Remember I did say it would have been in a slurry:UQuote:
Originally Posted by Manuka Jock
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Remember I did say it would have been in a slurry:UQuote:
Originally Posted by Manuka Jock
I reckon they sew some labels on with nylon fishing line.
Except that it was not .Quote:
Originally Posted by jimbur
People did come out of their homes to scoop up the horse apples for the garden :2tsup:
Yes used to do it myself but I was talking originally of the time when horse drawn transport was the norm and the streets would be ankle deep in slurry.Quote:
Originally Posted by Manuka Jock
Cheers,
Jim
ps in the city centres that is.
No slurry for ya , sorry :D.Quote:
Originally Posted by jimbur
This is about New York , but ,
A horses is a horse of course ...... :p
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The normal city horse produced between fifteen and thirty-five pounds of manure a day and about a quart of urine, usually distributed along the course of its route or deposited in the stable. While cities made sporadic attempts to keep the streets clean, the manure was everywhere, along the roadway, heaped in piles or next to stables, or ground up by the traffic and blown about by the wind.
The Environmental Literacy Council - The Horse & the Urban Environment
On slurry :oo: those poor seamstress :pQuote:
Originally Posted by jimbur
This of course for cyclists of today would be a great advantage, back then when riding bikes it used to adhere to sides of rims and stop breaks from gripping, sling off tyres all over your back, stick to shoes make roads slippery and traction impossible used to put the wind up when going round corners at full pelt and the back end slid out.Quote:
The normal city horse produced between fifteen and thirty-five pounds of manure a day and about a quart of urine, usually distributed along the course of its route or deposited in the stable. While cities made sporadic attempts to keep the streets clean, the manure was everywhere, along the roadway, heaped in piles or next to stables, or ground up by the traffic and blown about by the wind.
Add rain and tread in :D
Cuts down on road carpet burns when they can off their treadley tho :UQuote:
Originally Posted by wheelinround
Memories of fellows sitting in class covered in it after there fall :yuk:Quote:
Originally Posted by Manuka Jock
As a kid , I always wondered why the night cart man didn't clean up his horse's droppings , after all , he got everyone else's :roll:
and then they pass it around at football practice :UQuote:
Originally Posted by wheelinround
Or slide into where the dog has been ....or grabbing the ball after a lucky bounce only to end up with it on hands ..........glad I only played soccer but that was bad enough clean up boots or the ball.Quote:
Originally Posted by Manuka Jock
Played soccer against an agricultural college and they'd only just moved the cows off the pitch. Sliding tackles were interesting if you're into scatology.:DQuote:
Originally Posted by wheelinround
Have some of us not strayed a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONg way off topic??
Is there a topic ? :U
Idiot colomist/writers/survey's who think everyone pushes a desk for a living...
They still clean up about eight tons of turds a day from the Parisian streets - all done with interesting vacuum trucks. Mostly from dogs these days....Quote:
Originally Posted by Manuka Jock
" What !!! poodle poop ? Don't you dear put that around my roses " :oQuote:
Originally Posted by Blue-deviled
Not 'pure' enough for you?!Quote:
Originally Posted by Manuka Jock
The use of the word "FUN". Everything seems to have to be fun, whether it's mildly satisfying or intensely pleasurable. Holidays are fun, reading is fun, work is fun, hill climbing is fun. Whatever the activity there seems to be a 'fun' way of doing it. The bloody election rampage will be fun next.:((
Cheers,
Jim
Organised fun is worse.Quote:
Originally Posted by jimbur
Alas, I don't think it's used for treating white leather these days. Nothing like industrial applications to keep the streets clean.Quote:
Originally Posted by Manuka Jock
OK, this ia a wind up but
I hate those cowards who yell at my staff and then when I get them on the phone come over all sweets and roses. Cowards...:((:((:((
The lack of customer service and product knowledge that is so prevalent in business today.
Insurance companies
Banks
Telecommunications mobs
Car dealers
The list is virtually endless
ARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
???Quote:
Originally Posted by Blue-deviled
And it is: Opposition Leader meets billy-cart. Crazy fun ensues. (Seen in The Age today)Quote:
Originally Posted by jimbur
'The pure', was the Victorian term for the dog byproduct that you don't want on your roses.Quote:
Originally Posted by Manuka Jock
It really takes you by surprise when you meet someone who both knows what they are talking about and enjoys solving your problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by Enfield Guy
Cheers :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Blue-deviled
I would have thought that 'impure ' would have be more accurate ,
but then again , they were a weird mob eh :U
Bunnings have recently opened up a branch here in Dunedin.Quote:
Originally Posted by jimbur
There is a young bloke assigned to work in the tolls dept. He is a bit out of his depth lost , not up on the general use of some of the gear , let alone the difference within a product range.
He has a background in saw mills and timber production . From talking with him , he knows his stuff .
Out in the bulk timber store , there is a lad who knows nothing at all about wood products ....... :rolleyes:
Ah, but they make the ATO help folk look good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Enfield Guy
Actually they are good.
Here's mine: first time I came up to Hotham to stay, and park, overnight, I hit the entry at 2.40pm, and was charged for that day's entry and the next.
The sod in the box could've let on that if you come in after 3 you only pay for the next day. I could've waited and had a fag and saved $30.
(Posted from Dinner Plain; sunny day and fresh snow.)
Are you getting annoyed?Quote:
Originally Posted by artme
Ah, but they make the ATO help folk look good.
Ah, that reminds me. I need to ring them to deal with an estate issue. That should be fun.
Another thing that bugs me is automated robot voices that don't give you the option you need.
Cold callers, particularly pre-recorded nonesense that use auto-dialers. Whenever I receive one of these calls my daughter learns a new profanity....
I wonder if the head bun in Dunedin has been in the army?Quote:
Originally Posted by Manuka Jock
Yeah , I reckon :UQuote:
Originally Posted by jimbur
Telstra robots assisting with phone numbers that can't understand anything
... e.g. when customer clearly pronounces a name
for example "Ubeaut Products" the robot
might reply "Was that "Shepparton Motor Repairs"
or some other crazy variation.
They should spend some of their six billion bucks profit putting
real people on the phone.
Allan
That stopped when I went on the Do not disturb register.:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Chief Tiff
Peter.
I did talk to one of their real people once - absolutely useless but he did defuse the situation by making me laugh when he said, "I hear your anger sir".Quote:
Originally Posted by Allan at Wallan
Cheers,
Jim