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Andrew R
@excelpope.net

Since the very dawn of humanity, from the time we stopped being apes and started being humans, we imagine that people have looked at the heavens, seen the regular progression of the stars across the night sky, observed the movements of the planets, and asked themselves, "When is bins?"

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Andrew R
@excelpope.net

At Stonehenge, great monoliths were dragged hundreds of miles and arranged into the world's first computer, to predict the cosmic cycle of bins. Giant Stones were also erected here, at Easter Island. Perhaps it was for something similar. It's certainly worth tanning the travel budget for a look.

Andrew R
@excelpope.net

But prehistoric man would have been thrown by bank holidays. In fact, it took Aristotle, who lived here in Greece, in around 350BC, to work it out. Legend has it that he thought about this one problem for 8 years, before announcing, "Well, they'll just be a day later, won't they?"

Andrew R
@excelpope.net

And Aristotle's wisdom held true for hundreds of years but then, here in the Middle East, in the year nothing, the birth, then death, then floating off of Jesus led to the creation of Christmas and Easter, meaning bank holiday's on two consecutive working days. This threw the bin world into chaos.

Andrew R
@excelpope.net

It would remain in chaos, with Christmas and Easter bins all over the shop, until English genius Sir Isaac Newton - after whom this Antarctic island is named - developed calculus, and used it to determine that then they'd be two days later.

Richard
@folkparanoia.bsky.social

Putting out my recycling wheelie bins after Christmas, when it's choca with empty wine bottles, gives me great insight into and empathy with the builders of Stonehenge as they were hauling those bluestones over from Wales.