| Forgotten - 05.15.05 |
| submitter: | DVD Dan |
| location: | Costa Mesa, California |
| Condemed to rot behind the skipshack. |
| category: | Tainted |
| comments: | 38 |
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| FOD40UK commented on 06.14.05 | | HA HA!You thought those pesky flying monkeys had seen me off?!You hadn't banked on the power of Ginger Dave, and his faithful companion Versace!!(they eat flying monkeys for breakfast) |
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| Smart Set commented on 06.13.05 | | What the...? FOD? No, it can't be! You're supposed to be d...! |
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| Rebecca commented on 06.13.05 | | We say aluminum, you say aluminium, we say dumpster, you say skip, we say garbage, you say refuse...no need to call the whole thing off. |
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| FOD40UK(pui) commented on 06.13.05 | | Those "giant aluminum(sic) barrel-looking things" are actually galvanised mild steel!Aluminium wouldn't be strong enough unless it was mighty-thick,and then it would lose its weight advantage,and be super-expensive. |
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| Smart Set commented on 06.13.05 | | Here's a new version of an old children's song:"Skipshack, Googlewhack, give the dog a bone/This old Dan came rolling home/This old Dan, he played 1/He played skipshack on my drum, with a skipshack, googlewhack..." (Continues up to verse 709.) |
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| wim commented on 06.12.05 | | why thank you very much, Rebecca |
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| Rebecca commented on 06.12.05 | | Oh, how cute, #7100 is kind of a half-sized dumpster made of plastic. Your garbage trucks sound about the same as ours. On my street we have a female garbage-person...she is very serious as she goes about her job, I wouldn't want to get between her and the garbage. |
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| Nancy Dumpling commented on 06.12.05 | | Innards is such a good word. I might just have to make it my "Word of the Week" for this week. |
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| Smart Set commented on 06.12.05 | | Rebecca, the "giant aluminum barrel-looking things" are the wheeled metal bins I've referred to - the denizens of the skipshacks, though more usually seen out in the open. The operatives push them out to back of the refuse truck, which has a mechanism that lifts them (the bins, not the operatives [unless they forget to let go]) and hurls their contents into its churning, chomping innards. That's why they always look so battered and dented around their midriffs (the bins, not the...).
The "plastic dumpster" I referred to can be seen in matt #7100. It's just a wheeliebin, really, but one with a hinged lid, and it, too, can be upended by the refuse truck, which, incidentally, always has some filthy dolls or toy animals tied to the radiator grille or above the windscreen. I would think that the giant thing in Salinger's pic is a walk-in skip with doors. De luxe models come with a doorbell, and windows with net curtains. |
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| Rebecca commented on 06.12.05 | | Why yes, Wim, that does sound very simple. :/ |
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| wim commented on 06.12.05 | | we simplify, we can rent open containers more or less 20 feetlong, 8feet large and eiter 2feet high or 4feet high, restaurants and so rent small metall containers with a lid, in the containerparks we have several sizes of binnes in plastic, we have metal cubic containers to recycle glass (brow, green, white), paper, clothing, shoes, we have orange bins for household garbage, green ones for kitchen, fruit and garden, blue bags for pmd, and on a regular basis public services collect "large household garbage", that would include matts, but I never hunt wint a plan, they just have to come by. |
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| Rebecca commented on 06.12.05 | | We would call the thing Salinger linked to a dumpster. It sure is tall though - how are you supposed to get in there to scavenge? |
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| Rebecca commented on 06.12.05 | | SS, those structures do indeed seem to be skipshacks, although the brick one is a bit on the huge side. Ours are usually not big enough to hold a dance in. And what are those giant aluminum barrel-looking things? I'm confused when you say that you have plastic dumpsters but skips are always metal...I thought we had decided that your "skip" is our "dumpster." I can't see making them out of plastic, it seems like they'd warp or puncture. They are like 6 feet long and 3 feet deep or so. Are you talking about plastic bins like the blue recycling containers I linked to below? |
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| Smart Set commented on 06.12.05 | | You didn't kill the conversation, Rebecca, I had to go to bed, as it was 1.30 a.m. and I had matchsticks propping up my eyelids. Should have said goodnight - sorry. Your skipshack tours were most instructive. Would you say that the structures I indicated qualify as skipshacks? They seem to me to. I realise that your dumpsters are metal; we have similarly-shaped lidded bins in plastic, but skips are always metal. |
