That is actually a pretty good idea, and could be used as a metaphore for life ! ALWAYS HAVE A BACKUP plan in case shit happens.
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Life hack for leaky bags: Sick of cleaning out your garbage can after it springs a leak? Line your clean bin with two bags, one inside the other. When you take the full one out, if it rips and nasty garbage juice comes out, just put it back and take both bags. If not, throw out the full bag and put a new empty bag in. Voila. Clean bin forever.

-- Credit where credit is due: me>> ^spoco2:

The rubbish bags at the bottom of the rubbish bin is great until the one you're using gets a rip and spills liquid from the rubbish over all of your new bags.

Life hack for leaky bags: Sick of cleaning out your garbage can after it springs a leak? Line your clean bin with two bags, one inside the other. When you take the full one out, if it rips and nasty garbage juice comes out, just put it back and take both bags. If not, throw out the full bag and put a new empty bag in. Voila. Clean bin forever.

-- Credit where credit is due: me>> ^spoco2:

The rubbish bags at the bottom of the rubbish bin is great until the one you're using gets a rip and spills liquid from the rubbish over all of your new bags.

The rubbish bags at the bottom of the rubbish bin is great until the one you're using gets a rip and spills liquid from the rubbish over all of your new bags.

I think it is likely that the Australian/Kiwi accents are closer to "British English" because of its (slightly) later divergence and the fact that there is significantly less influence from the United States and quite a bit more influence linguistically from England. Canadian English stems primarily from the language spoken by United Empire Loyalists who migrated to Canada after the American Revolution. Australian English, on the other hand, was based largely on the English spoken by British convicts, military personnel and settlers (a large proportion of which spoke with Cockney or Irish accents).

With a proportionally larger influx of people from British cities, particularly London and Southern England and, with Received Pronunciation being largely a formalized form of the London accent, it is understandable that Australian English has a closer connection to "British English".
>> ^FishBulb:

Skeeve, How do you explain the Australian and New Zealander accents?
It's interesting, as to dialect Australians say rubbish, bin, spanner, etc.

Skeeve, How do you explain the Australian and New Zealander accents?
It's interesting, as to dialect Australians say rubbish, bin, spanner, etc.

>> ^dag:

Very agile is the kitty ... And yet ... Done in by a single rubbish bin.


No thanks to some deranged woman who the kitty thought was friendly, any animal (within reason) could easily be suckered into the same fate if it were as trusting

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Very agile is the kitty ... And yet ... Done in by a single rubbish bin.

Man, there's some heated back and forth here... that's for sure.

Mac vs PC for Me?

PC:

Pros
* WAY cheaper hardware, seriously. My house was robbed recently, and my laptop stolen. This was a 3 years old Dell Inspiron that was about 2Grand (AUS) at the time of purchase. To replace that with a Dell Inspiron that's way better specced now...? $AU745 To replace with an Apple with a similar size screen (I don't want anything less than 14" it gets used as a DVD player for the kids in the car when we go on holidays)? $2,700! Seriously insane! The cheapest laptop they offer AT ALL? $1600, with a 13" screen... Holy crud. You can argue all you like about build quality and included features etc. etc. But if you don't offer some damn sort of entry level computers, then you've lost me I'm afraid.

* Games. I like to play PC Games, playing through Bioshock was blissful. I hardly ever get to these day (4 kids under 6 will do that to you), but I like to buy a game every six months or so and get some playing in now and again... and I'm afraid the PC has the Mac beat in every possible way here.

* I actually really like Windows Media Player. I didn't for ages. Up until, erm, I think it was version 10, I was a staunch Winamp user. But now, WMP is great. And I have no idea what you're talking about with ads in it, because I never see any, it opens in my library. But then I guess I never use online music stores as I'm old fashioned and actually like to get a physical CD for my music.

* It's what I'm used to... I've been using PCs since DOS, so I'm kinda comfortable with them, and I have no real issue with them or Windows. Is it a crap reason to stick with an operating system? Maybe... but it's a reason.

* Even moreso... It's what the Wife is used to: She really doesn't want to learn some other operating system. And she uses all the pcs in this house, so that's a serious consideration.

Cons
* Lack of a unix based terminal... yup, agree there. When you're doing web based development, and the things you're doing are deployed on Linux boxes, it would be really nice to be able to have a local setup that mirrors that. Can't really on a Windows box (and no, Cygwin doesn't count).

* Windows Movie Maker/ Windows DVD Maker: When I first got Vista I got really excited about Windows DVD Maker because the look and feel of the menus it can create and the way it all seems to fit together looks superb. After having it now for a year and a half or so, I think I have successfully burnt ONE DVD using it. ONE. And it's not like it tells you beforehand that it can't handle whatever video format you've given it or whatever, it quite happily previews and goes ahead and spends an hour preparing the video etc. only to die at 99% with a cryptic message. UTTER SHIT. And Movie Maker? Urgh, doesn't really output into any format I really want. I have used it, I have made some nice movies with it, but it's not fun to use at all. For my DVD creation needs I now use DVD Flick (Open source), and I have yet to hit any video format it can't handle... see MS, it's not that hard.


