Lightbulb moment

[jukel123 8,977]

How about a battery powered milk float to deliver milk? And how about delivering milk in glass bottles which can be cleaned and re-used? No more lugging quarts of milk in plastic containers which feck up the environment and swell the coffers of the mighty supermarkets.. You could even deliver eggs in cardboard trays and brown paper bags and perhaps orange juice. There could be independent small dairies which would provide lots of employment. Nah, never catch on.

[chartpolski 25,260]

37 minutes ago, jukel123 said:

How about a battery powered milk float to deliver milk? And how about delivering milk in glass bottles which can be cleaned and re-used? No more lugging quarts of milk in plastic containers which feck up the environment and swell the coffers of the mighty supermarkets.. You could even deliver eggs in cardboard trays and brown paper bags and perhaps orange juice. There could be independent small dairies which would provide lots of employment. Nah, never catch on.

I watch a lot of GBNews, but I guess you know that; anyway, they have some adverts that turn me into my Victor Meldrew alter ego.

One is for a gin that goes on about the pine forests that sweep down to the sea in ……NORFOLK !!

Then it shows you a glass bottle of gin with a cork stopper, both of which are eminently recyclable, but no, they want you to keep the bottle and have a refill, in a plastic bag, sent to you, and you send the plastic bag back to them in the post to be recycled!!!!

Another advert that sends my blood pressure off the scale is for “Eco Coal” for your wood burner. They proudly tell you that their coal is made with “organic content” ! For fucks sake ! ALL coal is organic ! It couldn’t be more organic, it’s made from trees !

” I don’t believe it” ! LOL !

Cheers.

Edited July 2, 2024 by chartpolski

[Neal 1,874]

Feature on my local news a short while ago about fibreglass being found in shellfish in Chichester harbour. The reason given was because boats are now rarely built from wood.

[iworkwhippets 12,834]

hello chaps,   every friday night without fail, my father would leave a laxative on the kitchen table, we had no option but to take it 

[jukel123 8,977]

8 minutes ago, iworkwhippets said:

hello chaps,   every friday night without fail, my father would leave a laxative on the kitchen table, we had no option but to take it 

Wtf? You're losing it mate.

[tatsblisters 10,502]

I would have milk delivered to my doorstep in a heartbeat if it was like it was years ago and it was usually the first stepping stone to young lads getting the work ethic into them with early starts on a milk round that and paper rounds that I had to do to pay my father back after being fined 15 pounds for trespassing with an airgun at 14. Does anyone now in this day and age have the newspapers pushed through their letter box always remembered Sunday being the worst with a bag full of Sunday papers on my round. 

[mackem 28,203]

8 minutes ago, tatsblisters said:

I would have milk delivered to my doorstep in a heartbeat if it was like it was years ago and it was usually the first stepping stone to young lads getting the work ethic into them with early starts on a milk round that and paper rounds that I had to do to pay my father back after being fined 15 pounds for trespassing with an airgun at 14. Does anyone now in this day and age have the newspapers pushed through their letter box always remembered Sunday being the worst with a bag full of Sunday papers on my round. 

Doing a paper round is what started me off salmon poaching.

[Arry 22,942]

35 minutes ago, tatsblisters said:

I would have milk delivered to my doorstep in a heartbeat if it was like it was years ago and it was usually the first stepping stone to young lads getting the work ethic into them with early starts on a milk round that and paper rounds that I had to do to pay my father back after being fined 15 pounds for trespassing with an airgun at 14. Does anyone now in this day and age have the newspapers pushed through their letter box always remembered Sunday being the worst with a bag full of Sunday papers on my round. 

Did a paper round it was so easy thought I would take on another. f**k what a mistake that was the second round is where I live now every house has about a dozen steps. Had to do some hedge hopping there Lol.

Cheers Arry

[eastcoast 4,244]

34 minutes ago, tatsblisters said:

I would have milk delivered to my doorstep in a heartbeat if it was like it was years ago and it was usually the first stepping stone to young lads getting the work ethic into them with early starts on a milk round that and paper rounds that I had to do to pay my father back after being fined 15 pounds for trespassing with an airgun at 14. Does anyone now in this day and age have the newspapers pushed through their letter box always remembered Sunday being the worst with a bag full of Sunday papers on my round. 

Milk round before school, pop bottles on a Saturday, "free papers" after school (to be honest, used to dump most of the "free papers"). Try and tell that to the young folk today, and they won't believe you   Paid for my 1st proper terrier though.

[Arry 22,942]

Just remembered them big papers like the Times and Express and them small vertical letter boxes that when you push the paper through the front page came off.

Cheers Arry

[tatsblisters 10,502]

7 minutes ago, Arry said:

Did a paper round it was so easy thought I would take on another. f**k what a mistake that was the second round is where I live now every house has about a dozen steps. Had to do some hedge hopping there Lol.

Cheers Arry

Same here mate did the morning papers before school then did the sheffield star news paper after school and then the greenuns that was a paper with all the sports results in it Saturday evening as nearly everyone did the pools in the working class area I grew up in and wanted to check their score draws. 

[jukel123 8,977]

A good move to take a milk round and a paper round just before Xmas. You were suddenly rich with the amount of tips you received.lol

[jukel123 8,977]

Who remembers Ernie?

 

[mackem 28,203]

3 minutes ago, jukel123 said:

Who remembers Ernie?

 

Preferred his rival two ton Ted from Teddington. 

[eastcoast 4,244]

Milk rounds, used to get the occasional "ooh err misses" flash. I'm delivering not collecting