The Virtual Pub
Come Inside... => The Snug => Topic started by: GROWLER on April 03, 2008, 09:17:20 AM
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Is it just me being my usual untrusting cynical self...as Mrs G always claims I am ::)....no REALIST my little slippy petal...or does anyone else view these bags that you stick on your path, filled with all your no longer used goodies (tat) waiting for collection, as an Alladins cave for the driver/ collectors and probable flea bay fanatics, to make a few handy quid? rubschin:
We currently have 2 awaiting collection.
Just going to open one, and stick 'The Pan from hell' in it. ;)
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I have enver heard of these things. What I do know is that my local dump prohbits removal of items left there. That does not seem to stop the employees rummaging around in skips and "salvaging" items for their own use!
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Charity begins at home my mother always said and in my case that is where it stays. I keep their bags to use for garden rubbish that I want to take to the tip, I keep their pens for my children to use/loose, I send their sample Christmas cards to people that I don't want to waste money on, I use their envelopes for letters by using a sticky label. I am one mean b@st@rd.
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I have enver heard of these things. What I do know is that my local dump prohbits removal of items left there. That does not seem to stop the employees rummaging around in skips and "salvaging" items for their own use!
I'm amazed, as you only live 6 miles away. we get them shoved through the door every month or so, and I'd have thought they'd have been able to 'swoop' on better quality tat down there than up here in this shit hole.
The tip workers do quite openly rummage and scavange, I've noticed.
Must be a perk of the job?
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I use their envelopes for letters by using a sticky label. I am one mean b@st@rd.
If they are pre-paid, I usually stick a label over the return address, and use them for returning mail such as tax returns, and other such undesirable crap.
Bloody companies house want £30 off me and a filled out return, and they can't even be bothered sending me a flamin' envelope at all! Mean bastards.
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Talking of envelopes. Just received our water bill, and on the envelope they proudly announce with gleeful hearts...."new style bill enclosed!"
WOW! I'm so bloody excited I can hardly control my shaking hands in great anticipation, you thieving lazy inefficient bastards.
New style alright. Even BIGGER than before. cussing:
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happy001 happy001
When I travelled on buses I noticed that early each New Year they announced an "adjustment" in fares. Would that be a reduction then?
Nope!
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We get them at my house. I use them, stuff them to the gunnals with crap. If I have to take stuff to the charity shop it never happens so the bags are a god send. I have a box in the spare room and stuff gets chucked in it and when a bag arrives it all goes in there.
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happy001 happy001
When I travelled on buses I noticed that early each New Year they announced an "adjustment" in fares. Would that be a reduction then?
Nope!
What's a bus?
Arrrrrrr, right. Those stinking, smoke belching, over priced, inefficient ,unreliable, dirty, old, late, sheds on wheels, full of spitting swearing dirty knife weilding phone chatting cretins, that clog up our roads that the government want us to use more?
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We get them at my house. I use them, stuff them to the gunnals with crap. If I have to take stuff to the charity shop it never happens so the bags are a god send. I have a box in the spare room and stuff gets chucked in it and when a bag arrives it all goes in there.
Yes same here, but do you trust them....the alledged charity organisations that issue them and their driver/collectors and shop staff...not the bags themselves.
Always on the sniff...being a scouser like....for a 'business opportunity' ;), what could possibly stop me from simply driving around these streets of ours, collecting them myself?! eeek:
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I send their sample Christmas cards to people that I don't want to waste money on,
You mean the one you sent me with the idyllic French farmhouse wasn't of the village of S'Ample ?
I am desolate. sad32:
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happy001 happy001
When I travelled on buses I noticed that early each New Year they announced an "adjustment" in fares. Would that be a reduction then?
Nope!
What's a bus?
Arrrrrrr, right. Those stinking, smoke belching, over priced, inefficient ,unreliable, dirty, old, late, sheds on wheels, full of spitting swearing dirty knife weilding phone chatting cretins, that clog up our roads that the government want us to use more?
Don't mince your words Mr Bear, tell it like it is!
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TRUST 'EM?
Nope .... not even the sweet little old ladies who give their time so freely.
They all see first pickin's as their perks and donate 10 pence rather than actually steal the items.
Then they "price" the other stuff much higher.
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I send their sample Christmas cards to people that I don't want to waste money on,
You mean the one you sent me with the idyllic French farmhouse wasn't of the village of S'Ample ?
I am desolate. sad32:
LMFCO you old turnip muncher!
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Which reminds me of a firend of mine who worked ina charity shop.A man called up one day to ask if they wanted a dog kennel.They siad yes and he brought it round. He had made it himself.
Out of railway sleepers! eeek:
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I send their sample Christmas cards to people that I don't want to waste money on,
You mean the one you sent me with the idyllic French farmhouse wasn't of the village of S'Ample ?
