HORRIBLE!
susan
Yes, yes, yes. Irish people have an extraordinary lack of sense of
"the common good" - of a community to which we have responsibility.
I take buses every day, and it's the norm that by mid-afternoon the
bus floor will be scattered with newspapers, sweet-drink bottles and
cans rolling around, and even chips (fries to Americans) and
sandwiches, half-eaten.
On the streets, the pavements are filthy, because shopkeepers don't
wash the pavement outside their shops as they do in other countries.
All the pavements in Dublin city centre are polka-dotted because
people throw down their used chewing-gum to be trodden into the
street. Cigarette packets and wrappings are discarded where they're
opened or emptied.
I find it quite astonishing that people think it's all right to fling
their filth for other people to tread through.
But then a story in a Dublin paper last week talked about a couple
getting on to a suburban commuter train, having oral sex then full
sex (stripped of their bottom half clothing, in front of children)
and then getting off, with the man shouting back at the woman "Come
on, you f***ing b****".
When there's this kind of lack of social responsibility, littering is
just a minor extension.
JT, as obscene as I know that behavior to be, I don't think it comes close
to how we are devastating our Earth. I know plenty of people would be vocal
in their outrage if something like what you wrote about happened here. Its
too bad they don't understand that what we're doing to God's Creation is
much much worse.
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> JT, as obscene as I know that behavior to be, I don't think it comes close
> to how we are devastating our Earth. I know plenty of people would be
vocal
> in their outrage if something like what you wrote about happened here.
Its
> too bad they don't understand that what we're doing to God's Creation is
> much much worse.
Amen, john
Well, that's true.
Further to the story: the gardai (police) have apparently worked out
who the couple are, and people who take the train all the time say
they're well known on it. They come in and sit seven seats apart, and
converse loudly as if they're in their living room, one indignant
commuter said.
No, we don't follow /that/ example in NZ!!!
Tony
