Seriously, WTF is wrong with some people.

[bigkeeko]

Moonhawk said:

Here is a nice vid to help boil some piss

(litter bug caught on CCTV)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhhFbZK5ytQ

N549 ORG.

Is that not enough?

[ClassicMotorNut]

Whenever I have free time, and I'm not obsessing about cars, it is a favourite activity of mine to take a stroll through the local woodland. Sadly, I live in suburbia and not far from a council estate, not the nice, clean countryside.

This means that the parts of the woods nearest the pavements always seem to be covered with litter that has either blown in or been carelessly dumped. In the middle of the woods is a tyre. Why would you lug a tyre through some woodland if you're going to dump it? Why not dump it anywhere?

The group of volunteers who care for the woodland recently put up a polite notice asking for people to think twice before fly-tipping and guess what? Some left a load of st right underneath it.

Another thing that appeared recently was a balloon caught in a tree saying 'Happy 24th Birthday'. What sort of sad tt wants balloons for their birthday when they're 24, for fk's sake?

[Tango13]

Rick_1138 said:

Re: the baby grouse story.

I had a similar thing one night coming home from a late shift of my part time job at Uni, be about 10 years ago.

Just coming out of town I saw a hedgehog crossing the road so I slowed down and stopped as it went passed, as it went onto the other lane I saw 2 taxi's coming towards me, they didn't even blink, just straight into it, first car it bounced off the side of the wheel and as it seemed dazed the second car went right over it, it wasn't pretty.

I was shaking with anger, they must have seen it, it was well streetlight and my lights would have been highlighting it.

I was all for turning after the taxi and having it out but then had words with myself, but never forgot that and realised how callous and thoughtless folk can be towards animals.

Its the same when you hear about 16 swans being shot with air guns in my local town, they were never caught but if I or my dad ever found them they would have got a kicking and shoved in the river.

Makes me angry now when I think about that hedgehog

If it's any consolation i've stopped to pick up and carry hedgehogs across the road a few times over the years.

[droopsnoot]

Moonhawk said:

Do any major train stations have bins actually inside the main building........I don't think I have seen one for many many years (they were originally removed due to IRA bombings in the 70s and 80s). This isn't something specific to Liverpool or Lime Street station in particular.

Well, I didn't want to generalise, I just happened to remember the situation on Lime Street. I knew if I generalised, it might have started a long back-and-forth picking on each bit of what I'd written. Luckily I managged to skilfully avoid that. But I think you're right about the reason they were removed.

Moonhawk said:

Besides - how much rubbish can you generate at a station such that it can't be tucked in a pocket or handbag and taken home to dispose of? If you buy a coffee or a sandwich that has a larger container/wrappings where this isn't practical or could be messy - i'm sure the place you bought them from would happily dispose of them for you.

I can't remember what it was, only that I couldn't see anywhere to throw it out. So I can't say why I couldn't take it back to wherever I'd bought it from and throw it away there.

[Calletrece]

GTIR said:

I live in Cambridge and if I've got rubbish in the car I drive to Haverhill and throw it out the window.

My reasoning is that place is a dump anyway so rather than mess up nice Cambridge it makes sense to get rid of my crap where it won't be noticed. I've been know to take a poo by the side of the road for the same reason.

I've not always been this conciencous.

If I see litter in my road I'll often pick it up, and save it for my Haverhill trip.

Very conscientious, and a policy I wholeheartedly agree with. Keep Cambridge clean.



A lot of people seem to throw their waste flowers out of the window on the way to Haverhole as well, strange people...

[V8Ford]

A few weeks back I was walking through the town & two yoofs were walking towards me. One threw an empty McDonalds drinks cup at his mate, which landed on the pavement. They kept walking, and for the first time ever I decided to speak out. So I pointed out in a fairly polite manner he had dropped his drink, and there was a bin right behind him. Amazingly he just binned it and looked embarrassed. One of these days I'm going to pay some big men to just sit in McDonalds car park for an evening and tip litter onto litter louts cars. Would make great youtube footage!

[Pothole]

PHmember said:

IanCress said:

Who goes to the touble of bringing a thermos cup with them but not filling it with tea before they set off?

