I think every place on this planet could be boring if you just sit on your ar*e waiting for something to happen.
Tor
Tor
Is the countryside boring?
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Gods I wish more of them were bored.
The "urban chic" are pointless wastes of air who appear to be on a mission to spread litter, noise, traffic accidents, bad politics, the desire for everything to be "cheap", have "choice" want it "now".
They complain about everything that makes the countryside the countryside.
If the concrete wastelands are so much better, please, dear Gods please, will they stay there and rot in lifeless neon lit worthless monstrosity they call home?
Red
The "urban chic" are pointless wastes of air who appear to be on a mission to spread litter, noise, traffic accidents, bad politics, the desire for everything to be "cheap", have "choice" want it "now".
They complain about everything that makes the countryside the countryside.
If the concrete wastelands are so much better, please, dear Gods please, will they stay there and rot in lifeless neon lit worthless monstrosity they call home?
Red
Personally, I am at my happiest sitting in a beautiful, quiet spot waiting for absolutely nothing to happen.
And you know whaqt else...pseudo country dwellers.......
People who think gas fired Aga's make sense.....
People who think farms should be neatly manicured and maintained as free leisure parks.......
People who think country pubs should be bleeding fancy wine bars rather than serving a good pint and a top pasty
Poeple who earn a bleeding fortune and bitch that the village shop costs more than Sainsbury's
People who think country blokes should be some form of caricature working class opressed rather than blokes who choose to be there who quite like shooting, fishing and drinking.
Most of all....Dear Gods most of all.....townies who move to the country and then decide to
a) Tell country dwellers how they have got it wrong for the last thousand years
b) Expect us to put up with rude ways when they are snippy in the shop, pub or post office
c) Forget that we don't care if they are in a rush because to us, passing the time of day with a neighbour is much more important than their meeting.
Red
People who think gas fired Aga's make sense.....
People who think farms should be neatly manicured and maintained as free leisure parks.......
People who think country pubs should be bleeding fancy wine bars rather than serving a good pint and a top pasty
Poeple who earn a bleeding fortune and bitch that the village shop costs more than Sainsbury's
People who think country blokes should be some form of caricature working class opressed rather than blokes who choose to be there who quite like shooting, fishing and drinking.
Most of all....Dear Gods most of all.....townies who move to the country and then decide to
a) Tell country dwellers how they have got it wrong for the last thousand years
b) Expect us to put up with rude ways when they are snippy in the shop, pub or post office
c) Forget that we don't care if they are in a rush because to us, passing the time of day with a neighbour is much more important than their meeting.
Red
Yes, but you actually hauled your ar*e out to that lovely spot where nothing happens
(unless you live there that is).
Tor
We have a lot of old folks living in the countryside around these parts who for the past eighty years or so have kept pigs, goats and hens in their back garden. Sadly as their friends and neighbors die off wealthy townies buy up the property to use as holiday homes, they; unhappy with the noise and small, then petition the council to pass changes to local laws prohibiting the keeping of farm animals within the village.
These oldsters rely on those animals to make ends meet, its sad really.
Complaining about the smell of the pig farm that's been there for generations.
Complaining about the noise of the tractors "early in the morning".
Getting the village blacksmith shut down for excessive noise.
Et bloody cetera.
Complaining about the noise of the tractors "early in the morning".
Getting the village blacksmith shut down for excessive noise.
Et bloody cetera.
This is a link to a short piece (four minutes) from Radio 4's 'Today' program, which reports that...
"Nervous parents are making the countryside "out of bounds" for their children, a survey has suggested. Reporter Sanchia Berg visits one primary school to speak to children about their experience of the countryside. Tom Hodgkinson, editor of magazine The Idler, discusses if the idea of play is being taken out of childhood."
One child wouldn't want to climb trees "in case he was poisoned".
"Nervous parents are making the countryside "out of bounds" for their children, a survey has suggested. Reporter Sanchia Berg visits one primary school to speak to children about their experience of the countryside. Tom Hodgkinson, editor of magazine The Idler, discusses if the idea of play is being taken out of childhood."
