The Vent and Rant Thread

[BetterRed]

My comment was not directed to the delivery service, but to the reference to the company that prepare meals for Jon's dog.

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Curious - has Canada Post been privatised? Aussie Post is just about the only thing 'round here that hasn't been.

No. It's a "Crown Corporation" which is one of those neither fish nor fowl abominations that we seem all to enamoured of.

[neil_swann80]

Darn foxes have been at the bins again. Anyone else in the UK sick of the amount of bins the councils expect us to use for general and recycling etc? If it's not the foxes it's gulls, crows or just the wind turning the area into a litter strewn bomb site.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by CRussel

No. It's a "Crown Corporation" which is one of those neither fish nor fowl abominations that we seem all to enamoured of.

We have plenty of those too, they're known as Statutory Corporations. Maybe because there's no direct private sector involvement Aussie Post has retained its public service ethos.

We also have Crown Resorts, with which our politicians are besotted… it runs most of our casinos.

Originally Posted by neil_swann80

Darn foxes have been at the bins again. Anyone else in the UK sick of the amount of bins the councils expect us to use for general and recycling etc? If it's not the foxes it's gulls, crows or just the wind turning the area into a litter strewn bomb site.

White Ibis are Sydney's the biggest problem wrt to rubbish bins. Never used to get them, now they're everywhere… they're native so they're protected. In flight they look a bit like pterodactyls.

The flying foxes (aka as fruit bats) will strip a tree bare of fruit in a matter of minutes - we cover our fig trees with purse seine fishing nets. They're also smelly, especially where they roost.

[neil_swann80]

On a visit to see relatives in the Gold Coast my female friend was crapped on my a fruit bat. Humming the Bat-Man theme tune constantly for the rest of the holiday resulted in many retaliatory slaps.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by neil_swann80

Darn foxes have been at the bins again. Anyone else in the UK sick of the amount of bins the councils expect us to use for general and recycling etc? If it's not the foxes it's gulls, crows or just the wind turning the area into a litter strewn bomb site.

Same here, actually. The number of different bins before our apartment house is probably reaching two digits soon. And foxes, gulls, crows, wind... yep. I know how you feel.

[DNSB]

I have to agree. At one point we had 1 dumpster that everything went into. Then we added single stream recycling. Give it a couple of months and we added compostable/food waste bins. A bit later, the single stream recycling split into multiple streams. So currently we have 6 flavours of bin. Unfortunately, quite a few of the "recyclables" are not very recyclable and the municipal web page is keeping someone employed trying to keep their lists of what goes where updated.

I have to finding quite a bit of humour from that web page. Advice such as "You can also wrap your food waste in paper and store it your refrigerator or freezer".

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by DNSB

I have to finding quite a bit of humour from that web page. Advice such as "You can also wrap your food waste in paper and store it your refrigerator or freezer".

Do they not say for how long exactly?

[DNSB]

I suspect the how long would be until someone pulled the package out and went "What the expletive deleted is this doing in the freezer?".

[neil_swann80]

Originally Posted by DNSB

I suspect the how long would be until someone pulled the package out and went "What the expletive deleted is this doing in the freezer?".

Or came home drunk, defrosted it in the microwave and tried to consume it.

[DNSB]

I can't decide whether , 🤮 or a mix of both is the appropriate response.

[Sirtel]

Hmm. I recently read somewhere that the stomach acid of humans is pretty potent and can digest a lot worse than the stomach acid of many other species. That probably is an indication that humans fed on carrion in the distant past...

Since reading that, I'm no longer so worried about eating stale/dated food.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by DNSB

. . .

I have to finding quite a bit of humour from that web page. Advice such as "You can also wrap your food waste in paper and store it your refrigerator or freezer".

Sound advice in a warm climate if you don't have an outdoor compost bin… been doing it for years. The 'parcels' go onto the green bin just before I take it out. Nowadays, the main problem is finding the paper.

If everyone did it, the Ibis would be less of a problem… they might even bugger off to where they came from… inland waterways.

BR

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Sound advice in a warm climate if you don't have an outdoor compost bin… been doing it for years.

Yes, but in Canada or in other countries with similar climate it's actually a bit funny. No one I know stores their biowaste in the fridge/freezer here, for example.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by neil_swann80

On a visit to see relatives in the Gold Coast my female friend was crapped on my a fruit bat. Humming the Bat-Man theme tune constantly for the rest of the holiday resulted in many retaliatory slaps.

No laughing matter Neil. Aussie fruit bat crap won't kill humans directly, but the virus it carries can infect horses from where it can transmit to humans in close proximity e.g vets, nurses, horse stud employees etc. It's deadly to both horses and humans… fortunately there's a vaccine for horses.

So next time you're down under make sure any horses you ride are up to date with their Hendra shots**… and never whisper a horse you don't know

Added: ** they get microchipped, there's bound to be an app to read it.