The lesser spotted bin man

[Spacecadet]

The bins outside the local school are buried under black bags. Many have been ripped open (birds and/or vermin) and many contain Xmas wrapping paper.

Bin men used to be the roughty-toughty, hurly-burly geezers wot grafted for the Council.

What happened to them?

The "poor wee lambs"* get the full health and safety protection these days

* copyright Tony English

[TykeMerc]

No bin collection here since the week before Christmas.

[RichardCranium]

The bins outside the local school are buried under black bags. Many have been ripped open (birds and/or vermin) and many contain Xmas wrapping paper.

Bin men used to be the roughty-toughty, hurly-burly geezers wot grafted for the Council.

What happened to them?

[Spacecadet]

Just don't wear a liverpool football t-shirt when you do see them

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co....rs_jibe_at_mum

[Dark Black]

...Traffic wardens issued with 4x4s so that they can issued parking tickets.

Seriously?

I've been trying to arrange for BT OpenReach to come down and fix our neighbour's phone line (branch too it out between pole and house). Since we live down a track the only vehicles that can get down it are 4x4s. When I told them this they (OpenReach) said they had no 4x4s...

So it's ok for traffic warden scum but not phoneline service engineers... bizarre

[sasguru]

Today yes. Yesterday I saw 3 busses stuck in 1 road

Council can't help that.
I think they've been brilliant

[oracleslave]

Here in Wandsworth, South London - everything running as normal.
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Today yes. Yesterday I saw 3 busses stuck in 1 road

[sasguru]

Here in Wandsworth, South London - everything running as normal.
Roads gritted, schools open from what I can see, bin men regular as clockwork.
And we have the lowest council tax in the country


And the trains/tubes have been fine too.

You lazy fookin northeners.

[Paddy]

No bins emptied for two weeks,
Schools closed,
Too icy for council workers to go out
No council worker sto driver the grit lorries
Traffic wardens issued with 4x4s so that they can issued parking tickets.

[jimjamuk]

I've just seen one! Several in fact!

All those times in the last couple of weeks where it wasn't "safe" for them to come and collect the rubbish because of the snow and ice in my road, yet today it seems they've suddenly realised that a big refuse lorry isn't that affected by a small amount of snow.

Next we'll be hearing about teachers being able to make it to work.

Ah..... the annual winter migration from health and safety land back to the real world is occuring

[darmstadt]

No problems here, they come about 4 times a bloody week and at about 7am which means they wake me up with all their racket. At least I don't have to take the bins out, the hausmeister does that for us

[VectraMan]

Come to think about it, the council are probably only collecting the rubbish because they've run out of salt and have nothing else to do.

[mudskipper]

Still waiting for ours - haven't had the recycling collected for six weeks. On the plus side, today is the first day both the kids' schools have been open!

[Moscow Mule]

Next we'll be hearing about teachers being able to make it to work.

Mrs MM's school is the only one in Hounslow that hasn't had any snow days. She's quite pissed off...

[VectraMan]

I've just seen one! Several in fact!

All those times in the last couple of weeks where it wasn't "safe" for them to come and collect the rubbish because of the snow and ice in my road, yet today it seems they've suddenly realised that a big refuse lorry isn't that affected by a small amount of snow.

Next we'll be hearing about teachers being able to make it to work.