl is in trouble!
Didn't the fireworks look spectacular. And the company which made them is close to where I live.
Happy New Year wishes to you and your lovely family, I hope it brings you much happiness.
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