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zxcvbnm- [Edit] [Delete] 121 replies 13:46 December 4th, 2008

Never really paid much attention to them before but... well what's the etiquette? Do you just get stuck in with your shovel and spray grit wherever you see fit?

Like you'd know.

Tcha.

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Royter-Hatfood | 4 Dec '08, 13:47 | X | ^ This | Reply
congratulations to having invented the thread title that has made me laugh more than any other one ever.

well done

meths | 4 Dec '08, 13:47 | X | ^ This | Reply
- but:
  
  they're for the council "workers" only
  
  meths @meths | 4 Dec '08, 13:47 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - one of my neighbours was in there this morning
    
    spreading grit all over the shop.
    
    THE COUNCIL HAS FAILED US.
    
    zxcvbnm- @meths | 4 Dec '08, 13:50 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - well spotted.
      
      barnet council is going private today. maybe yours already is. Its a grit free for all.
      
      meths @zxcvbnm- | 4 Dec '08, 13:52 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - maybe the creaky-oplypse is here
        
        I should go and get me some of that grit.
        
        zxcvbnm- @meths | 4 Dec '08, 13:53 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        its out to "tender". what are your costs?
        
        meths @zxcvbnm- | 4 Dec '08, 13:56 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - bf
    
    I thought this was going to be an anagrams thread, for some reason. I couldn't do any better than
    
    BRIT GINS
    
    or BIRSTING, which isn't strictly a word
    
    Judge_B | 4 Dec '08, 13:48 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - guntrip | 4 Dec '08, 13:48 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - also
      
      here in London the council grits the roads. do you peons out in the provinces have to do it yourselves??!?!
      
      guntrip @guntrip | 4 Dec '08, 13:48 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - bf
        
        Yes prole, we do
        
        Judge_B @guntrip | 4 Dec '08, 13:50 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        you take that back
        
        guntrip @Judge_B | 4 Dec '08, 13:55 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - that made me laugh so much
    
    too_black_too_strong | 4 Dec '08, 13:49 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - ^the thread title
      
      too_black_too_strong @too_black_too_strong | 4 Dec '08, 13:51 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - why is the thread title funny?
        
        I don't get it!
        
        zxcvbnm- @too_black_too_strong | 4 Dec '08, 13:51 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        GRIT BINS
        
        it's inexplicable
        
        GRIT BINS
        
        too_black_too_strong @zxcvbnm- | 4 Dec '08, 13:53 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        it's just what they are?
        
        isn't it?
        
        Help! I feel like PocketMouse or someone.
        
        zxcvbnm- @too_black_too_strong | 4 Dec '08, 13:54 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        Grit bins mate. Srs.
        
        REALLY grit bins.
        
        thewarn @zxcvbnm- | 4 Dec '08, 13:53 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        It sounds like your complimenting someone on their tits.
        
        In a regional dialect.
        
        belsizeparka @thewarn | 4 Dec '08, 15:03 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        no change there then
        
        meths @belsizeparka | 4 Dec '08, 15:05 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        BRIT GINS
        
        this stuff writes itself
        
        meths @zxcvbnm- | 4 Dec '08, 13:54 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        SNIT BRIG!!!
        
        tom_from_sparks @meths | 4 Dec '08, 13:56 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        BRIG TINS!
        
        Tins of brig!!!
        
        colonol_k @tom_from_sparks | 4 Dec '08, 14:01 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        IT BRINGS
        
        thewarn @colonol_k | 4 Dec '08, 14:03 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        bf
        
        RIB STING
        
        Judge_B @thewarn | 4 Dec '08, 14:06 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        R.I.B STING
        
        meths @Judge_B | 4 Dec '08, 14:08 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        GITS R BIN
        
        justanothersheeldz @meths | 4 Dec '08, 14:12 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        IT SBRING
        
        What season is it after winter? IT SBRING!!
        
