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Post by innocentbystander on Mar 19, 2024 21:12:11 GMT
...people in hospital waiting rooms with saucepans stuck on their heads.
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Post by chuffedstokie on Mar 20, 2024 5:28:47 GMT
...people in hospital waiting rooms with saucepans stuck on their heads. They need to make a comeback. Can't have too many comedy patients in A&E.
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Post by innocentbystander on Mar 20, 2024 7:28:05 GMT
...people in hospital waiting rooms with saucepans stuck on their heads. They need to make a comeback. Can't have too many comedy patients in A&E. These days it's people with their todgers stuck in vacuum cleaner nozzles.
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Post by chuffedstokie on Mar 20, 2024 8:54:15 GMT
They need to make a comeback. Can't have too many comedy patients in A&E. These days it's people with their todgers stuck in vacuum cleaner nozzles. Thanks, that's an image I don't really need while I'm at work. š
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Mar 20, 2024 9:00:40 GMT
These days it's people with their todgers stuck in vacuum cleaner nozzles. Thanks, that's an image I don't really need while I'm at work. š Why? Do you work at Dyson?
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Post by lawrieleslie on Mar 20, 2024 9:12:34 GMT
The rag & bone man with his horse & cart plying the streets often giving you a goldfish in a plastic bag as payment. At which your mum would flush it down the bog claiming it would be a diseased specimen.
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Post by danceswithclams on Mar 20, 2024 9:58:55 GMT
The rag & bone man with his horse & cart plying the streets often giving you a goldfish in a plastic bag as payment. At which your mum would flush it down the bog claiming it would be a diseased specimen. There's a rag & bone operative who drives around where I live playing the theme to 'Steptoe & Son' from an external loudspeaker mounted on his truck as his calling card.. It's quite novel and always raises a smile. Not heard of the 'goldfish as payment' thing before though. Are you saying that in days of yore scrap metal dealers drive around suburbia with a huge vat of goldfish sloshing about in their vehicles (alongside all the rusty radiators and mangled bedframes)? Madness.
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Post by lawrieleslie on Mar 20, 2024 10:26:05 GMT
The rag & bone man with his horse & cart plying the streets often giving you a goldfish in a plastic bag as payment. At which your mum would flush it down the bog claiming it would be a diseased specimen. There's a rag & bone operative who drives around where I live playing the theme to 'Steptoe & Son' from an external loudspeaker mounted on his truck as his calling card.. It's quite novel and always raises a smile. Not heard of the 'goldfish as payment' thing before though. Are you saying that in days of yore scrap metal dealers drive around suburbia with a huge vat of goldfish sloshing about in their vehicles (alongside all the rusty radiators and mangled bedframes)? Madness. Yes exactly, Iām talking 1960s. Only the vehicle in question was a horse & cart, I canāt recall how he carried the goldfish but presumably in a covered tank or something. This guy who came round Wolstanton was based in Middleport somewhere and possibly worked for McGuinesses scrap dealer. Mum used to send us out to shovel up the horse poo from the road for her garden roses. Strangely the rag and bone man would always be "smartly" dressed in an old suit, shirt and tie.
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Post by dirtygary69 on Mar 20, 2024 10:32:10 GMT
Jack Penate.
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Post by Seymour Beaver on Mar 20, 2024 10:49:47 GMT
Flans
Replaced by quiches and tarte au citrons.
Surely there's a Brexit benefit to be had there?
