Use a Bin

cherryghost

I'm a tad tipsy, but was meaning to say this earlier.

We have a bin just across from where I work. Now I aint kidding when I say there was a floor of litter surrounding it, so I thought to myself 'it must be full, the lazy arsehole counsellor lads havent emptied it'

Funnily enough they showed up an hour later to empty the bin. And guess what? It was only half full!!

Such lazy arses in our country that cant take an extra 2 seconds to get the rubbish in the bin. The state of our towns and even our countryside from people being too lazy to put something into a bin thats literally within their bloody reach! I cant comprehend it tbh.

orestes

Can we move this thread to the recycle bin just for the hell of it?

RxQueen

maybe they were standing ten feet away and aiming for the bin and missed it


or

maybe they threw the rubbish in one side, only for it to fall out the other side


both have happened to me on numerous occassions

Rabies

feckin emos!!

RxQueen

Rabies wrote: »

feckin emos!!

:eek:

K4t

People don't care anymore. Not enough anyway. Sad but true.

orestes

emo!! wrote: »

:eek:

*ruffles*

There there, don't mind the bad man

monkeyfudge

Irish people have always been pretty filthy... there's a prevalent attitude that someone else should clean up after you...

Go into any fast food restaurant and possibly 5% of Irish people will actually take their tray and empty it into the bin... the rest will just leave their crap lying on the table for someone to clean up for them... You don't get this in Europe at all.

RxQueen

orestes wrote: »

*ruffles*

There there, don't mind the bad man

*sniff* least i aint got rabies !

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Irish people have always been pretty filthy... there's a prevalent attitude that someone else should clean up after you...

Go into any fast food restaurant and possibly 5% of Irish people will actually take their tray and empty it into the bin... the rest will just leave their crap lying on the table for someone to clean up for them... You don't get this in Europe at all.

I leave it on the table sometimes, have a fear of touching door handles and bins and the likes, so if i dont have my trusty anti bacterical hand gel with me , its staying on the table!

raindog.promo

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Irish people have always been pretty filthy... there's a prevalent attitude that someone else should clean up after you...

Sweeping Generalisation.

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Go into any fast food restaurant and possibly 5% of Irish people will actually take their tray and empty it into the bin... the rest will just leave their crap lying on the table for someone to clean up for them... You don't get this in Europe at all.

Possibly any percentage between 1% and 100% of Irish people will actually take their tray and empty it into the bin...

Rabies

emo!! wrote: »

*sniff* least i aint got rabies !



I leave it on the table sometimes, have a fear of touching door handles and bins and the likes, so if i dont have my trusty anti bacterical hand gel with me , its staying on the table!

but.... do you live in a bubble?

Seriously?

The world is a dirty place, some dirt is good for ya. Other bits aren't. Get sick, get cured, fight back.

KnifeWRENCH

emo!! wrote: »

maybe they were standing ten feet away and aiming for the bin and missed it

If you aim for a bin and miss, surely you'd do the decent thing and pick the rubbish up after you?
Or else, y'know, not aim from teen feet away and just walk up to it and throw it in.

Littering is something I have zero tolerance for. It always pisses me off to see rubbish thrown around the place. Evidently, some people just don't care. :mad:

Rabies

raindog.promo wrote: »

Sweeping Generalisation.

Possibly any percentage between 1% and 100% of Irish people will actually take their tray and empty it into the bin...

possibly less than 1% too

RxQueen

Rabies wrote: »

but.... do you live in a bubble?

Seriously?

The world is a dirty place, some dirt is good for ya. Other bits aren't. Get sick, get cured, fight back.

no not in a bubble... i live in a house a very big house in the country


no but seriously its a phobia of mine, so have to have the anti baterical gel with me in public.. or i wont touch anything!

Knife-WREEENCH wrote: »

If you aim for a bin and miss, surely you'd do the decent thing and pick the rubbish up after you?
Or else, y'know, not aim from teen feet away and just walk up to it and throw it in.

