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Where I used to live the council would take away an item like a fridge for £20. Most councils have a scheme like that.

When I was a boy, the "rag and bone" man would come round with his horse and cart and remove anything recyclable for free.

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:Yorkshire Pudding Jumper...now, if pockets could be made for your Beef, Gravy, Veg and Spuds, you could be on to something...

And Warpcrafter has the hand of our arcane utterings...it is indeed once every two weeks the scaff truck comes round to hoik away our detrius.

Nominally, it's meant to promote 'recycling' (we have 3 bins. 1 normal, 1 for cardboard, and 1 for plastics I think) and although this does work, everyone knows it's just the council looking to save money. Less on amenties = more for them...

It comes from having read so many White Dwarfs before they established a U.S. branch. We have a recycling tub per household here, and I mostly use it for disposing of junk mail. (We get at least five pounds of unread ads, coupons and other crap every week. That's most likely why the postmen go gun-crazy once in awhile. I would if I knew my job was that pointless.)

We have bin collection once a week.

1 wheelie bin for recycling and 1 for rubbish.

We recycle most plastics now and even styrofoam (as long as it has a PET symbol on it).

Wheelie Bin

We dont need Icelandic banks to take away our councils money.

Her Majesty's Government will do this on its own. Shrewsbury has a tory council with £50M in the bank and is one of a handful to be solvent, even the police force is on budget.

So what does the governme do, bring in legislation to cap our spending (introduced to stop excesses of spending councils) and then get the home office to take our budget away for use by the entuire region. The idiots in Birmingham are happy for an extra £50M to squander, in addition to all the rest they get, it will hardly touch the sides.

No this is not a reaction to the banking crisis, this move has been planned for several years. The stage we are at is that th mneoy is technically ours (wink wink) but the account is inconvenietly frozen until a regional authority takes over.

Waaagh_Gonads wrote:We have bin collection once a week.

1 wheelie bin for recycling and 1 for rubbish.

We recycle most plastics now and even styrofoam (as long as it has a PET symbol on it).

Wheelie Bin

It takes a different kind of fellow to have the to take a picture of his trashcan

If only the government hadn't taken our guns away. That way we could have seen the tax collectors off when they came round to collect the tax we refused to pay. Or better still, we could have ourselves a revolution. Alas...

You don't need guns for a good old Tar and Featherin. helps but not required

I don't fancy marching on the local army base or Downing Street with a pitch fork. I guess it's down to flicking flaming peat on the police stations and stockpiling molotovs again. Ah well.

Whats peat?

It come out of a bog. And you can set it on fire.

"I really want to set that guy on fire, but I'm too lazy to walk over there to do it..."