the irish & litter

dreamers75 · 14-03-2012 12:29AM

Foreigners will pick it up, they doing the jobs we dont want to do cos we better than that....

Latchy · 14-03-2012 12:31AM

Insted of bringing race into it lets just say some people are quite happy to live in **** so dropping litter,whether by car or walking along the street, is just an extension of that choosen lifstyle which also might include the people who adopt the mentality ie, '' I pay high taxes so expect for people to pick up my litter'' .

Which on a personal level, in any town village or city = dirty fcukers .

JustAddWater · 14-03-2012 12:31AM

fryup wrote: »

TreesAreCrowd wrote: »

What did he say when you reprimanded him over it?

he gave me the.................two fingers :cool:

Nah, he was just eating a twix

Irish Guitarist · 14-03-2012 12:38AM

There's a lovely forest park here which gets destroyed with litter during the summer. People sit around eating pizzas and chip shop food and just discard the boxes and bags on the ground. Then there's kids feeding bread to swans and dropping the empty bread wrappers beside the river. I'm sure the swans would be better off doing without bread but having their surroundings kept clean.

I live in Carlow and it won the Tidy Towns competition last year. I have no idea how it won because the town is a disgrace. Everywhere I walk there's broken glass and cigarette butts.

winston82 · 14-03-2012 02:01AM

af_thefragile wrote: »

Well there is no place you can go in Ireland without coming across a can of Dutch Gold.
I've seen then by the sea at Howth and I've also seen them in the middle of nowhere in Wicklow Mountains! Along with all sorts of other trash.

Actually I don't understand why people would go to all the lengths to dump their trash in the middle of nowhere in Wicklow Mountains but not in a bin somewhere close to where they live??

Although Ireland is still much cleaner than most 3rd world countries. Also I like how there are so many bins around the city centre. In London you can't find a bin for miles and you need to carry your trash in your pockets till you finally come across a bin you can dump it in...

There are thousands of places you can go without seeing a can of Dutch Gold. That's a ridiculous statement to make. You're really gaining a talent for these types of statements. Congrats!!

smokedeels · 14-03-2012 02:03AM

Smoke butts don't seem to be considered litter in Ireland, I find that strange.

af_thefragile · 14-03-2012 02:11AM

winston82 wrote: »

There are thousands of places you can go without seeing a can of Dutch Gold. That's a ridiculous statement to make. You're really gaining a talent for these types of statements. Congrats!!

Hyperboles, you don't seem to get them...

Latchy · 14-03-2012 02:28AM

dreamers75 wrote: »

Foreigners will pick it up, they doing the jobs we dont want to do cos we better than that....

We ? ...who's We ?

( and No , you're not better then them ,that's all in your head )

Gaunty · 14-03-2012 03:58AM

It's a leftover thing from when the British ruled. We didn't mind dirtying their land and the habit has kinda stuck.

GoldDustWoman · 14-03-2012 04:09AM

fryup wrote: »

What is it with some irish people who seem to have a total lack of respect for their surroundings.

I saw a school kid today unwrap a chocolate bar and threw the wrapper over his shoulder without a second thought. All the school kids throw litter around and some adults aren't much better.

Is it to do with our DNA our ingrained disrespect for authority and rules??

I mean the irish always say how much they love their country so why don't they show it by not messing it up.

No, it's not in every Irish person's DNA but these school-kids parents have clearly not taught them better manners, that it's fine to litter, throw it where you like and then it's someone else's problem.

Off topic but sort of ties in - I saw someone spit before going into a shop today and my first thought was 'Why not, share your salvia with the rest of us, sure that's what we're here for!'. It's so disgusting and disrespectful.

Littering and spitting are go hand-in-hand for me, both show a complete discourtesy to everyone else in the same space. Gross.

Guill · 14-03-2012 06:02AM

I'm Irish and I was raised to not litter and I don't. Fúck you OP.

saa · 14-03-2012 08:21AM

Wrappers don't annoy me as much as having to dodge broken glass and sh/te everywhere on the footpath, little kids throwing out sweet wrappers is nothing to the amount of adults wrecking the place, everyday I see more rubbish bags illegal left somewhere (was gonna say lying around but thats just a normal Tuesday morning heh).

