The city I live in has us down to one trash bag allowed per week along
with unlimited "blue boxes" (recycling) and "green bins" (compost) and
yard waste bags.
I totally half-ass that. Pop cans I don't rinse at all, cat food cans
I'll rinse quickly and then chuck it in the blue box.
That's why my city went from 3 bags of trash per week, down to two and
now down to one. If you're only allowed one bag per week, you can
fill it up pretty quick.
I joked with her afterwards (she's not great with technology) because
to her all tablets are iPads and all video calls are Zoom. lol
There's a lot of that in my circle. Here everyone calls tissues a
Kleenex, you put a Band-Aid on a cut, all sticky notes are Post-Its
and all lib balm is Chap Stick.
Ogg wrote to JoE DooM <=-
I doubt that they would allow "overtime" to be conducted in
meetings with salaried staff. It is better or them to cut a
meeting short at 5pm and resume later anyway.. it's all about
delays and more delays anyway. ;)
Adept wrote to Arelor <=-
Oh, I'm irritating like that, too. I talk about needing an "adhesive bandage", and try to avoid brand names as verbs whenever I can.
Though I do try to limit how pedantic I get. It's a struggle, though.
Probably the most common one used across the planet is "Googling".
I've tended to assume that "Word documents" are about the format,
rather than
the software.
Or at least how I use the term "format". IT people I talk to have always referred to the WOrd DOC format, Wordperfect format, etc.
But your comment also makes sense when we think that they are "word processing" software, so "word" is quicker.
Microsoft were always very clever about their use of generic terms for products.
So we got given general rubbish bins as well as one for paper/cans/plastic, and a small bucket style bin for glass.
But it's weird having to think about washing everything, because before
it was just, yeah, whatever, chuck it in the trash. Let the seagulls sort it out.
Even my friends who come over haven't got to grips with it yet. When we got burgers for wargaming on Sunday, they came with cans. One of my friends automatically went to chuck it in the trash and I had to stop
him! Wait! We have to wash it and recycle it now!
Haha. I wonder how long it'll last before people get sick of it and just start chucking everything into the general waste bins. Or throwing cans whether they've got food scraps left in them or not.
The city I live in has us down to one trash bag allowed per week along with unlimited "blue boxes" (recycling) and "green bins" (compost) and yard waste bags.
The city I live in has us down to one trash bag allowed per week along
with unlimited "blue boxes" (recycling) and "green bins" (compost) and
yard waste bags.
I totally half-ass that. Pop cans I don't rinse at all, cat food cans
I'll rinse quickly and then chuck it in the blue box.
That's why my city went from 3 bags of trash per week, down to two and
now down to one. If you're only allowed one bag per week, you can
fill it up pretty quick.
Unlimited? Wow. Do you just have to buy the blue bins off them?
Green bins is a good point. I didn't get one and I presumed they cost money, but maybe they're free. I should probably check.
It took me a few more references to "pop cans" to understand what you meant. haha. I thought you were popping cans into the bin.. :D
In other areas in the city I've lived, trash bags used to be a thing. One day they decided you could only use their officially branded council bags that cost about $1 each and you could only leave 1 bag per household.
But I've never seen a council that could be accused of making an intelligent decision.
easily crack when the worker whips the blue bin up your driveway after emptying it into the truck. I sometimes wonder if they're TRYING to
bust them...
Yeah, here in Canada we call it pop, Americans call it soda. Not sure
other countries call it.
Our city was talking about switching to bi-weekly pickups, I think
that was more about saving the city money than a convenience for the residents. Who wants to keep their trash around for two weeks
stinking up the garage? That idea was shot down very quickly, though
they do keep bringing it up every now & then.
Warpslide wrote to JOE DOOM <=-
Our city was talking about switching to bi-weekly pickups, I think that was more about saving the city money than a convenience for the
residents. Who wants to keep their trash around for two weeks stinking
up the garage? That idea was shot down very quickly, though they do
keep bringing it up every now & then.
Bet it costs them more each year discussing it internally
than they'd actually save by doing it. sigh. Councils eh?
Who'd have em?
