Skip Higher

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You know, one of the things I miss about England is seeing skips where they should be, i.e. on the ground. There are only two places skips should be, blocking your driveway so that you have to park half way down the road and your neighbours can surreptitiously fill it with old mattresses and 3 year old Christmas trees in the night, or badly secured on an overloaded skip wagon going down the A13 at 80 mph with the driver arguing with his wife on his mobile phone, oblivious to the shower of bricks and rubble that is flying off the back of his load of poorly concealed asbestos. If I were to ring up "AAA Skip Hire" on Canvey and ask for a skip to be delivered to the 6th floor I'd be called something that rhymes with "shaft blunt" and have the phone slammed down on me, and quite right too. A place for everything, and everything in it's place, that's what makes Britain Great.


The demolition work is going on next to our building. It's a fairly simple operation, the driver winches the big heavy weight up then lets it fall, smashing through the various floors. They have a "dust control" system which consists of a 3/4" hose running of to the top of the jib with water dribbling out. As far as I can make out all it really does is turn the dust on the floor 50 yards away into a kind of grinding paste.

I'm not going to bother to come up with a stupid pun for the misspelled puncture repair shop. Surely there must be the word "puncture" on a tin of glue or something, although they still fix tyres here with hairy brown string and evo stik which is fine, and by fine I mean a potential death trap.

Also, check out the sweet container handling skills, they never even dropped it once. I'm just thinking, two cranes, a couple of forklifts and a skip - we could take over the world!

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Skip
What is it Skippy? Some men are up the side of a building? With a skip?

Demolition Man
Smash the walls! Smash them, smite and rend them asunder! Destroy it all! It must ALL DIE! DIE I SAY DIE!

Puncher
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Comments

[abdul ahmed]

demolition man
Is that building being demolished the polaris building? anyone knows, i used to have a friend living there

[Al]

No
Abdul, it's not the Polaris building, it is next to it.