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There’s a lot of left-over paint in the world. Any time anyone paints anything, there is inevitably a little paint left over, which normally sits around for a while, and eventually gets thrown out.
As a less wasteful alternative, I propose that each town, village or municipality maintain a giant
vat into which the citizenry can pour their surplus paint. The result would be a free source of greyish-brown semi-gloss available to people who need to paint something, but don’t have any money and aren’t too picky about the color.
Sorta baked here where I live
http://www.ci.phoen...s/GARBAGE/bopa.html
"Useable paints will be mixed and reused..." [half, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
he can paint my bedroom lavender, any day!
http://www.llb.co.uk/index2.htm
[po, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Salem Transfer Station
http://publicworks....r.us/es/misc_wr.asp
"This blended, recycled paint is available for free at the Salem-Keizer Recycling and Transfer Station in five gallon buckets, on a first-come basis." [Klaatu, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
AO meet google
http://www.halfbake...int recycling color
Google, meet [AO]. Very baked and very good. [DadManWalking, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
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The City of Phoenix does something like this. (link) We don't have a surplus gray paint tap coming in with the other municipal services but I believe that some of it is used for painting over graffiti. I saw a TV program about it once. |
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I hope that they also use it in the grants for home improvements to low income home owners, but that sounds way to cost effective. |
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oh lets brighten up our battleships. where Is Lawrence Llewellyn-Bowen when you need him! |
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he prefers soldiers, they are better dressed & more masculine, dear. |
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Navy is grey, no matter what the comercial says. Ships are grey. Planes are grey. Sky is grey. Only thing that is blue is the ocean. |
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But the idea is cool. Pastry for you. |
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Reminds me of a crap joke for some reason: |
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What's blue and smells like yellow paint?
Blue paint. |
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Forget the "service-to-community" crap, why not set up shop and sell to color-blind people and dogs! |
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....or collect the paint in general hue-specific vats: greenish, redish, bluish, yellow and/or orange, ... etc. |
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....or standardise all paint to a nice, non-offensive corporate blue with a medium gloss. Heck, it works with TV stations and software companies. ;) |
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We will have a whole new world, covered in grey. |
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Oh, let us have our variant. |
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[buddha] grey is spelt grey and not gray, on the UK side of the pond. |
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I had a neighbor once that would have a new blindingly terrible color of house every week or two. My guess was always that he was a colorblind do-it-yourselfer that would buy discounted paint from Home Depot. They have a discounted paint area where you could buy the paint that they had miscolored. |
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Um... I think I had a point. Oh yes, if there's a lot of paint left in some cans you could leave those out of the vat and sell them for a few dollars to those who don't like grey. |
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You can sell any color to the colorblind. |
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I'd like stripe coloured paint. |
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Do the colorblind care if you sell them the wrong color? |
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And if not, why do blind people comb their hair? |
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I'd like spot coloured paint. |
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Spot is vaguely dog-colored. |
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How about grey spots on a grey background? |
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oh light grey on a dark grey background might work! |
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I had a plain white picture on my wall for a while. all you could see was the title: "polar bear playing in the snow" |
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but polar bears are technically cream. They are not pure white...... |
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I know, I'm being to technical. I still like the picture [po]. |
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must send you a pic of my cat called Polly - she has the coat of a polar bear! |
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That’s impressive. How’d she manage to get it off him? |
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[po] that must be a huge cat. And I would love you to e-mail me a picture of your cat. :) |
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is polly not on the half bakery pet calendar [po]? |
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baked <link> I painted the tavern that I managed, with the stuff. |
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Of course, not only are there many colors that mix to that unlovely mud color, but there are sundry polymeric bases, many of which are incompatible, not to mention the lumps and sludge. Otherwise, it’s a fine idea. |
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It would be interesting to see how
the Amalgamated Communal Paint
Colour varied from community to
community. Perhaps if it were done
on a country-wide basis - The UK
National Paint colour might be
slightly murkier than the US
National Paint colour. |
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Surplus Grey what? Anatomy? Whale's? Poupon? Tea? Matter? |
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We have this in here in Oakland, California, according to
my neighbors. Any home owner can get up to 6 gallons of
free paint, most of it gray or beige. They save some
bright colors for trim. From what I've seen of my
neighbor's houses who've used it, they either have a bad
selection, or I live amongst the colorblind. |
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