What’s the betting that picture is from a rubbish collection day and is not typical at all? I do agree though. I think a big, stinking pile of black bags would be much more attractive.
Haven’t they got anything better to report on or worry about? It’s a bloody joke.
I’ve said all I want to say about this over on the forum. Suffice it to say, I can think of many many things to start crusde about. This is not one them.
I really don’t get the issue whatsoever. I put my bins out on a Monday night, they are emptied on Tuesday morning, I take them back and thanks to wheels so I don’t even have to carry the blighters. It’s totalling batshit mental. Good to see Littlejohn add his tuppence, though. It’s all about nazis abusing old ladies, apparently, and how bin men used to be the sort of characters you’d want along side you in a fight. He even refers to ‘my old man’s a dustman’ as an example of how things used to be. B.b.b.b.bonkers.
This ‘campaign’ is absolutly stupid. Who does have a problem with wheelie bins anyway? I like them and so does everybody I know. They’re also really useful for sticking all your rubbish bags in and makes binmen’s jobs so much easier. I really hope this campaign fails miserbaly to humiliate the DM and all it’s readers who will be convinced to tag along with this, even if they don’t agree with it, but also because it would be sad and cause all sorts of complications and issues if they were all to be removed overnight.
Oh, and as for the story at the top, I’m coming to the end of my gap year and am still alive. However, I do have a few minor cuts and bruises from everyday accidents, like tripping over. But the Mail saying we should be completly unscathed during them? It’s elf ‘n ’safety gone mad I’m telling you!
Littlejohn attributes a ‘plague of rats’ to wheelie bins, which seems utterly stupid considering rats easily chew into black bags and eat rubbish, yet they don’t seem to be chewing their way through sturdy wheelie bins. Yet, since when has anyone ever looked for any sense or reference to reality in a Littlejohn column?
The whole campaign is utterly absurd and an insult to the many worthy causes that they ignore. The Daily Mail is beyond parody.
Oh and another thing – the ‘not in my front yard’ bit is hilarious. Those bins are clearly at the end of very long drives and front gardens. Not a yard to be seen.
I’m quite sure the Mail wish to go back to the days when the binmen used to carry heavy metal bins to their wagon, empty it and at the same time spill a lot of rubbish on the pavements.
My advice to any teenager about to go gap year travelling…avoid any country which has green in its flag (Eire excepted). That is probably the most reliable insurance policy where your personal safety is concerned.
PS And if Mail Man offers you a lift on his motorbike, don’t take it. Strictly between us, the guy is a bit of a tosser.
Bit of a balls-up at Daily Mail HQ if their “brave crusade” is actually not even supported by their own readers…
Certainly where I live, most of the people I know are clamouring for wheelie bins so their rubbish bags don’t get split open by seagulls every week and have detritus spread all over the pavement.
Didn’t go on a gap year, never had any money due to saving up for Uni, working most holidays to stay afloat at uni and then being skint and jobless when i left uni.
On my estate we only have wheelie bins for garden waste. It would be great to have another wheelie bin for other waste too; I see black sacks that have been ripped apart every Tuesday morning.
The Mail is campaigning against these most useful bins for a spurious reason: their journosaurs think they’re ugly. I hope this revolt fails.
i was always led to believe that putting anything on the pavement and obstructing the right of way was illegal how do we stand with a willie bin if someone falls over it who is responsible the council or the householder
Aarrrrgh! Our resident Floridian has a Thursday column that I don’t get to read until about 17:00. Even worse, he’s leading the rubbish revolt – missed opportunity to get my planned Oscar Grouch line in
J Burton – if you manage to not see an object that large and fall over it, I think you should take some personal responsibility and not blame anyone else.
Ahh the peasants revolt, the American revolution, the French Revolution and then the October Rveolution. None of them match up to the hell spewing fury and catyclismic change that is….the Daily Mail dustbin revolution. Have their readers nothing more serious to complain about besides some bloody bins?
What’s the betting that picture is from a rubbish collection day and is not typical at all? I do agree though. I think a big, stinking pile of black bags would be much more attractive.
Haven’t they got anything better to report on or worry about? It’s a bloody joke.
I’ve said all I want to say about this over on the forum. Suffice it to say, I can think of many many things to start crusde about. This is not one them.
Petty idiots!
