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There's rarely a queue my local tip, does take me a while before I leave the place though.

Horse wrote: Thu May 11, 2023 10:42 am During covid, our local 'recycling centre' introduced a booking system.

It's great - never any queues.

Our's didn't they were doing it by postcode each day and also by car reg.

So you had to work out which day you could go with your postcode and what time on that day you were allowed attend with your car reg also, it was a fucking nightmare!

I just dump it in the road and report it to the council. They collect it for free then!

Horse wrote: Thu May 11, 2023 10:42 am During covid, our local 'recycling centre' introduced a booking system.

It's great - never any queues.

Ours still have it, they made it permanent.

Love it - never a queue! Well, not in real life anyway

Taipan wrote: Thu May 11, 2023 11:08 am I just dump it in the road and report it to the council. They collect it for free then!

That's how it works here. There's a sort of designated place on each street/Road to leave stuff.
If we do go to the council tip, I've never seen more than 2 other cars.

Does anyone else's local council tip have chickens?

There's a very handsome rooster always hanging out near the ramp to the non-recycleables at Goldthorpe dumpit.

There's the usual varieties of gulls and corvids at my local one.

Taipan wrote: Thu May 11, 2023 11:08 am I just dump it in the road and report it to the council. They collect it for free then!

When i bought my vamperbus the filthy bastard who i bought it from was living on it and left a clarty old sofa next to his cooker. It was covered in all sorts of filth. I dragged that out and dumped it in the lane next to my house with some other shit i wanted rid off. Same as you i reported it as fly tipping and it was gone the same day. Its the future

Felix wrote: Thu May 11, 2023 7:20 pm

Taipan wrote: Thu May 11, 2023 11:08 am I just dump it in the road and report it to the council. They collect it for free then!

When i bought my vamperbus the filthy bastard who i bought it from was living on it and left a clarty old sofa next to his cooker. It was covered in all sorts of filth. I dragged that out and dumped it in the lane next to my house with some other shit i wanted rid off. Same as you i reported it as fly tipping and it was gone the same day. Its the future

Some fooker dumped some tyres on the green over the road to me. I did my but for the community and took them to the tip but they refused to let me dump them citing them as commercial waste. I said wtf am I supposed to do with them. He said put them back and ring the council and they'll collect them, but don't get caught putting them back or you'll get done for fly tipping!

People who finish their eBay listing with 'Happy bidding!'

I put my car in for a service this morning, they pointed out it was due an MOT soon so I said to do that as well.
When the MOT place had it they called the garage and said a 'not charging' warning had come up on the dash, garage got the car back, the battery was flat and they couldn't detect alternator voltage at the test point in the wing.
It was fine when I dropped it off this morning, how the hell does an MOT cause all that?

If I'm lucky I'll get a working car back today minus a few hundred quid and still not serviced.

We too have the "Tip Taliban" who will mercilessly interrogate you about what you're dumping, the funniest, was the discussion regarding used engine oil. "How much you got mate?" said the TT interrogator.
Me "About 8L"
"You can only tip 5L once a month"
"This car (pointing at the front of our XTrail) has an 8L sump, so its one oil change, should I only pour out 5L and come back with the rest next month?"
After a bit of debate over the radio I was allowed to dump all the oil but was watched like a hawk.

What makes me laugh is how helpful they are if you've got any scrap metal, "oh don't worry about that mate, I'll take that for you" and scrap disappears into porta-cabin behind the skips.

MingtheMerciless wrote: Fri May 12, 2023 3:16 pm the discussion regarding used engine oil

I've had that in the past after doing 3 cars in one weekend, was accused of trying to tip 'industrial quantities' at a domestic tip.
He was offered a choice, either let me drain the bottles into your oil bin or I'll leave all the bottles next to the bin for you to drain out.

