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Summer: A time for walking along the Mall, enjoying our national monuments, eating, drinking, and generally having a good time. At the end of the day, tired and laden with all our trash, we seek out one of the few trash cans on the Mall. And, being good citizens, we proceed to stack our styrofoam containers and patriotic cups as high as they'll go. Yospyn captured the scene with a trusty Mamiya RZ67 Pro II. That's film, kids, so no EXIF.
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AMERICAaaa! FUCK YEAH!
That stack of styro boxes looks like a pagoda. I'm telling you, this is just an extension of the truly terrifying display of cold, surgical precision put on by those drummers in the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Games.
*brushing up on my Mandarin...how do you say "I, for one, welcome our new Chinese overlords?*
To answer your question: 我有一个欢迎我们的新中国霸主
As for the trash: Does anybody at the Park Service have half a brain and would have thought to put out a extra bunch of those cardboard garbage cans?
See, the problem with putting more cans out is that people would just end up using them and they'd be overflowing with garbage as well. It's called "induced demand." No, in these dangerous times, we must remove all public waste recepticles, lest someone terrorist place a bomb inside that would shower all the unfortunate passers-by with chicken bones and feces.
aw, hell.
A chicken bone jest a feces what aint been loved yet.
...it takes a village, you know.
what?
The homeless would move in to them.
In the summer, all the trash cans overflowing with half-empty soda cups attract a writhing mass of bees. Today, I don't see a single bee. Why? Where did all the bees go? It's like an M. Knight Shymalan movie except, y'know, I actually give a $h!t.
In Soviet Union, trash can overflows YOU!
You know how you can tell out-of-town tourists made this mess? There's no chicken bones or human feces.
And if locals made this mess, the containers would be from well-kept local secrets like Starbucks, Corner Bakery and Cosi.
it ain't from no annapolis folks, neither.
Yeah, if this was Annapolis garbage, the feces would have a crab claw sticking out of it and it would be topped with Old Bay. But if a DC art poof was feeling particularly inspired, they'd put a tiny American flag in the feces. That, or a picture of George Bush. That's some wry, timely political commentary!
And every DC parent knows that when their crotchfruit bears a poopy diaper, just hand it to the waitress or cashier and tip 10 percent instead of the usual five. Or just leave the doody bag on the floor for someone to slide in. Why do you think Subway smells that way? It sure isn't the "food."
10 course meal for the bums!
I still see remnants of those Obama/Pepsi stickers taped to the ground and street posts leftover from inauguration everyday near the purple tunnel of death
Thanks Tourists
That's nothing. DC still hasn't cleaned up all the "Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too" graffitti off the Swampoodle Burlesque House, dang gum it.
I want to point out that our comments on a photo are more numerous than those on LAist or even Gothamist for a run-of-the mill post. All hail the commentariat.
Just goes to show you that we in DC are by far the best in slacking off at work.
I believe you meant to say "best in stalking."
Bring back the legion of port-a-potties. At least with those you can't see the shit.
Screw you guys, I'm goin' to the pool. Don't tell my boss.