Oh, sorry. They're cheddar chese flavored crackers.

then why do it

I'm not anymore. I was drinking a beer, got hungry and popped a few crackers in my mouth and that's when I learned it wasn't a good combination.

and of course they chose the obvious name of Goldfish crackers.... gotcha

I've been in Washington D.C. the last couple of days setting up an antiques show. The traffic is always horrible but it was even worse with Jerry Ford's funeral. I had to go near the Washington Cathedral and it was a nightmare. You'd think he'd have been just a little more considerate and died during a week I didn't have to go there. Some people just think of themselves.

Like how Jesus died on a Friday???

Yeah, ruined the weekend for all the disciples who had plans to leave town.

Well on the other hand, he gave us a public holiday.

He rose again on Sunday and realised he'd missed out on the entire weekend so said screw it, you can have Monday off too!

Here's another rant. It seems just about every holiday is now on a Monday, which in my neighborhood is trash pick-up day. Since the truck comes by a 7am, most people put it out Sunday night. Then when Monday rolls around and they realize it's a half-assed holiday and the trash is not going to be collected you's think they would bring the trash back. You'd think wrong. We have to use special blue trash bags or they won't pick it up. So these blue trash bags sit there all week while the squirrels rip them open and dine. By Wednesday the street looks like a shit storm has blown thru with ripped bags and newspapers blowing up and down the road. Our tax dollars hard at work.

Your trash doesnt get collected on Public Holidays???

Also, do you guys use those tin/metal garbage/trash cans like they do in the movies?

I don't know about the movies, all I know is we have to pay $8.00 for 5 bags. If it's not in a city approved blue trash bag, the trash guys will just leave it right where it is. There are no metal trash cans, it's all bags.

alll the trash cans around here are plastic , allot in the country are heavy plastic dumpsters , and they only pick up weekly ...we pay like 12 a week with unlimited number of bags

Fascinating.... I can't believe garbage is just placed in bags.

We have big Plastic garbage "bins" that are on wheels. We have one for common garbage, one for recyclables and one for garden waste and they are each collected weekly for free (well they are included in our annual council rates)

You'll love this wrinkle-when they raised the price of the trash bags a couple of months ago, alot of stores started selling them behind the counter. Too many people were shoplifting them when they were sold in the aisles. When I move someone out of Portland, I can sometimes get their left-over trash bags if I ask for them. It's not even the money, it's the principle of it; first we could just set our trash on the curb like everyone else in normal society, then someone decided we needed to buy these blue bags. No vote, no referendum, it was a done deal with no input from anyone. Here we have a city council that will haggle and debate for literally months to decide whether Portland can have a Hooters (and decided NO), but passes a law like this in about two days.

In Australia people steal cars and DVD players... and we have a Hooters

hahaha that's gold! I'm stealing that bit when I hit the stand up circuit.


I'll add my own rant to this. In our old house we had this big ass dumpster for our garbage(it was shared by about 4 or 5 houses. It rarely ever filled up to its capacity.
We move to our new house where we pay 2.5 times the property taxes and the bin is less than half the size. Obviously I had a lot of stuff to throw out after our move but could only put some of it in cuz the bin was almost full so I stored it until the bin was emptied. But then garbage collection day fell on Xmas day and then New Year's Day so it wasn't picked for those 2 weeks. So in all the bin wasn't emptied for 3 weeks. And around Xmas, there is obviously gonna be more stuff that people are throwing out. I can understand them not picking up on Xmas day but at least get it done some time during the week to make up for it.
I ended up hauling it down the alley under cover of darkness and dumping it into someone elses bin that was way bigger.


As for closeup's rant. Just when I think I am a lazy bastard I am quickly reassured that I am nowhere near the top of that heap. When it comes to my house and stuff like that, I would never leave my garbage out there to get ripped up and dirty up my yard. Savages!

What you need to do is see if you can get some bags custom made to match the city's.
In a situatuion like yours where you're getting obviously screwed, you gotta stick it to the man.
$8.00 for 5 bags is robbery!


Do you mean like a round metal garbage can that hold one bag, or like a big dumpster that the truck picks up and dumps.
Depending on where you live in the city, they have all kinds of garbage pickup. Some places, you just leave your trash bags on the curb on garbage day and they pick it up, others have a big plastic bin that they leave by their house and wheel out on garbage day. For people that have a back alley(lane) they have big metal dumpsters that are shared by several houses. That's what we have. Actually, it's not even a dumpster. Dumpster-brand trash bins are top-of-the-line. We just have a Trash-Co waste disposal unit.


I tell you, get some counterfeit bags! I'll find you a supplier if you want.


We SHOULD have recycling bins here, but you have to pay for recycling to be picked up which is a joke. But there are big recycling bins all over the city where you can take that stuff to. That's what the cheap bastards(me) do. Garden waste, some people compost themselves, I just throw the shit out.



I think that about sums up government everywhere.


We don't have a Hooters but we DO have a restaurant where the onwer hires girls with great cans and has conveniently run out of all uniforms except for size small.



This has been my longest post in weeks and it's about garbage collection.

