nice black and gold litter bin

Well. I quite agree. Nice to see a bit of thought going into to the design of what is after all a mundane but necessary utility!

Sadly, Oxford Council doesn't do pretty anymore and has replaced them with ugly metal cans.



But Howard will no doubt say I'm talking rubbish.

Yuk!

Rubbish! It's beautiful!

Which bin are you referring to?

I prefer the can.

Soulless.

Those that can, do.

A non-ugly rubbish bin (excepting perhaps the talking bins in Efteling theme park) is surely an oxymoron. I airbrush them out, period.
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My new camera, with its full-frame zoom lens (just arrived from China) wouldn't suit you at all. Together they weigh over 3 lbs! An awful lot to lug around, and now I'm not sure if it suits me either. For most of the pictures I take, it's going to be using a (big and heavy) sledgehammer to crack a nut.

You're just prejudiced against bins, because you think of their function before their beauty.



Best not to buy from China if you can help it, though it can be Hobson's choice these days.

I won't say that you're talking rubbish, even when you are, Roy being so ultrasensitive (he's accused me of rubbishing HIM, after all the fine pictures I've ruined to humour him).

I *refuse* to say more, lest my comments be taken litterally.
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The len* is Japanese. It's usually cheaper to buy such things online (even if they have to be shipped specially half-way round the world) than from UK retailers, if you can wait 2 or more weeks for delivery.

* The singular of "lens" is "len". I bought just the one len, though I already had several other lens.

It wasn't the cheapness I was thinking about, but the fact that we are supporting a totalitarian regime and digital surveillance society, which might soon be our own fate the way things are going.

P.S. Roy is very grateful that you've made the effort to recycle some of your trash.

Recycle? Has bin that I am, "On yer bike" is what I'd say to him.

He's got a puncture.