We have that going for us.

Well, they're selling fewer refrigerators, leading to a homeless shelter shortage as those boxes become scarce.

Don't forget the recycling of metals. Homeless used to just steal the cans out of your recycling bin, now they'll pull the copper right out of your walls and recycle that for you! Go Earth!

Mansquito 2: Electric Boogaloo. Yup, you've guessed it. Starring Frank Stallone

That reporter has apparently never heard of Oriental Trading Company. All that place makes is trash. Which ends up on the floor in the back of my car every weekend.

The economy is sucky? I thought we were just a nation of whiners?

Jenhahaha: That reporter has apparently never heard of Oriental Trading Company. All that place makes is trash. Which ends up on the floor in the back of my car every weekend.

Those catalogs follow me wherever I move, and I swear I have never ordered anything from that craptastic company.

Uh, until folks start throwing away their old TVs because they don't get broadcast anymore.

/If 1% of Americans throw away an old tv, that's 3,000,000 new units in the dump.
//Yes, most folks get cable or whatever, but what about that old TV in the basement you use to watch the game - gonna bother to get a converter for that?

Can you spare some change?

"Solid waste production goes up and down with the economy," he said.

I've been exercising and eating more lately, so, despite the economy, my solid waste production has increased.

Meh. I threw out three perfectly good Mexicans last week because I just have too many of them.

Carry On

Why don't we just take all of our trash, ship it to New Orleans, and build an enormous trash mound? Then the city could be above sea level! That is how you kill 2 birds with one stone!

I pick up trash for a living so this has had an adverse effect on my personal economy.

/ok, not really
//just trashy women

You forgot Bablon AD .. or whatever it is.

The Angry Hand of God: Why don't we just take all of our trash, ship it to New Orleans, and build an enormous trash mound? Then the city could be above sea level! That is how you kill 2 birds with one stone!

There are already at least 4 active threads regarding this. Go over there, you may find someone who finds this funny.

berylman: I pick up trash for a living so this has had an adverse effect on my personal economy.

/ok, not really
//just trashy women

Me too. Call me when those are in short supply, then I'll panic.

Trash...the stuff you jam on your curb weekly? Could you not associate it with the whole "Go-Green" thing that seems to be kicking in? Ya know, increase in recycling, etc. etc.
Hell, ever since we got these green bins here in the GTA (for food waste, paper towel, etc.) and most other stuff is recyclable. I think Tim Hortons cups make up half of our garbage...they really gotta make those recyclable too.

Correlation does not mean cause.

On another note, RoxtarRyan -- I have frequently said that anyone who wants to see Disaster Movie should go ahead and drink some brake fluid.

/DNRTFA...ignore this if it was about something else.

SwallowTheKnife: On another note, RoxtarRyan -- I have frequently said that anyone who wants to see Disaster Movie should go ahead and drink some brake fluid.

Whoever keeps making those farking movies needs to stop. Seriously, Hollywood is wondering why people are going to the movies less and less nowadays? Farkin' aye....

The Angry Hand of God: Why don't we just take all of our trash, ship it to New Orleans, and build an enormous trash mound? Then the city could be above sea level! That is how you kill 2 birds with one stone!

Yes.

The Angry Hand of God: Why don't we just take all of our trash, ship it to New Orleans, and build an enormous trash mound?

Funny, I thought we had already done that. At least, that's what it smells like there.

Ahhh, feel the effects of the Writers strike!

My city doesn't have a recycling program but there are some local companies that will do that for a small fee. I use a locally owned company that only charges $4 a month to come around and pick up my recycling. And I only have to sort the paper from everything else. None of this green glass/brown glass/clear glass bullshiat.

Or... we could round up all our garbage, compact it into a large sphere, and then launch it haphazardly into space, where upon it'll return in about 992 years and pose as a world-ending crisis and only a senile old man, his great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather, a cyclops, and a drunk robot can save everyone.

To anyone who reads a little bit of history it becomes amazing and sickening to see the unoriginal trash coming out of the movie studios. The reason being that there are just a really large number of very very interesting stories and people in history. All you have to do is hire a competent writer to write a screenplay about these people and you have a good movie.

I was just reading last night about Horatio Nelson. His life had it all, Blood, violence, class warfare, high society, illicit relationships, and scandal! And it's all true. Much better than remaking another boring seventies TV show.

Impudent Domain: All you have to do is hire a competent writer to write a screenplay about these people and you have a good movie.

I was going to say something about Titanic, but then again you did say "competent" writer.

/sad thing is, most recent movies depicting historical events become love stories
//that i refuse to see, btw

Keep complaining like that and you're going to end up with a "FARK: The Movie" being made that will steal your soul if you watch it.

XxDavidZullenxX: Or... we could round up all our garbage, compact it into a large sphere, and then launch it haphazardly into space, where upon it'll return in about 992 years and pose as a world-ending crisis and only a senile old man, his great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather, a cyclops, and a drunk robot can save everyone.


I'd only be for that plan if Nixon was somehow involved.

MiamiBlues: Uh, until folks start throwing away their old TVs because they don't get broadcast anymore.

/If 1% of Americans throw away an old tv, that's 3,000,000 new units in the dump.
//Yes, most folks get cable or whatever, but what about that old TV in the basement you use to watch the game - gonna bother to get a converter for that?

Don't you guys do electronics recycling?

Impudent Domain: All you have to do is hire a competent writer to write a screenplay

That would be a violation of union rules.

Seriously, though, there are lots of great screenplays out there. The problem is that in order to turn them into movies, you have to deal with producers, directors, and possibly big-name actors, all of whom will invariably fark with the script.