This woman sounds like a disorganised idiot.

Plus spending 4x as much on a stty cup of tea instead of making a decent one at home.

She might well have already drunk the first flaskfull, you dimbulbs!

[tuffer]

Pothole said:

PHmember said:

IanCress said:

Who goes to the touble of bringing a thermos cup with them but not filling it with tea before they set off?

This woman sounds like a disorganised idiot.

Plus spending 4x as much on a stty cup of tea instead of making a decent one at home.

She might well have already drunk the first flaskfull, you dimbulbs!

^^^^Seriously, WTF is wrong with some people.

[RDJ]

tuffer said:

Pothole said:

PHmember said:

IanCress said:

Who goes to the touble of bringing a thermos cup with them but not filling it with tea before they set off?

This woman sounds like a disorganised idiot.

Plus spending 4x as much on a stty cup of tea instead of making a decent one at home.

She might well have already drunk the first flaskfull, you dimbulbs!

^^^^Seriously, WTF is wrong with some people.

[Pothole]

droopsnoot said:

tuffer said:

I often see whole bags of McD wrappers discarded in the lanes near me, a new take-away recently opened on the A303 and it looks like the local squaddies just throw their crap out of the window on the way back to camp.

Now that really is depressing, if that's who it is. The very people that you'd expect to understand discipline and behaving properly.

Have you ever met any squaddies? Outside of work they're generally the most ill-disciplined, poorly-behaved bunch you'll come across.

[ChemicalChaos]

This evening's piss boiler:

http://onthewight.com/2014/07/21/vandals-destroy-r...

I hope the culprits decide to go for a paddle and get swept out to sea.....

[Lost soul]

ChemicalChaos said:

This evening's piss boiler:

http://onthewight.com/2014/07/21/vandals-destroy-r...

I hope the culprits decide to go for a paddle and get swept out to sea.....

That is just unbelievable , how can people be so gormless

[Cotty]

Lost soul said:

ChemicalChaos said:

This evening's piss boiler:

http://onthewight.com/2014/07/21/vandals-destroy-r...

I hope the culprits decide to go for a paddle and get swept out to sea.....

That is just unbelievable , how can people be so gormless

I read that in the paper this morning. I couldn't undersand why someone would do that. Its like damaging a fire engine or ambulance, the boats only purpose is to save lives.

[CanAm]

droopsnoot said:

That said, Liverpool Lime Street station doesn't seem to have any bins at all, so it's hard to see what you're supposed to do - a real problem for me as I was brought up to not drop litter so was determined not to just chuck it on the floor.

Having a long wait for my train at London Bridge Station a while back, I was sitting on a bench on the platform having a bite to eat. When I'd finished, I looked around for a litter bin, but couldn't see any. I asked a passing Ticket Inspector, who told me to chuck it on the floor, as "that's what the cleaners are paid for". When I said I couldn't do that, he said, "There's a big wheelie-bin by Platform 7, but don't tell anybody I told you as the cleaners get upset".

[irocfan]

ChemicalChaos said:

This evening's piss boiler:

http://onthewight.com/2014/07/21/vandals-destroy-r...

I hope the culprits decide to go for a paddle and get swept out to sea.....

I'd sure like to help them get swept out to sea

[yellowjack]

Pothole said:

droopsnoot said:

tuffer said:

I often see whole bags of McD wrappers discarded in the lanes near me, a new take-away recently opened on the A303 and it looks like the local squaddies just throw their crap out of the window on the way back to camp.

Now that really is depressing, if that's who it is. The very people that you'd expect to understand discipline and behaving properly.

Have you ever met any squaddies? Outside of work they're generally the most ill-disciplined, poorly-behaved bunch you'll come across.

It has always been the same. I served for 25 years, and can assure you I've never knowingly dropped a single piece of litter. As a child, if I kicked a can someone else had dropped, my dad would say "if you like it so much, you can take it home and put it in the bin". So I sometimes ended up picking up other people's crap.

