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Litter and full dog poo bags tied up just left on the ground in the country side? What do these people think is going to happen to these bags!
Malicious gossip
Amen.
It's understandable to a point, as it fills some people's days with excitement and titillation, but the damage it can create is serious. And often irreversible.
When the shop's run out of the nice coleslaw and I have to buy the cheap one.
When I set up a new tubeless tyre or wheel and it develops a mystery leak.
Having no recycling facilities in our leased office space.
Northern Rail in general.
I can't find any shops nearby that sell tahini.
Another one...
The SAP Concur expenses platform my employer has recently adopted.
Ooo - see, now, Concur's loads better than the system we had at the old place. 🙂
I love my ale. I like a bottle or two at home sometimes. I buy local beer. Almost every small brewery uses very similar brown bottles. They are not reused! FFS with a little bit of will we could have a "scottish beer bottle" that they all used and a central washing plant. good for everyone and the planet. Such a simple thing that would save so much
The Germans have the beer bottle thing sussed. Like our milk bottles 30 years ago.
Wasting perfectly good food.
And that includes the "eat as much you can" buffets where folk pile up the food and then not eat it all. And in the bin it goes...
How many seemingly intelligent people fall for media scare bullshit like CoronaVirus
Adults ignoring children as they are unable to detach from their phone and interact with their children.
The guy who brings his 5 ish year old lad to the pub with him and then just ignores him whilst he sinks 5 pints of Stella.
They won't be doing that in Wetherspoons any longer.
Fly tipping.
Bikes that have been trashed whilst locked against a railing or on a cycle rack.
The difference in salary between premier league footballers and the typical season ticket holder.
Too many cats killing birds.
Dog shit
How many seemingly intelligent people fall for media scare bullshit like CoronaVirus
This sort of conspiracy stuff makes me sad. See also anti-vaxx.
FB memories popping up on my feed involving Rogue, our first Rhodesian Ridgeback who we lost last September. Crufts show winner, fantastic trail dog but most of all a very important member of the family. Gone but never, ever forgotten ❤️
All those millions of standard take-away coffee shop cups that aren’t recycled in the UK because there are only two specialist processing centres in the country.
The ugly, lumpen, grubby, usually empty, functionless containers that Starbucks makes from recycled coffee cups and perch somewhere near the sugar and stirrers to pat themselves on the back for playing their part in the circular economy are pretty depressing. They look like cold sick
Its a noble ambition to say coffee cups can be recycled..... but recycled as what exactly?
They are not reused! FFS with a little bit of will we could have a “scottish beer bottle” that they all used and a central washing plant. good for everyone and the planet.
See also wine bottles which are a mirrade of different sizes and shapes whilst still looking like wine bottles and all holding exactly the same volume.
With beer bottles I can see how you'd potentially have a tricky route to reuse in terms of private sale with lots of manufacturers, some local, some not and having them find their way back to suitable producers. But I find it depressing that pubs chuck all their bottles in a skip out the back when the same bottles are coming from the same supplier all the time - the empties could go back on the same truck straight back into the same supply line.
They then interviewed some shoppers who basically said they didn’t like the idea as it’d make shopping more difficult for them, one said that its bad as she would definitely drop the loose cans, and that the plasitic didnt bother her as she didn’t really recycle stuff any way…….
What makes me sad is the notion of 'Vox pops' as part of our news-cycle. Why do we have to broadcast the opinions of someone on the street who hasn't given a moments though to a topic with no more of a brief on the subject than they glimpsed a headline outside the newsagents this morning?
You can't blame people for having bad answers when the circumstances of asking the question is stupid.
It’s so that we can have tabloid level TV news… while still pretending that particular media has higher standards… “it’s not our fault the reporting on this issue is so poor, blame the random member of the public we stopped on the street in a deprived ex-market/mining town while everyone else was at work”.
Litter for the public consciousness.
How many seemingly intelligent people fall for media scare bullshit like CoronaVirus
This sort of conspiracy stuff makes me sad. See also anti-vaxx.
What’s the conspiracy? These SARS-like viruses are similar to flu, mutate rapidly, and actually kill people! There are already fatalities due to this particular corona virus, so please explain where, exactly, the conspiracy is. The Chinese are isolating entire cities, do you think this is just media-driven scare stories?
Or do you believe the outbreak of Spanish flu in 1919 was a media concocted conspiracy, and the possible deaths of 100 million people globally was made up?
