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Geek Culture / What a rubbish birthday!

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David T
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Posted: 4th Aug 2005 17:00
Just found this. Absolutely fantastic.



Quote: "A young boy's dreams have come true after his parents organised a surprise visit to a Cambridgeshire rubbish dump for his sixth birthday."


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/4744889.stm

"A book. If u know something why cant u make a kool game or prog.
come on now. A book. I hate books. book is stupid. I know that I need codes but I dont know the codes"
Hawkeye
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Posted: 4th Aug 2005 17:05
Quote: "At the end of the visit the Mayor and Mayoress of Peterborough councillor John and Betty Horrell, presented a special cake with a refuse lorry picture to Gordon."

lol, that must have raised eyebrows at the bakery

Eddie B
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Posted: 4th Aug 2005 17:18
Dom
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Posted: 4th Aug 2005 22:35
OOOOKKKKKKKK....

Quote: "TURN YOUR CAPS LOCK OFF"

It is Off..stupid forums...

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David T
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Posted: 4th Aug 2005 22:39
Yeah but when you put replies without text then it flags it as a caps lock on. Unless you do....

"A book. If u know something why cant u make a kool game or prog.
come on now. A book. I hate books. book is stupid. I know that I need codes but I dont know the codes"
David T
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Posted: 4th Aug 2005 22:39
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"A book. If u know something why cant u make a kool game or prog.
come on now. A book. I hate books. book is stupid. I know that I need codes but I dont know the codes"
dark coder
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Posted: 4th Aug 2005 23:01
isnt this just a lame attempt to get into the papers? or maybe the papers getting desperate or infact maybe not the papers since its on the web, but im sure millions of people have worse birthdays every year


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Posted: 5th Aug 2005 00:02
That kid needs therapy.

David T
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Posted: 5th Aug 2005 00:08
The picture is the best thing - he looks like some old man - but small

"A book. If u know something why cant u make a kool game or prog.
come on now. A book. I hate books. book is stupid. I know that I need codes but I dont know the codes"
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Posted: 5th Aug 2005 00:12
Hadn't thought of it that way before.

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Posted: 5th Aug 2005 02:22
he looks more like a woman...

my birthday sucked more... my mum forgot to get me a cake '¬_¬

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BearCDPOLD
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Posted: 5th Aug 2005 06:11
Wow, what a wonderful sense of ambition that kid has. He's realistic too, I mean it's not like he's trying to become a brain surgeon, he picked a job that he is very likely to get.




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Posted: 5th Aug 2005 06:28
That is awful, obviously this kid has been brainwashed into liking to play with trash... wait, most kids like to play with trash, it is the parents responsiblity to keep them from picking up the trash in park.

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Posted: 5th Aug 2005 12:54
Awww how cute he wants to be Bin Man when hes older

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Posted: 5th Aug 2005 13:53
That little kid rules.
I think it's quite a good birthday idea; he would've enjoyed it.


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Posted: 5th Aug 2005 13:56
Yeah he enjoyed it all right, its just a bit strange to have an obsession about rubbish trucks...

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Posted: 5th Aug 2005 14:18
Not when you're small. I had an obsession with trains - rubbish trucks are mechanical like cars or trains, which little boys often find intriguing, and it is kind of cool how they work.

Glad he got what he wanted for his birthday


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Posted: 5th Aug 2005 17:53 Edited at: 5th Aug 2005 17:55
Yup, saw this in the paper. Not the sort of place I'd go to have fun but good for him if he enjoyed it. You never know what you'll find at a dump (I'm talking about good stuff, not rats and, y'know, those people that travel about in caravans).

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Darkbasic MADPSP
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Posted: 5th Aug 2005 18:14
read this got it from the bbc site

Quote: "A young boy's dreams have come true after his parents organised a surprise visit to a Cambridgeshire rubbish dump for his sixth birthday.
Gordon Currie, who lives with his parents in Paston, Peterborough, has been fascinated with rubbish lorries and how they work since the age of two.

His parents Cheryl, 34, and Gordon, 33, organised the trip to the depot on Wednesday with the council's help.

Young Gordon said he wants to be a bin man when he grows up.

During the visit Gordon was trained on how to operate the controls that empty bins into the back of trucks.

'Pressing big button'

At the end of the visit the Mayor and Mayoress of Peterborough councillor John and Betty Horrell, presented a special cake with a refuse lorry picture to Gordon.

Mother-of-two and housewife Cheryl Bradley said: "He was speechless, I've never known him so quiet.

Gordon, who has a growing collection of toy refuse vehicles, said the best part of the trip was "putting the bins on the back of the dustbin" and "pressing the big button".

Gordon's father said: "Gordon has had a fascination with rubbish trucks since he was about two.

"He would climb on the window-sill to watch the bin men going down the street.

"A couple of years ago I took him to an air show at Duxford air museum and he wasn't very impressed by all the aeroplanes.

"But he was fascinated by the rubbish trucks that came in to empty all the bins at the end of the day."



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Quote: "A couple of years ago I took him to an air show at Duxford air museum and he wasn't very impressed by all the aeroplanes.

"But he was fascinated by the rubbish trucks that came in to empty all the bins at the end of the day."
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seems weird don't it

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Posted: 5th Aug 2005 19:00
his parents should throw him out on the street id bet he would love that


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Posted: 5th Aug 2005 19:23
wooo its my birthday

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Posted: 6th Aug 2005 02:15
It was my birthday yesterday. Anyway, that is the strangest birthday present ever. But if that is his ambition, that is fine. The world is always in need of people to pick up its crap. Maybe he could be like the Dilbert garbage man. . .

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