Pet hates.

[mackem 31,685]

1 hour ago, Councilestatekid said:

Chips in little metal pots or baskets 

I know places that would give you a heart attack

[Councilestatekid 2,296]

13 minutes ago, mackem said:

I know places that would give you a heart attack

Lads constantly send me pics like this as I can't help biting 1 pineapple should be eaten fresh or in puddings another pet hate fruit on food apple sauce wi pork cranberry wi turkey pineapple on pizza or gamon. But wheres rest of chips and why do you have more peas than chips id be fumin. My mates n mrs laugh as I'm a proper laid back person then silly things like that proper boil mi piss

[THE STIFFMEISTER 18,070]

9 hours ago, mC HULL said:

What about the tarmac ? Lol 

You don’t need it

tarmac is installed as a wearing course to be replaced , the best repair is as stated. 

I mean I do this as a living but hey obviously another topic you know better on than someone. 

[mC HULL 18,280]

3 minutes ago, THE STIFFMEISTER said:

You don’t need it

tarmac is installed as a wearing course to be replaced , the best repair is as stated. 

I mean I do this as a living but hey obviously another topic you know better on than someone. 

But its concrete under most of the tarmac like you've said tarmac is wearable ive never seen them concrete a pot hole ? You'd end up.with the concrete higher after time putting holes in your tyres id say maybe why it isn't done mate? You'd know more 

 

[THE STIFFMEISTER 18,070]

9 minutes ago, mC HULL said:

But its concrete under most of the tarmac like you've said tarmac is wearable ive never seen them concrete a pot hole ? You'd end up.with the concrete higher after time putting holes in your tyres id say maybe why it isn't done mate? You'd know more 

 

Yes I do 

Concrete 

[mC HULL 18,280]

10 minutes ago, THE STIFFMEISTER said:

Yes I do 

Concrete 

How much is done  like that mate new stuff but not really issues with it when like that 150mm mot normally then  2 layers on top aint it ? 

 

And that dont answer my question how many times you seen em concrete a pot hole ?

Edited 22 hours ago by mC HULL

[WILF 52,675]

On 07/03/2026 at 17:16, THE STIFFMEISTER said:

The annoying thing is is that the average pothole takes fuk all to repair . 
 

cut a diamond round it with a stihl saw 

Breaker it straight 

shovel and broom out 

pour a bucket of self levelling concrete in 

next 

 

You forgot about the RAMS, calculating the diesel to drive there and back, calculating the amount of petrol the paddy’s motorbike will use, calculating the size and depth of each pot hole per mile and then calculating the cubic amount of material, making sure everyone is pot hole trained, has done manual handling for when they lift the bucket of concrete, life guard training for when they add the water to the dry mix, ensure that they have adequate time for Ramadan and beard grooming, access their mental health at start and end of shift, have filed requests for buckets, shovels and brooms 3 months in advance, made sure at least 12 people have all had a say about how you fill the pothole and especially someone who don’t even know what a pothole is ! 
 

[mel b 4,818]

7 hours ago, WILF said:

You forgot about the RAMS, calculating the diesel to drive there and back, calculating the amount of petrol the paddy’s motorbike will use, calculating the size and depth of each pot hole per mile and then calculating the cubic amount of material, making sure everyone is pot hole trained, has done manual handling for when they lift the bucket of concrete, life guard training for when they add the water to the dry mix, ensure that they have adequate time for Ramadan and beard grooming, access their mental health at start and end of shift, have filed requests for buckets, shovels and brooms 3 months in advance, made sure at least 12 people have all had a say about how you fill the pothole and especially someone who don’t even know what a pothole is ! 
 

I see you've worked for the council then wilf .  That sounds like my daily routine.

[THE STIFFMEISTER 18,070]

21 minutes ago, mel b said:

I see you've worked for the council then wilf .  That sounds like my daily routine.

Yeah , I’m firmly in that world . 

[dytkos 18,350]

9 hours ago, WILF said:

You forgot about the RAMS, calculating the diesel to drive there and back, calculating the amount of petrol the paddy’s motorbike will use, calculating the size and depth of each pot hole per mile and then calculating the cubic amount of material, making sure everyone is pot hole trained, has done manual handling for when they lift the bucket of concrete, life guard training for when they add the water to the dry mix, ensure that they have adequate time for Ramadan and beard grooming, access their mental health at start and end of shift, have filed requests for buckets, shovels and brooms 3 months in advance, made sure at least 12 people have all had a say about how you fill the pothole and especially someone who don’t even know what a pothole is ! 
 

