GRIT BINS
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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You can hide in them when they're empty
You can have that tip for free
congratulations to having invented the thread title that has made me laugh more than any other one ever.
well done
but:
they're for the council "workers" only
one of my neighbours was in there this morning
spreading grit all over the shop.
THE COUNCIL HAS FAILED US.
well spotted.
barnet council is going private today. maybe yours already is. Its a grit free for all.
maybe the creaky-oplypse is here
I should go and get me some of that grit.
its out to "tender". what are your costs?
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
also
here in London the council grits the roads. do you peons out in the provinces have to do it yourselves??!?!
bf
Yes prole, we do
you take that back
that made me laugh so much
^the thread title
why is the thread title funny?
I don't get it!
GRIT BINS
it's inexplicable
GRIT BINS
it's just what they are?
isn't it?
Help! I feel like PocketMouse or someone.
Grit bins mate. Srs.
REALLY grit bins.
It sounds like your complimenting someone on their tits.
In a regional dialect.
no change there then
BRIT GINS
this stuff writes itself
SNIT BRIG!!!
BRIG TINS!
Tins of brig!!!
IT BRINGS
bf
RIB STING
R.I.B STING
GITS R BIN
IT SBRING
What season is it after winter? IT SBRING!!
I prefer Dusty meself
http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/550000/images/_553949_dustybin150.jpg
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.
so in the same respect:
THE FIRE HYDRANTS ARE ON ME!
Yes
and of course I do my own gas works
dont we all?
I was talking about TRUMPING!
I hope you were too!
We are so naughty!
Phew.
I was a little concerned you might both be carrying out ACTUAL gas works, without the requisite training!
GAS MAN
Yes?
Even if the problem was potholes or something?
Or a sharp bend?
REQUIRES MORE GRIT
Or a lack of spirit?
TRE GRIT
GRIT THREAD
Can a road have a lack of spirit?
Most roads I've been on have been quite strong-willed.
the A406 is a pussy
Fill pus...TOO FAR
Where is the A406?
GRIT REFERENCE NEEDED
North Circular.
one BIG LONG BEND (requiring grit)
GRITS OVER
Insert more GRIT to continue
Make a ghost out of grit
Alter shape of road by adding grit at the sides
Fill holes with grit
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!
I like their logo:
http://www.grit-bins.co.uk/tonne_bag_of_rock_salt.jpg
gritty
holy grit
The grit has hit the fan now.
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.
have you visited the website ^^^ yet?
all your grit questions answered.
Man, I wish I had a lockable hasp
dont we all?
you could use it to secure ... any ... boxes you have?
do you have any boxes?
do I need to jog your MEMORY?
Son, I have NO idea what you're talking about.
ps I haven't got a memory box.
oh you know what I mean?
you "precious moments chest" or whatever you choose to call it.
if theat thread has gone.
i quit.
promises, promises
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.
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.
Mile End needs lots of these.
The petition starts here:
- Me.
Seriously mate, grit bins.
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.
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
theres a miuse, luise, about ^ his hiuse
this is like the moment i found out that 'meme' isn't pronounced
'meh-may'
mehMAY
GRIT BINS
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!
apparently so
i didn't know this until this ATP, when internet people laughed at me after i pronounced it wrong in real life. :(
:-@
You didn't even ACKNOWLEDGE my pun. MEGA-BURN!!! :(
(I used to pronounce it to rhyme with maim.)
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.
it wasn't incomprehensible
there's only one phrase you can say in that situation.
find your nearest grit bin
camden edition
http://maps.camden.gov.uk/Nearest/Nearest.aspx?find=Grit%20Bin
Then doh-si-doh it, caili style.
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
seriously mate,
grit bins.
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
How are you stuck?
No trains? No cars? No buses? That must suck.
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.
Maybe you should call:
http://www.fasthelicopters.com/
As I walk through the valley of the shadow of Wales
I take a look in GRIT BINS
And realize there's nothing left.
:D
You just made my day Theo
You just made my day Theo
GRIT BINS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8448134.stm
Thanks, Lee Newell 11!
^straight in, no messing about, on his debut,
the greatest post of all time
"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.
Some boffin reckons it'll be cold enough to snow by mid-October (THAT'S LIKE TWO WEEKS).
Gonna need serious grit bins.
Hold on, what?
*looks at Swn ticket, considers expense of B&B and likelihood of conditions in middle of very busy and populated city*
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.
grit bins there mate
i'm not sure what that is.
scottish?
this thread is well grit bins
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.
a GRIT BIN has been positioned outside my local supermarket
chuckled when I went past it the other day remembering this :')
amazing scenes
some grit bins have just been installed outside my flat :'D
They're getting closer!
They'll be in your kitchen before you know it
Preferred their earlier stuff.
New albums OK though.
http://www.bibliobox.org/uploadfiles/pictures/bbb_images_projects/1710_170224_GritDetermination.jpg
http://www.bibliobox.org/uploadfiles/pictures/bbb_images_projects/1710_170224_GritDetermination.jpg
it just wouldn't feel like christmas without this thread
timely bump
this thread = <3
whaaaaa?
Lee Newell has been banned????
outrageous
greatest poster ever,
no doubt
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/
excellent targetted ads
Matterhorn Salt Spreader
www.gritex.co.uk
Guaranteed Best Price - From Stock Same Day Despatch - Buy Online
GRIT BINS.
Useful right now.
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.
GRT BNS
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