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Coke bottle lids that have "please recycle me" printed on top.
Here in Manchester lids aren't recycled, so I wander over to the bins, unscrew the lid, put the bottle in recycling and fling the poor little lid begging for a new life straight into the bin bound for incineration 🙁
I can just imagine it screaming on the way down... aaaiiieeeeeee....
I'm going slightly insane. It's going to be a long day
Dreaming of the weekend already
First thing that crossed my mind was "litter". Not such a small issue in places along my commute, though. And not just sad, as much infuriated.
Litter
All those millions of standard take-away coffee shop cups that aren't recycled in the UK because there are only two specialist processing centres in the country.
And dog muck outside the bloody school gates. Arseholes.
Ossify - look on the up side. You're contributing the calorific value of the waste to make it go nicely through an incinerator.
And dog muck outside the bloody school gates. Arseholes.
That's more shaking with rage for me rather than sad. And not just school gates...
Adverts for tribute band gigs in my music magazine. **** off and write your own music.
The general public.
The comments section of pretty much anything on the internet.
Dead Pets on the road, I feel bad for the pets, but probably worse for their owners wondering where they are.
Nice people who suddenly shock you with horrible views.
Roast dinner ready meals in the supermarket.
For some reason, I always get a lump in my throat when I see old men sitting in a supermarket cafe on their own with a cuppa.
Similarly, when you see old folk shopping with their basket, which consists of a half loaf and a pint of milk.
Discarded inner tubes around local riding spots.
I really don't get it: presumably you packed a tube into the woods to replace the one that has now punctured. Would it be so much effort to pack it out again? And then -- dare I say it -- patch it and repair it? 🙁
Brexit.
That’s more shaking with rage for me rather than sad. And not just school gates…
Agreed. Litter is one thing (as it is relatively easy to pick up). But, as a dog owner myself, I cannot fathom what world people think they belong to when they let their dirty great big dogs crap all over paths (a popular dog walking route near me is a shared footpath/cycleway that leads directly to two schools which really grates me). There seems to be one particular dog owner that very regularly leaves huge piles behind and I will really let go with both barrels if I ever catch them.
lump in my throat when I see old men sitting in a supermarket cafe on their own with a cuppa.
Sad that they're leaving their missus to go round & do the shopping and they're lazing with a coffee? Quite often see older blokes at my local supermarket reading a paper in the car while the wife does the shopping. It's probably a generational thing that the wifey does the shopping/housework.
Cars parked on grass verges turning the grass into a muddy sh*tty mess.
Cars parked on grass verges so they don't have to pay parking charges at my local trail centre
Too many cars.
one particular dog owner that very regularly leaves huge piles behind and I will really let go with both barrels if I ever catch them.
Very much enjoying visualising this pooh fight
The people who drove over the flower tubs we put on the grass verge in front of our house.
Homeless folk.
Litter.
People smoking around kids.
The guy who brings his 5 ish year old lad to the pub with him and then just ignores him whilst he sinks 5 pints of Stella.
football.
football blokey stuff.
football talk.
Yeah litter. Makes me really sad actually.
The size of my...
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Gel wrappers,more angry than sad
The couple next door to my in-laws who smoke dope every evening (and deal all night), then head to the pub with their son who is in the same class as my eldest (9yr old) until kicking out time.
He cant concentrate for a full day so only does 10am-2pm, then they complain that the school isn't doing enough for his issues.
Poor kid hasn't got a chance.
Actually that doesn't make me sad, it makes me angry.
At our local 'recycling centre' the amount of perfectly functional stuff that gets thrown out is incredible, and only a v small amount of it ever gets recycled. Things like kids bikes and scooters especially sad to see chucked out, you know there's someone somewhere who hasn't got a lot and would love to have it. So many ways to give stuff away these days (freecycle, charity shops etc)- but maybe people just don't want second hand.
Under-cooked chips.
When I went to see the last Star Wars film, but my dad wasn't with me.
He took me to the cinema for the first time in my life in 1977. We lost him to cancer in 2012.
The guy who brings his 5 ish year old lad to the pub with him and then just ignores him whilst he sinks 5 pints of Stella.
There's a bloke in my local like this. A couple of my female friends usually end up looking after his daughter while he's constantly on the phone. She's a lovely, bright, friendly kid who deserves a better dad.
Under-cooked chips.
Over-cooked chips. Makes me way more sad.
Burnt chips is a shame, I'll grant you, but crispy is better than flaccid.
