Surrealist painting found in recycling bin at German airport

Post by MagnumOpus » Sat, Dec 19, 2020, 11:55 AM UTC

winfred wrote: post #22

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> The only thing that doesn't wear off is understanding that you wont get any sympathy for the real situations you get into for the rest of your life If you're wealthy, why would you expect sympathy for anything other than terminal illness of yourself or your loved ones? (or similar issues you have no control over) Because for all other issues, you can just call up a service, pay them and have the problem go away.

At some point, I tried this as an experiment. Instead of doing things myself, I tried to hire people to do it for me. I tried a few different things, data labeling, custom sewing work, custom car modifications. Turns out that the work was either done badly when it came to fairly common tasks or people refused to outright do it when it was custom work. I've seen the same thing when I looked at what happened when frien…

Post by type0 » Sat, Dec 19, 2020, 12:40 PM UTC

tuco86 wrote: post #35

IfOnlyYouKnew wrote: post #10

> thoroughly examined the contents of paper recycling dumpsters used by the cleaning crew. I've seen comments elsewhere noting how German it supposedly is to examine the paper dumpsters only, and to actually be right about it. So to nip this in the bud, let me state for the record that these are mediocre Germans at best: Oil-on-canvas does not belong in the paper recycling. They should have separated the cardboard bo…

Peak german humor right there. Very efficient, I'm impressed. Thank you

Post by hengheng » Sat, Dec 19, 2020, 2:21 PM UTC

jamil7 wrote: post #43

IfOnlyYouKnew wrote: post #10

> thoroughly examined the contents of paper recycling dumpsters used by the cleaning crew. I've seen comments elsewhere noting how German it supposedly is to examine the paper dumpsters only, and to actually be right about it. So to nip this in the bud, let me state for the record that these are mediocre Germans at best: Oil-on-canvas does not belong in the paper recycling. They should have separated the cardboard bo…

I’ve come to embrace Mülltrennung wholeheartedly while living here. I even left my first angry note last week to neighbours throwing glass away and not returning it to a recycling bin. I think it’s an important integration step.

Post by ljf » Sat, Dec 19, 2020, 4:24 PM UTC

leobakerhytch wrote: post #50

ljf wrote: post #42

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My brother is a 'proper' carpenter and sadly struggles to find people like you. People seek him out because of his skill, but then upon being told that it might be £600 for interior door to be made, or more, suddenly want him to fit a store bought one. His daily rate is low, but a lot of rich people still don't want to pay for a job to be done properly. Quite sad to see people buying amazing historic houses and then…

When you say historic buildings, I suppose (hope) you don’t mean listed ones, since they’d be breaking the law? Regardless, it’s a crying shame what people have ripped out of even very ordinary Victorian and Edwardian houses. Decorative mouldings, cast iron fireplaces, original doors, geometric tiling.

Post by jamil7 » Sat, Dec 19, 2020, 5:14 PM UTC

LargoLasskhyfv wrote: post #58

jamil7 wrote: post #43

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I’ve come to embrace Mülltrennung wholeheartedly while living here. I even left my first angry note last week to neighbours throwing glass away and not returning it to a recycling bin. I think it’s an important integration step.

Ahem! Not every glass should go into the recycling bin. Most drinking glasses would spoil the stock. So if in doubt, anything which doesn't have a recycle sign on it's label or those dot markings at the bottom for the sorting machines is wrong there. That would be "Restmüll". :-)