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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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ExplodedCloud · 10/04/2017 23:48

Ringfenced Goats is a social time bomb Milady
I must start a saving plan to enable dc to buy a goat in their 20s. It's sad how goats were attainable when my parents were babies but my babies may need to buy a goat over 35 years.
#socialistgoats

Huppopapa · 10/04/2017 23:52

Surrey correspondent here.
Sought some llama action last week with daught (half-term, see?)
Had to travel to Sussex. Local llama situation lamentable. Please send help. Perhaps goats?

BillSykesDog · 10/04/2017 23:54

Finola stop with the drama llama drama.

SurelyYoureJokingMrFeynman · 10/04/2017 23:55
to fill all your llama needs, Huppopapa.
Huppopapa · 10/04/2017 23:57

(Tips hat to surely)

ExplodedCloud · 10/04/2017 23:57

Curse you all! I have the "Stay calmer when you want to harm a llama" song as an earworm.

SurelyYoureJokingMrFeynman · 10/04/2017 23:58
Finola1step · 11/04/2017 08:20

You see, I was right. Goats are for fools. Fools I tell ya. Llamas is where it's at. but no way would I give up my 150 inch telly for one

I'll just have to sell one of the dc.

ChrisYoungFuckingRocks · 11/04/2017 09:00

I spoke to the council, and apparently the reason they don't give goats to private tenants is because they don't want private goats to get a superiority complex. They also get so much attitude from the council goats that they don't want to add to the problem with private goats walking around lording it over the others. Grin.

According to the official I spoke to, under exceptional circumstances, private tenants are entitled to a hamster. I took one of these circumstances to be giving a donation bribe to the official in question or donating a kidney.

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ChrisYoungFuckingRocks · 11/04/2017 09:00

I don't want a hamster - I want a goat!!!!

AIBU to want my goat?
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Patriciathestripper1 · 11/04/2017 12:45

No hamsters. Goats or llamas... it's an Alpaca you want! They don't take up much space. They don't spit and they can carry your shopping home from Lidl

c3pu · 11/04/2017 14:06

Try this:

AIBU to want my goat?
c3pu · 11/04/2017 14:07

Patriciathestripper1
I can assure you I have been spat on by an alpaca before!

I was only trying to feed it 😂

Patriciathestripper1 · 11/04/2017 17:07

Must have been a Surrey alpaca.Hmm were the snacks from M&S?

Patriciathestripper1 · 11/04/2017 17:09

I've got both but I'm posh

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SmileEachDay · 11/04/2017 17:12

I have a goat

RiversrunWoodville · 11/04/2017 17:12

I'm Confused however you can have my Pygmy goat he's a pita and keeps knocking the back door and scaring the crap out of me in the dark. His name is Shane and he likes pancakes

BeyondUser24601 · 11/04/2017 17:13

My HB goes to a private LL, so I have to make do with a rabbit. The milk isn't quite the same :(

ghostyslovesheets · 11/04/2017 17:14

YABU hard working people have to save up for years to afford a goat - why should YOU get one free?

Do Brighthouse sell goats btw?

HappyFlappy · 11/04/2017 17:16

I feel brutally discriminated against!

Although I am"officially" a goalless private householder, I identify as a goat-owning council tenant. I have built a small hill in my windowbox and everything because I know goats like to climb, and a goatherd needs to yodel.

I intend to write to the council and ask them how to groom kids look after young goats, and DEMAND an end to this senseless and discriminatory Capraphobia!

Ungulates for Everyone!

Babyiwantabump · 11/04/2017 17:17

I feel like I've missed something.....

But I want a goat too !

SmileEachDay · 11/04/2017 17:17

😂 at "identify as...". That's all it takes these days, Happy

HappyFlappy · 11/04/2017 17:21

I have to make do with a rabbit. The milk isn't quite the same

and getting the bucket underneath them is no laughing matter, either!

HappyFlappy · 11/04/2017 17:23

That's all it takes these days, Happy

I hope so Smile.

Am expecting a goat delivery at any moment (via Yodel, obviously, so chances are they'll dump them over a fence in the next street . . . )

MyLittleBoyBlue · 11/04/2017 17:24

I don't mean to get anyone's hopes up during this abhorrent goat shortage, but I have heard on the grapevine that if you AstroTurf your lawn there is a black market for plastic goats in certain well to do areas