Entries Tagged as 'recycling'

Are you proud to be an American?

July 4th, 2009 · 205 Comments

Our anonymous submitter lives in a university flat in the U.K. with four other guys. “Three of us (myself, an American, and a Brit) always take out the garbage and recycling when it’s our turn, but the two other international students seem to think it’s somehow beneath them. There must have been some unpleasantness while [...]

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Tags: americans abroad · misplaced patriotism · recycling · roommates · u.k. · university

tilt your head upwards.

January 4th, 2009 · 78 Comments

josh from annapolis, maryland says the first and last note in this exchange were apparently written by stephen, a college student at a school “known for it’s obtusely intellectual, chronically spacey student body.”
the notes were gone within a few days, but josh says the situation hasn’t exactly improved. in the meantime, he says, “i’m kinda [...]

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Tags: garbage · neighbors · note wars · recycling · you call that punctuation?

The return of Thx Sandra

October 20th, 2008 · 148 Comments

Casey in Human Resources may have moved on, but not to worry — Thx Sandra is here to solve our global climate crysis!

related: It takes a “genius”

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · anthropomorphism · clip art catastrophe · energy usage · exclamation-point happy! · garbage · recycling · san diego · spelling and grammar police · temperature · the earth · thx

Two points for chutzpah, but zero for originality

September 11th, 2007 · 100 Comments

Writes our anonymous submitter in Corte Madera, California: “We have a lot of passive-aggressive notes up around the office, and most of them are addressed to the entire office staff in common areas. You can imagine my surprise when after eating lunch and going out for a smoke break with some coworkers today, we came [...]

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Tags: CAPS LOCK · california · cleaning · dishes · garbage · guilt trip · kitchen · moms & dads · office · oh snap · opening/closing · recycling · spelling and grammar police · the earth · visual aids · your mother doesn't...