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Mar 20, 2024 11:14:28 GMT
The rag & bone man with his horse & cart plying the streets often giving you a goldfish in a plastic bag as payment. At which your mum would flush it down the bog claiming it would be a diseased specimen. There's a rag & bone operative who drives around where I live playing the theme to 'Steptoe & Son' from an external loudspeaker mounted on his truck as his calling card.. It's quite novel and always raises a smile. Not heard of the 'goldfish as payment' thing before though. Are you saying that in days of yore scrap metal dealers drive around suburbia with a huge vat of goldfish sloshing about in their vehicles (alongside all the rusty radiators and mangled bedframes)? Madness. Yes heard him a few times, makes me smile with nostagia
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Post by PotterLog on Mar 20, 2024 16:34:40 GMT
There's a rag & bone operative who drives around where I live playing the theme to 'Steptoe & Son' from an external loudspeaker mounted on his truck as his calling card.. It's quite novel and always raises a smile. Not heard of the 'goldfish as payment' thing before though. Are you saying that in days of yore scrap metal dealers drive around suburbia with a huge vat of goldfish sloshing about in their vehicles (alongside all the rusty radiators and mangled bedframes)? Madness. Yes exactly, Iām talking 1960s. Only the vehicle in question was a horse & cart, I canāt recall how he carried the goldfish but presumably in a covered tank or something. This guy who came round Wolstanton was based in Middleport somewhere and possibly worked for McGuinesses scrap dealer. Mum used to send us out to shovel up the horse poo from the road for her garden roses. Strangely the rag and bone man would always be "smartly" dressed in an old suit, shirt and tie. Just googled rag and bone man to find out the origins and lo and behold, got this legal site which mentions a case involving a goldfish... "Section 154 of the Public Health Act 1936, under the heading āPrevention, notification and treatment of disease,ā prohibited individuals that ācollect or deal in rags, old clothes or similar articlesā from selling or delivering any article to children under the age of fourteen years while engaged in his work duties. There were a number of cases heard in the magistratesā court of people violating this provision. In Daly v Cannon, the rag and bone man was caught by a sanitary inspector handing a live goldfish to a child under the age of fourteen and a case was brought against him. The court considered whether a goldfish was an article within the meaning of Section 154(1) of the Public Health Act and noted the ingenuity of rag and bone collectors of requiring children to bring their own bowls as a receptacle in which to put the goldfish, as handing out goldfish in bags or bowls would clearly be considered an article and there would be no ambiguity over the application of the section. The judge reasoned that people using ordinary language would be disinclined to refer to a goldfish as an article, and that as a guilty judgment would result in a penalty fine of Ā£5, the court should apply the āvery well-known canon of construction that if one has an ambiguity one always applies the construction which is most favorable to an accused person and a construction which will not involve the imposition of a penalty.ā The court therefore held that a goldfish was not an article within the meaning of Section 154 of the Public Health Act and no law had been broken."Presumably these health concerns and cases like this one gave rise to the ideas of "diseased specimens" as per your mother. blogs.loc.gov/law/2017/08/regulating-the-rag-and-bone-man/
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Post by lawrieleslie on Mar 20, 2024 17:16:27 GMT
Yes exactly, Iām talking 1960s. Only the vehicle in question was a horse & cart, I canāt recall how he carried the goldfish but presumably in a covered tank or something. This guy who came round Wolstanton was based in Middleport somewhere and possibly worked for McGuinesses scrap dealer. Mum used to send us out to shovel up the horse poo from the road for her garden roses. Strangely the rag and bone man would always be "smartly" dressed in an old suit, shirt and tie. Just googled rag and bone man to find out the origins and lo and behold, got this legal site which mentions a case involving a goldfish... "Section 154 of the Public Health Act 1936, under the heading āPrevention, notification and treatment of disease,ā prohibited individuals that ācollect or deal in rags, old clothes or similar articlesā from selling or delivering any article to children under the age of fourteen years while engaged in his work duties. There were a number of cases heard in the magistratesā court of people violating this provision. In Daly v Cannon, the rag and bone man was caught by a sanitary inspector handing a live goldfish to a child under the age of fourteen and a case was brought against him. The court considered whether a goldfish was an article within the meaning of Section 154(1) of the Public Health Act and noted the ingenuity of rag and bone collectors of requiring children to bring their own bowls as a receptacle in which to put the goldfish, as handing out goldfish in bags or bowls would clearly be considered an article and there would be no ambiguity over the application of the section. The judge reasoned that people using ordinary language would be disinclined to refer to a goldfish as an article, and that as a guilty judgment would result in a penalty fine of Ā£5, the court should apply the āvery well-known canon of construction that if one has an ambiguity one always applies the construction which is most favorable to an accused person and a construction which will not involve the imposition of a penalty.ā The court therefore held that a goldfish was not an article within the meaning of Section 154 of the Public Health Act and no law had been broken."Presumably these health concerns and cases like this one gave rise to the ideas of "diseased specimens" as per your mother. blogs.loc.gov/law/2017/08/regulating-the-rag-and-bone-man/Haha thatās brilliant. So the rag & bone man from Middleport, with his horse and cart giving his trade a semblance of respectability in his suit, shirt and tie, was clearly breaking the law giving an 11 year old lad a gold fish in payment for rags and scrap metal. I wonder, are any lawyers out there dealing with this type of historical exploitation of children.
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