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Author: Ben newsamBen newsam Date: Apr 23, 2008 22:50
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:07:53 +0100, Halla
drunkenbastards.spam.com> wrote:
>Was thoroughly warmed by the sun today
Cor, yeah. Innit.
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Author: Ben newsamBen newsam Date: Apr 23, 2008 22:51
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:32:25 -0400, "zol" ne.rr.beepbeep.com>
wrote:
>zol---going to recycle last nights dinner into some soup
Eeeuw. OIC, you haven't eaten it yet.
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Author: Ben newsamBen newsam Date: Apr 23, 2008 22:52
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:57:01 -0500, "Viva" privacy.net> wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 06:53:47AM -0500, Viva wrote:
>> [..]
>>> I have been taking...
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Author: Ben newsamBen newsam Date: Apr 23, 2008 22:53
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:16:34 GMT, Humbug tofee.net> wrote:
>On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:50:44 +0100, Ben newsam
> gmail.com> wrote:
>>>On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:20:14 GMT, Baz
>> yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>>Luckily as everyone...
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Author: John WilliamsonJohn Williamson Date: Apr 23, 2008 23:15
Viva wrote:
> "John Williamson" btinternet.com> wrote in message
> news:6765b0F2n2k4eU1@mid.individual.net...>> Viva wrote:
>>> I hate the ugly things...as I drive along my beautiful green countryside
>>> I see them flying from trees, fences and telephone poles. Is it so in
>>> your country?
>>>
>> Worse, if anything. We've got a few towns that have already banned them.
>>
>>
> I wouldn't squawk about plastic bags if we would just recycle them properly.
> I'm wearing a T-shirt made from recycled plastic. I think they are useful
> for garbage, etc...they just need to degrade after a year or so.
>
Well, one of the French Supermarket chains has all their bags printed
with something along the lines of "This bag will serve you 3 ways. It
takes your shoppping home, then it works as a litter bin, then, when
it's burnt in the waste incinerator, it generates enough power to run a
light for 20 minutes". It's a bit shorter in French, but that's the ...
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Author: John WilliamsonJohn Williamson Date: Apr 23, 2008 23:21
muddy cat wrote:
> In article 4ax.com>,
> Baz yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:53:47 -0500, "Viva" privacy.net> wrote:
>>
>>>>> I am also aware that we in the US are spoiled rotten by our supermarkets.
>>> Would it kill us to box/bag our own groceries and carry them to the car
>>> ourselves?
>> I've been doing the cloth bag thing for awhile too except it mean I
>> haven't many bags to recycle for uses like kitchen garbage and doggy
>> poo retrieval. I'm certainly not going to but special bags for that.
>> No bag goes wasted here in my house.
>> Luckily as everyone else jumps on the green wagon , I get fewer
>> strange looks when I say "I don't need a bag for that".
>
> It's like they try to force a bag on you. Here, I'll put it in a bag for
> you. I don't need a bag. But, but...
> ...
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Author: BearBear Date: Apr 24, 2008 00:15
In article 4ax.com>, Ben newsam
said...> On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:55:10 +0100, Bear gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>Personally, I'm heartily bored with the eco-brigade. They're so keen to
>>interfere, and their blanket justification of "I'm doing it for your own
>>good" doesn't impress either. Fuck them. Fuck them in their dullard
>>little eyes.
>>
>>
>>
>>That's probably a somewhat fringe POV though :)
>
> Unfortuntely not. Though I have absoluely no time for these futile
> little gestures like sharing the odd car, reusing the odd plastic bag,
> and the idiocy of "carbon offsetting", I am truly worried about the
> future. Put at its simplest, this planet is fooked and I can't see any
> way out of that.
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Author: Richard SherrattRichard Sherratt Date: Apr 24, 2008 01:20
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:44:01 +0100, Ben newsam
gmail.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:32:50 -0400, "zol" ne.rr.beepbeep.com>
>wrote:
>>>we bought a bunch of the energy saving floodlights for use in the lights in
>>the lobby and at the front desk at the hotel...
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Author: muddy catmuddy cat Date: Apr 24, 2008 04:11
> muddy cat wrote:
>> In article 4ax.com>,
>> Baz yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> >>> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:53:47 -0500, "Viva" privacy.net...
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Author: MolesworthMolesworth Date: Apr 24, 2008 05:05
> "Ben newsam" gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:afqs04hp45u0umrrp4hqdrvvp9hkn6p098@4ax.com...>>
>> I put bin stuff in bags, yes, but my bin doesn't smell too bad because
>> most of the stuff that would smell goes on the compost heap. Sometimes
>> I just don't bother to put the bin out on bin day, it takes weeks to
>> fill it up.
>>
> I live in the land of garbage disposals...seems every kitchen sink has one
> to grind up and wash away the plate scrapings and veg peelings. Mine has
> never worked since I moved here.
Fix it - We need the sediment down here!
Mississippi is peaking today/tomorrow and they are closing the spillway
(first time it's been opened in 10 years)
--
Molesworth
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