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Do you know what yesterday was?

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  • 18-06-2019 6:57pm
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    Hammer89
    Registered Users Posts: 3,003 ✭✭✭


    Of course you don't, because why would you? You just wheel the bin out and wheel it back into your driveway a lot easier about nine hours later. Why is it a lot easier to wheel back in? Because it's been emptied, it's lighter. Your pizza boxes, empty cans of 7up and old tampons have vanished, as if by magic, but it's not magic.

    It's because in most countries there's these people called BIN MEN and these BIN MEN empty it for you, once a week. We treat them like they're invisible, but where would we be without them? They are the unsung heroes of every society, and yet we couldn't even remember their day, could we? There's one day a year dedicated to these soldiers - and it was yesterday. Yep. June 17 is National Garbage Man day. Where's their thread? Oh that's right, they aren't nurses, so they don't get a thread. In fact let's cut their wages. Why not? They're not even people. They're lads who cut class to smoke reefer. Now look at them.

    Here is their thread. Here is their moment.

    https://www.garbagemanday.org/


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    jcorr
    Closed Accounts Posts: 232 ✭✭jcorr


    I was tempted to say Monday!

    There used to be this guy in my class in school and he would have this tradition of being the bin man lol

    Every day at 11 am when we had our fifteen minute break he would bring up the black bin from beside the toilets to where we were sitting

    Oh innocent days


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    Silent Running
    Registered Users Posts: 2,818 ✭✭✭Silent Running


    It was my wedding anniversary.

    I'm in enough trouble. Don't you start.


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    kneemos
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    Wish they wouldn't make such a racket at 7.30 in the morning.


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    TheShow
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    https://youtu.be/YihiSqO4jnA

    The Gabage Man Can!


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    [Deleted User]
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    whens white garbage woman day


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    blade1
    Registered Users Posts: 12,149 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    Obviously it's the day that St. Emily de Vialar is celebrated by the Sisters of St. Joseph of the apparition.


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    OU812
    Registered Users Posts: 6,035 ✭✭✭OU812


    You're a dirty lying whore Hammer89. Thursday is bin day & I NEVER forget.

    Go back to your home on whore island


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    Odhinn
    Registered Users Posts: 8,017 ✭✭✭Odhinn


    Hammer89 wrote: »
    Of course you don't, because why would you? You just wheel the bin out and wheel it back into your driveway a lot easier about nine hours later. Why is it a lot easier to wheel back in? Because it's been emptied, it's lighter. Your pizza boxes, empty cans of 7up and old tampons have vanished, as if by magic, but it's not magic.

    It's because in most countries there's these people called BIN MEN and these BIN MEN empty it for you, once a week. We treat them like they're invisible, but where would we be without them? They are the unsung heroes of every society, and yet we couldn't even remember their day, could we? There's one day a year dedicated to these soldiers - and it was yesterday. Yep. June 17 is National Garbage Man day. Where's their thread? Oh that's right, they aren't nurses, so they don't get a thread. In fact let's cut their wages. Why not? They're not even people. They're lads who cut class to smoke reefer. Now look at them.

    Here is their thread. Here is their moment.

    https://www.garbagemanday.org/




    They're American?


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    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭Your Face


    I sort my rubbish and wheel it out to the curb.

    The binmen move it 30cm to the truck which tips in the rubbish.

    I pay for this service.

    Fair play to them for working and all buts its hardly heroic.


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    BrokenArrows
    Registered Users Posts: 7,500 ✭✭✭BrokenArrows


    Hammer89 wrote: »
    Of course you don't, because why would you? You just wheel the bin out and wheel it back into your driveway a lot easier about nine hours later. Why is it a lot easier to wheel back in? Because it's been emptied, it's lighter. Your pizza boxes, empty cans of 7up and old tampons have vanished, as if by magic, but it's not magic.

    It's because in most countries there's these people called BIN MEN and these BIN MEN empty it for you, once a week. We treat them like they're invisible, but where would we be without them? They are the unsung heroes of every society, and yet we couldn't even remember their day, could we? There's one day a year dedicated to these soldiers - and it was yesterday. Yep. June 17 is National Garbage Man day. Where's their thread? Oh that's right, they aren't nurses, so they don't get a thread. In fact let's cut their wages. Why not? They're not even people. They're lads who cut class to smoke reefer. Now look at them.

    Here is their thread. Here is their moment.

    https://www.garbagemanday.org/

    Bin men? You sexest asshole. It's Bin Person. It's 2019 ffs.


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    daheff
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    kneemos wrote: »
    Wish they wouldn't make such a racket at 7.30 in the morning.

    7.30....you lucky devil. theres one crowd that reverse through my road at 6am every 2 weeks just to wake us all up to their reversing sound. they dont need to do it.. just do it because they can. #assholes


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    Hammer89
    Registered Users Posts: 3,003 ✭✭✭Hammer89


    Do you know why it's called Panda? Because they're a rare breed these days, bin men. Good ones anyway. We lash €20 into an envelope and tip our fellas every year at Christmas. There's an old saying and it goes, 'Look after your bin man and your bin man will look after you'. That's as true today as it ever was.


