Aimed at the Wrong People?

It's a biscuit.

I very rarely use it but it can signify astonishment of a disapproving nature as in "Well, that takes the biscuit!" IMO

So glad they didn't totally fail you MaizieD.

Aahh! What combo of key strokes?

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/1814174-to-not-know-what-the-jammy-dodger-icon-means

Whoops, x posted between biscuits. I meant I was relieved words hadn't totally failed you MaizieD

Whose JB Marieeliz? Have I missed something?

Thanks ana! (I still don't know how to 'draw' one though..!)

Any tents or camping gear are sorted out and given to charities...They don't get thrown away!

@devongirl

You just do square bracket [, then write biscuit then close with a square bracket ] No spaces between the characters.

Maizie..... what a pity that you didn't read the post properly....Sheilasue is a Labour voter.

Have been out having fun so did not get back to the thread, sorry, then the internet was down.

What seems strange is that you are completely ignoring the matter of debris left behind by the entitled types that attended the festival.

And you so keen on supporting the poor and deprived...

Only Ana seems to have grasped what I was trying to say (although others may have done, have not read all the thread yet).

Funnily enough, whilst I was out today (enjoying myself but trying not to leave litter or debris in my wake) someone told me, without any prompting on my part, about his son who had just come back from Glastonbury and was appalled at perfectly good equipment just left abandoned, along with all the debris of a few days spent there. Some people were conscientious and cleared up, took their gear away or donated it but there is apparently something on FB which I haven't seen about the mess left behind and his son (aged 30+) was appalled.

I didn't shoot the YouTube video from last year, it was someone who was much younger and dismayed at the careless abandonment of good camping gear and nasty rubbish - left for others to clear up.

So - if a tent/lilo/sleeping bag is cheap enough to get left behind where does it go - into landfill?

Such a waste of resources.

And I was just pointing out that a word of support from Jeremy Corbyn to those clearing up the detritus and filth of spoilt and privileged festival-goers would have been a word in the right direction.

Recycling - bah humbug

Yes, in answer to someone who asked if I remembered what it was like to be young - I do, and I remember clearing up after myself and bringing camping gear home and disposing of rubbish responsibly - even more important these days when recycling is the order of the day.

If you think this is yet another 'moany' thread then so be it - but it's their future and that of their children whom they may have taken with them and their future grandchildren at stake here.

They seem to have double standards - Jeremy Corbyn tells them that we want to 'Build a Better Britain for Everyone' and that is a very laudable sentiment - pity they didn't listen and start being more responsible for themselves, the countryside and the planet.

Thanks if you've read this - rant over

Hear hear!

Maizie..... what a pity that you didn't read the post properly....Sheilasue is a Labour voter.

Whatever sort of bloody voter she is, roses I READ IT AS A TYPO.

This was a good dry year but wet, let alone muddy, camping gear is not easy to pack up and many people go by coach - I am sure coach companies would be glad of having their luggage space full of muddy wet equipment. Left in the field it probably dries and much if the mud fall off. Someone said that the cost of cleaning up is factored into the ticket price and it is giving someone maybe a much needed job.
I do understand that point Welshwife but it wasn't just camping gear left behind, it is the debris from a few day's camping, drinking etc, all left in the tents left for others to clear up - probably on a minimum wage or in exchange for a ticket - the helper said it took 3 weeks to clear and a ticket costs £238? - less than minimum wages I think.
When DD went it was muddy and she bunged everything into big plastic bags and hauled it back to the coach; it all arrived home and was washed and used again.

JanaNana quite.

Hear, hear again, jal! The Glastonbury average age-group have grown up with plenty of education about pollution and waste by humans and yet....

A lot of you seem to be swearing today!
Why should it be a typo.....am guessing Sheilasue knows if she is a Labour supporter or not.

Oh, apologies. Posting on the wrong thread. I thought roses was pursuing another grievance.

WRT to Sheilasue my stands

'A group of us are thinking about going to a festival ... Do you want join us?' has been heard in our house directed at student children. I've never paid for my kids' tickets, they saved. Glastonbury is not a lot more expensive than other 3 day festivals. It is greener though (compost loos not chemical ones etc). The high expense of clear up is because the recyclable stuff is given to homeless etc.
Tickets just see one headline act would be nearly £100. So 3 nights' headline acts would be £300.

Despicable behaviour, don't you think, maiz? I know you like that word ?

I'm referring to leaving trash in one's wake.

League season tickets are between £200 and about £1200 depending on which league and popularity. And yes, you have to save uo for them. Some clubs have instalment plans. And Earlybirds at a cheaper rate like festivals

So?

Not everyone recycles and takes their litter home with them or disposes of it responsibly though, Baggs.

If they did the countryside would not be in such a mess. Perhaps many people just expect the low-paid to trail in their wake picking up their discarded filth.
As so many on here seem quite angry at my OP I wonder if they are amongst them.
Don't forget - 'these people' get paid for doing it. I just thought that they are the ones that Jeremy Corbyn should be championing.

jalima are you say he doesn't champion the poor?

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