Disgusting London ...

[rareboy]

I was only making a comparison between larger cities, and smaller cities.

Of course you were.

 

[Pierresro]

All places have there short comings, take Australia that does not recognize gay marriage!!

 

[fukmenow]

Is London the the only city that has poo, tampons, condoms and wet wipes? I always take all those things (except tampons) to every place I visit and I travel a lot. As the biggest city in Europe, London obviously has more of everything. I doubt if Londoners are to blame for the crap that people put in their toilets. Some people still haven't started separating their waste into the appropriate containers. I was on a campsite in Portugal recently where over 90% of the people were French speaking. We had to leave early because of the really gross state of the toilets caused by the French people in campervans. Never had that problem in London.

 

[pat grimshaw]

...I doubt if Londoners are to blame for the crap that people put in their toilets...

Who else is to blame for the "crap" that people put in London toilets? The tourists and Asylum Seekers and Bulgarians?

 

[Telstra]

You should regret making ALL your threads!

I regret ALL your comments.
Basically they are USELESS to me ...

 

[Vannie]

Of course you were.

Where's that Garage Sale at?

 

[kallipolis]

Shits stirs, improvement. Never underestimate the movement of turds to improve the environment.

 

[Soilwork]

That's what happens when you jam pack so many people into a tight space. Big cities are filthy. Some are filthier than others, but they're still not nearly as clean as smaller cities.

For example, this photo was taken in Toronto...

and this one was taken in Saskatoon...

To be totally fair... that first one was taken on Spadina. Later on a Saturday, I'm guessing. A very busy street with vendors and street performers and restaurants. They have nightly garbage pickup in that neighborhood and normally the city is very clean but after a hundred thousand people or so pass through during the day, that's going to happen.

I used to live in that neighborhood and in the evening it was always like that on the weekends but by morning it was totally clean again.

 

[Soilwork]

I regret ALL your comments.
Basically they are USELESS to me ...

much like everything you have ever posted here and probably said aloud is useless to humanity.

 

[rareboy]

^ As I pointed out above, the first one was taken after a five week garbage strike in Toronto.

The pic in post #21 is taken in Saskatoon.

 

[Telstra]

much like everything you have ever posted here and probably said aloud is useless to humanity.

So you are bored and post here.
Good for you lol

 

[Soilwork]

^ As I pointed out above, the first one was taken after a five week garbage strike in Toronto.

The pic in post #21 is taken in Saskatoon.

AH ok... honestly, Spadina and Dundas ALWAYS looks like that Friday, Saturday and Sunday later in the day... and then the trucks come by and clean it up.

Notice that Saskatoon looks like a Twilight Zone episode where it's really pretty and manicured and clean but there are no actual people there?

 

[DantheManFL]

^ Ah.. West of Downtown. I lived on the East side - Beaches district.

I'm always amazed at what a clean city Toronto is. Everyone usually comments on that.

 

[Soilwork]

^ Ah.. West of Downtown. I lived on the East side - Beaches district.

I'm always amazed at what a clean city Toronto is. Everyone usually comments on that.

I was a Kensington Market boy. Lived there for years. In college I lived over a store on Yonge Street at Wellesley. I do miss Toronto a lot, I'll tell you that.

 

[pat grimshaw]

100 years ago it was known as Toronto The Good .

It was by run by Methodists and Temperants and was an inspiration for Methodists around the world.

 

[rareboy]

^ Whatever....one whole section, which now includes the homo district was known as Molly Woods Bush...named after the early 19th cross-dressing Alexander Woods who was instrumental in the settlement of TO.

The Methodists never stood a chance.

 

[Soilwork]

^ Whatever....one whole section, which now includes the homo district was known as Molly Woods Bush...named after the early 19th cross-dressing Alexander Woods who was instrumental in the settlement of TO.

The Methodists never stood a chance.

I still remember back in the 80s when XTRA had the double page spread in every issue with the map of Molly Wood's Bush and everything going on (I'd have called it Mollywood and it totally would have stuck).

 

[mikey3000]

Uh right.

Pics of the results of the 2009 five week garbage strike in Toronto tell the story.

As you'll notice though, people did still deposit garbage at garbage cans...it didn't just get pitched wherever.

One day, when you lose that chip on your shoulder...you'll have to actually travel and visit Toronto.....the way that some of us have visited every provincial capital city in our country.

Aggreed.

"When Americans visit Toronto, they can't help noticing how darn nice the place is. It's clean, Hollywood movie crews have to import their own garbage to make Toronto streets look like the good old USA. And if they leave their rubbish unguarded, the city sweeps it up."

Rick Marin
Television columnist for the Washington Times and former Torontonian.

Besides, when was the last time a tourist actually went to Saskatoon?

 

[Kulindahr]

In New York City after the series finale of M*A*S*H, the sewage system was brought almost to its breaking point (since so many people waited until after the show to go to the bathroom.)... imagine what THAT potentially could have looked and smelled like...

I remember reading that it exceeded Super Bowl halftime and end, which are considered the things to design for.

 

[Kulindahr]

Shits stirs, improvement. Never underestimate the movement of turds to improve the environment.

LOL

Where I do conservation work is a natural area zoned to be natural. When a group of people told me I should work to help them get restrooms put in, I told them that from a conservation standpoint, human excrement scattered lightly over a broad area (if buried properly) is nutrients for the ecology.