        84joe @justanothersheeldz | 4 Dec '08, 14:23 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - I prefer Dusty meself
    
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/550000/images/_553949_dustybin150.jpg
    
    gowman | 4 Dec '08, 13:55 | X | ^ This | Reply
    
    mymiddlenameaintthor this'd this
  - I had a conversation about GRIT BINS
    
    with my mother a few days ago. We decided that:
    
    a) there used to be more of them around, but they've been taken away because PEOPEL CAN'TT EB TRUSTED
    
    b) they're there to be used by anyone, surely? if there was one on my street and the road was bad, I'd put some grit down.
    
    84joe | 4 Dec '08, 13:55 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - so in the same respect:
      
      THE FIRE HYDRANTS ARE ON ME!
      
      meths @84joe | 4 Dec '08, 13:57 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - Yes
        
        and of course I do my own gas works
        
        84joe @meths | 4 Dec '08, 13:59 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        dont we all?
        
        meths @84joe | 4 Dec '08, 14:00 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        I was talking about TRUMPING!
        
        I hope you were too!
        
        We are so naughty!
        
        84joe @meths | 4 Dec '08, 14:04 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        Phew.
        
        I was a little concerned you might both be carrying out ACTUAL gas works, without the requisite training!
        
        thewarn @84joe | 4 Dec '08, 14:05 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        GAS MAN
        
        meths @thewarn | 4 Dec '08, 14:10 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        Yes?
        
        84joe @meths | 4 Dec '08, 14:10 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - Even if the problem was potholes or something?
      
      colonol_k @84joe | 4 Dec '08, 13:58 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - Or a sharp bend?
        
        thewarn @colonol_k | 4 Dec '08, 14:01 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        REQUIRES MORE GRIT
        
        thewarn @thewarn | 4 Dec '08, 14:01 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        Or a lack of spirit?
        
        TRE GRIT
        
        thewarn @thewarn | 4 Dec '08, 14:01 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        GRIT THREAD
        
        meths @thewarn | 4 Dec '08, 14:05 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        Can a road have a lack of spirit?
        
        Most roads I've been on have been quite strong-willed.
        
        colonol_k @thewarn | 4 Dec '08, 14:06 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        the A406 is a pussy
        
        meths @colonol_k | 4 Dec '08, 14:07 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        Fill pus...TOO FAR
        
        84joe @meths | 4 Dec '08, 14:08 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        Where is the A406?
        
        GRIT REFERENCE NEEDED
        
        colonol_k @meths | 4 Dec '08, 14:09 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        North Circular.
        
        one BIG LONG BEND (requiring grit)
        
        meths @colonol_k | 4 Dec '08, 14:23 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        GRITS OVER
        
        Insert more GRIT to continue
        
        justanothersheeldz @meths | 4 Dec '08, 14:24 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        Make a ghost out of grit
        
        84joe @thewarn | 4 Dec '08, 14:07 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        Alter shape of road by adding grit at the sides
        
        84joe @thewarn | 4 Dec '08, 14:07 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - Fill holes with grit
        
        84joe @colonol_k | 4 Dec '08, 14:06 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - GRIT BINS: The white dog poo for the wireless generation
    
    This website is amazing http://www.grit-bins.co.uk/
    
    So grit bins are the reason why there are no polar bears roaming wild around Britain!
    
    art_vandelay | 4 Dec '08, 14:28 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - I like their logo:
      
      http://www.grit-bins.co.uk/tonne_bag_of_rock_salt.jpg
      
      colonol_k @art_vandelay | 4 Dec '08, 14:33 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - gritty
        
        meths @colonol_k | 4 Dec '08, 14:41 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - holy grit
      
      meths @art_vandelay | 4 Dec '08, 14:34 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - The grit has hit the fan now.
      
      wilykit @art_vandelay | 19 Dec '11, 09:32 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - I have decided to TAKE THE LAW INTO MY OWN HANDS
    
    and grit the road a bit.
    
    I may wait for the cover of darkness.
    
