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Would you date a binman?

641 replies

TrishM80 · 02/12/2021 09:17

Inspired by another thread about being a binman as a career.

You meet a guy on a night out or OLD. Seems nice enough and nice looking, all good. Tells you he's a binman.

YABU - immediate turn off
YANBU - give him a chance

OP posts:
HaaaaaveyoumetTed · 02/12/2021 22:17

@NinaDefoe

Just to add - I wouldn’t consider ‘Refuse collector’ to be a low paid job. I was just making the point that people should never judge a book by its cover...
It's marginally above minimum wage here - £10 for drivers (HGV 2)
LynetteScavo · 02/12/2021 22:20

All my bin men look like they're related to Ed Sheran, so maybe? Just because he might play at the wedding?

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 02/12/2021 22:41

Yes, providing he didn't make too much noise banging in the morning, and put the things back in their correct place nicely when he'd finished.

EmeraldShamrock · 02/12/2021 22:46

Yes, it is an honest job with the added bonus of a physically fit date, love a man with strong arms.
Bins are private businesses in Ireland in the olden days people would bite your arm off for a council job.

MysteriousMonkey · 02/12/2021 22:51

My dad became a bin man when I was little so he could be home to look after me after school as my mum was working. Nothing but respect for that. Also where I live the bin men finish when they're done which means they can often work short hours and get paid the same. I keep looking for a vacancy for DH but unsurprisingly there aren't any.

MysteriousMonkey · 02/12/2021 22:53

Ps my dad was super fit way into his 70s, very intelligent and saved enough to gift me a massive house deposit Grin

CallMeNutribullet · 02/12/2021 22:53

Of course! Providing he didn't smell bin like but that would be a personal hygiene issue

EmeraldShamrock · 02/12/2021 22:54

@Binfairy What a refreshing post. Smile

If you see OP's two posts, the second post explains her reasoning for asking. Nothing shallow.

EmeraldShamrock · 02/12/2021 22:57

Oh I apologise I didn't tag poster for 2nd line of comment.

MusicTeacherSussex · 02/12/2021 22:58

Presumably you mean bin man as in the job, rather than they way you'd say he's a leg man Grin

LadyJJ · 02/12/2021 22:58

I'd think he had a good job....

CheeseMmmm · 02/12/2021 23:09

Why on earth not?

I used to go out with s bloke who was a binman after. I met him when a window cleaner. And started seeing him while doing bar work.

Bin person (lol we have a few women doing it)-

Council job old days fixed pay scale, job for life, public sector pension etc.

Up and out early, finish early.

No bringing work home. Do job come home end. Hard work but at work. Can't bring it home, ime do thing done is less stressful than leeching into general life.

And why not anyway? Is it the hours, because BINS?

(I know I would be constantly cheered by the crushing noise/ mechanical thing in the lorry. I was on cloud 9 when working in a shop and barcodes came in!).

That's how I feel.

Obv everyone is different.

CheeseMmmm · 02/12/2021 23:11

@TrishM80

32Kendoddsdadsdogsdadsdead

"The thread the OP refers to is regarding a pp about the posters friend dismissing her sons job choice when he said he wanted to be a binman. Consensus was people would want their children to 'aim higher' than a bin man."

Thanks KenDodd, at last someone gets the idea behind the thread! Grin

I wanted to see if the snobbery behind women not wanting their sons aspire to become binman transferred over to women not wanting to date binman. Just a little social experiment people, no need to take it so personally!

Missed this.

You said date a binman.

That's got nothing to do with your second post :/

MagnoliaXYZ · 02/12/2021 23:17

I would possibly have a fling with a binman but I couldn't be in a relationship with one.

I'm in my mid-thirties now, looking to settle down and have babies - I feel as though I no longer have time to have flings. I want a man who is financially secure (to me, that is someone who earns at least the same as me) who could support his family and who wouldn't make me feel as though I would need to rush back to work from maternity leave because I was the breadwinner. To me, for a relationship, he would need to have a career, not just a job (however secure) and ambition to progress in his career.

Hollywolly1 · 02/12/2021 23:25

Just because he's a bin man doesn't mean he's trashy

XenoBitch · 02/12/2021 23:27

Yes, I would. I am hot trash myself lol.. we would be well matched!

NowEvenBetter · 02/12/2021 23:28

What in the Tinkly-Laugh,Head-Tilt screeching wannabe ‘middle class’ shit is this?

2bazookas · 02/12/2021 23:29

I married one. He's lovely.

Flutterflybutterby · 02/12/2021 23:32

Definitely! I like men with stereotypically 'manly' jobs. I'd choose a binman or a builder over a lawyer or a doctor any day! Grin

Doodar · 02/12/2021 23:39

@Binfairy

I'm a binwoman, in that I work in local government waste services. My boyfriend is an ICU consultant and is very supportive of my career. Most of the male managers I work with started out as bin men and worked up and now earn very good salaries with excellent local government pensions. Drivers have HGV licences so are in demand and many do winter gritting as well. I started as a litter warden, did technical qualifications, an MBA part time and became a Chartered Waste Manager. I am proud to be part of a vital industry, worked right through the pandemic and am very happy in my job. It's actually incredibly interesting and has a strong environmental dimension. I am sadly not surprised by some of the attitudes on this thread. In the city where I work, our crews do a compressed four day week and there are plenty of opportunities for advancement. I've met office workers with worse BO than most of the crews I know. If my son or daughter wanted to enter our industry I'd be proud.
Love this
CandyCane3000 · 02/12/2021 23:50

As long as my man worked hard,.bought enough money home,was living a kind and had enough time to spend time with his children and me then I wouldn't care what his job was ....maybe this thread should be titled would you marry an axe murderer...no to that but a man who works...err yes..what a stupid stuck up question!.can you imagine if we had no refuse collecters!. we'd be living in shite..grow up 🙄

Saoirse82 · 02/12/2021 23:59

@Kendoddsdadsdogsdadsdead

Binman yes. Tory no.
I'm with you on this!
christmaspavlova · 03/12/2021 00:23

Yes of course I would consider it.

wobblywinelover · 03/12/2021 00:24

I would! Bin men are hard working and the salary isn't too bad, plus I need someone to take my bins out so that would definitely be a plus. As long as he didn't stink of bin juice. He might have to have a shower when he gets in. But my job can be pretty stinky too! As long as he's kind, funny, intelligent and caring and has some attractive physical attributes but doesn't have to be perfect, I totally would. If I was dating, and i'm not. But in theory yes

helpmecope · 03/12/2021 00:37

@Kendoddsdadsdogsdadsdead

Binman yes. Tory no.
Ha! was just about to type this
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