Message in a bottle? You're just a litter bug

[BCLG100]

So just how many people here actually think this is a true story out of interest??? still very funny story

 

[LLXerxes]

Actually the whole American rant shows his own ignorance..

Being an american, you're bound to have every existing stereotype thrown at you.

My thoughts exactly. How stuck up do you have to be, to label a message in a bottle litter? Biggelsworth should give the message to children, they would have appreciated it.

Uh, doesn't a bottle belong in the recycles? Not in your scenic walking routes? I know this guy's being a moron but don't call him stuck up. He just wants a clean earth.

 

[Lozzy_Ozzy]

I don't think the response was needed. Its just a fun thing he's doing...

It's just British humour!

It wasn't meant seriously .

 

[Dell19]

And then pick it up again and pretend you have just found it? Possibly writing yourself an angry letter?

 

[Moggy]

Its either a joke (which it sounds like to me!) or Mr Bigglesworth is just a grump old man (and we have loads of them in England!).

I found a message in a bottle once, but it was in a river not the sea. I was only little so I cant really remember what the note said but it was written in German. How the hell a German message in a bottle got into a river 10 miles outside of Bristol (the river flows towards the Bristol channel so it cant have come from there!) I will never know!

 

[BCLG100]

Its either a joke (which it sounds like to me!) or Mr Bigglesworth is just a grump old man (and we have loads of them in England!).

I found a message in a bottle once, but it was in a river not the sea. I was only little so I cant really remember what the note said but it was written in German. How the hell a German message in a bottle got into a river 10 miles outside of Bristol (the river flows towards the Bristol channel so it cant have come from there!) I will never know!

someone having a laugh?

 

[Moggy]

It probably was but I was only about 7 years old so just thought it was the coolest thing. It was only when I read the story above and remembered finding the bottle, that I started to wonder how the hell it actually got there.

 

[skadistic]

British humar seems to be as dry as its beer is warm.

 

[Lambert Simnel]

As MT has already pointed out, it's clearly a joke response - an attempt to wind the Americans up, if you like. It clearly was terribly successful - not only did the bottle thrower (or "litterbug", as I think we can agree to refer to him) fall for it, but so did his local press and most of the first 5 or 6 American posters in this thread.

I particularly enjoyed the disparaging "shakehead" smilies. Heh. Nothing beats winding the colonials up.

 

[Whomp]

As MT has already pointed out, it's clearly a joke response - an attempt to wind the Americans up, if you like. It clearly was terribly successful - not only did the bottle thrower (or "litterbug", as I think we can agree to refer to him) fall for it, but so did his local press and most of the first 5 or 6 American posters in this thread.

I particularly enjoyed the disparaging "shakehead" smilies. Heh. Nothing beats winding the colonials up.

Hehe. Not only local press it hit national news yesterday.