just seen the video of the crap left behind after Reading festival, i think it sums up a lot of the problems these days with the kids...too much far too easy and a lack of respect. when we did that festival at the back end of the 70's into the 80's all we left behind was flattened grass, mind inside the arena was knee deep in empty beer cans, mainly down to the can fights and a complete lack of bins.
Im a bit (a lot really) of an old rocker, and from 1980 till about 1984 I went to quite a few concerts at the City Hall, Newcastle. The City Hall was a superb venue, an A list venue, and attracted the top bands of the time. First gig I seen there was The Scorpions in late October 1980, followed by AC/DC on bonfire night, followed by Iron Maiden a couple of weeks later. Over the next few years I seen the above bands a few times more, along with others such as Ozzy, UFO, MSG, Hawkwind, Motorhead, etc.... Motorhead continued to play the City Hall up until Lemmy's death in 2015 and always said it was one of his favourite venues to play. They did play the (then) Carling Academy in 2008, and he hated it. Looking at the gig listings now for the city hall (it doesn't deserve capitals anymore), it's just full of tribute and cover bands. Bloody sad to see really, so many great bands, especially through the late 60's and 70's....and now it consigned to nothing but a pub band venue.
I live in a reasonably nice area in the Dark Side. Decided to walk the 1.5 Miles to the local Sainsbury rather than take the car as usual. Was shocked by how many discarded pizza boxes, drinks cartons, crisp packets etc were all over the pavement and in the hedges as I walked. Feels as though this is far worse than when I was a kid. Seems as though people have no pride or respect for the place they live in any more
Can’t believe or understand why people have become so bone idle and lacking in any pride in themselves or surroundings. We are blessed with some of the most beautiful countryside but some are happy to cover it with cans bottles and food wrappers. I will convert to being a litter lout myself if someone who spits gum onto the ground whilst able to touch the bin they’re standing next to , can convince me of an acceptable reason for why they do it.
There's a sub culture of people who act in a certain way, not because they believe it to be the right way to act but because they know if upsets others. There's also a section of people who genuinely do not give a ****
whenever we have gone out for the day for a family trip anywhere, even if just the beach or somewhere like penshaw ornament we always took some carrier bags and every empty crisp packet, sweets packet, crusts off the sarnies etc went in and were taken home to be binned...far too many just pull to the side of the road or some lay-by and just throw everything on the ground, annoys the living crap out of me.
As most of you know, i live in Thailand. After golf one day, we went to pick up some friends who had been fishing.They collected up all the rubbish from the fishing site, but when we got to the car, the rubbish bag was just thrown into the ditch. I said what are you doing? The reply was this is Thailand it's OK. I said if everyone did that you would soon be walking round up to your knees in rubbish! The bag was reluctantly collected and taken home, but it istaken home every time now.
I applaud and thank you for doing this, as I do when volunteers have a community litter pick. Sad though that the picking up is all done by people who don't, or have ever, dropped a single piece. Pity the droppers won't take the attitude of'' how good it looks cleaned up, so I won't drop anymore' -- more likely if challenged the answer would be '' so what if I dropped, whats the problem, it gets picked up doesn't it?''
what feckin world are we living in ffs? just seen a post on yahoo from the sun about some 'tiktok'er' who has basically gone viral with his 'steering wheel hack', he found out that in cars you can alter the height of the steering wheel!! there are links to two other 'hacks', one that his car key fob has a hidden key to unlock the car if the fob fails and one that you can adjust the height of the seat belt at the door pillar..this begs the question, can the youth of today read or do they throw manuals away thinking they are not needed? i see loads of these 'hacks' that i think should be common knowledge and am always surprised to find people are making them go viral...they may wish to delve even further and discover that there is indeed a 'stick' at the side of the steering wheel that flashes an orange light on and off and that this light is linked to the indicator and depending which side flashes, it shows other drivers which way you intend to turn.
Love the poster thing that says back in the day a car manual tells you how to change the head gasket, today they tell you not to drink the battery acid.
I actually saw one lad drop something the other day and I caught him picked him up and shoved him in the bin , he was a big bugger for a 4 year old as well that’s not true but this is, I was walking in the town centre and there was a lass in front of me with a kid in a buggy sucking his bottle of cold tea, she opened a crunchy and dropped the wrapper on the ground, I said sorry but you’ve dropped this,she looked at me and in front of everybody said f uck off you c unt.
loving these posts from the mags about the added time...did they all miss their own 'keeper pretending to be injured and getting treatment in a bid to run down the clock? had he just got on with the game they probably would have gained a point.
We were at Bridlington yesterday, having lunch on a windy bench and the wife and kids kept on letting go of empty packets of crisps and cookies, I was leaping about like a lunatic trapping them underfoot. Drilling it into the kids never to litter and to tidy up other people's rubbish, as long as they can wash their hands after.
Last night l went to the Theatre MK to see Willy Russell's Blood Brothers, absolutely brilliant. I took my grandauther who study it at school but had never seen it. What an emotional rollercoaster and quite relevant.
Just been looking at bits about the Giggs trial. No verdict and Gary Neville being referred for contempt of court. At least this one was a criminal trial not like them two daft cows the other month!