I really don’t get the issue whatsoever. I put my bins out on a Monday night, they are emptied on Tuesday morning, I take them back and thanks to wheels so I don’t even have to carry the blighters. It’s totalling batshit mental. Good to see Littlejohn add his tuppence, though. It’s all about nazis abusing old ladies, apparently, and how bin men used to be the sort of characters you’d want along side you in a fight. He even refers to ‘my old man’s a dustman’ as an example of how things used to be. B.b.b.b.bonkers.
The Daily Mail is revolting. Fact.
I think the Mail hacks must be running a book on the silliest “campain” they can get past their editor. This one will wheelie take some beating.
This ‘campaign’ is absolutly stupid. Who does have a problem with wheelie bins anyway? I like them and so does everybody I know. They’re also really useful for sticking all your rubbish bags in and makes binmen’s jobs so much easier. I really hope this campaign fails miserbaly to humiliate the DM and all it’s readers who will be convinced to tag along with this, even if they don’t agree with it, but also because it would be sad and cause all sorts of complications and issues if they were all to be removed overnight.
Oh, and as for the story at the top, I’m coming to the end of my gap year and am still alive. However, I do have a few minor cuts and bruises from everyday accidents, like tripping over. But the Mail saying we should be completly unscathed during them? It’s elf ‘n ’safety gone mad I’m telling you!
Littlejohn attributes a ‘plague of rats’ to wheelie bins, which seems utterly stupid considering rats easily chew into black bags and eat rubbish, yet they don’t seem to be chewing their way through sturdy wheelie bins. Yet, since when has anyone ever looked for any sense or reference to reality in a Littlejohn column?
The whole campaign is utterly absurd and an insult to the many worthy causes that they ignore. The Daily Mail is beyond parody.
Oh and another thing – the ‘not in my front yard’ bit is hilarious. Those bins are clearly at the end of very long drives and front gardens. Not a yard to be seen.
if you don’t go through this “rite of passage” as the mail calls it, are you unable to become an adult?
I’m quite sure the Mail wish to go back to the days when the binmen used to carry heavy metal bins to their wagon, empty it and at the same time spill a lot of rubbish on the pavements.
I wouldn’t use the Mail as cat litter.
My advice to any teenager about to go gap year travelling…avoid any country which has green in its flag (Eire excepted). That is probably the most reliable insurance policy where your personal safety is concerned.
PS And if Mail Man offers you a lift on his motorbike, don’t take it. Strictly between us, the guy is a bit of a tosser.
Interestingly, in the poll on their website (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/polls/index.html), 55% of people are actually AGAINST scrapping wheelie bins.
Bit of a balls-up at Daily Mail HQ if their “brave crusade” is actually not even supported by their own readers…
Certainly where I live, most of the people I know are clamouring for wheelie bins so their rubbish bags don’t get split open by seagulls every week and have detritus spread all over the pavement.
@ DaveyP:
So going to China is OK, but neither San Marino nor the British Virgin Islands are? Odd.
Glad you’re not in charge of gap-year advice at my local school!
What’s next in your school of folk philosophy?
How about no thanks…. I’d rather read a book.
Didn’t go on a gap year, never had any money due to saving up for Uni, working most holidays to stay afloat at uni and then being skint and jobless when i left uni.
Ms Cocks rides again!
(I’m never going to get tired of her name… Ms Doretta Cocks…)
On my estate we only have wheelie bins for garden waste. It would be great to have another wheelie bin for other waste too; I see black sacks that have been ripped apart every Tuesday morning.
The Mail is campaigning against these most useful bins for a spurious reason: their journosaurs think they’re ugly. I hope this revolt fails.
i was always led to believe that putting anything on the pavement and obstructing the right of way was illegal how do we stand with a willie bin if someone falls over it who is responsible the council or the householder
Aarrrrgh! Our resident Floridian has a Thursday column that I don’t get to read until about 17:00. Even worse, he’s leading the rubbish revolt – missed opportunity to get my planned Oscar Grouch line in
J Burton – if you manage to not see an object that large and fall over it, I think you should take some personal responsibility and not blame anyone else.
The Mail is revolting.
Italy has green in its flag.
And Ireland.
Ahh the peasants revolt, the American revolution, the French Revolution and then the October Rveolution. None of them match up to the hell spewing fury and catyclismic change that is….the Daily Mail dustbin revolution. Have their readers nothing more serious to complain about besides some bloody bins?
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It seems they wouldnt be happy unless a bin man stood outside every house day and night to instantly dispose of the rubbish.