Binmen have been banned from carrying mascots such as teddy bears on their dustcarts

teh english talk funny.

The Daily Fail lives this stuff. Some of it is even true.

Darwin disapproves

Garbage men in one small area of the country are not allowed to tie stuffed animal mascots onto the grill of their trucks.

To read the headline you'd think the entire country had banned it. Of course, that's what the Mail would like people to think. They prey on the easily led.

Fark is living up to it's name though. It's not news.

// Kudos to subby for not using 'nanny state'

BizarreRecords: Binmen have been banned from carrying mascots such as teddy bears on their dustcarts

teh english talk funny.

And please do tell, What language do you speak?

Im a "Binman" for Waste Management, and im getting a kick out of these replies

Hotdoggin:

And please do tell, What language do you speak?

American! :P

Aw come on, its natural selection in action at its finest.

I would be good for the collective gene pool to bounce a few retarded kids off the bumpers of garbage trucks.

It just shows how dumb they are. The kids, that is. Dumb enough to run in front of a truck.

It*
/doh

bairy: Garbage men in one small area of the country are not allowed to tie stuffed animal mascots onto the grill of their trucks.

To read the headline you'd think the entire country had banned it. Of course, that's what the Mail would like people to think. They prey on the easily led.


Sounds like these bureaucrats are easily led too. I get the impression that the *nanny state* is concerned about thing that they speculate *might* happen as opposed to things that are actual problems.

I can speculate on any number of dumb things kids might and *do* do. So by the logic of these guys lets ban it. For instance, kids might drink bleach, ok lets ban that. Kids might lick a flagpole in winter... do you ban flagpoles or winter?

jamspoon: The Daily Fail lives this stuff. Some of it is even true.

Like a lot of Americans I assumed the British were better educated, and inherently slightly more sophisticated than us. Then I read the Daily Mail. I love the Daily Mail.

Maybe they should place little child mannequins on the front, so that the trucks can attract and run over all the pedophiles.

My father was a dustman, he wears a dustman's cap...

You know, if I was feeling more motivated, I'd Photoshop the truck in the article to say DIAF instead of DAF. But I'm feeling lazy.

jamspoon: Some of it is even true.

Not often, but this is in the People's Republic of Haringey, handily situated 30 years from the rest of the country, so anything's possible.

kzp7: I would be good for the collective gene pool to bounce a few retarded kids off the bumpers of garbage trucks.

Yeah, but do you know how slow those things move? Ever get stuck behind one on a 1 lane street, during rush hour in the morning on your way to work?

BizarreRecords: teh english talk funny.

(in poor british accent) Aye, bloke. Care for a spot o' tea with some crisps?

altinos: My father was a dustman, he wears a dustman's cap...

Do you think he'd get a kick out of some of these posts?

Honestly do we want the kids who'll run out in front of a truck to touch a filthy stuffed animal to grow up and reproduce?

To read the headline you'd think the entire country had banned it. Of course, that's what the Mail would like people to think. They prey on the easily led.

And it will be banned nationwide because all the other Petty Bureaucrats will seek to cover their asses (arses) JUST IN CASE some kid in their town runs out in front of a trash truck (dust cart).

/Britain - Beta testing the collapse of Western Civilization
//going back over in December, trying to get every bit o'Britain experienced before it goes under

Haringey is full of shiat-thick, thieving immigrants and "asylum seekers". Are there any white English people left there at all?

skinink:

Maybe they should place little child mannequins on the front, so that the trucks can attract and run over all the pedophiles.

I like the cut of your jib, sir.

This sounds like darwinism to me

phillydrifter

It's an Irish Rovers song, and I'm probably mangling the lyrics. But if he did get a kick out of it, it'd be a kick in the form of an Irish jig. :)

Need to put one of these out front.

mark12A:
And it will be banned nationwide because all the other Petty Bureaucrats will seek to cover their asses (arses) JUST IN CASE some kid in their town runs out in front of a trash truck (dust cart).

No, it won't. Many councils wouldn't accept even a sensible idea because it had been pioneered or popularised in one of the more loony London boroughs.

/Britain - Beta testing the collapse of Western Civilization

Oh, you're a credulous fool who believes what he's shovelled by the right-wing press. Never mind.

So, how many of the little wankers have splatted by garbage trucks? Just round numbers, please.

Well there goes that plan.

I couldn't possibly imagine a better way to weed out the dumb kids.

I saw a garbage truck a couple years ago with a big dildo stuck on one of the control handles at the back of the truck. Those guys have gotta see some crazy stuff from time to time.

Is there a rash of children running into the street being hit by trash trucks which brought this to someone's attention?

'Quite why adults would wish to decorate their vehicles this way is frankly beyond me... '

Because they aren't listless killjoys.
/sleeps with a teddy bear
//given by a g/f
///named Obie
////short for Obsequious
\the bear holds a smaller stuffed duck

I hoped the article would have disclosed precisely the number of children who'd suffered serious injury or death because of these tempting teddy bears, but I was disappointed.

simpsonfan: It just shows how dumb they are. The kids, that is. Dumb enough to run in front of a truck.


It's tard-sniping at its finest.
The nation has to do SOMETHING to lure tards (with no care for their personal life) to early painful deaths so these tards don't become a sinkhole on the time and resources of normal folks later in life.

After they banned Jarts, so many retards survived to adulthood that now the legal system is jammed full of sociopathic parents of Ass Burger babies suing everyone so that they can use this diagnosis as a shield for their no-self-control children running amok and raping and harming normal human beings.

One tard that survives to ten years from now will birth 2 to 5 tard children which further drain the system and destabilize society.

altinos:

It's called "My Old Man Is A Dustman", and was written and first recorded by a skiffle musician, Lonnie Donegan, back in 1960.

Gridlock: simpsonfan:
It's tard-sniping at its finest.


Is that like nerd sniping? (new window)

time to start making Pedo Bear stuffed toys

It's called "natural selection"

thelordofcheese: 'Quite why adults would wish to decorate their vehicles this way is frankly beyond me... '

Here in Arizona, lawn maintenance people of mexican descent tie "mascots" to the back of their trucks and/or trailers. From what I understand, it is actually to show "allegience" or support to certain celebrities popular among Mexicans: radio personalities and mexican wrestlers are popular, among others.

/Always fun to see "Felix the Cat" dangling by a noose off the back of a trailer...

Why do children want to run out and touch garbage men?

mark12A: /Britain - Beta testing the collapse of Western Civilization

Classic line! I'm stealing it...

I think it would be a good idea to also ban people throwing stuffed animals away because children might see one in the hopper behind the garbage truck and run out to touch it as the truck is backing up. Come on people. Do it for the children!

It's too bad that there aren't some older, slightly more responsible people whose job it would be to prevent the precious snow flakes from doing foolish things from time to time. They could even be the parents.

Teddy bears are fine, but this works too.

The crews often stand soft toys on their dashboards or tie them to the front of their vehicles as a bit of fun or to give the cart a little individuality.

Ummm, the way I remember it was they would tie the doll on facing the truck so it looked like the truck ran into the character, which was likely to be Garfield. This practice started quite some time ago.

/Now it's done with teh ghey.

thelordofcheese: 'Quite why adults would wish to decorate their vehicles this way is frankly beyond me... '

Because they aren't listless killjoys.
/sleeps with a teddy bear
//given by a g/f


I got a kick out of your reply, since instead of sleeping w/ a teddy bear, I'm sleeping with your girlfriend.