Buckets or Tubs? [Archive] - Freethought Forum

LadyShea

07-09-2009, 09:08 PM

I love buckets, I find them quite useful. Those in the OP aren't buckets though.

Also, I call them storage bins. I don't call them tubs even, but tub is closer than bucket

lisarea

07-09-2009, 09:09 PM

buckets, tubs are round

I was going to say they were tubs, and that buckets are round.

INTERNET FIGHT!

ChuckF

07-09-2009, 09:10 PM

Them's tubs.

Crumb

07-09-2009, 09:13 PM

This is going precisely as I predicted...

:qex:
:burns:

Gyre

07-09-2009, 09:13 PM

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/gallery/files/2/5/0/4/notround.jpg

Bucket!

Crumb

07-09-2009, 09:14 PM

Bucket!

http://loudelf.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/bucket.jpg

lisarea

07-09-2009, 09:16 PM

http://www.mlsandco.in/pcat-gifs/products-small/EDEN-Bathtubs.jpg

Tub!

Gyre

07-09-2009, 09:18 PM

BUCKET!!!

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/gallery/files/2/5/0/4/square.jpg

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/gallery/files/2/5/0/4/pinksquare.gif

Adam

07-09-2009, 09:20 PM

All these behandled objects being posted are, indeed, buckets.

ChuckF

07-09-2009, 09:24 PM

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v317/ChuckF/taft-tub.jpg

Ensign Steve

07-09-2009, 09:25 PM

buckets, tubs are round

Those are tubs. Buckets are round. And painted with a cartoon of a baby drowning.

Crumb

07-09-2009, 09:25 PM

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/gallery/files/2/5/0/4/pinksquare.gif
Actually this is borderline tub. :D

Ensign Steve

07-09-2009, 09:26 PM

I have a thing like that and I call it a basket, even though it's not. Because of the shape.

ChuckF

07-09-2009, 09:28 PM

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/gallery/files/2/5/0/4/pinksquare.gif
Actually this is borderline tub. :D
:yeahthat:

I think in my head maybe tubs have one dimension longer than the other and maybe two handles instead of one, like a bucket has.

Watser?

07-09-2009, 09:33 PM

The single-handled ones, though square, count as buckets. It is written.

The pink thing is borderline indeedy.

lisarea

07-09-2009, 09:37 PM

I will take your tub/bucket taxonomy on authority when I see it committed to Portable Document Format.

Stacy S.

07-09-2009, 09:37 PM

I don't like where this topic is going.

Please drop the matter before someone loses an eye.

note that I am very ready to protect mine.

Gyre

07-09-2009, 09:40 PM

I concede I concede

can't we all just get along

lets just call them bins

or as rubbermaid calls them Totes (which is another argument altogether)

Stacy S.

07-09-2009, 09:41 PM

Bucket!

http://loudelf.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/bucket.jpg

That's not a bucket.

This! is a bucket...

Watser?

07-09-2009, 09:45 PM

I will take your tub/bucket taxonomy on authority when I see it committed to Portable Document Format.

I was thinking Power Point presentation.

LadyShea

07-09-2009, 09:47 PM

Containers used at the beach for sand are actually pails.

BrotherMan

07-09-2009, 09:47 PM

http://www.mlsandco.in/pcat-gifs/products-small/EDEN-Bathtubs.jpg

Tub!

:suggest:

maddog

07-09-2009, 09:48 PM

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/gallery/files/2/5/0/4/pinksquare.gif

That's a "bin."

#2221

lisarea

07-09-2009, 09:48 PM

I was thinking Power Point presentation.

Well, yeah, but you still have to convert the Powerpoint to PDF and email it or it's not official.

Sock Puppet

07-09-2009, 09:53 PM

It's you. You're the bucket.

Ensign Steve

07-09-2009, 09:55 PM

Totes! Yeah, that's what I call them.

lisarea

07-09-2009, 09:59 PM

Totes! Yeah, that's what I call them.

Totes are umbrellas, cheap rubber overshoes, giant canvas bags, or an annoying pseudo valleyspeak elision of totally.

LadyShea

07-09-2009, 10:00 PM

:saywhat: totes are a type of bag. And I know because I am a container lady.

ceptimus

07-09-2009, 10:05 PM

erimir

07-09-2009, 10:42 PM

Yeah, I feel like buckets are supposed to be held with one hand. Or at least convenient for carrying liquids in. Has to have a handle, preferably a bail (i.e. a handle that goes from one side to the other and can hang by the side, rather than having more than one handle). Not shallow.

Tubs are for bathing, or handle-less containers that look like tubs. I don't normally call many things tubs other than bathtubs tho. I might say a tub of margarine, I guess.

I would call the things in the OP "bins" or just "(rubber) containers."

Legs

07-09-2009, 10:43 PM

http://www.ospreydesign.com/foreword/archives/kua03_17.jpg

erimir

07-09-2009, 11:05 PM

That's Boo-kay.

Leesifer

07-09-2009, 11:47 PM

Is this a picture of buckets or tubs?

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=5678&d=1247169637

They look like storage boxes to me but then you foreigners are crazy.

Ymir's blood

07-09-2009, 11:56 PM

I call them bins as well. (the containers, not Leesifer. She is clearly a bint.)

Crumb

07-09-2009, 11:57 PM

Is this a picture of buckets or tubs?

