Tuesday 6 March 2012

On my way to buy a morning paper #32

Solid rectangles of wheelie bins
ambush-hid behind the hawthorn hedges
gun-toting cowboys and Red Indians

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  1. Do kids still play cowboys and indians? Or is it frowned on now?

    It was our wheelie bin day today - but ours looked more like East Europeans queuing in the bad old cold-war days.

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  2. Hm. You see shapes and colours - I see people.
    (No - not dead people!) Interesting character difference there.

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    1. I wondered about cowboys and Indians but what the hell - it's historical! Not so many on TV now, or is it guns that prevent it? And I did begin by including the line "small boys playing" so there was people to start with. Are your bins brown? (or is that dreadfully un-PC too?!) because ours are green.
      And I also wondered whether there was a rectangular equivalent of 'cube' but neither of us could think of one ...

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  3. Rectangular cube is cuboid. (How boring is that?)
    Our wheelie bins are black. Though we also have a brown one for garden waste, a red box for bottles and tins, a blue box for plastic, a yellow bag for cardboard and a blue bag for paper. I think that's it. They have a whole section of their own in the garden and will be collected next week!

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    1. And all those plastic boag and box makers must be rubbing their hands all the way to the bank (having succesfully lobbied their council/MP etc etc to implement recycling)
      and thanks for 'cuboid' - ugly as well as boring :(

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