Here's my Rant-of-the-Day: When I see Wigglebutz's name listed as the thread that got the last post, I'm thinking she posted something and everyone else is commenting on it. Imagine my disappointment, when, instead of wigglebutz's fine body, I see half a dozen posts by The Three Stooges about bandwidth and bullshit. And I know I'm just as guilty as the rest of you but this is my rant so I'm letting myself off the hook.

I just went to her thread to check and you're right.

Suckers!

Around here if there's a holiday, garbage collection is pushed back one day for the whole week. the part-timers pick up the slack on Saturday.

My pick-up day is Thursday, so if there's a Monday holiday, they come get it Friday. If there's a Friday holiday, I wouldn't be affected.

and as far as wigglez thread goes, if she were posting more, there'd be less reason for me to post other tidbits of useless information in there. Don't blame me just because you don't want to admit it's wigglez' fault just because she's so freakin' hot and has a killer body

Lucky bastard. Maybe I'll start Fed-Exing my trash to you. It would be cheaper that what I have now and you could probably find a use for all my used pizza boxes.

Sure, i'd do that for ya. I only take my garbage out once every 2 weeks, sometimes three. I don't generate lots of garbage and the city provides us with extremely large garbage bins.

I take out garbage almost every day lately. I don't know where it all comes from, but it seems like the garbage is always full and needs to be taken out. Maybe it's just more since I moved and still am organizing stuff. I don't remember how often I used to take out garbage beacuse the bin was usually never full so it was never an issue. But between dirty diapers and dog shit, the garbage adds up fast.

ARGH!!! there's a great quote about changing maggie's diaper and homer suggests just having her roam outside. I can't remember where it's from. Oooh, wait a minute. I think it's the one where Marge was arrested for shoplifting. yeah, that's the one. Marge is in jail and they're talking about splitting up responsibilities or something like that.

Oh, well. Pretend I knew what I was talking about and it was really funny.

thanks

Well go ahead and steal it, I did!

I mean like the round metal cans you see on the movies that might take one or two bags.

The world is in crisis and recycling is important and your governments want to charge you to do it? Unbelievable!!! I throw anything paper, cardboard, glass jars, tins, cans, bottles, juice cartons all in my recycle bin! If garbage day is a holiday they just pick it up the next day!!!

My rant for the day is rather silly but here goes anyway. I hate the stupid people that make the best and worst dressed lists. Ok sometimes it obvious when a girl has picked a retarded outfit but alot of times girls get dissed and made fun of for no reason. Oh no she's showing too much skin....sorry..forgot you were a raging homo who only likes the skimpy girls who have no shape and look like boys. Then you'll look at the best dressed pics and you think the guys on crack. Some of them are wearing outfits that look like they are wearing bags, there's no shape to them at all or like Victoria Beckham (who I like by the way) was wearing an outfit that could have been used as a tutu in the nutcracker. A lot of times they just like to be biasis to certain celebrities like Christina. Now I realize that girl has had strange taste and she looked trampy for awhile but now it doesn't matter what she does they still hate her. Some of her clothes have been extremely similar to Beyonces and yet somehow she's a fashion goddess. I don't know but they should stop letting egotistical, prejudous flammers ,make those kind of decisions.


Whew!! That's like therapy. lol

Now let's move to the part where you lie on the couch and I administer treatment.

Yeah I hate that shit too... because who really gives a fuck at the end of the day? Who is the guy that complies that list and what the fuck does he wear?

well that's probelm number one...they have a guy doing it.
number two...just like in the art community, some elitists like to sound like they are experts by proclaining something completely outlandish is all the rage and something more traditional is passé. There are exceptions where this might be true, but usually it is total BS.

That is all.

Oh yeah, Christina has a great rack.

Sigh, she has great everything.

Yup!

too bad that photographer didn't have a bucket of water with him.

that would make a list

My RANT the president gets on Tv to make a sales pitch for why we need more troops in Iraq and along the way he mentions Iran and stimulates more concnern amongst the amrican people then there was before just so he can move 20,000 troops to the middle east its getting stupid ..okay Im done

Christina DOES have a great rack and that pic proves it!!!

okay the point is ?

it proves we need another pic!

This is bullshit, I wanna see those puppies nekkid!

as good as I can do

not too shabby. If I had the time and patience, I'd photshop a stickman of my spooning her or something like that. But seeing as I have little time and zero patience, I'll just leave that door open for some other weirdo.

I dont have time or patience either

now this is proof that a skinny women can look good with big boobs !!!

many skinny women also can look good by sticking my cock in their mouth.

I guess that would be up to the individual ...

She'd look just as hot with B cups IMO

I'm out of Makers Mark. Boo-hoo!

Now that is rant-worthy

Isn't it?! I drank JD tonight as a result and now I'm outta that too! *pouty lower lip*

I have some semen you can drink?

Ok that was kinda wrong

Kinda wrong, but kinda OK. What does it taste like?

Having never tasted it myself I am not too sure.... I havent had any complainst that its really funky like that Sex in the City episode and I do drink alotta pineapple juice