Show Time · 14-03-2012 09:04AM

As a nation you will never find another quite as dirty as us Irish.

AeoNGriM · 14-03-2012 09:14AM

Roadtrippin wrote: »

Fair play for bringing this up. I really hate people littering. It is such an annoying thing around here. People even drop rubbish right on their doorstep and don't care if they have to look at their own rubbish everyday. I really don't get it!

I also think legislation should be a lot harsher regarding littering. In other countries the fines for littering can be a lot higher than they are here. For example, I know that in some other European countries there is hotlines for anonymously reporting someone leaving enormous amounts of rubbish behind somewhere illegally... Maybe it's time to rethink the punishment so the crime does not continue as much.

Rubbish, dog****, the stench of piss and piles of vomit. The political party that cracks down on this, imposes much harsher fines and prison sentences and follows through with it is getting my vote in the next GE.

Dudess · 14-03-2012 09:20AM

Show Time wrote: »

As a nation you will never find another quite as dirty as us Irish.

Speak for yourself. And fair play to you for having such knowledge to be able to compare "us" with all other nations.

I wouldn't be surprised if it weren't possible to find any other nation with as many simpering self-loathing types all right though...

Show Time · 14-03-2012 09:27AM

Dudess wrote: »

Speak for yourself. And fair play to you for having such knowledge to be able to compare "us" with all other nations.

I wouldn't be surprised if it weren't possible to find any other nation with as many simpering self-loathing types all right though...

Walk around Amsterdam Paris or London and you will not find anything like the rubbish dumped on the streets of Ireland.

bbam · 14-03-2012 10:05AM

hondasam wrote: »

I don't agree with this at all, most towns in Ireland are clean and tidy, there will be some litter after the weekend as is to be expected, unless you are out early in the morning you will not see it because it's cleaned up very early.
One person dropping a sweet wrapper hardly makes the country full of litter.

I think if you take the time to stop and talk to any one of the teams of folks out gathering the litter they will indeed tell you just how terrible it is...
I deal with teams of these guys and they spend days and days each week gathering up litter that is just casually thrown round nearly every town in the country..

There guys are just passed bye in the mornings without a second thought, they are out on schemes and come from most backgrounds (except the wealthy) and for the most part do a sterling job at clearing up the litter, glass and sh1te left behind by the general public...

They are already sick at the thought of next week, facing a sea of crap... Wake up folks... Irish people for the most are a littering nation and something needs to be done..

noddyone2 · 14-03-2012 10:26AM

We're a dirty race. Most litter on roadsides is thrown from cars/vans, especially drink containers, fairly soon after they leave shops. You should see the river beside us: drowned dogs, coal sacks, plastic containers, shoes, bags of rubbis dumped from Killurin and Edermine bridges. Three houses nearby have all their toilet waste going straight into the river, within 150 yards of a quay used for angling and swimming. Wonder if the septic tank charge will apply?

cournioni · 14-03-2012 10:55AM

fryup wrote: »

What is it with some irish people who seem to have a total lack of respect for their surroundings.

I saw a school kid today unwrap a chocolate bar and threw the wrapper over his shoulder without a second thought. All the school kids throw litter around and some adults aren't much better.

Is it to do with our DNA our ingrained disrespect for authority and rules??

I mean the irish always say how much they love their country so why don't they show it by not messing it up.

You shouldn't just single out the kid for this, I've seen people in their 30's at it too. Pure laziness.

rgmmg · 14-03-2012 11:01AM

TreesAreCrowd wrote: »

The only littering I actively notice is the cúnts who drive a bit out of Dublin and throw their trash around the countryside because they're too scabby to pay the refuse charges tbh.

That's why they're called "refuse" charges

Doc Ruby · 14-03-2012 11:20AM

Dudess wrote: »

Speak for yourself. And fair play to you for having such knowledge to be able to compare "us" with all other nations.

I wouldn't be surprised if it weren't possible to find any other nation with as many simpering self-loathing types all right though...

