The Thread Where Doofus Shouts Into The Void
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Why is the swim in a "Half Ironman" triathlon 1900 metres FFS? I know that is half the Ironman distance (3800m) but it's much too close to the length of the swim in an Olympic distance triathlon (1500m). A Half Ironman swim should be 2500meters so it sits roughly half way between the other two.
I'm not even going to ask this question in the triathlon thread because even they wont care. They'll just think I'm some sort of obsessive nut-job.
I'm not even going to ask this question in the triathlon thread because even they wont care. They'll just think I'm some sort of obsessive nut-job.
I've never seen our council employed domestic waste collection engineers (I should think that's the title they're given now - everyone seems to have a job title blown out of proportion. The word engineer is over used too - makes real engineers less valued. Rant over).
I put the bins at the end of the drive on a wednesday night, they're emptied at some point on Thursday morning and I return them to the side of the house on thursday evening when I return from work. They're always within about 3m of where they were collected from. Sometimes on the drive, sometimes on the pavement... Never had any issues. Never had a refusal for collection. I've even put out cardboard boxes full of cardboard boxes well beyond the "max allowed dimensions" and they've always been taken for recycling too.
For me they do a job. No frills, no spills.
I put the bins at the end of the drive on a wednesday night, they're emptied at some point on Thursday morning and I return them to the side of the house on thursday evening when I return from work. They're always within about 3m of where they were collected from. Sometimes on the drive, sometimes on the pavement... Never had any issues. Never had a refusal for collection. I've even put out cardboard boxes full of cardboard boxes well beyond the "max allowed dimensions" and they've always been taken for recycling too.
For me they do a job. No frills, no spills.
This might not be the first time I've mentioned this, but I feel I mist say that I don't like shop assistants saying to me that they will have a look 'for me'. I know they've said it without even thinking about it, but I'm like Adam Smith in this regard, I don't want them to look because it will benefit me, I want them to look because it will benefit them, because if they have the item I want I will buy it, and then they'll have done their job.
I dont mind too much where it goes back, but we keep getting letters from our waste collection operatives stating that we should not be putting loose dust/soot into out wheely bin. Aka, stop putting dust in the dust bin. We have been having renovation work, so there is a but more dust, but a lot is bagged and we havent been intentionally taking the piss. building material has been going in a skip or to the tip.
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