If you think about it, the Army recruits from society, so what you get is a force which reflects the values and standards of society at large. The Army is full of "all round good eggs" and "heroes", but ultimately, a certain percentage of those who serve will steal, are violent, are capable of rape, are racist, etc. It's the way some people in society behave, and therefore some will get through into service. And it WILL be young squaddies who are lobbing Maccie D's wrappers out of car windows. The same as they did on the A1301 on way back to Saffron Walden from the Whittlesford services drive through.

It's very much looked down on by the chain of command, and miscreants dealt with as severely as military law allows, but proving who it is is the issue, and so long as these scruffy twunts (both military, and civilian) get away with it, the problem won't go away. I absolutely hate the entire concept of fast food and drive through anything.

My stance on littering? It's disgusting. To the point where I once picked up a cigarette butt that was thrown out of a taxi outside Frimley Park Hospital, and threw it back into the car with a cheery "you dropped this, mate!" If only I'd thought to report the driver and his passenger too. After all, it's illegal to smoke in a taxi, isn't it? The passenger (who threw the butt) was also a cabby, driving a second cab, but sitting with his buddy passing the time waiting for a fare. No verbal reaction from the pair of idiots, but I saw the fag end get put into the ashtray in the car. Why not do that in the first place? Because someone might find it and report them, probably.

[ClassicMotorNut]

doogz said:

ClassicMotorNut said:

Whenever I have free time, and I'm not obsessing about cars, it is a favourite activity of mine to take a stroll through the local woodland. Sadly, I live in suburbia and not far from a council estate, not the nice, clean countryside.

This means that the parts of the woods nearest the pavements always seem to be covered with litter that has either blown in or been carelessly dumped. In the middle of the woods is a tyre. Why would you lug a tyre through some woodland if you're going to dump it? Why not dump it anywhere?

The group of volunteers who care for the woodland recently put up a polite notice asking for people to think twice before fly-tipping and guess what? Some left a load of st right underneath it.

Another thing that appeared recently was a balloon caught in a tree saying 'Happy 24th Birthday'. What sort of sad tt wants balloons for their birthday when they're 24, for fk's sake?

They probably didn't want it. Hence you finding it.

Therefore I'd suggest the answer to your question is a "sad tt" that's smarter than you?

Also, one single tyre in the middle of the forest, and you don't instantly think "tyre swing"?

You've had quite a sad childhood, haven't you?

In response to the balloon:
By Jove, you've really hit the nail on the head with that particular observation of yours! Being the thicko that I am, I would dispose of an unwanted balloon by deflating it and putting it in the bin, as opposed to doing the sensible thing and letting it drift away to pollute the local environment.

In response to the tyre:
If you read the first sentence of my O.P., you should be able to work out that I make walking around the woods a regular habit. Going by the fact that I have never seen a tyre swing or its other vital component, a rope, in them, I do not immediately think 'tyre swing'.

In response to the sad childhood:
Going from everything written in my O.P., we can learn that I enjoy myself by enjoying my local area. It's also clear that I have a healthy respect for my local area and am grateful for the team of volunteers who look after it. I have a perfectly reasonable contempt for those who choose to disrespect it and ruin it for others, which is a trait, I think shared by most people on this thread.

I'd never really considered that sad, but I guess I missed out on a whale of time criticising others for no reason.

I know you don't like me and I couldn't care less. I don't like a lot if people and a lot of people don't like me for reasons good, bad or otherwise, but we're all intelligent to ignore each other or still talk to each other sensibly and civilly. Of course, if you have an intelligent response to my post, I'll gladly receive it, but when it's inane or spiteful or just plain stupid drivel, like many of your posts involving me, I think most people would rather you didn't bother. I don't know exactly what you do, but I rather get the impression that your immediate response on seeing one of my posts is to attempt to belittle it in the most ridiculous manner possible.

I don't really want to waste time replying to the crap you spout, but I choose to do so out of courtesy, not necessity, and I'll continue to do so until I run out of patience.
You shouldn't want to waste your time replying to my O.P.s because when they're irrelevant and obviously a half-arsed attempt to have a dig at someone you don't like, it just makes you look stupid. One day, when you're older, you'll look back and... oh, whoops!
Thirdly, I doubt other people want to sift through your petty whinging or my response to it.

