It’s wheelie bin a shit campaign
Before I wheel my own delightful bin out onto the kerb, I thought I'd share this treat from the Mail's website. They've gone all "ooh no, middle England is revolting against bonkers Brussels bastards telling us to RECYCLE things rather than stick it all in landfill, wasn't life better when nothing was recycled at all, there were no such things as rats or maggots before wheelie bins, it's all the fault of the green Nazi bastards" on us with yesterday's front page
and an accompanying hilarious article from Mr Brilliant Richard Littlejohn, who should of course be Prime Minister, according to some expat in Dubai in the website comments, who'd otherwise be complaining, without a whiff of irony, about Sharia Law in Britain and how there are too many migrants.
Anyway, so you'd think that would be enough to whip middle England into a pearl-clutching frenzy of hatred against the evils of wheelie bins, wouldn't you? Given all that prodding in the right direction, surely the vast majority of readers would be voting in favour of a ban, wouldn't they?
Wouldn't they?
Haha. I wonder if this is the 'silent majority' we hear so much about in the Mail?
*edit* and just look at Littlejohn. He can't help himself! When he's not talking about Nazis, he's talking about Hitlers! In fact, the only people Littlejohn *never* calls Nazis or Hitlers are the BNP. Funny that...
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June 19th, 2009 - 06:18
I'd like to know what we would replace wheelie bins with. Maybe 'pretty' metal bins like we used to have, you know, the ones that slowly rusted in to a metal mess, the ones that were really difficult to carry, yeah that's a much better option. Or maybe we could just leave bags at the side of the road, that's great, I like it best when the cat from next door rips the bags open and spreads all our rubbish around the street. Yeah, we should scrap wheelie bins.
June 19th, 2009 - 07:37
When Littlejohn isn't calling people Nazi's, then he's obsessing over homosexuality… hmmmm.
June 19th, 2009 - 09:23
I just moved out of student-vill were there where no bins and rubbish was strewn all over the street and rats, cats and seagulls ripped apart any binbags put outside, to lovely suburbs with wheelie bins. I never thought I'd be so happy to have something so very simple, but I really am. Wheelie bins preserve the beauty of an estate, they don't destroy it.
June 19th, 2009 - 09:58
They could get rid of bins altogether and we could just have bin bags on the streets. That'll keep rats away.
And none of those people have front yards in that picture…
June 20th, 2009 - 16:38
I love his argument about how Spain and France get several collections a week, so obviously it's not really the EU's fault, it's our stupid bloody government.
Apart from the obvious fact that to pay for that sort of service in a country as densely populated as ours, taxes would go up (aaargh! avert your eyes, Littlejohn!) I find it hilarious that someone who rambles on so much about what made Britain great doesn't seem to appreciate that "whining like a pathetic little pissant about things that really don't cause the vast majority of people even the slightest of problems" has never really been that high on the list.
Oh and this bit:
"It beggars belief that councils are employing people to tear open plastic sacks in search of something they have deemed shouldn't be there – and then using anti-terrorist legislation to persecute innocent old ladies who mistakenly place a cornflakes packet in a box intended for newspapers."
I don't read the Mail that often, so I obviously missed that particular story – I was aware of their 'unearthing the truth' about local councils using some rights passed down from the 2004 terror legislation, but not of them persecuting innocent old ladies for not separating newspaper and card (what council prohibits that? all our paperwaste gets mixed up… I digress) – it occurs to me that maybe, just maybe, RL dreamed that one up himself?
Cry rhetoric and let slip the dogs of poor journalism…
April 12th, 2010 - 13:51
LMAO, hey this is fantastic made my day I thought I would share these with you have a quick look the best one is the argument from a guy called james to the local council, ” wheelie bin gestapo ” lol http://www.elmleycastle.com/index.php/2009/02/23/wheelie-bin-laws-the-bin-gestapo/
and this blog about loving your wheelie bin, http://rubbishwheeliebins.blogspot.com/
I hope you find these useful, give them a mention in your next post I would really look forward to reading it.
Cheers.