http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=51990 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sat, 25 May 2013 01:51:39 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=51990#post-149796 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:02:26 +0000 Yikes 149796@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Particularly liked the 'up and shambling line' </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=51990#post-149715 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:51:49 +0000 custard cream 149715@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>It would work as well, great idea! Max. stars. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=51990#post-149713 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:48:08 +0000 waylandsmithy 149713@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I think we're all in favour of tramps having a regular airing. The fact that they don't is just one of the many reasons I refuse to use public transport. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=51990#post-149711 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:45:27 +0000 dvo4fun 149711@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Ah, Bollocks. Before my time on NB but I may well have read it from the archives. Have now re-jigged the words. Yes, I thought it was time to give tramps another airing. </p> <p>Your own "...'Cidre', a french-sounding apple-flavoured tramp fuel that now dominates the crucial town centre and bus shelter markets. " from 2011 remains one of my firm favourite lines </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=51990#post-149709 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:11:23 +0000 waylandsmithy 149709@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>About time tramps had another run out. But 'Traditional British Tramp' sounded familiar...</p> <p><a href="http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2011/05/27/extinction-fears-grow-for-traditional-british-tramp/">trampy trampy tramp tramp</a></p> <p>Love this idea though! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=51990#post-149698 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:14:18 +0000 beau-jolly 149698@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>You're a bad man. Stars a plenty, I love it! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=51990#post-149697 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 15:55:44 +0000 Nowherefast 149697@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>If this isn't tomorrows FP there's no justice. Have stars aplenty </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=51990#post-149695 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:58:36 +0000 Anonymous 149695@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>have some stars </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=51990#post-149689 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:23:16 +0000 Tripod 149689@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Is this anything to do with the new 'village idiocy' scheme? Stars anyway... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=51990#post-149688 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:19:28 +0000 dvo4fun 149688@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) is to reintroduce the once-familiar British Tramp to the countryside, to combat litter and minor vandalism. “For much of the last century,” says Martin Watson of CPRE “every village and country town would have one or two regulars shuffling around their patch, picking up cigarette ends, half-eaten sandwiches and carrier bags and keeping the area tidy.” </p> <p>“Our trials show littering and anti-social behaviour by youths can be eliminated by deploying a carefully selected gentleman of the road to go about his business; lecturing pigeons, arguing persuasively with sweet-wrappers and generally introducing a certain level of ‘uneasiness’ to local life. </p> <p>Most youth crime happens at night,” Watson went on “but any youngster with half a brain will be tucked up at home well before dusk rather than risk meeting a Hobo in the dark, with all the horrors that might involve.”</p> <p>CPRE is encouraging Local Councils to assist in creating a fit for purpose 21st Century Tramp; one which incorporates all the original's rather strange habits but with the added benefit of a tracker-tagging device. “Perhaps someone local has lost his job to the recession and his family to divorce. He’s probably lost his home too but just to be sure, why not .. ahem .. 'mis-file his benefit application' under the budgie’s cage and encourage his landlord to evict? At that stage you’ve assembled the basic ingredients for your very own Tramp; add a gallon of White Lightning and you’re away. ” </p> <p>Ideally, CPRE would have liked to establish a breeding colony but oral and genital hygiene issues make that a stretch too far. “However,” concluded Watson “we’ve partnered with HM Prison Service and once our own tramps are up and shambling we’ll be offering ‘apprentice placements’ under the ex-prisoner mentoring scheme. A good number end up on the streets anyway, so its win-win.” </p>