@lunge – re: the dad drinking in the pub, firstly that’s heartbreaking, poor kid. Secondly, it’s possibly against the law, 1902 Licensing Act, section 2. Might be worth mentioning it to the bar manager.
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Walking through Christmas Winter Wonderland at Centre Parcs, fake snow, reindeer, music, elves, magical displays, christmas lights and loveliness. Then noticing toddlers being pushed along in buggies holding phones and staring at YouTube videos or games totally oblivious to what was around them.

Had the radio on in the car earlier, and there was a story on the news about Tesco getting rid of the plastic wrapping around multi packs of stuff, this in itself is a very good thing IMO.

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…….

That made me feel a little sad, but I suppose thats what you get listening to radio 1!

Litter isn’t really a little thing. Its a great big thing that makes me sad.

The end of quill stems is a little thing that make me sad.

Parents who drive their kids to school when they live within a 5 minute walk from school.

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.