Scrap men

edited May 2011 in Chit chat
Every bloody day at least three scrap metal vans come past our house, same ones every time.
They dont even blow the bugle like they used to, got the thing recorded on a PA, does my head in!
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  • edited May 2011
    Macc wrote: »
    Every bloody day at least three scrap metal vans come past our house, same ones every time.
    They dont even blow the bugle like they used to, got the thing recorded on a PA, does my head in!

    Yep same here but maybe not quite every day and i think there are two or three different ones.
  • edited May 2011
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  • fogfog
    edited May 2011
    annnnnnny old iron :)

    steptoe's yard isn't far from here .... I just about remember the rag / bone man coming around on a horse in the early 80's or was it the coal man.. i forget.. either way it was on a horse / cart.

    you just reminded me..

    http://www.greatyarmouthmercury.co.uk/news/lead_stolen_from_merrivale_model_village_hospital_1_871795

    doesn't phil tuffnell remind you of steptoe ? if they ever remake the film :) :lol:
  • edited May 2011
    Yeah I remember chasing down the rag n bone man as a kid on his horse and cart with a piss stained mattress.

    Ummm not mine *cough* my brothers.
  • fogfog
    edited May 2011
    but you told me you were an only child ? :lol:
    j/k

    I notice people dump mattress's at the top of my road.. is there like a preference for them ?

    I know a friends dad who rents out to housing association has to replace matress's for new tenants!!! (?400 a time)
    fixed.. he just got a sealing machine for ?300.. and sealed em all :)

    thats only bettered by what he did to a tennant who was flooding the floor letting baths over run in an upstairs flat.. they put lino down but put it in an arc (like a skateboard ramp) behind the bath.. so any time they flooded it.. it'd go all over THEIR floor and not downstairs :)
  • edited May 2011
    Macc wrote: »
    Every bloody day at least three scrap metal vans come past our house, same ones every time.
    They dont even blow the bugle like they used to, got the thing recorded on a PA, does my head in!

    Maybe it's just one and you're stuck in a time warp.
  • edited May 2011
    Macc wrote: »
    Every bloody day at least three scrap metal vans come past our house, same ones every time.
    They dont even blow the bugle like they used to, got the thing recorded on a PA, does my head in!

    Maybe it's just one and you're stuck in a time warp.








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  • edited May 2011
    It certainly does feel like Groundhog day around here!
  • edited May 2011
    Send them my way! I've got an old washing machine in the back garden I need to get shot of.
  • edited May 2011
    They come round my way but not very often. They are shouting somthing but its comes though the speaker so distorted I cant work out what it is they are saying.
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  • edited May 2011
    You can always tell when the price of scrap metal goes up, the pikeys come out of the woodwork and jump into rusty transit vans.
  • edited May 2011
    You can always tell when the price of scrap metal goes up, the pikeys come out of the woodwork and jump into rusty transit vans.

    ..and the local church has a fund raiser for all the missing lead on it's roof..
  • edited May 2011
    don't forget that they should have a valid waste carriers licence from the Environment Agency

    don't want y'all to get caught out by section 34 2a of the epa let alone section 33 1a

    ;)
  • edited May 2011
    Scottie_uk wrote: »
    They come round my way but not very often. They are shouting somthing but its comes though the speaker so distorted I cant work out what it is they are saying.
    It's likely to be "Any old iron?"
  • edited May 2011
    Macc wrote: »
    Every bloody day at least three scrap metal vans come past our house, same ones every time.
    They dont even blow the bugle like they used to, got the thing recorded on a PA, does my head in!

    You sure they're not ice cream vans? :-P
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