Littering is something I have zero tolerance for. It always pisses me off to see rubbish thrown around the place. Evidently, some people just don't care. :mad:

i would pick it up yea... but obv other people dont

994

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Irish people have always been pretty filthy... there's a prevalent attitude that someone else should clean up after you...

Go into any fast food restaurant and possibly 5% of Irish people will actually take their tray and empty it into the bin... the rest will just leave their crap lying on the table for someone to clean up for them... You don't get this in Europe at all.

It's a restaurant. Cleaning up is for the staff.

zAbbo

994 wrote: »

It's a restaurant. Cleaning up is for the staff.

Many Irish people, and possibly yourself included fail to understand how fast food joints operate...and the etiquette of dropping your tray into the provided bins.

Cleaning up after yourself is an implicit rule at any fast food restaurant, and eating there implies your understanding.

Also I can't stand anyone who litters, especially those who drop in public and those that throw litter near a bin.

Capt'n Midnight

oddly enough cyclists (not people who have bikes) are the grouping I would consider to be the best bin users.

Thoie

emo!! wrote: »

I leave it on the table sometimes, have a fear of touching door handles and bins and the likes, so if i dont have my trusty anti bacterical hand gel with me , its staying on the table!

I understand these kind of phobias, but I don't quite get it in this scenario. On the rare occasions I eat in fast food places, you pick up the tray, shove it into the bin (pushing the flap of the bin with the tray), everything falls off the tray into the bin, then you leave the tray on top, and a staff member later collects the trays and runs them through a washer. No touching of the bin required. If you've managed to carry the tray in the first place, surely you can pick it up again? Or am I underestimating the severity of your particular phobia and it's the proximity of the bin that's the problem?

mickdw

zAbbo wrote: »

Many Irish people, and possibly yourself included fail to understand how fast food joints operate...and the etiquette of dropping your tray into the provided bins.

Cleaning up after yourself is an implicit rule at any fast food restaurant, and eating there implies your understanding.

Also I can't stand anyone who litters, especially those who drop in public and those that throw litter near a bin.

While I generally take the tray to the bin, I see alot of people dont and I think they are within their rights to expect a staff member to clean up. Afterall, the mark up on fast food is huge so the least they should have is one staff member looking after the tables. A problem I see when people do dump their own tray is that they will often leave drops of drink, spilt salt & even traces of ketchup on the table. Now with them taking the tray away, nobody comes to the table to clean it and the next customer is expected to use it in this condition.

RxQueen

the proximity to it aswell, and also cause my clearing of my tray doesnt go as smoothly as how you described, and always end up touching the bin

Professey Chin

emo!! wrote: »

no but seriously its a phobia of mine, so have to have the anti baterical gel with me in public.. or i wont touch anything!

I pity your bf :P

MikeC101

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Irish people have always been pretty filthy... there's a prevalent attitude that someone else should clean up after you...

Go into any fast food restaurant and possibly 5% of Irish people will actually take their tray and empty it into the bin... the rest will just leave their crap lying on the table for someone to clean up for them... You don't get this in Europe at all.

My theory is by doing so I'm making it more likely the person employed to collect the trays will lose their job!

To be honest I usually do bring my tray to the bin and empty it - a few times I've been intercepted by staff who will take it from me and do the emptying themselves - which reinforces my "keeping people employed" theory.

6th

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Irish people have always been pretty filthy... there's a prevalent attitude that someone else should clean up after you...

Go into any fast food restaurant and possibly 5% of Irish people will actually take their tray and empty it into the bin... the rest will just leave their crap lying on the table for someone to clean up for them... You don't get this in Europe at all.

So funny reading this from one of the messiest people I know and who never takes his tray with him! I can get the others to come on here and talk about the state you leave our cars in

zAbbo

MikeC101 wrote: »

My theory is by doing so I'm making it more likely the person employed to collect the trays will lose their job!

To be honest I usually do bring my tray to the bin and empty it - a few times I've been intercepted by staff who will take it from me and do the emptying themselves - which reinforces my "keeping people employed" theory.

