Was on our building FB group. Was promptly deleted. Gave me a good chuckle. I get it though… someone in the building finally snapped.

by Uncleindie

31 comments

  1. I’m sorry, it’s cardboard, if the woman is disabled then I’d understand but breaking down cardboard, especially that type of cardboard, is quite literally the easiest thing in the world.

    It’s basically like wiping your arse. Not doing it isn’t some life hack you are simply more okay with others being impacted.

  2. My wife never breaks down boxes then complains when the cardboard bin is full. It’s maddening.

  3. Might try this on my wife as she’s a nightmare when it comes to breaking down cardboard for the recycling bin.

    Although I suspect it’ll be me broken down and put in the bin if I did…

  5. Someone in my block keeps dumping stuff on the floor right next to the bins. They left their address on something the other day. Any shit I find dumped now goes to them. Costs us all a few hundred a year for a company to come and clean up the bins regularly.

  6. Run a Stanley blade along it and cut it into smaller bits. It’s not difficult

  7. While we’re on the topic, recycling dudes : I have shit loads of cardboard. Like big boxes. 60x60x60cm or something built up. Is it cool to just fold them down and put them in one built one?

  8. How do people go around living without owning a stanley knife or similar? That’s 40 seconds work there.

  9. put it back in the recycling as is and write underneath, say it to my face cunt….

    tbf at that length you’re not going tr get much benefit from cutting it up, yes you can halve the length but you’ll double the thickness. at least when like this you can slide it down one side of the bin

  10. Either break them down or spray with a hose and it’ll be very easy to squash down

  11. It looks like it has been flattened though? Breaking a box up that is that size will take up more space than it will do folded flat

  12. Bin man here. For the love of all that is good break down your cardboard please 🙏

  13. Taking a Stanley to a big box of one of the best parts about getting a big box.

  14. Our council will just take it like it is.  We put it to the side of the bin, not in it and it goes on bin day

  16. Slightly off topic, but I bought my brother a book for his birthday, and wrapped it up in a box this size, if not bigger. We were actually meeting at another family do, so I hilariously brought it to the restaurant and gave it him there for him to lug about.
    The joke grew legs unintentionally when he later told me it was too big to go into the recycling bin, and he was stuck with it for weeks breaking it down so that it fit.
    He did like the book, mind.

  18. Imagine having such an empty life that you get angry about some cardboard.

  19. I’m not excusing them not breaking down the box, it’s really not hard to tear up some cardboard.

    *BUT*

    For the love of god, don’t throw things away with your name and address still intact on the label. Take the labels off and shred or tear them/envelopes/letters. It’s so easy to commit fraud with just a name and address. And this isn’t just me being overly cautious or paranoid, this is me who has worked in the fraud department long enough to know how easy it is.

    EDIT: I worked in “a fraud department” not “the fraud department”. Force of habit!

  21. Maybe he’s just really aggressively into D-Generation X still???

  22. I was recycling some stuff at the Eastbourne Recycling Centre. They, cleverly, have the dumpster for cardboard behind fencing, so that there is a 4 inch slot to feed cardboard through into the receptacle. I saw several people turn up with intact boxes to dump. Some were heavy-duty boxes that they could not be arsed to break down. Enjoy ripping this apart with your hands….

  23. I agree with the sentiment, not gonna lie. Ripping up cardboard is something a child can do, I really don’t think the girlfriend ‘tried her best’.

  25. Break it down, put their address on it in very large print, then dump it in middle of the building’s entrance covered in filthy dishwater. What a very rude neighborino

  26. The big ones are great to hold the small ones flattened down, makes life easier for the bin men because they don’t have to take the box that will need returning

  27. once broke up with a lassie id been seeing for a few weeks not soley but largely due to seeing her bins. noped out of a possible cohabit with this one

  28. It’s not petty its direct and gets to the point. Stop finding offence in everything.

  29. “Okay but I am not sure how it will help” <dances in hip-hop style>

  30. No need for name calling , I’d go out of my way to leave tonnes of shit as large as possible if they did that to me

  31. Surely if it fits in the wheelie bin then there’s no issues? It’s not like anyone had to manually empty them.

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