Linkedin indeed.
They suggested something mental for me the other week - completely different field, 300 miles away.
Clowns.
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Driving miles into the country to dump their crap in country lanes. Nooooooo! Surely is is just as easy to drive their crap to the counsil tip? Bastards.
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SOG, like you and anyone else with respect for society and the environment, I abhor fly-tipping.
Avoidance of charges on the disposal of commercial waste and also limitations on what ordinary householders can freely dispose of are two reasons, BUT NOT EXCUSES, why people do it, I suspect.
The limitations on what householders can dispose of without charge, and how strictly these limitations are monitored and enforced, seems to vary across the country. When I lived in Torbay the local tip imposed limitations and rigorously enforced them with a man at the gate monitoring loads and registration plates. For instance, householders were restricted to a maximum of 8 rumble bags of ceramics (I filled 18 bags when I replaced the tiles in my conservatory) and two kitchen units (1 unit constituting i.e. 1 set of wall cupboards) when replacing their kitchens. Anything beyond this was charged by weight, with a minimum charge of approx ÂŁ45. The site also limited the disposal of ordinary household waste (i.e. the stuff we put in our wheelie bins) to 2 black bin-bag loads - a policy that caused problems when people missed their fortnightly refuge collections.
http://www.torbay.gov.uk/index/yourservices/waste/recyclingcentre.htm
The reason people dump stuff such as mattresses in the middle of the countryside - Iâve even seen this sort of stuff dumped on nature reserves - can be nothing more than sheer wanton vandalism.
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I agree that Fly tipping is abohrent and should be stopped. As stated above the limitations on what you can dispose of at council tips has been curbed and you probably have to pay for it. But the amount of stuff taken to the tip has also increased due to people not having bonfires and getting rid of the burnable material that way. Then the ashes were dug into the soil as fertiliser. I remember whan I was a youngster that the bed bugged mattases were never taken to Hardley dump you built a fire and burnt them. Who wants bed bugs infesting the Dorma Van?
Luckily in the Philippines if you put something down for too long with out watching it somebody will relocate.it this will inlcude black bag bin liners full of rubbish. But this will be sorted and whatever is useful sold on.
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We have two council tips within a reasonable drive of here and they are pretty decent. Both are well organised and items are segregated for recyclin purposes. There is no limit but they charge for commercial vehicles. If you have a lot of stuff to get rid of it means a few trips but there is no charge. The stuff I see dumped in the lanes could easilt fit in the back of a 4 x 4 although occasionally there is larger stuff which I agree, would have attracted a charge at the tip. The worst example I saw was what looked like a transit full of household crap dumped over a small bride into a drainage ditch on the local farmers land. It wasnt easy for the council to clear the crap from where it had been dumped, but fair play, they managed it. Some of the crap floated down to the next bridge though. There was nothing that couldnt have gone to the local tip that was probably within just as easy driving distance for the fly tippers. We also get a load of McDonalds crap and beer bottles left in the hedgerows. Just take your crap home you lazy fuckers!
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I fill my van up and âvisitâ Portsmouth once a month.
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I expect they are grateful for your old crap Goat. 
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Iâm like a gypsy santa.
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One of the things that surprised me when I questioned why I wasnât allowed to dispose of more than 2 of my kitchen units or 8 of my bags of broken floor tiles into what I had assumed were recycling skips was being told that that sort of thing couldnât be recycled and ended up going to landfill. It made me wonder just how much of the waste deposited at these places is actually recycled.
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nope.
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Originally posted by @Halo-Stickman
Originally posted by @Sadoldgit
We have two council tips within a reasonable drive of here and they are pretty decent. Both are well organised and items are segregated for recyclin purposes. There is no limit but they charge for commercial vehicles. If you have a lot of stuff to get rid of it means a few trips but there is no charge. The stuff I see dumped in the lanes could easilt fit in the back of a 4 x 4 although occasionally there is larger stuff which I agree, would have attracted a charge at the tip. The worst example I saw was what looked like a transit full of household crap dumped over a small bride into a drainage ditch on the local farmers land. It wasnt easy for the council to clear the crap from where it had been dumped, but fair play, they managed it. Some of the crap floated down to the next bridge though. There was nothing that couldnt have gone to the local tip that was probably within just as easy driving distance for the fly tippers. We also get a load of McDonalds crap and beer bottles left in the hedgerows. Just take your crap home you lazy fuckers!
One of the things that surprised me when I questioned why I wasnât allowed to dispose of more than 2 of my kitchen units or 8 of my bags of broken floor tiles into what I had assumed were recycling skips was being told that that sort of thing couldnât be recycled and ended up going to landfill. It made me wonder just how much of the waste deposited at these places is actually recycled.
. I had seen some news articles about this but they appear to be the dialy fail so how true they are?.
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Originally posted by @Intiniki
Originally posted by @Halo-Stickman
Originally posted by @Sadoldgit
We have two council tips within a reasonable drive of here and they are pretty decent. Both are well organised and items are segregated for recyclin purposes. There is no limit but they charge for commercial vehicles. If you have a lot of stuff to get rid of it means a few trips but there is no charge. The stuff I see dumped in the lanes could easilt fit in the back of a 4 x 4 although occasionally there is larger stuff which I agree, would have attracted a charge at the tip. The worst example I saw was what looked like a transit full of household crap dumped over a small bride into a drainage ditch on the local farmers land. It wasnt easy for the council to clear the crap from where it had been dumped, but fair play, they managed it. Some of the crap floated down to the next bridge though. There was nothing that couldnt have gone to the local tip that was probably within just as easy driving distance for the fly tippers. We also get a load of McDonalds crap and beer bottles left in the hedgerows. Just take your crap home you lazy fuckers!
