BS: It's a small world!

Subject: BS: It's a small world!
From: skipy
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 05:17 PM

Wow! Just been talking to Leadfingers in chat, it's a small world! there are only 5 rufuge collections days a week & Tel & I have ours collected on the same day!
Small world eh!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Wesley S
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 05:19 PM

You have a one in five chance of them falling on the same day.But still - astounding!!

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Peace
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 05:20 PM

Wonders will never cease!

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: skipy
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 05:22 PM

Yeh! I worked that out, 20%, stunning!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 05:24 PM

Rubbish!

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: skipy
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 05:26 PM

There may be others out there on Mudcat who get their bins done on a Tuesday, we could form a club! Perhaps get discount for festival / concert tickets, maybe a secret handshake!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 05:27 PM

Perhaps you both have identical bins! Maybe you both have a binman called Andy! In fact you might sing some of the same songs.....play the same instruments......oh what fun it will be comparing ourselves with others....-perhaps a new thread for the purpose...Oh what a lovely life!

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Janie
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 05:31 PM

Rats! My trash pick-up day is Thursdays. Why am I always the odd person out?

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: TheSnail
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 05:34 PM

It's a small world!

Until you have to paint it. (Les Barker)

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: GUEST,Appaloosa Lady
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 05:39 PM

Hey, our bins are Tuesday too, it's a sign!   

I've painted mine as well (I know, I need to get out more) ;-)

So um, does the 'chat room' go 'Beyond Bins'? Or is this as exciting as it gets? :-)

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Wesley S
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 05:40 PM

I'm not trying to boast but our trash is picked up on Tuesdays AND Fridays. However - The only day our recycling is picked up is Friday. So things are tough all over.

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: skipy
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 05:40 PM

We peaked tonight!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: skipy
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 05:42 PM

We will need to decide before we write the constitution for the club:-
If people who have 2 or more collections per week are elligible to join.
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 05:43 PM

Tuesday - you've just reminded me I've got to put the bags out for tomorrow.

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: skipy
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 05:45 PM

You are in! We are being a big club now, a force to be reckoned with, perhaps we should have meet at a festival!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Peace
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 05:46 PM

We the people of the 'It's a Small World Club', in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the lucky fookers wot gets their garbage picked up on Tuesdays.



Just tryin' to help out here, skipy.

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: GUEST,Appaloosa Lady
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 05:51 PM

"We peaked tonight!"

So it seems Skipy! :-)

Now here's one for The Constitution.

On a Tuesday our bins are emptied at the back, but on a Wedneday, they're emptied from the front! Does this mean I can be Chairman/woman/person/chair?

We've a strange house which backs onto one road and fronts on to another. Now whether it's the same van, or the same crew, and whether they all play the banjo inbetween collections, who knows? But I could do some reconnaisance work...

Do you have to have Folkie Dustmen to join The Bin Club? I could get them into folk music you know, leave a few CDs out for them on top of the bins...they'd be 'fluent' in no time!

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: GUEST,Appaloosa Lady
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 05:52 PM

Nice one Peace! :-)

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Emma B
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 05:54 PM

I'm with the miltant Wednesday Tendency :)

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Bill D
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 05:56 PM

I forgot one week, and I had a bin LADEN.

(I would NEVER join a club of ugghh..Tuesday people! We Monday folks have the entire weekend to prepare.)

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 06:00 PM

Just for that, I hope that all of you get stuck on the ride at Disneyland right in front of the Small World exhibit -- as I did! And you will hear, over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over

it's a world of laughter, a world or tears
its a world of hopes, its a world of fear
theres so much that we share
that its time we're aware
its a small world after all

CHORUS:
its a small world after all
its a small world after all
its a small world after all
its a small, small world

There is just one moon and one golden sun
And a smile means friendship to everyone.
Though the mountains divide
And the oceans are wide
It's a small small world

(chorus)

until you all go MAD!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Peace
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 06:00 PM

That would do it!

