Clean for the Queen

[Aruntraveller]

And in posting this I don't mean I want you to pop round to mine to do a spot of light dusting......no I am talking about the recent initiative to get us all volunteering to clean up our litter-blighted islands.

Whilst I can see the need for it - I'm a bit pissed off that they should ask. I don't drop litter, I recycle stuff in the appropriate bins and I sweep the rubbish up outside my property.

SO now I am supposed to leap down to the nearest canal and trawl through the undergrowth to uncover discarded toasters, crutches and assorted other items.

Well, no thanks. Could someone go after the wretched scrotes that put all that stuff there in the first place. Please. Thank you.

[OH MY WORLD!]

I get ya Trent. However I don't think the taxpayers can afford the cost of the thousands of enforcers it would take to make a dent on the polluters. Every spring my sisters and I have a stretch of the river bank and path that our gang hauls out all the trash that has built up over the year. That actually would be a good thing to do for some, instead of standing there listing to the moaning of the wind and being cloaked and all that.  I wasn't thinking of you Trent. But here in God's country, Alberta, we send the prisoners out in gangs to remove graffiti. They look so happy in their orange overalls.

Check this out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHM8TV8AAQw

[SweetPea]

Trent, what annoys me about this is folk are expected to rally round and go out litter-picking to make the place look tidy..... because of the queen's 90th birthday celebrations.

Like Johnny, I pick-up litter almost everyday.

I get that the campaign is using HRH's (special) birthday as an incentive, but many people don't need any incentive.

It's just more subtle programming..... and the sheep will follow.

[ProfessorDavey]

Trent, what annoys me about this is folk are expected to rally round and go out litter-picking to make the place look tidy..... because of the queen's 90th birthday celebrations.

Like Johnny, I pick-up litter almost everyday.

I get that the campaign is using HRH's (special) birthday as an incentive, but many people don't need any incentive.

It's just more subtle programming..... and the sheep will follow.

I agree - and the implication being that once the Queen has had her birthday it doesn't matter if there is litter all over the place again.

[SweetPea]

I agree - and the implication being that once the Queen has had her birthday it doesn't matter if there is litter all over the place again.

Exactly, Prof Davey.

[L.A.]

Trent, what annoys me about this is folk are expected to rally round and go out litter-picking to make the place look tidy..... because of the queen's 90th birthday celebrations.

Like Johnny, I pick-up litter almost everyday.

I get that the campaign is using HRH's (special) birthday as an incentive, but many people don't need any incentive.

It's just more subtle programming..... and the sheep will follow.

I don't think that making a bit of an effort to improve our environment can be a bad thing, though I'm not sure I understand why the queen needs to be involved.

[Bubbles]

I hate seeing litter everywhere.

We always take ours home.

At a picnic spot near me people empty out their cars of rubbish, and throw it all over the ground.

Saying something just generates a load of abuse.

We will pick up rubbish ourselves sometimes if it mars a beauty spot, but sometimes there is too much.

[Shaker]

I don't think that making a bit of an effort to improve our environment can be a bad thing, though I'm not sure I understand why the queen needs to be involved.

Them's my sentiments. Taking a bit of pride in your surroundings, and keeping them clear of litter, is surely something we should all think about anyway, queenie or no queenie.

Litter bugs the hell out of me, since it's based on sheer laziness and thoughtlessness, and trent is right: in principle it ought not to be somebody's job to clear up somebody else's mess just because they're too thick or just too careless to put it in the appropriate place. But they, like the poor, are always with us and there's not a lot you can do about them. Rather than let crap pile up to our knees just to make a point, I don't see why the civic-minded can't chip in and make the environment better for everyone.

[Bubbles]

This looks like a good idea

http://www.litteraction.org.uk/findgroup

 

There are obviously some people out there who are already doing so, never mind the Queen.

[Rhiannon]

I wish it were being marketed differently. When it was plastered all over First News a few week's back by eldest raised an eyebrow and said, 'the Queen can piss off.'

And we do clear litter, our own and other peoples'.

[Shaker]

I wish it were being marketed differently. When it was plastered all over First News a few week's back by eldest raised an eyebrow and said, 'the Queen can piss off.'

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[Gordon]

Shaker endorses this message.

Me too.

Be good if they had a large rubbish bin labelled 'For archaic undemocratic institutions'.

[Shaker]

A beautifully withering response from the New Statesman: http://goo.gl/LoNCxb

[Rhiannon]

Yes, great link, thank you.

[Maeght]

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Me too.

[Ricky Spanish]

Yeah, this nonsense has been littering my news feeds over the past few weeks.

I am all for a bit of civic responsibility when it comes to having a good tidy up, but to do it in the name of the monarchy is just taking the piss.

And anyway, isn't this sort of stuff covered in our council tax?

[Walt Zingmatilder]

The Queen is a great example to us all and a class act. I am not particularly a monarchist. But you guys know that as you probably entertain the idea that I would prefer, the rule of the Bishops and believe that bananas were created to fit the hand of man.

There is of course only one long sumptuous thing that was created to fit in the hand of man as antitheists frequently put to the test.

[Brownie]

Them's my sentiments. Taking a bit of pride in your surroundings, and keeping them clear of litter, is surely something we should all think about anyway, queenie or no queenie.

I agree but it is an incentive for some who might not be so civic minded.  Surely it doesn't hurt and some might even enjoy buzzing around in the fresh air when they might not normally do it.

Me - I bag up all my rubbish very well before putting it out and recycle religiously.  If I'm walking up or down the road and see the odd bottle or carton, I will pick it up and deposit it in the appropriate bin but I don't intend to do any more or anything special.  There isn't much litter where I live, at least not in the immediate area.

[ProfessorDavey]

I am all for a bit of civic responsibility when it comes to having a good tidy up, but to do it in the name of the monarchy is just taking the piss.

Indeed - and particularly so given that the likelihood of her majesty appearing in your neighbourhood any time soon to see the fruits of all that cleaning labour is close to zero.

The clear implication is that keeping your neighbourhood clean is something only for special occasions rather than something we should do all the time. I don't agree with that message.

[Walt Zingmatilder]

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put on a suit, do your tie up and sing the national anthem.

[ProfessorDavey]

I agree but it is an incentive for some who might not be so civic minded.  Surely it doesn't hurt and some might even enjoy buzzing around in the fresh air when they might not normally do it.

Problem is that those people might consider they've 'done cleaning' because one weekend they did some at part of an organised event. That surely isn't the message we want to get across is it.

[Shaker]

put on a suit, do your tie up and sing the national anthem.

A: Piss off.

B: Bollocks.

C: Arseholes

respectively.

Is what I would have replied to Hameron if I'd been Jeremy Corbyn. Then again, he doesn't do personal abuse and attack, and I definitely do.

[Shaker]

Problem is that those people might consider they've 'done cleaning' because one weekend they did some at part of an organised event. That surely isn't the message we want to get across is it.

A lot of these campaigns and incentives are like that - well-intentioned (perhaps) but engineered to make people think that once they've done their bit, that's it and they needn't bother with it again "because I've done it."

[Ricky Spanish]

We could always let several thousand migrants through, plop them into the cities, towns and countryside, give them a brush and cart and bingo-bongo problem solved.

Also, bring back bins. The IRA stopped bombing city centres decades ago!!

[Bubbles]

The Queen is a great example to us all and a class act. I am not particularly a monarchist. But you guys know that as you probably entertain the idea that I would prefer, the rule of the Bishops and believe that bananas were created to fit the hand of man.

There is of course only one long sumptuous thing that was created to fit in the hand of man as antitheists frequently put to the test.

 

(I don't think I'll ask    )