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Damn,I mistook immaturity for youth.Greenman wrote: Wed Dec 07, 2022 2:55 pm I'm 42, but i shall take your youngster comment as a positive...
I'm assuming that's the recycling bin....Greenman wrote: Wed Dec 07, 2022 2:54 pmMines normally ful of empty cider cans and bottles...Count Steer wrote: Wed Dec 07, 2022 2:42 pmReally! Ours aren't full when they collect on a 2 week cycle. (Landfill waste one week, recycling the next). Kitchen waste is weekly.Greenman wrote: Wed Dec 07, 2022 2:37 pm
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.
You need to create less waste young man.
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 wrote: Wed Dec 07, 2022 12:25 pm The binmen here are OK. They come every day and ride on the back like in the olden days
In town they all have to use the green dumpster things.Pirahna wrote: Wed Dec 07, 2022 7:25 pmThere'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 wrote: Wed Dec 07, 2022 12:25 pm The binmen here are OK. They come every day and ride on the back like in the olden days
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.Rockburner wrote: Wed Dec 07, 2022 4:19 pmI'm assuming that's the recycling bin....Greenman wrote: Wed Dec 07, 2022 2:54 pmMines normally ful of empty cider cans and bottles...Count Steer wrote: Wed Dec 07, 2022 2:42 pm
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.
Do you flatten the bottles and tin, if possible, before they go into the bin?Greenman wrote: Thu Dec 08, 2022 8:14 amYes, 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.
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!cheb wrote: Thu Dec 08, 2022 8:37 amDo you flatten the bottles and tin, if possible, before they go into the bin?Greenman wrote: Thu Dec 08, 2022 8:14 amYes, 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.
Squish those flat, then screw the top back on to keep the air out.
Count Steer wrote: Fri Dec 16, 2022 1:53 pm 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).
Well, they still have Kiwi Parade Gloss on Amazon so I may have to make a stash.Yambo wrote: Fri Dec 16, 2022 2:04 pmCount Steer wrote: Fri Dec 16, 2022 1:53 pm 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.
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.Count Steer wrote: Fri Dec 16, 2022 1:53 pm
The Wisconsin based owners have decided to 'exit the shoe care market in the UK' because people don't polish their shoes any more.
Shades of Frank Drebin...the shoe shine boy was probably where they got their investment tips from.gremlin wrote: Fri Dec 16, 2022 2:36 pmWoah. 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.Count Steer wrote: Fri Dec 16, 2022 1:53 pm
The Wisconsin based owners have decided to 'exit the shoe care market in the UK' because people don't polish their shoes any more.
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.
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 ?Cousin Jack wrote: Fri Dec 09, 2022 12:53 pm 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.
Count Steer wrote: Fri Dec 16, 2022 2:11 pm
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.