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    Eggs For Dinner
    Registered Users Posts: 2,944 ✭✭✭Eggs For Dinner


    Garbage FFS


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    aaaaaaaahhhhhh
    Registered Users Posts: 734 ✭✭✭aaaaaaaahhhhhh


    TheShow wrote: »
    The Gabage Man Can!
    Who can take your trash out?


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    James Brown
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    In my day they were bin men and the bins were filled with rubbish....just saying.


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    Working class heroes
    Registered Users Posts: 3,508 ✭✭✭Working class heroes


    I just place mine at the side of the road, at dusk. I then let nature take its course.

    Racism is now hiding behind the cloak of Community activism.



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    Itssoeasy
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    It was also the 25th anniversary of OJ Simpson leading the LAPD on a chase in LA.


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    blade1
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    Itssoeasy wrote: »
    It was also the 25th anniversary of OJ Simpson leading the LAPD on a chase in LA.

    :pac:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqrOUjCRhsY


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    Edgware
    Registered Users Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Edgware


    Itssoeasy wrote: »
    It was also the 25th anniversary of OJ Simpson leading the LAPD on a chase in LA.

    Like Patrick Quirke another innocent man


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    Peatys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,881 ✭✭✭Peatys


    BrokenArrows wrote: »
    Bin men? You sexest asshole. It's Bin Person. It's 2019 ffs.

    Who's pushing for 50/50 equality? :D


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    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users Posts: 39,596 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    Edgware wrote: »
    Itssoeasy wrote: »
    It was also the 25th anniversary of OJ Simpson leading the LAPD on a chase in LA.

    Like Patrick Quirke another innocent man
    Who's Patrick quirke ? Anyway OJ was found not guilty but feck it did he look guilty and the evidence did point to him.


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    _Brian
    Registered Users Posts: 18,494 ✭✭✭✭_Brian


    Hammer89 wrote: »
    Of course you don't, because why would you? You just wheel the bin out and wheel it back into your driveway a lot easier about nine hours later. Why is it a lot easier to wheel back in? Because it's been emptied, it's lighter. Your pizza boxes, empty cans of 7up and old tampons have vanished, as if by magic, but it's not magic.

    It's because in most countries there's these people called BIN MEN and these BIN MEN empty it for you, once a week. We treat them like they're invisible, but where would we be without them? They are the unsung heroes of every society, and yet we couldn't even remember their day, could we? There's one day a year dedicated to these soldiers - and it was yesterday. Yep. June 17 is National Garbage Man day. Where's their thread? Oh that's right, they aren't nurses, so they don't get a thread. In fact let's cut their wages. Why not? They're not even people. They're lads who cut class to smoke reefer. Now look at them.

    Here is their thread. Here is their moment.

    https://www.garbagemanday.org/

    You realise we pay quarterly fees for their service


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    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Isn't celebrating American National Garbage Man Day cultural appropriation?


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    #25
    BeerWolf
    Registered Users Posts: 4,122 ✭✭✭BeerWolf


    Three days before the day after tomorrow?


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    #26
    Hammer89
    Registered Users Posts: 3,003 ✭✭✭Hammer89


    _Brian wrote: »
    You realise we pay quarterly fees for their service

    We'd pay them every month if I had my way.


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    the_syco
    Registered Users Posts: 37,295 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    Odhinn wrote: »
    They're American?
    Ah, so that's why we ignore them? :pac:


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    Bobblehats
    Registered Users Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    My neighbour’s black bin has a gollywog face on it. You know the eyes lips and dickybow even I think that it’s pretty racist and its perma out for collection too; stop cars from parking apparently but has anybody seen these for sale? Seems pretty surreal to have this face peering back every time I look out


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    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Hammer89 wrote: »
    Of course you don't, because why would you? You just wheel the bin out and wheel it back into your driveway a lot easier about nine hours later. Why is it a lot easier to wheel back in? Because it's been emptied, it's lighter. Your pizza boxes, empty cans of 7up and old tampons have vanished, as if by magic, but it's not magic.

    It's because in most countries there's these people called BIN MEN and these BIN MEN empty it for you, once a week. We treat them like they're invisible, but where would we be without them? They are the unsung heroes of every society, and yet we couldn't even remember their day, could we? There's one day a year dedicated to these soldiers - and it was yesterday. Yep. June 17 is National Garbage Man day. Where's their thread? Oh that's right, they aren't nurses, so they don't get a thread. In fact let's cut their wages. Why not? They're not even people. They're lads who cut class to smoke reefer. Now look at them.

    Here is their thread. Here is their moment.

    https://www.garbagemanday.org/


    I like that. :)


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    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    And no i did not know so thanks for telling me :)


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    Hammer89
    Registered Users Posts: 3,003 ✭✭✭Hammer89


    biko wrote: »
    Isn't celebrating American National Garbage Man Day cultural appropriation?

    National Garbage Man day is as big as Paddy's Day. We don't celebrate it much here, because we don't care about the environment evidently, but Stockholm do a parade full of bin lorries. One Dennis truck after the other. It's stunning. Madrid puts on a puppet show where two puppets in high-vis coats beat the nasty Andres Asbestos with little clubs and all the kids cheer when they defeat him. Some adults cheer too in fact. I was in Tokyo for the parade last year and I'm not sure my words will do it justice. No words can, which is why nobody bothers to write about it, but it happens.


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