Hijack but are those beer bottles in Austria recycled after you return them or cleaned and refilled? Because in the US at least, glass bottles are only really recycled.
That’s the same system as in Germany. But that’s not a recycling process, but the beer bottles are actually cleaned and refilled. It’s a cycle system.
ETA: and involuntary, I also answered @Dewey_Finn’s question. There are also some plastic bottles that are reused and a special category of plastic bottles that are not reused, but you can also recycle in a machine and get “pfand” (money) for.
yes, my terminology might not be perfect but, as Einsteinhund says it is re-use and refill rather than recycling I suppose. There’s a distinction in wording there that isn’t too familiar to me (I’m from the UK so it isn’t often done here).
When you see the filled bottles in the shop it is clear from the circular scuffing that they are being washed and refilled many times. Seems like a good system to me.
Not as expensive as I expected. I wonder if they’re still as heavy as they used to be.
At least it was just a Brannock Device and not a shoe-fitting fluoroscope.
It’s a wonder more people didn’t come out of the 1950s with green Hulk feet.
Last one I dealt with “live” was at an Allen Edmonds shop and was pretty substantial.
You can download printable brannock “devices”.
Here’s an app that’s supposed to do the same measurements, but I haven’t tried it.
The Master speaks:
They may not recognize answering machines. Those are the little boxes that answered and took a message from one of those funny looking phones that were attached to the wall. The young folks may not realize in the old days before the answering machine was invented people just answered the phone without knowing who was calling.
Why did road maps ever get a reputation for being hard to fold, anyway?
Because people would try to refold them in a cramped car with the windows down and the wind blowing. I’ve never had any problem with them, but then I look at them before I start the trip and don’t put them away until after I’m home.
It’s not intuitive. Many times the fold lines are hard to tell whether you fold inward or outword.
And there are times when you fold the map open to where you are and where you’re going with the rest of the map out of view.
And what silenis said. Who really takes the time or even cares when you just want to get somewhere.
What could be more intuitive than an accordion fold? Which is also the fold that makes it easiest to unfold just a section of it.
The vertical folds that give maps the accordion-like quality aren’t the problem. Things can get messy when maps also have three or even just two horizontal folds. More of a perfectionist’s annoyance than a problem.
I remember during the period, when a movie showed an answering machine it would have been modified to have a big, red blinking light the size of your thumb to indicate it had recorded a message rather than the tiny, flush with the surface light they really had.
The Rockford Files opening would have an answering machine in Jim’s trailer taking a message. I don’t know if kids these days watch the Rockford Files, they should, but probably not.
Much longer than that: say the last 40 to 50 years. And they were never ubiquitous as they seems to be in the US, the line “the check is in the mail” has never made sense over here. I, 58 yr old, have never written a check.
What I guess kids would probably not understand is a pager. And they would probably wonder what to do if they had one and it went off. If they knew how it is called at all (probably not, I guess) they would ask ChatGPT, I suppose. And it would hallucinate an answer, because ChatGPT is young and ignorant in those things too.
“Lift handle and select grade.”
What handle?
There’s one small dairy here in Washington that sells milk in glass bottles that you pay a $2 deposit on at the grocery store. When you’re done with it, you rinse the bottle, bring it back to the store, and they give you your $2 and it gets sent back to the dairy to be sterilized and refilled.
It’s quite expensive (close to $8 for a half-gallon), but it’s unhomogenized with a layer of cream on top which I’ve personally never seen in my life aside from this one brand, and they also make amazing chocolate/strawberry milk, and eggnog at Christmastime.
And there was always at least one horizontal fold in an unexpected place - usually the first fold was horizontal, sometimes the second. I’ve got some old maps here folded up that still take an effort to follow the original folds.