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orangesandlemonssaythebellsofstclements · 09/04/2025 14:48

This is a confession thread and also a mystery solving thread.

There are certain things in life that everyone seems to hate, but I've never ever seen anyone own up to doing, and I would like these people to own up now because I need to know your demographic and why you do them. This is anonymous, you are safe here, tell the truth.

WHO are the people that hang dog poo bags on trees? Who are you and WHY?
WHO are the people that bought all the toilet rolls during covid?

Please add your own answers and your own confessions. Especially the dog poo one because it's everywhere, and yet I never see anyone doing it or owning up to it.

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PoppyTheGuineaPig · 11/04/2025 23:54

WearyAuldWumman · 11/04/2025 16:43

Just this morning found a doggy deposit sans bag on the verge next to my hedge and saw yet another poo bag lying in the hedge of the neighbour on the other side of the lane.

If you hear that a pensioner has been arrested for shoving a dog owner's nose into dog mess, you'll know who it is.

Good for you . I only wish I had the guts to do this when I see someone leaving their dogs poo

JackieDaytonaLuckyBrews · 11/04/2025 17:08

WearyAuldWumman · 11/04/2025 17:02

Yeuch.

I've had a nappy chucked over my hedge. Also bits of fly tipping.

I don't get as much bother now that I'm retired and in the garden more often.

That's horrible.
Years ago, when we moved into our first house with baby DD, the previous occupiers had left three bin bags in the garden FULL of used nappies. Not only were they full, they were also split and disintegrating from being outside in all weathers. So, so disgusting. Why they hadn't put them in the bin outside I'll never know.
Fly tipping around here (Costwolds) is at an all time high. I've driven past three separate loads just coming home from picking up DD from work. I cycle a lot and the hedgerows and lay-bys and woods are absolutely full of rubbish and dumped tyres and household crap. It's so beautiful here, and it's being totally ruined. It does get reported and removed and there is usually more in weeks.

WearyAuldWumman · 11/04/2025 17:02

thenewaveragebear1983 · 10/04/2025 11:24

Who are the people who empty children’s potties in the car park at my local park? Human poo is no different to dog poo - put it in the bin (or, you know, the toilet which is 25m away)
twice now my delightful Labradustbin has eaten a full sized human poo just left in the hedgerow that Demarks the carpark. Absolutely revolting.

Yeuch.

I've had a nappy chucked over my hedge. Also bits of fly tipping.

I don't get as much bother now that I'm retired and in the garden more often.

WearyAuldWumman · 11/04/2025 17:00

orangesandlemonssaythebellsofstclements · 10/04/2025 08:37

I'm a 38yo white, married, female with two children, living in south east England, on a household income of around £45k, educated to degree level, with a very mixed upbringing.

I'm a late-end Boomer. The bad dog owners that I see range in age.

WearyAuldWumman · 11/04/2025 16:56

saltinesandcoffeecups · 09/04/2025 19:32

Ok didn’t want to derail another thread with this question so will ask here…

Who doesn’t always have their house key with them when they leave the house?

Is this a culture thing? (American asking)

There is about a thread a week detailing how impossible it is that some random family member is causing a door to left unlocked in the middle of the night because they don’t have a house key. 🔑

Edited

I do take my key with me at all times now, but I recall losing my temper with my late husband a couple of times when he'd locked me out of the house.

I think once I'd nipped to the corner shop; the other time, I was putting rubbish in the bin. He'd noticed the unlocked door and decided to lock it for the night.

Both times, I thought that he was aware that I was out of the house. He seemed to think that I was in the bathroom.

WearyAuldWumman · 11/04/2025 16:51

Since I'm on a ranting roll, we have one wee nyaff round our way who seems to try to assert his manhood by getting his dog(s) to shit in the driveways of lone older women.

I swear he was on his way to leave yet another deposit on my driveway this morning until I walked round the corner and drew myself up to my full height. (He clearly doesn't like women who are taller than him. I'm 5ft 9. He's a good bit shorter.)

I've never caught him in the act, but I've had the same experience as my pal down the road - you'll see the doggy deposit lying on the driveway just as he disappears into the distance.