    This must be how Batman feels.
    
    zxcvbnm- | 4 Dec '08, 14:58 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - have you visited the website ^^^ yet?
      
      all your grit questions answered.
      
      meths @zxcvbnm- | 4 Dec '08, 15:01 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - Man, I wish I had a lockable hasp
        
        thewarn @meths | 4 Dec '08, 15:09 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        dont we all?
        
        meths @thewarn | 4 Dec '08, 15:13 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        you could use it to secure ... any ... boxes you have?
        
        do you have any boxes?
        
        zxcvbnm- @thewarn | 4 Dec '08, 15:13 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        do I need to jog your MEMORY?
        
        zxcvbnm- @zxcvbnm- | 4 Dec '08, 15:16 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        Son, I have NO idea what you're talking about.
        
        ps I haven't got a memory box.
        
        thewarn @zxcvbnm- | 4 Dec '08, 15:20 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        oh you know what I mean?
        
        you "precious moments chest" or whatever you choose to call it.
        
        zxcvbnm- @thewarn | 4 Dec '08, 15:31 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        if theat thread has gone.
        
        i quit.
        
        meths @zxcvbnm- | 4 Dec '08, 15:42 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        promises, promises
        
        thewarn @meths | 3 Dec '12, 15:08 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - Which tools are you going to use?
      
      Wouldn't go for the SV5 Large Blade Shovel myself. I hear its integrity is questionable. The SV4 two piece shovel is boner inducing however.
      
      art_vandelay @zxcvbnm- | 4 Dec '08, 15:23 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - I feel so inadequate.
        
        Just this one I bought from homebase ages ago.
        
        This is like the adult version of having crap trainers at school.
        
        zxcvbnm- @art_vandelay | 4 Dec '08, 15:31 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - Mile End needs lots of these.
    
    The petition starts here:
    - Me.
    
    TheoGB | 4 Feb '09, 11:24 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - Seriously mate, grit bins.
    
    joeymahone | 7 Jan '10, 14:04 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - Someone near my office
      
      has taken the law into their own hands, zxcvbnm-like, but used pea gravel instead of grit. It's a health and safety disaster. Might as well have used marbles.
      
      84joe @joeymahone | 7 Jan '10, 14:12 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - I've tried clearing the alleyway next to my hiuse
        
        using banana skins and bin bags covered in melted butter.
        
        If I'm honest with myself, it hasn't really worked
        
        Judge_B @84joe | 7 Jan '10, 14:16 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        theres a miuse, luise, about ^ his hiuse
        
        meths @Judge_B | 7 Jan '10, 14:23 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - this is like the moment i found out that 'meme' isn't pronounced
    
    'meh-may'
    
    mehMAY
    
    GRIT BINS
    
    pretty_vacant | 7 Jan '10, 14:16 | X | ^ This | Reply
    
    shrewbie this'd this
    - Isn't it pronounced to rhyme with dream?
      
      Thanks to this thread our use of grit bins at this time now means we're (wait for it): LIVING THE MEME!
      
      TheoGB @pretty_vacant | 7 Jan '10, 14:34 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - apparently so
        
        i didn't know this until this ATP, when internet people laughed at me after i pronounced it wrong in real life. :(
        
        pretty_vacant @TheoGB | 7 Jan '10, 14:36 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        :-@
        
        You didn't even ACKNOWLEDGE my pun. MEGA-BURN!!! :(
        
        (I used to pronounce it to rhyme with maim.)
        
        TheoGB @pretty_vacant | 7 Jan '10, 14:39 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - today i saw
    
    a row of 4 council workers, all walking in a line, gritting the same piece of pavement repeatedly.
    
    one shouted to the other incomprehensibly. another skidded slightly on the ice.
    
    it was beautiful.
    
    whiskywhiscuits | 7 Jan '10, 14:30 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - it wasn't incomprehensible
      
      there's only one phrase you can say in that situation.
      
      harru @whiskywhiscuits | 7 Jan '10, 14:36 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - find your nearest grit bin
    
    camden edition
    
    http://maps.camden.gov.uk/Nearest/Nearest.aspx?find=Grit%20Bin
    
    shadyadie | 7 Jan '10, 14:39 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - Then doh-si-doh it, caili style.
      
