Clear off

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by The Munster

What's Somerset like ? Always fancied going there and believe me, it couldn't be worse than the spot I'm in right now. Full of 's !

He means.....Dumbrians

The bottom bit of the council letter says it all - "If you need this information in large print , Braille , Audio or another language , please contact me at the above address."

Whats funny , council had ONE complaint and they did this - who's the anti social ones? the village community or the one person that doesn't like it?

[August]

Thanks for the explaination. You English are a bit wierd but i'm still glad we're allies.

[STEED]

Originally Posted by August

Thanks for the explaination. You English are a bit wierd but i'm still glad we're allies.

Close enough on the language and coffee drinkers.

[Letum]

I bet the coucil had at sometime errected a notice bard in the village for things like this.
Every village round here has at least one notice board.

If not, they should have asked shops and/or pubs to put up the notices instead of
littering the streets with them.

[Knipper]

Originally Posted by The Munster

What's Somerset like ? Always fancied going there and believe me, it couldn't be worse than the spot I'm in right now. Full of 's !

Somerset is actually a pretty good place to live. The people are friendly, it's on the whole very rural with some beautiful scenery and there's lots of history here (Glastonbury, Roman Baths, Lacock Abbey etc). It's also good from the point of view that it's easy to source food locally. I can see next week's vegetables from my bedroom window (no, I'm not talking about the council). Everyone has their dumbrains however and Somerset has it's share. I won't name names, but there are a few areas that could be termed 'six-toe country' within 30 miles of here. The butt of dumbrain jokes round here tend to be farmers who, while a very laudible and hard-working bunch, do tend to have an unfortunate accent which (like where I come from in Birmingham) has become something of a stereotype for being a bit thick, but of course, it's not true. I offer the following a) as an illustration of what I mean and b) in their defence (no offence to our allies btw, it's just Texas is a big place.)

a) When a Somerset farmer was told by a government vet his flock of sheep had Bluetongue, he replied, "Blimey, Oy didn't even know they 'ad mobile phones...."

b) A Somerset farmer was showing a visiting Texan around his farm. He said, 'See them trees in the distance, moy faaarm goes all the way over there. Takes 45 minutes to drive to the edge of moy faaarm it do.' The Texan replied that back home, he could set off at dawn, drive until sunset and he still wouldn't have reached the edge of his ranch. 'Arrr,' said the farmer, 'Oy used to 'ave a car loyk that.'

I rest my case.

More seriously, the poster thing is really about maintaining village life. A lot of the villages round here have lost, or are losing their post offices, pubs and village shops, property prices have risen and an increasing proportion of 'villagers' aren't local, but keep a nice cottage in the countryside for week ends and holidays. As a result, local residents typically hold events, usually hung on a charity, just to maintain a sense of community. For the council to call this anti-social is, IMHO a scandal. Just the kind of petty bureaucracy that gets them local councillors a bad name. The people who put them up live in the area and usually take them dowwn again after the event, or some other local resident will. We're not talking fly-posters here, we're talking about resposible people trying to do something for their neighbours.

@August. Yep, we do weird pretty well in England, though we like to think of it as eccentricity

Royt moy luvver? (Somersetish for 'Hello')

[Letum]

Originally Posted by Knipper

We're not talking fly-posters here, we're talking about resposible people trying to do something for their neighbours.

In what way is it not flyposting?
Either they have secures the notices so they will be hard to remove cleanly, or they will be
liable to fall of in bad weather and litter the streets.

If you let some people off the hook you will just get more people doing it and the place will
end up looking like Edinburgh after the festival.

If there really are no pubs, shops or notice boards, no local radio or community events to
advertise at, then they can always put the leaflets through letter boxes as cancer recherche
charities often do where I am.

Even if they think the law is wrong, they know it is the law and so should complain about the
law it's self instead of complaining when it is enforced.

This topic should be titled "Clear up" rather than clear off!

[Knipper]

Originally Posted by Letum

In what way is it not flyposting?
Either they have secures the notices so they will be hard to remove cleanly, or they will be
liable to fall of in bad weather and litter the streets.

If you let some people off the hook you will just get more people doing it and the place will
end up looking like Edinburgh after the festival.

If there really are no pubs, shops or notice boards, no local radio or community events to
advertise at, then they can always put the leaflets through letter boxes as cancer recherche
charities often do where I am.

Even if they think the law is wrong, they know it is the law and so should complain about the
law it's self instead of complaining when it is enforced.

This topic should be titled "Clear up" rather than clear off!

I do take your point about local radio Letum, but we're talking small scale stuff here. Just do a Google map search on Misterton, Somerset and you'll see what I mean. When I go into Bristol, I get hacked off with the millions of flyposters advertising everything from bands to weight-reduction products. I also get hacked off with the thousands of leaflets that come through my door every day. I guess the solution really is for councils to provide more notice boards in small rural communities.

[Tchocky]

Originally Posted by Letum

I bet the coucil had at sometime errected a notice bard in the village for things like this.

I've got a beautiful mental image of a chap on a soapbox reciting local bye-laws in iambic pentametre

[Jimbuna]

[Knipper]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Who's nicked my pint then!

[Kapitan]

Seems the local nut house must have had a power cut the other night which unlocked all thier cell doors, but dont worry people they will be quickly and effectivly rounded up.

Oh at the cost of your tax bill going up.

[Konovalov]

Just another average wacky day at Speakers' Corner, London.

[Jimbuna]

LOL

[Yahoshua]

Once in awhile those kinds of people can be very entertaining depending on how you push their buttons.