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I baked this once and got in a lot of trouble. Really funny story, but i'll save it. Anyway,welcome to the Halfbakery, [hugeboofhead] !!! (+) |
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I'd rather have my own rubbish in my own bin than someone else's in my garden. |
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I think I prefer to have my own garbage strewn about to other peoples. I mean, I don't have fishheads, empty DDT bottles, and used hypodermics in my trash, but I can't say the same about the people down the block. And they throw enough crap in my front lawn as is. Big stinky fishbone (delivered by cannon) for you. |
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Oh, but welcome to the halfbakery anyway! |
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Or not, depending who's pissed you off this week. |
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Be sure to remove any documents stating the orignator's name and/or address. |
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Warning: aim away from face. |
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Baked, during Medieval times, with trebuchets and assorted refuse including corpses. |
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With a big enough cannon, you could launch garbage into orbit or beyond. |
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I like how irresponsible it all is! |
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Then, randomly, it re-rains back in your yard. |
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I guess if you shuttled the garbage enough it would slowly disintegrate thus eliminating the need for landfills. |
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Wait wait wait. Try this: Everybody has one of these cannons installed in their back garden. However, rather than firing them randomly, a team of highly skilled engineers (read: pirates) calibrate your cannon to fire and directly hit the local landfill site or pick up point where a large lorry will be diligently awaiting a bombardment every Tuesday at 11am. A compactor forms the rubbish into a single launchable item cutting down on debris. |
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One peril remains to this wonderful idea: never cross the streams. |
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a horrible idea. only a huge [boofhead] would come up with something like this. : ) |
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welcome to the HB anyways. |
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Baked in an episode of Home Improvement, only they used a catapult. |
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I think this idea would work if you lived in a really small country, maybe something like Andora. They could fire all their garbage into France or Spain (or possibly both on an alternating basis).
++ from me (cos everybody hates the French). |
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//cos everybody hates the French// |
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Excuse me!? Have you forgotten the diversity of your audience???? Being of French descent (among many others) myself, I take personal affront at that remark, and just for your information most folks in the US who hate the French only hate them because they had the balls to tell Bush to eat shit and die, which more countries should've done. |
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I was thinking it would be possible to launch your trash into space (or perhaps it would dissintegrate on the way up there). |
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[21Quest] Je fais des excuses, mon amie. |
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// Je fais des excuses, mon amie //
I hope that does actually mean 'I'm sorry' (to our French and Francophile community).
If not, then I also apologise for the crummy French . . . damn you MSWord translation facility. |
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//I also apologise for the crummy French// |
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Yes, as a whole they are crummy, aren't they? |
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(C'est la loi for the English to insult the French and vice versa. Written into the EU consitution apparently. Gone on for bleedin' centuries. Nothing at all to do with that Iraq business.) |
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I think there was some unpleasantness with the British sinking the French navy during WW2 (after France was invaded by the Germans), and of Agincourt. |
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Oh yeah, agincourt... didn't the French lose that one, despite 3-1 odds in their favor? The lay of the land was very much like that of thermopi... thermopliay... that place where the Spartans beat the piss out of the Persians. The French also wore heavier, steel plate armor and were mostly cavalry. Once a guy got knocked off his horse the steel plates of his armor were held to the mud by suction and made it difficult to get up. the English force, comprised mostly of archers, wore cloth and leather armor which didn't adhere to the muddy ground as much, which gave them the advantage. All the Brits had to do to win was for each archer, with great range and able to fire 6 arrows per minute, to knock 3 french off their horse, where they would get trampled to death by their comrades' horses or be easy pickings for the few English CQB (close quarters battle) combatants. |
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I'd think that would lead to the French hating the Brits, though, if anything.Same with the Brits sinking the French fleet. Not the other way around. What did the French ever do the Brits (since the American Revolution, that is)? |
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//armor held to the mud by suction //
Sounds like someone's baking a new idea . . . |
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No, I'm serious! I was watching this show... can't remember what it was called.... it was about a group of people that dug up records from historical events, mostly ancient battles, and basically did forensics on it to find out how the shit happened. When researching the Battle of Agincourt, they dug up all kinds of records and personal accounts from survivors and witnesses, and they discovered that it had been raining heavily shortly before the battle so the ground was very muddy, which did not favor a cavalry charge because the horses had a hard time keeping their footing while trying to charge at full speed. The consensus among almost everyone who survived and everyone who's researched the battle was that it was NOT an English victory, rather it was a spectacular French failure. Again, I don't get why people dislike the French so much. They may have a history of military incompetence, but remember they also gave birth to Napoleon, and were once considered one of the most dangerous nations in the world. They have a long history of success and victory to balance the losses. What's to hate about them? I especially don't get why so many Americans hate them, when we might not have won our independence from Britain without their aid. If anything, we were in their debt until we returned the favor in WW2. We repaid our debt to France, we owe them nothing and vice versa. Why the hatred? |
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I don't know about hating France but you can't help but feel cornered being English when the Scots, Welsh and Irish all think you're scum. Can't they just let 300 years of persecution lie? |
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As for the French, based on my sketchey knowledge of European history, I reckon it's the one country that the English have been at war with for a longer period of time than any other in the World. Possible cause for antipathy? |
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//I especially don't get why so many Americans hate them// |
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personally, je love the French, but truth be told the French have made an art out of hating Americans. there. i said it. |
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