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#121221 01/27/04 02:08 AM
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I can clean a room.
I can pick up a room.

But the two tasks are different. And both are perpetually needed around here.

The only other phrase which occurs to me is "my sisyphusian torture."



#121222 01/27/04 04:24 AM
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>the two tasks are different

prezactly, S'eye -- picking up is a quick method of removing the big, obvious bits; and doesn't get the room clean at all, unless you've very recently cleaned it!
-ron o.


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dodyskin: binbag
eta: that's a new one for me...
So, what do you call bin bags then (black plastic bags to line dustbins/trashcans)?
well, usually I would say gargage bag, or, as WW mentions, trash bag. only rarely would I call it a liner, though that's what the manufacturers call them...
I know that I never use dustbinwhich is why I'm always picking up my room, usually trash can, or simply "trash." as in, "throw it in the trash." oh, there's always "wastebasket", too. I probably use that most often, come to think of it.



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what ete! you just throw stuff in the waste can or trash? you don't stop and think, does this go in the blue can? or the green one? can i trash this, or do i need to recycle it? and into which pile does it go?

we don't have dust bins (we have bins, but they are for storing good stuff.. Costco might have a bin of X, at some sort of wonderful costco price)and since coal is hardly used for residential heating any more, we also, for the most part don't have ash cans (think, correctly ashcans)-

i remember as a child, in ireland, my grandparents 'recycled' too, and had one can for ashes, (they heated with coal) one for trash and one for 'food waste' (that was collected by the pig man)

when my mom was on a rage, and having a general clean up, she threated (not idly!) to put stuff into (or out with) the garbage.

i would call binbags, garbage bags.. the big black ones are 'leaf bags' (you can't burn fallen foliage in most of US)--Leaf bags had special pick ups-they got recylced by the parks department.

for a big clean up, some rent a dumpster (a skip) and some apartments (like mine) have a 'trash chute' that loads the garbage into small dumpsters (on wheels) that are rolled in and out as they fill up.


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what ete! you just throw stuff in the waste can or trash?

heh. for that I just say, "throw it in recycling." or "recycling's over there, under the overhead."

my recycling bin(!), is under my overhead projector...




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Oh, I know, we have a bottles bag, a tins bag, a newspaper bag, they all sit in the kerbit. Then there's the small slopbox, with which I feed the worm farm, which is really just a big bin with a tap on it, then there is the Wesley box for clothes and hardware. The swingbin really just has dust in it these days, and the dustbin has been retired in favour of the wheeliebin. Sometimes I think that the whole house has been taken over by rubbish receptacles, when it's meant to be a dody receptacle.

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What's a kerbit? Why a worm farm? What's a Wesley box (I think I can suss out this last one...)?


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Why a worm farm?--that's one i can answer...a worm farm is an apartment dwellers answer to a compost heap. (unfortunately, it gets too cold in NYC for the worms to winter over) you put your food garbage in, and get worm casting and compost out...

the composted soil+ worm castings is the best stuff you find for your potted plants (so you contain grown tomatoes are rich red and delicous!)


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Dear of troy: You mentioned a chute for trash. One big problem with chutes. The VA hospital where I worked had
chutes for linen to go to laundry. Some asshole efficiency idiot put a stop to washing fecally soiled sheets on the
wards, claiming it could be done more efficiently at the
laundry. A couple years later it was discovered that the
chutes were heavily coated with feces, and emitting huge
clouds of bacteria into the wards every time the chute doors
were opened.


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"What's a kerbit?"

Something you put out at the kerb/curb, I bet. With rubbish/garbage/trash in it.


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