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: skipy
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 06:04 PM

Peace, it's a great start, I see a problem though, other clubs could set up for other days of the week, perhaps bin wars? A sort of round table, all days equal but the one to the right of the king more equal than others, so Monday thinking they are something special. Animal farm effect?
It's a worry!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Amos
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 06:07 PM

I'm with BillD -- Monday rules. Tuesday people are short and squinty, as a rule, and suspiciously lax about having their rubbish collected, while we who have ours done on Mondays are obviously more punctilious. FUrthermore, people who wait until Tuesday obviously hate cleanliness, which is as we all know next t Godliness, and therefore must hate God as well. So for carefully considered devout religious reasons we should have nothing to do with them, and possibly declare war.


A

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 06:08 PM

Perhaps people with different collection days (mine is Friday) could become honorary members, with everybody working together?

I do feel that I have experience and knowledge in the field of "putting out rubbish" that would qualify me for honorary membership!

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Peace
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 06:09 PM

Oh, yeah. Always one person who wants everyone to get along.

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Jeri
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 06:11 PM

Rapaire, may you die screaming with Bobby Goldsboro's 'Honey' lyrics stapled into your Idaho mashed brains.

You are all wimps. All of you rich, snooty, ne'er-do-wells who pay people to pick up your trash are lame-ass upper-class-wannabe, overly-hyphenated, mincing, can't-get-my-hands-dirty, trash-collectin'-expecting wussies.

Some of us drive our OWN crap to the 'recycling center'.

...wimps.

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: skipy
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 06:13 PM

See! It's started Monday people are starting to want to rule! 1933 spring to mind here does it! Friday people - be scared vary scared or flee NOW!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 06:21 PM

Jeri, shouldn't you have gone to the thread for insulting each other? I'm just about to go there to insult Peace:-)

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Jeri
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 06:22 PM

It's not as much fun when people expect it, ean.

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Emma B
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 06:23 PM

I would start here eanjay :)

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Janie
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 06:24 PM

Still no other Thursdays?    You can have your tawdry little clubs, bloated with plebian members the likes of the Tuesdayer's, Mondayer's and such.

The Thursday club may be very small, but it will be oh so exclusive!

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 06:26 PM

What will happen after a bank holiday when the refuse collection may happen on a different day?

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Janie
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 06:29 PM

Oy, Jeri - I remember those days of living in the country and making the Saturday run to the transfer station.

I never figured out my neighbor's schedule for sure, but I think Tuesdays was the day he generally delivered his own trash to the ditches along the 5 miles of dirt road to the highway.

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: skipy
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 06:30 PM

True members will hold back until their true day cometh again!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Jeri
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 06:34 PM

Janie, it's a pain, but sometimes you can pick up some good stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: artbrooks
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 06:35 PM

I am also a Tuesday! In fact, we are double Tuesdays, since a separate truck picks up the cans, bottles and plastic.

Jeri, don't you have plumbing? I think its excessive to have to recycle crap.

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Janie
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 06:36 PM

Arrrghhh - that damn song is stuck in my head, now.

May it be playing over the loudspeakers when you have your knee operated on, Rapaire!

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: skipy
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 06:38 PM

We too have "double Tuesdays" so an elite is springing up in the Tuesday group already!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Janie
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 06:39 PM

Jeri - I was just thinking about how i never stop by the recycle shed now that I don't routinely haul trash.

On the other hand, I never head for home with more than I dropped off either;^)

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: skipy
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 06:39 PM

Was going to go to bed, but may now & go & spend the night in the garage to guard the bins, nite all.
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Janie
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 06:40 PM

Humph! My recycle bins get picked up on Wednesdays.

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Peace
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 06:41 PM

I love garbage dumps. They are great places to visit.

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 06:41 PM

Friday is THE DAY. And specifically after 12 noon Mountain Time.

Anyone who thinks otherwise better walk very, very softly and smile when they speak.

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Jeri
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 06:56 PM

Lemme see. I got buckets, a catalog case, clothes (NEW clothes. Why do people throw out brand new clothes?), a full-sized humidifier, and a bunch of glass. I also have fun trying to hit the 'target' rock in the glass pit. I'm pretty good at that.

What's more, I can choose Saturday, Sunday, Monday or Wednesday. Let me repeat, you passive dumpers are WIMPS.

See the tree
   How big it's grown...

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: gnomad
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 07:01 PM

Nah, the quality have their bins done on Wednesdays, but only alternate weeks. On the Wednesday that the bins are not emptied we get to put out the recycling.

Just to drift a bit, our recycling is terribly picky; they accept waste paper including newspapers and envelopes, but not shredded paper, manila or window envelopes. Are all recyclers like this?

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 07:06 PM

Naah - our lot will take anything. And they collect rubbish every week, and recycling every other week.

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Peace
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 07:10 PM

I'm with Jeri on this. Those of us who have our garbage picked up are--read ARE--wimps. Ahem. Mine is picked up between the hours of 7:30-7-45 AM on Thursdays. Failing that, the following Thursday. Failing that, the following Thursday. I am glad you started this thread, skipy. I'm beginning to see a pattern here.

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Amos
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 07:26 PM

First they came for the Tuesdays
And I said nothing, because I was not a Tuesday person.
Then they came for the Wednesdays.
And I said nothing because I was not a Wednesday person.
Then they came ....



A

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: GUEST,Appaloosa Lady
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 07:35 PM

"...And specifically after 12 noon Mountain Time."

We're Tuesdays, but NOT Mountain Time. Gee, this sure is getting complicated, so many categories! Skipy'll have a fit when he gets back...

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Emma B
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 07:40 PM

Just had a thought folks - if they come for my bins early Wednesday morning GMT - does that mean I could belong to the Tuesday US chapter?

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: John Hardly
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 07:44 PM

hmmm. Do you guys spell them "beens" if they were picked up yesterday?

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 07:46 PM

wot about those of us who live in the inner city surrounded by restaurants, cafes, bars & other places which need constant rubbish removal so we have our domestic rubbish removed 5 MORNINGS A WEEK!! & our PAPER RECYCLING wheelie bin emptied on Wednesdays, our GLASS RECYCLING wheelie bin emptied on Thursdays, & our PLASTICS RECYCLING wheelie bin emptied on Fridays. We can also arrange for large stuff to be collected separately several times a month!

Naturally the council pick up service is not enough for lots of very large businesses who arrange private collections, so we are always seeing (& hearing) private trucks rumbling & clanging around, one of the attractions of inner city life. Just looooove to be woken by the smashing of zillions of bottles in the early hours of the morning as the glass recycler throws bottles into his truck!

Can I join, or do I have to wait for others with similar collections to start a new club?

sandra (with a trolley packed full of used stuff to take to the charity shop today where I will of course look over their shelves to find other folks' used stuff to bring home!)

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: ragdall
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 07:49 PM

My rubbish is being picked up on Tuesday this week, too. May I join until the next holiday when our pick up will change to Wednesday?

rags

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Janie
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 07:49 PM

ohmigod, Peace - Thursdays? Really?

I knew we were kindred spirits!

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: GUEST,Peace--sans biscuit.
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 08:00 PM

Monday's garbage is full of pits,
Tuesday's rubbish is full of pits,
Wednesday's detrius is full of pits,
Thursday's refuse is full of beautiful things.
Friday's trash is full of pits,
Saturday's waste is full of pits,
But the dreck tossed out on Sundays
Is but rubble, dregs, swill that's also full of pits.

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Jeri
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 08:04 PM

You logged out to post that?! Mr Turdsday?

Type to the screen, cuz the eyes ain't readin'.

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Peace
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 08:22 PM

No. I was clearing cookies, then came back to post that erudite--no, BRILLIANT poetry--and what do I see first thing? Huh? I ask you.

