Vlog 295: Garbage in, garbage out
Every year, the IWA in Milton Keynes organises a massive clean-up of the local stretch of the Grand Union canal, which a team of eager volunteers undertake. The garbage they pull from the waters is quite staggering, as this video shows.
IWA Milton Keynes www.waterways.org.uk/miltonkeynes
Parks Trust www.theparkstrust.com
Buckingham Canal Society www.buckinghamcanal.org.uk
Hi, David.
As a bloke who was separated from his family just recently and is often feeling extremely lonely but paradoxically has moments of feeling free to explore avenues that were once dead ends.
Who sells boats that are good value?
be honest.
It’s just not something I can answer, it depends on the seller as much as the broker (ie I know of brokers that will privately admit a boat is over-priced but they’re advertising it as such on strict instruction from the seller). It’s up to the buyer to look around, see what prices get you and determine if any particular boat is good value (plus of course, “value” to one person may differ from another person)
Garbage? What’s garbage? Ah you mean rubbish David. Yet another Americanism taking over our language..
Interesting video, well done the volunteers.
Actually it’s late middle English, from Anglo-Norman French… but I used it deliberately as a play on words, as I do, from my time in IT where the phrase “Garbage In, Garbage Out” refers to computers only being as good as what we do with them.
Absolutely correct David. But having lived and worked in the USA it is still American English! Trust me!
It was simply amazing to see all of the different trash items that people had thrown in the water. Because of the location of the canal, it seems to me that someone would have to go out of the way to get it down to the water to dispose of it. It was refreshing, though to see a group of people get together for such a worthy cause. Hopefully, in the next year there won’t be as much, but as it is in America, people would rather throw it out, and hope that someone else will pick it up, rather than just simply putting it in the respective trash container. Glad to see that you were able to get a cheese sandwich David. Thanks for sharing this, quite interesting well, quite disturbing all that trash in a public place.
Cheers Russell