Who'd be a housewife, eh?

Susan · Tickle me, Elmo! I'm Roger Moore's Stunt Double!

Who'd be a housewife, eh?

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

What was in your dustbin? You didn't put rubbish in it, did you???

At least you get a weekly collection. We've just been told that the're reducing our collection to fortnightly this summer... Welcome to smelly Bristol! Bzzzzzzz zzz bzzz

Susan · Tickle me, Elmo! I'm Roger Moore's Stunt Double!

I know I shouldn't have. But I thought I might try it, you know, just for the novelty value.

Phew! Imagine the honk of a fortnight-old wheelybin. Ewwww!

Glad I don't live in Bristol.

bonniepirateanne · Date: Apr 26, 2004

there is a dinstinct difference between the dustbin men of belfast and the dustbin men of armagh (my homehome town)

firstly - the belfast men will travel about a mile round the back of our terraced houses to get the bin, lift any random rubbish on the way, take it back, and return the bins to (kind of) in the alley again (we always just take whatever bin we come to first, we're not picky, this week we have house 65's, last week it was 94 (we're 14* haha - cant give away my house number now can i ;))) (in fact our bin has been missing in action for the past month)

then we have the armagh boys - should i say 'waste disposal experts' who have the inability to take a bin if the lid is EVEN EVER SO SLIGTLY open, they refuse to take ANY extra rubbish and to be honest, they hardly ever come because the hill is so slippy (what?) even tho they can get the to the shops (who pay) bigbins further up the street(/hill) - and if the bin is not perpendicular to the wall, they cant take it either (i might have made that last bit up)

so thats my rant over
eww smelly bristol

Susan · Tickle me, Elmo! I'm Roger Moore's Stunt Double!

You've lost your household waste receptacle? Heavens above. Send out a search party.

<yells> "look out KT's lost her bins"

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Should we have a vigil for Katies bins, too? We could all light fires in our own bins and... oh. They'd melt. Very cool, but not really practical.

Kum byeeeeee yahhhhhhhhh

bonniepirateanne · Date: Apr 26, 2004

my bin would appreciate that

if it was here *sniff* thanks

Susan · Tickle me, Elmo! I'm Roger Moore's Stunt Double!

Aw, KT. You poor luvvy. :hug:

Joe · Ah Pity Da Foo!

But KT, thats all part of Stranmillis student life - the early morning raid on the bins to make sure you dont get lumbered with the one with the huge hole in it, or the tiny bin that only just about holds one bag of rubbish (in my last student house we were such masters that we actually had two bins mwwuhahaha! )

You will miss it when you leave the comfortable confines of academia, that and many other things - like staying in bed all day cuz you cant be bothered or cuz its raining

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Ahh. The bin rush. Even we get to play that game here in bristol. It's such fun. The bin men come all the way to the back gate to collect the bin, but it's anyone's guess where on the estate they leave it. Sometimes I have to go for a bit of a ramble before I discover it. Maybe I should attach one of those whistle keyrings to it...

Still. I'll only have to do it once a fortnight soon...

bonniepirateanne · Date: Apr 26, 2004

haha, but it's not over yet - 3 weeks in the america then a whole 3 and a half months of 'writing a dissertation' - hahaha, that means one week of lots of hard work the rest sleeping in because i cant be bothered and it's raining (irish summer) outside

NateO · Vice JDK and Man of the People

To answer the question, sure as **** not I.

Susan · Tickle me, Elmo! I'm Roger Moore's Stunt Double!

You are very wise.

bonniepirateanne · Date: Apr 26, 2004

i'd happily be a kept woman (any takers?) but never the housewife haha

you are a saint among .. people :)

bonniepirateanne · Date: Apr 26, 2004

Susan · Tickle me, Elmo! I'm Roger Moore's Stunt Double!

A little tarnished around the edges, perhaps, but nothing that can't be fixed with a pad of Duraglit.

NateO · Vice JDK and Man of the People

i'd happily be a kept woman (any takers?) but never the housewife haha

Hard to say, I'm still trying to sort out what you are getting at here.

What of your friend who's bottom you were advertising here?

bonniepirateanne · Date: Apr 26, 2004

to keep me?

no not him, but the bloke who was leaning out of the way - i might ask him to

Susan · Tickle me, Elmo! I'm Roger Moore's Stunt Double!

given the choice KT, I'd go for the tall one at the back that looks like Jonny Wilkinson.

sha76jam · Cpt Acorn Short of An Oaktree

I'd just like to say, I don't get to have a wheelie bin

NateO · Vice JDK and Man of the People

Me neither Sharon.

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

Wheelie bins are so cool. They're like bins....with wheels!

sha76jam · Cpt Acorn Short of An Oaktree

I remember when they were first introduced to where my parents live. Which is on a steep hill. Where alot of the houses are up/down a fairly long, steep flight of steps from the road, or face directly onto the road, with no access at the back. Very practical. A good area for wheelie bin races however.

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

That's such a cool idea. I'm gonna o out and get in my wheelie bin right now!

Ewww. Actually. I've just remembered that there's a 2 week old turkey carcass in it. I think I'll wait until after bin day, if that's ok.

sha76jam · Cpt Acorn Short of An Oaktree

Oh, nobody put rubbish in them to start with. Like I said, it was a bit impractical & obviously it would also back them less pleasant to race in.

ddvmor · **I am the Jammie King!**

What did they do with their rubbish, then? Eat it?

sha76jam · Cpt Acorn Short of An Oaktree

Use regular bins & bin bags.

NateO · Vice JDK and Man of the People

But I was right to complain & shouldn't feel threatened should I?
F***ing ba$$erds.

Trash man... Indeed!

VicM · Baaaaa. No, really - Just Baaaaa.

Our bin men have a new gadget that measures how open your wheelie bin lid is. If it's more that half a centimeter they actually open it, remove a bag, and then empty the bin - leaving you with the bag they removed! Surely this is MORE work that just emptying the bin in the first place. They seem to be fairly friendly about it though!

Now the post office - that's an entirely different load of whinging. We keep having backlogs and getting 3 weeks post in one go - very helpful when final demands are included!!

Heard a very funny man on Classic FM this morning - he said that the winner of their competition would 'receive a cd by...................Royal Mail very quickly............well in a couple of days............next week maybe..................if you haven't got it by next year gve us a ring and we'll replace it!'

Made me laugh!

bonniepirateanne · Date: Apr 27, 2004

i heard the mention of some competition winner darren morris.. and then i coughed.. so it could have been morrissey.. did darren win something today?