What does this saying mean?

[tom_36]

"When a deposit bottle is broken, you don't get your nickel back."

- From Death of a Salesman.


Cheers.

[renegade600]

it means you don't get your deposit back if you break the bottle.

[tom_36]

Ooh we got a jack dee in the house have we.

[black mirror]

Do they still have those.. Corona used to be sold in bottles.. a van used to come round every week and we would take the bottles back to get the money for the icecream man

[Snurfen]

6d a Corona bottle when I was a kid
(NOTE FOR AMERICAN VIEWERS, Corona was a UK brand of pop [soda pop to you guys?] not some putrid mexican beer that is so rank you need to wedge a lime down the neck to make vaguely palatable).

I think, young tom, it is alluding to the fact that once you've cocked something up badly, there is no going back.

Point of accuracy, Renegade600 is neither as tall nor as smiley as Mr Dee.

[black mirror]

Originally Posted by Snurfen

Point of accuracy, Renegade600 is neither as tall nor as smiley as Mr Dee.

Or as funny

[tom_36]

Cheers.

[Nick Grana]

Corona is the top imported beer in the U.S.

"A man is not an orange. You can't eat the fruit and throw away the peel."