A bit council (Vol 6)

[ChemicalChaos]

hidetheelephants said:

Is it? Every time there's a nostalgia thread someone will wax lyrical about white dogst being a feature of their childhood, so fkwitted and selfish dog owners are not a new thing.

I don't think he's on about dogs.....

[CKY]

Nethybridge said:

Now with our modern, diverse society, with people
from all sorts of cultural and ethnic backgrounds, just watch
where you tread in your high st. is all i'm saying

Just a matter of time before some industrious person follows San Fran's lead and gets an interactive st map on the go over here...

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=...

[chemistry]

Whistle said:

Spare tyre said:

It’s funny you should mention that

During lockdown we had a toddler to amuse, she liked to wake up at 4 as they do

Popping into the dirty centre at 6am caused great amusement, looking in shop windows, climbing on benches etc. when it’s quiet and things are not grabbing your attention the amount of turds everywhere was an eye opener

We are slowly but surely turning into a 3rd world country

[Whistle]

ChemicalChaos said:

I don't think he's on about dogs.....

I wasn’t, It’s 2024 and we have city centres full of human turd.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/man-squats-u...

[ChemicalChaos]

Whistle said:

ChemicalChaos said:

I don't think he's on about dogs.....

I wasn’t, It’s 2024 and we have city centres full of human turd.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/man-squats-u...

We should be grateful, we have been culturally enriched!

[hidetheelephants]

Whistle said:

ChemicalChaos said:

I don't think he's on about dogs.....

I wasn’t, It’s 2024 and we have city centres full of human turd.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/man-squats-u...

One homeless guy stting, in a plastic bag at that, means the UK's streets are strewn with human turds, rather than Ockham's conclusion that 99% of them are from dogs. Righty ho.

[Spare tyre]

CKY said:

Nethybridge said:

Now with our modern, diverse society, with people
from all sorts of cultural and ethnic backgrounds, just watch
where you tread in your high st. is all i'm saying

Just a matter of time before some industrious person follows San Fran's lead and gets an interactive st map on the go over here...

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/View/index.html?appid=...

I’m going there soon, will be sure the head to Jessie street, looks ste!

[Tim Cognito]

Might not help that the govt have closed loads of public toilets.

[Red9zero]

Tim Cognito said:

Might not help that the govt have closed loads of public toilets.

Our local council closed loads of public toilets, citing running costs, theft, drug use etc. They have discretely reopened quite a few of them though. No signs on the door though and all the payment boxes removed, in fact they look the same as they did when they were closed. Only open 9-5 now, but better than nothing.

[Spare tyre]

Red9zero said:

Tim Cognito said:

Might not help that the govt have closed loads of public toilets.

Our local council closed loads of public toilets, citing running costs, theft, drug use etc. They have discretely reopened quite a few of them though. No signs on the door though and all the payment boxes removed, in fact they look the same as they did when they were closed. Only open 9-5 now, but better than nothing.

I know the world doesn’t work how we’d all like it, but I’ve always thought public toilets and things like that would be a great community service task

Beat up a police man or nick some steak from the co op - 100 hours working at the public loo.

Don’t do the job satisfactorily? Hours go up by 10

I know it wouldn’t work as it’d attract druggies and the like

I’ve also always thought manual recycling separation as community service thing

Each given a pile of stuff to sort, resulting output piles are inspected for quality, get it wrong - it’s like the real world and you don’t get “paid”

[Red9zero]

Spare tyre said:

I know the world doesn’t work how we’d all like it, but I’ve always thought public toilets and things like that would be a great community service task

Beat up a police man or nick some steak from the co op - 100 hours working at the public loo.

Don’t do the job satisfactorily? Hours go up by 10

I know it wouldn’t work as it’d attract druggies and the like

I’ve also always thought manual recycling separation as community service thing

Each given a pile of stuff to sort, resulting output piles are inspected for quality, get it wrong - it’s like the real world and you don’t get “paid”

A very long time ago (probably 25+ years ago now () the public toilets in the park near where we lived was run by a team of ladies who had a little office type place in there. They were always cleaning, so the place was immaculate. They had a few pictures hung up, music playing and it was a delight to use. Fast forward to now and there is a block of closed up individual toilets that the council must have spent an absolute fortune on converting, repairing and finally shutting. I often walk our dog in the park and have to explain to tourists that yes they are closed, they do look terrible and the nearest toilets are in the shopping centre in town. In the good old days the toilets were a talking point for tourists and I often heard them commenting how clean they were.