Don't forget the safety barriers, temporary traffic lights and mission statement.

Cheers, D.

[mel b 4,818]

1 hour ago, THE STIFFMEISTER said:

Yeah , I’m firmly in that world . 

Yep . Most of your average council workers day is taken up by doing mentally retarded shite , because some mental member of the public , complained to some mental pencil pusher that knows f**k all .

It makes us look like complete twats , that are lazy and thick . 

That's the way that local government works . I dread to think what it must be like at Central government level.

[WILF 52,675]

1 hour ago, mel b said:

Yep . Most of your average council workers day is taken up by doing mentally retarded shite , because some mental member of the public , complained to some mental pencil pusher that knows f**k all .

It makes us look like complete twats , that are lazy and thick . 

That's the way that local government works . I dread to think what it must be like at Central government level.

Have to say, that’s one thing that is brilliant here…..none of that bollocks.

If I have a pothole in my lane or over hanging branches or even if the whole road needs resurfaced, I can just phone the council and 3 blokes turn up with a van and a jcb/road layer/bush cutting tractor and just do it !!……like, a week from phoning and it’s done !

No traffic signals or gangs of traffic Marshall’s stood 30 handed in Hi Viz, no miles of road cones…..they have a 2 signs, two traffic cones and tools on the van…..job done ! 
Council tax is €90 a year ! 

[WILF 52,675]

Back to pet hates and talking of traffic Marshall’s…..then something I loathe with a passion is…..Traffic Marshalls !!!

In London it used to be like f***ing Mecca there were that many of the c**ts all loitering about the entrance to every building site in town !

They used to think they ran whole streets !…..if I had a quid for everyone of them I’ve had to tell to f**k off out the way or I will run them over I would be living in St Tropez ! 
 

Like, when did we all become so spastic that we need teams of people to stop us doing things we managed to do for generations with no significant impact on the fatality rate of the popularion ??……3rd world c**ts herding us about like flocks of mongs !…….f**k off !

[NEWKID 30,059]

A whole day of writing Construction phase plans, Risk Assesments, marked up google earth images with lay down areas and pedestrian zones.. collating RAMS from all the other trades to add to the CDM file...so we can start a job next week that 20 years ago we would've rocked up and cracked on without any of this bullshit....f***ing hate Health and Safety!! Lol

[WILF 52,675]

36 minutes ago, NEWKID said:

A whole day of writing Construction phase plans, Risk Assesments, marked up google earth images with lay down areas and pedestrian zones.. collating RAMS from all the other trades to add to the CDM file...so we can start a job next week that 20 years ago we would've rocked up and cracked on without any of this bullshit....f***ing hate Health and Safety!! Lol

I kid you not mate, I rocked up on a job once to install the kit for 200 people…..it had been a shell and core job and they were finishing downwards, they were a month behind schedule so it meant instead of having a finished building and left to my own devices I only had one finished floor which was the top floor……so anyway I get there and the site foreman says “you can’t use the front because we are still using it, youll have to use a back staircase”

Fine, it’s f***ing August and it’s 90 degrees and we have 10 artics to unload but f**k it, whatever….just leave us alone and make sure nobody gets in our way…..

Then this f***ing gonk says “Have you and your lads all got hi viz jackets and hard hats?”

So I say “Mate, we are indoors on the top floor that’s finished, it’s like an oven and I have to bring a hundred ton of kit up the stairs round the back where nobody is working …..what the f**k is going to fall on my head ?” 
 

So anyway, this goes back and forth a bit and ends up with me telling the fat c**t if he had pulled his finger out we wouldn’t even be meeting, but being the good natured chap I am I compromise on the hi viz but we ain’t cooking in a hard hat when there’s no logical reason…..good enough, we crack on

Next day, we are working away and I hear a scream from the floor below and a bit of commotion so go and investigate…..a ceiling fixer has opened his hand up like a steak while trimming a tile with his Stanley knife……claret all over the show, so I fetch my first aid kit and when it’s calmed down I say to the foreman “I’m amazed he managed to do that” 

“Whys that ?” Says the gonk 

“Well, he had a hard hat and a hi viz on !” Says I !

He just left me alone then ! Prick !