Council bods. Are you ever...
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soad said:
JamesM said:
It's nice to know that we pay council tax so we can take our own bins to the tip.
Same happened when the bin strikes in Leeds went on and on... Had only two bin collections arranged by the council (used some temp agency) in almost 3 months time...
ewenm said:
Of course, it's not particularly difficult to take rubbish to the tip if it gets that bad...
Depends how far away it is, how much rubish you have and what car. f
ked if I'm getting bin juice all over my seats.But the main problem is the tips themselves. Are they open? chances are no even if they they are probably closed for an hour for H&S reasons because a truck is taking a skip away.
Then you have the council t
ts ordering you about and inspecting everything you fking throw away.Two separate issues in this weather:
1. You need to decide whether you'll sort out your rubbish yourself or not.
2. You've paid council tax for a service you're not receiving.
The first is a practical issue that you may be able to sort out or just have to put up with while the binmen can't get to you. Of course, if they slid into your car while trying to get to you, no doubt you'd be more annoyed about that and be asking why they bothered trying to collect the rubbish in such slippery conditions.
The second is a standard issue with the system of council tax - for example, some of my tax goes to schools, but I have no kids so receive nothing from that tax (simplistic I know, potential social benefits from decent education etc). If we had no central council funding but paid directly for the services we use then you might have some recourse to get a refund. Bit of a ballache to pay separately for all the council services though.
1. You need to decide whether you'll sort out your rubbish yourself or not.
2. You've paid council tax for a service you're not receiving.
The first is a practical issue that you may be able to sort out or just have to put up with while the binmen can't get to you. Of course, if they slid into your car while trying to get to you, no doubt you'd be more annoyed about that and be asking why they bothered trying to collect the rubbish in such slippery conditions.
The second is a standard issue with the system of council tax - for example, some of my tax goes to schools, but I have no kids so receive nothing from that tax (simplistic I know, potential social benefits from decent education etc). If we had no central council funding but paid directly for the services we use then you might have some recourse to get a refund. Bit of a ballache to pay separately for all the council services though.
Tried to take mine to the local tip
council jobsworth - you can't come in here with that van full of bussiness waste
me - no its household waste as my bin hasn't been emptied
jobsworth tw@t - You cannot come in here with a van
me- well I'll park here and carry it in
jobsworth utter tw@t - You cannot come in here on foot
me - So shall I drive 6 miles back home put this smelly ste in the back of my clean car and drive 6 miles back here to dump it?
complete ar~e hole - Yes that will be fine
me - whats the point , this waste is still going in that skip just another 12 miles travel and wasting half an hour of my time so why not just put it in now ?
jobsworth knob - the point is -- I am in charge of this tip.
and they wonder why people fly tip.
peter
council jobsworth - you can't come in here with that van full of bussiness waste
me - no its household waste as my bin hasn't been emptied
jobsworth tw@t - You cannot come in here with a van
me- well I'll park here and carry it in
jobsworth utter tw@t - You cannot come in here on foot
me - So shall I drive 6 miles back home put this smelly s
te in the back of my clean car and drive 6 miles back here to dump it?complete ar~e hole - Yes that will be fine
me - whats the point , this waste is still going in that skip just another 12 miles travel and wasting half an hour of my time so why not just put it in now ?
jobsworth knob - the point is -- I am in charge of this tip.
and they wonder why people fly tip.
peter
Pesty said:
ewenm said:
Of course, it's not particularly difficult to take rubbish to the tip if it gets that bad...
Depends how far away it is, how much rubish you have and what car. fked if I'm getting bin juice all over my seats.But the main problem is the tips themselves. Are they open? chances are no even if they they are probably closed for an hour for H&S reasons because a truck is taking a skip away.
Then you have the council t
ts ordering you about and inspecting everything you fking throw away.king recycling centres with council nazis demanding to know what is inside every black bag. 
The council office people in charge of your bins couldn’t get into work because of the snow. This resulted in the H&S paperwork not being filled in to authorise another bureaucrat to speak to the bin men department. Half the bin lorry drivers couldn’t make it into work because the public transport system has broken and 80 wheels in contact with cold steel on our trains isn’t enough to make electricity conductive any more. The bin lorry drivers who did manage to get in are now driving gritting lorries, using around double the amount of grit actually needed, so when it runs out and we get really serious weather there is nothing left. BUT because of the huge stress placed on the poor council workers in charge of bin collection they will now go on strike and demand a pay rise because of global warming/cooling/whatever. From April your council tax will rise by 20% to cover the public work sectors inability to work like anyone in the public sector. Mr winky will blame aliens and our general population of gullible muppets will believe him, whilst the 10% of people in this country who still know what hard graft really is will pick up the tab…
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