Am I the only one irritated by roadside tat?
“Happy birthday” messages on manky bed sheets.
Mouldy floral tributes (are litter pickers frightened of offending relatives?)
“Drum n bass with DJ Asbo…” promotional signs.
Lumps of rock dumped on grass verges to “protect” it.
Religious messages (always a God bothering message near Faringdon, A420).
Amateur dramatics signs promoting some awful rendition of Oliver in the village hall.
nowt wrong with big rocks nathan , just before retirement i spent weeks taking said large rocks all around manchester . the perfect deterrent to the young gentlemen who liked to steal transits and ram raid with them . the rocks are 2 tons apiece . i agree though with random stones on verges being a pain , and i bet that those that place them will happily park on someone else’s verge if it suits them . dave
I had pesky HGVs tearing up the verge outside my house until I strategically placed large boulders there. Highways weren’t bothered. Collected many various paint samples over the years… 
There is a lovely ‘god bothering’ sign on the approach to Oxford along the A40, just before the A44 underpass by Wolvercote.
If you’re interested… 
I got off the M6 south at J10 last week and the litter on the verge near the traffic lights is ridiculous. I really don’t understand our obsession with litter dropping in this country.
Muckaway:
“Happy birthday” messages on manky bed sheets.
I saw one in Airdrie once that said “Happy 40th Grandma”
The-Snowman:
Muckaway:
“Happy birthday” messages on manky bed sheets.I saw one in Airdrie once that said “Happy 40th Grandma”
Says alot about Airdrie lol.
el_presidente:
There is a lovely ‘god bothering’ sign on the approach to Oxford along the A40, just before the A44 underpass by Wolvercote.If you’re interested…
They’ve started that nonsense again then, have they? I didn’t notice it there this morning.
I vaguely recall some God botherer complaining a few years ago that people kept vandalising the “message” left there. One memorable one there said “Jesus saves” and someone added “tell OUFC to sign him then.”
rigsby:
nowt wrong with big rocks nathan , just before retirement i spent weeks taking said large rocks all around manchester . the perfect deterrent to the young gentlemen who liked to steal transits and ram raid with them . the rocks are 2 tons apiece . i agree though with random stones on verges being a pain , and i bet that those that place them will happily park on someone else’s verge if it suits them . dave
Those “big rocks” aka Tinker Bollards; Used by landowners who have an adequate supply of pegs.
I was a grandparent at 40, don’t live in Airdrie though. Also not a grandma.
Just slipping that in for a point of interest.
Doesn’t slip into grandma so easy these days to be fair.
Dipper_Dave:
I was a grandparent at 40, don’t live in Airdrie though. Also not a grandma.
Just slipping that in for a point of interest.
Doesn’t slip into grandma so easy these days to be fair.
Like chucking a cup of coffee up the M6 eh■■?
tango boy:
Dipper_Dave:
I was a grandparent at 40, don’t live in Airdrie though. Also not a grandma.
Just slipping that in for a point of interest.
Doesn’t slip into grandma so easy these days to be fair.Like chucking a cup of coffee up the M6 eh■■?
Waving a Woodbine in the Albert Hall .
DJ Asbo is the best in the business!!!
You can’t beat pulling up at the roadside and taking in the views,milk and pop bottles full of ■■■■,McDonald’s wrappers and drink cartons,ginsters wrappers and tin cans,beautiful eh
Sometimes - admittedly very rarely - redundant posters can be very handy for harvesting a couple of tie wraps when needed. I do carry them with me most times, but things can run out and leave you without a handy solution to things of a “falling off” propensity. Puzzled a few bods a couple of months ago when i hopped out at a set of lights in the middle of Northampton and helped myself!
Give them some credit…Banksy started off that way now hes worth a few quid… 
I must agree with all the litter though, most verges are covered with it, and definitely at junctions with lights…but even in my high street, doesnt matter that bins are every few metres…people still litter…a few have had the £80 fine for the odd cigarette though…and serves them right.
The A5 between Magna Park & Tamworth is awash with litter at the side of the road. Its even worse in places now they’ve had a flail cutter chewing up the hedges.
Litter’s one thing bit ever increasingly tacky roadside memorials annoy me. In Swindon near McArther Glen there’s a mouldy England flag with sun bleached photos of the deceased. It’s not a great memorial, it’s mouldy litter.
Why not hang some beer cans on the tree on the A418 where the ■■■■■■ up teenagers crashed and blew up a few years back?
Or a sign saying “pretty crap driving killed someone here”?
“Vote pies” which was then amended to “Voted pies” on a bridge across the M6 short of Knutsford.
■■?
Christ, you really are the world’s most miserable man aren’t you 
I’ve not even thought twice about such things let alone thought about them enough for them to annoy me.
I think I’ll try a little experiment;
Leave the cheapest bunch of flowers along with the tackiest teddy bear near a zebra crossing.
Then laugh at all the Jeremy Kyle fans who come along and lay benefits-funded bouquets and cards in tribute to a completely fictional deceased person.
For added realism, leave a few chalked circles on the path or road or do it near some burnt tarmac.