# Carnforth Civic Hall gets a new vacuum cleaner **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 31, 2016, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carnforth-civic-hall-gets-a-new-vacuum-cleaner/770290 "2016-10-31T19:43:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Asympotically\_fat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47c2d/32.png) [@Asympotically\_fat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asympotically_fat)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carnforth-civic-hall-gets-a-new-vacuum-cleaner/770290/1 "2016-10-31T19:43:38Z")
According to the [West Morland Gazette](http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/14833308.Carnforth_Civic_Hall_gets_new_vacuum_cleaner/?ref=mr&lp=6): > [@](#): > > A NEW vacuum cleaner has been bought for Carnforth Civic Hall as the old one was ‘no longer serviceable’, Carnforth Town Council heard at its recent meeting. > > Meanwhile, estimates for pointing work at the hall have been obtained, and Lancashire County Council is to be told about the ‘very worn’ state of yellow road hatching outside the property, on North Road. What do people think of this developing story? I notice they try to bury the news of estimates for new pointing work have been by releasing it at the same time as the vacuum cleaner story. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carnforth-civic-hall-gets-a-new-vacuum-cleaner/770290/2 "2016-10-31T19:51:20Z")
Lazy, lazy reporting, typical of the MSM. No word on whether the new vacuum is a Henry, a Dyson or whatever. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Asympotically\_fat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47c2d/32.png) [@Asympotically\_fat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asympotically_fat)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carnforth-civic-hall-gets-a-new-vacuum-cleaner/770290/3 "2016-10-31T19:58:04Z")
I bet it’s a Henry, those Dysons aren’t really designed for commercial/industrial cleaning. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carnforth-civic-hall-gets-a-new-vacuum-cleaner/770290/4 "2016-10-31T20:07:57Z")
> [@Asympotically\_fat](#): > > I bet it’s a Henry, those Dysons aren’t really designed for commercial/industrial cleaning. It will be a Henry, most likely. But it could also be, potentially, a water-friendly Charles or George. We just don’t know. #hoovergate ---
**Author:** ![Asympotically\_fat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e47c2d/32.png) [@Asympotically\_fat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asympotically_fat)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carnforth-civic-hall-gets-a-new-vacuum-cleaner/770290/5 "2016-10-31T20:24:18Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > It will be a Henry, most likely. But it could also be, potentially, a water-friendly Charles or George. We just don’t know. #hoovergate I kinda feel there might be a link here to the Hilary e-mail scandal. I don’t know what the link is, but I’m pretty sure there is one. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carnforth-civic-hall-gets-a-new-vacuum-cleaner/770290/6 "2016-10-31T21:14:10Z")
> [@Asympotically\_fat](#): > > What do people think of this developing story? I think it sucks. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carnforth-civic-hall-gets-a-new-vacuum-cleaner/770290/7 "2016-10-31T21:29:37Z")
Plenty more hot issues to get your teeth into here: [http://apiln.blogspot.co.uk/](http://apiln.blogspot.co.uk/) ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2016, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carnforth-civic-hall-gets-a-new-vacuum-cleaner/770290/8 "2016-10-31T21:55:33Z")
> [@PatrickLondon](#): > > Plenty more hot issues to get your teeth into here: > > [http://apiln.blogspot.co.uk/](http://apiln.blogspot.co.uk/) Ah, this site has a decent record of Ron and his “totally not me!” porn bill. > **[Won't pay for porn because our account was hacked anger](http://apiln.blogspot.com/2014/04/wont-pay-for-porn-anger.html)** > > Manchester Evening News : Couple's Virgin Media service cut off after somebody hacked into their account and watched porny movies without ... ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carnforth-civic-hall-gets-a-new-vacuum-cleaner/770290/9 "2016-11-01T00:41:11Z")
_ahem_ Westmorland is one word, not two. It’s one of the two former counties that now make up Cumbria. Personally, I think the cross-hatching deserves a little more attention, they skipped right over that for the fancy eye catching vacuum nonsense. I have family and friends in Carnforth, this is their safety at stake here! My bet’s on a Henry, I shall try and get some insider follow up. ---
