I fecked my banana skin into the river.

libelula

Last weekend I was in town (not Dublin) with a friend, and on finishing the banana that I had so gleefully found on the backseat of the car moments before, I proceeded to carelessly feck the banana skin (no stickers, I checked) into a nearby fast-flowing river.
Well. My friend was horrified. Apparantly that's littering. I thought I was adding compost to the sea. Same as when I'm cycling and feck skins into hedges (well in off the road), and same thing with orange peels, apple butts when I'm driving. I'm in the country, and it's not like I scatther them all over the road...

It's been bothering me since. Am I a bad person?

kfallon

One step down from Hitler OP, one step down.....

fizzypish

Nope. You buddy is a ballbag.

s8n

IP address noted and reported to department of environment

It is of course littering. It's just rots quicker than non organic matter.

The amount of outdoor places in Ireland, trails, summits etc. littered with banana skins and apple cores by people who think that somehow others want to see rotting banana skins and apple cores...

mickydoomsux

What's an "apple butt"?

MrVestek

Yeah that's littering alright.

Menas

It depends on the river. If said river was in Irelands finest county then it is littering and you should be tarred naked at the nearest lamppost.
If it was anywhere else then said banana skin probably improved the look of the river.

Frank O. Pinion

mickydoomsux wrote: »

What's an "apple butt"?

A lady with something to brag about.

whiskeyman

You'll definitely be chased down for this one OP and face a maximum fine of €2,500 or 6 months in prison.















however, you can always a peal...

:pac:

FluffyAngel

this should set you right
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/sep/24/bananas-litter-hikers-mountains-scotland

as for asking AH are you bad ,by virtue of the fact that you have posted in here says you signed a pledge with the darkside


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cloud493

whiskeyman wrote: »

You'll definitely be chased down for this one OP and face a maximum fine of €2,500 or 6 months in prison.















however, you can always a peal...

:pac:

Get the **** out of here :pac:

dinorebel

mickydoomsux wrote: »

What's an "apple butt"?

See Georgia Salpa.

Cienciano

If you can't see it then its no problem imho. If someone has a problem with an apple butt in a hedge, they need to be slapped

anncoates

It's essentially right-on littering.


:pac:

whisky_galore

mickydoomsux wrote: »

What's an "apple butt"?

It's what's left after you smoke an apple.

How many banana peels did you throw in the river OP?

libelula

[Deleted User] wrote: »

How many banana peels did you throw in the river OP?

Two.
Two banana skins. The second careless flinging of the banana skin was to show that it was in fact, ok to do so.

RobertKK

I recycle my banana skins.

Cattle love banana skins., potato peels, skins of oranges and so on...

jester77

Of course it's littering, have you ever seen a banana tree growing in a river?

Menas

libelula wrote: »

Two.
Two banana skins. The second careless flinging of the banana skin was to show that it was in fact, ok to do so.

It does sound like the second banana skin flinging was a provocation to your dear friend?

bjork

I took a sh!t in the river the other day


Don´t mind them OP it´s not littering

galljga1

mickydoomsux wrote: »

What's an "apple butt"?

Check out Kim Karsashian.

AndyBoBandy

I would be of the opinion that anything organic like a banana skin, orange peel, or apple/pear core is fair game,

I still wouldn't blatantly throw it on a street or road, but would aim for a hedge along a road or something!

I would also try and do it discreetly (so if there was a car behind me, I wouldn't do it), to not give off the impression that I was a litter bug.

Captain Chaos

It's bio degradable anyway.

josip

not feel a bit bad because nature

RobertKK wrote: »

I recycle my banana skins.

Cattle love banana skins., potato peels, skins of oranges and so on...

Mixed in with a bit of hemlock...

MrVestek

Captain Chaos wrote: »

It's bio degradable anyway.

Yeah but it's still going to stay there for about two years degrading away.

That's two years worth of litter.

dan1895

libelula wrote: »

Two.
Two banana skins. The second careless flinging of the banana skin was to show that it was in fact, ok to do so.

Not fours skins then?

AndyBoBandy

Captain Chaos wrote: »

It's bio degradable anyway.

Plastics can be biodegradable

it just might take hundreds/thousands of years to biodegrade.

Reiver

What county was it in?

libelula

Reiver wrote: »

What county was it in?

A guard wouldn't ask me that

walkingshadow

I once threw my foreskin into a river.

kfallon

kfallon wrote: »

One step down from Hitler OP, one step down.....

Oh worse than Hitler, along with not playing jungle music at 3 in the morning, you wouldnt find Hitler throwing banana skins into a river

jungleman

Absolutely nothing wrong with it. Any skins or fruit cores thrown at the side of the road or a hedge would probably be eaten by rats and foxes anyway.

hardCopy

dan1895 wrote: »

Not fours skins then?

The Two Ronnies greatest lost sketch.

jungleman

jungleman wrote: »

Absolutely nothing wrong with it. Any skins or fruit cores thrown at the side of the road or a hedge would probably be eaten by rats and foxes anyway.

