Your Friday WTF, 11/23/07

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1. Jeff Hentosz says:
   November 23, 2007 at 10:38 am

   Why don’t we get trashed and … pew …
2. Carl V. says:
   November 23, 2007 at 10:39 am

   It never ceases to amaze me the way young people will find such creative ways to do such stupid things to themselves and yet won’t apply that same creativity to living.
3. Nathan says:
   November 23, 2007 at 10:43 am

   You guys are all missing the greater issue.

   English people call trash cans “wheelie-bins”!

   Now that’s funny.
4. Colin F says:
   November 23, 2007 at 10:50 am

   Nathan,

   They’re bins with wheels. What’s so inappropriate about calling them “wheelie-bins”?

   Two countries divided by a common language again …
5. Ian Sales says:
   November 23, 2007 at 10:55 am

   Bah. Copycats. They’ve been doing that in Rotherham in South Yorkshire for ages.

   And what’s so bloody funny about “wheelie-bin”, eh? It’s no dafter than “fanny-pack”, which is a bum-bag, as any fule no ;-)
6. John Scalzi says:
   November 23, 2007 at 11:10 am

   Fanny pack or bum bag, they’re an abomination whatever they’re called.
7. PixelFish says:
   November 23, 2007 at 11:20 am

   Man, whatever happened to rolling down a hill and making yourself dizzy?
8. Ian Sales says:
   November 23, 2007 at 11:28 am

   I’m sure you look very natty in yours, John :-)
9. Chang O.C., by any means necessary says:
   November 23, 2007 at 11:36 am

   Wow.

   Apparently, these English kids are idiots. And making themselves dumber by leaps and bounds.

   Have they no Purell? Model glue? Gasoline? Hallucinogenic toads?
10. Dan says:
    November 23, 2007 at 12:10 pm

    # PixelFish Says:
    November 23rd, 2007 at 11:20 am

    Man, whatever happened to rolling down a hill and making yourself dizzy?

    There’s that. Or, Amsterdam is just a short trip across the Channel.
11. Nathan says:
    November 23, 2007 at 12:12 pm

    Don’t look to me for defense of fanny packs or bum bags (either the names or the items).

    And, sorry, but “Wheelie-bin” is just retarded.

    Also, the story John linked has a link to this story. Another true wheelie-bin tragedy.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/6945767.stm
12. Chris Byrne says:
    November 23, 2007 at 12:28 pm

    Damn.. when I first saw this I thought it was monkeyfishing.
13. Adela says:
    November 23, 2007 at 12:41 pm

    Having worked in plastics injection molding you don’t get high off the burning fumes. No where near intoxication. Dying brain cells, and other tissues, is pretty much it. Hey what’s this; the safety sheet says this one release cyanide when heated above 590.
    They are better off getting Varsol from the hardware store.
14. Ian Sales says:
    November 23, 2007 at 12:48 pm

    
    # Dan Says:
    November 23rd, 2007 at 12:10 pm

    # PixelFish Says:
    November 23rd, 2007 at 11:20 am

    Man, whatever happened to rolling down a hill and making yourself dizzy?

    There’s that. Or, Amsterdam is just a short trip across the Channel.
    

    There are no hills in Amsterdam. The Netherlands are famously flat, in fact.

    (joke)
15. John says:
    November 23, 2007 at 1:08 pm

    At least the English know that mathematics remains plural when you shorten the word. This entitles them in my book to ‘wheelie-bins’ and ‘bum-bags’. (I actually much prefer the general usage of the term ‘bum’ over ‘fanny’. Fanny is a girl’s name. Calling me bum, ‘fanny’ seems bloody bonkers.) Some might accuse me of being anti-American, which I’m not, but I do have ancestors who were members of Butler’s Rangers, and had to flee the country for a few generations after the War, so maybe that’s why I sometimes think the British understand the language better than we do.
16. Sara Genge says:
    November 23, 2007 at 1:28 pm

    “Wheelie-bins” is funny, any way you look at it. Makes one think of Weeny, which is an innoffensive word but still makes me gigglish for some reason.

    Getting high on burning wheelie-bins. I can see that happening. The drug progression would work like this:

    1. intoxication on parental tabacco fumes
    2. Watching too much reality TV
    3. a brief (but thorough) incursion in pron,
    4 That trip to Amsterdam that everyone was talking about
    5, 6, 7, 8, 9: binge drinking like only British teenagers know how.
    10: the required level of idiocy has been achieved! You are now ready to get high on trash.
17. Janiece says:
    November 23, 2007 at 1:41 pm

    I think “Wheelie-bins” is hilarious. Descriptive, fun to say, and (like Sara says), sounds like “weeney.”

    What’s not to like?
18. Domini says:
    November 23, 2007 at 2:53 pm

    “Wheelie-bins” puts me in mind of a poor-man’s transformers.

    hehehehe

    Or, taking a trash can with wheels, and riding it down a slope.
19. Colin F says:
    November 23, 2007 at 5:24 pm

    John @ #15,

    Apart from being a girl’s name, fanny is something entirely different, coloquially speaking, in the UK!
20. Mike says:
    November 23, 2007 at 7:31 pm

    #15: Many’s the US employee transferred to the UK or Australia, who has been taken to task for suggesting a “pat on the fanny”.

    We have wheelie-bins too, but (#3) only if they have wheels. Anyone who sa otherwise is an uter wet and a weed and i DISKARD him into above-sed bin.*

    *Decades before LOLCAT there was Molesworth.
21. Jon H says:
    November 23, 2007 at 9:56 pm

    My favorite British term is “sniffer dogs” (usually pronounced ‘sniffah dogs’) for what we’d call search dogs, or drug-sniffing dogs, or even ‘cadaver dogs’.

    Also, huffing burning trashcans is arguably better than huffing fermented human sewage.
22. Christopher Hawley says:
    November 24, 2007 at 4:30 am

    @11: Nathan said:
    

    Another true wheelie-bin tragedy.
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tees/6945767.stm

    The tragic bit is the demonstrated lack of either clear communication or clues. I wonder if the charity sends their counselors out to visit the bereaved with a similar lack of information?

    @21: Jon H said:
    

    Also, huffing burning trashcans is arguably better than huffing fermented human sewage.

    BINGO! And there, concerned citizens, is your answer: Add a quantity of sewage or nightsoil (bagged!) to the contents of your wheelie bin. If nightsoil is unavailable, substitute a sealable plastic vessel containing a small amount of 1,4-diaminobutane (putrescine), cadaverine, or other noxious nitrile of choice. Even the thickest of chavs may learn from this form of arson/inhalation aversion therapy…

    Heck, it beats the leaflets and other measures proposed here.
23. Antony B says:
    November 24, 2007 at 6:12 am

    Ahh… Teesside.

    Is it wrong that this story almost makes me nostalgic for the place?

    I’m sure that feeling will be cured when I go back there for Christmas.
24. gelee says:
    November 26, 2007 at 1:28 pm

    Holy Crap.
    British kids are stealing trash bins and smoking them. I don’t even know what to say to that.

    I have lost so much respect for you, Britain. Don’t you know you’re a role model? Who will we look up to?

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