Dentistry and mouth-to-mouth are irrelevant topics to the article, and we call them 'binmen'. Other than that, nice headline.

BEST HEADLINE!!!

Hooray for the Binmen!

One Ring to rule them all.

*cue horsemen

Oh, dear God.

/opening of the seals commences.

Somebody please post pics from the Big Book of British Smiles(Simpsons).

Mouth-to-mouth isn't involved in the story at all though.

Binman > Trashman

English English rules

"Environmental Engineer" > Binman

PC English rules

Bah, I say! Where's the romance in "Environmental Engineer"!?

If you have a heart attack, you may need CPR, and if you're getting CPR, you sure as hell don't want it from some garbageman with a face full of British dental work. Just sayin'.

I recycle. I win.

And with the amount of beer that gets put away in our house everyweek, we're really contributing.

RTFA, they never mention CPR, just restarting people's hearts with the defribulators, (for which they'll probably wear gloves).

My favourite quote form the article:

"I would point out that we are not replacing ambulance crews with binmen."

AEDs (Automated External Defibrulator) save lives, no joke here. GO GARBAGEMEN!

When London burns in a fire started by a defibrillator in a trashcan, we'll all remember this day.

I must have missed the bits about mouth-to-mouth and dentistry in that article.

How is this supposed to work? Do the binmen often pass by people having heart attacks while doing their rounds? Are people dying as they haul their garbage to the curb (sorry, kerb) Or are the binmen on call like an ambulance?

Some people here are beyond the veil of a Complete Comedy Comprehension Failure.

can someone post the cliche photo of the english (presumably) guy with really bad teeth?

Man, I so want to use British English over here in Boston. "'Scuse me, binman, but do you have a fag ?" Or even better, go into Store 24 and say, "I'd like to buy 20 fags."

skinink

But we aren't confused about which part of the body the fanny is :)

Cigarette!

/ j/k

MUST....RESIST............

GAAAA...

I SUBMITTED THIS WITH A FUNNIER HEADLINE!!!!

"Who can take the trash out, stomp it down for you?
Treat your heart attack with a defibrillator too....?"

Hack Patooey "He wears gor'blimey trousers and he lives in a council flat....He knocks off around lunchtime and spends the rest of the day wanking and watching the races, it's not a bad life is it?".

"Dentistry and mouth-to-mouth are irrelevant topics to the article, and we call them 'binmen'. Other than that, nice headline."


CPR or mouth to mouth goes hand in hand with AED's. The AED even tells you when CPR is needed. The shock may restart your heart but you still may be in respiratory arrest. Without oxygen perfusion to your cells, you will die. Therefore, waste management technicians with questionable dentistry are a valid conversation with the topic.

/All for the idea.
//who cares about their teeth, if you need an AED, your dead.
///just sayin

"This could make a real difference. We would obviously give them training."

Um, dustmen aren't exactly renowned for their intelligence. This is why they spend their life collecting rubbish for a living.

My old man's a dustman,
He wears a dustmans hat,
He wears 'cor blimey trousers,
And lives in a council flat.

You know a country has its terminology wrong when they suck on fags.

Moops

As much as I'd love to slap you around the face for the hoary old chestnut concerning the state of British teeth, given the chronic shortages of NHS dentists I cant.

/Shakes fist at moops
//no bad teeth

I find it funny that americans criticise the state of our teeth, when the sheer amount of material that goes into making some of your trousers quite frankly beggars belief.

J.G. Longbotham

See comment addressed to skinink concerning anatomy.

My, we're looking rather black today pot :)

I was just discussing this with a bloke I scrum with wilst queuing up for sarneys at the office canteen.

I just hope they don't get the defibs mixed up with the, um, garbage.

/obvious

given the differences in terminology, I'd much rather play with either fanny than suck on either fag.

/non smoker

......... ass to ass?

J.G. Longbotham and what do you make of school kids using rubbers all day long in the class room?

2005-01-13 11:28:17 AM Swiss Colony

J.G. Longbotham and what do you make of school kids using rubbers all day long in the class room?

I'm all for it. After all, had I used them a little more often, I wouldn't have had to get married at 18.

/true story

"We saw you rogering the fish-wife in the crumpet shop!"

Cockney rhyming slang: Elephant & Castle = Stick it up your arsehole....

J.G. Longbotham

Your right abou the last bit, but if you tried to pat me on the fanny you would be in for rather a shock!

/Non smoker
//Don't pat my crotch please..... I'm British!

Swiss Colony

Or an Australian asking in a British shop for a roll of Durex.

/Jasper Carrot joke

/thought "fanny" was limited to women
//not as up on the lingo as I thought I was

Pert

It rhymes with "Garry Glitter"

/Stick it up your Garry

Seriously, where did this "British have bad teeth" meme get started? At least we can see that Americans are fat...

Pert Look up cockney rhyming slang you have the rhythm all wrong.

EG.
Dog and bone - phone
Apples and pears - stairs

Get it?

Elephant and Castle could be parcel.

BTW Elephant & Castle is a stop on the London Underground.

swiss, I think we've all seen THAT episode of South Park.

Pedantically: CPR != Mouth to mouth; CPR = cardio pulmonary resuscitation ie. overinflating their lungs and breaking a few ribs when failing to revive the victim.

whatshisname:

How is this supposed to work? Do the binmen often pass by people having heart attacks while doing their rounds? Are people dying as they haul their garbage to the curb (sorry, kerb)

IIRC you're most likely to suffer a heart attack between 7 and 9 am (shock of the cold morning air ? stress of trying to get to work on time ? shock at first sight of Natasha Kaplinsky's drag queen/artex makeup technique ?). Personally, if I keel over in the street I couldn't give a fark about the state of my rescuer's dentition and would welcome anyone with an AED.

/perfect teeth
//not going to tempt fate on the state of my cardio-vascular system

"Well, my old man's a dustman
He wears a dustman's hat;
Defibrillates heart patients
So whaddya think of that?"

-----Apologies to Lonny Donigan

Swiss Colony Thanks anyway, but I was just being deliberately silly.

It's a line from a film (Mr Jolly Lives Next Door) when Adrian Edmundsen is pretending to be a cockney highwayman in order to impress a Japanese businessman.

No, I didn't expect anyone to get it.

The thing about Cockney rhyming slang is that you're not supposed to actually say the bit that rhymes....e.g. "I'll get on the dog and then go round and have a butcher's...." = "I'll get on the phone (dog and bone) and then go round and have a look (butcher's hook)". Rhythm doesn't have a lot to do with it as far as I'm aware.

/Lives in London