Why do you throw your cigarette butts on ground you absolute scrotebag?

Omackeral · 10-06-2019 1:45pm #1

Here's a question, why do people think it's ok to throw cigarette butts on the ground? Whether it's from a car onto the road or outside a shop/pub/restaurant onto a footpath, why is this deemed acceptable? Is anyone here prepared to admit that they do it and if so, can you tell us why? Do you even consider it to be littering? Tell us why you're such a disgusting selfish tramp. Thanks.

kneemos · 10-06-2019 1:46pm

Not littering.

Omackeral · 10-06-2019 1:46pm

kneemos wrote: »

Not littering.

How so?

o1s1n · 10-06-2019 1:49pm

I did back when I smoked. Flicking something hot/potentially burning into a bin just seemed like a fire hazard. Always felt paranoid about starting a fire.

Balanadan · 10-06-2019 1:52pm

Dirty smokers.

Deebles McBeebles · 10-06-2019 1:52pm

Omackeral wrote: »

Here's a question, why do people think it's ok to throw cigarette butts on the ground? Whether it's from a car onto the road or outside a shop/pub/restaurant onto a footpath, why is this deemed acceptable? Is anyone here prepared to admit that they do it and if so, can you tell us why? Do you even consider it to be littering? Tell us why you're such a disgusting selfish tramp. Thanks.

Are you not off them long then?

B0jangles · 10-06-2019 1:53pm

Because it's really small - like if I take my glasses off it basically doesn't even exist.

Also my constant shortness of breath (nothing to do with smoking so don't even start) makes it tough for me to walk over to a bin.

Bins should be every 5-10 feet to make it possible for people like me to put our butts away tidily.

kneemos · 10-06-2019 1:54pm

Omackeral wrote: »

How so?

They get broken up under for or by traffic or rain.
Never see butts,except maybe outside pubs.

KikiLaRue · 10-06-2019 1:55pm

kneemos wrote: »

They get broken up under for or by traffic or rain.
Never see butts,except maybe outside pubs.

That’s the greatest load of bollocks I’ve heard in a while.

Fitz* · 10-06-2019 1:57pm

People that smoke while standing in a queue are up there with the worst people around. I don't want smoke being blown in my face while standing outside somewhere.

Necro · 10-06-2019 1:58pm

Omackeral wrote:

Here's a question, why do people think it's ok to throw cigarette butts on the ground? Whether it's from a car onto the road or outside a shop/pub/restaurant onto a footpath, why is this deemed acceptable? Is anyone here prepared to admit that they do it and if so, can you tell us why? Do you even consider it to be littering? Tell us why you're such a disgusting selfish tramp. Thanks.

It's not acceptable, I'm a smoker myself and I don't do it. I dont smoke in the car cos of the kids and I have a cig bin at home for the butts which gets emptied periodically.

It becomes an issue sometimes when I'm out and about and there's no public bins anymore cos of the other type of scumbag who fills those with their household waste.

My secret tip is an empty extra box. Stub, ensure it's out and then deposit into the next bin I can find.

I suppose I could quit to avoid all of this but nah :P

Irish Guitarist · 10-06-2019 2:00pm

There were potted trees on Tullow Street in Carlow a few ago. I say potted trees but nothing ever grew in the pots because the good folk of Carlow used them as ashtrays. There were hundreds of cigarette butts in every pot. They were there for about five years but the council eventually got the message that it was pointless having anything nice so they removed them.

Deebles McBeebles · 10-06-2019 2:02pm

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

There were potted trees on Tullow Street in Carlow a few ago. I say potted trees but nothing ever grew in the pots because the good folk of Carlow used them as ashtrays. There were hundreds of cigarette butts in every pot. They were there for about five years but the council eventually got the message that it was pointless having anything nice so they removed them.

Goes to show, if public bins or even "bins" are provided even pond scum like smokers will use them.

FaxingBerlin · 10-06-2019 2:04pm

Theres no ashtrays about.

kneemos · 10-06-2019 2:04pm

KikiLaRue wrote: »

That’s the greatest load of bollocks I’ve heard in a while.

The tobacco is biodegradable,the paper is so light it amounts to nothing.
The filter is a fibrous material that once broken apart will blow away.

selwyn froggitt · 10-06-2019 2:05pm

Don't be a butt head

10-06-2019 2:07pm

KikiLaRue wrote: »

That’s the greatest load of bollocks I’ve heard in a while.