We exchanged words one time. According to him, I 'nearly ran over [his] dog'.

Nope. I exit my driveway at a crawl, which is why I saw the mutt and stopped in time. It wasn't on a lead. I pointed this out.

He now puts his dogs on those veeeeeeery long extendable leads which means he's still no real control over them.

WearyAuldWumman · 11/04/2025 16:43

Saveafun · 09/04/2025 16:22

Someone (I can't think who) once told me they hang poobags to collect and dispose of on their way back, rather than carry the poo with them for their walk, although if this is what people are thinking, 1. Still not OK and 2. They clearly don't.

Just this morning found a doggy deposit sans bag on the verge next to my hedge and saw yet another poo bag lying in the hedge of the neighbour on the other side of the lane.

If you hear that a pensioner has been arrested for shoving a dog owner's nose into dog mess, you'll know who it is.

WearyAuldWumman · 11/04/2025 16:41

orangesandlemonssaythebellsofstclements · 09/04/2025 16:22

I once saw "poo" written on the wall.. in poo.

I think these people are just mentally ill.

I recall someone writing a rude message on the wall of one of the women's loos at Glasgow Uni back in the '80s.

We very often got vile messages from unknown people who - presumably had been at a uni disco - signed "A WORKER".

I was very tempted to leave a non-excremental reply signed "A STUDENT/COALMINER'S DAUGHTER".

Doingtheboxerbeat · 11/04/2025 14:43

orangesandlemonssaythebellsofstclements · 11/04/2025 14:19

I'm regretting making this thread.

I'm regretting having a phone 😢.

StrangerThings1 · 11/04/2025 14:26

orangesandlemonssaythebellsofstclements · 11/04/2025 14:19

I'm regretting making this thread.

Same as most people who start threads on here then😂
It almost always takes a turn for the worst

orangesandlemonssaythebellsofstclements · 11/04/2025 14:19

I'm regretting making this thread.

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ruethewhirl · 11/04/2025 13:32

AquaPeer · 10/04/2025 19:21

Ohh weep. i am hurt by your disapproval.

Hey, how you come across as a human being is your problem not mine. I just don’t get why you think your answers on this thread are in any way clever when they’re really not. 🤔

funinthesun19 · 11/04/2025 09:37

BreathingIn · 09/04/2025 15:13

My friend bought absolutely tonnes of toilet rolls at the start of the pandemic.

Her rationale was that she needed supplies in case the government banned people from leaving their houses at all.
I pointed out that even in the 1000000:1 possibility that that did happen, you can very easily live without bog roll. Just give your arse a bloody wash.

We actually fell out about it, and we've not spoken since.

I bet she felt oh so justified at the time as well when she fell out with you. And that you “wasn’t being a good friend”.

Alicehatter · 11/04/2025 08:15

rosemarble · 11/04/2025 07:44

Can you explain again?
Loads of people try and put their dog poo in her black bin? She complains. So people hang it in trees. Most don’t go and collect it?

Why are people not taking it with them?

I suspect most people wouldn't have been aware she'd emptied it back out, to enable them to retrieve it. 'I was caught in the act' so went back for mine because I'd rather not be the person whose dog poo was in the tree!
As for not taking it with them, most people (including me at the time!) see a bin and use it. The issue is if 20 people did that to her, she has half a bin of dog poo doesn't she, which isn't fair. I didn't think of that at the time though, admittedly. Still can't get my head round why she'd empty them the way she did though.

TheCountofMountingCrispBags · 11/04/2025 08:08

A friend of mine is obsessed with lavatory paper. Every air bnb gets a 12 pack (even if we're only away for 3 days...), and if we stay in a hotel, she raids the chambermaid's tolley and stocks up the loo.
I mean, I can understand she doesn't want the jeapordy of 'just in time' buying, but this is a whole new level...

MulberryPeony · 11/04/2025 08:08

LBFseBrom · 11/04/2025 08:04

Cars like a bit of company.

