So, is his "prediction" correct?
Do bin men deserve a pension ??!
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ComedyPilot
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Why, have you nicked one?
ComedyPilot
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With a small element of Joe24 thrown in for good measure?You're all being duped by BFF!
I believe he's half Greedo, quarter Abitrary and quarter LLB.
Spit the hook out before you all swallow the rod and reel, too!
brokenflipflop
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I've found the Post Office to be quite good. I'm really friendly with my postman. I give him a £50 tip every Christmas and he really looks after me. During the year I've given him a few bits and bobs because he knows what I do for a living and when I'm out and my vans not out front, he''ll hang on to my mail/parcels and drop them off if he sees my van later on. It's a shame the binmen aren't a bit more customer focused and they would have got a tip as well. My rule of thumb for tipping bin men is if they return my bin to withing 50 feet of where I left it at least 10 times in the year !. They failed that little test. Bigger tip for the posty and the advertiser delivery boy though.
MontyVeda
a short-tempered ill-controlled small-minded troll
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it's health and safety gone mad!
maybe not... but 'they' can be work shy lazy arses when they want to be, but then again, so can i.
I don't put my recycling bin on the pavement, instead, just inside the front yard. Occasionally 'they' don't collect them so i ring the council and complain, that way 'they' have to come all the way back and collect my bin. The next week they generally shift their arses a few extra inches and pick them up from where i leave them.
And before you start calling me lazy User482 & co... leaving my bin on the pavement means, thanks to a sycamore and a lamppost, any body with a push chair would have to divert onto the road to pass, so i choose to keep the pavement clear outside my house. (a diagram is available on request)
my landlady, who is in her 80's pulls her large compost bin from her back garden, all the way down her drive and leaves it by the road, only to be told by three young men that it's too heavy for them to move it a further three feet to the wagon.
I'm all in favour of those who clean the streets... but occasionally there is a complete jobsworth who'll spout 'the rules' in order to justify the fact that they can't be arsed.
maybe not... but 'they' can be work shy lazy arses when they want to be, but then again, so can i.
I don't put my recycling bin on the pavement, instead, just inside the front yard. Occasionally 'they' don't collect them so i ring the council and complain, that way 'they' have to come all the way back and collect my bin. The next week they generally shift their arses a few extra inches and pick them up from where i leave them.
And before you start calling me lazy User482 & co... leaving my bin on the pavement means, thanks to a sycamore and a lamppost, any body with a push chair would have to divert onto the road to pass, so i choose to keep the pavement clear outside my house. (a diagram is available on request)
my landlady, who is in her 80's pulls her large compost bin from her back garden, all the way down her drive and leaves it by the road, only to be told by three young men that it's too heavy for them to move it a further three feet to the wagon.
I'm all in favour of those who clean the streets... but occasionally there is a complete jobsworth who'll spout 'the rules' in order to justify the fact that they can't be arsed.
brokenflipflop
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[QUOTE 1657557, member: 1314"]My insertions in the brackets.
But on this thread:
http://www.cyclechat.net/threads/things-to-enliven-christmas-shopping.92110/post-1653268
You state in Post 24 that:
I've got access to the kids but they don't want to see me - so I don't have to get them anything. Not spoken to anyone in the wife's family for 6 years so no need to get them 'owt. My Mum and Dad live abroad - another saving. I've got no friends (no I'm not a copper :-) Just got to get the wife something......bugger
Which "kid" are you referring to?[/quote]
Our kid.......brother. Hope that satisfies your curiosity.
But on this thread:
http://www.cyclechat.net/threads/things-to-enliven-christmas-shopping.92110/post-1653268
You state in Post 24 that:
I've got access to the kids but they don't want to see me - so I don't have to get them anything. Not spoken to anyone in the wife's family for 6 years so no need to get them 'owt. My Mum and Dad live abroad - another saving. I've got no friends (no I'm not a copper :-) Just got to get the wife something......bugger
Which "kid" are you referring to?[/quote]
Our kid.......brother. Hope that satisfies your curiosity.
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
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Nah, you'll find that they are in the commuting forum where the pace of argument developments are far from pedestrian.
brokenflipflop
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MontyVeda. Well said.....but the lefty, Guardian-reading uber-intellectuals who take delight in rubbishing my opinion on here wont be very happy with your post. I hope you've covered all your facts because they'll be googling like mad about now.
I trust that's not a regionalist remark !
snorri
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Not at all Dayvo, we saw it as a game before the end of the first page,
it's all part of the festive fun.
I think.
mangaman
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You're all being duped by BFF!
I believe he's half Greedo, quarter Abitrary and quarter LLB.
Spit the hook out before you all swallow the rod and reel, too!
I wouldn't put Arbitary in there - he was funny.
Maybe a smidgeon of simoncc - I'm sure he hated the council and lived in Manchester
PBancroft
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MontyVeda. Well said.....but the lefty, Guardian-reading uber-intellectuals who take delight in rubbishing my opinion on here wont be very happy with your post. I hope you've covered all your facts because they'll be googling like mad about now.
For what its worth, I suggested you should complain. You replied that it wouldn't make any difference.
It seems to me that if you were to do so you might have an impact, whereas sounding off on an unrelated fora, as satisfying as it might be, is very unlikely to have one.
If you had already contacted the council and given information as to why you think the binmen acted inappropriately but they fobbed you off (if they did) and then posted on here I suspect you would have had a very different reaction than the one you received.
But hey, I might be wrong. It's been known before.
brokenflipflop
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My beef is with a council employee who for the sake of no extra effort and in my opinion just to be bloody-minded, didn't empty my bin. I fully accept that the bin man was within his rights not to empty it. My point is he left it purely because he could, but to empty it would have been no extra effort than if I have positioned it 2-3 feet further forward. This action (or non action) underlines my opinion of people employed by or contracted by the council - mean-spirited and jobs-worths. If he had emptied the bin, I would have known he had gone the extra mile (or 2 feet
) and not only would it have given me a warm feeling, maybe him a warm feeling and a Christian act but next week they'd have had a nice tip toboot. Mean-spirited, just for the sake of it.....WHY?
accountantpete
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[QUOTE 1657697, member: 45"]It was your mistake. Stop blaming him for it.[/quote]
That's a bit sexist - one of our bin people is a lady.
That's a bit sexist - one of our bin people is a lady.
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