      TheoGB @shadyadie | 7 Jan '10, 14:41 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - MY GRIT BIN STORY
    
    The road up to my girlfriend's flat is a private road, and a steep hill, so doesn't get covered by the gritter lorry. She was out in the evening, it was snowing, so I decided to go out and hit up the grit bin in order to spread my grit around in a manly fashion. Unfortunately, some douche had used it and LEFT IT OPEN, meaning that it had filled up with snow that had melted, leaving just a pool of gritty water in the yellow chamber. Undeterred, I walked to the car park for the church beside the flats, using the cover of darkness to ensure that I was not caught stealing Jesus' holy grit. However, those selfish christians had exhausted their entire supply on the church car park, and their tiny section of road that adjoined our icy runway of doom!
    
    By this time I realised that I wasn't to be outdone by the elements or organised religion. I embarked on a mission, and soon found myself scavenging grit from another street's bin. A man watched me curiously as he stepped from his Land Rover, but recoiled sharply as my snarling, desperate features drove him back. I had grit!
    
    When my girlfriend got back, she drove straight up the hill, and I - sweating, panting, and with clothing rank and dusty from my endeavours - regaled her with my gritty tale. She said 'thanks' and then went and played with the cat.
    
    FIN
    
    tomatron | 7 Jan '10, 14:46 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - seriously mate,
      
      grit bins.
      
      meths @tomatron | 7 Jan '10, 15:02 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - Some grit would be lovely
        
        It appears that in the valleys of the shadow of Wales we don't need grit, oh no. I am supposed to be back in London and I'm not getting paid because I can't get to London to get to work because I'm stuck here. Stuck here , in the valleys in the shadow of Wales ahhhh. A lost land, a lost world. The vall-eys. Blanaeu Gwent council cunts. With Asdas as the only attraction. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
        
        marilyninthesky @meths | 7 Jan '10, 15:16 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        How are you stuck?
        
        No trains? No cars? No buses? That must suck.
        
        mymiddlenameaintthor @marilyninthesky | 7 Jan '10, 15:20 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        There are trains from Newport to London Paddington
        
        But my mam's house is on a really steep hill and Newport is ages away and there's no local buses, and me ma's car is snowed in. It does look pretty though.
        
        marilyninthesky @mymiddlenameaintthor | 7 Jan '10, 15:27 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        Maybe you should call:
        
        http://www.fasthelicopters.com/
        
        mymiddlenameaintthor @marilyninthesky | 7 Jan '10, 15:31 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        As I walk through the valley of the shadow of Wales
        I take a look in GRIT BINS
        And realize there's nothing left.
        
        TheoGB @marilyninthesky | 7 Jan '10, 15:25 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        :D
        
        pretty_vacant @TheoGB | 7 Jan '10, 15:30 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        -dan- this'd this
        
        You just made my day Theo
        
        marilyninthesky @TheoGB | 7 Jan '10, 15:32 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        joeymahone this'd this
        
        You just made my day Theo
        
        marilyninthesky @TheoGB | 7 Jan '10, 15:32 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - GRIT BINS
    
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8448134.stm
    
    JustJay | 8 Jan '10, 11:34 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - Thanks, Lee Newell 11!
    
    bamos @leenewell11 | 14 Sep '10, 15:06 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - ^straight in, no messing about, on his debut,
    
    the greatest post of all time
    
    harru @leenewell11 | 14 Sep '10, 15:07 | X | ^ This | Reply
    
    joeymahone, twentynine, zxcvbnm-, shucks, hello_dave, stormcrow, still_here, icehockeyhair, brokenchairs, and thewarn this'd this
  - "what's the etiquette?"
    
    If what happened round here during the cold spell earlier this year is anything to go by: Wait until the council fills it up, shovel the entire contents into your flat-bed van & go round the houses a few days later trying to sell bags of it. Pikey bastards.
    
    chris_81 | 14 Sep '10, 21:38 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - Some boffin reckons it'll be cold enough to snow by mid-October (THAT'S LIKE TWO WEEKS).
    
