thundertiger

Yep, they have upped the xmas marketing pitch from saying a cheery good morning, to a full on christmas card !!!!!

all they do is wheel a bin to the back of a truck and press a button.
they dont even have to lift 'owt anymore!!!!

cheeky *******!!!

yeah, they dont feel very charitable for the other 51 weeks of the year, when i need an extra bag dumped!!!

reminds me of that old joke punchline....

bloke says to his wife "£5 for each of the binmen and F*** the driver"

ajm

No chance of them getting a tip here..... they don't even bother to come in the period between a week either side of Xmas!

angrynorth

They aren't even collecting from us again until 6th Jan, previous collection was 20th December. Forced to go to the tip in between. ****ty council.

They can **** right off as far as tips are concerned.

Wish

iTrader: (2)

Yep, Lazy gits..... Like you say no cheer the rest of the year !


The postman and milkman get a bottle of wine, and christmas card. But thats it.

P1Fanatic

They deffo dont like us after my missus rang up and complained. They send one guy into our culdesac whilst the lorry does another road. He moves all the binbags to one spot - yep our drive. The thing is we keep coming back to split bags and crap over our drive.

So we moaned and they stopped but now do the same on someone elses drive and give us evils every time they see us.

Like to see their faces if I dumped the whole roads garbage on their drive.

Simon.

ChrisB

I had a collection last Friday and another one this morning.

Quality service here.

Eee gads, I sound like Ol' Mr Lewis!

thundertiger

i've sellotaped a christmas card to them on the wheelie bin.
- cant let them think i'm a scrooge now, can i ??
might also wrap up and air freshener for the cab.
-total expenditure £1.09p

right wheres that "morning dodger" milkman ???

NotoriousREV

Our bin men like to park all the empty wheelie bins at the end of my driveway, except for my bin which ends up halfway down the road

thundertiger

hey Rev, i'm sure you'd invent some wheelie bin games of your own if you had to do that all day long!!!) LOL (not excluding hiding animals in empty bins, greasing up the handles, or cutting out the bottom section with a jigsaw...)

BB

misty

Well I won't be going to the tip mate! They'll have to take double the shi*e next week, as far as I'm concerned!!
dave

Freak

Im normally out record shopping when they come on a monday lunchtime.

They keep leaving the wheelie+recycle bins in the middle of my drive- eevry week witout fail. i am sure they are doing it on purpose

RichA

My bin always ends up smack bang in the middle of my drive. Which means I have to stop in the road, get out, move the bin, get in, reverse onto the drive, then put the bin in it's rightful place.

Yeah, of course I'll tip you .

tiggers

Round here they are a complete waste of space as is the postman. Tip? They're lucky they don't get a thick ear the lazy good for nothing half wits.

Happy New Year

scoob_babe

Leave a tip for the postman - round here they just help themselves to the contents of your envelope anyway. Binmen last sighted on the 21st Dec and apparently won't be showing up again until the 4th Jan.

pslewis

Superb Service here, collect with a smile and a "GudMornin' to you Sir!"

Its sooooo good to get the respect I deserve -

now, ... how about some damned respect round HERE!!!??

Pete

thundertiger

pete,
watch someone doesnt leave you at the end of the road in the bath chair...

one click on the button and it'll be all over.

BB

Alas

One of the best laughs I've ever had was watching the bin men in Barbados. Wife & I are driving along behind the wagon as unable to get past. Guy goes into a garden, comes out with a bin, empties it into the bin lorry and then lobs the bin over the hedge back into the garden
We could'nt believe what we'd seen so stayed behind them for a while as they moved up the road(no choice) and they did the same at every house. Looked like they were having a competition to see who could throw them the longest
Made my day.
Alas

Tiggs

superb here....3 kids and dogs we put out about 8-10 bags a week!!!.......NEVER seen the bin men, always done by 7am!

T

ajm

Actually, despite what I said above, ours aren't bad really.... it's just the collection gets stuffed up on bank holidays because collection day is a Monday. Xmas is always screwed up though. Apart from that they are always reliable and no hassle with bins in the way etc.

Its MUCH better than when I lived in Bristol centre, but that is to be expected since Portishead is a Conservative council, as opposed to Bristol City council which is a Labour clown show!

Lum

I hate our bin men. I live in a large house that has been converted into 6 flats, complete with 6 wheelie bins.
Every tuesday morning, someone lines them up in a neat line by the wall and every tuesday evening I used to be the first to be the first to drive home and nearly drive into the pile of bins that were clustered in the middle of the driveway.
The car didn't like it if you had a very short trip, so I had to risk it getting robbed leaving it running as I shifted all the bins out of the way.

Thankfully I rarely get home before 7 these days so it's not my problem any more.

milo

they only come once every 2 weeks around here.. and the bins frickin stink because of it.

hell, everyone's is overflowing after the first week, let alone the 2nd with the poxy bin size we get allocated.

tiggers

Funny you should mention that. Ten years ago we were a Conservative council - the bin collection was a joke.

Then we went Labour and the bin collection was a joke.

Now we're back to Conservative and the bin collection is a joke.

Much like national affairs it makes no difference which party is in power - they are all career politicians, even at the council level, with no interest in what is best for the people just what is best for them.

The UK is doomed and most of its inhabitants can't see it or don;t wnat to see it.

Oh yeah, Happy New Year - not

tiggers.