People and littering. WTF is wrong with them?

I personally measure a person's degree of civility by how he or she behaves towards the "commons". Littering is just one example of anti-social behaviour. Others include having noisy arguments on the street, bothering passers-by, graffiti and other damage to public property.

I sometimes wonder whether people even grasp the idea of the "commons". I don't mean the concept in academic words - just some kind of sense that there are things that we all share, and that if you spoil them, you spoil them for everyone, including yourself. :rolleyes:

donegal_road wrote: »

I have a few regs of cars I spotted dumping in a forest up the road from me.
There is no evidence to pursue them though, I know who one of them is and it would be hard to let them know they are on the radar.

Post the pics on local lamp-posts. Let everyone know what they did.


Just don't forget to take the pics down a week later, so they don't end up as litter.

You wanna see Dublin 8 and The Coombe. The streets are full of rubbish blowing in the wind.

Sums up Dublin for me - a flithy city full of knackers.

Throwing wrappers and rubbish on the ground and out of car windows is a lazy arsed knackery thing to do and anyone doing it deserves a good boot in hole.
They have absolutely no pride in themselves or their surroundings.
However in saying that, Dublin is a lot tidier than it was years ago before they brought in bag charges, back then it was a filthy mess, and a lot of work has gone into educating people on having some civic pride. Unfortunately there are some types of people who will never change and don't care either.

I live in Sandycove and it doesn't surprise me too much, particularly with the dog sh!te. Bins are fairly sparse along the seafront and those that are there just aren't emptied nearly often enough, most of them are practically always overflowing. There are a couple of solar compactors up near the Baths but in fairness I can understand why a lot of people at the other end of the green wouldn't be arsed walking that far to bin something because all the bins down that end have been full for 3 days and not emptied... Surely it costs the council the same amount in waste disposals that all their street cleaners have to do every morning so why the f*ck can't they just get their bins emptied more often or put in more of them?

That is if you get to live that long..
Youre dead right though, people who treat the earth as their own personal rubbish bin are selfish scumbags IMO.