[Pit Pony]

jdw100 said:

Spare tyre said:

jdw100 said:

Come and live where we do and see how much fun they are.

Get in the house and they’ll wreck it.

Nick your glasses, hat, any thing they can get their hands on. Mostly happens to tourists and it a financial transaction; items returned for food.

Booted one in the head a few years back as it tried to take my daughter’s ice cream.

PARKLIFE

Monkeys do not give me a sense of enormous wellbeing.

On a trip down the garden route in South Africa, I learnt why baboons were called that.

Whole groups sit in the middle of the main road, and wait to be run over/attack the cars of unsuspecting tourists, who try not to run them over.
When a lorry runs one over, the sound that it makes as it goes under the wheels is "bab..oooooon"

[gtidriver]

hidetheelephants said:

Whistle said:

ChemicalChaos said:

I don't think he's on about dogs.....

I wasn’t, It’s 2024 and we have city centres full of human turd.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/man-squats-u...

One homeless guy stting, in a plastic bag at that, means the UK's streets are strewn with human turds, rather than Ockham's conclusion that 99% of them are from dogs. Righty ho.

In Capetown a few years ago I saw a guy just drop his trousers and pants and st on the side of the road, I happened to have a toilet roll in the car and threw it at him, he was very appreciative, I was sat in traffic and after he had finished he walked up to my car and said cheers and held out his hand, I very politely declined his offer of a handshake.

If you live in or have traveled to Canterbury you may have come across a wandering lady called Jill, she has big red circles on her face ie aunt Sally. I saw her a few years ago pushing her trolley along Broadoak Road and just oik her trousers down and st in the entrance to the allotments, fresh fertiliser i suppose.

[Spare tyre]

Ant explains the algorithm in simple terms

https://youtu.be/JAL71YuUym4?si=QOIURCcL30QEo3fv

[nute]

I was asked to specify and run a contract for refurbishing some public toilets by the council which ran them.

Part of the work involved cladding the male WC cubicle partitions in steel sheet in an attempt to stop certain people cutting waist height holes in them to stick their knobs through.

This was several years ago, they have probably been closed by now.

[Red9zero]

nute said:

I was asked to specify and run a contract for refurbishing some public toilets by the council which ran them.

Part of the work involved cladding the male WC cubicle partitions in steel sheet in an attempt to stop certain people cutting waist height holes in them to stick their knobs through.

This was several years ago, they have probably been closed by now.

Just add some nice fibreglass insulation in the walls

[Kowalski655]

hidetheelephants said:

Pit Pony said:

x5tuu said:

Jesus H. Christ.

The amount of things in this that are concerning…

Take a trip to Knowsley Safari Park, wind your window down, jobs a goodun.

Make sure you're in someone else's car, as the bds will steal the wipers and probably go for the door mirrors as well.

Ofc course they will, they're scousers

[Tony Starks]

Spare tyre said:

I know the world doesn’t work how we’d all like it, but I’ve always thought public toilets and things like that would be a great community service task

Beat up a police man or nick some steak from the co op - 100 hours working at the public loo.

Don’t do the job satisfactorily? Hours go up by 10

I know it wouldn’t work as it’d attract druggies and the like

I’ve also always thought manual recycling separation as community service thing

Each given a pile of stuff to sort, resulting output piles are inspected for quality, get it wrong - it’s like the real world and you don’t get “paid”

We implemented something similar at work. Things were being left splattered all the time. No loo roll and water everywhere.

We took a cue from Paul Akers/Fastcap and now at every morning meeting a name gets picked out of a hat by the previous day's cleaner and they do all the downstairs toilets and the person from the day before cleans the tearoom and upstairs bathroom.

And we have QR codes with links to how to guides incase they are new or forget



It's amazing what taking ownership of something can do to make people think about others

[Pit Pony]

Kowalski655 said:

Ofc course they will, they're scousers

Now then.

Oh aye yeh, well 'ard.

[Tim Cognito]

I may have a tip for avoiding council on holiday - if you are going to somewhere all inclusive, and alcohol is not important to you, pick a resort where alcohol is not included.

We're away at the moment and barely anything has registered on the council radar, compared to where we went last year which was a hot bed of activity. I've concluded the decisive factor is that drinks aren't included here.