Council to charge if you dont recycle

[PerlOfWisdom]

In WWII, they chopped down everyone's wrought iron railings allegedly to make tanks and spitfires. The quality wasn't up to this so they dumped it all in the sea.

I reckon they do something similar with most of the recycled waste.

[The Lone Gunman]

Is there such a thing as legal fly-tipping?

That is not an example of an oxymoron, just a redundant word.
An oxymoron is a phrase where the component words seem opposed to the meaning of the phrase like "military intelligence"



Just being arsey like you

[Spartacus]

That is not an example of an oxymoron, just a redundant word.
An oxymoron is a phrase where the component words seem opposed to the meaning of the phrase like "military intelligence"

Just being arsey like you

I meant a tautology.

[The Lone Gunman]

I meant a tautology.

That's the word I couldn't think of.

[Troll]

Now they're all at it!! are you Fleetwood in disguise?

[Troll]

anyway I think you are both wrong; it's more of a pleonasm

[wendigo100]

"Legal fly-tipping" isn't a tautology. It is more like an oxymoron.

"Illegal fly-tipping" would be a tautology.

[xoggoth]

Eeeeeh! When I were a lad we 'ad none of this packaging. We only 'ad one sort o' cheese and it was cut off from a great big barrel sized block covered in muslin and dead flies

[Troll]

Eeeeeh! When I were a lad we 'ad none of this packaging. We only 'ad one sort o' cheese and it was cut off from a great big barrel sized block covered in muslin and dead flies

... and you carried it back to yer mam in a string bag that you used over and over again

[xoggoth]

An we didn't get no bag for sugar neither you had to take it away in yer pockets or shoes. Not that we 'ad any shoes of course.