http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34422 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sat, 18 May 2013 18:04:02 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34422#post-97398 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:05:59 +0000 fernandomando 97398@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Rare that I get comments on my blog, but an American cleaning company with no apparent sense of irony has commented on this post... <a href="http://fernandosbassoon.blogspot.com/2011/11/green-graffiti-cleaner-loses-position.html" rel="nofollow">http://fernandosbassoon.blogspot.com/2011/11/green-graffiti-cleaner-loses-position.html</a> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34422#post-97282 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:50:45 +0000 fernandomando 97282@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I'm glad you liked it. It even makes me laugh when I re-read it. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34422#post-97253 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:50:21 +0000 dvo4fun 97253@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Ah, it made the transition well.</p> <p>Got to be something in there about the environmental costs of importing lemons or do they grow in IOW? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34422#post-97244 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:25:02 +0000 bonjonelson 97244@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Was it Mandy Smith in the lift? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=34422#post-97190 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:44:01 +0000 fernandomando 97190@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Derek Johnson, at one stage dubbed a green pioneer for his work with natural cleaning products, has been made redundant after his lemon juice inspired rapid response graffiti cleaning services proved too costly for the Isle of Wight Council.</p> <p>A spokesman for the council reflected on Derek’s years of service:</p> <p>‘Derek may be described as an eco-cleaning pioneer. When he first started, most cleaning firms utilised cheaper, industrial solvents for the swift removal of various graffiti tags. But they did so at a cost. A negligible cost to the local environment. It was just too much for Derek.<br /> .<br /> He stood as the lone voice against the establishment. He risked everything he had to save a minor regional locality from minimal to unnoticeable environmental damage, instead choosing the natural power of lemons. </p> <p>Derek reaped the benefit of his new scheme, even meeting his wife when he was working in a lift at County Hall. He was busy in a lift removing graffiti that said 'Mandy Smith sucks cocks for 50p- IT'S TRUE’ when his future wife got in the same lift as him. It was love at first sight.</p> <p>United by their mutual love of citric acid, they quickly wasted much of their time and physical strength cleaning up very minor graffiti. They lived a happy and harmonious, if woefully naive and sheltered, life until the council finally decided to cut the minor cleaning services budget and prevent any further shameful inefficiency.’</p> <p>In many ways, Derek’s is a story of the magic of real life, of triumph over adversity, of cheaper, mass produced industrial solvents over expensive organic lemon juice pressed unsustainably to form uneconomic cleaning products. </p>