I'm going to say this once:

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Janie
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 08:36 PM

Jeri, where I live, there is a covered shed lined with shelves and a big floor area for larger items such as furniture at the transfer station where people can leave servicable items for others to take if they like - I'm guessing you have a simiar facility.

I can tell you why I might leave new clothes there, even with my limited budget - Some one (usually ma) bought me something that doesn't fit or I simply don't like, I move it around until I lose the receipt to return it, or the store is thirty miles away and I never shop there (I'm not much of a shopper, so even if it is 10 miles away I'm unlikely to be going there for something else). after a year I get tired of moving it around every time I dust or rearrange the closet, the yard sale I have been promising to have for 5 years still hasn't happened, and since I am not much of a shopper I also don't get around to taking it to the local charity thrift shop, I engage in some major cleaning or rearranging project that results in a load of stuff I have to take to the dump myself because the trash men won't take it, and since I'm going to the dump anyway, I take a look around the place, spy the 'new' clothes that are going to dry rot if they keep laying there much longer, think "Ah, recycle shed!", grab them, and finally get them out of my house and out of my way.



Sort of related comment....I have three different clients with meager incomes from disability who supplement their incomes by having monthly yard sales stocked with items they cull two times a week on a regular schedule from the local recycle shed.   Those extra, under-the-table couple of hundred bucks per month make a big difference in whether they eat and pay the heating bill or not. They have an informal agreement as to whose day it is to scavenge from the shed and rotate weekends when more stuff gets left than through the week, so that everyone gets a fair shot at the good stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Emma B
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 08:41 PM

My oven died this w'end so I've bought a combi convection/grill/microwave oven. I have a oerfectly good but ancient microwave which is going to 'the tip' tomorrow with a note for whoever can make use of it to please take it - I'm sure someone will.

Wish we had a Freecycle group here.

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Peace
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 08:42 PM

I have a friend in Montreal who furnished his apartment with stuff that was thrown out by folks. The furniture he picked up just by driving around some of the classier districts on garbage day is mind boggling. People toss away the darndest things.

He has a table that I'd estimate could sell for about $3000. He said he worked on it for about two weeks in evenings--three hours a night. So, figure he put about 40 hours into the restoration: $75 an hour ain't a bad wage.

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 09:21 PM

My recycles go out whenever I take them.

Wanna make something of it?

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Janie
Date: 03 Mar 08 - 09:37 PM

I think Rap has been on the pain meds. too long....makes people irritable, ya' know?

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: GUEST,Appaloosa Lady
Date: 04 Mar 08 - 04:13 AM

OK, so it's Small World Day over here, TUESDAY!

Now listen all your Thursday Guys, you may think you're 'refuse' is beautiful, but hell, I bet you ain't got the Tuesday Trash Gang to collect it, and THAT'S what makes us Tuesday Folk shine out like jewels!

The Ruby Tuesday Trash Team

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: GUEST,PMB
Date: 04 Mar 08 - 04:30 AM

Your oven died at least 5 years ago Emma. But I'm glad you are replacing it, we'll be able to see what knob does what now.

My brother's bin is done on a Tuesday, but mine is Thursday. And I know someone who has theirs collected on Wednesday! How's that for a coincidence?

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Leadfingers
Date: 04 Mar 08 - 05:16 AM

Surely if your collection is Monday , that means yoy have to get the trash sorted on the Sabbath !! FOR SHAME !!!

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Jeanie
Date: 04 Mar 08 - 06:34 AM

Wednesdays 7 a.m. UK time. Wednesdays are my destiny. I have no wish to contrive allegiance to any other day, as it must have been ordained by the gods and in the stars that I am to be, forever, a Wednesday Collectee, and proud of it. Present address, previous address, and address before that, and before that.....right back to my earliest recollections ca. 1958, wherever I have lived, Wednesday is Dustbin Day. (Talk about a small world of coincidences, Skipy, beat that one, eh ??)