I am desolate. sad32:
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TRUST 'EM?
Nope .... not even the sweet little old ladies who give their time so freely.
They all see first pickin's as their perks and donate 10 pence rather than actually steal the items.
Then they "price" the other stuff much higher.
My suspicion too. They all wear those bloody oap wooly hats too, have you noticed? Problee nicked out of one of the bags, cus the previous owner suddenly realised what a total shit they looked wearing it. cussing:
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I don't really care what happens to it so long as it is out of my house. redface:
I am considering volunteering at a charity shop to get the good tat. redface:
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I don't really care what happens to it so long as it is out of my house. redface:
I am considering volunteering at a charity shop to get the good tat. redface:
I s'pose you could actually call that another form of re-cycling then? ::)
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Even worse are those who stuff these bags through my door (this rather than inborn miserliness is what drove me to use them for garden rubbish) and then FAIL to collect them again.. That really gets up my nose.
As do the Kleeneze/Bettaware people who stick a catalogue through your door with a label saying they will pick it up on Tuesday and never reappear either to collect the catalogue ~leave it on the step if you don't want to order ~ and a month later it is there a soggy lump.
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Even worse are those who stuff these bags through my door (this rather than inborn miserliness is what drove me to use them for garden rubbish) and then FAIL to collect them again.. That really gets up my nose.
As do the Kleeneze/Bettaware people who stick a catalogue through your door with a label saying they will pick it up on Tuesday and never reappear either to collect the catalogue ~leave it on the step if you don't want to order ~ and a month later it is there a soggy lump.
That all irritates me!
I have a sign on the door refusing kleeneze and their ilk informing them if they leave the catalogue I will junk it.
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Nice word, ilk.
Can someone explain it to Growler please?
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things or people similar to.
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Ilk .... How they pronounce Elk in Surrey.
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Don't take the piss you sing songy bastard!
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OOOOOOOoooooooooooo 'Ark at 'er. Touchy today are we? ;)
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Banghead
Sorted out the stock check issues. Now trying to load stuff onto pcs.
Banghead
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Nice word, ilk.
Can someone explain it to Growler please?
Why, you cheeky munter? evil:
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Don't take the piss you sing songy bastard!
Sing song like "Ilk-Lee more Bar (wench) Tat"?
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happy001 happy001
When I travelled on buses I noticed that early each New Year they announced an "adjustment" in fares. Would that be a reduction then?
Nope!
My bus fare (weekly) went down this year - 50p a week.
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happy001 happy001
When I travelled on buses I noticed that early each New Year they announced an "adjustment" in fares. Would that be a reduction then?
Nope!
My bus fare (weekly) went down this year - 50p a week.
Age Related Benefit?
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happy001 happy001
When I travelled on buses I noticed that early each New Year they announced an "adjustment" in fares. Would that be a reduction then?
Nope!
My bus fare (weekly) went down this year - 50p a week.
eeek:
How on earth did that happen!?!?!
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happy001 happy001
When I travelled on buses I noticed that early each New Year they announced an "adjustment" in fares. Would that be a reduction then?
Nope!
My bus fare (weekly) went down this year - 50p a week.
eeek:
How on earth did that happen!?!?!
Once a year after you are born you add one to a number.
When that number reaches 60, they pay you to sit with the chavs and impoverished underclasses.
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Actually the new bus pass give free travel all over the country Darwin. whistle:
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I've had a free travel bus pass for four years now. ~ Only used it twice .... horrible experience.
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happy001 happy001
When I travelled on buses I noticed that early each New Year they announced an "adjustment" in fares. Would that be a reduction then?
Nope!
My bus fare (weekly) went down this year - 50p a week.
eeek:
How on earth did that happen!?!?!
Spotty teenage green haired oink in the admin. dept. pressed a - instead of a + for the announcement leaflet.
Increase will treble next year to make up for this years shortfall, don't worry.
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Actually the new bus pass give free travel all over the country Darwin. whistle:
Ooooh! I must get one. ::)
I believe there is a bus to Newbury every Tuesday ;D
It returns on Wednesday, I think. cry:
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There used to be a weekly cart from Dummer to Basingstoke ~ my Great Uncle owned it. It turned into Porters Coaches of Dummer (you will have seen them in your neck of the woods DS)
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There used to be a weekly cart from Dummer to Basingstoke ~ my Great Uncle owned it. It turned into Porters Coaches of Dummer (you will have seen them in your neck of the woods DS)
I am sure they went bust or were taken over 20 years or so ago.
The other delightfully named local country bus company in the 50's and 60's round here was "Chiltern Queens".
At the very least they would have needed 're-branding'. whistle:
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They got taken over.
