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Discussion in 'Tottenham Hotspur' started by ShelfSideSpur, Jan 27, 2011.

  1. BinghamSpur

    BinghamSpur Well-Known Member

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    Where I am you used to be able to leave excess cardboard packaging at the side of the bin if it was full up. Now you get fined for that, and have to make "other arrangements" to get rid of the excess....
     
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  2. humanbeingincroydon

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    You mean that you aren't building a fort...?
     
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    <laugh> <laugh>
     
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  4. Alfie Conn

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    The box comes with a QR code , you can turn it into all kinds of old ****e to clog up the house and let the grand kids play with for 10 mins or until they just want to ride it down the stairs like a sled
     
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  5. Spurf

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    Great article on the BBC sport page about John White and his son Robs journey to find out about his father , he has never heard a recording of his father's voice nor does he have shirt worn by him for a match
    I only vaguely remember John although until he died dad insisted that John was the best he ever saw playing for Spurs
     
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  7. Left on the Shelf

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    My uncle (who initiated and influenced my Spurs fandom) always said the same. His death at Crews Hill was an absolute tragedy! <rose>

    The only other fatality at that location was my golf game.... repeatedly...over several years! <doh>
     
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  8. humanbeingincroydon

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    I see that Admin is remaining consistent in making people forget Bryan Gil is still here...
     
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  9. PleaseNotPoll

    PleaseNotPoll Well-Known Member Forum Moderator

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    You know New York has a reputation for being dirty and having rubbish in the streets?
    They've just introduced bins. Seriously. WTF?
     
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  10. remembercolinlee

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    I remember london in the late 70s and 80s (when i was a kid) and it was near impossible to find bins on train stations and in certain parts of London because of the fear of IRA bombs.
    Maybe it was the same in New York after 911
     
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    PleaseNotPoll Well-Known Member Forum Moderator

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    Certain parts of London and some tube stations are still like that, but I don't mean public bins.


    They just put the bags out on the street. I wonder why they have a rat problem?
     
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    remembercolinlee Well-Known Member

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    We've had them round here since 1995 FFS
    please log in to view this image
     
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    Paddington 1991 was stuff in bins.
    Bins everywhere were removed (cannot remember how long that lasted) .
     
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    Certainly the case for most of the 90s, too

    Not to be confused with why toilets in the few Underground stations were always locked, as that was due to paranoia that they looked like Olly Alexander's Eurovision performance
     
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  15. Spurf

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    By the 70s I had graduated to my own car and public transport was in the past
    I'd had my share of it.
     
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  16. Spurf

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    1 train in Rome 1 train London to Scotland and 2 busses in Edinburgh is my experience of public transport in the last 55 years.
     
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  17. "Thanks for that Brian"

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    Don't you miss the horse drawn trams and the steam trains?
     
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    I miss the steam
     
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    Horse drawn bakers milk and coal. Lol
     
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