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Sunday, 26 July 2009
Friday, 17 July 2009
Slightly jet lagged
It's 03:47. A time I don't usually see. New York is buzzing with life and energy and at the moment I'm slightly quivering with fear and anticipation. I've been out of the big city for too long. Central park was full of contrasts - horse drawn carraiges, bike rick-shaws and big yellow taxis, a homeless hippy woman with a shopping trolly and a cat with a pink jacket. Joggers, skaters and cyclists wizz through the honk of horse and human urine while the sun shines and the air plops the odd large drop of threatening tropical rain. I loved it.
Traveller's rubbish
It is, without doubt, a difficult one. Travellers and their rubbish. The shit they leave behind. I want to point out now that I love travellers. I love rubbish. And I love traveller's rubbish.
It's a delicate operation. For if you say "look at this rubbish they left behind" people will accuse you of being racist. Or being anti-traveller. Or Gypsy hating. And you can't charge me with any of those crimes.
I'm an expert on Gypsy rubbish. They always leave behind the following:
1) empty gas cannisters.
2) single, unmatched shoes.
3) a burnt out car seat.
4) a childrens toy.
5) a car battery
6) a shit load of hatred and predjudice.
And so what if they leave some rubbish behind. If you look around the areas they stay they are quite often industrial and there is plenty of other rubbish around that somehow people just ignore.
Travellers are the original recyclers. They're green as hell. The whole life style is one of low impact. Low consumption. Low resources. Resource light.
On the other hand a lot of people from the liberal brigade will say that Travellers don't leave any rubbish. While this is clearly not true. It reminds me a little bit of how maoists and stalanists see no wrong.
No negative here even despite all the evidence.
I guess this is to compensate for all the normal anti-traveller feeling.
In practical terms, where are they going to put it? They don't have a bin collection. I'm always surprised that some compromise can't be reached. I mean how difficult would it be to put a skip there?
When Travellers move they are hounded and viliefied but when they try to settle anywhere people sneer that they are no longer 'Travellers'. For the best part of 40 years they have been told to buy their own land but as soon as they do they get refused planning permission. So they come together anyway. Buy greenbelt land and move on overnight. And that my friends is that.
-- Post From My iPhone
It's a delicate operation. For if you say "look at this rubbish they left behind" people will accuse you of being racist. Or being anti-traveller. Or Gypsy hating. And you can't charge me with any of those crimes.
I'm an expert on Gypsy rubbish. They always leave behind the following:
1) empty gas cannisters.
2) single, unmatched shoes.
3) a burnt out car seat.
4) a childrens toy.
5) a car battery
6) a shit load of hatred and predjudice.
And so what if they leave some rubbish behind. If you look around the areas they stay they are quite often industrial and there is plenty of other rubbish around that somehow people just ignore.
Travellers are the original recyclers. They're green as hell. The whole life style is one of low impact. Low consumption. Low resources. Resource light.
On the other hand a lot of people from the liberal brigade will say that Travellers don't leave any rubbish. While this is clearly not true. It reminds me a little bit of how maoists and stalanists see no wrong.
No negative here even despite all the evidence.
I guess this is to compensate for all the normal anti-traveller feeling.
In practical terms, where are they going to put it? They don't have a bin collection. I'm always surprised that some compromise can't be reached. I mean how difficult would it be to put a skip there?
When Travellers move they are hounded and viliefied but when they try to settle anywhere people sneer that they are no longer 'Travellers'. For the best part of 40 years they have been told to buy their own land but as soon as they do they get refused planning permission. So they come together anyway. Buy greenbelt land and move on overnight. And that my friends is that.
-- Post From My iPhone
Tuesday, 7 July 2009
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