"Tim Downie" gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:
As a former user of Freecycle - on both ends of the re-homing - I can only say that I know _exactly_ what he means - and it looks like I'm not alone from other comments.
I s'pose it depends on your area, but when I gave up on 'em, there was a general air of pikey piss-taking scrounge about every single one of the lists around this way.