A place to rant about things that wind you up ( keep it clean lol)

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SkyPipDotBernie said:
I always forget to bring my bag for life with me. But i will just juggle my stuff back to the car when i forget
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I never go anywhere without at least 2 bags that fold away into tiny pouches in my backpack. Very normal here. Can even get larger totes for bigger shopping trips that fold into a small tube pouch that carabiners onto your main bag strap when not in use.

Example of the small self pouching ones..
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SkyPipDotBernie said:
I must get the photo that my mum took of a seal playing with a carrier bag. Its horrible but is a real eye opener. I agree
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We saw a seal a couple of years ago with fishing net around its neck at Godrevy Point, as local seal colony down here, it took a local wildlife team 18 months to catch it and the net was almost severing an artery in his neck and had cut deep into his flesh.
 
Bill & Ted said:
We saw a seal a couple of years ago with fishing net around its neck at Godrevy Point, as local seal colony down here, it took a local wildlife team 18 months to catch it and the net was almost severing an artery in his neck and had cut deep into his flesh.
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Horrible 👎
 
What really annoys me about the whole plastic thing is that we knew about it in the 1970s, anyone that raised objections to plastic was labled a weird hippy in those days. I had a friend who used to unwrap all her groceries in the supermarket and leave the wrappings on the cash desk even back then. The Council's pushing recycling have not got the point, I'm fed up with notices through the door telling me to recycle my food waste - I don't have any, we freeze left overs and eat them, veg peelings gets composted. Recycle more plastic, more glass etc etc - I'm trying to acquire less so I can recyle less not more! If they banned all this plastic packaging we wouldn't need recycling, why does food need a plastic tray, a plastic wrap then a cardboard sleeve? I have my home delivery shopping packed with the no bags option. Today's delivery had 3 carrier bags and 6 small plastic bags, I choose all the loose veg and fruit to avoid packaging so they pack it. :hb:
 
piggieminder said:
What really annoys me about the whole plastic thing is that we knew about it in the 1970s, anyone that raised objections to plastic was labled a weird hippy in those days. I had a friend who used to unwrap all her groceries in the supermarket and leave the wrappings on the cash desk even back then. The Council's pushing recycling have not got the point, I'm fed up with notices through the door telling me to recycle my food waste - I don't have any, we freeze left overs and eat them, veg peelings gets composted. Recycle more plastic, more glass etc etc - I'm trying to acquire less so I can recyle less not more! If they banned all this plastic packaging we wouldn't need recycling, why does food need a plastic tray, a plastic wrap then a cardboard sleeve? I have my home delivery shopping packed with the no bags option. Today's delivery had 3 carrier bags and 6 small plastic bags, I choose all the loose veg and fruit to avoid packaging so they pack it. :hb:
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Fancy packaging that is attractive to impulse buys doesnt help the situation
 
I hate how tax is now very expensive on cheap older cars. My car is a 20 year old toyota yaris, with vvti ( fuel efficient) and passes it's emissions tests fine on m.o.t. yet i have to pay high tax on it. I cannot afford a new or brand new blu motion or electric car, and I'm not taking out a finance incase i cant afford it on the future.
 
piggieminder said:
What really annoys me about the whole plastic thing is that we knew about it in the 1970s, anyone that raised objections to plastic was labled a weird hippy in those days. I had a friend who used to unwrap all her groceries in the supermarket and leave the wrappings on the cash desk even back then. The Council's pushing recycling have not got the point, I'm fed up with notices through the door telling me to recycle my food waste - I don't have any, we freeze left overs and eat them, veg peelings gets composted. Recycle more plastic, more glass etc etc - I'm trying to acquire less so I can recyle less not more! If they banned all this plastic packaging we wouldn't need recycling, why does food need a plastic tray, a plastic wrap then a cardboard sleeve? I have my home delivery shopping packed with the no bags option. Today's delivery had 3 carrier bags and 6 small plastic bags, I choose all the loose veg and fruit to avoid packaging so they pack it. :hb:
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if i buy a pizza in a cardboard box i dump it at the supermarket( the box).. other half moans cos he isn't sure what flavour it is lol!
 
Pawz said:
I never go anywhere without at least 2 bags that fold away into tiny pouches in my backpack. Very normal here. Can even get larger totes for bigger shopping trips that fold into a small tube pouch that carabiners onto your main bag strap when not in use.

Example of the small self pouching ones..
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We have one of these but it folds up to be a strawberry, it’s cute
 
I have a pink string bad I've had forever. Its called a turtle bag as it saves turtles from plastic bags. I did have a white string bag too but that's got lost over the years. I remember they were quite expensive but my one remaining bag will go on for years yet.
 
People who park on the zig zag lines outside the kids school. WHEN IT CLEARLY STATES YOU SHOULDN’T 🤬😒 and the lollipop lady lets them. There have been one too many near misses at that crossing already!
 
Today I would like to rant about students who are clearly incapable of answering my exam essay question but still write 8 pages of irrelevant crap that I have to take the time to read and comment on before failing them. Guys, why not just draw me a guinea pig? Or choose someone else's essay topic? Or even better come to class then revise properly?
 
Some essays are ok, 2 or 3 were excellent, some were.... graded at between 1% and 12% after reading several pages of stuff that wasnt about my topic at all. Or was based on stuff they saw on TV once and didnt quite remember right... or based on a lecture they did attend which wasnt mine... its a bank holiday weekend and there are 70 essays! About halfway through but its painful now...
 