In short, unless you've got something to add that's actually worth adding, shut up.

[Willhire89]

Calletrece said:

GTIR said:

I live in Cambridge and if I've got rubbish in the car I drive to Haverhill and throw it out the window.

My reasoning is that place is a dump anyway so rather than mess up nice Cambridge it makes sense to get rid of my crap where it won't be noticed. I've been know to take a poo by the side of the road for the same reason.

I've not always been this conciencous.

If I see litter in my road I'll often pick it up, and save it for my Haverhill trip.

Very conscientious, and a policy I wholeheartedly agree with. Keep Cambridge clean.



A lot of people seem to throw their waste flowers out of the window on the way to Haverhole as well, strange people...

I guess it makes you 'cool' if you can slate Haverhill - as a London overspill it is no different to for instance Huntingdon but of course the the Oxmoor is much nicer estate than the Clements.

Cambridge of course is absolutely without fault - there's no issues in Arbury, Abbey, Ditton Fields ....never mind Chesterton.

I don't live in Haverhill although I have property there - it's no different to any other town of it's age.

Go dump your rubbish in Sawston - maybe that deserves it?

[anonymous-user]

Willhire89 said:

Calletrece said:

GTIR said:

I live in Cambridge and if I've got rubbish in the car I drive to Haverhill and throw it out the window.

My reasoning is that place is a dump anyway so rather than mess up nice Cambridge it makes sense to get rid of my crap where it won't be noticed. I've been know to take a poo by the side of the road for the same reason.

I've not always been this conciencous.

If I see litter in my road I'll often pick it up, and save it for my Haverhill trip.

Very conscientious, and a policy I wholeheartedly agree with. Keep Cambridge clean.



A lot of people seem to throw their waste flowers out of the window on the way to Haverhole as well, strange people...

I guess it makes you 'cool' if you can slate Haverhill - as a London overspill it is no different to for instance Huntingdon but of course the the Oxmoor is much nicer estate than the Clements.

Cambridge of course is absolutely without fault - there's no issues in Arbury, Abbey, Ditton Fields ....never mind Chesterton.

I don't live in Haverhill although I have property there - it's no different to any other town of it's age.

Go dump your rubbish in Sawston - maybe that deserves it?

Haverhill deserves it. Between Colchester and Cambridge, there is no greater hive of scum and villainy. Any place where the Aldi is bigger than the Tesco, and the KFC/Subway has its own roundabout, tells you all you need to know about the demographic.

[Willhire89]

OpulentBob said:

Willhire89 said:

Calletrece said:

GTIR said:

I live in Cambridge and if I've got rubbish in the car I drive to Haverhill and throw it out the window.

My reasoning is that place is a dump anyway so rather than mess up nice Cambridge it makes sense to get rid of my crap where it won't be noticed. I've been know to take a poo by the side of the road for the same reason.

I've not always been this conciencous.

If I see litter in my road I'll often pick it up, and save it for my Haverhill trip.

Very conscientious, and a policy I wholeheartedly agree with. Keep Cambridge clean.



A lot of people seem to throw their waste flowers out of the window on the way to Haverhole as well, strange people...

I guess it makes you 'cool' if you can slate Haverhill - as a London overspill it is no different to for instance Huntingdon but of course the the Oxmoor is much nicer estate than the Clements.

Cambridge of course is absolutely without fault - there's no issues in Arbury, Abbey, Ditton Fields ....never mind Chesterton.

I don't live in Haverhill although I have property there - it's no different to any other town of it's age.

Go dump your rubbish in Sawston - maybe that deserves it?

Haverhill deserves it. Between Colchester and Cambridge, there is no greater hive of scum and villainy. Any place where the Aldi is bigger than the Tesco, and the KFC/Subway has its own roundabout, tells you all you need to know about the demographic.

Another cool person!

Could I just put Braintree into the mix - neatly sits between Colchester and Cambridge and that could rival Haverhill any day for scum and villainy.

You're possibly right about the roundabout thing - Cambridge's is in Newmarket Road