Am I allowed to have a rant?

There is a lovely park with a river near my house and I often go there with my dogs. Unfortunately it is also not far from a big comprehensive school. Why do they drop litter when there are bins just a few steps away? All around the bench where they sit it just looks like a rubbish tip. The school playground is even worse. They even do it when you are looking directly at them, the little sods!

There is obviously more important things to do when you are at school than worry about the impact on other peoples lives of dropping a now useless, redundant and probably overly engineered piece of packaging (which is actually cleverly disguised advertising designed to brainwash your friends) which had previously been looking after the only sustenance you are likely to get at school today.

Aye Annie, you're turning into an old grumpy git like myself...
I recommend a blast in the Coop & have a good old scream in tune with the engine......

It's one of my pet hates. We have a road tunnel near us, and the kid park up in their Corsa's and C1's and just drop everything out of the windows, despite there being a bin 2 meters away. Even after the council clear it up, it's covered in rubbish after a few days.

The attitude seems to be "I'm showing how cool I am, and how rebellious, and sticking it to the man, by chucking rubbish."

I suspect it is a second generation habit where their parents probably did the same thing.

I bet they throw their cigarette butts out of the windows too like every other smoking driver does - even though they have a perfectly good and fit for purpose ASHTRAY in their car

Christmas day a couple of years ago we caught a woman just opening the door and scrapping all the McD wrappers out the car as her partner looked on. I guess she didn't expect anyone to tap on the window and tell her dropped something....

We were leaving about an hour later and what did we see at the end of the road.. rubbish again. Like a petulant child they were caught and then when noone was looking again.

I picked it up and threw into their friends garden.

Some people are just scum.

I just can't understand the mentality.

This.

When I was a 18 and sitting eating fast food in car parks, I'd have rows with my mates when they stuffed rubbish under my car. No doubt their kids will be doing it in years to come

My biggest problem is chewing gum. This crap is EVERYWHERE. I worked in Romford for a couple of years recently and every 2-3 weeks there’d be a guy walking up and down the highstreet for a day with a steamer removing the stuff. Within a week it was everywhere again. Bins were placed every 20 metres of so - no excuse what-so-ever.

My hatred for this stuff oddly came from my time in New Zealand years previous. It took me fully two weeks to work out why the cities always looked so 'new'. There wasn't a single dollop of it anywhere.

Yes you have my permission to rant, it would be hypocritical otherwise and you speak for me also.

I say: "Send the kids down the mines till they get some dam manners and education is wasted on the young any way".

Flog the sh!!s

I think it would be a plan for the people who produce the rubbish, ie supermarkets, to be legally required to collect it AND have an education programme where they go to schools giving talks about the impact of litter on the environment. That video of a sea turtle having a plastic straw removed from his nostril should feature. 5,000 call-outs a year for animals injured by litter according to the RSPCA.

https://www.rspca.org.uk/adviceandwelfare/litter

The trouble with that idea is it will end up breeding more feckless behaviour due to the buck-passing.
In the good old days people were ashamed and shamed by their unacceptable actions, and also by their reliance on others such as welfare state. Now it is seen as some sort of status symbol.

It's too late to get excited by this. It is just one more example of the don't give a damn generation whose parents and grand parents were children in the so called permissive sixties. No moral or social responsibility, and common sense removed by the PC brigade of the leftist educational establishment.
Just live with it! The liberal elite will continue to support those who disagree with me anyway, so my perception of the current situation will of course get worse!
I do however apologise to the select few who have since regressed back to the considerate and sensible behavior of the past or were never so affected !!