Germans do this on the sun loungers on the beach too so maybe it is just German cars 😂😂

SpringIsSpringing25 · 11/04/2025 08:05

Smallmercies · 11/04/2025 07:49

Begging and hanging in trees?!? That sounds really sinister!!

Yeah😂😂

This voice to message, can be a sinister little sod!! I try to catch its mistakes, but I swear it changes things after I press send!!

Though in this instance, I'm not entirely sure it's wrong!!

LBFseBrom · 11/04/2025 08:04

KaToby · 11/04/2025 08:02

I want to know why people park next to another car in a car park, when there are plenty of other spaces?!

Cars like a bit of company.

KaToby · 11/04/2025 08:02

I want to know why people park next to another car in a car park, when there are plenty of other spaces?!

MulberryPeony · 11/04/2025 07:50

I thought of another one when I was driving home last night. At cross roads with filter lanes and lights. Why does the person in the right hand turn lane edge forwards past the line when we’re on red and then seemingly absolutely fluff it if they are trying to turn right before the oncoming traffic reaches them?

Smallmercies · 11/04/2025 07:49

SpringIsSpringing25 · 09/04/2025 15:20

@orangesandlemonssaythebellsofstclements

I was the same as Octavia during Brexit and Covid. But I have always kept a good stock of things like toilet rolls and tin food, et cetera. It was how I was brought up. I didn't panic buy, I just gradually accumulated a stock of things.

it meant that when supplies of things were very low, I could leave them to the people that needed them.

It has also meant I have been well stocked in times when I have needed things and been unable to get or cope with unloading a delivery.

I'm not hurting anybody, so I don't see the problem.

I do not understand at all the people who fling Dog poo bags up into trees. I mean who goes to the Trouble of bagging it, to throw it like that? I absolutely disagree with it, but I can at least understand why people don't pick it up.

People begging and hanging in trees need to follow it up there themselves!!!

Begging and hanging in trees?!? That sounds really sinister!!

rosemarble · 11/04/2025 07:44

Alicehatter · 10/04/2025 18:28

I was once walking in a woodland type place that had no public bins. There was a house in the middle and I put a poo bag in their black bin (yes I was that person!) The resident saw me and came out shouting obscenities at me, took out the bag and hung it on a tree!!!!!!! I went back for it and noticed a big friggin pile of bags!! Obviously she was pissed at people using her bin (fine) but she's living next door to a pile of rotting dog shit instead 🤷🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️

Can you explain again?
Loads of people try and put their dog poo in her black bin? She complains. So people hang it in trees. Most don’t go and collect it?

Why are people not taking it with them?

Corbusier · 10/04/2025 19:29

AquaPeer · 10/04/2025 19:25

I have no idea what you’re talking about, but you shouldn’t be so arrogant as to give other people “notes”- who the hell do you think you are?

Ok then 👍

Gwenhwyfar · 10/04/2025 19:29

Daffodilfields101 · 10/04/2025 07:47

I might be able to answer.

I don’t do any of these things. But growing up in the 80s/90s my parents always let our dogs shit in the street. My mum thought that she was being really considerate by making the dog do it on the grass instead of right in the middle of the pavement.

They were also guilty of fly tipping. I can remember being taken out late at night with my mum or dad to dump stuff. They dropped litter and fag ends in the street too.

They don’t do these things anymore because they’ve learnt that it’s wrong. Not just that it’s wrong but it’s about being more considerate.

It wasn’t uncommon in those days where we lived and they were badly bought up, selfish and ignorant.

People knew not to litter in the 80s and 90s. There were keep Britain tidy campaigns, etc.
Dog poo on the pavements was much more common though.
People fly tipped, but there was less of an excuse for it then than now I think - councils picked up rubbish more often and I presume there was easier access to dumps.

AquaPeer · 10/04/2025 19:25

Corbusier · 10/04/2025 19:23

I think you’ve outed yourself & now backtracking when called out. Note for the future don’t cry wolf if you make stuff up on forums that’s antisocial or goady.

I have no idea what you’re talking about, but you shouldn’t be so arrogant as to give other people “notes”- who the hell do you think you are?

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