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    All this recycling and care for the planet

    Surely everyone knows it's all too late ?

    We are pissing in the wind , melting ice caps , plastic clogging up the seas , increasing global population growth , destruction of rain forests for palm oil

    Fifty elephants a day shot for ivory

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    Re: All this recycling and care for the planet

    Should have left the rag-and-bone men carry on. !

    Not a lot got wasted in the 40's and 50's, it's these throw-away frigging youngsters are the problem.

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    Re: All this recycling and care for the planet

    Quote Originally Posted by BLUETIT View Post
    Should have left the rag-and-bone men carry on. !

    Not a lot got wasted in the 40's and 50's, it's these throw-away frigging youngsters are the problem.
    We have a rag-and-bone man that comes around here, he yells something through a Tanoy and drives past at about 50mph in his van, I'm not sure how you're meant to catch him?

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    Re: All this recycling and care for the planet

    Quote Originally Posted by Mrs Steve R View Post
    We have a rag-and-bone man that comes around here, he yells something through a Tanoy and drives past at about 50mph in his van, I'm not sure how you're meant to catch him?
    Jump in the FOCUS, Steve said "he's always jumping in the Focus" !

    Well it sounded like jumping, without the hearing aid in.

    Does he want tickets for Saturday ?

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    Re: All this recycling and care for the planet

    Quote Originally Posted by BLUETIT View Post
    Should have left the rag-and-bone men carry on. !

    Not a lot got wasted in the 40's and 50's, it's these throw-away frigging youngsters are the problem.
    True that, when we were kids we had one metal dustbin, mostly referred to as the ash bin, and the dustbin men were the ashbin men. No food wasted, left overs was tomorrow’s tea. No need for recycling paper, that all went on the fire. The stuff that went in the bin was the ashes from the fire. Imagine that now, one ash bin per household, there’s foodstuff now that has natural packaging that is still packed in plastic. Suppose coal fires weren’t environmentally friendly but I’d love to turn the clock back for an hour and have a walk around Cardiff taking in that old smell of the working chimneys.

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    Re: All this recycling and care for the planet

    Quote Originally Posted by BLUETIT View Post
    Jump in the FOCUS, Steve said "he's always jumping in the Focus" !

    Well it sounded like jumping, without the hearing aid in.

    Does he want tickets for Saturday ?
    I don't think so, I swore I wouldn't go with him again after the last game anyway.

    We got rid of the Focus a while back btw

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    Re: All this recycling and care for the planet

    Quote Originally Posted by Mrs Steve R View Post
    We have a rag-and-bone man that comes around here, he yells something through a Tanoy and drives past at about 50mph in his van, I'm not sure how you're meant to catch him?
    Believe it or not, he's probably yelling "rag & bone".

    I can still hear the bloke that came around on a horse and cart when I was a kid. "Reeeeegnboa!"

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    Re: All this recycling and care for the planet

    Quote Originally Posted by NYCBlue View Post
    Believe it or not, he's probably yelling "rag & bone".

    I can still hear the bloke that came around on a horse and cart when I was a kid. "Reeeeegnboa!"
    Never really thought of this before but what is the 'bone' that rag and bone men collected

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    Re: All this recycling and care for the planet

    Quote Originally Posted by Brian View Post
    Never really thought of this before but what is the 'bone' that rag and bone men collected
    At a guess, i'd say old crockery-'Bone China'

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    Re: All this recycling and care for the planet

    Quote Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY View Post
    Surely everyone knows it's all too late ?

    We are pissing in the wind , melting ice caps , plastic clogging up the seas , increasing global population growth , destruction of rain forests for palm oil

    Fifty elephants a day shot for ivory
    The Donald agrees with you

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    Re: All this recycling and care for the planet

    Quote Originally Posted by NYCBlue View Post
    Believe it or not, he's probably yelling "rag & bone".

    I can still hear the bloke that came around on a horse and cart when I was a kid. "Reeeeegnboa!"
    I know that's what he's yelling but if you didn't know you wouldn't know

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    Re: All this recycling and care for the planet

    Quote Originally Posted by Brian View Post
    Never really thought of this before but what is the 'bone' that rag and bone men collected
    Its was actually old bones.

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    Re: All this recycling and care for the planet

    Quote Originally Posted by Maxim View Post
    Its was actually old bones.
    Take this as gospel. If anyone on here has encyclopedic knowledge of people who towed vehicles behind their horses it is Maxim!

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    Re: All this recycling and care for the planet

    Quote Originally Posted by cyril evans awaydays View Post
    Take this as gospel. If anyone on here has encyclopedic knowledge of people who towed vehicles behind their horses it is Maxim!
    Anything you want to know about the working horse im the man.

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    Re: All this recycling and care for the planet

    Yes, let’s just give up on the planet, life and everything.

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    Re: All this recycling and care for the planet

    Quote Originally Posted by Maxim View Post
    Anything you want to know about the working horse im the man.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1VgcxE9Lpw

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    Re: All this recycling and care for the planet

    The planet will fix itself. It always does. It may have to kill off mankind to do it. And it can.

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    Re: All this recycling and care for the planet

    Quote Originally Posted by Maxim View Post
    Its was actually old bones.
    And now they get buried underneath the patio

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    Re: All this recycling and care for the planet

    Quote Originally Posted by Maxim View Post
    Its was actually old bones.
    No way. Who had old bones lying around.

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    Re: All this recycling and care for the planet

    Don't discard used banana skins.. . .They make ideal sun hats for starfish.

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    Re: All this recycling and care for the planet

    Quote Originally Posted by Brian View Post
    No way. Who had old bones lying around.
    Bones from the food you eat.

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    Re: All this recycling and care for the planet

    Quote Originally Posted by Maxim View Post
    Bones from the food you eat.
    There were Rag n bone men in the valley's village I grew up in until the early 70s. Though by then they were mostly taking away bits of old scrap on their carts rather than their title. I can still remember their calls as they went through the streets though.

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    Re: All this recycling and care for the planet

    Quote Originally Posted by Brian View Post
    No way. Who had old bones lying around.
    Fred west

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    Re: All this recycling and care for the planet

    Quote Originally Posted by BLUETIT View Post
    Should have left the rag-and-bone men carry on. !

    Not a lot got wasted in the 40's and 50's, it's these throw-away frigging youngsters are the problem.
    Well, its more down to fossil fuels, especially during coals heyday from the Industrial Revolution onwards. The amount of smoke pumped into the atmosphere by factories etc

    But yeah, youngsters...

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    Re: All this recycling and care for the planet

    Quote Originally Posted by cyril evans awaydays View Post
    There were Rag n bone men in the valley's village I grew up in until the early 70s. Though by then they were mostly taking away bits of old scrap on their carts rather than their title. I can still remember their calls as they went through the streets though.
    I got the t shirt Cyril,I worked horses for many years.

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