The Branscombe Scavengers

[Guest Ferret1959]

Ah that'll be just for them who talks slang, not like us posh folk in the Midlands.

[Squiffy]

Well, it may mean a Gypsy or Vagrant down South, but that aint what I was refering to!...But fair enough I guess.

You're the boss!

[chesters1]

i think it originates here

 

piker

"miserly person," 1872, formerly "poor migrant to California" (1860), earlier pike (1854), perhaps originally "vagrant who wanders the pike (1)"

(which is the notion in Sussex dial. piker "vagrant, tramp, gypsy," 1838), but Barnhart and others say the Amer.Eng. word ultimately is a reference to people from Pike County, Missouri.

 

its probably used not in a racial sense but to distinguish those that lived in wooden caravans from those that now lay bad tarmac but acted less than honarably then,a freind who was a romany had no problem calling the latter "pikie" and certainly in a derogative sense just as he called the irish travellers tinkers.

Edited January 25, 2007 by chesters1

[rob.imk2]

I was in stitches at one news item A reporter was going on about the scavengers and approached one of the chaps. What have you in those bags she asked ? dog food and batterees was the reply yes it was a scouser surely theyre not doing day trips

[corydoras]

Not true

I carry queit a few containers with all different types of seals some we are not allowed to touch it depends on the paperwork if customs have been in it you commit a different offence something to do with the queen and customs and exersise and tax

You're talking about a container on the back of a truck. Once it falls or is jettisoned from a ship different laws apply.

[Norrie]

I was in stitches at one news item A reporter was going on about the scavengers and approached one of the chaps. What have you in those bags she asked ? dog food and batterees was the reply yes it was a scouser surely theyre not doing day trips

 

 

For me it was the guy walking proudly up the beach with a new car exhaust under his arm. Imagine fitting that to your car, after it sitting in salt water for god knows how long !!!!

I deliver around 500 of the things every day...and I cant tell what one is what, so what chance has he got ?????.....D'oh.....very clever chap that !!!! :blink:

Edited January 25, 2007 by Norrie

[Guest Rabbit]

Breakfast TV this morning had an item where a 'salver'? Mike Wheeler regretted his actions in taking personal items from a container the property of a South African woman.

The woman was contacted and was vey grateful that he had sought to do the right thing in the end.

So for all of you who considered that a BAD law can somehow replace the human will to do the GOOD thing ....

 

 

 

 

 

Then think again.

[corydoras]

Breakfast TV this morning had an item where a 'salver'? Mike Wheeler regretted his actions in taking personal items from a container the property of a South African woman.

The woman was contacted and was vey grateful that he had sought to do the right thing in the end.

So for all of you who considered that a BAD law can somehow replace the human will to do the GOOD thing ....

Then think again.

But it is not a bad law. Some landlubbers may not understand the law, but that does not make it a bad law. Now that the ship has been beached, the Salvage Company will most likely have a LLoyds Open Contract on the vessel and all its cargo by now, so it is unlikely that anyone who has goods on board will get them back, unless they pay for them as they are no longer the legal owners of their goods, the salvors are.

[Dan]

But it is not a bad law. Some landlubbers may not understand the law, but that does not make it a bad law. Now that the ship has been beached, the Salvage Company will most likely have a LLoyds Open Contract on the vessel and all its cargo by now, so it is unlikely that anyone who has goods on board will get them back, unless they pay for them as they are no longer the legal owners of their goods, the salvors are.

 

 

Thats not what some of the Lawyers are saying, something to do with the Merchant Shipping Act ... Time will tell!

Edited January 26, 2007 by Dan

[Dan]

I was taking the meaning listed here.

 

And I agree, Chavs are objectionable....

 

 

I dont think "pedunkle" is racist, theres a book for sale in Waterstones about being a pedunkle, it all depends on how you use it.

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Oi-pedunkle-Celebr...TF8&s=books

 

Dan