it is a bit silly, but I suppose it's good on ballance, that the council is being made to abide by the letter of the law
even if, in this case, the case seems pretty clear.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 26 Sep 2011, 16:08, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

Fuck off with your reasoned responses.
BURN THEM!!
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 16:09, Reply)

Yes Monty.
I'd have thought you'd feel more fellow feeling for these long-haired shiftless drug-takers.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 26 Sep 2011, 16:10, Reply)

They have taken over his "lucky heather/peg" patch in Basildon

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 16:11, Reply)

Ahh, Pikey Wars, excellent.
I'm now seeing Monty as that Brad Pitt Character in Snatch.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 26 Sep 2011, 16:13, Reply)

What does he need a fucking caravan with no fucking wheels for?

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 16:14, Reply)

I have a superb namedropping classic to do with that.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 16:14, Reply)

G'wan den.

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 26 Sep 2011, 16:15, Reply)

Tell the group....

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 16:15, Reply)

My pal Steven was in that (also Band of Brothers and is playing Capone in a big budget film coming out soon)
As a result I sold Brad Pitt 2oz of weed.

Really, really shit weed that no-one else wanted - nicknamed 'Subbuteo' as it was bright green. He thought it was 'really good'.

THE END.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 16:18, Reply)

I'm surprised you had the energy to do so.
Why were you not at home resting your old bones?

In case you're wondering, I'm mocking you for pulling out of Wednesdays super happy fun time.
( Bazongaloid, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 16:20, Reply)

Lusty has the potential to get a new job and I am broke as a mutha.
I am sorry to miss it though.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 16:21, Reply)

WAH! WAH! WAH! MY NAME IS MONTY AND IM A 97 YEAR OLD CLAGNUT COLLECTOR FROM PONTEFRACT! WAH! WAH! WAH!

( Bazongaloid, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 16:24, Reply)

That's my name too!
How weird is that!!!!!!
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 16:29, Reply)

If they were 'proper' travellers
ie 'New Age Travellers' (c) the 1980s, then I'd be right behind them, scoring some drugs. As it is they are gyppos and under Hitler rules must therefore be exterminated.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 16:13, Reply)

Ah, they did better travelers back in the old days, didn't they Uncle Monty...

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 26 Sep 2011, 16:18, Reply)

They sure did.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 16:18, Reply)

If they were New Age Travellers circa 1980s
they'd have just arranged for daddy to "have a word" at the golf club and all the planning stuff would have been brushed under the carpet.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 16:18, Reply)

One of the chaps I used to knock about with back then was a classic one of those.
He was a semi-vagrant and his dad owns half the Isle of Man (or something).
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 16:23, Reply)

Professional tramps

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 16:25, Reply)

If you put the same level of bullshit into this as the Brad Pitt story
It would be half of America.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 16:30, Reply)

If they were time travellers then we'd all be OK with them.

( Undulating Tentacles of Love getting fun down to acceptable levels, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 16:29, Reply)

I know where you're coming from
but it's not really about obeying the letter of the law, is it? it's about a series of more and more highly-paid lawyers finding tiny loopholes, costing shitloads of taxpayers money. Because the council have to pay for their lawyers, whereas the travellers aren't. And won't be able to when they inevitabley get costs awarded against them, so the council/taxpayer will never get to recoup the hundreds of thousands being wasted on stupid appeals.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 16:15, Reply)

I think the thing is that I don't really care that much.
But I generally think it's a good thing when the government/council forced to go through the same level of rigmarole that the rest of us usually are when we have to resort to the law.

I think people are also biased because they dislike the 'travellers' in this. I'm fairly neutral, I'm not predisposed to like shitty fake hippies or people enforcing planning regulations.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 26 Sep 2011, 16:22, Reply)

I'm predisposed to hate everyone equally also.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 16:23, Reply)

These aren't shitty fake hippies, they're Irish gyppoes, though, aren't they?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 16:26, Reply)

Are you asking
to be sure?
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 16:28, Reply)

I neither know, nor care.
It makes little difference to my point.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Mon 26 Sep 2011, 16:28, Reply)

One lot need a bath.
The other lot need gassing.

A very important difference.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 16:32, Reply)