Litter louts
Well theres certainly been a lot of responses of irrational hatred to this QOTW
Ive had a think about this and disregarding my petty irritants involving chewing gum and ketchup, the best I can come up wirh is littering.
Perhaps its not an irrational hatred, maybe its quite justified?
But when I see people just casually drop their fast food wrappers/ cig butts/sundry rubbish onto the pavement, my blood boils.
Even more so when someone throws their litter in the vague direction of a bin as they are passing by, like they are too fecking lazy to actually stop and put it in.
Sadly my days of confronting such ignorant twats are over, after being threatened with serious bodily harm when I picked up the rubbish that had just been dropped out of a car stopped at traffic lights and popped it right back through the open window.
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Wed 6 Apr 2011, 1:10, 15 replies)

Victor Meldrew is your role model
AICMFP
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 6 Apr 2011, 1:12, closed)

YCHYFP
If you can provide me with hedgehog slippers
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Wed 6 Apr 2011, 1:16, closed)

so true
we have a skate park in our town centre - it is in a traditional "Recreation Ground" which has a bandstand, flowerbeds, brook around the perimeter etc but the feckin shits, despite there being a bin in each corner of said skate park insist on tossing all their crisp wrappers/ chocolate/ empty pop bottles ALL AROUND THE OUTER FENCE - I am a dog owner and get really pissed off with the complete disregard for anything other than their own comfort. And as for the parents who enter the kiddy playground (complete with zip-wire) and don't close the bloody gate behind them, "STOP FUCKING SHOUTING AT ME WHEN MY DOG TRIES TO GET IN, SHE CANNOT FECKIN READ THE SIGN THAT SAYS "NO DOGS". CLOSE THE FUCKING GATE AS SOMETHING WITH 4 LEGS IS ALWAYS GONNA MOVE QUICKER THAN I CAN AND THE GATE IS THERE FOR A REASON."

Aaagh that's better.
(Purpledoris I've got afeckin' job, Wed 6 Apr 2011, 1:24, closed)

i like this

(Nobody Likes Mortal Wombat, Wed 6 Apr 2011, 6:55, closed)

On the flip side, there was fairly recently a news item about some poor sod who got done for tossing a perfectly biodegradable apple core out of their car window. That seemed a little unfair.

The worst thing people can fail to remove from pavements has to be dogshit. Litter is ugly, but will eventually be cleared away. I don't mind standing on a burger wrapper - but that squishy, slidey feeling underfoot which alerts you to the fact you're not going to be wearing shoes indoors for quite some time - that, I feel, deserves severe, immediate, and brutal retribution.

Also, horses. I see no reason why they should be allowed to leave shit all over the place. Horse riders should be obliged to carry a shovel and a sack.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Wed 6 Apr 2011, 1:36, closed)

at least horse shit smells nice

(Nobody Likes Mortal Wombat, Wed 6 Apr 2011, 6:56, closed)

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?
really?
(Ross McBingobangobongo bingobangobongo, Wed 6 Apr 2011, 14:31, closed)

A few years ago I nearly missed a train in Liverpool St
I'd had a sarnie, and wanted to put the wrapper in a bin. Unfortunately, this was after the country went friggin retarded over a statistically insignificant problem, and so there were no bins around. After going right from one end of the station to the other, I found a giant industrial bin. No, that's padlocked too. In the end I had to go back to the shop I'd bought the sandwich from to bin the bloody wrapper.

Having noticed the time, run back into the station and just made my train, I asked a member of staff what I was supposed to have done. He told me just to drop it next time, and then it would be picked up by a litter picker.

A few days later on the return trip, same problem. Found a litter picker and asked to put it in his bag. He told me that I had to drop it first, then he would pick it up. He wouldn't let me put it straight in his bag (I guess they have strict instructions).

I couldn't do it. Even with the guy there telling me to, it's just not something that I can bring myself to do. I ended up taking it on the train and finding a bin onboard.

So, this being the case, you can imagine how impressed I am when some twunt can't be arsed to take 5 seconds out of their packed schedule of thieving oxygen to walk a few feet to bin their crap.
( kappynitty doubled your entendre on, Wed 6 Apr 2011, 3:39, closed)

Me too
I cannot bring myself to drop any litter.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 6 Apr 2011, 10:33, closed)

YES- especially fucking smokers
I had the misfortune to have to attend an appointment at one of our cities hospitals recently. The good thing is that smoking is no longer permitted on the hospital premises, but the concentrated stench as you walk out the gate,and the masses of butts all over the ground, as well as empty packs and those bits of foil and plastic from the packs, despite special bins just for them makes me want to mow down the lot of them. Filthy fuckers. I reckon your hatred is entirely justified.
(M61A1 CUPID- STUNTS, Wed 6 Apr 2011, 3:55, closed)

.
Imagine going to a beautiful beach somewhere in the Med, soft golden sand, sitting there in the sunshine, digging your hand into the warm sand, feeling it filter through your fingers....you'll end up with a handful of cigarette butts. Smokers, on the whole, are cunts (unless they take their butts to a proper bin when they've been smoking on the beach. Yeah, I bet loads do that.)
(Rsoles, Wed 6 Apr 2011, 14:02, closed)

pffffft
do you know how many people live around the outside of the Med? It is not a particulary nice sea. Full of jellyfish too. Bits of it are okay, I suppose, but there is a lot of crap in there as well.

Actually, I suppose that this kind of supports the OP's point.

Ooooh, that reminds me. I was once in Palma (on Majorca) towards the end of the summer. Hadn't rained for weeks. One night it absolutely bucketed down. Next morning the marina was vile; all the crap that had been sitting on the streets and in the sewers got flushed down and into the harbour. Seriously, at the edges there was a layer of rubbish (with the occasional dead rat or two) extending 3m or so out from the walls. A city of 400,000 can drop a lot of rubbish over the course of a summer. No real tide to speak of either so takes a while to disperse.
( kappynitty doubled your entendre on, Wed 6 Apr 2011, 14:35, closed)

In Bristol there is a shopping centre complex called Cribbs Causeway. Inside it there are numerous fast food outlets. I was doing a bit of shopping there and after purchasing/devouring a boots meal i couldn't find a bin to place my rubbish into. In the end i asked the information desk...their response was there are no bins here because of bomb threats !!!!!
(Cov Boy, Wed 6 Apr 2011, 16:28, closed)

The Med
is a nasty cess pit, certainly. Which is why it's nice to sit on the sand in the sun away from the water. The worst jellyfish are the ones "ribbed for her pleasure".
(Rsoles, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 1:28, closed)

Yeah, but if I go to the beach, I'm going to want to go in the water
that said, I've spent my fair share of time in scuzzy water. No inner ear infections yet!
( kappynitty doubled your entendre on, Thu 7 Apr 2011, 2:24, closed)