to be sick of all the nasty, dirty, trampy people in this place?

[MummikinsOopNorth]

In the place I live, I regularly people spitting on the floor, so much so, that it is sometimes difficult to avoid stepping in it in the bus station. It really makes me heave when I see some dirty bast*rd doing it.

Also, people throwing litter makes my blood boil. There's this woman who lives near my mother and I have seen her throw her crisp packets twice now and one time was just practically down the road from her house after she had finished eating from the packet, and another time she was in our village and there are bins every few metres down the high street we were on, and she threw the packet on the floor. Dirty cowbag.
I looked out of my window this morning and was really astounded at how littered the place actually was and felt sad. Why don't people want to look after the place in which they live? We have lovely flowerbeds done by the wonderful council, and chip packets, drinks cans and confectionary papers are scattered all around them.
It's so sad.

Yes it is sad. When we have so much more than many other countries, yet many don't appreciate it all.

would it help if you thought of it as a Festival of Litter, a kind of Expo

I agree.
I'll always remember about a year ago, someone I was getting to know but will now sensibly never be friends with (long story)... she ws really ocd on cleaning, and was fastidiuosly cleaning and polishing the inside of her car whilst waiting for me. When I turned up, she stopped cleaning, threw the tissues on the floor in the car park, and that was it. How can you have a cleaning OCD at home and be such a vile person in public??

when i read your title i thought you meant on here, and was gonna pack my bags!

i know what you mean though, things like that really irriate me!

BLAD - I spluttered over my tea

I thought she meant on here too

Cretacious

My XH was is and remains a knob in oh so many ways.

But

We used to live on the main road into a small coastal village that would be very busy in the summer time, there was a railway crossing and if the crossing was closed the cars would back up the road, as far as our house (and further)

One sunny sunday afternoon he was weeding in the front garden and a coke can hit him on the head. DS2 saw and family in very swanky silver BMW estate were in queue of traffic right outside our house, with kids in the back giggling like fuck.

Xh jumped wall, rapped on window of swanky BMW, which glided down, mother all made up, lip curl, father looking all , XH hands mother coke tin and says be thankful I don't sue you. Control your kids.

This make my blood boil too.
We live in the coutryside and hate seeing people casually flinging rubbish out of their cars when they're driving though the beautiful country lanes.

Even worse - carrier bags full of rubbish - You've made the effort to bag it up, surley it's just as easy to take the bag in to the house with you!!!! grrrrr

Yep. We've got rats in our back court.

The Housing Association have recently replaced all the bins for large wheely bins to combat overflowing rubbish which was attracting the rats. As owner-occupiers we had to pay £45 quid for this, plus £20 each time they have to get contractors in to remove all the old fridges etc which people dump round the back.

Anyway, just had another letter saying that the wheely bins aren't working, and won't work, until people take the 2 seconds needed to put their rubbish in the bins rather than just dumping bags beside it.

Vile, vile people. Happy to sit in filth in their own (and my) back yard.

And that's not even starting on the people who spit on the stairs, or the people who come out of the nearby pub and piss against our close back door.

God, I need to move.

Don't. The litter round here drives me truly mad. I have a rule that I always pick up at least 3 pieces when I go out, but on most roads round here that takes me about 5 steps down the road

I don't get it. I live in a rich city which is rich partly because of the number of visitors and its reputation for beauty. It is drowning in crisp packets, Innocent smoothie packets and fag ends. I feel such hot shame when I look at the state of it.

I've been astonished at the way people drop litter in England, esp London. It's such a negative 'attitude' and it makes the place look dreadful. Whenever I've been on holiday & I return I really feel the filth of this city.
We were brought up to be 'tidy kiwis' & the campaign still runs in NZ with the same message - kind of cheesy but it really works.

I've not noticed any such campaigns here - not in last 16 years anyway? Anyway it's seriously time for something to be done. It would be so lovely if people just put rubbish in the bin, or took it home. And don't even get me started on flytipping!

Finding, I grew up with the 'Keep Britain Tidy' campaign. No doubt the government would be told off for nanny state tendencies if it revived it. Certainly I don't remember it working much, though I set up a Litter Club with a friend at school, we used to trawl the playground cleaning up... what great times we had!!!

yanbu. Skanky gits throwing litter, cigarettes, spitting, dog mess etc. I have to zip it and not yell at them.

I did tell some emo-kids off though, as I knew they would pick it up and not try and beat me up.

I looked down at the pavement in my local town and could not beleive the amount of chewng gum on the floor. it was like dalmation spots.
Filthy.

I totally agree! YANBU Its not difficult to find a bin is it?!

I have a friend who suggests that every single person who claims job seekers allowance should complete one day a month's community litter picking in order to receive it...
He reckons that we'd have a beautiful Britain in less than 6 months.... Personally I think a policy such as that would open a huge can of worms.... But its an interesting idea... :D

This is why I don't think AIBU to not have shoes on in the house. Don't care if people think I'm OCD - am too scarred by South London streets in the summer. Why would anyone want that tracked through their house? Ugghh.

Our next door neighbours used to chuck piss out of their window onto our garden path. We once had a crack-head do a shit in our front garden.

It's why I now live in t'country.

Ars and disgust.

YANBU, it drives me mad. For some reason, used nappies and McDonalds bags placed oh-so-carefully at car door level in car parks makes me the angriest.

Oh, and the fact that the nearest shop to us normally has a river of tramp piss running across the doorway.

I have always taught my DCs to take litter home with them, hence my sons pockets full of packets etc. But when I go shopping in certain areas not far from my house, I can watch children happily chucking chip papers, cans, Greggs bags etc behind them. I have had to tell my DC that it is terrible to litter their own area and they should be ashamed of themselves. But this is the next generation, having babies left, right and centre, are they going to tell their children this or is it someones job to pick up after them. The same sort of people call their little girls 'bitches' and little boys 'twats'. God help this country.

I saw a lad in Brighton drop a sandwich wrapper on the floor in front of him, whilst eating on a wall with his 3 mates.

I stood infront of them and said "Excuse me, you've dropped something" in my nice, getting to be a middle aged lady voice.

He huffed and glared at me.

I just stood there about 6 inches from his face while he gave me a death stare, slowly feeling more and more of a twat infront of his mates. I said "aren't you going to pick it up" and he got all Billy Big Balls and belligerent in front of me.

I mouthed the word "Prick" and walked home.

My husband told me I'd probably get stabbed in the back one day if I carried on doing this.

I, too, find it depressing that (mostly) youngsters seem not to think twice about dropping litter, or spitting, and not just the lads. Yuk.

A few weeks back while walking home with shopping, saw a lad on the other side of the road eating chips, then simply drop the wrapping paper. Not 30 feet behind us was a litter bin, so I said "You've dropped something" and he grimaced, so I asked "There's a bin not far away" and he groaned "I'm not walking back" so I told him where the next bin ahead of us was, and he reluctantly picked up the wrapper.

I could hardly believe he was just going to drop rubbish - even though there are various cans and sometimes KFC and McDonalds bags on that road (items bought 2-3 miles away but 'finished with' in the village). It does make you wonder how bad things would get if the councils cut road sweeping type jobs for a period of say 6 months - indeed, it might actually get some parents to drill into their children why they should be tidy.

No, pigs may fly before there's actually going to be a change - it probably needs only 5% to 10% of households to be littering the streets for another 30% to decide to be laxy as "it's already a mess"