Insignificant/ Significant things that BYP or just wind you up a little

[Skub]

I'm 42, but i shall take your youngster comment as a positive...

Damn,I mistook immaturity for youth.

[Rockburner]

My point is that most of the bins are full on the usual weekly cycle, so we would end up having to either put out 2 bins full or start taking some of it to the tip ourselves.

If the bins we're only half full every week then i agree you have a point, but that is not the case.

Really! Ours aren't full when they collect on a 2 week cycle. (Landfill waste one week, recycling the next). Kitchen waste is weekly.

You need to create less waste young man.

Mines normally ful of empty cider cans and bottles...

I'm assuming that's the recycling bin....

[Pirahna]

The binmen here are OK. They come every day and ride on the back like in the olden days

There's no bin collections from the house here, it's big green dumpsters dotted around. They're emptied every couple of days, but if the locals drive up and it's full rather than go to the next one they dump everything on the floor next to it. The bin areas are tidied once a year when it's fiesta in the nearest village/town, a week later and the place will look like a roadside landfill site again.

[Yorick]

The binmen here are OK. They come every day and ride on the back like in the olden days

There's no bin collections from the house here, it's big green dumpsters dotted around. They're emptied every couple of days, but if the locals drive up and it's full rather than go to the next one they dump everything on the floor next to it. The bin areas are tidied once a year when it's fiesta in the nearest village/town, a week later and the place will look like a roadside landfill site again.

In town they all have to use the green dumpster things.
We must be posh here as they collect in this little out of town area

[Greenman]

Really! Ours aren't full when they collect on a 2 week cycle. (Landfill waste one week, recycling the next). Kitchen waste is weekly.

You need to create less waste young man.

Mines normally ful of empty cider cans and bottles...

I'm assuming that's the recycling bin....

Yes, the big general waste bin is normally pretty empty, it's the 2 other bins they are apparently thinking about cutting down the collections for which are normally quite full.

[Mr. Dazzle]

We still have unlimited collections every week.

We're down to less than a black bag's worth of non recyclable every week now though, its gonna drop even further now we've got our little food bin which then gets put with the green garden waste bin.

[cheb]

Mines normally ful of empty cider cans and bottles...

I'm assuming that's the recycling bin....

Yes, the big general waste bin is normally pretty empty, it's the 2 other bins they are apparently thinking about cutting down the collections for which are normally quite full.

Do you flatten the bottles and tin, if possible, before they go into the bin?

[Greenman]

I'm assuming that's the recycling bin....

Yes, the big general waste bin is normally pretty empty, it's the 2 other bins they are apparently thinking about cutting down the collections for which are normally quite full.

Do you flatten the bottles and tin, if possible, before they go into the bin?

Yeah as much as i can. It the glass bottles and things like big 6pint milk bottles that take up a lot of the room. Plus i have quite a lot of cardboard waste as i buy a fair few records that are normally packed in an entire tree!

[Horse]

Do you flatten the bottles and tin, if possible, before they go into the bin?

Yeah as much as i can. like big 6pint milk bottles that take up a lot of the room.

Squish those flat, then screw the top back on to keep the air out.

[cheb]

A squirt of hot water into them, put he lid back on, shake to clean, lid off, and squash flat when still warm.

[Cousin Jack]

The cultural appropriation of the term "IPA" by young whippersnappers for their blonde citrus-flavoured shite!

I went into a hotel bar yesterday, scanned the pumps, and found 2 lagers, a cider and an IPA. OK, I'll have an IPA. Dear God, what a mistake, it was like maidens water in strength and colour, and tasted of grapefruit and lime. Now I know that a lot of IPA in cans is that sort of shite, but I did expect an attempt to produce a proper British IPA for the pump. No, the Padstow Brewery option is a fruit-flavoure concoction undeserving of the name of ale.

[mangocrazy]

That sinking feeling when a power tool you are using (in this case an angry grinder) loses revs, starts making nasty noises and vibrating badly. And it hasn't even had that much use...

[Count Steer]

The end of civilisation as we know it is a bit miffing. Kiwi shoe polish is no more.

The Wisconsin based owners have decided to 'exit the shoe care market in the UK' because people don't polish their shoes any more.

There is still hope. London's shoe shine supremo Romi Topi is selling his own Top-Shine product for £10 for 50ml. (Or you can get Cherry Blossom from John Lewis for £1.55 for 40ml).

[Yambo]

The end of civilisation as we know it is a bit miffing. Kiwi shoe polish is no more.

The Wisconsin based owners have decided to 'exit the shoe care market in the UK' because people don't polish their shoes any more.

There is still hope. London's shoe shine supremo Romi Topi is selling his own Top-Shine product for £10 for 50ml. (Or you can get Cherry Blossom from John Lewis for £1.55 for 40ml).

I still have a couple of pairs of shoes that need cleaning and I have Kiwi polish to do them with.

