Who does these things?

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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.

Toilet tissues take up a lot of space on a retail shelf especially the multi packs . You only have to sell a few extra and the stocks look decimated. People then panic, discuss it on social media and it snowballs.

Could the people that hang up the poo bags in order to (honest to god, I remember every time) collect them later, stop doing it regardless, please?

It's still pretty selfish behaviour to hang a bag of shit in a tree for everyone else to have to look at until you are ready to pick it up just because you don't want to carry it.

Other people are also trying to enjoy nature and their walks.

Yak at the poo trees. Do you think other walkers want to walk past that scene?

Very much linked to fly tipping but why do people get a McDonalds takeaway, neatly pack away the rubbish inside of the bag, begin driving and THEN dump it out of the car window? Either put it in the bin where you are eating it or take it home. There is no reason to throw it out of the window!

People fly tip here because you're not allowed to go to the tip if it's outside your county. If you're near the border, it can be a 45 minute drive to your own tip, but you can't use the one 5 minute's away. So one particular country road gets a lot of fly tipping.

I agree. I've never (in over 35 years of dog ownership) had to hang a poo bag in a tree and I walk miles of remote countryside with no bins until you get back to civilisation. I just take a carrier bag and bung the multiple poo bags in there. Easier to carry and can carry multiple bags. Tie on the lead or carry in one hand. I have large dogs as well. The inconvenience of carrying filled dog poo bags goes with dog ownership. Why should others have to look at swinging bags of shit on their own walk? It's gross -and even with scented bags, you can smell faint wafts of shit. That's my issue as its my dog, I don't inflict that on others.

Because they only care about THEIR space being neat and clean. They pack it away neatly to make sure there's nothing left behind in their car, then they chuck it out of the window. They don't care what happens to it once its gone, they never think of it again. It's away from them, and that's all that matters. The mentality is "I'm done with this now, away it goes" as simple as that.

It's selfishness and it's stupidity. Most things people do can be explained this way.

I bought extra loo roll during Covid! About 9 rolls extras

i thought everyone knew by now that there wasn’t actually a rush on loo roll in the classic sense but because loo roll is an excellent product for just in time ordering, with very predictable consumer buying behaviour, it couldn’t cope with a marginal blip.

I think this is exactly why people don’t answer these posts OP. You don’t want to know who and why, you want to create one big name calling telling off thread to make those who participate feel shit about themselves.

Not at all. If you read my replies you will see that's not what I want at all.

I know why people do things like throw rubbish out of windows or park on pavements. They are selfish. I get it. I know the reason already. I understand.

If you read my OP, you'll see I didn't ask about these things, I asked about things I don't understand like the dog poo. I can see some effort went in there, they brought bags with them, they bagged up the poo, but then they stopped before they got to the putting it in the bin part. I can see some effort was made, they are not entirely selfish, why did they stop before putting it in the bin? What was their reasoning?

You make it sound like it is okay to do that.

It isn't.

maybe it’s similar to my friends wide eyed mystification about dropping cigarette butts 25 years ago. I dropped butts on the floor if there wasn’t a street ashtray nearby. I said where else would I put it? She said in a bin. I said I’m not always comfortable doing that as butts relight quite often and also there isn’t often a bin around anyway.

She asked why I didn’t put it in my pocket and carry it to a bin. I said because I don’t want my coat to smell or possibly catch fire.

She couldn’t get her head around this and considered butts the same as any other rubbish. I didn’t, and was buoyed on by the fact I saw so many smokers doing the same so was also of the mindset that butts belonged on the floor.

It's brave of you to own up and interesting to get your prespective, but please take it with you.

Its disgusting leaving it anywhere (even if you feel it's out of sight) and there's no reason why you can't carry it with you.

Even if temporary it's like a revolting kind of littering.

Oh well that's all right then.

We all enjoy seeing your dog poo bags when we are out enjoying the countryside.

I take it back home with me, but the place I go and time I go I never see anyone. When we go on our smaller walks in busy areas I always take it because there's a bin just about every 2 minutes. I only have one arm that works so you can imagine wrangling a large breed dog, a lead, and a poop bag and my treat/water belt isn't the easiest.

There's no bins where we go, and we go at 5am, so no people, so I'm totally fine with leaving my bag behind a tree for a while and taking it home again. It disturbs noone, I haven't seen anyone at that hour on that walk for months and months and it makes it easier for me to manage after thinking I was going to have to give her up.

I'm good with what I'm doing, I'm a very responsible owner and I do clean up after her every time. Sometimes I do the odd thing that makes life a bit easier for myself and doesn't impact anyone else.

i sometimes bag and leave poop to pick up on my return trip home vs walking with a poop bag for 30-60 minutes. all in all my neighborhood is clean and since everyone has camera's occasionally people are shamed on fb. i place my bag discretely at the base of a lamp post.
toilet paper, ah yes i'm a faithful costco shopper so regularly load up and for covid doubled down on two packages (so 60 rolls). I also stocked up on garbage bags...the box of 200 is still going strong from 2020 (i use one a week sometimes it lasts two weeks before full).

My husband got some side-eyes buying a fair bit of loo roll during the pandemic. I'd just had an emergency op to remove my gallbladder and I was having arse related side effects for a while afterwards

My username isn't actually related to that...

I had a friend who resented having to pick up her dogs’ poos. She would begrudgingly do it, then hang the filled poo bags on a bush or tree, with no intention of ever collecting them.
She was a strange woman and we are no longer friends, not because of the dangling dog poo bags but I was repulsed by it and shocked at her attitude.

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. 🔑

Oh is it? I assumed they were in biodegradable bags and they left it all on the tree to biodegrade

But I don’t know. I’ve never seen anybody do it, so I’d assume they do it secretly, because they know it’s a disgusting thing to do.

But then, I guess, why would they pick it up at all, then?

So I still don’t understand 🤷‍♀️

I panicked the week before lockdown when there was no toilet roll in Tesco. Got 24 rolls from Home Bargains even though we didn't need it. I think we opened it in the August.

I am very sorry.

I'm guilty of toilet roll hoarding - even now I have over 100 hidden away in various crevices.

Why? - I'm slightly obsessed with Lionel Shriver's book, The Mandibles and am convinced it's going to come true (in fact the way the US is at the moment it might actually be true).

My question - Who buys the Easter eggs in Hotel chocolat - the £80 Ostrich ones? My second question - if you're that rich, can you buy me one?

I completely agree with this. It is horrible and too many are forgotten about and left behind despite the 'good intentions'. The damage being done to our countryside by dog walkers goes way beyond poo-bags, but of course nobody wants to admit it and this isn't the right thread for a general anit-dog rant.

I've had one of the eggs 😬😂 it was nice, but not £80 nice unfortunately.

No, most decent people would double or triple bag it and put it in their pocket or handbag until they could find a bin to dump it in.