Keeping Up Appearances.
There's no getting around the fact that I'm middle class and from a middle class family (for which I apologise). My parents' house is in a comfortable suburb, on a road generally populated by doctors, teachers, solicitors, and other members of the Archers-listening demographic; our local MP used to live a few doors down. It's a small-c conservative sort of area - the kind of place where people care about their lawns.

It was a surprise when, not so long ago, a new arrival to the area "improved" his house by adding a fairly naff portico to his front door. But surprise turned to horror when he gave his house a name, and painted that name in six-inch high letters on the portico.

Chuff Hall.

For fuck's sake. I'm not sure what's worse: the awful, awful pun; the vapidity of calling a fairly standard suburban house in a slightly shabby market town "Hall"; or the fact that such crimes against taste, committed by someone I've never knowingly met in a town 40 miles from where I currently reside, have revealed me to be such a prissy little Hyacinth Bucket.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 2 Oct 2009, 13:22, 7 replies)

Ours did something like that..
They gave the house a name, and stuck horrible concrete lions on the gateposts. Shame that the new owners removed them immediately, I was tooled up to draw cdcs on the lions..
(Beer Elf Thought this was like a campfire, anyhow, on, Fri 2 Oct 2009, 14:54, closed)

I think this is excellent. *click*
The impotent rage of one who is far too well bought up to do anything about it.
( Scrumper, Fri 2 Oct 2009, 14:59, closed)

Exactly.
*sigh*
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 2 Oct 2009, 15:04, closed)

Chuff Hall...
Surely that's been done on purpose? I'd hope so. If this individual named his house after a massive clout without realising, well, I don't know what the worlds coming to. Think I might go home now and put up a sign outside my flat. Cock End has a ring to it. Or maybe Flange Grange.
( SpankyHanky, Fri 2 Oct 2009, 16:42, closed)

Cock End has a ring to it??
Prince Albert Hall, perhaps?
(mega, Fri 2 Oct 2009, 18:02, closed)

RIS?
Clearly, there's a layer of understanding here that's passed me by. I'd just taken it to be an oh-so-witty variant on "Fuck All".

Give us a clue...
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 2 Oct 2009, 19:57, closed)

De-ris message:
www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chuff
(The Incredible Sulk Finally remembered his password on, Sun 4 Oct 2009, 16:20, closed)