And if the anti-vaxxers make you sad, then you’re contradicting yourself, because it’s the diminishing number of people being vaccinated against flu, measles, etc which is reducing herd-immunity and allowing these sort of outbreaks to occur, and there are multiple deaths globally due to measles now.
They are not reused! FFS with a little bit of will we could have a “scottish beer bottle” that they all used and a central washing plant.
This actually makes me angry. Glass recycled to be returned to the vessel it was prior to recycling.
there should be a fine for breweries that do t use a standard bottle and all bottles should be re used. Is it too late to apply for some kind of EU grant to put something line a bottle washing plant into action? There must be some kind of green incentive.
The pint with the beer bottles is that all the small breweries could easily use the same bottle so it doesn't matter if its a Harviston or a Alloa ales bottle - they just all get reused and go back to the bottling plants.
The pint with the beer bottles
I see what you did there... 😉
My son has lost all interest in mountain biking.
This makes me very sad. I really enjoyed our rides together. 🙁
When we were in Buenos Aires the beer bottles had deposits on them, even better, they were litre bottles! 😁
Seeing my dog’s little face when I go to work.
Roadies ignoring me. We're all out enjoying a bloody bicycle, say hello!
Dog walkers on the national cycle route who believe they're more entitled to use it as a national dog toilet.
My wife will never, ever be able to load the dishwasher properly.
The loss of one dog and the fact the other one looks so lonely.
I'll probably never ride Whistler.
Feeling like my kids are growing up too fast and there's nothing I can do about it.
Screen time.
Old dogs waddling along.
People who don't notice the simple things.
Folk that act with huge dignity and grace at times of adversity (well, sadness and respect to be fair).
Fat kids.
Music threads that limit participation by being very specific about the music that can be posted within.
Seeing young kids out and about that are far too young to be alone.
Witnessed this morning, Mum walking her three very young kids to school, school is Green Flag, aiming to be plastic free and very eco aware. So far so good, except Mum and three young kids are all sipping from Costa takeaways. Kids very unlikely to be drinking coffee so it can be assumed they are spending money on high sugar chocolate drinks, in single use cups with plastic lids, prior to heading in to school.
So many wrongs.
E-bikes, its as if cycling sold it's soul to the devil.
People who use its when they mean it's and then use it's when they mean its.
The change in recipe that means San Pellegrino lemon is a shadow of its former self.
Someone must have seen my posts on this thread as they have taken to letting their dog shit on our drive (right by where we get out of the car) and along the ginnel that runs down the side of our house.
Time to set up a sentry...
Seeing the lead and harness for my dog, who was put to sleep the other week, hanging up in my ex's house.
It's the law that I post a pic of her (the dog!)
When our cat comes in to the house she always meows for a bit.
She never used to do this,then her brother got killed.
I always say "Hello daft cat" while thinking "He's not here".
People flying for weekend getaways, football matches, concerts. I know it's none of my damn business but my heart drops whenever I hear someone talking about their new electric car and then saying they're flying off for a couple of days :(. Yes there isn't an ideal solution and life shouldn't stop but life is going to stop unless we can get it sorted out
The change in recipe that means San Pellegrino lemon is a shadow of its former self.
Glad it's not just me. The ingredients list used to pretty much be "Fizzy water, lemons, sugar" now it reads like any other can of fizzy pop. And tastes like it.
Seeing my daughters sad face when she has not been invited to her friends birthday parties due to junior school parental cliques (she's only 6!!)
Being alone with my own worries and stresses. Its well documented here that I've been trying to overcome flying fears, yet with an upcoming return flight to the US next week I'm at peak anxiety.
After all these years getting treatments and seeing professionals, it appears no-one around me believes I actually have an illness. I'm struggling to cope with the worry heightened by the time of year & weather I'll be flying in, have considered various options even resigning tomorrow to get me away from this constant struggle of having to fly, with no control over my own destiny or decision making. I'm getting no family support, just being told to "deal with it" and "I'm a fake" basically for agreeing to fly in the first place.
Frankly I've no idea where to turn and have no help. I sat in a hospital car park today (I did actually have an appointment) shaking at the thought of getting through the next few days as it ramps up to the flight itself, its just not the life I want.
No idea where to go from here TBH but yeah, I'm sad about the whole thing.
Thats really sad tintim 🙁
Stayed with a mate in the west of Ireland recently. He told me of a previous owner of the house. His fiancee had gone to London to train as a nurse. He waited and heard nothing for 10 years. Then he found out on her first day in London she was run over and killed in a RTA. Not a little thing but dreadfully sad.