You might be a Californian if...........?

[MAJOR METAL]

You might be a Californian if............ You sort your garbage into 3 categories, bring your own bags to go shopping, etc.

 

[Shakin-Slim]

Those same two could be said of us Wellingtonians.

 

[fmoore200]

Lots of New Yorkers do that too

 

[tastybasslines]

someone you know has breast implants

 

[pacojas]

... you get run over in the cross-walk while sight-seeing in NYC or Boston. Californians are notorious for thinking the white line is going to protect the pedestrian. check the stats,..

 

[Rune Bivrin]

You might be a Californian if............ You sort your garbage into 3 categories, bring your own bags to go shopping, etc.

Then I'm über-Californian.

Our garbage cans have a total of 8 compartments for:

• Compost
• Newspapers
• Paper packaging
• Plastic packaging
• Metal packaging
• Coloured glass
• Clear glass
• Combustible.

Then there's the ancillary box for small batteries and light bulbs.

Anything beyond those has to be taken to the recycling central where there's an additional 7 or 8 categories.

 

[nortonrider]

You move to another state because "California sucks" and then immediately proceed to try to make your new place exactly like where you just left.

 

[1958Bassman]

[DEL]someone[/DEL] everyone you know has breast implants

[DEL]someone[/DEL] everyone you know has breast implants

 

[1958Bassman]

Then I'm über-Californian.

Our garbage cans have a total of 8 compartments for:

• Compost
• Newspapers
• Paper packaging
• Plastic packaging
• Metal packaging
• Coloured glass
• Clear glass
• Combustible.

Then there's the ancillary box for small batteries and light bulbs.

Anything beyond those has to be taken to the recycling central where there's an additional 7 or 8 categories.

By 'compost', do you mean 'yard waste'? There's a difference- compost is yard waste that has broken down to the point of being useful as bedding, soil amendment or mulch.

Unless someone has a small yard, I don't know why they wouldn't have a compost pile. It's free dirt. However, I would use a sealed enclosure if food scraps are included, to keep rodents out.

 

[DWBass]

You can get to L.A. from Beverly Hills using at least 6 different routes!

 

[Rune Bivrin]

By 'compost', do you mean 'yard waste'? There's a difference- compost is yard waste that has broken down to the point of being useful as bedding, soil amendment or mulch.

Unless someone has a small yard, I don't know why they wouldn't have a compost pile. It's free dirt. However, I would use a sealed enclosure if food scraps are included, to keep rodents out.

Oh, we have a compost pile for yard waste, alright. Actually, we have two. One active and one resting.

The compost I'm referring to is food waste. We used to have a private bin for that, but it just wasn't worth the hassle, even though we had reduced garbage fees as a bonus.

 

[matante]

You can get to L.A. from Beverly Hills using at least 6 different routes!

Beverly Hills is a city within a city. It's completely surrounded by L.A., so to get "to L.A." you simply head in any direction.

 

[Jim Nazium]

- everyone you know is an actor or screenwriter (just working as a waiter right now, to pay the bills)
- you wash your car every weekend even though it hasn't rained in 6 months
- you can have a 20 minute coversation about the relative merits of Roberto's taco shop vs. Paco's taco shop, which are across the street from each other

 

[matante]

It seems to me that what you guys are calling "Californian" is really L.A. As a native Angelino I can tell you the rest of California is very different.

 

[macaroni tony]

You move to another state because "California sucks" and then immediately proceed to try to make your new place exactly like where you just left.

haha!

 

[slobake]

You might be a northern Californian if you can smoke pot but not cigarettes in public as you cycle to work. It is illegal to sit on a public bench if you Are naked unless you put a towel under your butt. You can park a semi truck on a 30 percent grade in a space the size of a Volkswagen. Of you can casually stroll up a hill that would give a mountain goat a nose bleed. If you are on a first name basis with at least one homeless person. If you hear at least 3 different languages being spoken while you are having a nice conversation with a total stranger on a bus.

 

[GregC]

If you drive to your mailbox--in your hybrid SUV.

 

[sloasdaylight]

If you drive to your mailbox--in your hybrid SUV.

You think hybrids and electric vehicles really make you eco-friendly.

 

[ShredderMaximus]

You might be a northern Californian if you can smoke pot but not cigarettes in public as you cycle to work.

 

[Pilgrim]

...you start to hyperventilate at the sight of snow, immediately abandon all knowledge of traffic rules, and drive down the center of the road about 20 MPH.