I think fruit seems to be the worst when it comes to packaging. Just had some raspberries. Plastic tray, strange plastic cloth inside it and small square “preserver” then film lid, ridiculous for a few grams of fruit! I’m beginning think I will stop buying all the fruit that comes packaged!

Bin day tomorrow, one small bin bag full of cellophane and un-recyclable plastic packaging, nothing else inside it. All food waste, tea bags, peelings into compost! We never throw food away, my generation have been brought up to not waste any food, when so many peoples were then starving. I hate it, what a waste of resources!
 
PigglePuggle said:
Some essays are ok, 2 or 3 were excellent, some were.... graded at between 1% and 12% after reading several pages of stuff that wasnt about my topic at all. Or was based on stuff they saw on TV once and didnt quite remember right... or based on a lecture they did attend which wasnt mine... its a bank holiday weekend and there are 70 essays! About halfway through but its painful now...
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Aw, poor you! It never finishes when you work in Education!
 
Siikibam said:
People who park on the zig zag lines outside the kids school. WHEN IT CLEARLY STATES YOU SHOULDN’T 🤬😒 and the lollipop lady lets them. There have been one too many near misses at that crossing already!
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Yes, when I pick up my granddaughters, people park on the zigzags who are picking their kids up from school, they also leave their engines running for 20 minutes too, lazy and thoughtless. Get off your fat backsides, the walk would do you good!
 
I don't put the size of their backsides quite so politely when I walk past the local school and see the cars tearing up the grass verges and parking anywhere anyhow because their mission is more important than anything else.
 
Siikibam said:
People who park on the zig zag lines outside the kids school. WHEN IT CLEARLY STATES YOU SHOULDN’T 🤬😒 and the lollipop lady lets them. There have been one too many near misses at that crossing already!
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Can the person playing her salary not have a word with her? She should not be allowing that, her job is to keep things safe!
 
Students who leave multiple choice questions blank. Or don't answer questions where it's a 50/50 choice. Or have one small piece of coursework left to get their qualification but just can't be bothered. Next time let me know at the beginning of the year and I'll spend my time and energy on someone who it will actually help.
 
Bill & Ted said:
I think fruit seems to be the worst when it comes to packaging. Just had some raspberries. Plastic tray, strange plastic cloth inside it and small square “preserver” then film lid, ridiculous for a few grams of fruit! I’m beginning think I will stop buying all the fruit that comes packaged!

Bin day tomorrow, one small bin bag full of cellophane and un-recyclable plastic packaging, nothing else inside it. All food waste, tea bags, peelings into compost! We never throw food away, my generation have been brought up to not waste any food, when so many peoples were then starving. I hate it, what a waste of resources!
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My MIL's Council recycles almost everything you can think of that can be recycled from yogurt pots to garden waste. Unfortunately that does not include guinea pig waste. When we move down to her house (she will be going into a Retirement Home) I'll have to put that in the old coal bunker along with the leaves to compost down. :)
 
it’s completely normal here that we have 4 different trash cans to split the recycling. Last vacation we were on a house with only 2 trash cans and when I asked which was for what trash I was looked at as if I had 3 heads. Apparently both of them were for “everything” and I had to explain that we have a different trash system completely and that I wasn’t “odd”
 
It frustrates me that our council changed the rules for composting. We waste minimal food, I freeze stuff etc but we can’t put peelings or rotted veg into our brown bin. Or piggy waste. Just garden cuttings.

I know I could compost it myself but my garden is tiny, I have no space for a compost bin and no real use for the compost! I do take some to my friend sometimes but not too often.
 
We have a separate bin for garden waste and kitchen waste. I can't put piggy waste in with the garden waste though and my compost bin is so full it's overflowing. Now my OH has weeded the front border, I can dig some compost in before I get some nemotodes so that slugs won't eat my summer flowers.
 
I've just dug a load of compost into the veg plot so there's room for more piggy waste in the bins. I hate having to throw piggie waste into the dustbin but sometimes if it's not composting quick enough I have to. We have to buy and pay for collection of garden waste bins here and as I only very rarely have any to throw away I won't do it. I know council's are having to save money at the moment but we get very little for our Council Tax. My daughter get's her garden waste collected free where she lives and there's very little fly tipping of hedge cuttings etc., the council here spends a fortune on cleaning up fly tipped rubbish, it's so short sighted.

@Betsy where do you get your nemotodes, I really should get some.
 
I need to finish the cat net on the balcony, the poles are up but I can’t bring myself to stand on the top platform of thr ladder to reach over the very edge to attach a net with nothing solid to hold onto and no one holding my legs.
I just can’t do it without feeling i’m going to fall over the edge, it’s only 1 level up but still high enough to hurt!
 
Betsy said:
My MIL's Council recycles almost everything you can think of that can be recycled from yogurt pots to garden waste. Unfortunately that does not include guinea pig waste. When we move down to her house (she will be going into a Retirement Home) I'll have to put that in the old coal bunker along with the leaves to compost down. :)
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Yes, they won’t take guinea waste here as green waste, it’s because of Foot and Mouth risks as they compost all green waste down here on farm land and they can’t discriminate against pet waste, one side fits all!
 
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