Cranbourne Street

[Les Biehn]

I appreciate it isn't the central issue in this sad story, but when did dust carts stop being dust carts and become refuse lorries? I prefer the term 'dust cart'.

Since the people driving them became refuse technicians.

 

[Shizuoka Dolphin]

Woman hit by refuse vehicle dies

A refuse truck that was swerving to avoid the marauding hens.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I appreciate it isn't the central issue in this sad story, but when did dust carts stop being dust carts and become refuse lorries? I prefer the term 'dust cart'.

Probably about the same time that 'firemen' became 'firefighters'

 

[Man of Harveys]

They'll be "refuse trucks" next I bet. Damn these creeping Americanisms.

 

[Buzzer]

How fast was this dust cart going? Cranborne St isn't long enough for a vehicle like that to get beyond a few miles an hour.

 

[Nibble]

How fast was this dust cart going? Cranborne St isn't long enough for a vehicle like that to get beyond a few miles an hour.

But if you are swinging round a corner you can carry some force and probably give someone a good knock.

 

[Man of Harveys]

Maybe it was tied in with this slightly odd transformation, courtesy of the water works, of West Street into one of the sections of the Monaco Grand Prix.

 

[Buzzer]

But if you are swinging round a corner you can carry some force and probably give someone a good knock.

good point.

 

[jonny.rainbow]

Or she could've got crushed against a wall like that Coventry steward a few years ago.

 

[Deleted User X18H]

Yes. I can confirm it's pronounced Mount-Pelly-Ah.

rubbish

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

rubbish

refuse

 

[macky]

couldnt have been going that fast
because they have to reverse up there

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Probably about the same time that 'firemen' became 'firefighters'

Yeah, I mean how DAMNED unreasonable of the WOMEN in the fire brigade to object to being called firemen.

Political correctness gone MAD, that's all it is.

Next thing you know it, they'll be letting women into the police, and we'll have to call them police officers too, instead of policemen.

What is the world coming to? I'm writing to my MP

 

[Bry Nylon]

Originally posted by edna krabappel
Yeah, I mean how DAMNED unreasonable of the WOMEN in the fire brigade to object to being called firemen.

Thanks for doing that. I was going to, but in the end I just gave up. My best mate on the crew is Lorraine. We joined at the same time, did all our training together and she the best firefighter I have ever worked with.

But for some reason she objects to being called a fireman?

 

[dougdeep]

Sad news, of course it could have been her fault.

 

[Bry Nylon]

Sad news, of course it could have been her fault.

True enough, but still a heavy price to pay for what could only have been a momentary lapse, if that is the case.

Whatever the cause, I am sure her family and the refuse collectors involved are feeling truely dreadful this evening

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Thanks for doing that. I was going to, but in the end I just gave up. My best mate on the crew is Lorraine. We joined at the same time, did all our training together and she the best firefighter I have ever worked with.

But for some reason she objects to being called a fireman?

Bloody women, next thing you know they'll expect equal salaries and be wanting to fight fires as well!

"WPC" is another old relic which got dumped, not before time. Fortunately someone realised the public no longer needed to be warned that the officer dealing with them might be a woman.

 

[Mendoza]

Was it the Colin Kazim-Richards truck?

 

[macky]

i have driven that same round
and i wil tell you it is a nightmare
people just dont look where they are going
i knew this would happen one day

 

[Barrel of Fun]

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