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@fizzy.bleach
great pic @Tijmen and reminds me of the customs that develop in bin night cultures around the world.
in my village it was taboo to put your bin out at the same time as somebody else. traditionally, to prevent this, each villager would offer up a call into the bin night air as they wheeled the correct vessel out:
"SAINT HELENS GLASS"
"SAINT HELENS GLASS"
and if the response came back:
"HAS THE CLASS!"
the villager knew to wait five minutes so as not to steal the bin night energy from a neighbour.
of course, this custom has fallen by the wayside these days, and it's only really practised by the elders and the a few of the river peoples further inland