Latest Moan From You and Me 2023

Take it to our local supermarket tesco/saithbury etc as they take plastic bags ie like bread bags Spaghetti bag/plastic, plastic bag in cerial box's as long as it has this on the packet

 

TBH, I cant be that bothered, the council bins wont recycle them so they go to be burnt.
I dont think I've ever seen that sign.

 

Good on you @shiney but I just couldn't bring myself to do that, reminds me too much of Sky Burials!!! Definitely not happening in our garden!!

 

If you do online shop the driver may also take it back with them, that sign is on a lot of packaging, i get 1 bread bag then anything with that sign on the packaging goes into the bread bag then when full and i go shopping i take it to the shop and there is a cage on 1 side of the shop and i throw it in, don't take long at all

 

This is going to make me sound ancient.

I'm annoyed at the youth. Firstly I'm annoyed that they blame every perceived problem in the world on the older generations, despite the fact that every generation before then did their best to make the world a better place. Ok, not every individual, but society as a whole.

But also it's the sense of entitlement. Wanting high pay for unskilled entry level jobs.

When I was 14, I got a job cleaning an ice cream parlour, for a whopping one quid per hour, but I had to finish it properly within that hour, because I wouldn't get paid any more if it took longer, or at all if it wasn't done properly. When I was 16 I got a weekend job cleaning a nightclub. I had to polish all the brass handrails, clean the carpets and dancefloor, clean the whole bar area, and toilets, restock the fridges and sort the bottles for recycling (yes youth of today, we recycled before you). I did this for a fiver a day.

But guess what. I appreciated the work. I had some spare time, and I sold that spare time for some money. But I didn't sell all of my spare time, I sold some of it, and used some of it to actually study in my own time, often without someone telling me what I must memorise, and I gradually built myself a career, starting right at the bottom where I'd often be ignored, sometimes mocked, and paid very little, but I was soaking up the experience and building on it.

If that sounds pretty hard, the start of my working life sounds like a walk in the park compared to my parents and grandparents. The youth of today have more opportunities than any generation before them, and they get so much offered to them on a plate. Yet somehow it is not enough, and it's everyone else's fault.

 

£I an hour you were extremely lucky!! @Clueless 1 v2

My very 1st job when I was 13 was from 4-7:30pm on Fridays and all day 9-5pm Saturday's for the wage of (a not whopping) £1 !!!!

When I began my apprenticeship I earned a staggering wage of £2 11shillings and 6d!! .....a week!!!

 

I've just scrutinized a bread wrapper, as you do when bored, and yes I see the sign now, I thought it would have been bigger.
I shall keep a look out, the delivery drivers only seem to take the bags that the shopping comes in, which they refund you 10p a bag for.

 

This is a true, heard it myself from a young middle age person

"I can't wait for my inheritance"



but it back fired on the person, so if you come out with this sort of thing be very carefull

 

This could end up sounding like that old sketch, the 4 Yorkshire men, but I started work at 15 and got £4/0/11d. a week.
For some reason after the first 6 months I got a rise £4/1/1d,

 

Use any larger (cabbage, bread...) bags to put other ones in, plus any crisp bags, film lids or other things that say "recycle at recycling point" then tie them off, then when I've got a few, take them to Aldi and push them into their recycling container by the door.

 

I know you might think I talk a load of rubbish half the time but I use the one bottle bank we have left around here, it's supposed to be bottles/jars and there are two clothing charity containers there as well but this is what it mostly looks like, half the time you can't get to the bottle containers. They clear it and next day another lot gets dumped there.

 

An area of weeds I cleared I've now sown Grass Seed, I couldn't find my Watering Can Rose, so I got the hose out, my mobile rang, thinking it was my daughter I dropped the hose and it was Domestic & General trying to sell me Ins Cover

Oh I now found the Rose

 

Oh pete !! That is bloomin awful!! As I get older I'm gradually becoming a female ' Victor Meldrew' .....I would just have to complain..

 

I'm thinking that they could put a camera on the area, but that would mean they would just dump it on the grassy area over the road, you cant really win with these kinds of people as shooting on sight is not allowed.