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.

Do you mind the impact it has on the environment or others?

I work on a farm that is also open to the public as a tourist /educational/charitable facility. We have signs all over asking people to ‘please don’t hang bagged dog poo on fences-it’s a crazy thing to do’ as the problem got so bad. What did I find on the fence next to one of these signs this morning? I beg of you.

Well obviously not? I wouldn’t do it if I did

I bought bog roll and I'm not going to apologise for that. Nobody knew what would happen to supply chains during lockdown (there was a continuous and long one where I live, and it was properly enforced). And in fact, when I went out months later to get more after the initial stock was used up, you could only buy a certain amount at a time, and some supermarkets had weird and inferior quality stock for sale.

I already had a nice stash of non perishable and frozen food because we get harsh winters here (polar vortex events). I just topped that up.

Local schools were also well prepared - free lunches continued to be distributed in the form of weekly non perishable bags for students that were picked up outside the schools and at other distribution centers, schools sourced ipads and chromebooks for all the thousands of local students, broadband was installed for homes that didnt have it already on the public school districts' dime, and teachers personally dropped off worksheet and writing supply packets for students to use while remote teaching was trained and the tech aspects were ironed out (this took about two weeks). School gyms were converted into socially distanced learning spaces for kids whose parents were essential workers. Free meals were available for all those kids.

There's a lot of virtue in being organised and well prepared.

Wld you mind if pple hung full bags on your garden hedge or fence?

I once saw a group of kids reaching into a poo bin, grabbing bags and throwing them into nearby trees. They scarpered as soon as they saw me coming but it did make me think differently with seeing some bags hanging in trees near poo bins. 🤢

Dog poo is wildly out of control these days.

I always buy the Andrex 16s or 24s when they are on offer. I always do a big monthly shop where we juat do fridge and bread top-ups, and had an Ocado order ready with 2 * 16s at the start of the pandemic because they were on offer. Websites then went crazy so I was able to add to my order, but couldn't check it out or risk losing what I had, and lots of people said shopping was turning up with half the stuff missing, so I tacked on some tins, freezable veg, and crackers. Then everything showed up, so we had even more than the usual big order and I probably looked like I was hoarding. I'm always stocked though, so it was not much more than our normal.

I was still able to buy loo roll and other bits for DP, PIL and DA when I set up their deliveries for them (they usually all went in person), it wasn't a real shortage. I didn't get loads, but they all got a packet in case it was needed alongside milk, veg, etc. I had an office supplies company send loo rolls, milk and chocolates to care homes a friend worked with; we all ordered meat from restaurant distributors who were closed, and the friend was getting bulk hand gel from a gin distiller, plus masks from a car manufacturer... logistics was all a bit random. Strange days.

We need a vomit emoticon for that....

Are these questions going to go on much longer? 😂 just say what you want to say

I live in the US and find it a far more community-minded society than the UK. People know their neighbours and are generally friendly, generous, and helpful. They shovel snow for the elderly and arrive on your doorstep with casseroles and salads and plates of cookies when you move in or when you have a baby. They are also more polite and less inclined to swear than Brits, and teenagers are not expected to be a feral, boozy, separate species from the rest of humanity.

Where I live, you see hardly any litter and any graffiti that appears is power washed asap by a streets and san team. People volunteer for all sorts of charity endeavours, and are willing to pay high local taxes to support the services run by the local government.

You make these broad generalisations having lived all over the US and all over the UK?

teenagers are not expected to be a feral, boozy, separate species

Where on earth did you get the idea that teenagers in the UK are expected to be those things?

I don’t follow sorry what do you mean?

It’s just I think they’re really obvious answers. What are you trying to get out of them?

I’m just trying to understand why pple do the things they do! It’s not obvious to me where you would or wouldn’t mind if others hung poo bags in your hedge or on your property. It’s usually better but to make assumptions & I’m just curious.

Better not to make assumptions that shld read.

Of course I’d mind! Wouldn’t anyone?

I never did the bog roll thing but I do now, I use a lot though so it makes sense never to run out.

So you do mind it being done to you but don’t mind doing it to others?

Yes, that’s what I'm Saying.

But assuming they walk their dog daily and on a familiar route how do they persistently forget?

don’t you walk a regular route? Isn’t it a habit to collect on your way out? How do you forget? And you say it like it’s not something you did once 15 years ago. How do you persistently forget

Havent RTFT all the way through so apologies if this has been mentioned but I want to know who those passive-aggressive people are who leave anonymous notes on cars or pushed through letterboxes.
An elderly friend of mine received one complaining about the state of her front garden. Whinging about how it made the street look untidy, and it got steadily more aggressive until it ended by saying if she didn’t do something about it, they’d ’report her to the council’
FFS, she can’t garden herself and she doesn’t have the money to pay hundreds of pounds for a tidy up. And it wasn’t even very untidy, I have seen far worse.
it was petty, and cowardly by someone who clearly didn’t know her circumstances but didn’t stop to think there might be reasons her garden doesn’t look immaculate.

Can you see how others wld object to that?

I don’t really care if others object. That wasn’t what the post was about was it? It was asking why people do things

Well it was asking “who does these things?” & why is usually a part of that. O’wise it wld be a thread saying “I do these things”, “I don’t”, “I do” with no discussion & so therefore a bit pointless.

You say you don’t care if others object but got v upset by others objecting here tho. I think you’d feel less offended if you had some empathy & cared about others’ feelings about antisocial behaviour. But as you say you don’t care. So unfortunately you’re going to always feel got at & “bullied”. Vicious & circle springs to mind.