There’s a bloke in my local like this. A couple of my female friends usually end up looking after his daughter while he’s constantly on the phone. She’s a lovely, bright, friendly kid who deserves a better dad.
The guy in mine clearly just wants to sit at the bar with the same lushes who are always there and the kid just interrupts this. If the kid tries to get any interaction from his dad then he gets told to “go over there and play”. Over there being a table in the pub with a magazine and a few beer matts. Really sad.
Both the pets I've had to bury since Christmas, even the one that wasn't mine, death's not nice, and I'm too nice to just tell the kids I've buried them and sling them out of the car window somewhere.
Dead Pets on the road, I feel bad for the pets, but probably worse for their owners wondering where they are.
Well at least the larger of the two was found and returned it its owner (my ex) so she and the kids knew.
Knowing I cant retire for a very very long time, and I hate working.
Malicious gossip.
Yeah litter. Makes me really sad actually.
Me too, any litter including so-called biodegradable.
Little bags left for the Dog Poo Fairy on forest tracks.
If you're not going to pick it up, surely it would be better to let your dog do it free range in the forest?
A lone kids bike on a roofrack of a car clearly on holiday.
Litter generally, but pavements covered with used chewing gum particularly. And the flamboyantly masticating, slack jawed, mouth breathing, oxygen thieves who do it.
@lunge - re: the dad drinking in the pub, firstly that's heartbreaking, poor kid. Secondly, it's possibly against the law, 1902 Licensing Act, section 2. Might be worth mentioning it to the bar manager.
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Walking through Christmas Winter Wonderland at Centre Parcs, fake snow, reindeer, music, elves, magical displays, christmas lights and loveliness. Then noticing toddlers being pushed along in buggies holding phones and staring at YouTube videos or games totally oblivious to what was around them.
Had the radio on in the car earlier, and there was a story on the news about Tesco getting rid of the plastic wrapping around multi packs of stuff, this in itself is a very good thing IMO.
They then interviewed some shoppers who basically said they didn't like the idea as it'd make shopping more difficult for them, one said that its bad as she would definitely drop the loose cans, and that the plasitic didnt bother her as she didn't really recycle stuff any way.......
That made me feel a little sad, but I suppose thats what you get listening to radio 1!
Litter isn't really a little thing. Its a great big thing that makes me sad.
The end of quill stems is a little thing that make me sad.
Parents who drive their kids to school when they live within a 5 minute walk from school.
Litter and full dog poo bags tied up just left on the ground in the country side? What do these people think is going to happen to these bags!
Malicious gossip
Amen.
It's understandable to a point, as it fills some people's days with excitement and titillation, but the damage it can create is serious. And often irreversible.
When the shop's run out of the nice coleslaw and I have to buy the cheap one.
When I set up a new tubeless tyre or wheel and it develops a mystery leak.
Having no recycling facilities in our leased office space.
Northern Rail in general.
I can't find any shops nearby that sell tahini.
Another one...
The SAP Concur expenses platform my employer has recently adopted.
Ooo - see, now, Concur's loads better than the system we had at the old place. 🙂
I love my ale. I like a bottle or two at home sometimes. I buy local beer. Almost every small brewery uses very similar brown bottles. They are not reused! FFS with a little bit of will we could have a "scottish beer bottle" that they all used and a central washing plant. good for everyone and the planet. Such a simple thing that would save so much
The Germans have the beer bottle thing sussed. Like our milk bottles 30 years ago.
Wasting perfectly good food.
And that includes the "eat as much you can" buffets where folk pile up the food and then not eat it all. And in the bin it goes...
How many seemingly intelligent people fall for media scare bullshit like CoronaVirus
Adults ignoring children as they are unable to detach from their phone and interact with their children.
The guy who brings his 5 ish year old lad to the pub with him and then just ignores him whilst he sinks 5 pints of Stella.
They won't be doing that in Wetherspoons any longer.
Fly tipping.
Bikes that have been trashed whilst locked against a railing or on a cycle rack.
The difference in salary between premier league footballers and the typical season ticket holder.
Too many cats killing birds.
Dog shit
How many seemingly intelligent people fall for media scare bullshit like CoronaVirus
This sort of conspiracy stuff makes me sad. See also anti-vaxx.
FB memories popping up on my feed involving Rogue, our first Rhodesian Ridgeback who we lost last September. Crufts show winner, fantastic trail dog but most of all a very important member of the family. Gone but never, ever forgotten ❤️
All those millions of standard take-away coffee shop cups that aren’t recycled in the UK because there are only two specialist processing centres in the country.
