But no one was prosecuted, a tree is a tree.

Modern society indeed. Something can matter to an awful lot of people but if it doesn't matter to me personally then it doesn't matter at all

But you never said that....you said it didn't get much publicity....but it did.

not a tree but locally there as been some so called artwork vandalised up penistone hill in haworth thats been placed there for the bradford city of culture. the vast majority of the locals hate it and the idea of it as its been pushed on us with no consultation. now they have vast security around the place but never would have or has haved for vandalism to local residents property and allotments that happens.

Ah, the butterfly’s….they look like debris from an exploded cast iron boiler explosion….or illegal fly tipping of scrap..
Mind you there’s always someone who’ll think it’s wonderful.

funny you mention fly tipping as someone i met thought it was just that. one thing about northerners is you cant fool em by arty farty bullshit and can be wondering what the local councillors are getting out of it especially with them all coming out with the same thing and not a single dissenter.

The factory-fitted bullshit detector that I have as a Northerner is the finest gift a man could ever desire.

It's like the front of a snow plough as it rapidly clears the shite out of the way on the highway to happiness and contentment.

Without it, I'd be a gibbering wreck of a man...

or someone born within the sound of the westminster parliament. feel this is why a lot of southerners do not like us and accuse us of having a sack of king edwards on our shoulders. we see it when it happens but it takes them months to smell their flat whites.

Aye, that's certainly been my experience over the years.

The "School of Hard Knocks" and the "University of Life" may well have became clichés - but like all folk-wisdom, that's only possible because truth was contained within them in the first place.

Stereotypes are exactly the same. As exaggerated as many of them are, they could not exist if there were no truth in them at all.

every stereotype and a generalisation has some truth about it as there would be other different ones if they were incorrect. evan andy capp would not feel right if he was from a cotswold villiage with his statue being in bourton on the water.

When I worked in London in the late 1980s, I was regularly asked who was looking after my pigeons and whippets while I was away. I laughed at this, and after a while I developed a few comebacks that made them a bit more wary.

The only one I got a bit sick of was what football team did I support. They always scratched their heads and said " 'Artlepool..? Never 'eard of 'em." - before adding "Oh, you mean 'Artlepool nil..!!!"

Bddumm tssshhhhh..!!!

At least the Cockney wankers pronounced it correctly...