Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Litter in Duckett's Common (again!) but... the bins are empty?
This morning in the Duckett's Common play area with the kids we noticed a LOT of litter.
But as you can see from that movie, the bins were empty. This is not the council's fault, or Veolia's, This is the fault of the peasant neighbours we have accumulated over the years. Well, maybe that's the council's fault.
Here's a selection of photographs. Make your own minds up by all means but nothing at all in these pictures bothers me apart from the fact that the thoughtless peasants didn't think to put the evidence in the bin. It's taking the Michael.
Apart from the dogshit, I had a bit of a cleanup.
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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And to top it all off Ola came through and told my daughter and her two friends that they were not allowed to play on the swings because they were for under eights only. It was 9:30 on a Saturday morning, raining lightly, we were the only people in there, I was picking up rubbish that if she cared SO MUCH about she might have helped me and all she could do was pick on some little girls playing on the swings.
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Permalink Reply by Abi on
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What!? I've no idea who Ola is but I hate the idea of adults telling children when they have to grow up. And you're right about it not being any sort of a priority in this situation anyway. UGH. Down with this sort of thing etc. :(
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Permalink Reply by Paul Harvey on
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Are you suggesting that the people who drop litter are peasants or the people who read foreign language publications? Bit confused...
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Permalink Reply by Malcolm on
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I thought that was pheasants? Now some of those on Duckett's I could really get behind.
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Peasants is my catch all for for people who can't be bothered to pick up their own litter (among other things). As I stated in the posting, I don't have a problem with any of the things that were obviously going on the Friday night before (I even used to do some of them myself) but not throwing this stuff in the bin is completely taking the piss. All very well to blame the council for not clearing it up but someone needs to tell these people not to do it in the first place.
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Permalink Reply by Anette on
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I just knew someone would get all huffy about the peasants comment! For f's sake, there's clear evidence here, and I would like to call them a lot worse. Drunken scroungers and antisocial, selfish litterbugs being a few phrases.
In order to get this to stop, the council need to spend a lot of money on getting their "please don't drop litter, we don't like it but can't stop you" literature into whatever language we think these people speak. And then they'll just laugh and ignore it. Been there before. Maybe if the cleanup costs were deducted from their benefits they'd stop?
Go on, do your worst, get all pc on me, but deep down you know I'm right.
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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on
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I just knew someone would get all huffy about the peasants comment! For f's sake, there's clear evidence here, and I would like to call them a lot worse.
As a descendant of goodly peasant stock let me rise to your bait, Anette. My peasant forebears were the world's greatest recyclers, never leaving a scrap of litter behind them. If you really want a worse epithet to hurl try 'landlords' or 'landlord's agents'. The enclosure of the commons (even if Ducketts was never a Commons) was probably what turned 'peasant' into a term of abuse for the urbanised - as happened much earlier to those other marginal countryside dwellers, the pagani and the heath-ens.
"Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates and men decay.
Princes and lords may flourish or may fade,
A breath can make them, as a breath has made:
But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,
When once destroyed, can never be supplied."
Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village.
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OAE, the "peasants" term her is to describe someone who's largely ignorant. And as much as peasants would be good at recycling, let's face it - a lot of them were uneducated. Hence "ignorant".
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No, Anette. 'Peasant' is not synonymous with 'uneducated', as 'educated' is not synonymous with 'schooled' or 'literate, just as 'illiterate' is not synonymous with 'ignorant'.
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I never said it was synonymous, I put it in context. There's a difference.
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If, at 10pm at night, people were drinking in the children's play area, even smoking and telling rude jokes, I would have no objection. Plenty of people would though so not putting the evidence in the bin is a bit of a statement.
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