Comments on: Things to do with skips

Things to do with skips

parudox — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:21:27 -0800

New uses for skips. Skip recipes. Find a skip. Public domain occupation with skips. Guerrilla art skips. Skipcar. [Via]

By: clearly

clearly — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:58:10 -0800

Ok, I get that you can do hecka cool things with these random hexagonal containers. Now what were they initially used for? I have never seen anything close to resembling a skip.

By: parudox

parudox — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:21:15 -0800

Apparently it's a ubiquitous (in UK and other places) small dumpster thing.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:49:43 -0800

As someone who still skateboards, I can't imagine skating a minipipe made out of one of those. Boy are those some tight trannies.

By: subgear

subgear — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 03:01:04 -0800

alt.genderFilter: Boy are those some tight trannies.

By: jack_mo

jack_mo — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 03:46:43 -0800

Kevin Harman's skip art is fantastic. The other piece for his degree show was good, too: he pinched doormats from houses on rather well-to-do streets, leaving a note suggesting that people should ask their neighbours what had happened to the mat, then later invited his victims to a party at the Edinburgh College of Art to claim their property. (The involvement of the police and a few threatening letters aside, most folk loved it.)

By: dabitch

dabitch — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 04:04:04 -0800

I found a homeless guy sleeping in the door-type skip eons ago. Freaked me the heck out, I even called the cops reporting "dead guy in dumpster", but he was just sleeping giving me enough of a scare to make me stop dumpster-hopping cold turkey. (One could often find great furniture in them back then)

By: pompomtom

pompomtom — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 04:37:48 -0800

I used to get called 'skip' a lot.

By: octothorpe

octothorpe — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 07:27:19 -0800

Are skips always open-topped like that? How do you keep random people from throwing in their own trash?

By: eratus

eratus — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:24:22 -0800

Some of those are pretty clever.

By: jack_mo

jack_mo — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:33:41 -0800

Are skips always open-topped like that? How do you keep random people from throwing in their own trash? There's one in my street just now that has a roof and doors, so to speak, and it's locked up at night. I've never noticed that one like that before, though, and it's kind of a given that when you hire a skip, chancers will come along and fill it up with their rubbish (or, if you have cool rubbish, people will make off with it - that's how I got the chest of drawers that's in my bedroom).

By: pompomtom

pompomtom — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:27:23 -0800

Are skips always open-topped like that? How do you keep random people from throwing in their own trash? By filling it before they do. Or, more often, you don't.