Beat this for 'past its sell-by'

[Arch]

I think it's just a can of Carling, sat on a low roof in direct sunlight/rain/snow for 5 years, i've not checked it's there in months ill have a look tomorrow

In that case, it's steel. Carling use steel, except for the new pint cans, which are ali...

Dammit, I could have guessed it was Carling and you'd have been mystified as to how I knew....

 

[MrJamie]

In that case, it's steel. Carling use steel, except for the new pint cans, which are ali...

Dammit, I could have guessed it was Carling and you'd have been mystified as to how I knew....

Don't worry im still impressed Does that mean some cans are magnetic and others aren't or am i being thick?

 

[Arch]

Don't worry im still impressed Does that mean some cans are magnetic and others aren't or am i being thick?

Yes, that's right,

The way I tell new staff is:

All food cans are steel, except the ones made of Aluminium and all drinks cans are alu, except the ones made of steel...

Most drink cans are alu, but most Carling are steel, along with Boddingtons, most Pepsi and Tango. Food cans are steel, with the exception of some (but not all) fish cans (sardines, makerel etc) which are alu. There are also some alu petfood cans - the small gourmet cat food type.

We don't use magnets to sort at the kerbside, it would take too long. We just learn how to tell the difference - partly appearance (like the shiny/matt base), or feel - steel is stiffer and stronger than Alu. We want to be as accurate as possible because Alu is our most valuable product, whereas we don't make any money on steel.

By the way, 'we' are St Nicholas Fields Community Recyling. I've been a Womble for 3 years next month!

 

[slowmotion]

Arch, you sound like an expert from the Antiques Roadshow.

 

[vernon]

I've got a bottle of 'moonshine' this French guy we knew gave to my dad and then he gave to me, we've had it for about 30-odd years now but I'm too scared to open it.

I'll not only open it, I'll drink it too!

 

[Arch]

Arch, you sound like an expert from the Antiques Roadshow.

It's just experience. We had a volunteer out with us this afternoon, so we were explaining stuff to her and telling her how we can often hear a single window envelope rustling in a carrier bag full of paper (we have to avoid getting the windows in the paper, they cause faults in the recycled product), or how the weight of a bag that appears to be all plastic bottles is affected by a tiny glass jamjar. The difference in sound between bottleglass and drinking glass when knocked together or broken. We just get a feel for it all.

 

[rikki]

It's just experience. We had a volunteer out with us this afternoon, so we were explaining stuff to her and telling her how we can often hear a single window envelope rustling in a carrier bag full of paper (we have to avoid getting the windows in the paper, they cause faults in the recycled product), or how the weight of a bag that appears to be all plastic bottles is affected by a tiny glass jamjar. The difference in sound between bottleglass and drinking glass when knocked together or broken. We just get a feel for it all.

Rubbish whisperers

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

AAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHH!!!! Have you lot never heard of the museum of brands?

Send all your old out of date things there!!:

http://www.museumofbrands.com/

 

[Oldspice]

Thriving trade in out-of-date best-before foods

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8326756.stm

http://www.approvedfood.co.uk/about_us

You chaps could be eating your retierment money

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

My Mum would never let us eat anything which was more than about a second out of date, but I have eaten and drank plenty of things since

How anyone can admit to on a public forum letting a beer sit for that long without being consumed is sinful. That just wouldn't happen here in Canada. Even American beer (ugh) has it's uses.

I have a couple of bottles of beer that were brewed specially for the last Slam Door train service in the south east of of England (the Southern Slammers). I remember I bought 3 the the time and drank one and I kept the other 2.

This was 2005 and they are still kicking about somewhere.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Thriving trade in out-of-date best-before foods

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8326756.stm

http://www.approvedfood.co.uk/about_us

You chaps could be eating your retierment money

The Museum Of Brands and its like are better, they get preserved for posterity!!

You don't have me on your ignore list after calling me a Bufoon the other day do you?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I can always PM you with a proper explanation as photography is one of the few things I actually know about.

.......If I'm not on your ignore list!

 

[Oldspice]

I can always PM you with a proper explanation as photography is one of the few things I actually know about.

.......If I'm not on your ignore list!

I never called you anything 'the other day'? Unless i had a serious bipolar moment that i can't recall As for the ignore list, no one is that famous (not even you) and i do my own photography so i really don't need any one to explain it to me but it's nice of you to offer.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I never called you anything 'the other day'? Unless i had a serious bipolar moment that i can't recall As for the ignore list, no one is that famous (not even you) and i do my own photography so i really don't need any one to explain it to me but it's nice of you to offer.

That's good, I did explain to lawrence and HovR.

The simple fact is that I actually trained at College to be a photographer (the art, the awareness of composition, the knowledge of what others had done before me, the hours spent in the darkroom and developing pictures which I thought might just pass the standard.... the awareness of other's mistakes..... the complete knowledge of what I could do with the camera within it's operational limits, the physics, the chemistry, the biology of the eye, even video for crying out loud!) it was to be my profession (but various other things got in the way), so basically, what I don't know isn't worth knowing.

Ok, satisfied now?

Annyway, moving swiftly on.....

 

[Oldspice]

I went to Uni if that helps