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Re: What have you salvaged from the garbage tip
« Reply #25 on: March 12, 2012, 09:51:59 PM »
I thought the idea of having a shed full of crap was to scare the women folk & keep 'em out so us blokes could get some peace. might explain why the beer fridge is in the shed............
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Re: What have you salvaged from the garbage tip
« Reply #26 on: March 12, 2012, 10:00:09 PM »
A man is nothing without "STUFF"

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Re: What have you salvaged from the garbage tip
« Reply #27 on: March 13, 2012, 07:56:51 AM »
One of my good mates has a mini skip business, so he comes across allot of 'stuff'.

I've scored off him a 5kva Honda genset, that just needed the frame rewelded and the sticky valve knocked back down and a Honda rotary hoe that was missing a pull start.

He found a mint early 40's Stanley combination router hand plane still in it's box complete with cutters and receipt.  Turns out it's worth $1200-$1500!

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Re: What have you salvaged from the garbage tip
« Reply #28 on: March 13, 2012, 03:10:57 PM »
If we were Bower birds collecting to attract mates l would have bus loads of them by now . Its also amazing what you pick up on the side of highways , either left by mistake or lost . I found a jack & socket set waiting in a rest area to travel with its new owner . We get along fine  :cheers:

I have a theory,

The Bower Bird collects alot of stuff to sexually arouse a potential mate.

Throughout thousands of years of evolution we share many common and genetic traits with other species.

If man has a desire to collect rubbish as part of some dormant genetic link, to the bower bird, than could the same be said of the female of our species ( Bower Bird Courtship ritual).

Could it be that women find our dormant evolutionary Bower Bird traits of collecting crap highly sexually arousing, yet when we become married they subconsciously see that habit as a threat from other competing women who may want to move in on their turf.

Is that why we are constantly getting tuned up to clean out our sheds, because we maybe displaying too much Bower Bird Sexual Prowess that married women find a threat, and other women subconsciously find a turn on.

I leave this radical yet untested theory  to those of Bower Bird Gene Pool.

Are you a victims of too much sex appeal.

Maybe this thought is too radical for modern science.

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Re: What have you salvaged from the garbage tip
« Reply #29 on: March 13, 2012, 03:16:56 PM »
I have a theory,

The Bower Bird collects alot of stuff to sexually arouse a potential mate.

Throughout thousands of years of evolution we share many common and genetic traits with other species.

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Youre on the money  ;D

As this article says, the key to a good collection of Bower Bird Cr%p is creating an optical illusion!!

 :cheers:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/sex-rocks-for-bower-birds/story-e6frgcjx-1226250992274

I wonder wat "forced perspective" is??

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Re: What have you salvaged from the garbage tip
« Reply #30 on: March 13, 2012, 03:39:00 PM »
No all that exciting or even valuable, but i always fill the patrol up with firewood when I visit the green zone at the local dump.  Saves the hassle of collecting it elsewhere and 90% of the time it's gut in good lengths.  :)

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Re: What have you salvaged from the garbage tip
« Reply #31 on: March 13, 2012, 07:19:17 PM »
No all that exciting or even valuable, but i always fill the patrol up with firewood when I visit the green zone at the local dump.  Saves the hassle of collecting it elsewhere and 90% of the time it's gut in good lengths.  :)

I guess that depends where you come from, as out here firewood is extremely valuable.  We rely on diesel generated power, and when the generators go off, the firewood is used for cooking and making tea or coffee, hence it is very valuable.
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Re: What have you salvaged from the garbage tip
« Reply #32 on: March 13, 2012, 08:33:08 PM »
I have a theory,

The Bower Bird collects alot of stuff to sexually arouse a potential mate.

Throughout thousands of years of evolution we share many common and genetic traits with other species.

If man has a desire to collect rubbish as part of some dormant genetic link, to the bower bird, than could the same be said of the female of our species ( Bower Bird Courtship ritual).

