What really amazed me was that, when my son was living at home, his room was an absolute tip and I had to climb over mess in order to get to his bed to make it. Then he went to uni and had a place of his own. Astonishingly, it was immaculate. He even did his own ironing!
He flew the nest long ago, as children do, but one is usually permanently lumbered with an OH. What I want to know is how one man can splash so much soap around in the bathroom, get toothpaste all over the towel and make liquid soap solidify on the shower door, ruck the shower mat with his feet and get mud and ointment all over the towel, without apparently even noticing! He emerges gleamingly clean and buffed up but the bathroom is a disaster area. And guess who is appointed to clean it all up...
Yep - we are allowed one bag a week for waste, pay for garden waste collection - once a fortnight, and re-cycling is collected in a pink plastic bag, once a week so no bottles etc.
In April they have decided we will have a wheelie bin for re-cycling - once a fortnight and it will take glass bottles but what we recycle will change.
At moment shredded paper is classed as general rubbish and is not recyclable!
Put some in compost but I couls fill a dalek with it sometimes
Why are councils expecting additional payments for collecting rubbish ( be it re-cyclable or not) - council tax should cover all services! What next - additional payments to cut your grass and sweep the road outside your property?
Councils are under immense financial pressure because of government policy and the general recession and are looking for ways to cut costs and increase revenue a bit. As has been said recently on another thread, this kind of short-sighted policy increases illegal dumping and adds extra costs because the council then has to pay for for clearing the rubbish and for trying to catch and prosecute those guilty of illegal dumping.
Whilst I agree totally with your response GG, does it not annoy you that Councils like mine are boasting about no increase in this years council tax, and yet then they come up with these add-on taxes. Why not be honest and upfront and admit that they need to increase council tax to cover rubbish collection and any other service that has gone up in cost. I think the other thread probably noted that it would be cheaper for the councils, in the long run, to offer free collection of large items and things like mattresses, rather than charge and unfortunately, encourage idiots to dump their unwanted items, usually in the prettiest corners of our countryside.
To deviate slightly, how much better for all of us if manufacturers stopped using so much unnecessary packaging - sometimes the unrecyclable rubbish in my bin is more than half the contents.
Must stop moaning now or I'll go to bed and have nightmares of council jobsworths checking MY bins!
Good morning, MOBs. We are certainly getting a multiplicity of threads on the same topics now. I guess it is a good thing, since more than one exchange of ideas is involved and most are interesting conversations. Puzzles me slightly, occasionally, since one wonders about the undercurrents involved. Never mind, there's plenty of room for all. Vive la difference!
We've had a couple of idiots impersonating others, too. I've noticed a post by a jon cob, though he seemed a bit more literate than last time, besides a brumbAll. Idly amusing themselves? Makes you wonder about their emotional health, not to mention their level of maturity.
I'm wondering where Palaisglide is. Hope you are well, Frank.
I was wondering the same thing GG. Frank- if you're there let us know how you are. On the subject of councils/rubbish etc what I don't get is the people who dump rubbish on lanes - ther are umpteen council dumps around my area which are easy to use and as they must have a car/van ...what is the matter with these people??? Our recycling is well intentioned here but we have silly bags for some things and the men just chuck them once empty. Scotlkand is rather a windy place so you usually have to hunt for them later Trolls
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I think some dumping is done for similar motives to trolling on a forum - an expression of anger and rebellion against society, which they feel has disadvantaged them. I guess if you feel powerless, causing mischief gives you back a sense of power. In my line of work, I've seen this often in teenagers of both genders. Some continue throughout life to fail to find a place of dignity and usefulness (don't mean to sound pretentious) and feel they have been done out of something. Anger is their response and it finds an expression in destructive behavour.
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What really amazed me was that, when my son was living at home, his room was an absolute tip and I had to climb over mess in order to get to his bed to make it. Then he went to uni and had a place of his own. Astonishingly, it was immaculate. He even did his own ironing!
He flew the nest long ago, as children do, but one is usually permanently lumbered with an OH.
What I want to know is how one man can splash so much soap around in the bathroom, get toothpaste all over the towel and make liquid soap solidify on the shower door, ruck the shower mat with his feet and get mud and ointment all over the towel, without apparently even noticing! He emerges gleamingly clean and buffed up but the bathroom is a disaster area. And guess who is appointed to clean it all up... 
Yep - we are allowed one bag a week for waste, pay for garden waste collection - once a fortnight, and re-cycling is collected in a pink plastic bag, once a week so no bottles etc.
In April they have decided we will have a wheelie bin for re-cycling - once a fortnight and it will take glass bottles but what we recycle will change.
At moment shredded paper is classed as general rubbish and is not recyclable!
Put some in compost but I couls fill a dalek with it sometimes
Councils are under immense financial pressure because of government policy and the general recession and are looking for ways to cut costs and increase revenue a bit. As has been said recently on another thread, this kind of short-sighted policy increases illegal dumping and adds extra costs because the council then has to pay for for clearing the rubbish and for trying to catch and prosecute those guilty of illegal dumping.
To deviate slightly, how much better for all of us if manufacturers stopped using so much unnecessary packaging - sometimes the unrecyclable rubbish in my bin is more than half the contents.
Must stop moaning now or I'll go to bed and have nightmares of council jobsworths checking MY bins!
Yes, its way past my bedtime and I've been dozing over my laptop.
I agree with all you say, dmb. I suppose nice packaging makes a thing more atractive to buy and so increases the price manufactureres can charge.
Good morning, MOBs. We are certainly getting a multiplicity of threads on the same topics now. I guess it is a good thing, since more than one exchange of ideas is involved and most are interesting conversations. Puzzles me slightly, occasionally, since one wonders about the undercurrents involved. Never mind, there's plenty of room for all. Vive la difference!
We've had a couple of idiots impersonating others, too. I've noticed a post by a jon cob, though he seemed a bit more literate than last time, besides a brumbAll. Idly amusing themselves? Makes you wonder about their emotional health, not to mention their level of maturity.
I'm wondering where Palaisglide is. Hope you are well, Frank.
I was wondering the same thing GG. Frank- if you're there let us know how you are. On the subject of councils/rubbish etc what I don't get is the people who dump rubbish on lanes - ther are umpteen council dumps around my area which are easy to use and as they must have a car/van ...what is the matter with these people??? Our recycling is well intentioned here but we have silly bags for some things and the men just chuck them once empty. Scotlkand is rather a windy place so you usually have to hunt for them later
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I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I think some dumping is done for similar motives to trolling on a forum - an expression of anger and rebellion against society, which they feel has disadvantaged them. I guess if you feel powerless, causing mischief gives you back a sense of power. In my line of work, I've seen this often in teenagers of both genders. Some continue throughout life to fail to find a place of dignity and usefulness (don't mean to sound pretentious) and feel they have been done out of something. Anger is their response and it finds an expression in destructive behavour.