Little gas canisters all over parks

[AmosMoses]

These litter the local roads around me, scumbag kids popping em on weekends.

[Pericoloso]

I first became really aware of them after a rave took place on the Croydon industrial estate where I worked.

There was dozens ,if not hundreds of them ,amongst the discarded drink cans n bottles and the deodorant cans.

[anonymous-user]

The ones you see littering the side of the road with a large amount will be NoS, good fun, no need to litter

Both Cyclists and Airsoft people use the same style cannisters but with Co2 in for tyre inflation/toy guns, they dont tend to litter or use 40 in a go

[madcowman]

I have a cream whipper and a stock of those little Nitrous capsules for making nitro infusions ( https://gizmodo.com/5955339/how-to-rapidly-flavor-... ) - handy for making foams etc too if I'm feeling especially food-poncy

[J4CKO]

Almost classy compared to one I heard, was in the Holyhead vicinity and saw a couple of melted wheelybins being slung onto a council flatbed transit, the wifes aunt was with us and is local, I remarked on one perhaps being an accident but two seems like someone being a dick, have they not got anythign to do round here ?

We were informed they burn them and then get high off the fumes ffs, your life is beyond st when a inhaling smoke from a burning dustbin is the highlight of your evening, I did have a run in with a local some months later and to be honest it no longer surprised me quite as much.

[Slushbox]

Dr Murdoch said:

I think they may have more than one use.

I'm pretty certain that cyclists use them when they get a puncture, hand pumps are old hat.

The bike pumps use CO2 bulbs, out of the shop. Some of the 'party' boys buy the bike pumps and use them for filling ballons on street corners.

[Smiler.]

Johnnytheboy said:

Reminds me of when I asked for one of those little tyre pressure gauges for my birthday about ten years ago...



My (very respectable) OH was given the third degree by the guy behind the counter in the car parts place as "people keep buying them to do drugs with".

To this day I am none the wiser as to what and how.

To make sure that there's only 10 psi at each corner of the pimpmobile.

What dealer wants to look uncool during re-up?

[Chris Type R]

vsonix said:

98elise said:

vsonix said:

Promised Land said:

vsonix said:

I imagine future archaeologists will have fun digging them up and guessing what they might have been used for.

No need for them to guess, with the www, it’s here forever more. That’s why time capsules are certainly a thing of the past, anything you want to find out about is a search away.

no, the web is incredibly impermanent. If there was a terrible cataclysm tomorrow there's no guarantee the web would still be working/accessible for long afterwards. The more advanced a civilisation gets, the less physical, permanent data we have about them. If the Rosetta Stone was made from papyrus and not carved into granite, we wouldn't be able to decipher most of the stuff we have managed to.

Agreed, and when the next way of storing data comes along you have to hope that what's currently stored gets converted. Plenty of data hasn't made it across format changes in a few decades. Give it 100 years any how much of what's available now will still be there?

There's already loads of stuff gone from the internet - all the old communities sites like Geocities and Angelfire, all the old Wordpress blogs, websites run by people who used to pay for the hosting themselves but then stopped making the payments for whatever reason, or they simply lost interest.

I was reading somewhere that the next big thing for long-term data storage is going to be laser-etched artificial quartz crystals. But even if we save the most important bits of Internet onto hardwearing crystal media, there's no guarantee that those left after the cataclysm would ever learn to decipher the data.

Copy the web to vellum - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35569281

[scottri]

FiF said:

Johnnytheboy said:

Reminds me of when I asked for one of those little tyre pressure gauges for my birthday about ten years ago...



My (very respectable) OH was given the third degree by the guy behind the counter in the car parts place as "people keep buying them to do drugs with".

To this day I am none the wiser as to what and how.

Likewise, none the wiser. Though in the interest of general forum amusement, an ex girlfriend, long time ex, came home from her shift at the hospital one evening with a fit of the giggles as the last patient had been some old geezer with one of those tyre pressure gauges firmly lodged up his old chap. Apparently he was a regular and had fancied a change from his usual problem object, namely the inside of a Bic biro point end first.

They make good little crack/pot smoking pipes once the internals are removed apparently. Used to get stolen a lot when I worked at halfords years ago.

