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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36818 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Don't they teach geography in the U.S.? Tasmania or Tanzania? Bindi Irwin's Cradle Mountain holiday blunder by US magazine People. Tasmania has had many tourism slogans over the years from 'Come down for air' to 'Go behind the scenery', but perhaps it should consider 'not to be confused with Tanzania'. |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22535 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
United States celebrity news publication A four word warning that the story may not be based on either reality or common-sense..... Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36818 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
When on a treadmill make sure that you're facing the open window. :-O This is the scary moment a gym-goer stumbled off the back of a treadmill and out a third-floor window. Warning: Graphic. |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13855 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
Isaac Asimov really was a great author. Grant Darwin NT |
Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 21289 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0 |
As we know science fiction often leads to science fact. |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 66350 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
As we know science fiction often leads to science fact. Warp Drive and a FTL Drive system like in 2004's Battlestar Galactica are possible, while Hyper Space is not possible as Hyper Space doesn't exist. Savoir-Faire is everywhere! The T1 Trust, T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, America's First HST |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11416 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
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zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 66350 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36818 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
I'm sorry, but the young girl has so much Botox pumped into that face that of hers that a frown is all she can do these days. The Beckhams have recreated their wedding looks for their 25th anniversary, digging out the matching purple outfits they wore on their big day. So there's no recreation going on there. Cheers. |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13855 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
Grant Darwin NT |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13855 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
Grant Darwin NT |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36818 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Welcome to the 20th century and something that we've been using here for over 40yrs. New York City trolled for only just discovering ‘revolutionary’ wheelie bins. New York City has discovered wheelie bins. |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14679 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
Wheelie bins work well where most habitation units have their own private land (garden, yard etc) to store them. But most of New York has multi-floor, multi-apartment housing units, above street level. Do all those blocks even have elevators? Earlier this year, I visited an area of student accommodation - with terraces of small houses, all divided into separate flats, each in multi-occupancy. The rear access lane was lined on both sides by continuous ranks of wheelie bins. And when the wind blew, they all set off for one end of the street... Wheelie bins are a solution for the landed middle classes, dreamed up by planners who don't have to manage them in their own ivory towers. Good luck New York. |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19402 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
When I lived in a foreign city with multi-floor, multi-apartment housing units, the bins were the large industrial type and they were emptied every day, 365 days per year. And that worked. |
Scrooge McDuck Send message Joined: 26 Nov 99 Posts: 1191 Credit: 1,674,173 RAC: 54 |
In Germany, especially in the East, we have large districts with multi-floor, multi-appartment buildings (socialist era prefabricated buildings, but also build in the 1970s in larger West German metropolitan cities), usually up to 5 floors with many entrances, some more than 100 meters long (or enclosing a street block). Taller units can be found in larger cities, normally up to 11 floors. They often still have the original garbage chutes where garbage is collected in large bins at a basement room, lifted up by house keepers. We typically have large and heavy plastic bins (up to 1,100 liters; ~290 gal) on four wheels with locking brakes. It needs a storm and loose brakes to move them. There are even different types for coastal regions to prevent stronger winds from opening the sliding lid. A couple of bins are either enclosed by fences at outside collection places or they are enclosed separately in a concrete housing with sheet steel doors at front and drop-in flaps on top. You need the right key to open the gate resp. the flaps (garbagemans use master keys). About once a year bins will be automatically cleaned with hot water by a machine built into a truck. But as Richard objected, some land is required for collection places which belongs to the buildings not far from entrance(s) (and not near heat-insulated building facades --> styrofoam... fire hazard). My appartment house (5 floors, 2 entrances, 20 larger family flats) shares one 1,100 liters bin with a neighboring house (5 floors, ~40 small flats). There are separate bins for garbage, uncleaned packaging and paper/cardboards. Packaging (payed by food producers) and paper is free, only garbage costs a hefty service fee. Large landlords (often municipally owned or cooperatives) try to balance the amount of garbage of different houses to the right number and sizes of bins to minimize tennant's costs. Waste disposal is an expensive public service here, often assigned by authorities in long-time contracts to large companies operating nationwide. |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11416 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
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Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3346 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 |
You know it's hot outside when this happens: Blinds Melt in Arizona Amid Historic US Heat Wave as Temperatures Hit 118F |
Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 21289 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0 |
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W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19402 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
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Admiral Gloval Send message Joined: 31 Mar 13 Posts: 21289 Credit: 5,308,449 RAC: 0 |
Does this qualify for a Darwin Award? Yes it does. It was so stupid and he took himself out of the gene pool. |
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