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Quote: Hercules Grytpype Thynne @ 9th February 2025, 12:03 AM

Had a letter from the local council stating as from 1st April (very apt) they were going to charge £50 a year to empty our brown (garden waste) bin, and suggested if we didn't want to pay, we could take it ourselves to the local dump

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Just don't complain to your local councillor or MP:

"U.K. government health minister Andrew Gwynne made racist and sexist comments in the "Trigger Me Timbers" WhatsApp exchange including "joking" that he hoped a 72-year-old constituent would soon be dead after she wrote to her local councillor about bin collections"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2025/02/09/sacked-uk-health-minister-andrew-gwynne-wished-for-violent-road-death-for-cycle-campaigner/

Quote: Billy Bunter @ 9th February 2025, 1:48 PM

Just don't complain to your local councillor or MP:

"U.K. government health minister Andrew Gwynne made racist and sexist comments in the "Trigger Me Timbers" WhatsApp exchange including "joking" that he hoped a 72-year-old constituent would soon be dead after she wrote to her local councillor about bin collections"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2025/02/09/sacked-uk-health-minister-andrew-gwynne-wished-for-violent-road-death-for-cycle-campaigner/

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Bloody hell, Bunter, you're obsessed with this story. You should mention it in the 'I've just eaten' thread and make it a hat trick.

It was a particularly pertinent story in relation to the preceding post. I think "obsessed" is a fairly harsh accusation when compared to certain other posts & posters on these forums.

Quote: Billy Bunter @ 9th February 2025, 1:48 PM

Just don't complain to your local councillor or MP:

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I did post basically the same thing on a local forum, and although there were a few agreed with it, the majority said elsewhere in the UK, local councils had been surcharging garden waste bins for some years already, with a number charging even more.

Well, as I said, it doesn't bother me as I compost all of my garden waste, apart from my annual cull of a laurel bush, as like holly, those leaves never seem to want to die, so once a year they'll be little piles of laurel leaves scattered across the Suffolk countryside. 😉

I have just booked a table for two for Valentines Day. It was the smart move because after six the prices go through the roof.

Quote: Teddy Paddalack @ 13th February 2025, 6:05 PM

I have just booked a table for two for Valentines Day. It was the smart move because after six the prices go through the roof.

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😁

It's just gone midnight, and I am now 80 years old 😢

Happy birthday I presume you posted that on your way to the toilet.

Thank you and yes 😒

Happy Birthday, Herc. You're younger than Harrison Ford, and he's still making movies.

So you were made from a bonk during the war.
Happy 80th y'owd git.

Quote: chipolata @ 15th February 2025, 7:56 AM

Happy Birthday, Herc. You're younger than Harrison Ford, and he's still making movies.

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Thank you, and that gives me a sliver of comfort - well, it would if I had his money

Quote: Stephen Goodlad @ 15th February 2025, 8:18 AM

So you were made from a bonk during the war.
Happy 80th y'owd git.

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There's always someone lowering the tone 😜 Yes, I think mummy and daddy did it

But thank you yer northern git 😁

Happy Birthday, you old git!
😄

Quote: Lazzard @ 15th February 2025, 10:57 AM

Happy Birthday, you old git!
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Thank you Lazz, from this now really old git - 'Snot funny, you know. 😜

Happy Birthday Herc! You're only as old as the woman's legs you're eyeing up on House of Games.