They don't hire anyone to clean the tables, you're not saving anyone's job - just making more work for the staff their already, which means there are less people to make the food fast.

monkeyfudge

6th wrote: »

So funny reading this from one of the messiest people I know and who never takes his tray with him

That's not true.

6th wrote:

! I can get the others to come on here and talk about the state you leave our cars in

I only do that because it's funny.

MikeC101

zAbbo wrote: »

They don't hire anyone to clean the tables, you're not saving anyone's job - just making more work for the staff their already, which means there are less people to make the food fast.

Hmm, last time I was in KFC they had a guy standing there who, for the entire time I was there, collected peoples trays when they'd finished and gave the table a wipe.

I didn't think they employed someone to specifically clean tables and nothing else - but isn't it a rota system, eg everyone takes a turn on it throughout the day? So wouldn't less work overall potentially lead to less jobs? (Probably not in any meaningful sense really)

6th

monkeyfudge wrote: »

That's not true.

Except it is though. (said like Will from The Inbetweeners)

monkeyfudge wrote: »

I only do that because it's funny.

Lets see how funny it is when you're walking home :pac:

Pop's Diner

I take littering very seriously. It's not so much the laziness of the scum who do it or even the negative visual impact it causes but moreso because an area covered in litter is like beacon to scum that 'you are welcome to act here like you do everywhere else in your filthy scumbag life'.

There are cleaners with industrial machines going up and down O'Connell St Dublin all day long and yet the street is still covered in litter. No coincidence that there is also a high proportion of scum loitering around the place.

Armin_Tamzarian

emo!! wrote: »

the proximity to it aswell, and also cause my clearing of my tray doesnt go as smoothly as how you described, and always end up touching the bin

To be fair the bin is only going to contain food waste and wrappings.
It's not like people will have been taking a dump in it.

While you've been busy bin-bashing you've totally missed the real threat.
It's the food that you should be more concerned about.
The food was probably prepared by staff who haven't cleaned their hands properly.
Their hands probably contain traces of urine, semen and worse.
Some of which may well have been transferred onto your food as it was being prepared.

Enjoy your next trip to McDonalds.

Abi

People who litter are lazy bastards, there is no excuse for it. And as for fast food places, I don't go to them very often. But when I do, I empty my tray and put it the shelf above. I've seen people getting up and walking away without getting rid of their rubbish, and I always imagine their homes to be in bits.

Armin_Tamzarian wrote: »

The food was probably prepared by staff who haven't cleaned their hands properly.
Their hands probably contain traces of urine, semen and worse.
Some of which may well have been transferred onto your food as it was being prepared. Enjoy your next trip to McDonalds.

They don't wear gloves? :eek:

MikeC101

Abigayle wrote: »

They don't wear gloves? :eek:

The problem is they do wear them....*all the time*

:eek:

Armin_Tamzarian

Abigayle wrote: »

People who litter are lazy bastards, there is no excuse for it. And as for fast food places, I don't go to them very often. But when I do, I empty my tray and put it the shelf above. I've seen people getting up and walking away without getting rid of their rubbish, and I always imagine their homes to be in bits.

I always use the bin too.
Although I only recently discovered that you're not supposed to throw the tray into the bin.
Recycled trays eh, who would have thought?

Abigayle wrote: »

They don't wear gloves? :eek:

Not as often as you'd hope.
Or maybe too often.

Jesus Wept

I'm a clean person, littering disgusts me and I keep my living space very clean.
However, as much as the McDonalds Corp would love me to, I do not feel the need to add to their bulging bottom line (which I don't begrudge them a bit either) by adhering to their self serving faux 'etiquette'.

It doesn't in any way relate to laziness, it's an conscious choice I've made.

Ollchailin

People who leave used tea bags in the sink instead of putting them in the bin make me very very angry. Very rarely is the bin more than 2-3 metres from the sink. Put the frickin things in the bin! :mad::mad::mad: