Are we breeding scum?

[securespark]

So that gives the green light to dropping it?

I remember my Granny telling me at 5, "Put the rubbish in your pocket until we find a bin. If we don't find a bin take it home and out it in our bin at home."

That was in 1971 or 2.

 

[big-all]

seems a rather pointless but pointed comment
rather than a comment on the situation you seem to choose a comment to demonise anyone without good reason other than to be negative as a default position by your logic you can be "scum" as there is no though or logic in your comments a picture says nothing withough context and to try do demonise any one with so little information suggests you are lacking in integrity with an agenda ???
yes and please attack my grammar composition and spelling to try and demine me as it wont work

i know they are complete carp but my motives are honest fair and beyond reproach
any way enjoy your life i enjoy helping people and being useful and compassionate, it gives me a warm feeling inside if others choose to think they are superior and more intelligent then its there loss
if we all spent our super brilliant brain power in helping others around us the world would be an amazing place

 

[Justin Passing]

Same the world over I think
Many places treat "out of the train/car/coach window" as a perfectly respectable way of getting rid of rubbish, even for people who should know better. I think all of Asia outside Japan, particularly E. Europe, Africa, S. America, and N America's pretty bad. And it NEVER pays to call someone out for it!
More civilised countries nowhere near as bad, but I never got to accept it.

 

[Mottie]

We were on a cruise and at a stop in Antigua we got a taxi to take us to a tourist spot. As we were driving along, the driver suddenly braked hard and came to a stop - there was nothing in the road. He had seen some young children throw a can to the pavement in a side road. He walked over and tore a right strip off of them, made them pick the can up and put it into a bin. I was very impressed with his attitude.

 

[Diver Fred]

Same the world over I think
Many places treat "out of the train/car/coach window" as a perfectly respectable way of getting rid of rubbish, even for people who should know better. I think all of Asia outside Japan, particularly E. Europe, Africa, S. America, and N America's pretty bad. And it NEVER pays to call someone out for it!
More civilised countries nowhere near as bad, but I never got to accept it.

Family home is outside of a village - it's about the burger and fries eating distance from a McD's; most days I have to clear the gateway and ditch of the rubbish from McD's. Even had one idiot who saw me cleaning up the rubbish try to time to throw his rubbish, including a half full pack of fries into hitting me.

I'm fed up with cleaning up others rubbish!

 

[Notch7]

I live in a small village, when I walk my dog on Sat or Sunday morning there is always rubbish surrounding the benches on the green and around the Lych gate to the church….where teenagers have been the evening before.

It really boils my pizz.

mind you, this country has a cultural / society problem: there’s nowhere for teenagers to hang out, they can’t really go the to pub and there are hardly any youth centres around.

We need more of a cafe culture, where they can hang out.


”the devil makes work for idle minds”

 

[Deleted member 300164]

I do gardening at the church behind our house and last year we had teenagers come after school every day and hang out for an hr. Every day they left rubbish, sweet wrappers, pizza boxes etc until I pointed out to them that on their way out of the churchyard they walked past 2 big wheelie bins and to bloody use em or they were unwelcome in future. They did after that though they were pretty stroppy about it

Burger places annoy me. I worked in Uncle Sams while at college, Sussex's answer to McD's and a member of staff had to walk around at the end of a shift picking up any of their litter. I wish all fast food chains and pubs (to collect empties) did that.

 

[Diver Fred]

I live in a small village, when I walk my dog on Sat or Sunday morning there is always rubbish surrounding the benches on the green and around the Lych gate to the church….where teenagers have been the evening before.

It really boils my pizz.

mind you, this country has a cultural / society problem: there’s nowhere for teenagers to hang out, they can’t really go the to pub and there are hardly any youth centres around.

We need more of a cafe culture, where they can hang out.


”the devil makes work for idle minds”

The previous landlord of the pub. in the village where I used to live used to get the 'teenagers' who hung around the bus shelter and the village green making mess and mischief into the pub side room during the week. most of the locals were happy to see the teens of the streets except for a few old fogies who thought it was a terrible idea - introducing teens to alcohol, etc instead of coming into the pub to find them happy and learning pub games and social responsibility - they tried very hard to get him closed down. Even the local policeman supported what he did as there was less trouble in the village. Sadly he missed by all now.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

The UK is the 'dirty man' of Europe and it's getting worse. The younger generation have absolutely no pride in their country at all, so for them it doesn't matter what it looks like. Collecting their rubbish is someone else's job, from where ever they drop it when they have no further use for it - essentially because no dares one say anything to them, when they just dump their rubbish on the ground. Collecting it distributed all over, takes someone much more effort than if they had done the right thing and put it in a bin.

I find rubbish dumped like this all the time, within just yards of a bin. If I see it happening I always have words with them. In places like beaches, where you can anticipate lots of rubbish being left, rather than employ people to clear it up - they should have people empowered to issue fines to those who just walk away and leave their mess on the beach.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I live in a small village, when I walk my dog on Sat or Sunday morning there is always rubbish surrounding the benches on the green and around the Lych gate to the church….where teenagers have been the evening before.

It really boils my pizz.

mind you, this country has a cultural / society problem: there’s nowhere for teenagers to hang out, they can’t really go the to pub and there are hardly any youth centres around.

Lack of social facilities, is no excuse at all for them to just dump their rubbish where they have finished with it. Youth facilities were much worse when I was in my teens and I wouldn't have dared nor be inclined to do that. The problem is one of how they are brought up, their parents dump their rubbish, so their off spring do the same - it's a cycle that needs to be broken by a good chance of retribution. It's about adults themselves caring enough to put them straight and point out the errors of their ways.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

At the bottom of my street is a bus stop, then a low private garden wall with conifers close to the rear of the wall. The sheer amount of rubbish, bottles, cans and etc. dumped between wall and conifers was incredible - but then there was no bin at that side of the road. A quick email to the council, explaining the issue, had a bin installed within just weeks.

 

[Deleted member 294929]

So that gives the green light to dropping it?

I remember my Granny telling me at 5, "Put the rubbish in your pocket until we find a bin. If we don't find a bin take it home and out it in our bin at home."

That was in 1971 or 2.

There are plenty of bins.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

In the context of this thread, it's probably a bit ott to refer to folk as 'scum' however there's no doubt, as with many things in life, we're full of double standards when it comes to littering. I was driving behind a car a few weeks back and a McDonald's paper bag got ejected from one of the windows, landing on the road with the contents going everywhere.

I think some folk have the attitude 'what's the problem, it'll get cleaned up!' however the way I look at it is imagine how quickly our surroundings would become a tip if we all elected to do the same.

 

[Deleted member 294929]

In the context of this thread, it's probably a bit ott to refer to folk as 'scum' however there's no doubt, as with many things in life, we're full of double standards when it comes to littering. I was driving behind a car a few weeks back and a McDonald's paper bag got ejected from one of the windows, landing on the road with the contents going everywhere.

I think some folk have the attitude 'what's the problem, it'll get cleaned up!' however the way I look at it is imagine how quickly our surroundings would become a tip if we all elected to do the same.

Yes scum

 

[transam]

Just a question ?

How many people are employed in the country to clean up after us ?