Beely Whin

djm · Post by **djm** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 9:30 am

Sorry, youth and Denny.

djm

talasiga · Post by **talasiga** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 1:33 am

Denny wrote:

Question...my bin doesn't have wheels, what do I call it?

Has bin ......

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 8:26 am

talasiga wrote:
Denny wrote:

Question...my bin doesn't have wheels, what do I call it?
Has bin ......

Thank you,

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 2:28 pm

emmline wrote:...Dumpster strictly refers to something large, metal, and stationary which is only emptied or removed by a truck. The plastic type which is presently overflowing in the side yard, as a result of my missing pick-up last Thursday, is known, even though it is somewhat cumbersome, as a garbage can. I will switch to wheely-bin right away.

Oh, I missed this fascinating topic. Our terminology is exactly the same as emmline's. I cannot see changing to wheely-bin myself, even though ours do have wheels on them. That term doesn't tell me what the thing is for. The word "can" as in container comes, I guess, from

Middle English canne, a water container, from Old English

so maybe it really doesn't have to be metal to be a can although I suppose really it does now. I could go with calling it a garbage bin though. It's shorter than garbage container and sounds more dignified than wheely-bin, just my opinion. But I think garbage can is really more like garbagecan. It's not a can for garbage, it's a garbagecan. I can't explain what I mean.

Post by **Nanohedron** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 2:33 pm

talasiga wrote:I trust the americans won't copyright the term [wheely bin].

Ha. I'll lay odds some Yank entrepreneurial sort has it in the works already. We'll soon see them for sale with Wheely Bin® as the tradename, sales will burgeon, and everyone will forget - if they ever knew - that we borrowed the term.

Plus ça change...

flanum · Post by **flanum** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 11:56 am

(apologies to any oriental members)!

This Chinese guy gets a job with a wheelie-bin outfit. he turns up on a doorstep on Cork's northside and knocks on the door..this guy with a tight tee-shirt, crew-cut hair and a mad tan appears....
-Chinese guy: "where you bin?."
-Cork guy : "de cunnaries , boy."
-Chinese guy:"no, no, where you bin?."
-Cork guy :"du cunnaries, i'm tellun ya boy!"
-Chinese guy:"no,no. where you wheelie bin?"
-Cork guy :"alruight so boy, I was on a sun-bed all weekend."

talasiga · Post by **talasiga** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:05 am

SteveShaw wrote: ......
BTW, it's 2007 here now. Maybe I should resolve to give up smirking for the new year.

How's your non smirking resolution going, Stevioh?

chrisoff · Post by **chrisoff** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 4:23 am

SteveShaw wrote:The blokes who come round every week to empty the bins (wheelie or otherwise) are the bin-men, and always were.

Speak for yourself, we call them Scaffies.

gonzo914 · Post by **gonzo914** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 7:18 am

flanum wrote:(apologies to any oriental members)!

This Chinese guy gets a job with a wheelie-bin outfit. he turns up on a doorstep on Cork's northside and knocks on the door..this guy with a tight tee-shirt, crew-cut hair and a mad tan appears....
-Chinese guy: "where you bin?."
-Cork guy : "de cunnaries , boy."
-Chinese guy:"no, no, where you bin?."
-Cork guy :"du cunnaries, i'm tellun ya boy!"
-Chinese guy:"no,no. where you wheelie bin?"
-Cork guy :"alruight so boy, I was on a sun-bed all weekend."

That is so not how I heard that joke. (Interested parties can google "wheely bin joke".)

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:31 am

chrisoff wrote:
SteveShaw wrote:The blokes who come round every week to empty the bins (wheelie or otherwise) are the bin-men, and always were.
Speak for yourself, we call them Scaffies.

Dustmen in Norn Iron, Scaffies in Scotland, and in England they call them Bin-men and Ash-men.

harpmaker · Post by **harpmaker** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 3:17 am

In my neck of the woods, you put your trash into a trash or garbage cans whch may or may not have wheels Except for recyclables which go into the city provided recyclng can or bin which has wheels.

Calling any of them a wheely bin would result in a smirk at the quaint expression.

A dumpster would be the larger containers found at stores etc. The ten cubic yard or bigger ones are usually called construction dumpsters. A skip is one suitable to be moved around with a fork lift at an factory and is usually filled with scrap from an industrial process.

Different words for the same things....