One child wouldn't want to climb trees "in case he was poisoned".
People who park their shiney, spotless, never been off road 4x4s in the access only lane outside the village bakery, blocking all residents in, and then take 3 hours explaining to me that they "can't" eat wheat, gluten, dairy, sugar or yeast. Because their "kenesiologist" tld them so... GET OUT OF THE BAKERY THEN! Oh and if tesco's is so much cheaper, go there.
A lot of them bring their groceries with them for the weekend.
Mind you, they often have to, because the village shops close because of all the holiday homes being empty most of the time.
Mind you, they often have to, because the village shops close because of all the holiday homes being empty most of the time.
Do you have an licence for that sharps? It certainly strikes me as being greater than the legal strength.
And as for engagement mechanism!Nice one and with more sting than a Box Jelly Fish!
I just love this bland-free website!
Cheers
Its an interesting question.
Especially when viewed by people who do know the true value of the countryside.
If people who do not subscribe to the values of: responsible access, taking home their litter and not blaring loud dance music etc, find the countryside boring then is it such a bad thing that they see no need be there and ruin it for others?
On the other hand, is this an elitist perspective which can be traced back to the writings of William Wordsworth who suggest that those who do no understand the true value of the countryside should not be permitted into it?
Just a wee something to get the mind wheels turning dismounting from high horse!
Especially when viewed by people who do know the true value of the countryside.
If people who do not subscribe to the values of: responsible access, taking home their litter and not blaring loud dance music etc, find the countryside boring then is it such a bad thing that they see no need be there and ruin it for others?
On the other hand, is this an elitist perspective which can be traced back to the writings of William Wordsworth who suggest that those who do no understand the true value of the countryside should not be permitted into it?
Just a wee something to get the mind wheels turning dismounting from high horse!
Aha kindred spirits!
Right - top twenty hanging offenses for townies!
1) Anyone who buys something because its "authentic" (rather than because it works)
2) Anyone who moans about prices in a country shop
3) Anyone who seeks to escape cities and then moans about lack of amenities
4) Anyone who makes that "eau" noise like (eau de cologne) as in "eau really?"
5) Anyone who refers to the country as "restful" cos they just doss about there
6) Anyone who complains about the sound / smell/ look of a farm that actually has to work for a living (or about people keeping / killing animals)
7) That utter t***er who actually walked into the Drovers and addressed my mate behind the bar as "oi say...barkeep....."
.....any more?
Right - top twenty hanging offenses for townies!
1) Anyone who buys something because its "authentic" (rather than because it works)
2) Anyone who moans about prices in a country shop
3) Anyone who seeks to escape cities and then moans about lack of amenities
4) Anyone who makes that "eau" noise like (eau de cologne) as in "eau really?"
5) Anyone who refers to the country as "restful" cos they just doss about there
6) Anyone who complains about the sound / smell/ look of a farm that actually has to work for a living (or about people keeping / killing animals)
7) That utter t***er who actually walked into the Drovers and addressed my mate behind the bar as "oi say...barkeep....."
.....any more?
.....any more?
The couple who had an old orchard chopped down because she'd always wanted to keep a horse.
The man who tried to stop their farmer driving his muddy vehicles on the public road without cleaning them first (so their cars wouldn't get dirty).
People who moan when they can't use their credit card for a £1.65 purchase at the villlage shop, so go elsewhere, and then look shocked when the bloody thing closes... "Oh what a shame! It was so... twee..."
You leave us dossers out of it! We'll doss where we like and when we like - and we do.
The country is restful. Hang me!
About the age of 20 I was rowing on a finnish lake listening to a noise I had never heard in my whole life - silence. Not a plane, nor a train, nor a car.
But there's one type of countryside, and there's another type of countryside - and there again there's Disneyland and Theme Parks.
But no good comes from just moaning and bickering. If the people in a village don't grab control of their village - they can't blame those who do.
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