Banana skins on mountain tops seem to be pretty immune to foxes. Places like the top of Lug, Brandon, Carrauntoohil...banana skins everywhere by people who will go up there once and never go back and think it's fine to fling it.

donegal.

not feel a bit bad because nature

mickydoomsux wrote: »

What's an "apple butt"?

http://marcos.kirsch.mx/2011/09/25/tech-tattoos/apple_tattoo_gl4ipad/

jungleman

Deleted User wrote: »

Banana skins on mountain tops seem to be pretty immune to foxes. Places like the top of Lug, Brandon, Carrauntoohil...banana skins everywhere by people who will go up there once and never go back and think it's fine to fling it.

ah, see foxes only like Fyffes bananas. They wouldn't go near the Del Monte ones.

Lau2976

It's littering. They take time to breakdown. And I'm sure other people who use those roads or paths don't want to be looking at your decomposing fruits. Bring a plastic bag with you and put it in a compost bin.

Simon Gruber Says

[Deleted User] wrote: »

The amount of outdoor places in Ireland, trails, summits etc. littered with banana skins

Sounds like the start of a slippery slope to me.

libelula

libelula wrote: »

A guard wouldn't ask me that

Well no because he'd have caught you red handed. Red. Handed.

No shame. No shame at all at all. What if you had hit an innocent canoeist? Well? Well?

walkingshadow

Deleted User wrote: »

Banana skins on mountain tops seem to be pretty immune to foxes. Places like the top of Lug, Brandon, Carrauntoohil...banana skins everywhere by people who will go up there once and never go back and think it's fine to fling it.

What an idiotic comment. We are talking about natural waste that will decompose naturally, or else be quickly eaten by birds or other wildlife. The way some people are going on here, you would swear its battery acid.

libelula

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Well no because he'd have caught you red handed. Red. Handed.

No shame. No shame at all at all. What if you had hit an innocent canoeist? Well? Well?

Oh god that'd be awful funny :pac:
After I felt bad and apologised profusely of course.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

libelula wrote: »

Last weekend I was in town (not Dublin)...

Does not compute...

walkingshadow

walkingshadow wrote: »

What an idiotic comment. We are talking about natural waste that will decompose naturally, or else be quickly eaten by birds or other wildlife. The way some people are going on here, you would swear its battery acid.

The only people who think it idiotic are people who don't use our great outdoors.

If you enjoyed facilities like our mountains or National Parks, you'd know about day trippers with their ignorance of the very very basic rule, leave nothing behind. What's so complex or hard to follow about that simply courtesy? You're on someone else's land, a modicum of respect is hardly too much to hope for.

Chloris

It's not really the same but it was raining the the other night at 5am and when I was coming from a houseparty to go into McDonald's (we don't usually get that crap, it was just on the way home and we were shtarvin!). Moments later, as myself and my boyfriend queued, a really tall, smelly, weird guy came up and said "you threw this on the ground" handing me back a receipt which must have fallen out of my pocket. I said "It's raining outside and paper is biodegradable, and I didn't intentionally throw anything on the ground". He shouted at me "YOU THREW THAT ON THE GROUND OUTSIDE" and stormed off. Caaant.

Aongus Von Bismarck

This is the type of gobshíttery that is so prevalent amongst Paddy Pint Drinker and Mary Merlot. It’s this type of ‘let someone else clean it up’ attitude that screams bad breeding and a complete lack of any sort of civic pride.

You visit an area of natural beauty and see refuse sacks thrown in ditches. You see red-faced hicks openly breaking the law and destroying ecologically precious bogland because they think they have some sort of divine birth right to cut that turf. Usually some gibberish about how their father and his father before him had cut turf from the same bank. You go to a concert and see drunken idiots throw plastic pint glasses on the ground without a care in the world. You see heaps of cigarette butts thrown outside the doors of pubs by people who don’t even have the manners to put the cigarette out before they throw it on the ground.

My girlfriend was shocked the first time I brought her to Ireland for a visit.

“Aongus, why is there so much rubbish and dirt around the place?” she asked. “Do you not care about your country”.


“It’s because Ireland is full of the Irish and not the Germans” I replied.



Harsh words, but true words.

fizzypish

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

“It’s because Ireland is full of the Irish and not the Germans” I replied.

Harsh words, but true words.

As a fellow continental this is unfortunately true. If you were in the habit of littering over here you'd be stopped in the street by anybody and told to pick it up. If it was a cop you'd get a fine. Drives me nuts when a guy/gal drops a mars bar wrapper BESIDE a bin. Putting **** in a bin is as ingrained in me as closing a door I just came through or turning off the light in a room I just left. As regards the banana peel specifically, If you drop it in the middle of a street then thats ****ty while as if you throw it into a ditch, thats perfectly fine. AND yes if all 5 or 6 million of us did it it'd be a cluster **** but thats never going to happen. It'll be gone in a week. The mice/rats/soil will love you for it.

walkingshadow

Deleted User wrote: »

The only people who think it idiotic are people who don't use our great outdoors.

If you enjoyed facilities like our mountains or National Parks, you'd know about day trippers with their ignorance of the very very basic rule, leave nothing behind. What's so complex or hard to follow about that simply courtesy? You're on someone else's land, a modicum of respect is hardly too much to hope for.

Its biodegradable. And I frequently climb and hike.

anncoates

libelula wrote: »

After I felt bad and apologised profusely of course.

All you can really do is just a peel to their sense of forgiveness.

Fat Christy

libelula wrote: »

A guard wouldn't ask me that

I suppose you WOULD know after committing such a heinous crime. Tut tut.