Freegans?!
I didn't know this, but there is an entire sub-culture of people who rummage through garbage, eat it, and utilize it. And they're not called homeless. They're called "Freegans"
(, Sat 24 Jan 2009, 20:29, Reply)
They're like Wombles
...but real.
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sp3ccylad carries on breathing all the way up to, say, Sat 24 Jan 2009, 20:32,
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it's not nearly as weird at the "lighter" end of the spectrum. You can be very weird about it, but what *is* odd about, for example, watching someone put an air tight sealed pack of prime scottish fillet steak that's still within the Display Until date, let alone the Use By into an industrial bin behind Marks and Sparks and then picking it up 30 seconds later to take home and cook what they could have paid £10 for 10 minutes before the shop shut? my what a long sentence.
Lighter still would be something like Freecycle... give away shit wot you can't (be arsed to) sell but someone else might want. The amount of stuff we've got this way... carpets, magazines, just got a juicer that we're never going to use... all for zero.
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RocketSurgeon is pretending he's still young, Sat 24 Jan 2009, 21:39,
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There are some people in my dorm who does this,
poor students as we are. Last week a guy found 10kg of fresh oranges. I'm seriously tired of oranges now, but hey, who says no to freebies?
(, Sat 24 Jan 2009, 21:39, Reply)
there are lots of us. even a few here on b3ta.
come on over for dinner, we'll share.
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postbear has metal knees, Sun 25 Jan 2009, 1:58,
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what was wrong with dumpster divers
A proud enough title, I have worn before, I am not trying to save the earth I am just a cheap bastard.
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rootsxrocks, Sun 25 Jan 2009, 7:21,
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freegans
While i think it's fair enough to use what is being thrown away I disagree with the militant freegans.
They think they are so superior by eating 'waste'. There was a lady on wife swap who was so righteous about it.
They have to remember they can only do it because of the wastefulness of our capitalist culture. If everyone was a freegan then the whole thing wouldn't work. Think this means they shouldn't be so smug about it.
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Alabaster Codify wouldn't piss on yr gums if yr teeth were on fire, Sun 25 Jan 2009, 11:00,
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Makes me
think of the 'extreme green' people. They are so bloody smug, with their solar panels and wind turbines. I just want to shake them and shout: "Solar panels contain elements that have to mined at great environmental cost! You only have a wind turbine because there is some poor bastard working 9-5 in a factory making them and therefore he has no time to grow fecking cabbages!"
Rant over, move along.
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TheSundaeLunch I'm a fucking shrub, alright?, Sun 25 Jan 2009, 13:03,
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