**Author:** ![ticker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@ticker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ticker)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carnforth-civic-hall-gets-a-new-vacuum-cleaner/770290/10 "2016-11-01T01:28:07Z")
> [@Baron\_Greenback](#): > > It will be a Henry, most likely. But it could also be, potentially, a water-friendly Charles or George. We just don’t know. #hoovergate Are they not even going to consider [Hetty?](https://www.amazon.co.uk/NUMATIC-HET200-12-Vacuum-Cleaner-Bagged/dp/B00N2S98O6) They had better watch out or they will be up in front of a sex discrimination tribunal. ---
**Author:** ![Encinitas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carnforth-civic-hall-gets-a-new-vacuum-cleaner/770290/11 "2016-11-01T04:43:19Z")
Boy, Carnforth gets all the new shinny [stuff](http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/14833595.New_paint_ordered_for_Carnforth_play_park/?ref=ar). ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carnforth-civic-hall-gets-a-new-vacuum-cleaner/770290/12 "2016-11-01T13:22:12Z")
> [@Filbert](#): > > Westmorland is one word, not two. It’s one of the two former counties that now make up Cumbria. So an entire county just disappeared? Somebody better shake out the bag before they throw that old vacuum away. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carnforth-civic-hall-gets-a-new-vacuum-cleaner/770290/13 "2016-11-01T13:59:28Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > So an entire county just disappeared? > > Somebody better shake out the bag before they throw that old vacuum away. It’s been gone since 1974, at least two or three vacuums ago. Doesn’t stop the local group that keeps painting out “Cumbria” and replacing it with “Westmorland” on all the county entry and exit signs. That does bring me to the dark secret though. I think, maybe I live far enough away now to share this. It’s time. If I should disappear, know I gave my life to spread this light we call knowledge to the world. Carnforth is in Lancashire, it was never in the historic county of Westmorland! The Westmorland Gazette is spilling their secrets to the world, but they have no right to do so! They hide terrible news of lost sheep, and even the great scandals of Kendal itself behind these distracting tales of Carnforth vacuums! What do they truly have to hide?!!!?1? ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carnforth-civic-hall-gets-a-new-vacuum-cleaner/770290/14 "2016-11-01T14:14:04Z")
> [@Encinitas](#): > > Boy, Carnforth gets all the new shinny [stuff](http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/14833595.New_paint_ordered_for_Carnforth_play_park/?ref=ar). What is a “rubbing-down” and why is it taking place in a kids’ playground?!! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carnforth-civic-hall-gets-a-new-vacuum-cleaner/770290/15 "2016-11-01T14:21:32Z")
None of you have lived in a small town, have you? This kind of stuff is on every Town Council meeting agenda. Sometimes ridiculously trivial things that are spelled out in the town charter have to be dealt with at the most formal level. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carnforth-civic-hall-gets-a-new-vacuum-cleaner/770290/16 "2016-11-01T16:15:25Z")
What’s even funnier is that that stuff is actually on the agenda and has to be voted on by the council. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carnforth-civic-hall-gets-a-new-vacuum-cleaner/770290/17 "2016-11-01T17:42:45Z")
Ah, “parish pump” politics [http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/11673809.VIDEO\_\_Watch\_as\_fight\_breaks\_out\_at\_meeting\_in\_row\_over\_sheep\_grazing\_rights/](http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/11673809.VIDEO__Watch_as_fight_breaks_out_at_meeting_in_row_over_sheep_grazing_rights/) [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9209283/Parish-councillor-suspended-over-Tombola-row.html](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9209283/Parish-councillor-suspended-over-Tombola-row.html) ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/carnforth-civic-hall-gets-a-new-vacuum-cleaner/770290/18 "2016-11-01T19:56:54Z")
> [@PatrickLondon](#): > > [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9209283/Parish-councillor-suspended-over-Tombola-row.html](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9209283/Parish-councillor-suspended-over-Tombola-row.html) Tombola rows do tend to escalate pretty quickly.