Its hard to be sure where anyone is from on the internet. Comments like "the Irish are a dirty race" are pretty much illegal due to their racist content, and I've reported the post in question. You can't say "Nigerians are a dirty race" either. And boards sadly seems to be a magnet for these simpletons.

Oho and interesting sidebar Dudess, remember we were talking about that "No Irish" advert in Australia the other day, as far as Northern Ireland went? Well guess where the person responsible for putting the ad up came from?

Yes, the most racist place on earth.

philstar · 14-03-2012 11:27AM

who remembers that scene in Father Ted of two priests walking along havin a chat, and then casually flinging their paper cups over their shoulders

NakedNNettles · 14-03-2012 11:35AM

eth0 wrote: »

Cause you spot one fella throwing away a wrapper all school children and all Irish people are bad. You're talking shoite

Just look at the state of place will ya.

Sh*te everywhere.

It's more than one person.

What annoys me is all your taxes are paying to clean up the place when the cash could be going to better use nowadays, disgrace.

So yeah, the government needs to get on the case, create a revenue stream by dishing out some serious fines. That's the only thing that people understand, a hit on the paypacket!

MagicSean · 14-03-2012 11:41AM

it's simple really. Irish children face no consequences for anything they do. Mess up in school and they give you a few days off to think about what you did. Commit a crime and receive a juvenile caution. Do what you want at home and your parents will bring you to a psychologist where you will likely be diagnosed with being ADHD or some other misdiagnosis. And don't worry if your parents try to discipline you at all. Ring the HSE or childline and pretend to be a victim.

Stiffler2 · 14-03-2012 03:10PM

Meh - Who cares ?
It'll just blow onto someone else's land.

You'll be dead in the next 30 - 70 yrs depening on what age you are so who cares ?

Show Time · 14-03-2012 06:32PM

Doc Ruby wrote: »

Its hard to be sure where anyone is from on the internet. Comments like "the Irish are a dirty race" are pretty much illegal due to their racist content, and I've reported the post in question. You can't say "Nigerians are a dirty race" either. And boards sadly seems to be a magnet for these simpletons.

Oho and interesting sidebar Dudess, remember we were talking about that "No Irish" advert in Australia the other day, as far as Northern Ireland went? Well guess where the person responsible for putting the ad up came from? Yes, the most racist place on earth.

Wha???

You reported my post???

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

The key word i used in my first post in the thread was us Irish including everyone in the country. (I would love to leave beautiful Cork out but alas Knocka leaves us down as they are all dirty up that part) I have done more then my fair share of travelling around Europe and the way every major city is kept clean and looked after puts us to shame. I hate having to point this out as i love the fact i am Irish(Cork by grace of God) but we are mere muck savages to our more refined and cosmopolitan European neighbours.

ollaetta · 14-03-2012 07:24PM

fryup wrote: »

he gave me the.................two fingers :cool:

He gave you half his Kit Kat and you're giving out about him?

lividduck · 14-03-2012 08:41PM

RichieC wrote: »

Call dublin police station, I'm sure they'll put their best detective on it.

They cant, he's just been fined €500 and disqualified from driving for two years for dangerous driving on the m50 after a drink fuelled afternoon in the pub watching the rugby!:D

Roadtrippin · 14-03-2012 08:56PM

true-or-false wrote: »

I don't get what being Irish has to do with it???

If you remove the whole "Irish" thing from the littering issue, I'd agree with you. I can't stand littering, shows a certain amount of ignorance and disrespect, but even worse is that it's so widespread the majority of people accept it.

I disagree, the Irish thing has a lot to do with it unfortunately... Just read a few of the comments on here and you'll know what I mean. People think littering isn't a big deal here. Maybe things have improved a bit but if you compare with some other countries in Europe Ireland has a long way to go until we're nearly litter-free...

Just go to any beach or park after a sunny day, for example. The amount of idiots that leave their rubbish behind although there is a bin every 100 metres around...

danslevent · 14-03-2012 09:09PM

fryup wrote: »

i'm not takin shoite:rolleyes:

there always been a litter problem in this country

Have you considered upping your fiber intake??