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Di Wundrin wrote: ↑Sat Feb 25, 2023 12:49 amI've wondered why they print warnings like "may contain traces of nuts" on Peanut Butter jars, when anyone that stupid wouldn't have learned to read.

It's because someone once sued someone.

That's going to happen to Canberra one day and I'm not looking forward to it.

And for those of us who won't give TokTik the time of day?

And this is considered "normal".

Admin wrote: ↑Thu Feb 23, 2023 2:35 am

arthwollipot wrote: ↑Wed Feb 22, 2023 11:21 pm It's thirty years since I went to the tourist trap at Rotorua. It seemed pretty nice back then. Except for the smell, of course.

It was then. Now, it's a dumping ground for the dregs of society and is probably the worst town in the entire country in 2023.

Pity.

Yeah, shame.

It's merely the idea that "away" is a place that you can throw something and not have to think about it any more. It doesn't occur to them that "away" simply means "someone else's backyard".

For some reason, we don't get that here, as I can attest after going to a number of tourist spots over the past 4 days. Rubbish is almost non-existent, despite most places not even having bins. It's thirty years since I went to the tourist trap at Rotorua. It seemed pretty nice back then. Except fo...

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There are some photos floating around under the "different views of famous places" heading that show ridiculous amounts of rubbish around the Taj Mahal and the Giza Plateau (which is now just on the outskirts of Cairo, by the way).