Such has been my devotion to Wednesdays that in my present house I now belong to the Select Elite in my town who are exempt from having to use official council wheelie bins and from the fortnightly alternating collections of recyclable and non-recyclable refuse. None of that for the Wednesday elite, oh no ! Our lane is too narrow for the large van, so we have a smaller one that visits weekly. We can put our bin bags out *every week*. Weekly collections......luxury.....fast disappearing in the UK.

- jeanie
(for the Wednesday Warriors [Weekly Collection Elite Sub-Group])

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: gnu
Date: 04 Mar 08 - 06:46 AM

That reminds me. Today is garbage day. Yippee!

Wait. I gotta put my garbage out before midnight. It's collected anytime after midninght. So, am I a Tuesday or a Wednesday? I am confused about my garbality.

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Jeanie
Date: 04 Mar 08 - 06:51 AM

Wednesdays, without doubt, Gnu. The gods have spoken.

- jeanie
(High Command, Wednesday Warriors).

Now...are you also in the Wednesday Weekly Collection Elite Sub-Group ?

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Mr Happy
Date: 04 Mar 08 - 06:51 AM

We just sent our stewarding forms back in to Shrewsbury festival.

Our preferred choice of duties is bin persons, so could the fest be a venue for a pickers meet?

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: GUEST,The black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 04 Mar 08 - 07:55 AM

Now, is it more elitist to have two collections on a Tuesday, or to have a collection alternate Tuesdays?
We have the general rubish and recyclables collected one Tuesday and the garden waste the next.
However, seeing as my wife parks next to the recycling bins at work we can recycle any weekday we want to!

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: fat B****rd
Date: 04 Mar 08 - 07:58 AM

In Newton Aycliffe collections are on a Tuesday,but re-cyclable items are only collected every other week. In Dunfermline, at least in our street, collection is on a Friday,BUT we alternate, weely, between blue bins for paper and cardboard and grey bins for general rubbish. We haven't used our brown bin yet as these are for garden waste. All tins, bottles and plastic containers are taken to a recycling point by myself. Who said rubbish was dull?

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: artbrooks
Date: 04 Mar 08 - 09:33 AM

Today (Tuesday), I am quadripally blessed: not only are my trash and recycling being picked up, but so are my dead furniture (to the dump) and surplus clothing (to the vets' discount store). Or, at least, that's the plan.......

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Splott Man
Date: 04 Mar 08 - 10:13 AM

I'm a Tuesday person. 3 separate trucks! 1 for ordinary bins, 1 for recycling, and yet another one for garden waste.

All of them want to reverse up my little cul-de-sac between 8 and 8.15 in the morning. I have to time my leaving for work very carefully. But it's fun watching them all trying to negotiate past each other at the top end.

Count me in. I can't be doing with these Mondayites! And as for Fridays - you don't get the quality, they're all in a rush to finish early for the weekend.

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Mooh
Date: 04 Mar 08 - 10:19 AM

Oh oh, here comes the rubbish police, the trash nazis. Will I have to show my papers?

With shame, I admit I'm a Wednesday person, always a day late and a dollar short. Maybe I can sneek my trash over to a Tuesday person's street and live vicariously through them!

I compost every day, does that count?

I feel a dump coming on now.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Peace
Date: 04 Mar 08 - 10:23 AM

Pooh, Mooh. Every sAnE person here knows deep in his or her heart that Thursdays--the exact middle of the week--is the day for grabbage/grabidge/gardbige trash.


                            weThursdayek

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Mooh
Date: 04 Mar 08 - 11:50 AM

Pooh tooh yooh tooh, Peace. I will fight Thursday pickup with all my being. All Hail Wednesday!

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: skipy
Date: 04 Mar 08 - 02:41 PM

They are empty!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: ranger1
Date: 04 Mar 08 - 03:06 PM

Wednesdays rule! Nyaaahhh!

