From: Man@the.keyboard   
      
   On Wed, 10 Dec 2025 21:26:37 GMT, Charlie Gibbs   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 2025-12-10, The Natural Philosopher  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Well you gotta love the people from the village who bring their dogs   
   >> walking in the woods, and scoop the poop into plastic nags, and finding   
   >> no bins for them ,  *hang them on the trees* thereby increasing total   
   >> pollution and stopping the natural processes of poop digestion happening.   
   >   
   >Better still are the ones who drop the bags on the ground in front of a bin.   
      
    To be slightly fair, the bins are sometimes crammed full and   
   over-flowing. Many only get emptied monthly.   
      
    Cut-backs so the Boss Councillors can have deeper carpets, larger   
   desks, more lunches with Important Clients, tickets to Operas they   
   will never understand, "conventions" and "exchange meetings" in Bali   
   with a couple of blonde, gorgeous "secretaries" and expensive art on   
   their walls for bragging rights and to impress any lower-class sludge   
   who might accidentally be allowed into their gilded offices.   
      
    Bins in Town Centres are also often over-flowing and surrounded by   
   Costa cups, MacDonald's boxes and the odd doggie poke.   
      
    Same reason.   
      
    It takes a *lot* of Poll Tax to pay for the limo's and drivers.   
   Upkeep of those things is horribly expensive.   
      
    No, we couldn't expect The Elite to go to work by bus. If they did,   
   we'd need to have the seats cleaned and the brakes attended to more   
   than once a decade and that would *cost*.   
      
                                                          J.   
      
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