the great pacific recycling gyre i assume.
― Hunt3r, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 17:41 (six years ago) link
There are a lot of restaurants here in Austin, TX that do multiple trash cans like this. It's a well meaning idea that ends up as a mess because people either don't know or don't care about how they are supposed to separate out. I also find it confusing because, at least at home, we are supposed to rinse out recyclables of any food bits before putting them in the bin, and there's no way that's happening at these restaurants.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 17:51 (six years ago) link
Moodles I suspect it's like those self-serve parking garages that say "take your ticket with you! pay at kiosk!" But the exit gates still take credit cards.
No batch of recyclable material will be perfect, but its quality will be increase by the extent to which people follow "the rules."
― it's a leaf that the nomads chew (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 17:59 (six years ago) link
I thought the rinsing thing was mainly for sanitary reasons, to avoid vermin being attracted to sacks of recycling being left around at residential addresses for a week.
― Alba, Wednesday, 16 May 2018 18:03 (six years ago) link
I'm under the impression that it makes it harder to process items if they aren't cleaned out.
YMP, I agree, but in my experience, there's little guidance for patrons to follow, and many just don't care, so it ends up being messy and random.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 16 May 2018 18:10 (six years ago) link
"bridesmaids"
― right brain ringworm (Noodle Vague), Monday, 21 May 2018 08:35 (six years ago) link
"a memoir"
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 19:25 (six years ago) link
[husband/wife] *to* [spouse]
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 20:26 (six years ago) link
?
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 20:27 (six years ago) link
I have a cringe allergy to "husband/wife" and generally use partner, spouse. It's funny that you are the opposite.
I posted this elsewhere but "buddy" always sounds molestery to me. Why do people call children this?!?
― Yerac, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 20:50 (six years ago) link
usually if you say partner, there's a sense that it's a gender-sensitive word, so your partner may be not strictly male/female
i hear gay people say it more than straight people
spouse just sounds too unnecessarily formal especially if you don't use it in formal situations
buddy is like saying pal, partner, friend, little guy, but in a kinder way, unless you're being sarcastic
― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 20:56 (six years ago) link
Because it's gender-neutral?
I go to speech therapists who seem to call every kid "buddy." They don't need to remember it's ten o'clock so this is Sam and Sam is a he.
― imagine flagons (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 20:58 (six years ago) link
We were watching two series back to back where everyone was calling each other buddy (and it wasn't even Arrest Development). It sound so creepy to me.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 21:00 (six years ago) link
christ, I cannot type today.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 21:01 (six years ago) link
I like the word partner, it seems more egalitarian.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 21:02 (six years ago) link
One thing I have noticed with people who marry: the name of their partner suddenly disappears, exchanged for ‘my wife’ or ‘my husband’ in regular conversations with people who are accustomed to hearing the spouse’s name. It can sound kind of prissy and rank-pulling, sometimes.
― suzy, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 21:13 (six years ago) link
Ok everyone stop saying “timeline”
― omar little, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 21:31 (six years ago) link
i don't mind husband or wife or ppl saying 'my husband/wife' or saying 'i am _______'s husband' or even describing one's self as 'husband of [wife's name]'
there's something about 'i am husband TO ________' that seems stilted and milady-ish and makes me think that their wedding vows included one about the wife submitting to the husband's will
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 21:32 (six years ago) link
Oh that's what you meant. I thought you meant you hated spouse and preferred husband/wife. Yeah, usually I just introduce my boner holder by name.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 21:34 (six years ago) link
I do really hate those twitter profiles that list "wife, mother of Jayden, patriot, pikachu" blah blah as their descriptors. I assume they are all bots.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 21:37 (six years ago) link
“husband, father, entrepreneur, thought leader”
― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 21:39 (six years ago) link
you forgot boner holder
― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 21:40 (six years ago) link
When I went through Heathrow in Feb. I put N/A under employment on the landing card. Immigration was like "are you a housewife" I said No. They tried to put "homemaker" and I said I don't do that either. I said I JUST HANG OUT, OK. I kind of felt bad that I gave her a hard time when she was just trying to do her job.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 21:45 (six years ago) link
this whole thread...where are you, yerac? where i am, if someone hardlines "spouse" it's like emphatically non-gendery, and "partner" it's pretty same-gendery, and "buddy" is canine-y, a kiddo, or a fight about to happen. but also i am an old.
― Hunt3r, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 21:45 (six years ago) link
I am American, but currently living in South America and watching a lot of netflix. But also after a certain threshold of time with someone, girlfriend/boyfriend becomes too blech. Partner is more adequate to describe a serious relationship with no religious overtones.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 21:49 (six years ago) link
I should just introduce him as "this is my husband...for the time being."
― Yerac, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 21:52 (six years ago) link
the name of their partner suddenly disappears, exchanged for ‘my wife’ or ‘my husband’ in regular conversations with people who are accustomed to hearing the spouse’s name
this seems really weird to me. I only refer to my wife as "my wife" if I'm talking to someone who doesn't know/has never met her. otherwise I refer to her by her name cuz duh
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 21:53 (six years ago) link
'i'm a full-time dreamer'
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 21:54 (six years ago) link
ah, of course, i totally get that use too, thanks. derp. xp
― Hunt3r, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 21:56 (six years ago) link
i'm a millennial, i do post-work
― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 21:56 (six years ago) link
― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, May 22, 2018 4:40 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
boner holder, boulder honer
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 22:14 (six years ago) link
"the mrs" was a suitable reference for the mrs long before she was the mrs
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 22:57 (six years ago) link
figured you for an "old ball and chain" type
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 23:00 (six years ago) link
'Man' is a common one where I come from, for a husband. No-one would ever say 'woman' though, unless you're Ted Nugent.
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 23:04 (six years ago) link
... old fashioned though, my mother might say it but my sister wouldn't.
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 23:05 (six years ago) link
xos and is the inference that this has been confirmed or not
because there is a clear negative connotation to one and if you project one that isnt there onto the other you should probably interrogate that yourself
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 23:05 (six years ago) link
The little woman.
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 23:07 (six years ago) link
e.r. indoors
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 23:08 (six years ago) link
My good lady wife.
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 23:09 (six years ago) link
the bread knife
― chant down basildon (NickB), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 23:11 (six years ago) link
Trouble 'n' strife.
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 23:12 (six years ago) link
She who must be obeyed
― chant down basildon (NickB), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 23:18 (six years ago) link
w1fe
― valorous wokelord (silby), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 23:18 (six years ago) link
https://www.greetingcarduniverse.com/images/csphoto/1107/00/00/17/94/61/1441836_TN_shadow.png
― mick signals, Tuesday, 22 May 2018 23:18 (six years ago) link
Dmac otm as usuIn romance languages wife is literally woman. Husband/wife can also translate to “handcuff”
― F# A# (∞), Tuesday, 22 May 2018 23:57 (six years ago) link
My main reason for using 'partner' is to avoid 'boyfriend' and 'girlfriend', which sound too...trivial?
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 00:29 (six years ago) link
Earlier i recognized that my admission of old does fold into a kind of formal legacy sitch on those terms- to me ‘spouse’ seems more gendered than ‘partner’ because partner reflected non legal or non recognized relationships. Im sure y’all smarts got that, but it reached me.
― Hunt3r, Wednesday, 23 May 2018 01:48 (six years ago) link
otm. this went from fun to tedious in nothing flat
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 02:06 (six years ago) link
thats a pretty short.....sequence
― laurel or hardyhearin (darraghmac), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 07:57 (six years ago) link
Marks & Sparks.
― Poisoned by Johan's pea soup. (Tom D.), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 08:24 (six years ago) link