One of the things that surprised me when I questioned why I wasnât allowed to dispose of more than 2 of my kitchen units or 8 of my bags of broken floor tiles into what I had assumed were recycling skips was being told that that sort of thing couldnât be recycled and ended up going to landfill. It made me wonder just how much of the waste deposited at these places is actually recycled.
. I had seen some news articles about this but they appear to be the dialy fail so how true they are?.
Intiniki, I looked out that article you referenced (link below); unfortunately, it does seem to tally, in large part, with my own experiences.
Indeed, if anything, it paints an even more depressing picture because, whilst I can accept that a mixed skip load of melamine / compressed wood / treated timber / rotten timber etc c/w nails, hinges and other metal, plastic or rubber fittings (what the manager of the waste disposal site I visited referred to as âdirty timberâ) might be problematic to recycle*, I didnât know that there are also problems associated with recycling such things as plastic bottles and paper.
* Iâd assumed that this sort of waste was burnt in some sort of energy-converting heat exchanger, but it appears that that isnât necessarily the case.
I think we need someone who is good at talking rubbish to investigate this further.
This made me go âYes!â
Yeah that is all truth Iâm afraid. I work in a dump, and all our bonuses are based on how much of the publicâs time we can waste. I think itâs some kind of social experiment. I.e. this week I made double bonus, because this man bought in an old remote control car he didnât want no more, and I made him break it down completely. He had to put the rubber wheels in the rubber bin, the metal axle in the metal bin, the plastic chassis in the plastic bin, the batteries in the battery bin etc etc. It took him over an hour. We was all pissing ourselves laughing.
Best bit is, after the customers go home, we empty all the bins into one big skip and send it to Landfill. Suckers!
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stuck for that perfect valentines gift?
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Hello, and welcome to 2016. A time when people have sex on hoverboards and you can purchase beer created from the essence of vaginas.
Yep. Itâs real. Presenting Bottled Instinct. Itâs beer. But made using vaginal bacteria.
Not just any vaginal bacteria, mind you. Lactic acid bacteria from the vagina of Czech model Alexandra Brendlova. Of course.
Created by vagina-themed start-up The Order of Yoni, Bottled Instinct is a beer that promises to capture the essence of femininity.
Its makers create it by taking bacteria from the vagina using a âgynaelogical stickâ. This stick then goes to a laboratory, where the lactic acid bacteria are âisolated and cleanedâ then multiplied.
That bacteria is then used in a culture starter kit, and is combined with water, malt, hops, wooden chips, and yeast to create the beer.
The Order of Yoni says the beer has âno vaginal smell or tasteâ, but it has been âflavoured with instinctsâ and brewed with model Alexandraâs âlureâ and âgraceâ.
MORE: This woman is making sourdough bread out of her vaginal yeast
Which, you know what, is all well and good. Why not add the joy of vaginas into the fun of alcohol? Go ahead. We donât judge.
But then you get to The Order of Yoniâs marketing.
On their Indiegogo campaign (yes, theyâre trying to raise âŹ150,000), The Order of Yoni suggests that by using a womanâs vaginal bacteria, their beer is like having a woman in beer form. By which we mean, yes, the entire campaign is very, very sexualised.
âImagine a woman of your dreams, your object of desire,â reads the product description. âHer charm, her sensuality, her passionâŚ
âTry her taste, feel her smell, hear her voice⌠Imagine her massaging you passionately and whispering into your ear everything you want. Now free your fantasies and imagine that with a magic wand you can close it in one bottle of beer.â
Ah. Yes. This bottle of beer will fulfill all of your sexual fantasies. Who need a woman when you can have sexy, sexy vagina beer?
Thereâs also the depressing standards for the vaginas The Order of Yoni uses for its beer production. A lot of time has been devoted to finding âthe kind of a female whose pheromones will stay with youâ.
Meaning a sexually attractive model that âpersonifies femininity, natural charm and lure.â
The Order of Yoni also states that potential models offering up their vaginas for beer production will have to âsign a contract with high penalty for working in adult industry, sex industry, as adult actress, escort, prostitute, etc.â
Because having paid-for sex will affect the beer-making quality of a womanâs vagina bacteria. OBVIOUSLY.
If youâre not enraged enough yet, take a read through The Order of Yoniâs plans for future beers. If fully funded, they want to expand into BDSM ale, made use vaginal lactic acid bacteria of a woman with brown or red hair, and a blonde ale, using a blonde modelâs vag.
All of which makes us think that vagina beer isnât _actually _about the beer-making benefits of vaginal bacteria. Itâs just a very, very objectifying way to tell men theyâre âdrinking womenâ. Itâs sexy, right?
Anyway. If you fancy contributing to the Indiegogo campaign, there are all kinds of perks on offer. âŹ39 will get you a voucher for one beer and a branded glass. Other donations will get you signed posters of Alexandra Brendlova, The Order of Yoni polo shirts, and belts.
Oh, and if you donate âŹ10,000, The Order of Yoni will make you a special beer using your girlfriendâs vagina. So romantic.
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That puts a new spin on the phrase âdrinking from the furry cupâ
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One for Ant to review pls
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I think the perfect name for that beer would be Wizards sleeve
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