APPLE:
Pros
* Built on BSD: Having a real terminal, and real linux/unix operating system under the hood is great for anyone doing dev work... very nice.

* iLife: As much as I don't like iTunes (see below), from what I've played with in iMovie and iDVD, I really like them, very nice to use. Would love to be able to play with them, and it most of the reason I would like to give owning a Mac a go.


Cons
* Cost: Insane... mentioned above... unavoidable.

* The strip thing: Sorry, don't like that thing along the bottom... heaps of icons with only a tiny little triangle to let you know which ones are currently running, and which aren't. Not intuitive to me at all... but that might just be me.

* Lack of games... again, mentioned above.

* The incredibly annoying advertising: Seriously, this is enough to make me not want one. The arrogant, bullshit of 'Windows always crash' and 'Macs never fail' is SUCH SHIT. I can't remember the last time I had a windows box crash, and I use them ALL day most days. Whereas the last time I was using a Mac at work (OSX, but a fews years back) I had it crash with the delightful bomb thing...

* During that same time I was using the Mac I wanted to eject the DVD I had in it... I looked and looked for an eject button, and could not find it. Could find no logical way to do so... ended up dragging it onto the rubbish bin to eject it, which to me seemed like an insanely loopy way to get a disc out of a drive. I'm sure there are simpler ways, but I found it baffling that here I was, using the 'so simple' OS and could not for the life of me work out how to GET A DISC OUT OF THE MACHINE.

* I despise iTunes and Quicktime. The interface to iTunes, to my eye, is ugly as sin, and quicktime on the PC (can't speak for OSX obviously, but if you want to win people over, don't release shit software on other systems) is a horrendous piece of software that irks the absolute hell out of me... plus until recently had the gall to try and charge you money just to be able to watch movies full screen. I wouldn't have it installed on my pc at all if it wasn't for apple.com/trailers.

* Hardware upgrades: Sort of linked to the price thing, but different in that you can't throw any old video card or whatever else you want in the machine, because you're limited to what Apple offer you in their infinite wisdom.

Neither here nor there
* Physical design: People rant and rave about how beautiful Apples are... and to some degree they are very nice to look at, but you're kinda stuck with that and nothing else. PCs have some pretty sexy desktops and laptops now, in a form for pretty much everyone.


It is obviously personal, and for people like budzos to attack dag for dag finding Macs to be more productive for him is insane. If HE finds it more efficient, then that's friggen great! I really would love to give a Mac a chance, but that entry price is just insanely high, so I'm afraid, unless work switches to Mac (very much a Dell shop), it's not going to happen.

This one housemate I had sucked really fucking hard. She left me 7 months pregnant and 1 days notice in our apartment for no apparent reason, other than i'd started to nag her for leaving milk out to rot and generally being a dirty bitch. She'd sucked it all up and planned to fuck me over.

It all came to a head when the swing lid of the rubbish bin had fallen inside it (right near the top mind you) and she'd emptied her uneaten food all over it. I had called her out on it when she came into the kitchen and she pushed me fairly hard back against the table. I obviously quite heavily up the duff took affront to this and grabbed her arm and twisted it while pushing her up against the wall, allegeldy spraining it.

Anyway, she fucked off a week later using this as an excuse. Like she hadn't asked for it! She left me with all the bills and no way to pay the rent on my own so I had to leave and go back to my parents. About a year later, I came back to the area to see a few friends i'd lost touch with. The nasty whore had spread rumours that i'd had my baby taken off me because i'd turned into a heroin addict. What the fuck!

What is wrong with people saying they think they know where this is?

If people believe them without thinking critically, then they deserve to be mislead.

If someone else takes their time to start looking into rubbish bins and license plates, more power to them.

...this little piggy went to market,
this little piggy stayed still;
when we left this piggy was not dead,
we didn't even know he was ill;
And long little piggies say PEW-WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, all the way to the nearest rubbish bin or commode!

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“Choggie, what the hell is that abomination attached to the teletubby? Don't get me wrong, Teletubbies deserve to have abominations attached to their faces....”Glad you asked swapgirl, I'm quite attached to this little charm...twas given to me by my friends wife, a good luck (godlike) charm of Spanish origins, she remembered from her childhood in Italy..She gave everyone one upon her return from holiday....Choggie is rough with things and choggie can't have anyting nice, so mine ended up with the hands, head missing altogether, and the sock that was his ass, had to be glued on with super glue.....Why stop there??.. I replaced his head with a slug from a 45, and his appendages, including his hand replacements, are tiny stylized figures, which were hand painted by some psychotic train enthusuist, that i fuond in the rubbish bin, marked BFI (big fucking incinerator).

He now hangs from my rear view mirror, and am happy to report, he's worked to make me some end-o-year cabbage, and eased the painful itch of road rage a bit...I focus my rage through him now, instead of directly into the driver at fault.!
Merry Xmas!

The robots we all romanticize, in our idyllic visions, of a cooling globe, no gas prices, and moving sidewalks, is George Nanotech, and his Microscopic Robot Army of Cell Replication.

Remember the galaxy, in "Men in Black"? Twas teensy-weensy.

The Honda-bot crumpled under the weight of that rubbish bin on his back.