A Modest Proposal for Teaching Litterers a Lesson
source: http://itslonelyuphere.blogspot.com/2011/08/modest-proposal-for-teaching-litterers.html
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- KevJ
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Nah, I'm just screwing with you. We're a dysfunctional bunch of clowns that are often times incapable of coming together to change even the simplest of bad habits. And to illustrate this point, I'd like to reach back to a topic that was ubiquitous throughout my grade school classrooms along with saying no to drugs, sex, underage drinking, and forest fires. If you hadn't guessed already, I'm talking about littering.
Littering is a topic that has been fermenting in my noggin for a while now. It is a fundamental lesson that we all learn from a young age, and it seems to be a generally accepted principle among adults to dispose of one's rubbish in the proper receptacles. However, as well as many of us seem to do with throwing away our everyday waste, there is one specific type of unwanted goods that seems to get a free pass when it comes to social norms: Orphans.
I personally have never understood the appeal of orphans. While consuming their innards has become seemingly less and less popular, I continue to see people on the streets lighting them on fire on a day to day basis with no regard for the physical well-being of themselves of those around them. Orphans have been clinically proven to be a useless form of nutrition, as well as carcinogenic, time and time again, yet people still feel the need to get involved with something promoting nothing filth and disease.
Sorry, did I say orphans? I meant cigarettes. Always confuse the two of those for some reason....
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DavidYates
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How many are old enough to remember the days of habitual littering? Before the campaign led by Lady Bird Johnson (First Lady of LBJ) no one thought anything about tossing trash from their car, dropping their paper cups, cigarette wrappers and butts, empty bottles and cans or anything else they didn't want to carry around in their pockets on the sidewalk (remember those?), streets or in waterways. We've come a long way but, as in economics, we're mostly too young to remember how bad things were and we're destined to revert to old habits and foolish mistakes. Having a clean environment, such as it is, is something too many people take for granted because they don't remember the horrendous uphill battle to get it that way. I remember when people thought they were supposed to be able to "see" air, the roads and parks were piled with accumulated, windblown trash and the Cuyahoga River in Ohio actually caught fire! Now there's a campaign to eliminate the EPA. We mustn't throw away something so valuable unless we have something more valuable with which to replace it. Money is fleeting, but the environment, whatever its condition, is eternal and we must live in it.
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DavidYates
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KevJ
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DavidYates:
Well said mr. yates. Just this evening driving home I saw two different drivers people throw napkins out of their moving cars. I honked at both, got flipped the bird by one, honked in response, which yielded me an adorable death. The fact that people have the heads so far up their asses they think they can't be bothered with taking resonsibility for their own trash boggles my mind. The trendy new onslaught on the epa is so far beyond my understanding I wouldn't know where to start.
- 9 months ago
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KevJ
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bosox882
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orphans: legalize it.
- 9 months ago
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bosox882