Yeah, here in Canada we call it pop, Americans call it soda. Not sure other countries call it.
additional meetings. But I bet the game is to have as few
meetings as possible and yet justify the minimum requirement to
receive the stipend.
Adept wrote to Warpslide <=-
Yeah, here in Canada we call it pop, Americans call it soda. Not sure other countries call it.
This is one of the more interesting regional words in the US. There are plenty of Americans who call it pop. But US Southerners are likely to
call it "Coke", which somehow became a catch-all word.
And then, somehow, the beverage makers refer to them as "soft drinks"
or "fountain drinks" when they come up.
We live in a building, so we take our recycling down to the recycle
room
and just chuck the garbage bags down the chute. It's glorious! ;)
In my country, town ellected counsellors get a fixed stipend
from the gov't. They don't get overtime if they have
additional meetings. But I bet the game is to have as few
meetings as possible and yet justify the minimum requirement to
receive the stipend.
plenty of Americans who call it pop. But US Southerners are likely to
call it
"Coke", which somehow became a catch-all word.
But this phenomenon has always fascinated me. It's like people who call smart phone "iPhones" (which I always thought was ignorance of the existance of other brands, but now I wonder), or photocopying "Xeroxing".
Probably the most common one used across the planet is "Googling".
Probably the most common one used across the planet is "Googling".
But this phenomenon has always fascinated me. It's like people who call smart phone "iPhones" (which I always thought was ignorance of the existance of other brands, but now I wonder), or photocopying "Xeroxing". Probably the most common one used across the planet is "Googling".
I joked with her afterwards (she's not great with technology) because
to her all tablets are iPads and all video calls are Zoom. lol
There's a lot of that in my circle. Here everyone calls tissues a
Kleenex, you put a Band-Aid on a cut, all sticky notes are Post-Its
and all lib balm is Chap Stick.
I'm not really sure what to do about "podcast", since I still have a
hard
time saying, "netcast".
But I do try to say, "sticky notes" instead of "Post-Its".
Here in UA, we do (correctly) refer to all Cola-flavored soft drinks
as "cola", regardless of the manufacturer. All the other carbonated beverages are "water with gas". Also, nobody in their right mind would
call a non-Apple smartphone "an iPhone".
As for the "brand-damaging" words, though, we do use "Xerox" and
"Photoshop" as verbs; you might also hear from everyone and their
mother about "Word documents" (as if any other word processing
software never existed); or "Is Linux good _Windows_?" (meaning,
obviously, a "good _operating_ _system_).
I've never thought about the term podcast and where it came from or what it even means. Is that a product?
Netcast does sound like a better term, but I can't say I've heard it before.
"Photoshop" as verbs; you might also hear from everyone and their mother about "Word documents" (as if any other word processing software never
"Photoshop" as verbs; you might also hear from everyone and their mothe about "Word documents" (as if any other word processing software never
I've tended to assume that "Word documents" are about the format, rather tha the software.
E.g., I've made plenty of Word documents with Libreoffice.
But I could imagine a less-technical person using it more broadly. I'd probably be entertained hearing it, though.
Interesting. In my last comment, I was thinking that
hourly rate * hours spent on meetings * number of people
at those meetings would have been significant waste. But
maybe that's the irony, waste time and money talking about
waste...
So would the councillors be the ones to do the day to day
discussions of what changes to make or would that be the
general paid staff and the councillors just vote on the
things put forward?
I am in a personal crusade against generalized brands. I am the weird
guy who walks into the office supply store and purchases "technical pen" instead of a "Rotring". Even when the technical pen I end up purchasing
is actually a Rotring.
I've tended to assume that "Word documents" are about the format, rather than
the software.
Ogg wrote to JoE DooM <=-
I doubt that they would allow "overtime" to be conducted in
meetings with salaried staff. It is better or them to cut a
meeting short at 5pm and resume later anyway.. it's all about
delays and more delays anyway. ;)
Adept wrote to Arelor <=-
Oh, I'm irritating like that, too. I talk about needing an "adhesive bandage", and try to avoid brand names as verbs whenever I can.
Though I do try to limit how pedantic I get. It's a struggle, though.
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