Producers have their formulas that they think sell movies. You could the world's greatest script about Custer's Last Stand and they'd tell you to add a love interest and give it a happy ending. The director they hire would enevitably want to monkey with the historic details to make it "more dramatic". And so forth.

unyon: MiamiBlues: Uh, until folks start throwing away their old TVs because they don't get broadcast anymore.

/If 1% of Americans throw away an old tv, that's 3,000,000 new units in the dump.
//Yes, most folks get cable or whatever, but what about that old TV in the basement you use to watch the game - gonna bother to get a converter for that?

Don't you guys do electronics recycling?

I see from your profile you are a member of our northern brethren -- Uh, we're still working on aluminum

Impudent Domain:
I was just reading last night about Horatio Nelson. His life had it all, Blood, violence, class warfare, high society, illicit relationships, and scandal! And it's all true. Much better than remaking another boring seventies TV show.

Yaaar... my mum, for some reason, is obsessed with Capn' Nelson and I started reading the biographies. Really good stuff.

On that note, aren't more cities implementing REAL recycling programs and not that, ya put it in the bin, it'll get recycled, wink wink, nudge nudge?

On that note, Hollywood needs to make movies that are a little more intellectual, like I, Robot should have been. What's wrong with something a little deeper or something like the era when John Voigt didn't look like a Raspberry?

The Angry Hand of God: Why don't we just take all of our trash, ship it to New Orleans, and build an enormous trash mound? Then the city could be above sea level! That is how you kill 2 birds with one stone!

Thats a wonderful idea! I've even seen it work...our local dump used to be a canyon, but now, it's TRASH MOUNTAIN!

Yeah, where's my Pac-Man movie, anyway?

Tassach: Seriously, though, there are lots of great screenplays out there.

that's true, I wrote a screenplay about a series of things that happened to me in the 1970's. It is sort of a dark comedy. I am biased in my opinion of course but it's better than 3/4 of the crap that gets turned into movies, and it would be cheap to film.

I sent it all over and could not even get an agent to look at it.
I have much better response with my novels and short stories, at least editors will get back with me on specifics.

Still churning out plenty of inbred trash here in Florabama.

pencil-man: Yeah, where's my Pac-Man movie, anyway?

hahaha

m0llusk: Keep complaining like that and you're going to end up with a "FARK: The Movie" being made that will steal your soul if you watch it.

It should be a documentary about how the media passes news as crap. The movie would probably be an offshoot of Drew's book. Drew would like the idea very much and could win an Academy Award for Best Documentary.

eddyatwork: Meh. I threw out three perfectly good Mexicans last week because I just have too many of them.

You should recycle your cans.

Hey - Hollywood is certainly doing its part to recycle!!!

We recently started recycling. We've reduced our "trash" from 2 65 gallon bins down to 1. And we have 2 full recycle bins every other week.

Tassach: Impudent Domain: All you have to do is hire a competent writer to write a screenplay The director they hire would enevitably want to monkey with the historic details to make it "more dramatic". And so forth.

Watched "Sound of Music" last night, so I'm getting a kick, etc.

RoxtarRyan: SwallowTheKnife: On another note, RoxtarRyan -- I have frequently said that anyone who wants to see Disaster Movie should go ahead and drink some brake fluid.

Whoever keeps making those farking movies needs to stop. Seriously, Hollywood is wondering why people are going to the movies less and less nowadays? Farkin' aye....

People who see movies like Meet the Spartans, Epic Movie, or Disaster Movie need to be forcibly sterilized to protect the human gene pool from further contamination.

Didn't you hear? Hollywood is exporting its trash to Michigan these days.

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And I for one, welcome our new Hollywood overlords.

pencil-man: Pac-

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/pops

Impudent Domain: Tassach: Seriously, though, there are lots of great screenplays out there.

that's true, I wrote a screenplay about a series of things that happened to me in the 1970's. It is sort of a dark comedy. I am biased in my opinion of course but it's better than 3/4 of the crap that gets turned into movies, and it would be cheap to film.

I sent it all over and could not even get an agent to look at it.
I have much better response with my novels and short stories, at least editors will get back with me on specifics.

I know what you mean--it's harder to get an agent than anything else in this business. I've decided to skip that whole phase and try to independently raise the funds to shoot my film, and if an agent sees it and likes my work and wants to rep me, then good, but I'm done trying to hunt one down.

BTW, if there are any filmmaking Farkers (of Farkers who love good, truly independent films), I've started a fundraiser to raise the start up costs for my new film. If you're interested in helping a Farker out with a donation, let me know and I'll send you the link.

/Can I post the link or is that breaking any rules?
//Impudent Domain: I used to run the screenwriter's workshop at a popular writer's site, so if you want to get some feedback on your script, I'd be happy to read it and give you an actual critique.

Funk Brothers: m0llusk: Keep complaining like that and you're going to end up with a "FARK: The Movie" being made that will steal your soul if you watch it.

It should be a documentary about how the media passes news as crap. The movie would probably be an offshoot of Drew's book. Drew would like the idea very much and could win an Academy Award for Best Documentary.

Actually, there's a pretty damn good idea. I'm in.

My city doesn't have a recycling program but there are some local companies that will do that for a small fee. I use a locally owned company that only charges $4 a month to come around and pick up my recycling. And I only have to sort the paper from everything else. None of this green glass/brown glass/clear glass bullshiat.


We have Waste Mgmt where I live. They'll take virtually anything that doesn't rot. I'm hoping that they start offering a dumpster instead of the bins because we're about even with garbage vs recyclables.