The Star Wars universe has faster-than-light space travel, laser swords, sentient robots and unparalleled floor-buffing technology, but their waste disposal methods still amount to just piling up mountains of garbage all over the place.
The Death Star is a fully self-contained biodome in space. That garbage is sorted, melted down, and then recycled into Highly Effective Stormtrooper Armor.
Well, I don’t know about bootblacks at an airport, but I’m mighty peeved I can’t find a shoeshine any more at a few designated places about town.
Yeah, I know in theory how to shine those few shoes I use (rarely) that require the treatment, but, c’mon! I also know how scissors work, but I choose to not cut my own hair unless I’m raging drunk and feel like doing some damage and making a giant mess of my bathroom.
Completely random “thought”: Pat Martino has the tone, the concept, the execution.
I believe you mean “soaking it in a sustainable Dianogu environmental pool”. The Dianogu is a critical component of the sorting process. Primarily by eating whatever organic material falls into the compactor.
I heard “leisurely” used as an adverb in a documentary the other day and it occurred to me that it rarely is in everyday conversation. “Leisurely swim” sounds perfectly normal, “swim leisurely” made me think about it for a second.
The latter use does sound odd, but “leisurely” in general doesn’t pop up for me that often. For some reason it brings to mind a certain John Waters-esque someone apologizing for “scanty” details.
But ‘leisurely swim’ would be a split infinitive, which is grammatically incorrect. However, we seem to like them anyway, i.e. “to boldly go where no one has gone before” or “he suddenly stopped the car.”