Tiger
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Here's a gripe i have at the minute.
Its really getting on my tits the amount of people that just flick their dock ends out of the window when they've finished. You get ash trays in your cars, use the fuckers. The roadsides up and down the country are becoming a discrace with the amount of these I see being carelessly discarded. Do the decent thing and do your bit for the future generations, your kids and their kids too.
Lets have a bit of decency and respect.
Ben.
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Wayne
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where the fuk as that come from?
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Mistamist
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But i have coins in my astray 
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MikeD
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My new company car has no Ashtrays?? but I dont smoke so dont need them
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Tiger
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Originally posted by lazerbluesxi
where the fuk as that come from?
Just something that i see more and more, i think they should give points on licences for it.
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myke
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they're bio-degradeable aren't they?
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Wayne
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nahh i wudnt go that far, maybe a fine if caught doing it, i know alot of people do it but ur never gonna stop it, yes its not nice wen u dnt smoke but it will always be the same will never change
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Tiger
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I doubt it, they are still being made from fibre-glass as far as i know. Still no excuse.
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Tiger
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Originally posted by lazerbluesxi
nahh i wudnt go that far, maybe a fine if caught doing it, i know alot of people do it but ur never gonna stop it, yes its not nice wen u dnt smoke but it will always be the same will never change
Ok, a fine then - £20 for each time someone is caught.
The thing is - why dont people use the ashtrays
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Wayne
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no idea, probs cause its filled up with other crap
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Tiger
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Many people believe that cigarette filters are biodegradable and made of cotton. They are made of cellulose acetate, which takes 12 years to biodegrade
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Charlene
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I doubt they will want to fine people for fags ends to be honest
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Tiger
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But why shouldnt they? Someone has to clean them up? People have been fined before - people should take responsibility for their actions.
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dave17
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u dont put em in ur ashtray, because u have to pay attention while putting a cig out, so you dont burn yourself. Also, it can melt the plastic, and it makes the car stink, out the window is much easier 
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Tiger
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Originally posted by dave17
u dont put em in ur ashtray, because u have to pay attention while putting a cig out, so you dont burn yourself. Also, it can melt the plastic, and it makes the car stink, out the window is much easier
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Dom
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Originally posted by dave17
u dont put em in ur ashtray, because u have to pay attention while putting a cig out, so you dont burn yourself. Also, it can melt the plastic, and it makes the car stink, out the window is much easier
ashtrays are made of tough stuff, so there never going to melt easierly and im sure it aint that hard to put a cancer stick out, considering people text, read maps, talk on the phone whilst driving 
As for making the car stink, well its their choice for smoking - dont want car to stink dont smoke 
what fecks me off worse is smokers that go on about drugs and crackheads etc, yet dont understand that there addicted to a drug as well
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Tiger
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Shane
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quote:
Originally posted by Tiger
Here's a gripe i have at the minute.
Its really getting on my tits the amount of people that just flick their dock ends out of the window when they've finished. You get ash trays in your cars, use the fuckers. The roadsides up and down the country are becoming a discrace with the amount of these I see being carelessly discarded. Do the decent thing and do your bit for the future generations, your kids and their kids too.
Lets have a bit of decency and respect.
Ben.
PMSL there degrable its not like plastic 
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Tiger
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Hmm, you seem to have not read this properly....
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Many people believe that cigarette filters are biodegradable and made of cotton. They are made of cellulose acetate, which takes 12 years to biodegrade
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Tiger
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Cigarette Butts.
120 tonnes of cigarette litter are dropped in the UK every day.
In the UK, cigarette butts account for around 40 % of litter, in the rest of the World, they account for around 50 percent of all litter.
A cigarette butt contains up to 4,000 chemicals including Hydrogen, cyanide and arsenic.
Cigarette filters are made of plastic, cellulose acetate which can take up to 12 years to degrade.
It takes one second to drop a cigarette butt. If it took the same time to pick it up again, it would take one person (working eight hours a day) nearly 20 years to collect the estimated 200 million cigarette buts that are thrown away in the UK each day.
An estimated 4.5 trillion butts are littered worldwide every year.
Carelessly discarded cigarette butts are a serious fire risk.
Cigarette butts are flushed into waterways in huge quantities and are harmful to birds and marine life.
“Cigarette butts” in the environment is a litter issue -- not a smoking issue.
One cigarette butt can contaminate up to 8 litres of water.
Within an hour, toxic chemicals leaking from discarded cigarette butts present a biohazard at concentrations of about one butt per two gallons of water.
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Robbo
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Pisses me off that people smoke them full stop but still... i wish people wud stop flicking the fuckin things everywhere  Next door neighbours smoke an theres always fag ends hanging around an the other day some1 hrew a fag end out of their window an it landed straight on my windscreen (really annoyed me) so i beeped my horn an flipped the cunt off
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Tim
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Originally posted by Dom
what fecks me off worse is smokers that go on about drugs and crackheads etc, yet dont understand that there addicted to a drug as well
Um because smokers don't rob people/houses in order to buy their next cigarette?
Next you'll be having a go at people for wanting a coffee to wake them up in the morning, or people who are just dying for a drink (and they're the ones who leave fast food wrappings and throw-up/piss all over the streets)...
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Colin
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Only think that pisses me off about that is when it gets flicked out a window and bounces off my car with the ash going everywhere....i dont really give a fuck about the environment tho
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pauls corsa
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i don't no if it applies to u guys but if ur caught dropping cig ends litter etc ur given a £40 on the spot fine in leeds
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mav
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I do it.
Don't use ashtray as don't want to dirty it............
I don't ping it out when a car is close up behind me as I wouldn't like a fag end hitting my car.
Think you need to worry about all the pollutents coming out your car than a few fag ends
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