Ice Cream Van Music!
Discussion
So, it's almost summer and I've spent alot of the day gardening and echoing around the valley is 'Whistle While You f
kIN Work' blasting out of the local ice cream van. Now, believe it or not, I was a kid once and I occasionally liked an ice cream but I've had to put up with that bloody annoying ditty ALL fkIN DAY!!! 
If I drove up and down the local streets with my windows down blasting out The Prodigy, Girls Aloud or something similar I'd have been arrested but these bleedin' ice cream vans get away with it! I want to start a petition to get ice cream vans banned from playing music because its driving me nuts!
Am I comming across as a grumpy old man!
kIN Work' blasting out of the local ice cream van. Now, believe it or not, I was a kid once and I occasionally liked an ice cream but I've had to put up with that bloody annoying ditty ALL fkIN DAY!!! If I drove up and down the local streets with my windows down blasting out The Prodigy, Girls Aloud or something similar I'd have been arrested but these bleedin' ice cream vans get away with it! I want to start a petition to get ice cream vans banned from playing music because its driving me nuts!
Am I comming across as a grumpy old man!
Lordbenny said:
So, it's almost summer and I've spent alot of the day gardening and echoing around the valley is 'Whistle While You fkIN Work' blasting out of the local ice cream van. Now, believe it or not, I was a kid once and I occasionally liked an ice cream but I've had to put up with that bloody annoying ditty ALL fkIN DAY!!!
If I drove up and down the local streets with my windows down blasting out The Prodigy, Girls Aloud or something similar I'd have been arrested but these bleedin' ice cream vans get away with it! I want to start a petition to get ice cream vans banned from playing music because its driving me nuts!
Am I comming across as a grumpy old man!
You're coming across as a grumpy old man. Go and buy all his stock, then he has to leave. kIN Work' blasting out of the local ice cream van. Now, believe it or not, I was a kid once and I occasionally liked an ice cream but I've had to put up with that bloody annoying ditty ALL fkIN DAY!!! If I drove up and down the local streets with my windows down blasting out The Prodigy, Girls Aloud or something similar I'd have been arrested but these bleedin' ice cream vans get away with it! I want to start a petition to get ice cream vans banned from playing music because its driving me nuts!
Am I comming across as a grumpy old man!
Our local ice cream van plays 'Teddy Bear's Picnic'. Which is quite nice, especially as he predictably turns up sometime around 4pm so when I've got the kids, I know roughly when to be ready to expect him.
However, our local ice cream van tt plays his 2 bars of deafening, annoying chimes as he pulls into the cul-de-sac. He drives to the end, does a 3 point turn and puts the handbrake on...
For exactly long enough to draw breath, at which point he fking drives off again, having made not a single attempt to sell any of his overpriced, tooth-rotting wares. Useless. fking. .
The sight of parents running down their drives as he gleefully drives off is a common one in my street. My children will learn from this early age that the ice cream man brings nothing but disappointment and empty promises
However, our local ice cream van t
t plays his 2 bars of deafening, annoying chimes as he pulls into the cul-de-sac. He drives to the end, does a 3 point turn and puts the handbrake on...For exactly long enough to draw breath, at which point he f
king drives off again, having made not a single attempt to sell any of his overpriced, tooth-rotting wares. Useless. fking. .The sight of parents running down their drives as he gleefully drives off is a common one in my street. My children will learn from this early age that the ice cream man brings nothing but disappointment and empty promises
I thought ours was unusual in playing 'Match of the Day', apparently not.
Still mutter 'fk off' every time I hear the dratted thing though...
Still mutter 'f
k off' every time I hear the dratted thing though...Old ICV (Withington) played Match of the Day... and stopped about 10m from my front door, twice - either side. 
There's one round here (Hulme) but thankfully I don't hear it often enough to remember its tune or have fantasies about doing something unpleasant to the driver with a Fruit Pastille lolly.
There's one round here (Hulme) but thankfully I don't hear it often enough to remember its tune or have fantasies about doing something unpleasant to the driver with a Fruit Pastille lolly.
Harsh!It became apparent a few years back that our Ice Cream Van Man was a raging F1 fan (at least I hope that was the answer)...
...every Sunday, usually moments of Michael Schumacher had stepped off the podium, you would hear his merry chimes slowly getting closer and closer..
he was playing the German National Anthem, inbetween the Italian National Anthem!
The old folks home thought it was 1939 all over again.
...every Sunday, usually moments of Michael Schumacher had stepped off the podium, you would hear his merry chimes slowly getting closer and closer..
he was playing the German National Anthem, inbetween the Italian National Anthem!
The old folks home thought it was 1939 all over again.
Edited by Steamer on Sunday 24th May 10:45
You lot are lucky. There's a couple round these parts that go around all year long, not just summer.
Quite bizarre the first time you hear Greensleeves tinkling away at 5pm on a December afternoon.
Probably not selling icecream though, given the history of these boys over the border.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Steele
Quite bizarre the first time you hear Greensleeves tinkling away at 5pm on a December afternoon.
Probably not selling icecream though, given the history of these boys over the border.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Steele
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