Topic: YouTube Find ;)

[Antares]

Is there any place in your country where there isn't a camera?

So do they know who she is?

[hal9g]

What's interesting is that this was captured by not just one camera but two different cameras.

Take a look at the second video posted by Jon and you'll see two completely different angles.

Staged perhaps?

Why would two different cameras be pointed directly at this "wheelie-bin"?   

[Critter]

I saw that crazy cat lady on the news. Horrible, wheelie bins are really tall as well, a cat would have no chance of getting out of there.

[Najemikon]

Most large towns and cities in the UK are now monitored by CCTV, but this is just a terrace house. However it is genuine. Personal CCTV is very cheap and a lot even do it with webcams. This guy has had problems with vandalism, so he set up monitoring. The news broadcast interviewed him and you could see the cluster of three cameras above the front door.

Also his is a typical, very small terrace. Where you can see his bin is literally his front garden. If he has 6ft square outside his door, it would be typical.

Unfortunately, anti-social behaviour makes personal and local CCTV very common. I myself have been known to hand a webcam out the window to catch the little sod who steals my milk!

[DJ Doena]

I myself have been known to hand a webcam out the window to catch the little sod who steals my milk!

I find it cute (seriously!) that there still are milk men in the UK.

[DJ Doena]

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[lovemunkey187]

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[Critter]

What's interesting is that this was captured by not just one camera but two different cameras.

Take a look at the second video posted by Jon and you'll see two completely different angles.

Staged perhaps?

Why would two different cameras be pointed directly at this "wheelie-bin"?   

I was watching an Australian game show on TV tonight and one of the guests was American. One of the questions had to do with a wheelie bin when the American asked 'what's a wheelie bin' which caused the audience to laugh heaps. But it got me wondering, what are wheelie bins called in the US? Can any Americans of the forum help me out here?

[Najemikon]

I myself have been known to hand a webcam out the window to catch the little sod who steals my milk!

I find it cute (seriously!) that there still are milk men in the UK.

  It's definitely a dying industry, but fairly sophisticated (see www.milkandmore.co.uk) now and you know what? I hate milk from a plastic bottle. It tastes like plastic!

I was watching an Australian game show on TV tonight and one of the guests was American. One of the questions had to do with a wheelie bin when the American asked 'what's a wheelie bin' which caused the audience to laugh heaps. But it got me wondering, what are wheelie bins called in the US? Can any Americans of the forum help me out here?

Oh, I can answer that. American's do have wheelie-bins, but they are much larger and used in a slightly different manner. I believe they call them "trailers"...




Hence the term: "Trailer Trash". I assume that's its origin anyway.
 

[Critter]

 

Is there an actual American response here or am I just going to have to settle for that... highly accurate statement.

[DJ Doena]

Hey look, it's Chloe O'Brian:

[Halo2]

The wheelie-bins Jon is referring to are usually called dumpsters.

I have started seeing more of wheelie-bins here in the states. They are normally (my experience) called trash cans. That is what we had/have for trash, round metal cans with detached lids. These evolved from heavy steel cans to lighter aluminum to plastic.

Trailer trash is a derogatory term for poor people. Usually thought of as Southern Rednecks although not limited to that.

See Missouri Trailer Trash for some examples.

[Antares]

[Critter]

The wheelie-bins Jon is referring to are usually called dumpsters.

I have started seeing more of wheelie-bins here in the states. They are normally (my experience) called trash cans. That is what we had/have for trash, round metal cans with detached lids. These evolved from heavy steel cans to lighter aluminum to plastic.

Trailer trash is a derogatory term for poor people. Usually thought of as Southern Rednecks although not limited to that.

See Missouri Trailer Trash for some examples.

Thanks for this explanation. I was always under the impression that trash can was the steel cans you described, like what Oscar the grouch lives in in Sesame Street, I didn't know the same term was used for wheelie bins. It doesn't make much sense to me, as the two don't look similar at all, but I suppose sometimes it's just easier to keep the same name for things.

[Najemikon]

The wheelie-bins Jon is referring to are usually called dumpsters.

I have started seeing more of wheelie-bins here in the states. They are normally (my experience) called trash cans. That is what we had/have for trash, round metal cans with detached lids. These evolved from heavy steel cans to lighter aluminum to plastic.

Trailer trash is a derogatory term for poor people. Usually thought of as Southern Rednecks although not limited to that.

See Missouri Trailer Trash for some examples.

Thanks for this explanation. I was always under the impression that trash can was the steel cans you described, like what Oscar the grouch lives in in Sesame Street, I didn't know the same term was used for wheelie bins. It doesn't make much sense to me, as the two don't look similar at all, but I suppose sometimes it's just easier to keep the same name for things.

I think what Halo2 was saying is that traditionally, Americans use "trash cans", what we would call in the UK a "dustbin". In the UK, the dustbin has been phased out of general use by the wheelie-bin, a large plastic swing lid bin with wheels. I think trash cans are still most common in the US?

Dumpsters are much bigger and we have them too, usually for businesses. But they are very much like a large wheelie-bin.