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=5678&d=1247169637

They look like storage boxes to me but then you foreigners are crazy.
They are not boxes. :nojustno:

chunksmediocrites

07-10-2009, 12:08 AM

The OP pics are of totes. Buckets are more likely to be round and to have a handle. Buckets at the beach are indeed pails. Tubs often have different dimensions and are more likely to be square; for example bus tubs at a restaurant.

wildernesse

07-10-2009, 12:22 AM

Foot tubs and wash tubs are round (and frequently metal) although the tub you would use for dishes is the dishpan. They also do not have a handle, except for the little loop that is used to hang them up.

Buckets have a bail. So do some canning jars, although it is not a handle there.

I would call the original pics tubs if it is that or bucket, but really I call them bins.

Baskets are woven. Totes are bags with two handles of equal length, made of fabric, frequently canvas.

Qingdai

07-10-2009, 04:04 AM

BUCKET!!!

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/gallery/files/2/5/0/4/pinksquare.gif

It's a bin.

Er, I agree with maddog.

rigorist

07-10-2009, 05:11 AM

Look inside. If they're crammed full of old camp evidence, they're tubs.

viscousmemories

07-10-2009, 05:18 AM

YouTube - BUCKETHEAD

ceptimus

07-10-2009, 05:33 AM

Agree with wildernesse that baskets are woven, but in the UK we often call the small containers you throw office/home trash into, 'waste paper baskets' even though they are really bins.

MonCapitan2002

07-10-2009, 05:44 AM

Is this a picture of buckets or tubs?

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=5678&d=1247169637
They look like bins to me.

erimir

07-10-2009, 06:30 AM

Agree with wildernesse that baskets are woven, but in the UK we often call the small containers you throw office/home trash into, 'waste paper baskets' even though they are really bins.I'll also call waste bins "trash cans," altho I guess technically a trash can ought to be made of metal.

godfry n. glad

07-10-2009, 06:45 AM

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/gallery/files/2/5/0/4/pinksquare.gif
Actually this is borderline tub. :D

We call them 'file tubs' where I work.

Qingdai

07-10-2009, 06:46 AM

But are they pink?

Doctor X

07-10-2009, 06:50 AM

http://www.geocities.com/gwaddingham/char4.jpg

--J. "You Heard the Man . . . Get Undressed!" D.

ChuckF

07-10-2009, 06:51 AM

We call them 'file tubs' where I work.
We call them 'Swedish lunchboxes' where I work. Of course nobody knows that but me.
:abesimpson:

godfry n. glad

07-10-2009, 07:02 AM

A bucket (or pail) you can carry liquids in using one hand to hold the handle. That pink thing would need two hands, so it doesn't qualify.

Trivia bonus: The semicircular carrying handle of a pail is called the bail.

Wait....the curved wire top attached to the old style canning jars, called 'bailed jars' or 'baled mason jars' (either spelling is acceptable) was the 'bail' (or 'bale')

https://secure25.securewebsession.com/villagekitchen.com/mfg/arc/luminarc/jars/canning_jar_triomphe/art/triomphejar.jpg
and I see at least one dictionary says a bail is the bucket used to scoop water out of a boat or container. And, it has a hoop-like handle, rather like the bails which were hoops that held up tents.

And we haven't even gotten to the 'get out of jail card' nomenclature (never free).

godfry n. glad

07-10-2009, 07:15 AM

Oh...OP are tubs. Or containers. Or totes.

They are not buckets.

The pink thing is a tub or a bin, it is not a bucket.

Tubs can be round and wooden, too. The more boxy a tub becomes, the more likely it is to be considered a bin. But, of course, the limeys in the crowd will probably tell you that the bin in the back is metal and round and the dustman comes 'round regular to empty it.

As far as I'm concerned a pail and a bucket are one and the same, but I get the impression that a pail is somehow more...dainty than a bucket. Fuck it, it's a bucket. Whereas, a pail is pale...and probably wan, too.

godfry n. glad

07-10-2009, 07:24 AM

But are they pink?

No. Same thing, though, only in institutional gray. They are for removing a small mass of files from a larger bank of file cabinets in order to keep them orderly and together while they are worked on by the clerical staff.

They largely started disappearing with the advent of computer files. Since they are low-tech solutions, they are outlasting, so far, about eight generations of electronic files, including...lessee...what is it, four different storage media? They get used for other things now, even though they aren't watertight enough for punchbowls.

godfry n. glad

07-10-2009, 07:31 AM

Buckets or Tubs?
http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/pix/trucks/mark_wayman/2005/dec/silver_bullets_tubs_hoppers/file011.jpg

Leesifer

07-10-2009, 05:04 PM

Tubs:

http://www.condenast.co.uk/imagelib/320x360/g_j/icecreampots_320.jpg

oh and that there in the middle of the lorry is a skip, godfry.

Adam

07-10-2009, 07:03 PM

http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=5683&stc=1&d=1247248969

Crumb

07-10-2009, 07:16 PM

:lol:

Smilin

07-10-2009, 07:24 PM

http://k43.pbase.com/o4/65/76265/1/64552615.w5HoymRm.IMG_2166buckethead.jpg

Crumb

07-10-2009, 07:30 PM

:rughide:

Gyre

07-10-2009, 07:32 PM

Don't get me started on Wire-Bail Jars, i just bought 4 dozen of these in pints & quarts off of CL
http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/gallery/files/2/5/0/4/c508_1_thumb200.jpg
Some are Atlas some are mason, some are ball, they are awesome
I love them so much, tried to get more but she sold out...