Has anyone else noticed the striking similarity between Thanet Council's website banner, advertising their consultation on the latest Local Plan, and the popular board game Monopoly? Have Messrs Hasbro, the owners of Monopoly, been told?
Board game
Bored game
Ha! Well, Samantha, I'm sure The Duffers have paid something in the region of £3.4m out of our community chest for the rights to rip that off! If not, they'll probably end up going to jail, and that'll be the end of all the free parking round here!! (Geddit??!!??!?!?!!!!!!!????!?!?)
And while we're on the subject of lookalikes, another reader has emailed me to ask me whether anyone has noticed the similarity between Eric Pickles, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government who has just given Tesco permission to build a 19,000,000 square foot supermarket on Margate seafront, and the Sontarans, the stocky, warlike aliens from Doctor Who? Hmmm, let's see...
Sontaran
Pickles
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ECR, monopoly is a game where you speculate on a made up property market with play money, where TDC is an entity that speculates on the property market with someone else's money.
Nothing like each other.
In Thanet Monopoly don't buy the Water Company Utility. The aquifer is the source of the community chest infection.
And don't buy hotels unless you can fill them with immigrants or other boroughs' ex offenders and juvenile delinquents.
Don't buy a mansion near Ramsgate Harbour. South Africa sending Cato Ridge mercury contaminants back to source via nearest harbour (to Thor Margate) could nullify the property value.
Please please please could you ask your readers to give their ideas for a Thanet based monopoly board? What's our old Kent road, what's our Mayfair?
Imagine the 'chance' cards we'd have. "A crazed crystal meth addict pulls off your eyelids. Collect £200 compensation and an extra £100 in sickness benefit each time you pass go."
The picture of the jail corner would have sandy in it'
Oh the possibilities!
Advance to Turner Contemporary. £20 million and counting.
Jail. McGonigal. Do not pass Go.
The end of the Old Kent Road.
For gawd's sake, nobody mention 'water works'!
Why is Seed doing blanket refusals on all info on ferrygate? Specific items could be witheld -although he'd need councillor approval to explain why it's in the public interest. But certainly not blanket refusals on everything to protect their pensions.
Release the documents and emails with any items censored, or redacted as they call it now.
Kent Road? (No street lamps working)
Super Tax? (What we'll be paying after the TransEuropa fiasco)
Chancers? (Everyone at TDC)
Go To Retirement? (TDC officers collect six figure payoff and early pension)
There's no airports in Monopoly?
So you can't buy one there either!
Let's hope Buchanan goes to jail though.
Has anyone informed Hasbro of the Monopoly infringement?
The Sontarans would be more use than Pickles when trying to see a Council held to account.
They've made some changes, but it still has the 'look and feel' of Monopoly. Anyone out there fancy grassing them up?
It would be grassing us up, so pretty pointless actually, unless of course we also pay your taxes for you 3.14pm?
Free Parking. At Westwood Cross. The other business ratepayers can get stuffed.
Although 3:51 if TDC were prosecuted/fined etc then the civil servant in charge would be sacked?
Quite a few contributions from Thanet's resident idiot, the aquifer man, I see. None of them amount to much as usual, but he is always there with some nonsense about pollution or cancer. By the way, what ships now come into Ramsgate Harbour to actually return the contaminated material?
Surely the old boot would be more appropriate, Peter.
Wasn't there a time when he was Latchford's poodle?
I suspect Peter was referring to the cockney rhyming slang "iron hoof".
Was'nt pickles the one who found the world cup in 1966?
It's your birthday. TDC gives you £3.4 million from the public coffers.
They may be playing Monopoly, but the Councillors and Officers appear to be only practised at tiddly winks!
As for lookalikes:- 'the smell of Margate Harbour' & 'the collective intelligence of TDC'.
With the sea defences at Margate coming in under budget, couldn't the 'saved' money have been used to dredge Margate Stink Harbour? There's no work like that necessary in Ramsgate
TDC? Not a Cluedo! The next scandal will be Manston fines.
Of course it will, retard.
Interesting too to see how many planes from the Airshow fly over the towns.
Why? As long as they stick to air traffic requirements it is not actually banned. Maybe you are going to arrest any pilots who do, eh Anon? You really are a joke.
You're not suggesting planes flying over the towns is a good idea are you?
And they are banned and fined. Maybe you work for Infratil.
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