I hate

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green laners

Hard agree. Cosplay adventurers.
You’re 100m up some muddy track in England, not midway through the fucking Paris Dakar.

Also, the right of way stuff always seems fairly ropey to me.
And, why are these people so often antivax, conspiracy nutter types (usually indicated by some ridiculous bumper sticker indicating their position).

Man cosplay gets a bad rep

It’s the freemen of the land or whatever that shit is called. People who are so alienated, mislead and disenfranchised they desperately want to cling to/claim/assert their rights. Stupid people who think they are clever.

Absolutely

why are these people so often antivax, conspiracy nutter types

This: https://twitter.com/stevemagness/status/1507396381396324359

I'd like to add extreme vests and those that wear them sunsoutgunsout? fuck off home and stick a t-shirt on it's only 14° out and you look like a twat

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Ne'er cast a clout till May is out

These kind of cunts?

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Brother in law went off to do a course on “common law” the other day. They’re anti vax, anti “mainstream medicine” aka evidence based medicine, and the whole shebang. I despair for their kids tbh.

https://twitter.com/Shitlawns

Petition=Ban the sale and use of artificial grass for residential properties
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/601485

I’ll be honest, that’s all a bit over the top of my head.

But what I can say, is that by my observation it just stems from a complete commitment to “the alternative” rather than any actual individual choices.
And it’s pointless trying to reason with these people, sadly.

The road I’ve put a red mark on is the old byway so they’re entitled to use it by law. They don’t give a shit if the bridge collapses. More ‘fun’ for them.

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Quoting the Magna Carta because they’ve got a massive bonk-on for America’s constitution.

Innit. “This isn’t about your freedumbs m8, it’s about the SWL of a bridge you absolute peanut”
But as mentioned, you can’t reason with these people.

Fuck, don’t get me started on that nonsense.

old byway so they’re entitled to use it by law

There appears to be a consultation which might include changing that

https://consult.defra.gov.uk/future-landscapes-strategy/government-response-to-the-landscapes-review/

Agreed, and people paving over green areas... Ok I know a gardener is expensive, perhaps there are weird social rules about lawns in places and a Tv ready lawn is a pita, but really...on the internet you can now find seeds, plants & everything for a low maintenance garden with green.

And the neighbour is going to put some in for the kids play area. I can't say anything, agh, I'll offer them a planter with wildlife friendly plant I guess...

Already signed the petition cheers!

Thanks. I will have a read of that this evening.

This has been discussed before, but I'm really not sure about an outright ban on artificial grass. We had some in our last place and it constituted about 2 x 3m of a garden that was roughly 5 x 10m, the rest was trees, raised beds, flowerbeds pots and some patio. We'd tried to maintain a lawn and it wasn't sustainable, so our options for that area, in order to make it something we could actually use, was paving or artificial grass. Given that we lived in an area of London that had increasingly regular flooding problems, impermeable slabs didn't seem like a very friendly option and if fake grass looks shit so does having a garden that looks like a car park (like some of our neighbours' did).

I think there's a strong case to be made for garden designers to move away from it and to find other ways of discouraging its use, but pretending that everyone is making a choice between artificial grass and a bee-friendly flower meadow is pretty unrealistic.

It's not as if grass lawns are paragons of ecological virtue either.

kids play area

I'm no fan of plastic grass but if you have a small garden, shaded, and you want your kids to be able to play there without it being a complete mud fest it seems like a good option.

Not to get all libertarian, but what an absolutely shocking waste of government time and resource.

You know what, how about we ban cats?

Or what about all those cunts laying massive concrete slabs in their garden so they can build a huge shed to store all their consumer tat?

Or the sort of dickheads that buy old Subarus or VW Transporters? Should they be legislated against?

Honestly people need to get a fucking grip. Or a hobby.