The Official Status Thread
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Wow you're gonna have a lot of fun at Lion King On Ice.
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I'm always mystified as to why people post shit like that without including the MOST pertinent information (what is the show?) So I helped him out by inventing the most embarrassing show I could think of.
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I highly doubt that's the most embarrassing thing you could think of. Teletubbies on Ice has to be worse.
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Status: I shouldn't be allowed to use scissors. Not my finest hour.
Eh, you would have probably needed to download updated drivers anyways.
Status: Both my manager and I (accidentally) submitted two (nearly) identical tickets to get me access to a certain system. Let's see how this pans out....
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Status: This morning in the shower (aka where I do my best thinking) I had the greatest idea! I should empty out one of those plastic bottles of motor oil, run it through the dishwasher like a hundred times, then use it as a water bottle.
I got a bunch of them in my garage, but unfortunately they're all full and I no longer own a car that leaks oil, so I don't know how to get rid of the oil... hm.
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Teletubbies on Ice has to be worse.
I don't live in the timepod you're in, where teletubbies is still a thing.
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I should empty out one of those plastic bottles of motor oil, run it through the dishwasher like a hundred times, then use it as a water bottle.
The Bad Ideas Thread is .
I tried it with a laundry detergent bottle, with a sand wash and a few other chemicals. Still got sick when I drank the Reverse Osmosis water I had put in it...
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STATUS:
We are stretched thin, so Boss decided to code a HTML5 video play event tracker himself.
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There are places that take used oil everywhere. Auto shops, mostly.
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They'll probably charge a fee, but I doubt it'd be more than a few bucks.
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Yeah, I think so.
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Status: This morning in the shower (aka where I do my best thinking) I had the greatest idea! I should empty out one of those plastic bottles of motor oil, run it through the dishwasher like a hundred times, then use it as a water bottle.
Blakey definitely does not do his best thinking in the shower.
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@blakeyrat said:
On the other hand this is the funniest thing I've heard all day.Status: This morning in the shower (aka where I do my best thinking) I had the greatest idea! I should empty out one of those plastic bottles of motor oil, run it through the dishwasher like a hundred times, then use it as a water bottle.
Blakey definitely does not do his best thinking in the shower.
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his best thinking in the shower
I know! I do my best thinking in bed.
Blarg not to similars
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There are places that take used oil everywhere. Auto shops, mostly.
They usually pump it out of huge drums, they don't buy it a quart at a time. Maybe my dad has some empty or near-empties.
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I got a bunch of them in my garage, but unfortunately they're all full and I no longer own a car that leaks oil, so I don't know how to get rid of the oil... hm.
Send it to the country you hate, so they get liberated by US army.
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They'll probably charge a fee, but I doubt it'd be more than a few bucks.
Not in the USA, at least not at the auto parts stores I go to. Autzone, Advanced Auto, O'Reilly and Pep Boys all recycle used oil for free around here. I am pretty sure they actually make money off of it.
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Very super highly ill advised. The oil impregnates the plastic and will then leach back out into the water. If you coated the inside you might be safe. Ish. Maybe.
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They usually pump it out of huge drums, they don't buy it a quart at a time. Maybe my dad has some empty or near-empties.
Bullshit. Take it to Autozone (or whatever auto parts chains you left-coasters have) and they will take the oil, no problem.
On second thought, the left coast has much stricter environmental regulations. It may be a lot more expensive to recycle oil there. But they should still take it.
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Imagine if there was a way to find out what to do with it.
Also:
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The oil impregnates the plastic and will then leach back out into the water.
I'm not sure I believe that without evidence.
Bullshit. Take it to Autozone (or whatever auto parts chains you left-coasters have) and they will take the oil, no problem.
Well fucking duh. But I'm not going to waste good clean oil by just pouring it down a drain. I paid cash money for it.
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Well fucking duh. But I'm not going to waste good clean oil by just pouring it down a drain. I paid cash money for it.
