Sheep. Dancing.

what a bunch of thick **** we share this country with!

eh?!!

Keep them in their ignorance I say so they don’t spoil the green spaciousness….

I agree, leaves more countryside for people who do like it.

10% thought it was safe to eat all berries and fungus they found growing in the countryside.

So we should be able to get rid of 10% of idiots quite easily 😉

to add to this i know a guy, from putney, had never had contact with animals – i remember him thinking that a horse was a dangerous animal, “one kick your dead” not so much that that’s not true but how likely is a horse to kick you? – he viewed them like i view bears (probably as dangerous?)
i also rember him shouting one day on a train “look, look sheep” i didn’t get it; he’d never seen them before. he is an intelligent chap tho – i suppose if he was from the same background but thick….

Yes, what Mudshark said. The more ignorant people that come to the countryside the more untidy they seem to make it – litter, noise and generally ignorant attitudes.

A swan can break a man’s arm you know.

We had a Y2 school residential a couple of weeks ago – staying just outside Castleton, about 12 miles from the school. Most of the parents turned out on the Sunday to prepare for the week (making beds, getting food in etc – its a low budget week…)

This is a ‘middle class’, good performing school in the middle of Sheffield.

You would not believe how many parents were stood outside having a discussion along the lines of:
“what are they going to do here for a week? there is nothing to do – look its just fields”
“we have never been here before”
“I wonder if there is a road up that mountain – looks like there is”
“why are we sending the kids here?”
“I hope there’s no mud – she hates mud”
“There’s no TV!”
.
I then have a chat with local mum (we live ‘wrong’ side of Sheffied, S2) – about the week in Castleton. She had no idea where Castleton, Hope, Hathersage etc were and “Oh, I don’t go that far away” and “But its only fields and stuff”.
🙄

Extreme TK Maxxing is the only recreation some people have.

I vote for a culling of the stupid and obese. Or at least the sterilisation of them.

And we wonder why government policy is so skewed

eh?!!

No Dougal, these are small. Those are far away.

That almost resulted in tea being sprayed all over my laptop 😆

Eugenicists got a bad name from the Nazis. They were a bit over the top. But whats wrong with cutting out the bad bits of society – we do that now with fundamental preachers, illegal immagrants, sex offenders. Doctors remove tumors, cancer, provide screening for health / non healthy babies. You can pay for DNA tests on your unborn, you can pay for donated eggs and sperm with a history of breeding. Only a few years ago America stopped sterilising mental health inmates.

Cure the cureable, remove the uncurable. When you cant patch your innertube anymore you bin it. Some even go as far as to go tubeless ! Lets adopt that approach in society.

Now that should have a thread of its own…

The rest of the people asked thought the countrside was for fly-tipping

really? I’ve never experienced this…

but everyone has a different idea of who that might be (usually excluding themselves), and the fatties have the advantage that they only have to sit on you to remove you from the competition – which even the dimwitted ones can manage, whereas your eugenic knifework is unlikely to reach vital organs 🙁

allegedly “suicide is painless”

Let’s get this into context, before we start calling for death camps and the like…

When planning a holiday, many people would opt for a city break, over a rural one. Because there is actually more to do, that people can relate to. If you’ve lived all your life in a city, like most people in this country, then apart from a bit of open space, fresh air and quietness, what is the immediate appeal? You’re actually more likely to see wildlife in a city, in parks and that. Plenty of foxes, rats, boids, etc.

Understand that this is from a survey carried out by a Hotel chain. So, the control group are probbly mostly bods who use these places to visit other cities. So it’s hardly representative of the whole population.

If you are unused to the myriad pleasures and speriences to be found in the Great Outdoors, then you may not be best placed to take advantage of them. For many city-dwellers, their sperience of t’countrysoide is limited to school fieled trips. which tend to be a bit boring, usually. So, they tend not to be too keen to go back.

Another factor is cost. Rural holidays in Britain are a lot more spensive than a couple of weeks in Torremolinos, or a long weekend in Prague, or Amsterdam. Then there’s the added cost of equipment for things like canoeing, mtbing, climbing, etc. Granted, just going for a walk needunt cost a fortune, but that seems a bit staid and boring, for many people brought up on the thrills and spills of the big city. Plus you need a certain amount of sperience and skill, to be able to enjoy certain rural pursuits.

And ime, contrary to popular myth, country folk aren’t always happy and jolly and welcoming. TBH, a lot of them despise ‘Townies’, who bring noise, trouble and litter with them. I’ve experienced some really narrow-minded attitudes from some people, whilst in some rural villages etc. And then there’s the snobbery; ‘oh you’re not from round ‘ear, are you? Therefore, you must be weak, feeble and stupid, whilst we are clever and rugged and brave’.

Personally, I feel a large part of the problem stems from the insular, territorial attitudes of far too many people in this country. Many rural folk resent ‘others’ from enjoying ‘their’ bit of nature, and are therefore very protective about it. And a lot of Townies will simply not feel that the countryside belongs to them, so won’t feel any particular sense of empathy or understanding of the rural way of life.

I mean, those very attitudes are often borne out on this forum; plenty of people resent city ATGNI types, and have a superior attitude over ‘weekend warriors’.

Maybe we should all start seeing the country side as ‘ours’, collectively; something for us all to share and enjoy.

What’s Mine is mine, what’s Ours is Nobodies…

The problem with this is that most of these ignorant **** seem to end up with a job in the planning department. Then when it comes to the argument “you shouldn’t build that there because it is ripping up all that mature woodland/hedges/ponds etc.”, their response is so ****ing what who’s bothered about that **** anyway. Everyone knows we need another massive out of town supermarket/shopping complex/industrial warehouse/4 lane motorway etc.

That is what seems to happen near where I live anyway.