What pisses you off?

[think positive]

How big a bag of rubbish are you talking about?

[pietillidie]

^A household-sized one, like a white kitchen rubbish bag (i.e., not a small grocery bag or a large black garbage bag, but something in between).

Riubbish bins suffer from the same issues; some places have them, some don't, because leasing a bin is also privatised and divvied up between god knows how many companies, and if you go to the trouble of getting one, people will just dump rubbish in that to avoid paying if it's not locked away from both neighbours and tenants.

As you know, the geography is quite different from Australia, with much less privacy (unless you're a billionaire or live out a bit).

So, people just dump rubbish to avoid buying the bags, and even when they get the right bags, they put them out on the wrong days because different companies collect different types of rubbish on different days

Now, having done 387 searches and made 12 calls, I have worked this out, but it's ridiculously confusing for everyone, with each bag costing well over 3 euros each including the bag for recyclables.

As explained, some services do much worse privatised because they're essential and for the good of the whole, need a clear line of accountability to work, have little product variation, and cost more to divvy up betweeb n providers.

I am beside myself because it's so obvious rubbish collection is one of those services, and only a completely careless moron, or disingenuous git trying to get a private contract, would even imagine this BS could work to the betterment of the city.

Tony Soprano's waste disposal company couldn't have "persuaded" the Dublin Council for a worse system!

[think positive]

I don't know never been there, they would shoot me on site anyhow

Your life must be pretty good if rubbish bags have you beside yourself

(God help us all one is more than enough!)

[pietillidie]

^Haha, not personally, but from a political POV. When you move a lot, you see the flaws in places really quickly. Everywhere has its blind spots, but I can sense that here people are being belted by BS from on high. I've toured some horror suburbs and can just see the abandonment.

As someone who studied urban geography at uni, I have kept a keen interest in cities ever since.

I took a quick snap of this filth as I caught the bus at one of the biggest bus stops in the centre of town. Of course, you can find abandoned places in any city, but it's where this was, right in front of people in the heart of town, that really infuriated me. AFAIC, it's use it or lose it for this sort of shite; you've got an effing week to clean it up or the property is reclaimed by the city:

http://magpies.net/nick/bb/files/abandoned_dublin_1.jpg

[think positive]

find the ^&*^*% who did the graffiti that looks so bloody awful, trace his tag and make the bastard clean up his mess and the rest of it. Can always threaten to shoot his kneecaps, or give him the "Glasgow smile" if he wants to cry to his mum about his precious rights.

I hate seeing rubbish like that too. Check out the beach at the end of the day, it's disgusting, people are lazy pigs. Take it with you. And graffiti just shits me, most of it is just stupid tags, it's messy and horrible.

Do they have rubbish bins in the streets? I've never been there, so I don't get what your saying.

(And before my dear friend blows a gasket at me, when I finally get to go back to England, I'd like to do a bit of a tour, I might even go and get abused by some Scottish folk as well as our Irish cousins!)

[ronrat]

Come to Thailand. Go to 7-11 (or anyone else ). They sell one banana. In a plastic bag. So you buy that and say a drink. They just hit you with not only plastic bags but straws n plastic bags. I hand them back and they look at me silly. You watch the Thais and Bags are just thrown away. I sent 10 shopping bags to Boom a few years ago and they are now used for pig feed. Here garbage collection is also paid for. Monthly. The fights are quite common.

But then again about 7 years ago when I was in Caulfield North I was was walking along and a woman pushed her bin to the kerb. A milk bottle fell out so I picked it it up and put it back in her bin. She came flying out of her house and yelled, screamed, abused me. The Russian woman (and I assume Jewish) was yelling at me in languages I was unfamiliar with. In the end her neighbour who had witnessed all this told her to calm down. She wouldn't. "You put back where you get you bastard. leave my bin alone". So I walked back and threw it on on her nature strip. It took a lot of convincing from all her neighbours that I had actually picked it up. She rang the cops as well. As I walked off off I heard her next door neighbour say "Anna, you are trying to give us a bad name".

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[David]

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[Skids]

Talking about rubbish. Just finished a long run that took me past 3 fast food outlets. You know when you're approaching one, the empty boxes, wrappers and bottles start to appear on the verge and continue another 100m past.
They don't care about what they put in their mouths so should we really expect them to place rubbish in a bin?

[swoop42]

When your sphincter can't decide if it wants to be part of an anus or faucet.

[think positive]

Ummmm

Your backkkkkk!

[stui magpie]

Only if he's standing on his head when his bowels evacuate.

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[swoop42]

I'm like a squid.

When threatened I squirt my ink.