I like this no-nonsense style. Plus, you're dead right.

KikiLaRue · 10-06-2019 2:08pm

kneemos wrote: »

The tobacco is biodegradable,the paper is so light it amounts to nothing.
The filter is a fibrous material that once broken apart will blow away.

Cigarette butts are the most common form of litter on earth, and after two years have only lost 37% of their mass.

I always google this stuff before I post because I hate looking stupid if I find my opinion is actually totally wrong.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4307979/

Outlaw Pete · 10-06-2019 2:09pm

I blame those who search for these butts and then smoke them. These homeless people are the real issue as they encourage it. In fact I would say that most of time people only throw these butts on the ground in hope that they will make a tramp's day.

RickBlaine · 10-06-2019 2:10pm

I wouldn't expect people who aren't concerned about polluting their lungs with a known carcinogen to be bothered by littering.

I saw this video recently. Really hammers home how much crap goes into your body from smoking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD__r66sFjk

Grayson · 10-06-2019 2:10pm

I was at a family get together last friday at a pub in dublin. I went out for a smoke (I only smoke when I'm quite drunk, otherwise I have a little vape thingy) and was disgusted to see there were no ashtrays. Nothing at all. All the smokers had to stub them out on the ground.

the dark phantom · 10-06-2019 2:12pm

Deebles McBeebles · 10-06-2019 2:13pm

RickBlaine wrote: »

I wouldn't expect people who aren't concerned about polluting their lungs with a known carcinogen to be bothered by littering.

They probably stand around, beating their heads off walls too because they don't care about anything, the idiots.

lawred2 · 10-06-2019 2:15pm

kneemos wrote: »

The tobacco is biodegradable,the paper is so light it amounts to nothing.
The filter is a fibrous material that once broken apart will blow away.

It's just blows away into the mists of time

Ultimate Seduction · 10-06-2019 2:15pm

I regularly throw them on the ground, don't feel guilty about it because it's tiny in comparison to the van loads of rubbish I tip in the woods every month.

FaxingBerlin · 10-06-2019 2:16pm

kneemos · 10-06-2019 2:19pm

lawred2 wrote: »

It's just blows away into the mists of time

Down the drains probably.

lawred2 · 10-06-2019 2:20pm

kneemos wrote: »

Down the drains probably.

And then they float off into the sunset

Boom_Bap · 10-06-2019 2:20pm

Back when I was smoking, I was always walking around with a cigarette butt in my hand trying to find a bin.

RickBlaine · 10-06-2019 2:23pm

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

They probably stand around, beating their heads off walls too because they don't care about anything, the idiots.

If I started smoking despite all the health warnings, and then developed lung cancer, I'd feel very idiotic.

Omackeral · 10-06-2019 2:23pm

the dark phantom wrote: »

Jesus Christ he's cool AF.

victor8600 · 10-06-2019 2:24pm

I think it is a tradition. Watch the reporter in this video at 0:31 throwing cigarette box wrapping casually away exiting the shop:
https://www.facebook.com/BBCArchive/videos/1960s-our-roving-reporter-woman-pipe-smoker/634962820210085/

Deebles McBeebles · 10-06-2019 2:25pm

RickBlaine wrote: »

If I started smoking despite all the health warnings, and then developed lung cancer, I'd feel very idiotic.

We should get together and go shout this outside cancer wards.

kneemos · 10-06-2019 2:32pm

victor8600 wrote: »

I think it is a tradition. Watch the reporter in this video at 0:31 throwing cigarette box wrapping casually away exiting the shop:
https://www.facebook.com/BBCArchive/videos/1960s-our-roving-reporter-woman-pipe-smoker/634962820210085/

Poor old Mary. All she has is the clay pipe.

Ragnar Lothbrok · 10-06-2019 2:39pm

I always knock the burning end off and stuff the butt in my back pocket until I find an ashtray or litter bin. The main problem with this is that I occasionally forget that I've got a stinking piece of rubbish in my pocket and it stays there for a few days. God, the smell of two day old cigarette butt is disgusting

I daren't even think how much I smell to non-smokers.

Why do you throw your cigarette butts on ground you absolute scrotebag?

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