You cheap bastard. How much oil do you have? $30 worth? Give it away on craigslist or something.
Or....
http://www.ihatebillboards.com/wp/img//2008/08/fight_club-0.jpg
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The first rule of EPA club...
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I'm not sure I believe that without evidence.
Two words you don't want to fuck with:
Heavy metals.Additive packages in motor oils are nasty sons of bitches.
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Two words you don't want to fuck with:
Heavy metalYeah, blakey only fucks with music that's hipster enough; It'd have to at least be mathcore or shoegaze. Heavy metal is just too mainstream.
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The first rule of EPA club...
You think stealth editing your posts will help hide the massive you just commited and help you dodge a flag? No such luck...
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It's not really stealth considering the edit pencil.
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I don't doubt that, but I also don't think the plastic of the oil can can magically retain all those harmful chemicals after multiple washings and leech them out days or weeks later. That sounds like crazysauce.
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That sounds like crazysauce.
Crazysauce sounds like what you'll end up drinking if you reuse oil bottles.
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The more people on this forum say it's a dumb idea, the more I'm convinced it's the greatest idea ever.
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This is some of the most reasonable logic I've seen on this forum in months.
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But seriously:
While many used plastic containers can be recycled, containers contaminated with motor oil pose special problems, Wu said. Most recycling programs cannot accept emptied motor oil bottles.
"Currently, to recycle used plastic containers with residual petroleum products, the containers usually must be cleaned first to remove the petroleum residue," Wu said.
While developers have created techniques to separate plastic and oil, these methods are often too expensive and too energy intensive to implement on a production scale, he said. Using solvents to wash away the oil creates different waste products difficult to dispose of.
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I do plan to clean the bottle.
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http://springfieldmrf.org/site/?page_id=640
If the bottle contained motor oil, antifreeze, pesticides, herbicides, adhesives, paints, or solvents, it cannot be recycled. The residue from motor oil and chemicals seeps into the plastic and contaminates it.
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I do plan to clean the bottle.
Just do it already. You are already so fucked up, can it really cause that much more damage?
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While developers have created techniques to separate plastic and oil, these methods are often too expensive and too energy intensive to implement on a production scale, he said.
Motor oil requires special sort of cleaning which is prohibitively expensive.
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Can I recycle a motor oil bottle with a #2 on the bottom?
No. Motor oil residue has become one of the biggest contaminants for our plastics markets. The residue seeps into the porous plastic and cannot be removed through the washing process. Of course you should never try to rinse or wash a motor oil bottle yourself since motor oil down the sink or storm drain causes a much larger environmental crisis than a plastic bottle in the trash. A motor oil bottle in a pile of plastics could potentially contaminate a whole batch of otherwise-recyclable materials and cause the whole lot to be sent to the landfill.
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Oh! so cute! He's so naive!
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A motor oil bottle in a pile of plastics could potentially contaminate a whole batch of otherwise-recyclable materials and cause the whole lot to be sent to the landfill.
TIL, I always just threw them in the recycling container.
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You'd be astounded what types of chemicals can leech out of plastic bottles. Yes, that even includes those where the primary purpose is to store drinking water.
Here's some food for thought: Yes, we know the main composition of the plastics used (PE, PVC, PC, ...) but what you never will know what kind of additives are used when creating those plastics to give them the properties you want (shatter-proof, UV resistant, colour, flexible/non-flexible, ...)
Then there's also the fact that water is a pretty good solvent.
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Yeah but I also have a sister-in-law who constantly lectures me on all the thousands of things that cause mega-cancer, and yet I do not have mega-cancer yet, so I'm pretty dubious about claims like yours.
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Then there's also the fact that water is a pretty good solvent.
You might even call it a universal solvent.
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I'm not saying mega-cancer. I'm saying that plastic is a bad idea for storing liquids, especially when the plastic in question has come into contact with really nasty stuff.
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So, what I'm seeing is, storing liquids in plastics causes autism and global warming?
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Well, it might make you a woman yet!