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« Reply #3550 on: 03 August 2020, 10:43:37 am »
The deafening sound of axes being ground in this thread...  :rolleyes
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« Reply #3551 on: 03 August 2020, 12:54:15 pm »
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We've got a real problem now with so called wild camping now. 
Did the North Coast 500 a couple of years ago, camping at official sites. So I follow the Facebook group.
This year it seems to have gone bonkers. Everybody is doing it. Lots of sites either full, or not opening toilet blocks.
So the result is masses wild camping (legit in most of Scotland) all round the route. Problem is the mess left behind. Do campers shit in the woods? They certainly do  :look

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« Reply #3552 on: 03 August 2020, 05:01:30 pm »
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This year it seems to have gone bonkers. Everybody is doing it. Lots of sites either full, or not opening toilet blocks.
The country seems to be going crazy.  The Cumbrae ferry was suspended at the weekend due to extreme passenger volume.   70 parking tickets were issued on the road up Rowardennan, the single track road was effectively blocked.
As for camper vans etc, it doesn't help that councils have been penny pinching and closing numerous public toilets.
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So the result is masses wild camping (legit in most of Scotland) all round the route. Problem is the mess left behind. Do campers shit in the woods? They certainly do 
Hard won freedoms.  The rule of wild camping is to leave nothing but footprints - literally take your shit with you.  If you are camping for several days then bury your personal waste well away from waterways, and bag and take out any toilet paper you use.
Sadly I suspect many beauty spots will have been trashed at the weekend right across the country.  And it cannot continue like this.
As for those who 'wild camp' at the side of the A82, A84 and other busy roads - I just don't see the attraction. 

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« Reply #3553 on: 27 August 2020, 10:36:54 pm »
Arseholes who don't understand the terms 'Mask' and 'face covering' The idiots who use a face mask as a chin hammock. Your feckin' great hooter is not supposed to be poking over the top of it.
Mankind will end with a whimper, not a bang.

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« Reply #3554 on: 28 August 2020, 09:39:17 am »
Arseholes who don't understand the terms 'Mask' and 'face covering' The idiots who use a face mask as a chin hammock. Your feckin' great hooter is not supposed to be poking over the top of it.
Mankind will end with a whimper, not a bang.

I see people walking around like that outside (looks stupid) but not like that in the shops. It's like they ar too lazy to take it of their ears and just slide it up for the next shop. The thing is they are scraping a wet mask up and down their face. Mine comes off the second I am out the shop.
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« Reply #3555 on: 28 August 2020, 10:12:39 am »
Post I saw - 'wearing a mask on your chin, is like wearing a condom on your bollocks'

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« Reply #3556 on: 28 August 2020, 10:17:22 am »
Post I saw - 'wearing a mask on your chin, is like wearing a condom on your bollocks'


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« Reply #3557 on: 28 August 2020, 12:37:01 pm »
Post I saw - 'wearing a mask on your chin, is like wearing a condom on your bollocks'
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« Reply #3558 on: 28 August 2020, 04:30:18 pm »
Post I saw - 'wearing a mask on your chin, is like wearing a condom on your bollocks'






I have 13 children now but neither them or my wife and me understand what's wrong with that statement.
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« Reply #3559 on: 29 August 2020, 09:28:02 am »
And another.....

More people are born because of alcohol than will ever die from it.

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« Reply #3560 on: 29 August 2020, 05:58:40 pm »
What really annoys me now is people coming into shops with no masks on--FFS the world is really full of flockingbankers

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« Reply #3561 on: 30 August 2020, 12:15:28 am »
What really annoys me now is people coming into shops with no masks on--FFS the world is really full of flockingbankers

My GF has severe asthma.

Today she was going to visit her sister and had to pop into Asda to pick up some stuff. She was wearing her mask *and* a Sunflower Lanyard meaning that she has a hidden disability.

There were many idiots not wearing masks and some, when she asked them to Social Distance from her were abusive, swore at her or even *deliberately* moved closer to her!

The utter selfishness and disrespect for others that some people have is beyond belief  :wall
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« Reply #3562 on: 30 August 2020, 07:40:25 am »
as usual its the idiots who wont be told what to do or are too dim to understand the situation, that`s why we have a second wave...this virus is still alive and kicking and as we all know if it continues into the winter season we will be in trouble...just because of those idiots thinking they know best  :wall




GRAHAMM....not heard of the SUNFLOWER scheme before,thanks for bringing it to my / our attention...website down at the moment but i will look another day  :thumbup




i`ve learnt a lot during this virus about people,two classic examples above , the idiots who cant even be bothered to wear a mask and then there`s the people running the sunflower scheme to help others and no doubt most of them doing it in their spare time...




