Painted Rocks

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AIBU to hate the painted rocks people are leaving all around the place. Yes it might be a fun activity but if your kids want to paint rocks then do it at home and keep them there. When I walk through woods, or by fields then I want to enjoy the natural scenery not gaudily painted rocks very few yards. It is little better than littering the countryside.

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Is painting on discarded chewing gum acceptable or should this artist fuck off as well?

@MrsTerryPratchett will it well fade and the individual particles will break down and disintegrate. Just like any paint on anything outside - sheds, walls etc. It’s not quite tonnes of toxic waste being dumped in the countryside.

Fine in villages and urban areas but why ruin a natural environment?

@Destroyedpeople you’re kind of missing the point! As are most people picking them up for photos - the same stones that loads of others have picked up... Ie, not the brightest thing to do at the moment.

It’s not quite tonnes of toxic waste being dumped in the countryside.

It is round my way.

Rocks I'm happy with. They rarely hang around for long enough to count as litter/ graffitti/ degrade as another family comes along and swaps them around quite quickly.

Early in lockdown our local woods quickly became "adorned" with ribbons and laminated children's art. 2 months on and they're still there looking faded and tatty. They didn't exactly compete with the bluebells.

Someone took it upon themselves to laminate naff motivational quotes all along a trail. Most people go along there to enjoy a fairly natural setting to relax, not get lectured into positive thinking. I felt much more positive before reading them!

But painted rocks are a small, temporary, cheery thing.

How am I 'missing the point'...?

The point was that op doesn't like people painting rocks. .I said that I did...

So what was the great 'point' that I 'missed'?

@MrsTerryPratchett goodness you must have absolutely millions of them then?

Hyperbole, yes. But there are lots.

I don't like painted rocks either. They're beautiful in their natural state.

@MrsTerryPratchett curious - if one of your neighbours paints an outside wall, a front door, their brickwork, or a shed, or a piece of garden furniture etc - why is that different? Surely that’s also paint breaking down and going into the atmosphere, and presumably on a far larger scale than a small doodle on a few rocks here and there?

I live in a city. Paint away. People insist on putting these in the countryside.

@MrsTerryPratchett i guess we’ll have to agree to disagree. I just can’t get upset over such a small thing.

Ooh, people expressing themselves through rock pisses me off, that stone fucking henge really gets my goat

Had I been around then... I probably wouldn't have liked that either.

Oh for heaven's sake. Of all things to object to. They are so sweet and unobjectionable. They don't hurt anything. How much of a whiner do you have to be to have a problem with painted rocks.

saraclara your post made me fry and I am also not at all sentimental usually!

Id generally describe myself as thoroughly unsociable - I miss Primark more than I miss my friends. But even I think that moaning about kids painting rainbows on rocks and people seeking that little bit of connection is mean.

I haven't seen any

I'm with you OP. It is a blight on the countryside.

The countryside doesn't really need people's "expression", does it? It's pretty enough.

One or two rocks is fine but it sounds like people are rolling these rocks out like it's their job or something.

I like the painted rocks but people here have started using things other than paint, like big blobs of plasticine. People have also started leaving out old toys etc . It's bordering on littering now

Isn't the old expression "take only photographs, leave only footprints"?

Rock painting falls foul of both parts.

If you buy rocks - they'll have been taken from somewhere...

Isn't the old expression "take only photographs, leave only footprints, keep only memories"?

Rock painting falls foul of both parts.

If you buy rocks - they'll have been taken from somewhere...

Write your own rocks with FUCK YOU and leave them everywhere.
That’ll learn ‘em