http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=14093 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Tue, 21 May 2013 20:24:44 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=14093#post-38253 Fri, 15 Oct 2010 22:55:01 +0000 The All New Jeni B 38253@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>With effect from (hopefully, fingers crossed) tomorrow, I will once again have a 'proper' coal fire.<br /> Mr B decided last summer (09) to take out our horrible coal effect gas fire, and replace it with a real one, which belched all the smoke back into the room.<br /> After having endured the coldest winter in flippin' decades with only central-heating, which I hate, I positively stamped my dainty little foot and insisted on it being fixed.</p> <p>Now avidly looking forward to having to get up half an hour earlier every day to clean out and relay the fire.<br /> Roast chestnuts anyone? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=14093#post-38230 Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:08:30 +0000 ramblesnake 38230@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>You were lucky...etc. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=14093#post-38228 Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:32:40 +0000 Gerontius 38228@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>we were so poor we had to live in our coalhouse, spent our school holidays in the tin dustbin.<br /> You may have emptied us Ram<br /> Landfill were full of PG Tips and Dr.Whites back then<br /> Happy times indeed </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=14093#post-38224 Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:15:41 +0000 ramblesnake 38224@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Eee bah gum, I remember being locked up in't coal house for days when we were naughty with only t'rats for company. Happy times.<br /> Talking about being a real dustman. First job from school was on the local Council and I did the bins some weeks. That's the proper tin bins you had to go round the back of the house for, lift up and empty onto the street outside.<br /> the bin round was always the most popular job. It was fairly hard work but you'd be finished by lunchtime.<br /> I learnt recently that it was "against health and safety" for our binmen to set foot on anyone's property </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=14093#post-38219 Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:02:35 +0000 saltire 38219@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>@ Gerontius;In your trousers sir,I'm assuming it is 'Nutty Slack'...smokeless.</p> <p>Good evening to you.. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=14093#post-38217 Fri, 15 Oct 2010 15:57:11 +0000 IABP 38217@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>When my dad bought a house, the woman said there's a bunker full of coal so you have to pay for that. My dad said it's ok you can take it with you. Strangely she wasn't keen and left it and my dad roasted his nuts on that very coal.</p> <p>That's my 'coal left in a bunker story'. We all have one. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=14093#post-38214 Fri, 15 Oct 2010 15:54:09 +0000 Gerontius 38214@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>are we talking coal slack or , well, you know - another sort of slack.<br /> the modern trouser has very little slack in it, well mine anyways.<br /> so who remembers coal fires then eh, eh - heaping slack on the back to draw the fire<br /> taking out the ash (chucking it in next doors bin)<br /> proper dustbinmen not Environmental Recycling Engineers<br /> not fucking agas, they don't count, that's a fashion accessory-not a means of staying alive<br /> kids today, they don't know they're........ </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=14093#post-38152 Fri, 15 Oct 2010 08:27:09 +0000 IABP 38152@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>You know I reckon they are going to miss the mine. They had a nice healthy diet, could watch the football, keep fit, lots of drink, out with their mates, away from the fattest women on earth, no kids, no bills, no cares. Send down a doctor and a dentist and you're set up for life. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=14093#post-38150 Fri, 15 Oct 2010 08:23:00 +0000 ramblesnake 38150@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Evocative of the good old days when, if you were killed half way through your shift, you'd only get half a day's pay.<br /> Hard but very fair. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=14093#post-38131 Fri, 15 Oct 2010 05:51:06 +0000 saltire 38131@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>don't go back down the mine daddy,there's plenty of slack in yer trousers. </p>