Quote Originally Posted by Staurm
I blame the nanny state, people expect to be told what's good and bad for them these days, and by the same token take no responsibility for the health of their environment either. The supermarkets share a large part of the blame for this as well.

When I walk around the countryside, which is quite regularly, the amount of crap I see lying around is ridiculous. If it's not picked up it gets eaten by the ground, and eventually becomes part of the soil.

It's not just idiots tossing their empty cans aside either, its farmers who don't give a shit, in a forest near here there a electrical cables slowing dissappearing into the ground and allsorts from some industry that probably went bust or something. It's quite astounding how the government can take so much of your earnings and spend nearly half a million on a stupid fucking logo for the olympics that's not even good, yet they can't pay people to go round these places tidying up. THey spend thousands on "green machines", some brain dead moron on community service or something driving around the streets tidying it up slightly, noisily, unneccesarily most of the time, but they can't pay someone to go into a field and go round picking up all the crap and putting in a bag. Jesus, I'm on the dole at the moment! I'd do it for a couple of hours for an extra tenner a day! No work they say!

One time I got stopped by a farmer in some fields nearby where I lived, you look like a decent fellow he said, you are welcome, I've seen you around and just wanted to talk to you. For his kindness, in the last two days I lived there I spent two afternoons going round some bushes picking up all the shit peopel had thrown into his field from the road, traffic cones, road signs and everything. You wouldn't beleive the shit I gathered, about 15 bin bags full and that was only about 5% of the area!

In the old days when people belevied in re-incarnation and that, they acted more carefully. Nowadays no-one thinks, maybe in a future incarnation I'll be living on this land growing vegetables, and the dioxins from this plastic bottle I have rather carelesly discarded might be in my onions.

So true. And i agree with the logo - I'm not a fan of the olympics - and i certainly dont want it held in my home city. The logo is pathetic, it cost half a million and it looks like something i could have painted with a painbrush sticking out of my arse hole.

I said the day we got it "we'll be bombed, you mark my fucking words" and what happened the next day? We got bombed. Fuck darn it. It'll happen again, it's MORE than obvious.