Could it be that women find our dormant evolutionary Bower Bird traits of collecting crap highly sexually arousing, yet when we become married they subconsciously see that habit as a threat from other competing women who may want to move in on their turf.

Is that why we are constantly getting tuned up to clean out our sheds, because we maybe displaying too much Bower Bird Sexual Prowess that married women find a threat, and other women subconsciously find a turn on.

I leave this radical yet untested theory  to those of Bower Bird Gene Pool.

Are you a victims of too much sex appeal.

Maybe this thought is too radical for modern science.

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What have you salvaged from the garbage tip
« Reply #33 on: March 13, 2012, 08:51:01 PM »
Agh we have our own Sheldon :p
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Re: What have you salvaged from the garbage tip
« Reply #34 on: March 14, 2012, 07:54:40 PM »
I have a theory,

The Bower Bird collects alot of stuff to sexually arouse a potential mate.

Throughout thousands of years of evolution we share many common and genetic traits with other species.

If man has a desire to collect rubbish as part of some dormant genetic link, to the bower bird, than could the same be said of the female of our species ( Bower Bird Courtship ritual).

Could it be that women find our dormant evolutionary Bower Bird traits of collecting crap highly sexually arousing, yet when we become married they subconsciously see that habit as a threat from other competing women who may want to move in on their turf.

Is that why we are constantly getting tuned up to clean out our sheds, because we maybe displaying too much Bower Bird Sexual Prowess that married women find a threat, and other women subconsciously find a turn on.

I leave this radical yet untested theory  to those of Bower Bird Gene Pool.

Are you a victims of too much sex appeal.

Maybe this thought is too radical for modern science.

Campfire

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Agh we have our own Sheldon :p
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Re: What have you salvaged from the garbage tip
« Reply #35 on: March 14, 2012, 09:15:20 PM »
Youre on the money  ;D

As this article says, the key to a good collection of Bower Bird Cr%p is creating an optical illusion!!

 :cheers:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/sex-rocks-for-bower-birds/story-e6frgcjx-1226250992274

I wonder wat "forced perspective" is??

C'mon Mace, the art of optical illusion is to steal her glasses when you first meet, that way you start dating before she knows how damned ugly you are, speaking strictly from experience of course.... >:D
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Re: What have you salvaged from the garbage tip
« Reply #36 on: March 14, 2012, 09:52:28 PM »
Optical illusions can back fire also on the modern day bower where the following scientific principle is applied:

Optical illusion = Too much beer and judgement impairment

Forced perspective = When you wake up the next morning and realize your not alone because of an " Optical Illusion" ( see above) and hope to hell you didn't trigger " Big Bang Theory" .

I think I want to hang with Sheldon at the comic store.

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Re: What have you salvaged from the garbage tip
« Reply #37 on: March 14, 2012, 10:02:20 PM »


I think I want to hang with Sheldon at the comic store.

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Re: What have you salvaged from the garbage tip
« Reply #38 on: March 14, 2012, 10:31:26 PM »
Optical illusions can back fire also on the modern day bower where the following scientific principle is applied:

Optical illusion = Too much beer and judgement impairment

Forced perspective = When you wake up the next morning and realize your not alone because of an " Optical Illusion" ( see above) and hope to hell you didn't trigger " Big Bang Theory" .

I think I want to hang with Sheldon at the comic store.

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Re: What have you salvaged from the garbage tip
« Reply #39 on: March 14, 2012, 10:32:14 PM »
The townies come out to dump in our little tip because it's free, could probably find the tools to make a fleet of camper trailers and something to pull them with in there.

Without leaving home I could probably manage to build an entire camper from the various abandoned farm machinery, she'd be a tad overweight though.

Haven't got anything here I salvaged, but I nicked a water tank (used as raised garden beds) to build a veggie garden at a school before.

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Re: What have you salvaged from the garbage tip
« Reply #40 on: March 15, 2012, 02:56:08 AM »
I found this as a engine in a box and a frame and a petrol tank old style rubbish dump alas its gone now ,oh well
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