Are the british becoming dirty/lazy?
Are the british becoming dirty/lazy?
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Boosted LS1

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21,200 posts

283 months

Monday 10th August 2009
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Obviously not everybody but I can't help notice how some scumbags just leave their rubbish on the floor at the cinema when there are bins nearbye. It's becoming the norm to fill your face on crap and leave the litter for the cleaner.

Also, my local park which is really nice is loaded with rubbish, plastic bottles etc. Usually left on the touchline by the parents watching their kids play football. There are 37 bins on that victorian park, how hard can it be to put your rubbish in one of them or take it home? Lots of mature tree's there, a brook etc and it's becoming a trashpit. WTF is wrong with these people? They probably have nice houses and nice cars but underneath are just trash.

How can it be stopped? Should we have a park warden like in the old days but armed with a tazer? That won't work so what would?


Stu_00

1,529 posts

242 months

Monday 10th August 2009
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Boosted LS1 said:
Obviously not everybody but I can't help notice how some scumbags just leave their rubbish on the floor at the cinema when there are bins nearbye. It's becoming the norm to fill your face on crap and leave the litter for the cleaner.

Also, my local park which is really nice is loaded with rubbish, plastic bottles etc. Usually left on the touchline by the parents watching their kids play football. There are 37 bins on that victorian park, how hard can it be to put your rubbish in one of them or take it home? Lots of mature tree's there, a brook etc and it's becoming a trashpit. WTF is wrong with these people? They probably have nice houses and nice cars but underneath are just trash.

How can it be stopped? Should we have a park warden like in the old days but armed with a tazer? That won't work so what would?
Same people that think it is ok to chuck rubbish out of car windows - huge fines and tougher rules !


Getragdogleg

9,865 posts

206 months

Monday 10th August 2009
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A growing portion of the population IS filthy, lazy and downright selfish when it comes to litter, clutter and general tidyness.

I regularly have cans and wrappers chucked into my front garden. Its mostly kids but some adults do it too.

My personal hate is the ones who empty their ashtray in a pile on the floor beside the car, normally when they are bored and waiting for their fat easteregg shaped wife to finish shopping for lard at tescos.

Mcdonalds and KFC wrappers litter the verges around our town.

Boosted LS1

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21,200 posts

283 months

Monday 10th August 2009
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It's so depressing. My wife has a theory that it's all based around cheap food. If food was costly and valued as in a poor country there wouldn't really be any litter.

Kinky

39,906 posts

292 months

Monday 10th August 2009
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I've just come back from Jersey - and the cleanliness of the place was truly astonishing in comparison to here!

AndrewW-G

11,968 posts

240 months

Monday 10th August 2009
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Its part of the breakdown of discipline and civic pride, has been getting worse for years as people are increasingly persuaded that they dont need to take responsibility for themselves or their children, it's been made far far worse by the slide from sensible standards to the moronic liberal attitude towards discipline in schools . . . . . . . if your looking for who to blame, start with the idiots who have voted labour for the past couple of elections

Mr2Mike

20,143 posts

278 months

Monday 10th August 2009
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AndrewW-G said:
Its part of the breakdown of discipline and civic pride, has been getting worse for years as people are increasingly persuaded that they dont need to take responsibility for themselves or their children, it's been made far far worse by the slide from sensible standards to the moronic liberal attitude towards discipline in schools . . . . . . . if your looking for who to blame, start with the idiots who have voted labour for the past couple of elections
I agree with the majority of this, but I'm not truly convinced that labour are at the heart of the rot, though they have certainly contributed. This is the primary reason I never wanted to have kids (I then had a slight, ahem 'accident'). In the space of 20 years or so this country has gone rotten, and I honestly don't know how it can be fixed.

Negative Creep

25,815 posts

250 months

Monday 10th August 2009
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You think that's bad? In the shop where I work someone actually let their dog crap on the floor, then just walked off! Shame we didn't see what car he was in, as it would have been left on his bonnet to clean up

Stu_00

1,529 posts

242 months

Monday 10th August 2009
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Negative Creep said:
You think that's bad? In the shop where I work someone actually let their dog crap on the floor, then just walked off! Shame we didn't see what car he was in, as it would have been left on his bonnet to clean up
You what! That is crazy, probably same kids in school that were just plain stupid, cannot believe our country is in such trouble.

