asterix
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- Limoges or York
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-19846121
Well bloody tough, just pay up and admit you've learned something pal.
Just my opinion!
Should have known better..
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-19846121
Well bloody tough, just pay up and admit you've learned something pal.
Just my opinion!
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Come on, he was just feeding the hedges 
Peteaud
Veteran
- Location
- South Somerset
Out on my ride today i noticed some nice person has thrown a whole load of apples by the side of the road, right under an apple tree as well, hope the police can catch who ever was responsible.
Diggs
Veteran
- Location
- Billericay, Essex
Should have gone to a peel
Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
- Location
- Craggy Island
These things might be biodegradable, but, they don't half look unsightly whilst they rot, and we don't all want to see rotting fruit when we are out you know!
It being biodegradable is nothing but a cop out for being lazy, sorry.
It being biodegradable is nothing but a cop out for being lazy, sorry.
ComedyPilot
Secret Lemonade Drinker
- Location
- The Kingdom of Yorkshire
I think he was grassed up by someone with.......in cider information
I do. But then again, my screen name on here is a nom-de-plume and a cover for my real identity, that of Damien Hirst and I would have used that as my inspiration for my Turner prize entry had not some stuck-up, narrow-minded officious 'do-gooder' got in before me.
Marshmallow_Fluff
Guest
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- Beds
..my leftovers from last night are biodegradable as well! How about leaving them in his front garden? His roses will benefit massively... 
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asterix
Comrade Member
- Location
- Limoges or York
Yes, you are probably right. But compared to the nice French roads* I'm fortunate enough to cycle along, verges in a lot of the UK are like strips of landfill. So what's an apple core more or less?
*even in rural France car thrown litter does now appear; so do MacDonald's fast food outlets.
The thing, though, is that an apple will rot in hours and might benefit the environment whilst it does so. Apples are native to the country, everything about them works here and, as @Peteaud points out, there are a gazillion of them fall from trees every year.
If it was an orange or a banana, that might be different but an apple can do absolutely no harm and might do benefit.
I can't see any comparison with McDog wrappers.
hotmetal
Senior Member
- Location
- Near Windsor
I wonder if said council is now going to go around digging up all fruit-bearing plants and trees from its highways?
When I was a kid on long drives in the country (they hadn't invented the M25 then) apples were the only thing we were allowed to loz out the windee. Mainly for the reasons Norm stated. We were definitely not allowed to chuck the skin from our satsumas out, on account of them being a) dayglo and b) taking ages to biodegrade. And that was about 40 years ago, when my mum was about the only person who even knew the word biodegradable.
Mind you, here's another true story: I live right at the end of a cul-de-sac, and the pavement stops at my house. I had one solitary bramble branch that had grown long enough to stick about a foot into the pavement. RBWM sent me a letter telling me to prune said twig forthwith or face a £100 charge for the council to do it, on account of it 'obstructing the highway'. (You should see my neighbour's bush, but that's another story!!). I would have been annoyed, but I saw the funny side of it when I noticed that the Undersecretary for Enforcement of Petty Undergrowth Crime (or whatever her title is) was a Ms Linda Gardener! I had to try hard not to write back suggesting that if she was a gardener she was welcome to pop round, but decided that she might have heard that one a few times already…
When I was a kid on long drives in the country (they hadn't invented the M25 then) apples were the only thing we were allowed to loz out the windee. Mainly for the reasons Norm stated. We were definitely not allowed to chuck the skin from our satsumas out, on account of them being a) dayglo and b) taking ages to biodegrade. And that was about 40 years ago, when my mum was about the only person who even knew the word biodegradable.
Mind you, here's another true story: I live right at the end of a cul-de-sac, and the pavement stops at my house. I had one solitary bramble branch that had grown long enough to stick about a foot into the pavement. RBWM sent me a letter telling me to prune said twig forthwith or face a £100 charge for the council to do it, on account of it 'obstructing the highway'. (You should see my neighbour's bush, but that's another story!!). I would have been annoyed, but I saw the funny side of it when I noticed that the Undersecretary for Enforcement of Petty Undergrowth Crime (or whatever her title is) was a Ms Linda Gardener! I had to try hard not to write back suggesting that if she was a gardener she was welcome to pop round, but decided that she might have heard that one a few times already…
