Funny Pictures 6

What’s that thing on the stove?

 

Jiffy Pop popcorn.

 

Jiffy Pop Popcorn. You put it on a burner and the foil expands as the kernels pop.

 

I remember colour TV you had to do that, and tune each channel, and physically hit from time to time as sometimes it would act up.
Things were more primitive back then.

 

TV steps outta line, just hit it over the head until it complies (or dies).

 

Out in the sticks it's a good way to support your local dairy and it does away with single use plastics.

 

Oh boy, that's a planet killing amount of single use metal just for a bag of popcorn. Don't you guys have pots with lids on?
I was so horrified I left a comment and down voted the video.

 

When I stopped it, they didn't bother to pick up the empties, so in end, I put them in recycling.

IDK about you, but where I live/my local authority give 4 bins, for all of that. (One tiny one and 3 wheelie bins).

 

No, we only get 2 bins and they don't take glass in the recycling one. It's a disgrace.

 

I didn't even use that much milk, so it was piling up and I ended up giving it away.
It would pile up and mess with my fridge freezer and funky stuff like this began to happen.

It's an alright system, if you like paying £1.20 a pint and drink a lot of milk that is; I only had 7 bottles a week (two days of 2 and one day of 3), turns out I don't drink that much milk.

 

Usually, people used these for camping where a pot with a lid would be impractical. I haven't seen one since I was a kid. It almost always burnt the corn so it has that charred taste. My mother used a pot with a lid and so do I. She probably did it for cost savings. My choice is related to the environment.

 

Even when camping most people take a saucepan. This is inexcusable, I hope they aren't still available.

 

That's a shocker, that's like one of the easiest things my local authority knows what to do with; we just grind it down and add it to the stuff we make streets out of, like roads and pavements/sidewalks.
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My brother turns out emailed townhall asking them what they do with the compost as they bought that in once; ask a question, get an answer I guess - They make bombs with it? I'm kidding, I forgot what they do with it, but, they did have an answer and I was told it, but I can't remember what they do with it.

I just assume paper goes into all this recycled paper stuff I see at Tesco etc.

Plastic, I think that's the kicker we export and nobody knows what to do with it so the people we export to export it again to the developing world.... Too much plastic if it's not's messing with the water in the oceans getting into the food chain, it's pilling up somewhere else in some God knows what Hell Hole. This plastic is the same bin for glass and metals too, so we mix plastic with glass and metals at the kerb/curb side (cans and bottles basically and anything else that's good to go in there goes in there).

and bin 4, the ever having landfill bin.

These bins are all different sizes too, paper and cardboard being the biggest and landfill being the smallest wheelie bin one before that tiny one for compost came along, and the plastic, glass and metals one being the standard one and everybody's old landfill bin became everybody's new glass, plastics and metals bin when we already had 1 wheelie bin and 2 small boxes for the paper and cardboard & glass, plastics and metals and that little compost box.
Now it's all wheelie bins and a little compost box.
But the front gardens didn't get any bigger.

 

In my experience, people are lazy. That's why a microwave and fast food are so popular here. At the slightest inconvenience...they throw in the towel.

I just looked it up to answer @Sallyally 's question and it looks like they are still selling them. I was surprised.

 

Well, the thing about glass is it uses just as much energy to recycle as it takes to make in the first place and since the raw material is just sand then recycling it into more glass is pretty pointless. It's also inert and non-toxic so sticking it in landfill isn't such a bad thing to do with it. Grinding it up and adding it to concrete for pavements is a great idea.
Glass should be reused not recycled. You're probably not old enough to remember when beer and pop came in glass bottles with a returnable deposit and the bottles were washed and reused. My first job when I was still at school was restocking the bar at a local hotel and sorting the empties into the correct crates for returning to the suppliers.

 

Oh sh*t I said the G word didn't I.

Spoiler

I'm sorry I spoke! lol j/k

 

Only in America, I actually didn't know we did that here too, until your post, right now that is.

 

Yup, convenience and laziness is the only reason that product exists. This is why we need a carbon tax.

 

I feel I'm old because I'm old enough to remember smoking inside public places.

People older than me when I was a kid remember smoking on busses in London and on aeroplanes.

 

Glass is a fantastic product, it's just misused.
The main problem is that it's so much heavier than plastic so lorries can't carry as much product in glass bottles as they can in plastic and it's so cheap it's more cost effective to make a new bottle than collect, wash and reuse one. Again, this is why we need to tax the polluter.

 

Yeah, it seems crazy nowadays. It was the Kings Cross fire that did for smoking on public transport, long before secondary smoke was even considered.

 

I saw a documentary about that, it was the perfect recipe for disaster because they had wooden escalators back then (Who'da thunk it)?! - I came along just after and only knew the metal and things that is now)..
Down there and all of that, any station really, not just the one at King's Cross, it's windy because of the trains and the tunnels make it that way, and King's Cross was the 7/7 target that gave me pause for thought the most as that morning I passed through it as yes, it is the closest London has to a hub on that network with a lot of the lines using it and it being close to other lines that don't (so just step onto the Victoria Line and get off at Oxford Circus if you want the Central Line but you're at King's Cross, you just catch the Victoria Line 1 stop; it's very much a major point for that reason, and these different lines/routes have different elevations because some are buried deeper than others, so with all of the strong winds along all the tunnels down there that come with all speeding trains on all the different lines/routes down there to get to the surface world where that dropped cigarette fell and was on to wood; perfect recipe for disaster as all the wind for all the trains must have wind tunnelled along to fan that inferno that started on wooden moving stairs and a cigarette that wasn't extinguished.

 

Did the foil ever break?

 

They should make a microwave you can carry with you.
Right now they're heavier than a washing machine, but with the right people working on it, why not?

 

Sometimes but not usually. It was a nightmare to open because the steam rushed out once it was opened. The popcorn itself was kinda nasty because no matter how careful you were, it always got scorched in some places.