Comments on: In this economy??

By: yoshi362

yoshi362 — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 23:50:11 +0000

Is this some kind of weird economy?

By: Droll not Troll

Droll not Troll — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 08:10:47 +0000

The insect coil is there to repel those nasty little insects, the butt munchers.

By: Meowth

Meowth — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:50:50 +0000

You can start with one bottle of cake to whisky, and see where it goes from there!

By: tehexile

tehexile — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:05:19 +0000

damn those rich waste paper baskets, thinking they’re better than us.

By: hollyr57

hollyr57 — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:48:15 +0000

If the waste basket doesn’t whine or embarrass you in public by pointing at other customers in the hair shop and saying, slightly less loudly than a scream, “Look Grandma, that ladies is BALD. Why is that lady BALD, Grandma?”, then the experience isn’t complete. And if the waste basket doesn’t curl up in your lap and tell you with great solemnity that it loves you, then your can have no idea.

By: hollyr57

hollyr57 — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:42:58 +0000

No, but it does turn nasty if you don’t empty it for a couple of months.

By: bluejade

bluejade — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:19:01 +0000

I thought it was a trash can setting itself up as a cheap, chrome-plated, pompous little deity demanding offerings. Pay-to-pray, or you will be cursed by the trash deity.

By: bluejade

bluejade — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:13:04 +0000

The mosquito coils I buy locally contain some sort of half-hearted insecticide. It doesn’t kill them, but it does bring them out of hiding, whereupon they meander slowly and stupidly near the ceiling. And that’s when the fun begins, because they really do get the hose; the vacuum cleaner hose!! Good times!

By: dr handle

dr handle — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:41:18 +0000

Throw your disposable income into the rubbish – clearly, this is a weekend workshop for people who don’t have the time or inclination to have children, but want a brief experience of some aspect of parenthood.

By: debbro

debbro — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:35:38 +0000

I thought it was a Buddhist temple (incense) and they wanted donations (disposable income)

By: Anna Rexia

Anna Rexia — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:34:21 +0000

I see what you did there

Indeed, it is incense, most likely burning to mask the smell of the refuse bin. Mosquito coils are just a different kind of incense that contain a fair bit of citronella. Before there were mosquito coils, there was incense in stick, cone and coil form.

The more you know…

By: JohnB

JohnB — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:16:21 +0000

Yeah, if you have five of them! Just try wastebasket monogamy for a few decades…

By: PoodleGroomer

PoodleGroomer — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:42:13 +0000

I thought it was a whole building sized incense air freshener from the industrial supply house. Instead of hundreds of little sticks, you just need one. Two of these per acre will cover a feed lot.

By: Me

Me — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:20:55 +0000

I thought that wasting someone took more than at least I have in disposable income. Maybe wasting a paper basket is cheaper because it doesn’t move as much.

By: Meowth

Meowth — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:19:31 +0000

As in, “Please waste that paper basket for me.”

By: Meowth

Meowth — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:18:51 +0000

I thought it politely requested us to waste any paper baskets that had disposable income.

By: Crumpet

Crumpet — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:18:01 +0000

But wastebaskets have useful function in your life. I have at least 5 in my house (just don’t tell them about each other, that’s the trick)

By: JohnB

JohnB — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:08:12 +0000

No matter how much income it has, sooner or later it will dawn on you that it’s a WASTE BASKET! And who wants to be stuck with that?

By: JohnB

JohnB — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:06:14 +0000

Although I must say that even if it has disposable income, it’s not much of a looker. Its friends probably say it has a “nice personality.”

By: JohnB

JohnB — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:04:51 +0000

Thank you with.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:01:54 +0000

Joey Tribiani is gone but not forgotten!

By: Lawlin' at things noone else ever lawls at like the word moose

Lawlin' at things noone else ever lawls at like the word moose — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:39:57 +0000

FRIENDS REFERENCE WIN!

By: saywhat

saywhat — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:37:14 +0000

I’d LOVE to meet a waste paper basket with disposable income.

By: zippycat

zippycat — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:35:13 +0000

Guess so…..

By: Z

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:26:24 +0000

maybe its a lighter for cigarettes…they give you an ashtray, why not give a lighter?

By: Grrr Power

Grrr Power — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:55:30 +0000

The last thing you want is a mosquito nomming on your hand whilst you try to dispose of your income…

By: Wargle

Wargle — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:37:30 +0000

Ahh, I see it now. Very clever; we should have those in the US.

By: Brown

Brown — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:56:38 +0000

In truth, immediately i didn’t understand the essence. But after re-reading all at once became clear.

By: chrexp

chrexp — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:54:40 +0000

Always start with a compliment: mmm, nice butts… how are YOU doing…

By: blueJade

blueJade — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:47:54 +0000

Does it turn nasty if you don’t please it?

By: zippycat

zippycat — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:32:52 +0000

I thought it looked like an insect coil too … but wtf is an insect coil doing on top of a trash can? I’ve also never seen one on such a tall stand….

By: hollyr57

hollyr57 — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:28:09 +0000

I read the text differently and assumed that it was the waste paper basket that HAD the disposable income and if I wanted to use it I had to please it. Therein lies the problem: just how does one please a waste paper basket? Maybe emptying it often? Or perhaps feeding it things it likes?

By: JohnB

JohnB — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:16:12 +0000

It’s obviously a stove burner, which will drop down from its pedestal and burn your hand as you snuff out your cigarette. It’s a classical conditioning device. Of course, for most smokers a hand is a small price to pay…

By: JohnB

JohnB — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:13:11 +0000

And apparently unless you have disposable income, it won’t be pleased. So it’s a classic Catch-22; don’t ask the waste paper basket for money unless you don’t need it. Come to think of it, that’s pretty much the way American financial institutions work! Are we sure this is in Asia???

By: RockyRoader

RockyRoader — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:03:09 +0000

You’ll have to please it first!

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:01:38 +0000

That’s just silly; it looks nothing like a moon!

By: Junkyard

Junkyard — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:52:26 +0000

That’s no insect coil. That’s a space station.

By: telefil

telefil — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:26:30 +0000

Those aren’t cigarettes, they’re ash dropped from the insect coil.

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:13:17 +0000

So wastepaper basket, could you lend me a tenner til pay day?

By: cest

cest — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:08:05 +0000

I think the cigarettes are the “disposable income” – as in, “you’re throwing your money away” (and maybe your life)…