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how far d'you carry sweetie wrappers when you can't find a bin to put them in?

― mark s, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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i am old and was brought up tidy outside by dint of mum whacking me over the head when i wasn't => my pocketses are full of ancient trash

― mark s, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Same here. I carry loads of random rubbish around me as a result. I even picked up someone's Burger King wrapper outside the Glasshouse Stores on Saturday and ended up carrying it all the way home in my bag.

― RickyT, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Not mine! I put mine in the bin! At least I think I did! Oh yes, I did, because I was having difficulty walking by then. Oh dear.

Mmmmm, sweeties...

― Sarah, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I take it all the way home if I can't find a bin. I once got really annoyed at a friend for stuffing a sweet wrapper down the side of a bus seat. Litter is something I really dislike.

― jel --, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

blimey yes, i'll carry rubbish round for ages, as i usually forget to chuck it away when i get home... crisp packets and soya milk cartons are the worst offenders. i get REALLY RILED whenever i see people chuck rubbish away on the streets or the tube, yet i'm too wimpy to have a go at them about it (although once at a but stop i did drop all my rubbish into the bag of a littering girl while she wasnt looking, hahaha!)

― katie, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I eat them and throw the candy away.

― nathalie, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I could never drop stuff in the street. Usually I don't put things in my bag/pocket/ect but go a long way out of my way to find a bin, which I do sometimes get funny looks at for.

― Graham, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

you know like when you try to unwrap a mars bar or similar and you end up ripping off a tiny triangle of wrapper in your haste - well sometimes that tiny scrap ends up ON THE STREET (shock horrah), otherwise I'm as virtuous as the rest of you.

― Jeff W, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What?!? You mean you don't run after the little scrap? ;)

― jel --, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I wish more people on Brighton beach on Saturday night had been brought up proper like you lot. Am I wrong to hate the London Twats who came to see Fat Boy Slim, drank solidly all day and night and left my beloved beach and most of the rest of the city looking like an open sewer? And then complained about not being able to get on a train home? Or was it all a bit of fun, innit, and I am a BORING OLD WOMAN?

― Archel, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I saw the footage of the litter on the beach, and was quite shocked by it all. Horrible.

― jel --, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I too cannot throw a molecule of rubbish on the ground.

I even found myself carrying round a receipt for some unspecified Royal Albert Hall event (£100 a ticket! That's what piqued my interest) that I spied on the ground while waiting for a 52 bus in Kensington at the weekend. Some woman from St Austell. Having picked it up, this piece of detritus became MY responsibility, and I had to deliver it to a bin near Victoria.

I've written a terse letter to aforementioned Cornish lady. No wonder they shut the tin mines. Full of BLOODY RUBBISH.

― Michael Jones, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i know, that beach was AWFUL. i also felt sad when i saw all the crap left over michael eavis's land after glasto... still at least i suppose he pays people to pick it up and recycle it. i think Fatboy slim shoud do that same!!

and ps i wuv michaeljones, heheh!

― katie, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Blimey, if everyone was like you lot honest street cleaners would be out of a job. This is not to say that I throw litter around because I don't (well cigarettes I own up to but there are no ashtrays in the streets and I don't want to start bin fires all over the shop).

― Emma, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

[shops, no smoking, ptee gag, ect]

― Graham, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/music/newsid_2128000/21 28992.stm

oops i take it back about fatboy slim, he's helping fund the cleanup after all!

― katie, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I do think it's a fucking cheek that people are moaning about the council/police/train operators not being able to handle the numbers when there was completely unwarranted national/London publicity from E4 and XFM. Could any city ever be adequately prepared for 250000 people descending on a public place? Sorry I'll stop ranting now.

― Archel, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Litterbugs are rubbish and should be consigned to the dustbin of history.

For some reason in my neighborhood littering is done consistently and without shame. When I get home from work there will be trash to pick up just like there is everyday, it's demoralizing.

― lawrence kansas, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have one old friend (Andrew will know of whom I speak) who would certainly carry sweet wrappers all the way home, but so as to keep them because of the pretty colours and with a possible notion to use them in art one day = his home looked like a rubbish tip, with trash in drifts around the walls. I do not know if any were ever used in art.

― Martin Skidmore, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Amusingly enough this thread is right next to "jitterbugs" on new answers. Though it won't be now, oh well, it was perfect whilst it lasted.

― Matt, Thursday, 18 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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