[Parabola]

Robot Poos

[poo at Paul's]

Wonder if this is what the Amesbury Novichok victims found...…..?

[Gareth79]

vsonix said:

It's also a shame that they're hard to recycle, otherwise people would have an incentive to save the spent ones and get money back for handing them in.

I was about to say I wonder why they are hard to recycle if they are just steel canisters, but googled it and learned the obvious - if there's a full one in the crusher/shredder then you may get an explosion of compressed nitrous oxide...

[vsonix]

Gareth79 said:

vsonix said:

It's also a shame that they're hard to recycle, otherwise people would have an incentive to save the spent ones and get money back for handing them in.

I was about to say I wonder why they are hard to recycle if they are just steel canisters, but googled it and learned the obvious - if there's a full one in the crusher/shredder then you may get an explosion of compressed nitrous oxide...

Yup. I'm sure it'd be relatively easy to create a way to make sure each one's been punctured or at least analyse and separate full from empty but it seems nobody's really motivated to work something out. I know this because I used to work with people who organised festivals and the amount of these things we'd collect during the cleanup was immense; we'd then have a nightmare getting rid of the damn things as most scrappers flat out refused to touch them.

[Sam993]

vsonix said:

98elise said:

vsonix said:

Promised Land said:

vsonix said:

I imagine future archaeologists will have fun digging them up and guessing what they might have been used for.

No need for them to guess, with the www, it’s here forever more. That’s why time capsules are certainly a thing of the past, anything you want to find out about is a search away.

no, the web is incredibly impermanent. If there was a terrible cataclysm tomorrow there's no guarantee the web would still be working/accessible for long afterwards. The more advanced a civilisation gets, the less physical, permanent data we have about them. If the Rosetta Stone was made from papyrus and not carved into granite, we wouldn't be able to decipher most of the stuff we have managed to.

Agreed, and when the next way of storing data comes along you have to hope that what's currently stored gets converted. Plenty of data hasn't made it across format changes in a few decades. Give it 100 years any how much of what's available now will still be there?

There's already loads of stuff gone from the internet - all the old communities sites like Geocities and Angelfire, all the old Wordpress blogs, websites run by people who used to pay for the hosting themselves but then stopped making the payments for whatever reason, or they simply lost interest.

I was reading somewhere that the next big thing for long-term data storage is going to be laser-etched artificial quartz crystals. But even if we save the most important bits of Internet onto hardwearing crystal media, there's no guarantee that those left after the cataclysm would ever learn to decipher the data.

web.archive.org

[Shakermaker]

Gareth79 said:

vsonix said:

It's also a shame that they're hard to recycle, otherwise people would have an incentive to save the spent ones and get money back for handing them in.

I was about to say I wonder why they are hard to recycle if they are just steel canisters, but googled it and learned the obvious - if there's a full one in the crusher/shredder then you may get an explosion of compressed nitrous oxide...

If they become a big enough problem, I'm sure someone will come up with a way to make them safe for recycling before crushing them, even if it means discharging them all by hand in advance, or having a special explosion proof crusher...

[Sam993]

eldar said:

motoroller said:

Is there any other use for them? How do so many get sold, obviously everyone is not whipping that volume of cream...

Used to be used for making soda water in the dark and distant past, though CO2. Sparklets.

Yeah, that's what I thought these were used for still.

[motoroller]

Problem is they are using NO2 not CO2

Just to add to this - spotted some guy driving his car with a balloon sticking out of his mouth. Would guess he's doing this while driving - was fairly erratic. Wtf!

[eldar]

motoroller said:

Problem is they are using NO2 not CO2

Just to add to this - spotted some guy driving his car with a balloon sticking out of his mouth. Would guess he's doing this while driving - was fairly erratic. Wtf!

Probably helium, just perfecting his Donald Duck impression.

[Donbot]

Smiler. said:

To make sure that there's only 10 psi at each corner of the pimpmobile.

What dealer wants to look uncool during re-up?

[trickywoo]

Two finger kit kats used to be by far the highest selling chocolate bars because smack heads would buy them for the foil wrapper.

Sales went down when they went plastic.