The ugly, lumpen, grubby, usually empty, functionless containers that Starbucks makes from recycled coffee cups and perch somewhere near the sugar and stirrers to pat themselves on the back for playing their part in the circular economy are pretty depressing. They look like cold sick
Its a noble ambition to say coffee cups can be recycled..... but recycled as what exactly?
They are not reused! FFS with a little bit of will we could have a “scottish beer bottle” that they all used and a central washing plant. good for everyone and the planet.
See also wine bottles which are a mirrade of different sizes and shapes whilst still looking like wine bottles and all holding exactly the same volume.
With beer bottles I can see how you'd potentially have a tricky route to reuse in terms of private sale with lots of manufacturers, some local, some not and having them find their way back to suitable producers. But I find it depressing that pubs chuck all their bottles in a skip out the back when the same bottles are coming from the same supplier all the time - the empties could go back on the same truck straight back into the same supply line.
They then interviewed some shoppers who basically said they didn’t like the idea as it’d make shopping more difficult for them, one said that its bad as she would definitely drop the loose cans, and that the plasitic didnt bother her as she didn’t really recycle stuff any way…….
What makes me sad is the notion of 'Vox pops' as part of our news-cycle. Why do we have to broadcast the opinions of someone on the street who hasn't given a moments though to a topic with no more of a brief on the subject than they glimpsed a headline outside the newsagents this morning?
You can't blame people for having bad answers when the circumstances of asking the question is stupid.
It’s so that we can have tabloid level TV news… while still pretending that particular media has higher standards… “it’s not our fault the reporting on this issue is so poor, blame the random member of the public we stopped on the street in a deprived ex-market/mining town while everyone else was at work”.
Litter for the public consciousness.
How many seemingly intelligent people fall for media scare bullshit like CoronaVirus
This sort of conspiracy stuff makes me sad. See also anti-vaxx.
What’s the conspiracy? These SARS-like viruses are similar to flu, mutate rapidly, and actually kill people! There are already fatalities due to this particular corona virus, so please explain where, exactly, the conspiracy is. The Chinese are isolating entire cities, do you think this is just media-driven scare stories?
Or do you believe the outbreak of Spanish flu in 1919 was a media concocted conspiracy, and the possible deaths of 100 million people globally was made up?
And if the anti-vaxxers make you sad, then you’re contradicting yourself, because it’s the diminishing number of people being vaccinated against flu, measles, etc which is reducing herd-immunity and allowing these sort of outbreaks to occur, and there are multiple deaths globally due to measles now.
They are not reused! FFS with a little bit of will we could have a “scottish beer bottle” that they all used and a central washing plant.
This actually makes me angry. Glass recycled to be returned to the vessel it was prior to recycling.
there should be a fine for breweries that do t use a standard bottle and all bottles should be re used. Is it too late to apply for some kind of EU grant to put something line a bottle washing plant into action? There must be some kind of green incentive.
The pint with the beer bottles is that all the small breweries could easily use the same bottle so it doesn't matter if its a Harviston or a Alloa ales bottle - they just all get reused and go back to the bottling plants.
The pint with the beer bottles
I see what you did there... 😉
My son has lost all interest in mountain biking.
This makes me very sad. I really enjoyed our rides together. 🙁
When we were in Buenos Aires the beer bottles had deposits on them, even better, they were litre bottles! 😁
Seeing my dog’s little face when I go to work.
Roadies ignoring me. We're all out enjoying a bloody bicycle, say hello!
Dog walkers on the national cycle route who believe they're more entitled to use it as a national dog toilet.
My wife will never, ever be able to load the dishwasher properly.
The loss of one dog and the fact the other one looks so lonely.
I'll probably never ride Whistler.
Feeling like my kids are growing up too fast and there's nothing I can do about it.
Screen time.
Old dogs waddling along.
People who don't notice the simple things.
Folk that act with huge dignity and grace at times of adversity (well, sadness and respect to be fair).
Fat kids.
Music threads that limit participation by being very specific about the music that can be posted within.
Seeing young kids out and about that are far too young to be alone.
Witnessed this morning, Mum walking her three very young kids to school, school is Green Flag, aiming to be plastic free and very eco aware. So far so good, except Mum and three young kids are all sipping from Costa takeaways. Kids very unlikely to be drinking coffee so it can be assumed they are spending money on high sugar chocolate drinks, in single use cups with plastic lids, prior to heading in to school.
So many wrongs.
E-bikes, its as if cycling sold it's soul to the devil.
People who use its when they mean it's and then use it's when they mean its.