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AIBU to want my goat?

237 replies

ChrisYoungFuckingRocks · 10/04/2017 22:38

OK, so I've read on here that apparently council tenants are getting free goats (on top of getting almost free housing)!

I feel this is massive discrimination against us private tenants who pay full rent. I demand equal rights, and I want my goat!!!

AIBU? 😂😂

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ChrisYoungFuckingRocks · 10/04/2017 23:12

LastGirl - lighten up. I'm not making fun of her, it's the other poster who said about the goat, we're just having a laugh.

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ExplodedCloud · 10/04/2017 23:16

Bubble that's it. You're a natural!

LastGirlOnTheLeft · 10/04/2017 23:17

Yes I did read it!! I think that putting a spotlight on someone is just being a complete prick and you should lay off!! But as long as we all have a good laugh, what harm, eh?

PaulAnkaTheDog · 10/04/2017 23:21

What thread have I missed now? I always miss the fun.

NotAMammy · 10/04/2017 23:24

One of my life goals is to have enough land for a goat. misses entire point and is sad and unfulfilled

UrsulaPandress · 10/04/2017 23:24

I'm triggered.

elephantoverthehill · 10/04/2017 23:26

I'll get my g coat.

MiladyThesaurus · 10/04/2017 23:27

People have been going on about council goats on MN for ages. I'm not sure how it could be about making fun if one poster.

I've always wondered what the policy is if you have a council flat. Fair enough if there's a balcony or a communal garden but otherwise it seems a bad idea.

Do you get to keep the goat if you buy your house? That seems dreadfully unfair on all those goatless homeowners.

SalemSaberhagen · 10/04/2017 23:28

Exactly milady. Goats and council houses are always spoken about on here.

1AnnoyingOrange · 10/04/2017 23:29

Lastgirl I don't believe you read it!,

smallchanceofrain · 10/04/2017 23:31

I'm in Yorkshire. When I got my house I got my whippet and a bath to keep my coal in but no goat. There was a waiting list. Now I find out I have to buy my own coal and because I have more than 2 children I am no longer eligible for a goat. Fucking Tories!

Finola1step · 10/04/2017 23:32

Forget the goat, I want a damn llama. How do I got about getting me one or two of those big fuckers?

BillSykesDog · 10/04/2017 23:33

You think that's bad? I paid to send a goat to Africa in 2012 and the little cunt didn't even send me a postcard.

ExplodedCloud · 10/04/2017 23:34

Milady see above for mythical easy route to DLA and goat retaining in private housing Grin

*All the fake your own ASD diagnosis and get DLA, a goat and a wide screen telly threads have been deleted as goatyfuckery :(

smallchanceofrain · 10/04/2017 23:34

I think you have to live in Surrey to get a llama.

SalemSaberhagen · 10/04/2017 23:35

He sent it to me instead Bill

AIBU to want my goat?
ExplodedCloud · 10/04/2017 23:35

Finola council house and 2+ DLA I think. You will have to sign away the telly though.

Astro55 · 10/04/2017 23:36

Another thread suggest council goats were better behaved than privately rented goats (they get free reign of the estate)?- so no you can't have a goat if you rent because you'll end up micro managing the goat.

donadumaurier · 10/04/2017 23:39

smallchanceofrain my mate's cousin's boyfriend's sister's BFF's MIL says in Surrey they don't just have llamas, they have ROSE GOLD LLAMAS. And she heard it off her uncle's catsitter's nephew, so it must be true.

#smashthegoatriarchy

MiladyThesaurus · 10/04/2017 23:40

Well I'm not sure I want to cheap the goat system. I just think it's yet another poorly thought through aspect of right to buy if you don't have to relinquish your goat on purchase. After all, councils don't have the budget to be replacing goats (indeed they were banned from doing so at one point).

And I really worry about goats in high rise flats. Obviously they're good climbers but imagine having to navigate past all the goats on the stairs when the lift is broken.

MiladyThesaurus · 10/04/2017 23:40

Cheat the goat system, that is.

NotAMammy · 10/04/2017 23:41

Finola every time I read that I read 'I want my own Dalai Llama'

reuset · 10/04/2017 23:43

They'll look after the children as well, if I've interpreted one thread today correctly, or herd them up, and back home, after they've spent the day, unsupervised, roaming the neighbourhood. Grin

pennypickle · 10/04/2017 23:45

I desperately want a goat (because I hate mowing the lawn) and I heard council tenants could get a goat for free. I queued for fricken ages at the council offices - only to be told nobody can have a goat anymore as they are now, suddenly, too expensive....Fucking Brexit! :/

Gooseygoosey12345 · 10/04/2017 23:48

This is an outrage. I want my goat.