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I don't really care what happens to it so long as it is out of my house. redface:
I am considering volunteering at a charity shop to get the good tat. redface:
My grandmother used to work in a charity shop.
She always complained that they didn’t ever get shopping trolleys (those bags on wheels) in the shop and if anybody came in to ask for them she had to turn them away.
When she died we cleared out her flat and it was full of the bloody things! lol:
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I don't really care what happens to it so long as it is out of my house. redface:
I am considering volunteering at a charity shop to get the good tat. redface:
My grandmother used to work in a charity shop.
She always complained that they didn’t ever get shopping trolleys (those bags on wheels) in the shop and if anybody came in to ask for them she had to turn them away.
When she died we cleared out her flat and it was full of the bloody things! lol:
I gave one of them to my mate for his 50th birthday....via a charity shop. Finished in a nice tartan effect. sick2:
I promised him I'd run him, and it, over if I ever saw him using it.
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I don't really care what happens to it so long as it is out of my house. redface:
I am considering volunteering at a charity shop to get the good tat. redface:
My grandmother used to work in a charity shop.
She always complained that they didn’t ever get shopping trolleys (those bags on wheels) in the shop and if anybody came in to ask for them she had to turn them away.
When she died we cleared out her flat and it was full of the bloody things! lol:
I gave one of them to my mate for his 50th birthday....via a charity shop. Finished in a nice tartan effect. sick2:
I promised him I'd run him, and it, over if I ever saw him using it.
They were all tartan - we took about ten of them to the tip...
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I don't really care what happens to it so long as it is out of my house. redface:
I am considering volunteering at a charity shop to get the good tat. redface:
My grandmother used to work in a charity shop.
She always complained that they didn’t ever get shopping trolleys (those bags on wheels) in the shop and if anybody came in to ask for them she had to turn them away.
When she died we cleared out her flat and it was full of the bloody things! lol:
I gave one of them to my mate for his 50th birthday....via a charity shop. Finished in a nice tartan effect. sick2:
I promised him I'd run him, and it, over if I ever saw him using it.
They were all tartan - we took about ten of them to the tip...
Vile aren't they? I dunno what it is about them, but I always want to kill when I see one.
Talking of old ladies stuff.....another growling thread coming on...hang on. sick2:
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3rd charity bag of the day just delivered. eeek:
Is there no end to them ey?
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>>>> Bin. lol:
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>>>> Bin. lol:
Full......of empty charity bags. ::)
Could try selling them as bin liners down the market like I suppose. rubschin:
Just how much tat do these charities Polish/Romanian/Turkish/ Afghanise/ Iraqi /Irish method of gathering shite actually need to sell on flea bay think we all have ey, how much, exactly like? Shrugs:
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I took loads of stuff to the charity shop the other day and they asked me if I'd ironed it cussing:
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Has the Brat got wrinkles?
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I wonder if I should fill one of these bags up with all the household shite and leave it out on the allocated day, you know, owld tea bags, last weeks left overs etc? rubschin:
Hidden camera for the reaction would be werth it's weight in gold I reckon. lol:
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When they knocked at my door asking for clothes for starving Africans, i told them to **** off. Any African that can fit in my clothes isn't bloody starving
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When they knocked at my door asking for clothes for starving Africans, i told them to **** off. Any African that can fit in my clothes isn't bloody starving
drumroll: lol: lol: lol:
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....and yet ANOTHER one has just been delivered. eeek:
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I get loads here too. Never got them at House 1. Odd rubschin:
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I get loads here too. Never got them at House 1. Odd rubschin:
Tatty looking house = probably full of tat? whistle:
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Quite so redface: House 2 is a little downmarket. More like yours I spect whistle:
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Quite so redface: House 2 is a little downmarket. More like yours I spect whistle:
Problee. Keep it that way to keep the berglers away.
Flash = 'cash'. ;)
They'd be sorely disappointed if they broke in here anyway though tbqath. cry:
Growler jnr's room is the only one worth having a sniff around at.
Hundreds if not thousands of pounds werth of model cars, all in a bootiful glass and lit cabinet.
Awesome. eeek:
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WHen are you all off on holiday? whistle:
Mr Nick (Honorary Scouser)
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WHen are you all off on holiday? whistle:
Mr Nick (Honorary Scouser)
June, only if me job doesn't start picking up mighty soon, they'll be going without me. cry:
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I have a shed going cheap angel1
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I have a budgie going cheep.
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Mrs Snoops is offering B&B eyes:
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Mrs Snoops is offering B&B eyes:
GBH more like
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I have a shed going cheap angel1
No. They go, and I stay HERE on my own in peace and tranquility cloud9: eating takeaways, drinking gallons of coffee and talking shite to you lot non stop for a week. happy088
Heavenly. cloud9: