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I cycled to work in the Bristol to Bath cycle track this morning (I have been avoiding it but with rain in the air I chanced it today). There was an army of volunteer litter pickers along the track and surrounding fields in Saltford. There were around 20nbags already collected.
So bloody selfish of people to leave places like this and massive thanks to the volunteers who try to keep places looking good.
Wasn’t there a thread recently asking if people felt proud to be British?
All this scummy, lowest of the low behaviour doesn’t encourage a positive answer.
Proud to be British? I can't say that at any point in the 40 years I've been on this planet I've been proud to be British and seeing the mindless cretins packed into various beauty spots around the country at the weekend like lemmings makes me despise many of its inhabitants even more.
I like the Durdle Door gunship idea. Lock down the roads in and out, block phone signals in the area and just blitz the beach with a few Apaches. Not quite ethnic cleansing but its clearing out the gene pool of a few thousand stupid people.
I was treated to the delightful sight at the weekend of a woman squatting in full view next to her camper van in a Dales layby relieving herself as I rode by. Utter scumbaggery. Yesterday morning I came across some VW van-life tool parked up about a mile from the road on a bridleway. Luckily the farmer is a fairly argumentative 'get orf my land' type, so hopefully he got more than he bargained for.
The boundaries of acceptable behaviour seem to have shifted during lockdown. Hopefully they will improve.
It is very easy to be judgemental but I think we need to be a little more understanding at the moment. Those of us that do enjoy the countryside will know how to behave, to carry out what we carry in, to avoid busy places, but a lot of these people would normally be at a football match, down the pub, in the cinema, going shopping, etc, and now they can't. Any anger should be focussed on the government and their mishandling of the pandemeic IMO, not the people who are following government guidence, doing something new and not knowing how to behave responsibly.
TBH, most people, townies or otherwise, have somehow managed to grasp the idea that chucking dirty nappies over your shoulder is not totally OK, whether you're in the countryside or walking down your street.
a lot of these people would normally be at a football match, down the pub, in the cinema, going shopping, etc, and now they can’t.
I don't mind that they've turned up in massive numbers to infect each other.
It's the shitting in their own nest, or in this case someone else's nest, that boils the piss.
They're breaking rule #1 of life, the one about not being a dick.
It’s rather a shame that they sent in a rescue helicopter, surely they could have spared a gunship
Why bother doesn’t the place back onto the tank range?
Nickjb- as much as the government have mishandled the whole Covid situation, you’re making excuses for the morons who are trashing the countryside. Or were you being tongue in cheek?
I’m sure people who generally go to football matches, shopping centres, cinemas etc rather than the countryside understands that it’s not appropriate to leave litter, take a shit in public, and leave dirty nappies lying around whether you’re at the shops or on the beach? They’re just selfish, thoughtless bell ends.
The excuse being used a lot at the moment is that the toilets and "facilities" are all closed so "where do they expect us to go to the toilet?"
Answer - the verges and gardens.
That's their justification for it. I'm sure when they are open again, the justification will change. Same in the Peaks. During lockdown, it was rare to see any litter, mostly because there were no fast food outlets open and very few people were driving anywhere.
With the relaxation, people have started driving out to beauty spots (picking up a MaccyD and a Costa en route), parking up, having the BBQ and then just emptying the car of all their random shit.
The road up through Goyt Valley has been closed for about 4 months for repair work (part of the road got washed away in the floods). It was amazing to cycle up, no litter, no visual intrusion of cars. It's open again now and within a week there was litter in all the car parks, emptied ashtrays, people driving like total ****nuggets up through the valley. Dreadful.
take a shit in public
I'm not excusing it, but public toilet reopening hasn't happened at the same rate of informal lockdown easing.
I am guessing the average person on a day trip to the beach isn't prepared for packing their turds home in a Ziploc bag.
But as many have pointed out, these are actually fairly standard scenes. Bournemouth beach is an absolute shit tip by the end of any busy day, lockdown or not.
But as many have pointed out, these are actually fairly standard scenes.
Every sunny day in summer Parkers Piece in Cambridge is left strewn with tons of garbage, mainly by foreign language students enjoying the sun, been like that for years.
There's also the herd mentality of it all, they see one person littering/shitting/not picking up dog poo, and it becomes a rationale for their own actions.
I was cycling across Woodbury Common yesterday, and at one end of a carpark there was a pile of perhaps 10-15 dog-poo bags, different colours, sizes, etc, so obviously different dog owners.
At the other end of the carpark there are bright red dog-poo bins!
I assume people walk from the common into the carpark, see the pile and add their own to it, ignoring the ****ing obvious bins in the process. Arseholes.
It is very easy to be judgemental but I think we need to be a little more understanding at the moment. Those of us that do enjoy the countryside will know how to behave, to carry out what we carry in, to avoid busy places, but a lot of these people would normally be at a football match, down the pub, in the cinema, going shopping, etc, and now they can’t. Any anger should be focussed on the government and their mishandling of the pandemeic IMO, not the people who are following government guidence, doing something new and not knowing how to behave responsibly
Bollocks.
Just bollocks
People need to take responsibility for their actions. I've never been so fundamentally upset at the state of the local country side.
The covid situation hasn't been handled well but that's a different issue to the fact a minority but still a large number of people quite frankly dont give a shit about others or the environment.
It's a systematic failure somewhere, that's such a global problem that I don't know how you'd even start to fix it
Any anger should be focussed on the government and their mishandling of the pandemeic IMO
People need to take start taking responsibility for their own actions. Why is it always someone elses fault?
People need to take start taking responsibility for their own actions. Why is it always someone elses fault?
And the irony is that the 'someone else's fault' culture is now reflected in our politicians, who refuse to take responsibility for anything at all.
Agree totally with the two comments above. Utter crap trying to push this behaviour onto the governments handling of the pandemic. Its not the governments fault these brainless fools are going into the countryside where there are already hundreds of like-minded morons and leaving the place like a shit tip. Whether they're at the pub/football usually when its sunny is irrelevant.
The government we have is a symptom not a cause.
The issue ****s me off pretty much about as much as anything else but wondering statistically what proportion of people are actually offenders? I agree there's a brainless herd mentality about it all (see litter, do litter) but I sincerely hope that the majority of people do care enough to take their junk with them regardless of the actions of others.
My local honeypot has been repeatedly trashed over the last couple weeks when I've passed it on the way to my favourite spots.
We're all trashing the environment.
I won't bore you with a list.
Any anger should be focussed on the government and their mishandling of the pandemeic IMO, not the people who are following government guidence, doing something new and not knowing how to behave responsibly.
That argument doesn’t wash, and neither does the ‘all the loos are closed’ whining, because many of those places don’t have loos anyway!
Don’t try to make excuses for senseless vandalism and despoiling of other people’s land.
I've just posted a thread about this sort of thing...i'm glad it's not just me who feels like this!!
God bless the STW brethren!! 🙂
neither does the ‘all the loos are closed’ whining, because many of those places don’t have loos anyway!
Does anyone really leave the house in the morning thinking "I'm really looking forward to shitting in a drain behind a beach hut today?"
https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/have-you-ever-had-a-wild-poo
Well, the beauty spot stunt poo game has certainly peaked this weekend.
Watch out for a suspect with one sock on.
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must've been a big 'un if it broke the shovel 😣
I honestly did not expect to google Durdle Poo Yoghurt today
National parks have been battling this problem for decades. They understand that 70% of visitors never get more than 100 yards from their cars and they site amenities around the edges of the parks so as to try to filter most visitors out.
Don't forget also that by this time of year a couple of million mouth-breathers should normally be littering beaches around the Mediterranean.
There have been many people opining on various social media outlets whether after the lockdown is over society will be different. More caring, understanding and generally better. I've been judged as a cynic for suggesting "will it bollocks!" Once the restrictions are lifted, all the bikes, training shoe and family / neighbourly togetherness will be put away and we'll be back exactly the way we were before. Glad to see that the arseholes destroying beauty spots are proving me right...
Not glad at all actually just profoundly depressed at how predictably lazy and scruffy a good chunk of the population of this country are.
it must be a tiny percentage of the population though? Literally no-one I know would even think of acting this way!! Just glad I managed to avoid direct contact with them in day-to-day life!!Not glad at all actually just profoundly depressed at how predictably lazy and scruffy a good chunk of the population of this country are.