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| Nancy Dumpling commented on 06.12.05 | | Obviously. |
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| Salinger commented on 06.12.05 | | actually, I have no idea what it is. Although I'm sure it's called something different in America. |
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| Nancy Dumpling commented on 06.12.05 | | That's not a skip! Isn't it a container?! |
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| Salinger commented on 06.12.05 | | here is a very large rectangular skip. |
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| Rebecca commented on 06.12.05 | | DVD Dan is the Skipshack King! |
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| FOD40UK commented on 06.12.05 | | But I like your skipshack tour-I think we should have more! |
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| Rebecca commented on 06.12.05 | | I see I killed the conversation with my skipshack tour. |
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| Rebecca commented on 06.12.05 | | Here is one sitting out in the middle of a parking lot, here is one with no doors at an apartment complex, here is a nasty one behind an auto shop. |
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| Rebecca commented on 06.12.05 | | Hmm, okay. First of all, what we mean when we say "dumpster" is a large metal wheeled thing. They are very common here, and we also have larger ones that are hired for special jobs. Dumpster enclosures or skipshacks as we now call them may be found behind any place of business or apartment building. Smaller plastic bins are "trash cans" (left over from the metal days) or recycling bins. Our dumpsters also have lids, which I never seem to see on your skips, and they are rectangular in shape. |
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| Smart Set commented on 06.12.05 | | I understand what you mean now. Skipshacks aren't too common a sight here, but where they do exist they usually contain the large, wheeled metal bins rather than plastic dumpsters. They'd probably just be referred to as 'bin storage areas'. Matt #7909 shows a wooden example, matts #7388 and #8298 two views of the same brick one, both near apartment buildings. I think that in apartment buidings they're sometimes built in to the ground floor or basement. Our skips are always out on the street or on a driveway because they are hired only for specific jobs and are not there permanently, unlike the bins. A skip like that would probably never be found in a skipshack. |
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| Rebecca commented on 06.12.05 | | What I'm talking about is a small enclosure behind a restaurant or apartment building for example (basically any place large enough to have a dumpster instead of small trash cans). It is generally made of cement blocks or wood and hides the dumpster from general view and access. An example, although missing its gate, may be seen here. Perhaps you don't have them over there - I've noticed that for the most part your skips seem to be out in the middle of the street. |
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| Smart Set commented on 06.11.05 | | Our equivalent of wim's "containerpark" is just called "the dump" or "the tip", although its official name is "Waste and Recycling Centre" (see matt #6664), but it's a lot bigger than any shack, and besides the many containers both large and small it boasts an office where photographers can be detained for questioning. |
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| wim commented on 06.11.05 | | we call them "containerpark" in Dutch, "parc à conteneurs" in French, and there we have to put everything in separate containers, glass, green stuff, rubbish, paper, batteries, oil, you name, we have a separate container for it |
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| Rebecca commented on 06.11.05 | | Just out of curiosity, what do you call a dumpster enclosure over there? Or do you even have them? |
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| Smart Set commented on 06.11.05 | | Skipshack. |
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| Rebecca commented on 06.11.05 | | I like it a lot more than "dumpster enclosure." Let's start saying it and see if it catches on! |
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| Smart Set commented on 06.11.05 | | Sounds good to me. |
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| DVD Dan commented on 06.11.05 | | Maybe so, it is where skips live. |
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| Smart Set commented on 06.11.05 | | So, what is a skipshack? Google finds only a single example of its use (is that a kind of Googlewhack?), in some weird old Elizabethan play, The Wisdom of Doctor Dodypoll, by that prolific author Anonymous. Have you invented the word, Dan?
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| DVD Dan commented on 06.11.05 | | No |
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| Smart Set commented on 06.11.05 | | Is a skipshack like a garden shed? |
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