Tooters in the UK , on the shout!

Just looking for something this morning and stumbled across some footage of tooters in the Uk.
Brightens the day up i suppose? :D

Good luck to them all!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyA1d...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0O62...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-lIUEMn92A

There is a guy like that that comes by my house!

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Originally Posted by Kris Kringle

Thats a Great Concept to bad here if you Did that kind of stuff with the horn and Loud speaker you would get Fined and thrown in jail for disturbing the peace & Offending someone.

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probably true. Not sure I'd welcome the noise either but those in the EU are more forgiving of their personal space.

At least they look professional with those clean, big trucks.

If you are lucky they would call the cops here, not so lucky some buckshot. Some people don't like a noisey neighborhood.

thanks for posting that skiprat...it is always interesting to see how things are done in other countries....and to learn what scrapers get called. Was confused at first at the term tooters......wonder how "rag and bone man" started ? funny...wish I had a truck like that...good gas mileage I bet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rag-and-bone_man

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thanks for posting that skiprat...it is always interesting to see how things are done in other countries....and to learn what scrapers get called. Was confused at first at the term tooters......wonder how "rag and bone man" started ? funny...wish I had a truck like that...good gas mileage I bet.

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Cheers Dee,
Check the wiki link that Idaho has given you, it gives you an idea of how the term originated,
To be honest the term that i used "Tooters" is more slang than a correct term, apologies for that.
Also names given to most fields of work do generally change from region to region, and then even more so where slang gets used as well?

Such as Tooters >
Toot = rubbish [garbage] = therefor someone that toots through the rubbish is a Tooter
But not to be mistaken for the normal Bin man > Garbage collection >Dustman etc.

Totters = [See the difference] ^^ an early form of Rag & Bone men, In London dating back to 1500's

Its very interesting when you get reading about it

I saw skipRAT get out of one of those vans.

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Originally Posted by wayne

I saw skipRAT get out of one of those vans.

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Oi Wayne i thought you wasn't going to say anything:D:D
Anyway i just remembered Wayne was driving that day
"Put the kettle on mate its your turn :p

The horn on those things sounds like a goose being fed backwards into a wood chipper!