The grumpy thread

[AMC Rebel]

I agree with monsieur bo11ox about litter - very worrying to me is the amount of drink cans there are too - although it would explain some of the driving 

[Captain Furious]

Its definitely a major problem, tips are turning people away who are already there with this rubbish, what do they think it going to happen then?  That they're going to take it home and reprocess it into sustainable energy?  No, its going to be drip fed back to them in the wheelie bin each week and end up back with the council, or its going to be dumped in a layby on the way home, then the council will have to clean it up at a considerably higher cost than if they'd just taken it in the first place.  

 

They could even charge a fee, if such a fee was sufficiently low that people were unlikely to be bothered enough by it to detour and dump it at a nearby beauty spot on the way home.  but when they turn round and charge £5 per BAG then people are understandably like...fuck that.

 

Of course, it requires a common sense approach, so it will never happen.  To me its a slightly separate issue from the people who just think chucking rubbish on the floor when you're done with it is acceptable behaviour. 

[Roostybroon]

  On 13/03/2018 at 11:41, dave21478 said:

Some places really don't help themselves though.

The local dump was sound... anything goes as long as you don't take the piss, although no removing stuff from the skips.

It then got taken over by Veolia and became less about disposing of rubbish and more about making money.... 10 foot high fence topped with razor wire, CCTV everywhere, weighbridge, limited number of visits per household... charging by weight for anything over and for everything from commercial vehicles whether it is trade waste or personal.... Now every layby on every backroad has fly tipped rubble, sofas, cookers and binbags full of rubbish which get torn open by animals and scattered everywhere.

Great job guys, great fuckin job.

Totally agree with this. I work for the local council as a "Facilities officer" The management are of the opinion that refusing people in with rubbish will force them to recycle. I sit in meetings with these idiots trying to explain that all it will do is cause fly tipping and get shot down in flames (What would I know I'm just someone who's worked up the ladder from the very bottom and seen the actual job). A month later were in a meeting about the amount of fly tipping ffs. It's like banging your head against a brick wall.

[Parky]

We have a municipal tip about five miles away and the main road on the way is always covered in litter. Mainly because the lorries don't have a net over the top so any lightweight material gets blown off the top of the lorry to spend its remaining days decomposing in the hedgerows

[Captain Furious]

In other rubbish related grumps, they're reducing the frequency of bin collections to once a fortnight round here.  OK, no biggy really for me, but they're going to do it so its recycling one week and general waste the next.  So i'm only getting them emptied half as often, but I've still got to put a bin out every week - you couldn't have just done them on the same day, you know, to make things a bit easier for us...the public..

[Tadhg Tiogar]

  On 13/03/2018 at 12:14, Roostybroon said:

.....management are of the opinion that refusing people in with rubbish will force them to recycle.....

 

Sounds like refuse you can't refuse.

[Pillock]

They send different trucks though so it would be twice as much work one week for the crew, and then no work the next week.

 

There's no way I could get all the bins out on the same day. Week 1 is black bin for general waste, week 2 is three red crates (two for plastic and metal, one for glass), two canvas sacks for cardboard and a smaller one for paper. If everyone put it all out at once the pavement would be chocka.

[MarvinsMom]

not round here they don't.

 

on a general bin day or the recycling bin the following week, its the same bin lorry, with the same crew.

 

only difference been that the general bin in green and the recycling bin is blue.

 

what ever gets collected though may be sent to different places. i say that cos i dunno one way or the other.....

[Captain Furious]

Christ, I wonder how many meetings had to take place to decide on 7 different rubbish receptacles

 

We only have two, and since they currently collect them every week I see no reason they couldn't do them both fortnightly on the same day.  Unless they're actually planning to save money by halving the crew - which I strongly doubt.

[D Spares & Tyres]

Litter and fly tipping isn't pretty I agree but past the annoyance of it all and the selfish twats who do it, is it any worse than digging a great big hole in the countryside then burying it all?

 

Discuss

[Captain Furious]

Yes

[Tadhg Tiogar]

  On 13/03/2018 at 12:36, D Spares & Tyres said:

.....is it any worse than digging a great big hole in the countryside then burying it all?

 

Discuss

 

Er....what do you do with the leftover debris from the hole you have dug and then filled with the rubbish? Do you dig another hole?

[barefoot]

And don't get me started on glass recycling.

 

They won't take broken glass, they like nice shiny bottles which I always thought were going to be melted down & turned into lovely new bottles but No.

It turns out that they drive the bottles sixty miles up to Doncaster where they smash them all to fuck and it use as hardcore.

[chodweaver]

Littering and fly tipping?

 

I simply cannot believe that people are so lazy and care so little for the places that they go, to just dump whatever they don't want, wherever they can.

 

And there's been some very high winds recently in the UK. This must explain all the litter in my local woodland. Even the electric mowers and sofas. It is SO hard to keep your possessions under control in weather like that.

 

/sarcy twat

[D Spares & Tyres]

  On 13/03/2018 at 12:38, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Er....what do you do with the leftover debris from the hole you have dug and then filled with the rubbish? Do you dig another hole?

Edit

 

They usually put it old quarries

[dollywobbler]

  On 13/03/2018 at 01:34, Captain Furious said:

And on the subject of shoddy humans, that ex footballer gobbing through the window at that little girl, ffs, spitting at another human being, it’s literally the lowest thing you can ever do.

 

I hope,he gets hung out to dry, dirty cunt.

 

I'd say it's even lower to constantly goad an ex-footballer (or anyone) on a motorway, recording it, while driving, with children in the car. Not excusing his behaviour, but I have a special kind of hatred for ANYONE who goads people because they want a reaction, especially while videoing it.

[MarvinsMom]

  On 13/03/2018 at 12:38, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Er....what do you do with the leftover debris from the hole you have dug and then filled with the rubbish? Do you dig another hole?

 

when the land fills round Dunsdale were open, they used to use it to cover over the rubbish.

 

not by much like about 6 inches cover i recall, then grass it over, and use it for grazing.

 

well its now no good for anything else, you cannot go ploughing those fields!

[Captain Furious]

No, I still say spitting is worse

 

You know like, if I had to pick between someone having a bit of a dig about my teams football score, or spitting in my face, i'd probably choose the dig about football...

[MarvinsMom]

  On 13/03/2018 at 12:48, Captain Furious said:

No, I still say spitting is worse

+1 here.

 

all your man had to do was smile and wave, or shrug his shoulders, or shout "yes they were lucky/crap/whatever"

 

but to then swerve across in his Range Roony and issue forth a mouth full of gob?

 

that is much, much worse.

[John F]

Sounds like they were both twats.

 

Moving on...

[Parky]

Booking.com advert.

 

Seriously Magnus, you're the travel agent. If anyone should know what part of Uganda you are in....

[Honey Badger]

  On 13/03/2018 at 12:46, dollywobbler said:

I'd say it's even lower to constantly goad an ex-footballer (or anyone) on a motorway, recording it, while driving, with children in the car. Not excusing his behaviour, but I have a special kind of hatred for ANYONE who goads people because they want a reaction, especially while videoing it.

 

Amen DW, love the fact the thread is full of miserable bastards wailing that modern society isn't what it should be, but it's ok to goad a celebrity into losing his temper, fucking hypocrites the lot of you.

[Captain Furious]

Goad him into losing his temper - it was one off the cuff remark about football scores, to a football commentator...kind of goes with the territory when you accept the million pound a year salary

 

Christ on a bike..

[Honey Badger]

  On 13/03/2018 at 13:12, Captain Furious said:

Goad him into losing his temper - it was one off the cuff remark about football scores, to a football commentator...kind of goes with the territory when you accept the million pound a year salary

 

Christ on a bike..

 

What's his salary got to do with it, he's entitled to the same respect as anyone else.

 

People should expect a reaction if you start mouthing off at someone you don't know, you wouldn't do it down the pub to a guy at the bar so why is it ok to do it to an ex footballer.

[tooSavvy]

Ex footballers... Hmm.

 

1. Open a pub (get glassed etc)

 

2. Pundit @£1m

 

 

Lot to lose, here....

 

 

TS

[John F]

  On 13/03/2018 at 13:21, Honey Badger said:

What's his salary got to do with it, he's entitled to the same respect as anyone else.

 

People should expect a reaction if you start mouthing off at someone you don't know, you wouldn't do it down the pub to a guy at the bar so why is it ok to do it to an ex footballer.

 

 

Except that's not even remotely true, is it?

 

If you accept a prominent, public role (and its associated salary) then you expect to be pestered by the public. Ask any politician / actor / 'celebrity'.

[Captain Furious]

Because if you're going to take a million pound salary to be in the public eye then you're A) held to a higher standard and 2) have to take some banter from the public - deal with it.

 

Are you actually for real or is this some irony thing where you goad me for a reaction about goading someone for a reaction?  If he spat in someones face in a bar the reaction he could probably expect would be having the shit beaten out of him.

[Louise2cv]

I thought that this guy must have said something terrible, but apparently he shouted "2-1, 2-1 mate."

 

Is that really goading?! Really?

 

It's a good job he was a player rather than a fan because imagine if he had to cope with rival fan "banter" week in and week out.

[MarvinsMom]

  On 13/03/2018 at 13:24, John F said:

Except that's not even remotely true, is it?

 

If you accept a prominent, public role (and its associated salary) then you expect to be pestered by the public. Ask any politician / actor / 'celebrity'.

which s why your man should have smiled/waved/shrugged shoulders/what ever and wound the wind up.....

 

his salary is EXACTLY why he should behave in respectable? responsible? manner and not like a 3 year old in the playground.

[John F]

Anyway, since this thread has now degenerated to Daily Fail levels of trial by media, the fella that was goading him was filming the whole event on his phone while driving.

 

KILL HIM.