I've just seen the 2 women rummaging through bins!

[robbin]

For the past week I've been reading the various postings complaining bitterly about bin rummaging 'ladies' or 'women' - AKA 'lowlife bin scavenging thieving gypo scum' with increasing incredulity and amusement in equal measure.

While I love that some of the postings are as entertaining as any of the reader comments below the articles in the Daily Mail online (which I also love browsing, I might add), I have to make two observations:

1. Loons! You are proper loons!

2. When not obsessing over the discarded stinky contents of your bins, are you busy dragging them into the street outside your house in order to save 'your' parking space on the public street outside your house?

Hope you don't mind me asking! It's just that I have this image of you in my head and I just had to clear that up.

[binary_star]

Two days ago I saw a guy lifting our bin lids and looking inside them. He stopped at one, tipped it towards himself then started pulling stuff out of it. I was having a pint in the pub over the road so couldn't quite see what he was removing. It was our recycling bin so I was naturally suspicious (some people recycle unshredded bank statements).

I decided to run over to see what he was up to. He said he was collecting ring pulls and pointed to a load of cans on the floor. Those were the only items he had pulled from the bin, there was no 'sensitive' information in that particular bin so I just let him get on with it and went back to the pub to finish my pint. After he'd raided that bin he moved on.

[vgrant]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> Which EDF is that, then? The French energy

> company?

EFD

[LadyDeliah]

I wouldn't have used 'uncharitable' because letting someone scavenge in my bin for discarded crap could hardly be called charitable. I just think the people who get all worked up over this are a bit up themselves and neurotic.

Why would anyone really give a shit if they aren't stupid enough to put anything with their name etc on. If they are stupid enough to put any papers out with their names on then maybe they need to look at themselves, because with all the publicity about ID theft, you'd have to be a moron to do that.

[robbin]

"It was our recycling bin so I was naturally suspicious (some people recycle unshredded bank statements)"

Please see (1) above.

[LadyDeliah]

Not sure why anyone would put an unshredded bank statement in the recyle bin anyway, but I think your reaction was pretty normal to be honest.

The people who don't even want anyone taking their old clothes or broken electricals etc are the ones my comment was aimed at.

[Sophron]

robbin Wrote:

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> For the past week I've been reading the various

> postings complaining bitterly about bin rummaging

> 'ladies' or 'women' - AKA 'lowlife bin scavenging

> thieving gypo scum' with increasing incredulity

> and amusement in equal measure.

>

> While I love that some of the postings are as

> entertaining as any of the reader comments below

> the articles in the Daily Mail online (which I

> also love browsing, I might add), I have to make

> two observations:

>

> 1. Loons! You are proper loons!

>

> 2. When not obsessing over the discarded stinky

> contents of your bins, are you busy dragging them

> into the street outside your house in order to

> save 'your' parking space on the public street

> outside your house?

>

> Hope you don't mind me asking! It's just that I

> have this image of you in my head and I just had

> to clear that up.

robbin ☺ YOU LOON!

I?ve got off street parking and the bins are on the drive way. The "scavengers" in question have to walk on to the drive to start their rummaging. This is where I had my motorbike cover pinched from and that probably does mean I?m more vexed about the whole scavengergate issue. I still don?t think it make a difference though - it?s just wrong to go through people?s bins!

[robbin]

Brilliant!

I must admit to being a bit disappointed you don't save 'your' space though.

I bet you would though eh... if you didn't have off-street parking?

[vgrant]

quiz of the week

A darker skinned pair of women are going through the bins in public. They do not speak English.

are they:

a) part of a global criminal enterprise that is searching for documentation or your DNA to use for some kind of ingenious yet unknown scam that could clean you out and leave you destitute and fighting the pigeons for the discarded chicken bones that litter our streets

b)Collecting used and binned fabric and clothes that they sell for 50p a KG at a number of shops in South London, as well any any scrap metals that can be weighed in at any number of local metal recycling outlets.

[cle]

Otta Wrote:

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> The politics comment was aimed at Sophron.

>

> You've called them gypos, that is a direct

> allusion to race / ethnicity.

Not in my eyes. It's an allusion to behaviour.

[robbin]

Ouch! Isn't that the very point cle?!!!!

[sheilarose]

The term gypos is generally considered to be a term of racist abuse. See story below from The Daily Record:

Blairgowrie pensioner ends up in court after calling a couple 'gypos' and 'minky tinks' in row over drum pad

Mar 18, 2014 10:45

By Carla Callaghan

TOM McDonald, 82, who set up the Blairgowrie, Rattray and District Pipe Band, was given a ?200 fine for verbally abusing a couple.

A MAN once nominated for citizen of the year has been found guilty of racially abusing a couple by calling them ?gypos? and ?minky tinks?.

Drum Major Tom McDonald berated the state of the couple?s garden and then launched into a tirade of abuse in a row over a drum pad.

McDonald, 82, set up the Blairgowrie, Rattray and District Pipe Band and was nominated as Blairgowrie?s Citizen of the Year. He denied making racist remarks in McDonald Crescent, Rattray, on May 16 last year.

Francis Drummond, 37, told Perth Sheriff Court McDonald got into a row with him over a drum pad lent to his daughter. Francis said: ?He was going on about the state of the garden.

When he was walking away he gave the V-sign and said ? f*** you, you minky tink?. Sheriff Michael Fletcher found McDonald guilty and fined him ?200.

[robbin]

Decided not to get into this. Who cares...

There's all sorts out there.

[robbin]

I think I'll head back to the Daily Mail...

[Jeremy]

Does anybody actually give a stuff where they're from or what they look like? As usual for the EDF, ethnicity becomes the main talking point for some bizarre reason.

[cle]

I don't whatsoever. It's the act - zero interest in ethnicity.

Even gypsies could be Irish for example. And I never even got that specific. In my mind, gyppo is akin to 'skanky' or 'grubby' with no racial thoughts whatsoever. Same as I'd say to a friend with a messy house or who hadn't showered, for example.

[vgrant]

keep digging

[cle]

Quite the opposite. Not a hole in sight.

You're the worm here.

[vgrant]

more please

[Jeremy]

I used to use the word gyppo - when I was 15. It was bandied around innocently without any hint of stereotyping, but haven't we all moved on a bit since then?

[Alan Medic]

Where I came from the usual term for travelling people was tinkers. However, in retrospect, given our inability to pronounce th, in could have meant they were philosophers of a sort.

[Sophron]

robbin Wrote:

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> Brilliant!

>

> I must admit to being a bit disappointed you don't

> save 'your' space though.

>

> I bet you would though eh... if you didn't have

> off-street parking?

Robbin - don?t go back to the Daily Mail, stick around and have some fun, truly all life is here!

re saving my space, I couldn't possibly save "my" space with a bin, which would be disrespectful to the neighbours ;-)

[spider69]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> I used to use the word gyppo - when I was 15. It

> was bandied around innocently without any hint of

> stereotyping, but haven't we all moved on a bit

> since then?

Is this not what they supposed to do. Move on?

[miga]

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[MissKing]

The amount of perfectly ok stuff we throw away each year in this country they are probably onto a winner!