www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23374229
Another arrogant politician - didn't know that DVLA keep telephone numbers on their database though..
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You get these fussy old women. Some geezer in another car in Kensington Gore once had the damn cheek to ask if my noisy 411, which sounded like two clapped-out Porsches being shaken in an oil drum, and emitted a pleasing quantity of fumes from its wired-together exhaust system, had an MoT certificate. Can't remember what I said but it wasn't courtly.
The American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau - rather Perro's sort of philosopher I would think - regarded the news as 'mere gossip' and those who read and edit it as 'old women over their tea'. As a news addict and former hack I can hardly go all the way with that.... but in a Thoreau sort of way it's quite true actually.
Heh heh...
Last edited by: Armel Coussine on Fri 19 Jul 13 at 20:57
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If I were in charge, folks who threw litter from their cars would be sentenced to a month's litter picking on the A14.
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"a month's litter picking on the A14."
That would be about 50 yards then.
When I come back from holiday from virtually anywhere abroad the one thing that really strikes me is the amount of litter absolutely everywhere. It pains me to say it but the the English really are amongst the most slovenly dirty and untidy people on the planet.
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Just an hour ago there was a private hire car parked opposite my house. Drivers side away from my view and offside wheels on the footpath.....Grrrrr.
I didn't see it go but when it had, there were 3 large pieces of litter on the pavement where the drivers door was. Chucked out of the window, no doubt.
I knew the firm as the name was plastered on the car. Local outfit, Olympic Taxis ( name & shame ).
I rang them and asked them to send their man to my house as he'd accidentally left all his rubbish in the road.
They haven't been yet...I won't hold my breath !
Ted
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I know some do, but I don't regard cigarette butts as litter and chuck them out on the road, although not on pavements where I seek gutter gratings. I will also throw biodegradables - banana skins for example - into deep undergrowth, but not onto ordinary grass verges.
Apart from that I don't litter, never did since I have been grown up. However I quite like places like Portobello Road and Petticoat Lane from which tons and tons of garbaggio are removed daily. And I used to enjoy the flattened coke and beer cans, broken glass and coatings of grease and sticky drink spillages that carpeted my old manor after carnival.
Australian city streets are spotless compared to ours. Chewing gum... mmmm, dont'cha just hate it?
Come on, fussy old women and closet tobaccophobes. Do your worst. I can take it.
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Find it hard to believe the DVLA are throwing a tantrum over "data protection" when they're happy to flog names and addresses to the dodgiest car park companies for a fiver.
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>>Chewing gum... mmmm, dont'cha just hate it?
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I despise the stuff.
Especially when the chewers dispose of it on the underside of tables/bar counters etc.
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>> I will throw biodegradables - banana skins for example - into deep undergrowth,
>> but not onto ordinary grass verges.
tut - www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/sep/24/bananas-litter-hikers-mountains-scotland
:)
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Here in Rotherham the council spend thousands of £ putting up hanging baskets of flowers, so high no one notices them, and virtually nothing is spent on street cleaning.
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"and virtually nothing is spent on street cleaning."
I rather suspect that an awful lot of money is spend on street cleaning but as in most cities its liking cleaning out the Augean stables. Remember all that litter was deposited on the streets by the people of Rotherham, not the council.
We really are a nation of slobs.
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Today he has apologised to the peers and said he unintentionally mis-led them.
Claims now he has never got info from the DVLA.
Lying before or lying now?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23409742
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>> Today he has apologised to the peers and said he unintentionally mis-led them.
>> Claims now he has never got info from the DVLA.
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>> Lying before or lying now?
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>> www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23409742
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He's a politician so lying then AND now...
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HE LIED-but under parliamentary privilege of course so he can't be done for slander!
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I'm more jitterbug than litterbug.
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The other week, I was driving out of a town in Essex. Romford I think. I was at a junction alongside a comely young blonde in a new BMW 1 series, both of which mildly attracted and sparked my remaining connected synapses a little anyway. It was a sunny day and the combined view was at least reasonably easy on the corner of my eye.
Until, she opened the drivers door a little while we were still waiting for some traffic lights to change to green and deposited a largish burger wrapper and an empty cola can on the road before speeding off as the lights changed. I was too taken aback to do anything about it other than be initially astonished and fairly rapidly cross at her blatant littering and selfishness. Even if it was Romford.
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Be careful if you are a litterbug. - Armel Coussine
