JumbleTown – Free Stuff!
December 15th, 2006 by Frank
“Every item on JumbleTown is FREE to Take.”
It’s a set of forums where people post items they don’t want. You contact them and arrange to collect it. That’s it.
Obviously, I have no idea as to the quality of the stuff being given away, but at a glance there seems to be the odd item of interest. And obviously a lot of items of interest to other people judging by the amount of stuff which is now ‘Taken’ rather than ‘Available.
A couple of items I noticed (still available at time of writing!):
- An old Roland 16 channel unpowered mixing desk (Ballina).
- Excercise Walker (Cork)
- Excercise Bike and Tradmill (Dublin)
What a great idea.
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December 15th, 2006 at 7:32 pm
What’s a Tradmill Bif? Is it some kind of device that churns out tunes by the likes of Makem and Clancy, Planxty and that crowd who play in Charlies of a Sunday afternoon?
December 15th, 2006 at 8:16 pm
What the fuck are you asking me for?
December 15th, 2006 at 8:38 pm
Now, now don’t get all cussy with me, young man. You listed three items as being available on JumbleTown, the last of which was a Tradmill and I was just wondering what a Tradmill was because I had never heard of one before and thought maybe it would make a good Christmas present for someone. No need to get abusive, Bif.
December 15th, 2006 at 8:58 pm
That how ya say in Culchie. Haven’t ya ever heard of the feckin’ Tradmill boi…
December 15th, 2006 at 9:06 pm
Really Allen, I’m at a complete loss as to what you mean by that last comment. In fact I’m not even certain what language it is and I’m still none the wiser as to what a Tradmill is.
December 15th, 2006 at 11:04 pm
For those unsure of what a tradmill is…well…it’s an excercise device designed for people who wear arran jumpers, not so popular anymore.
BTW Is martin the chap who was in those cartoons you used to do of a friday ?
December 15th, 2006 at 11:21 pm
Thanks Rich, now I know. I think I’ll get a tradmill for my grandmother who is in a nursing home. Although she’s very old she really wants to keep fit and says we should all avoid Nike/Adidas/Puma/Rebok etc. products this Christmas because of the lousy way they treat the workers in the sweat shops where these garments are produced for half nothing. So, by working out on a tradmill in an Aran leotard she knited herself she’ll be doing something positive for her own health, making a statement about the inequalities of globalisation, and promoting the retention of authentic, Irish traditional garb. Now that’s some lady; more moral fibre than most a quarter her age. Must get on to JumbleTown to see if the Tradmill is still on offer.
December 15th, 2006 at 11:27 pm
Would you believe it? I went to JumbleTown just now to enquire about the tradmill but when I got there they only had a thread mill on offer. It’s in Kilbarrack apparently. What’s a thread mill anyway?
December 16th, 2006 at 3:43 am
I turn my back for five minutes and look what happens.
Rich: The very same martin.
December 16th, 2006 at 12:52 pm
Just on a point of clarity Martin, I didn’t list anything. This isn’t one of my posts.
December 16th, 2006 at 1:31 pm
Sorry Bif, you’re right, my apologies. It was Frank. Frank, what’s a tradmill?
December 17th, 2006 at 9:22 pm
Any chance they’d turn your broadband off if I asked them nicely Martin?
December 17th, 2006 at 11:10 pm
Ha, ha, ha! Lol!
Eircom Bundles forever!
March 29th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
yis are all bleedin tapped
September 16th, 2008 at 9:55 am
Just wondering if the “tradmill” is still available? I heard they pump out copious amounts of Irish folk music at events such as births, christenings, weddings, wakes etc…sometimes they are faulty and “mill” out “trad” anytime of the day!
February 5th, 2009 at 1:29 am
just to answer your last point tradmill well it aint in my dictionary i think you meant threadmill an excercise devise for over weight persons like yourself whom i dare say had to lower themselves on buying one in the first place did the smell of curries get to you ha ha ha ha ha
June 22nd, 2009 at 11:09 pm
“Tradmill” Initally was used in the sixteeth century at most locks and levvies for crushing of corn. Enlisted by James the first, this new found
teconology was to prove invaluable in the grounding of wheat and corn
for both the production of a stable diet in the way of bread and crushed
malt and barley for the making of beer. Once done it was altered in the
industrail revolution for the spinning factorys to the making of thread
and fine weaving. Thus the name changed to thread. Then after all of
this fine bread and beer had been consumed there was Tommy Makem
And Liam Clancy leppin and jumpin with the diddly eidle die. And miss
fat arse from america in her big arran sweater running the shite out of
herself came up with the idea of the trad mill all by herself. And sure
hadnt horses and grey hounds being doing it for years.