• AugustWest
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    3510 days ago

    All of that gripe and you still go there instead of a public park?

      • @quetzaldilla@lemmy.world
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        1610 days ago

        Go help clean them up, then.

        Done that plenty, it makes a huge difference and as people notice they come and help out too.

        Ya know how many toilets I’ve helped dragged out of local streams and creeks? Way too fucking many.

        • ThrowawayOnLemmy
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          1110 days ago

          I don’t mind cleaning up garbage. But I’m not usually prepared to safely handle sharps.

          • @quetzaldilla@lemmy.world
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            10 days ago

            Nobody is. Kinda heartbreaking.

            What we usually do is find an empty milk jug or soda bottle to collect them in, and we have a method where rake and spread out garbage out before we pick it up in order to spot any sharps and avoid injuries.

        • @SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          610 days ago

          Toilets? Like ceramic? The home appliance that you shit into everyday? People throw those into streams and rivers??

          …(Shatner.gif)But why?

          • @quetzaldilla@lemmy.world
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            1010 days ago

            That’s just how people are sometimes.

            I’ve also helped fished out:

            • enormous dildos
            • car engines
            • stoves
            • tires
            • a coffin (it was empty, we reported it to the cops)
        • @munk@lemmy.world
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          410 days ago

          If your kids are playground aged, you probably don’t have a ton of free time/babysitter money to be doing that. You could bring the kids, but I’d rather not have my small children handling used needles and condoms (just a few of the delights I’ve found on my local playground)…

          • @quetzaldilla@lemmy.world
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            9 days ago

            I can think of a million completely valid reasons that may prevent someone from helping improve their community.

            But still something that we need to find the time to help improve our community and that time needs to come from our jobs, not our family, so steal as much time from your employer as you can.

      • AugustWest
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        810 days ago

        After I sent that I was worried that would be the answer. I am so sorry your kids can’t just go to a park.

    • @TehWorld@lemmy.world
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      18 days ago

      We spend a LOT of time at the local parks. I’ll guess you don’t have kids. Sometimes it rains, other times it’s cold, sometimes you need to get them to just put SOMETHING in their stomachs, because if they don’t, they’ll get hangry but don’t have the emotional or bodily intelligence to understand what’s going on.

      ChickFilA also has playplaces but they have their own set of issues.

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        Oh I do have kids. They went outside rain or shine to parks most of their lives. I went to a play place once… it was gross. If they needed food we went to a local place that was good for them. It is funny now because my oldest sometimes complains that they never understood fast food or how to order it. Sometimes they tell me I ruined them because all the snack foods taste like crap to them.