    Gonna need serious grit bins.
    
    hip_young_gunslinger | 29 Sep '11, 17:10 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - Hold on, what?
      
      *looks at Swn ticket, considers expense of B&B and likelihood of conditions in middle of very busy and populated city*
      
      simon_t @hip_young_gunslinger | 29 Sep '11, 22:02 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - Can't be arsed read the whole thread, so someone else may have already mentioned this, but Grit Bins sounds like quite a good insult.
    
    Fuck Off Grit Bins.
    
    chickenbones | 29 Sep '11, 20:58 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - grit bins there mate
      
      JustJay @chickenbones | 29 Sep '11, 20:59 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - i'm not sure what that is.
        scottish?
        
        chickenbones @JustJay | 29 Sep '11, 21:01 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - this thread is well grit bins
    
    CrispinAlexander | 29 Sep '11, 21:06 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - wished I'd gritted last night. And a GRIT BIN is positioned only 100 yards from my house.
    
    Icy death-trap this morning.
    
    Not grit. Not grit at all.
    
    thewarn | 19 Dec '11, 09:14 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - a GRIT BIN has been positioned outside my local supermarket
      
      chuckled when I went past it the other day remembering this :')
      
      JustJay @thewarn | 19 Dec '11, 09:17 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - amazing scenes
        
        some grit bins have just been installed outside my flat :'D
        
        JustJay @JustJay | 19 Dec '11, 12:50 | X | ^ This | Reply
        
        They're getting closer!
        
        They'll be in your kitchen before you know it
        
        thewarn @JustJay | 19 Dec '11, 12:55 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - Preferred their earlier stuff.
    
    New albums OK though.
    
    Mick_Squalor | 19 Dec '11, 09:20 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - http://www.bibliobox.org/uploadfiles/pictures/bbb_images_projects/1710_170224_GritDetermination.jpg
    
    Cementimental | 19 Dec '11, 09:56 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - http://www.bibliobox.org/uploadfiles/pictures/bbb_images_projects/1710_170224_GritDetermination.jpg
      
      Cementimental @Cementimental | 19 Dec '11, 09:57 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - it just wouldn't feel like christmas without this thread
    
    IndieAndy_Jones | 19 Dec '11, 10:02 | X | ^ This | Reply
    
    thewarn and justanothersheeldz this'd this
  - timely bump
    
    guntrip | 3 Dec '12, 14:11 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - this thread = <3
    
    plasticniki | 3 Dec '12, 14:14 | X | ^ This | Reply
    
    rich-t this'd this
    - whaaaaa?
      
      Lee Newell has been banned????
      
      outrageous
      
      thewarn @plasticniki | 3 Dec '12, 14:48 | X | ^ This | Reply
      
      _TheBeautifulOnes_ this'd this
      - greatest poster ever,
        
        no doubt
        
        _TheBeautifulOnes_ @thewarn | 13 Feb '13, 09:30 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - Don't be a grit bastard
    
    http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/local-west-yorkshire-news/2011/01/18/kirklees-council-promise-court-action-over-huddersfield-grit-thieves-86081-28003490/
    
    lordscopie | 3 Dec '12, 15:06 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - excellent targetted ads
    
    Matterhorn Salt Spreader
    www.gritex.co.uk
    Guaranteed Best Price - From Stock Same Day Despatch - Buy Online
    
    thewarn | 3 Dec '12, 15:17 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - GRIT BINS.
    
    Useful right now.
    
    TheoGB | 13 Feb '13, 09:21 | X | ^ This | Reply
    
    cat_race this'd this
  - there are two grit bins that are equidistant from my house. one up hill and one down hill. i tend to go to the one up the hill (on the rare occasion that i do) so that when i'm carrying grit i am walking down hill. cheers.
    
    cat_race | 13 Feb '13, 09:29 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - GRT BNS
    
    https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/396923_2370483594225_411764927_n.jpg
    
    badmanreturns | 13 Feb '13, 09:45 | X | ^ This | Reply

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