Questions about rag and bone men

[whisky]

1 Is it just a british thing, do they even have them in other countries?

2 Why do they shout "any rag and bone" when if you actually gave them a rag and a bone they would probably tell you to fuck off.

 

[Yub]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rag_and_bone_man

 

[whisky]

Congratualtions on being able to use the internet.

 

[Yub]

Well, ask a question that can be answered by Wikipedia, get a wikipedia link....or was typing "rag and bone man" into Wiki too hard?

 

[whisky]

I was trying to engage people in conversation.

I go on wikipedia every day, if I wanted to look something up on there I would have.

You've been off the ingore list for one day, and already I feel like I need another break from you.

 

[Yub]

Well, as for trying to engage people in conversation, you're doing a bang up job there. Sterling!

How about those rag and bone men, then? Aren't they something? Perhaps an appallingly inane topic of conversation, but we can't all be masters of waxing lyrical, can we? Gee I wonder why they call it waxing lyrical...I wish there was some huge repository of information with a convenient search function to help me locate what I'm wondering about quickly and easily....

 

[Loktar]

I was trying to engage people in conversation.

Or lure them into some sort of kinky sex orgy trap. Rag and bone sounds so filthy and perverted. I will not be clicking that wikilink.

 

[whisky]

Are there non-kinky sex orgies?

 

[CaptainWacky]

WELL THE AMERICAN STEPTOE AND SON WAS ABOUT BLACK RAPPERS ("THE RAP AND BONE WOMEN MEN") SO NO IT'S JUST A BRITISH THING.

 

[Cassie]

MISSIONARY POSITION ONLY ORGIES?

We don't have rag and bone men here, but we do have junkers who go around looking for scrap metal. If we've purchased a new stove or refrigerator and have the old one in the yard they'll take them off. Sometimes if we've got a lot of scrap we'll call a guy we know to come pick it all up.

 

[Dr Dave]

I'm reading this book about an epidemic that happened in London in the 1800's and they mentioned rag and bone men, so it's it's funny you should bring them up.

 

[whisky]

I heard one yelling a few minutes before I started the thread.

 

[Gagh]

Well, as for trying to engage people in conversation, you're doing a bang up job there. Sterling!

How about those rag and bone men, then? Aren't they something? Perhaps an appallingly inane topic of conversation, but we can't all be masters of waxing lyrical, can we? Gee I wonder why they call it waxing lyrical...I wish there was some huge repository of information with a convenient search function to help me locate what I'm wondering about quickly and easily....

POLISH CHICKEN SAYS....

"Zamknięte aż do piekła!"​

 

[Dr Dave]

I didn't think they would still be around, I figured they were just a thing from Victorian England.

Bone, rag me,etc came about to deal with London's growing waste situation (from what I have gathered), so I am surprised they would still be around.

 

[whisky]

I think most big towns have them still, of course with the recession most people are hanging onto things longer before they throw them out.

 

[Fuddlemiff]

I didn't know they still existed either. Do they use the horse and cart still?

Around here we just take everything to the rubbish dump if it's too big to put in the wheelie bin. There are scrap merchants too, but I'm always hearing that nowadays they expect you to pay them to take it away instead of them paying you for it.

 

[whisky]

Yeah, horse and cart.

We don't often use them as we have regular recyling collections (apart from when it snows) but we did use them once after we just moved in to get rid of some crap the last people left behind, and we go to dump with anything that doesn't fit in the bin.

It might be local to the west of the city though, I dont remember ever seeing one when I lived in the east.

But the east did have its own thing, a van that drove round selling bread and other groceries, plus thanks to a newspaper article, I discovered they also sold porn.