Is it just me or has anyone else noticed that our roads are getting cluttered in the verges with water bottles half full of yellow coloured liquids? (yes i know whats in them)
Also driving back through norfolk this week an awful lot of abandoned shoes scattered in the roads (mainly trainers) i can understand the occasional shoe from a child that has thrown it out of a moving car but surely not the amount i saw ?does anybody live in norfolk/anglia that can give a scientific explanation? like maypole dancing perhaps?
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The wearing of shoes in Norfolk, Suffolk and Lincolnshire, is a recent experience to those inhabitants, so some of them dont know what to do with them, hence the dumping by the roadside.
I do hear that they wil be getting electric light some time next year.
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interesting point TVM as we stayed at swaffham for one night and the only people who knew what manners were worked in the fish shop,so shoes today manners tommorrow maybe?or should that be the other way round??
shant be motoring through that town again for a long time......
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Likewise polythene bags tied to hedges, with something else in them, I am told.
And last Saturday I watched a group of teenagers throw a pair of trainers into the River Tivy at Cardigan.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=0waq20hE__Q
Throwing shoes from a car - It's the latest craze by sick youth in a sick countries.
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Reminds of my first day at senior school some 32 years ago, one young lad was pulled up for turning up in the most tatty pair of plymsols (remember them!) his excuse was that his (even younger ) cousin had thrown one if his new shiny school shoes out of the car window the day before and his parents had neither been able to find it or buy a new pair.
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Grandfather of a cousin of mine, a retired army officer, sitting in a first-class compartment on a train, was so incensed when some fellow sat down opposite him and took his shoes off that he picked up the shoes and threw them out of the train window with the words: 'Filthy swine.'
He may have been having a bad day, but possibly not.
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We live in Norfolk and, funnily enough, I noticed an abandoned shoe this morning on my way to work.
I had n't realised that this was "solely" an East Anglian activity.
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Tread carefully with your puns, RTB. ;o)
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I'll have to be careful here, as bad puns are my Achilles Heel.
I have a friend in Norfolk, and he says that everyone between 14 and 35 (with a bit of leeway younger and older) is off their head on substances that either float from or are smuggled in from Holland.
I'm moving there next week.
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You people have no soul, sole etc.
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Do you come in the fortunate age group, stevied, or are you going to have to stretch a point to squeeze into it?
Can be seriously misleading, this age-based generalization.
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RF - well observed as usual.
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Weird but the single flattened shoe is a worldwide phenomenon as I seem to notice it in every country I visit. I am glad somebody else has too and it was beginning to worry me, doctor. I have even contributed to the phenomenon once by pushing my car out of roadside mud in Algeria, tying my sodden muddy boots to the roof rack to dry (as you do) and discovering one missing 200 miles later!
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SWMBO lost a motorbike type boot whilst riding pillion (she's bought a new pair and the old pair were on her lap). Despite spotting the departing boot and turning round to go and pick it up, we never found it.........bizzare.
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and firdges, TVs, stoves and sofas......what a charitable country.
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I havent got a firdge. Am I missing out on a consumer experience?
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