Kiwi was very much the polish of choice of squaddies for bulling boots. Cherry Blossom never did as good a job. I would never use it.

[Count Steer]

The end of civilisation as we know it is a bit miffing. Kiwi shoe polish is no more.

The Wisconsin based owners have decided to 'exit the shoe care market in the UK' because people don't polish their shoes any more.

There is still hope. London's shoe shine supremo Romi Topi is selling his own Top-Shine product for £10 for 50ml. (Or you can get Cherry Blossom from John Lewis for £1.55 for 40ml).

I still have a couple of pairs of shoes that need cleaning and I have Kiwi polish to do them with.

Kiwi was very much the polish of choice of squaddies for bulling boots. Cherry Blossom never did as good a job. I would never use it.

Well, they still have Kiwi Parade Gloss on Amazon so I may have to make a stash.

You're in the right place though, I don't know if things have changed but you never felt more than 2 minutes away from a 'shoe painter'....the shine never seemed to last long though.

[gremlin]

The Wisconsin based owners have decided to 'exit the shoe care market in the UK' because people don't polish their shoes any more.

Woah. Stop right there. In the cupboard behind my office desk I have a leather pouch containing a tin of Kiwi polish, two brushes, the ubiquitous application cloth and a sturdy rubber glove. It's used frequently by both me and my colleagues. That said, one of our young economists did confess the other week that he had never cleaned a pair of shoes in his life. Throw-away generation, innit.

Many moons ago I worked for an American bank. Horrendous place, I wasn't there long. The dealing room was huge, maybe four footy pitches. Once a week a little black guy would come around with his shoe polishing set up and many of the Billy Big Bollocks traders (mostly Fixed Income. Wankers) would recline in their seats, phone in hand whilst having the guy polishing his* shoes. Back then I think it was a tenner. I did a rough calculation of how much the guy must have been earning one day and I reckon his daily rate was more than mine was!

*It was that time when dealing rooms were the preserve of shouty men. What women there were had more sense than to pay over the odds for their shoes to be cleaned and ego to be massaged.

[Count Steer]

The Wisconsin based owners have decided to 'exit the shoe care market in the UK' because people don't polish their shoes any more.

Woah. Stop right there. In the cupboard behind my office desk I have a leather pouch containing a tin of Kiwi polish, two brushes, the ubiquitous application cloth and a sturdy rubber glove. It's used frequently by both me and my colleagues. That said, one of our young economists did confess the other week that he had never cleaned a pair of shoes in his life. Throw-away generation, innit.

Many moons ago I worked for an American bank. Horrendous place, I wasn't there long. The dealing room was huge, maybe four footy pitches. Once a week a little black guy would come around with his shoe polishing set up and many of the Billy Big Bollocks traders (mostly Fixed Income. Wankers) would recline in their seats, phone in hand whilst having the guy polishing his* shoes. Back then I think it was a tenner. I did a rough calculation of how much the guy must have been earning one day and I reckon his daily rate was more than mine was!

*It was that time when dealing rooms were the preserve of shouty men. What women there were had more sense than to pay over the odds for their shoes to be cleaned and ego to be massaged.

Shades of Frank Drebin...the shoe shine boy was probably where they got their investment tips from.

I find shoe polishing quite therapeutic. Probably inherited, my Dad (ex army), if he was feeling the vexations of the spirit and in need of quiet contemplation would gather all the black shoes in the house together, get the shoe shine box out and sit on the back step and bull the lot.

[Jody]

The cultural appropriation of the term "IPA" by young whippersnappers for their blonde citrus-flavoured shite!

I went into a hotel bar yesterday, scanned the pumps, and found 2 lagers, a cider and an IPA. OK, I'll have an IPA. Dear God, what a mistake, it was like maidens water in strength and colour, and tasted of grapefruit and lime. Now I know that a lot of IPA in cans is that sort of shite, but I did expect an attempt to produce a proper British IPA for the pump. No, the Padstow Brewery option is a fruit-flavoure concoction undeserving of the name of ale.

Same but worse? I heard of a non alcoholic drink being sold as "session-able". Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't session-able refer to the weaker end of the drinks on offer so if you were out on a "session" you wouldn't end up too battered too early ?

[Yambo]

You're in the right place though, I don't know if things have changed but you never felt more than 2 minutes away from a 'shoe painter'....the shine never seemed to last long though.

None around here. Last time I saw one was in Istanbul.

I still have the 3 brushes I was issued back in 1967, a small 'polish on' brush, a larger shining brush and a clothes brush. The clothes brush was identifiable by a varnished back. The small brush is well worn but still serviceable. They were clearly of excellent quality although they haven't had a lot of use in the last 15 years or so. I may just edit this post this evening with a photo of them, 55 year old (at least) boot brushes!

[Mr. Dazzle]

My Mum still uses the boot brushes my Grandad was issued with in the Army...some time in the 50s.