The "Can" Proposal
 

During strategy discussions today, we had a heck of a time rememberting what the green containers were called. "Recycle Containers" is far too long to say, and I use bins and totes interchangeably. Enough of this.

Following the model of the "noodle agreement", I'd like to make the "Can" proposal: From now on we should call the green conainers the "Cans". Thus we have three types of game pieces - Grey Totes, Gold Totes, and Green Cans.

(we do not mention the other game piece)

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+1

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This has been a terminology nightmare for us too. Our situation is something like:

GRAY TOTES: totes, bins, boxes, gray totes, non-yellow totes, normal totes
YELLOW TOTES: yellow totes, yellow bins, yellow boxes, auton totes, special totes, totes
RECYCLING CONTAINERS: containers, cans, bins, green bins, green things, trash cans, totes (when confused)
LITTER: pool noodles, noodles, trash, "po-no's" (did not catch on)

We eventually settled on "[gray] tote", "yellow tote", "bin", "[pool] noodle", which works well enough... for us.

For the purposes of the forum, I vote we use the official terminology whenever there is possibility of ambiguity. As long as we all have to use the same words, we may as well use the same words as the rulebook and save everyone some brain-trouble. Shorten "recycling container" to "container", preferably after using the full term once to establish what you're talking about.

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We use RC for recycle container.

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I can't wait to call them po-nos tomorrow.

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The advantage to using the correct terms are when people later search for these terms, relevant info actually comes up. FIRST gave them official names so as to avoid confusion.

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We threw around several terms as well but eventually "Gray Tote" "Yellow Tote" "Trash Can" and "noodle/pool noodle" became favored :D

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po-nos, cancans, and totes ma goats

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Surprised it wasn't just
Yote
Gota
Bin

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We've always called TOTES "bins" so it's really tough for our team to wrap our head around BINS being round, and TOTES being what we previously knew as bins. We considered calling BINS cans, but decided that we would just all try as hard as possible to follow the manual.

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I'll be stealing this tomorrow. Thank you mucho :P

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Our team has been referring to the pieces as:

Gray/Yellow totes: "totes"
Recycling container: "bin" or "can"
Litter: "noodle"

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Container vs. can or litter vs. pool noodle aren't big deals--it's pretty obvious what's meant.

But can we just all please stop referring to anything, of any color, as a "bin"? This game contains two elements which are equally worthy to be dubbed "bins". Their respective bin-nitudes are precisely equivalent. The term "bin" is completely ambiguous between the two of them. I imagine many teams will adopt the term "bin" to refer solely to one, but as soon as people from multiple teams start talking the term is meaningless. You may as well just say "thing", so at least people don't think they know what you mean when they don't.

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+1 "Bins" were screwing me up all day today.

Although I prefer "can" to container, because "container" is equally ambiguous - both totes and cans are used to contain things.

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Along the lines of what to call things, I would like to build on the Can Proposal and submit the Zone Proposal.

The field drawing shows a Staging Zone, an Auto zone, a Landfill zone, and a fourth zone between the Auto and Landfill zones. As far as I can tell, this fourth zone is never labeled.

So I propose that we call this fourth zone the "Zone That Shall Not Be Named".
:)