Litter

Woebot

Woebot

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god I fucking hate litter.

recently wandering round the alps I somewhat obsessively spent the whole time time picking up the paper "sweat" handkerchieves of fat old tourists. what total and utter fucking ignorance to just dump this stuff in paradise.

a friend once said philosophically (on throwing a crisp packet into a yorkshire brook) that it didn't matter where you threw it or put it, that it was still there, but i fundamentally disagree.

i hate it on the streets of london and i hate it in the countryside.

last christmas i went with my wife's family on a walk round ardmore point outside glasgow. in the seventies and eighties apparently it was gorgeous but TODAY!!!! you've never seen so much litter in your life, it was literally like a rubbish dump. perhaps one of my most depressing experiences ever.

rant over.
 
Woebot

Woebot

Well-known member
and if you litter may you rot in hell!

(and if you pick it up like mugs, may god bless your pointy little head)
 
STN

STN

sou'wester
I despise litter.

Have you ever bollocked someone for dropping it? I don't think I've ever actually seen anyone drop it. Who are these people?
 
F

Freakaholic

not just an addiction
went hiking in hawaii once, and the trail was littered with old wrappings and cups and bottles, etc.

what the hell????

i can only assume the litterers were there to "escape" to paradise as much as anyone else.

are they even conscious of what they do?


also, i ride my bike around chicago constantly, and have several times yelled at someone for throwing their bottles/cartons/wrappers out of their car. i feel sometimes like it can be a bit of a busybody or nitpicker, or something, but sometimes.... they almost hit me with this crap. and now, some streets are hideous to look at and smell like rot in the summer.

also, it seems that litter provokes more litter. it is like, if you go to someone's house and its clean and tidy, then you feel obligated to throw away your empty beer cans, pick up your used glass. if their house is messy, you dont think twice about leaving it lying around.
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
You and me both, Woebot.

The thing that pisses me off the most about it, I think, is seeing people who are standing right next to a bin drop their crap on the ground: I mean, sometimes it's almost MORE effort to litter than to throw it away responsibly - it's as if some people are going out their way to make our country an ugly, shitty, hateful place to live.

And despite their being indignant news stories every now and then about people being hit with 80 quid fines because their toddler dropped a Wotsit, and these laws should always be applied judiciously, I think it's good that *something* at least is being done. Perhaps it's not too much to hope that one day it'll be ingrained in society that littering just isn't on.

Oh, and people who spit in the street for no good reason, PLEASE STOP IT.
 
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Lichen

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In January, when the plants have receded as much as they will, you see that every hedgerow along every lane is flithed with litter. People throw McDonald's packs from car windows, dump bin bags by gates, empy car ashtrays. Trees are festooned with greyed, ragged plastic bags.

Britain is full of selfish, idle idiots with no concept of shared space or responsibility.

A pox on all litterers.
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
Lichen said:
Britain is full of selfish, idle idiots with no concept of shared space or responsibility.
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I blame Thatcherism, Blairism, the breakdown of the family, gangster rap, Grand Theft Auto, single mothers, married mothers, deadbeat dads, Fathers 4 Justice, coats for dogs, those 'Slutz' dolls, binge-drinking, super-skunk, mad mullahs, politicalcorrectnessgonemad, neoliberals, palaeoliberals, reality TV, Pete Doherty, Paris Hilton, the CAP, frankenstein foods, dumbing down, iPods, internet pundits, ironic self-deprecation and the last two seasons of Red Dwarf.
 
hucks

hucks

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STN said:
I despise litter.

Have you ever bollocked someone for dropping it? I don't think I've ever actually seen anyone drop it. Who are these people?
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There were a couple of kids coming back from some Groove Armada thing in the park near me, carrying posters that they'd torn off the fences there. One of them was ripping off the spare bits of card it was stuck on and dropping them on the street. So I made a quick mental calculation (Can I run faster than him? Yes) and asked him why he was doing it, given that there was a bin right next to him. He was stunned, and then picked up his crap and put it in the bin. Victory for all right minded people!

Then he tried to be all cool and sarcy and I was like "Don't get cool and sarcy with me. You've just been told off, young man!"

Edit: Sorry, that should have read; Then he tried to be all cool and sarcy and I was like (mentally) "Don't get cool and sarcy with me (etc)!"
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

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hucks said:
Edit: Sorry, that should have read; Then he tried to be all cool and sarcy and I was like (mentally) "Don't get cool and sarcy with me (etc)!"
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Meh, he was just trying to save face - you won the real moral victory there, dude. :)
 
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Lichen

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Mr. Tea said:
I blame Thatcherism, Blairism, the breakdown of the family, gangster rap, Grand Theft Auto, single mothers, married mothers, deadbeat dads, Fathers 4 Justice, coats for dogs, those 'Slutz' dolls, binge-drinking, super-skunk, mad mullahs, politicalcorrectnessgonemad, neoliberals, palaeoliberals, reality TV, Pete Doherty, Paris Hilton, the CAP, frankenstein foods, dumbing down, iPods, internet pundits, ironic self-deprecation and the last two seasons of Red Dwarf.
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You forget roller-training shoes.
 
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noel emits

a wonderful wooden reason
Mr. Tea said:
I blame Thatcherism, Blairism, the breakdown of the family, gangster rap, Grand Theft Auto, single mothers, married mothers, deadbeat dads, Fathers 4 Justice, coats for dogs, those 'Slutz' dolls, binge-drinking, super-skunk, mad mullahs, politicalcorrectnessgonemad, neoliberals, palaeoliberals, reality TV, Pete Doherty, Paris Hilton, the CAP, frankenstein foods, dumbing down, iPods, internet pundits, ironic self-deprecation and the last two seasons of Red Dwarf.
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Hey, lay off the skunk.
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
noel emits said:
Hey, lay off the skunk.
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I'm trying to, but I'd addicted because it's four hundred times more potent than the harmless weed our current generation of politicians smoked when they were young. In fact I might play some violently pornographic and racist video games in a minute and then pop out for a quick murder or two.
 
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noel emits

a wonderful wooden reason
My usual answer to those politicians who can't handle their skunk is just smoke less of it you dumbies! Unless it's laced with PCP which of course it is quite often as drug dealers do like to give their loyal customers a wee bonus.
 
mixed_biscuits

mixed_biscuits

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Litterers sometimes attempt to justify their actions by saying that they are keeping street cleaners in employment. Feeble.

I get wound up by ppl leaving their manky coffee cups and sandwich boxes on the train. I also hate people who put their feet up on train seats.
 
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john eden

john eden

male pale and stale
Sometimes I see blokes littering and I'm pretty sure they're doing it to prove how much they don't give a fuck.

There's no way I'm going to intervene then, but a couple of women I've gone out with are fairly hardline about it: "Excuse me - I think you dropped something!" - waving discarded coke can in their faces...

It's just a little crap rebellion in the face of feeling completely powerless. A little "fuck you!"
 
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martin

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I've been guilty of this. Terrorism sucks, but if you're going to take bins off the streets, some cans are going to be left lying around. I try and litter in a vaguely neat fashion (ie- leave cans on the tops of newsstand boxes) when necessary. I have no sympathy for people dumping fried chicken boxes on the pavement.

I was fined £5 by the police in Bangkok for dropping a cigarette butt on the ground (it would have been £10 but I offered them some fags), so I did get my comeuppance.
 
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baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
I try to keep Pete and Kate in employment by reading Metro as often as possible. Bless their little hearts. Brains, I mean.

Litter: one of the worst I ever saw was on a beautiful island in Saint Petersburg. It was just a sea of rubbish.....
 
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