Kevin Gowen wrote:
> tm wrote:
> 
>> necoandjeff wrote:
>>
>>> mtfester wrote:
>>>
>>>> tm wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>>> If it's like Market Street in San Francisco, just sad and urine
>>>>> smelling, i can recreate that here without leaving the house.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> No, no, there's a Nordstrom's, too.
>>>
>>>
>>> The urine smell refers to a 4 block section of Market Street, just 
>>> West of
>>> Nordstrums.
>>
>>
>>
>> Do they still have that coin-operated self-washing porta-pot down by 
>> Nordstroms? I was interested in trying the thing out, but junkies were 
>> using it.
>>
>> Speaking of fantasticly futuristic machinery, has anyone else tried 
>> the recycling machines at the SE exit of Shinjuku Station? Feed a beer 
>> can into one and, get this, it flattens the can! Feed a pet bottle 
>> (labels and caps properly removed) into the other and it grinds the 
>> bottle into mulch! What a wonderful use of technology to conserve 
>> resources and save the planet.
> 
> 
> Recycling conserves nothing and saves jack shit.
> 

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