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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Taxi_Driver on 03 October 2014, 18:58:59
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Plumber started today....replacing my 32yo boiler....
He asked what i wanted to do with it....asked him if he wanted it...no not really, but was happy to take it away and take it to the tip...
So i suggested leaving on the pavement outside my house, if it was still there by the time he had finished, then he could get rid of it...
So he did....10mins later it was gone ;D ;D
Pikey's round here must work fast ::) ;D
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That's exactly why I don't leave stuff out.
Don't support them.
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That's exactly why I don't leave stuff out.
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Don't support them.
Agreed, :y we have a local chap who collects all our bulk throw aways just a phone call away.
He makes on the metal, but loses on the other stuff but it's a good service and quicker than the council. :y
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Oh god. Cleggy agrees with me. That can't be a good sign. ;D
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That's exactly why I don't leave stuff out.
:y
Don't support them.
Agreed, :y we have a local chap who collects all our bulk throw aways just a phone call away.
He makes on the metal, but loses on the other stuff but it's a good service and quicker than the council. :y
Now you and I both know Cleggy that there always was a great metal and all things recyclable service when we were kids, so around long before "recycling" became fashionable. ::) ::)
It's name? The Rag & Bone man with even an eco horse and cart!! :D :D :D :y :y
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That's exactly why I don't leave stuff out.
:y
Don't support them.
Agreed, :y we have a local chap who collects all our bulk throw aways just a phone call away.
He makes on the metal, but loses on the other stuff but it's a good service and quicker than the council. :y
Now you and I both know Cleggy that there always was a great metal and all things recyclable service when we were kids, so around long before "recycling" became fashionable. ::) ::)
It's name? The Rag & Bone man with even an eco horse and cart!! :D :D :D :y :y
There was one where I used to live he used to shout some undistinguishable row that was know by everybody, but I think it was any old iron. LOL :y :y
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There's one that drives around where my other half is from.. I'm pretty sure the loud hailer just goes "aaaaaaaaaaoooooooooooiiiiiiiiirn!" ;D
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That's exactly why I don't leave stuff out.
:y
Don't support them.
Agreed, :y we have a local chap who collects all our bulk throw aways just a phone call away.
He makes on the metal, but loses on the other stuff but it's a good service and quicker than the council. :y
Now you and I both know Cleggy that there always was a great metal and all things recyclable service when we were kids, so around long before "recycling" became fashionable. ::) ::)
It's name? The Rag & Bone man with even an eco horse and cart!! :D :D :D :y :y
There was one where I used to live he used to shout some undistinguishable row that was know by everybody, but I think it was any old iron. LOL :y :y
Yes, indeed down our way around London and in the South East it usually was "Any old iron!" shouted out at Max volume. "Rag and bone" however was a shout heard in East London by me when I was a child staying at my nan's. I am sure it was shouted elsewhere, but the former shout I heard right into the late 1960s. :y
Everyone though called these men "Rag & Bone men" which went back well into the Victorian age when the bone collected was used to make soap, with the rag recycled as understand it, to make a variety of products including paper. :y
As the Victorian age rolled on the amount of scrap, re-useable, iron increased and the rag and bone men started to collect that. As bone became unnecessary for soap production in the early twentieth century, these men collected greater quantities of scrap steel products, not just iron. ;)
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That's exactly why I don't leave stuff out.
:y
Don't support them.
Agreed, :y we have a local chap who collects all our bulk throw aways just a phone call away.
He makes on the metal, but loses on the other stuff but it's a good service and quicker than the council. :y
Now you and I both know Cleggy that there always was a great metal and all things recyclable service when we were kids, so around long before "recycling" became fashionable. ::) ::)
It's name? The Rag & Bone man with even an eco horse and cart!! :D :D :D :y :y
There was one where I used to live he used to shout some undistinguishable row that was know by everybody, but I think it was any old iron. LOL :y :y
Yes, indeed down our way around London and in the South East it usually was "Any old iron!" shouted out at Max volume. "Rag and bone" however was a shout heard in East London by me when I was a child staying at my nan's. I am sure it was shouted elsewhere, but the former shout I heard right into the late 1960s. :y
Everyone though called these men "Rag & Bone men" which went back well into the Victorian age when the bone collected was used to make soap, with the rag recycled as understand it, to make a variety of products including paper. :y
As the Victorian age rolled on the amount of scrap, re-useable, iron increased and the rag and bone men started to collect that. As bone became unnecessary for soap production in the early twentieth century, these men collected greater quantities of scrap steel products, not just iron. ;)
Ours in Yorkshire used to shout " RAGS, RAGS, SCRAP" he used to give kids a goldfish in a little plastic bag or a few sweets. :y
My dad used to run out with a shovel to get the horse shit for his roses, before the neighbours did and if he was at work and I hadn't scooped it up I ended up with a clip round the tabs. ;D ;D ;D
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Think you'll find there was even a TV programme made about them.It was called Steptoe and Son,and a lot better viewing than the rubbish that's on these days it was too!!!
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Think you'll find there was even a TV programme made about them.It was called Steptoe and Son,and a lot better viewing than the rubbish that's on these days it was too!!!
:y :y We washed our hands after getting the manure before eating sandwiches. :y ;D ;D ;D
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There's one that drives around where my other half is from.. I'm pretty sure the loud hailer just goes "aaaaaaaaaaoooooooooooiiiiiiiiirn!" ;D
Are you sue it ain't somebody shouting your name aaron ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Plumber started today....replacing my 32yo boiler....
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So he did....10mins later it was gone ;D ;D
Pikey's round here must work fast ::) ;D
I wonder if somebody somewhere has just paid for a "reconditioned" boiler to be fitted ::)