MingtheMerciless wrote: Fri May 12, 2023 3:16 pm We too have the "Tip Taliban" who will mercilessly interrogate you about what you're dumping,

Same. Plus they want proof of address to prove you're not an interloper from over the borough border. Last time I got asked what was in the back I could tell the bloke didn't give a monkey's and wasn't in the slightest interested so I replied that I had 'a dead 'orse and some spent nuclear rods' to which he replied, 'Bay 5, mate'.

KungFooBob wrote: Thu May 11, 2023 12:50 pm Does anyone else's local council tip have chickens?

There's a very handsome rooster always hanging out near the ramp to the non-recycleables at Goldthorpe dumpit.

We’ve got a hawk on a stick……..and sometimes a real one with a handler.

Taipan wrote: Thu May 11, 2023 7:26 pm

Felix wrote: Thu May 11, 2023 7:20 pm

Taipan wrote: Thu May 11, 2023 11:08 am I just dump it in the road and report it to the council. They collect it for free then!

When i bought my vamperbus the filthy bastard who i bought it from was living on it and left a clarty old sofa next to his cooker. It was covered in all sorts of filth. I dragged that out and dumped it in the lane next to my house with some other shit i wanted rid off. Same as you i reported it as fly tipping and it was gone the same day. Its the future

Some fooker dumped some tyres on the green over the road to me. I did my but for the community and took them to the tip but they refused to let me dump them citing them as commercial waste. I said wtf am I supposed to do with them. He said put them back and ring the council and they'll collect them, but don't get caught putting them back or you'll get done for fly tipping!

Our tip charge 2.50 a tyre.

We’ve got a stack in the garden filled with rocks,soil and planted with bulbs………..classy eh!

Mussels wrote: Fri May 12, 2023 2:42 pm I put my car in for a service this morning, they pointed out it was due an MOT soon so I said to do that as well.
When the MOT place had it they called the garage and said a 'not charging' warning had come up on the dash, garage got the car back, the battery was flat and they couldn't detect alternator voltage at the test point in the wing.
It was fine when I dropped it off this morning, how the hell does an MOT cause all that?

If I'm lucky I'll get a working car back today minus a few hundred quid and still not serviced.

I have the car back in the condition I dropped it off and £500 poorer, I'm not sure whether to be grateful or suspicious it happend when the workshop had it. I now need to book it in again for the service and brakes it should have had today.
Being the trusting sort I googled pictures of the alternator and it did look like the one they showed me that they had taken off.

gremlin wrote: Fri May 12, 2023 3:28 pm Plus they want proof of address to prove you're not an interloper from over the borough border. Last time I got asked what was in the back I could tell the bloke didn't give a monkey's and wasn't in the slightest interested so I replied that I had 'a dead 'orse and some spent nuclear rods' to which he replied, 'Bay 5, mate'.

I was asked for proof of address a couple of years ago but I didn't have any. Fortunately they let me tip my stuff anyway. Since then I've made sure I take some ID, nobody has ever asked to see it

They're pretty good on the whole, there's a skip for tyres as long as you're not dumping "commercial quantities" and I've never had any bother with oil. We have two cars, a van and a bike and I normally pour the old oil into a 25ltr container and empty it when it gets full

My clumsiness

I cooked myself bangers and mash this evening. Made a lovely gravy to go with it. But in doing so, somehow I managed to know over the pot of Bisto Gravy Granules

Gutted!! Quite aside from the clearing up, what a waste FFS (they aren't cheap in the local supermarket either )

Not sure if this is minor and I'm just blowing it out of proportion...

I'm in Dobbies garden centre, and I mean inside, where the gloves, boxes of fertiliser, etc are all stacked. I watch a bloke let his dog cock its leg and take a piss up one of the displays, leaving a puddle of piss of the floor.
I couldn't help myself and had to say something.
'Excuse me, mate. Your dog has just peed up the displays back there'
'Oh, has he?'
He knew full fucking well it had as he'd watched it.
'You gonna clean it up?'
'Not sure I've got anything'
'Maybe ask ask if they have some paper towel or something, eh?'
'Yeah'
I walked off know full well the inconsiderate twat would just leave it there.

FFS. If your dog makes a mess, clean it up.