It's a patch of scruffy grass barely big enough to sit down on – but that hasn’t stopped one town hall making a great deal of fuss about it.
The verge measures only 3ft by 2ft but has its own ‘Keep Off The Grass’ sign. The warning has appeared as officials plan £70million of cuts.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1SmWMZZQv
I think someone's on the grass...
I think someone's on the grass...
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Glad it ain't just US...
Sometimes it seems as though one has to cross the line just to figger out where it is
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Grass?
Porsche-designed bong...
(for real)
Porsche-designed bong...
(for real)
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
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It looks like its the last patch of green space on that entire street. Is it a crime to want to try to preserve it?
"The dildo of consequence rarely comes lubed." -- Eileen Rose
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It's the 
Hard Hat Zone: Beware of Falling Standards.
Hard Hat Zone: Beware of Falling Standards.
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Is the story false Lo?
Please provide your evidence for any falling standard. Thanks in advance.
The Guardian has also run this story. Were they also suffering from falling standards. Or are you perhaps barking at shadows?
Oh? The BBC has also run with the story? Goodness.
Please provide your evidence for any falling standard. Thanks in advance.
The Guardian has also run this story. Were they also suffering from falling standards. Or are you perhaps barking at shadows?
Oh? The BBC has also run with the story? Goodness.
Bah!
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So has the BBC;
The Evening Standard;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-14242250
A council has admitted that a Keep off the Grass sign located on a tiny verge in south-west London "doesn't make any sense" and is "out of date". The notice is in front of a house on Elm Row, Raynes Park, on a patch of grass which is less than a square ...
The Metro;http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/ ... f-grass.do
This "Keep Off The Grass" warning sign is protecting possibly the tiniest strip of turf in London.
It was installed by council workmen to stop drivers ruining a patch no bigger than two feet by three feet.
Today Merton council defended its decision to keep the sign, saying it was there to deter rogue parking.
Edited to remove statements giving Lo what she wishes for.http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/870060-is- ... idest-sign
A spokesman said: ‘The sign was to remind motorists it is illegal to park on the footway and is designed to deter indiscriminate parking.’
Council leader Stephen Alambritis admitted: ‘A sign on a piece of grass so small doesn’t make sense.’
Elsewhere, bosses at a construction site want motorists to stick to a nine-and-a-half mph speed limit.
Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/870060-is- ... z1SngneVJ2
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Personally I would love to see the council work man assigned to keep the grass to a uniform length go about his job on that patch of dirt.
He will be ruing the inclusion of the sign as it will make it that much more difficult to mow it.
He will be ruing the inclusion of the sign as it will make it that much more difficult to mow it.
Bah!
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Crime? NoScooter wrote:It looks like its the last patch of green space on that entire street. Is it a crime to want to try to preserve it?
Stupid? Yes...
Sometimes it seems as though one has to cross the line just to figger out where it is
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Too bad a senior citizen doesn't live there. He would live to come out and yell "Keep off my lawn!"
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It isn't even lawn. It's weeds. Paving it would make much more sense.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan
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"Scruffy" is generous . . .
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
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“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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It should be easy to keep off the grass since there doesn't appear to be any growing there.
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Is grass that hard to grow there? It's not like it's an endangered species on the plant...