Jeri, I would take my own refuse to the "transfer station" myself, but the fascist city officials don't allow it. We have to buy cheaply-made, overly expensive city trash bags and put them out. And us renters are doubly damned, we can't even get rid of stuff we have to pay to get rid of at the dump because renters aren't eligible for the stupid little punch card that must be presented (with accompanying proof of residence" when one arrives at the transfer station.

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: autolycus
Date: 04 Mar 08 - 03:57 PM

Ah, you a;; be soooo revealing. I shall not say which day, so RHERE - try that again, so RHERE - damn.

Anyway, i shall reserve my fire for the dastarfly, damn, dastardly , treacherous SUNDAY lot. I knooooow who you are - heh,heh, heh.

And my recycling is taken away NOT repeat, er, because I been a wimp, but cos I lerve that planet what we fly on too much to have a car. So ner,ner,na ner ner.

I shall appoint myself Minister without Car in the new Refuse-nik thingy.


   Ivor

PS I give it 5 days by which time Peace has accused someone of being somethong-or-other.

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Rapparee
Date: 04 Mar 08 - 04:04 PM

On Friday they pick up the trash spilled by those whose garbage is collected earlier in the week. Friday people are clean and so God-fearingly righteous that even their trash bins are clean on the Sabbath.

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: GUEST,Appaloosa Lady
Date: 04 Mar 08 - 04:11 PM

TUESDAY PEOPLE OUT CELEBRATING THIS TUESDAY EVE - Just the best!

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Emma B
Date: 04 Mar 08 - 04:15 PM

Things one might have expressed better....

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 04 Mar 08 - 04:29 PM

On Friday they pick up the trash spilled by those whose garbage is collected earlier in the week. Friday people are clean and so God-fearingly righteous that even their trash bins are clean on the Sabbath.

Exactly, and, as a bonus (well deserved) we have the weekend free. It makes sense that Friday is best!

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: autolycus
Date: 04 Mar 08 - 04:43 PM

Ex-actly. Whoops, bit of a giveaway. You won't tell anyone, will you?

Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: GUEST,strad
Date: 04 Mar 08 - 05:20 PM

Between the members of our family we manage all five weekdays, so can I join all the clubs, please, please? But not the Pudding Club.

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: frogprince
Date: 04 Mar 08 - 08:35 PM

Gol-ly whiz; our pickup day, in Michigan, USA, is also Tuesday. Skipy, what's the license plate number on the garbage truck that gets yours? I'll watch next time to see if ours is picked up by the same truck!

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: GUEST,Appaloosa Lady
Date: 05 Mar 08 - 03:43 AM

Us Clean and Happy Tuesday People, getting some practice in for The Big Middle Of The Week Clean Up!

Heck! Those Thursday People Sure Are Messy!

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 02:16 AM

The way things are going in the UK there will soon be a special Garbage/rubbish club......those who can afford to have their rubbish collected....they will be an elite club on any day of the week.

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 07:45 PM

My wife and I recycle, compost, or burn so much of our refuse that we only generate about one bag of hardcore garbage per month. It makes more sense for me to take my own garbage to the transfer station a few times a year than to pay the annual fee for pickup. The transfer station is closed on Sundays and Mondays, so I can go on any other day of the week.

So, since I'm not locked into a particular day of the week for garbage service, I'm free to join any garbage-pickup-day group I choose. It sounds like the Tuesday bunch would be a lot of fun, but I'm open to other days. If you'd really like me to be in your group, a generous cash contribution to my favorite charity, the "Buy Bee-dubya a New Dobro Fund", might influence my decision.

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 09:10 PM

You mean you actually LIKE that whiney dobro sound?

Tell ya what -- do they make a dobro ukelele?

Subject: RE: BS: It's a small world!
From: Janie
Date: 06 Mar 08 - 09:38 PM

*sniff*   I fergotst to wheel the bin out this morning.