 "selfishness and disrespect"....well put GRAHAMM...two words that dont cost us anything but are worth so much...
One, is never going to be enough.....

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« Reply #3563 on: 30 August 2020, 10:57:27 am »
Its Asda for you- try Sainsbury's and you will get less of that or better still go to Waitrose or Marks and Spencer.

I know that there are some who can not wear a mask for whatever reason but I was in asda and a whole family of 3 were without masks - wonder if they all had the same condition.
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« Reply #3564 on: 30 August 2020, 11:16:48 am »
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I know that there are some who can not wear a mask for whatever reason but I was in asda and a whole family of 3 were without masks
Under 12s are exempt of course. Actually our local Asda is pretty good.
Went shopping in Chelmsford yesterday. A pretty well off town, but I was surprised how many illiterates there were. I'm presuming they were illiterate as so many were ignoring 'keep left' and 'exit only'.

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« Reply #3565 on: 30 August 2020, 11:24:01 am »
There's yet another demo today by 2 protest groups in major cities, with a million plus expected, with at least one of the groups insisting that the virus is a hoax.


If the second wave does happen, there's your reason why!  :grumble
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« Reply #3566 on: 30 August 2020, 11:36:45 am »
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There's yet another demo today by 2 protest groups in major cities, with a million plus expected, with at least one of the groups insisting that the virus is a hoax. If the second wave does happen, there's your reason why! 
But then we live in a world of fake news and alternative facts.  Where extremists, lies and damned lies, are to be tolerated under the name of 'freedom of speech'.

Just look at the shite that has been spouted and tolerated on this forum over the years.  So why the surprise?


When I go in shops etc I wear my mask - I comply.  But frankly who does and who does not ain't my buisiness.
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« Reply #3567 on: 30 August 2020, 01:03:22 pm »
Under 12s are exempt of course. Actually our local Asda is pretty good.
Forgot to mention they were all adults - the youngest being - my guess about 25.I have been noticing under 12s wearing masks and I get the impression that it is almost a fashion thing for them - or they are trying to look older, keep up with their older siblings.   
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« Reply #3568 on: 30 August 2020, 01:17:07 pm »
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There's yet another demo today by 2 protest groups in major cities, with a million plus expected, with at least one of the groups insisting that the virus is a hoax.


If the second wave does happen, there's your reason why! 

But then we live in a world of fake news and alternative facts.  Where extremists, lies and damned lies, are to be tolerated under the name of 'freedom of speech'.
Just look at the shite that has been spouted and tolerated on this forum over the years.  So why the surprise?


When I go in shops etc I wear my mask - I comply.  But frankly who does and who does not ain't my buisiness.


In fairness though, it's been you that has spouted most of it.  :b
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« Reply #3569 on: 30 August 2020, 01:22:58 pm »
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In fairness though, it's been you that has spouted most of it. 
And that my dear fella, is your opinion, it is not fact.

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« Reply #3570 on: 30 August 2020, 01:23:21 pm »
Well done the mods for quick action and nipping it in the bud.  ;) But you removed the wrong post.

 
« Last Edit: 30 August 2020, 02:44:22 pm by fazersharp »
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« Reply #3571 on: 30 August 2020, 01:29:55 pm »
And another.....
Yep, all the time. There are even images used in news articles seemingly oblivious to it.


These are the same Imbeciles I have have to firmly tell, "to walk the other way around"  with an outstreewtch arm,  instead of trying to squeeze past me. It has worked thus far as I am always wearing my crash helmet at the time  :biker


@Graham, wasnt aware of the Sunflower scheme specifically. Just to make her life easier should could wear a face sheild - https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=face+sheilds&ref=nb_sb_noss_2
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« Reply #3572 on: 30 August 2020, 01:47:49 pm »
I too have never heard of the sunflower scheme ~ why aren't these things widly publisised.
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« Reply #3573 on: 30 August 2020, 08:46:42 pm »
According to this article he Sunflower Lanyard scheme started at Gatwick Aiport in 2016 so staff could identify passengers with special needs that weren't physically obvious.

Various charities have been supporting this and they've got eg a Facebook page etc, however unless you're in touch with those organisations, there hasn't been much covering in national media to make everyone else aware of it :(

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« Reply #3574 on: 30 August 2020, 11:54:28 pm »
Bunches of lycra clad cyclists riding 5 abreast reliving their youth or pretending they're on the tour -de-france  :finger
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