Are there any recorder players in Wichita? ...

[SteveShaw]

Right, I think I'm OK on "dumpster" now.

Steve

[SteveK]

The thing I find repellant is how this underscores what a throw away society we live in. We have such an excess of things for which millions elsewhere in the world are dying without, and we seem to take this overabundance for granted.

I used to volunteer at a church which put on dinners for the street people in the area. We used to get bagels from one particular bagel shop. They would have been thrown out if we hadn't used them. As it was, we only got them one day a week. We collected garbage sacks full of the things. That was just one day's worth bagelsfrom one shop that were going to be thrown out. I never collected from the grocery stores but it was pretty much the same thing there. Loaves of bread, buns, etc that would be thrown out.

[Lambchop]

So because a coworker of yours sifted through trash for something to eat while attending a conference, it makes it ok? This whole "live-aboard" thing if applied to a landlocked state, like Colorado, would be akin to some guy living in a van down by the river and dumpster diving behind steak houses to get a trash bag full of bones to gnaw on.

Repellent in every way.

Honestly, the worst part about dumpster diving, I imagine would have to be the potential lack of mint sauce.

I was speaking tongue-in-cheek. It is repellent. It is also unsafe . . . particularly with seafood. I don't want to touch things anybody else has handled, much less eat them--hepatitis is not on my list of must-do activities.

She didn't sift for something to eat while attending a conference--she regularly dug for things in trash cans after people had vacated conference rooms. Drug reps often bring food for doctors, as an inducement to get them to attend their educational presentation. In that instance, it was at least reasonably fresh.

You know how people bring a container of stew or something to work, then forget it's in the fridge? For weeks? For a Thanksgiving potluck, we needed space in the fridge, so we cleaned it. Out went a little container of beef stew that had been in there for at least 6 weeks . . . the meat was iridescent green. Next thing we knew, she was loping off down the hall with it and some moldy cheese. Next day, she showed up with a crockpot of chili in which the beef stew bits were clearly visible . . . squares of iridescent beef and carrots and potatoes . . . and a dish of that moldy cheese which she'd grated.

We were at a loss for what to do. I wanted to put a biohazard sticker on it, but she'd file a complaint--we couldn't "prove" that was the same beef stew, after all. We ended up phoning everyone on the staff to tell them not to eat it. And then, someone had to stand there to casually divert innocent victims who hadn't been notified.

Yes, Jerry, waste is a terrible thing, but the cure for it doesn't lie in eating out of garbage bins, especially when you serve it to the unsuspecting. There is a huge difference between recycling manufactured housing and serving chewed-on, potentially toxic food to others.

[dubhlinn]

Right, I think I'm OK on "dumpster" now.

Steve

It's a Skip.

Slan,
D.

[Lambchop]

Right, I think I'm OK on "dumpster" now.

Steve

It's a Skip.

Slan,
D.

You know, D., you might not have liked my post, but that's no reason to tell everyone to pass it by.

[djm]

I'm in the business of making affordable housing out of mobile homes that others don't see the value of reconditioning.

There's a tornado out there somewhere with your name on it.

djm

[dubhlinn]

Right, I think I'm OK on "dumpster" now.

Steve

It's a Skip.

Slan,
D.

You know, D., you might not have liked my post, but that's no reason to tell everyone to pass it by.

This is a Skip.......two of them, to be sure, to be sure.

Slan,
D.

[carrie]

Not to mention Victrola, a term which is in constant use.

Tell me about it! If I hear ohmyhgod, like, whatever, and Victrola from my teenager one more time I think I'll scream.

Carol

[Lambchop]

Dumpster:

[Darwin]

Not to mention Victrola, a term which is in constant use.

Tell me about it! If I hear ohmyhgod, like, whatever, and Victrola from my teenager one more time I think I'll scream.

Yeah, and Frigidaire.

[Scott McCallister]

So because a coworker of yours sifted through trash for something to eat while attending a conference, it makes it ok? This whole "live-aboard" thing if applied to a landlocked state, like Colorado, would be akin to some guy living in a van down by the river and dumpster diving behind steak houses to get a trash bag full of bones to gnaw on.

Repellent in every way.

Honestly, the worst part about dumpster diving, I imagine would have to be the potential lack of mint sauce.

I was speaking tongue-in-cheek. It is repellent. It is also unsafe . . . particularly with seafood. I don't want to touch things anybody else has handled, much less eat them--hepatitis is not on my list of must-do activities.

She didn't sift for something to eat while attending a conference--she regularly dug for things in trash cans after people had vacated conference rooms. Drug reps often bring food for doctors, as an inducement to get them to attend their educational presentation. In that instance, it was at least reasonably fresh.

You know how people bring a container of stew or something to work, then forget it's in the fridge? For weeks? For a Thanksgiving potluck, we needed space in the fridge, so we cleaned it. Out went a little container of beef stew that had been in there for at least 6 weeks . . . the meat was iridescent green. Next thing we knew, she was loping off down the hall with it and some moldy cheese. Next day, she showed up with a crockpot of chili in which the beef stew bits were clearly visible . . . squares of iridescent beef and carrots and potatoes . . . and a dish of that moldy cheese which she'd grated.

We were at a loss for what to do. I wanted to put a biohazard sticker on it, but she'd file a complaint--we couldn't "prove" that was the same beef stew, after all. We ended up phoning everyone on the staff to tell them not to eat it. And then, someone had to stand there to casually divert innocent victims who hadn't been notified.

Yes, Jerry, waste is a terrible thing, but the cure for it doesn't lie in eating out of garbage bins, especially when you serve it to the unsuspecting. There is a huge difference between recycling manufactured housing and serving chewed-on, potentially toxic food to others.

Yes!...

Thank you.

[SteveK]

Not to mention Victrola, a term which is in constant use.

Tell me about it! If I hear ohmyhgod, like, whatever, and Victrola from my teenager one more time I think I'll scream.

Carol

Just get yer hoover and drown them out.


Wait, maybe that's a zampogna-floor model

[Jerry Freeman]

Bye, bye folks. I'm done with this thread.

Now I see what you're up to, Lamby.

Best wishes,
Jerry

[SteveShaw]

Right, I think I'm OK on "dumpster" now.

Steve

It's a Skip.

Slan,
D.

If they were really skips, round my way you'd find an abandoned car and three double mattresses in 'em every morning.

Steve

[Walden]

Not to mention Victrola, a term which is in constant use.

Tell me about it! If I hear ohmyhgod, like, whatever, and Victrola from my teenager one more time I think I'll scream.

Carol

The same thing happened in the UK, with the tradename Gramophone.