‘Who remembers proper binmen?’ The nostalgia memes that help explain Britain today
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The Guardian
4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm Chris Mustay 2019. |
| 0:32.0 | A meme was posted to a Facebook page called Memory Lane UK. |
| 0:36.0 | It was a square, low resolution image, the kind where a few words of text |
| 0:40.0 | and layered on top to be shared, copied, tweaked and reshared. |
| 0:44.0 | In no fewer than three different fonts and adorned with |
| 0:48.0 | three different fonts and a few different fonts. |
| 0:52.0 | It was a very good idea to share a few words of text |
| 0:56.0 | in no fewer than three different fonts and adorned with two union jack flags and a Facebook logo. |
| 1:02.0 | It read as follows. |
| 1:04.0 | Memory Lane UK |
| 1:06.0 | Who remembers proper bin men? |
| 1:10.0 | At 9.16pm that same day, barely a Christmas film later, |
| 1:14.0 | a second meme was posted. |
| 1:16.0 | This time, a collage of grainy old photos of smiling bin men |
| 1:20.0 | insistently asking the same question. |
| 1:24.0 | Who remembers proper bin men? |
| 1:26.0 | At the time of writing, |
| 1:28.0 | these two Facebook posts have attracted almost 7,000 likes, |
| 1:32.0 | 3,000 shares, |
| 1:34.0 | and 900 comments. |
| 1:36.0 | They were not the first proper bin men posts, |
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