I wish we had better users on here.
I guess nothing is going to keep you dead at this point, eh? Or are you communicating with us through an Ouija board that has an ethernet adapter hooked into a cable modem?
The only react I'd want is a noose because your stupidity makes me want to kill myself, OP
A noose would actually be great for a :Nigger: reaction
Found the zoomer.
Galvanised bins were popular both during and after WWII, since the cost of production was low and so was the effort involved in making them. Also, lowering the cost of production on anything at the time was vital to the war efforts, hence Churchill's push for low cost goods and food rationing. Literally any working class household in England was guaranteed to have a beat up old metal bin to stuff their waste into. But yeah, you don't really see them much any more. Pics related.
Those old metal beaters sucked. Shit would always rust through once the galvanized layer was wrecked, which always happened since the garbagemen would chuck those fuckers wherever they felt like throwing them. Then when your bag caught on a sharp edge, you'd have garbage juice seep through the bottom of the can, all over where you kept them, then it would stink with that stereotypical "garbage" smell (which actually tends to be the smell of fungal species and our good friends of the clostridium genus of bacteria [especially our best buddy Botulism]), until someone was forced to clean where they were stored. Ugh.
The fed is only allowing us to have silver.
I demand a bimetallic standard!
For some very strange reason, this is completely true. I had literally perfect teeth, then I moved to the UK to study after university, and after a year, I can back on holiday to the US, saw my dentist, and he said "Shit, you are just about ready to form a few cavities. How did you manage that?" I told him I was studying in the UK and he said "Oh, that explains it". I wasn't really eating any differently. Apparently the water alone in the UK will rot ones teeth.
Iirc, the plastic wheelie bins started getting produced in the late 80's, though plastic manufacturing and production started a couple of decades before that. But it was the 70's that became renowned for being an era of plastic madness. Furniture, decor, even fucking clothing. Plastic was in and metal was out. A big contributing factor there were the miner strikes and the eventual closure of the mines themselves. Mostly it was coal mines that closed under Thatcherism, but a lot of metal stopped getting mined as well. But when it was mined, we had all these cheap council bins made from ferrous metal. You'd see them every fucking where. Ofc, the thing about ferrous metal is that it's cheap for a reason - it's incredibly prone to rust. Add to that the typical British weather being really warm with ghastly pissing rain, and you're left with a rusty old bin that your trash keeps falling out of when the bag inside it gets torn to shreds. Nobody wants that shit. Hence why plastic took over, because it was also cheap, but significantly more durable.
I'd correct this with saying the 70's started the "polymer" craze, it was indeed the decade of the polymer revolution. All the standard polymers we use today, PPE, PP, PE, PET, PS, HDPE, PolyCarb, CR-39, etc... were all either inventions of the 1970's or mass production of good quality materials was finally possible. The 1970's was the turning point in the mass introduction of polymers to every aspect of life in the US/Canada. Mass production quality polyester thread for clothing, modern Tupperware, plastic eyeglass lenses (which still sorta sucked until improvements in coatings in the 1980's), etc... It set the stage for the personal electronics revolution of the later 1970's/1980's, Walkman, CD's, inexpensive, mass produced toys, strong and light polymers for cars so they had far greater fuel efficiency than 1970's models (although they've now taken this way too far currently where cars seem to be at least 50% plastic now...)