Why on earth do people think this is acceptable ?

Speed_Demon

2,662 posts

211 months

Monday 10th August 2009
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Er, welcome to modern Britain?

Uhura_Fighter

7,018 posts

206 months

Monday 10th August 2009
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Yes they are, some can't be arsed making there way to the lounge biggrin

RDE

5,032 posts

237 months

Monday 10th August 2009
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I was walking in the Brecon Beacons this weekend and was disgusted by the amount of litter.

My solution is simple. If you get caught, you eat whatever you dropped. More realistically, a short spell of forced litter picking would probably dissuade offenders.

Uhura_Fighter

7,018 posts

206 months

Monday 10th August 2009
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Speed_Demon said:
Er, welcome to modern Britain?
I hope you picked that clutch and gearbox up wink

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sy534534

249 posts

200 months

Monday 10th August 2009
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Uhura_Fighter said:
Speed_Demon said:
Er, welcome to modern Britain?
I hope you picked that clutch and gearbox up wink

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BRILLIANT!!

munroman

1,904 posts

207 months

Monday 10th August 2009
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If we don't do anything when we see this happening we are saying 'This is acceptable'. Shrugging our shoulders, tutting and moaning wont fix it, do something about it!

Last week, at local roadworks, the car in fronts window comes down, and teenage kid in front chucks out empty juice bottle.

Ages till lights change, so I got out, picked up bottle and tapped window, it opened and I handed him back the bottle he had chucked, saying ' you don't do stuff like that' - 'OK' he said and took the bottle.

I saw that his mates took the piss out of him, and I was half expecting him to chuck it out when the lights changed, but he didn't. ( I had noted the registration, and I would have reported the littering if it had been chucked out again, it is illegal)

As adults we should remind kids where boundaries lie, my children of the same age would never dream of littering, it is not normal, so it should be dealt with by highlighting it as unacceptable.

Its our world, lets start doing something to protect it from the scrotes.

gamefreaks

2,052 posts

210 months

Monday 10th August 2009
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Its just a part of the rotting flesh of our society...

Why shouldn't I just throw junk in your yard? Its not MY yard, so I don't care! You'll go out and clean it up anyway.

Why bother with anything? The government will give you money, a council slum, and pay for your ungrateful, lawless little brats to dos around at school.


Seb.F

354 posts

200 months

Monday 10th August 2009
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I was never brought up this way - being 20 now I see hundred of people only a year or two my junior do things like this. I will admit to every now and then throwing an apple core out the window onto the grass verge - but that's okay right? Being bio degradable and all that. Would NEVER even think of doing it with anything other than fruits or such, am I wrong to think such things?

Marquis_Rex

7,377 posts

262 months

Tuesday 11th August 2009
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Boosted LS1 said:
How can it be stopped?
Nu Labias response= Raise taxes on the middle classes wink

Edited by Marquis_Rex on Tuesday 11th August 00:03

MGJohn

10,203 posts

206 months

Tuesday 11th August 2009
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Becoming ? ... become already so in a nutshell ..Yes!

Billions of spent chewing gum gobs all over the streets and elsewhere in our cities and towns. Countless billions of them.

A nation with a high and increasing proportion of retards and slobs at all levels of society.

Why work when retards have a vagina ~ just lay about like a slut slob with thighs spread and allow any passing donor to donate ~ a resulting collection of assorted unidentified fatherless kids and the state picks up the tab for them and the tab is even bigger when they reach maturity and become an even more expensive problem.

I could expand on many more examples of dirty/lazy brits but there's a couple to be going on with.

The evidence is there for all to see in any town or city.

Did not used to be like that.

We're all doomed.... doomed I tell you....

Pigeon

18,535 posts

269 months

Tuesday 11th August 2009
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Seb.F said:
I was never brought up this way - being 20 now I see hundred of people only a year or two my junior do things like this. I will admit to every now and then throwing an apple core out the window onto the grass verge - but that's okay right? Being bio degradable and all that. Would NEVER even think of doing it with anything other than fruits or such, am I wrong to think such things?
That's what fruit is for, that's why it's fruit...