Opinion Talk

By Dennis

July 14, 2008 7:57 AM | Link to this

This post makes no sense.

Are Ms. Ansa and/or the AJC Editor who posted this stating that visitors from Atlanta are responsible for most of the trash and garbage that is in the water or on the beach?

That is ignorant and illogical. It is more likely that visitors and local residents are all contributing at about the same rate. Except local residents contribute year round.

By Bill

July 14, 2008 8:18 AM | Link to this

I think the problem is larger than St. Simons. We went down to the Florida panhandle a few weeks ago and it seems the beach is much more littered now than it used to be. I think it is a cultural thing with younger people who never learned or were not taught to be clean and neat and not to leave a mess for someone else to clean up. And the damned cigarette butts are awful.

By JB

July 14, 2008 8:28 AM | Link to this

The corrected last sentence: “All we want to remind us of your visit is your contribution to our economy.”

By jolie

July 14, 2008 8:43 AM | Link to this

Right on, JB!!! And Atlantans aren’t any slobbier than anyone else in the U.S. Never mind the trash on our beaches - take a look at the side of the roads, the banks of rivers, the floor of the forests, and the streches of grass found everywhere in America. You will always see a plastic bag floating in the wind, or a coke can rolling away. We are hurting our planet much more than some of us care to think about.

By AP

July 14, 2008 8:48 AM | Link to this

Thank you , Dennis for pointing out that the littering problem may not be completely atributed to Atlantans. And I feel compelled to add that all who live in Atlanta aren’t necessarily from here…

By James

July 14, 2008 8:58 AM | Link to this

We could go on all day about the environment, so I’m not going to add anything to that discussion. I’d just like to ask if you guys actualy have jobs. You’ve all commented after 8:00, (except Dennis, who was close enough), and it’s a Monday morning. Go to work! If you are at work, you shouldn’t be using your office’s computer to do this. No, this does not have anything to do with the article. If you don’t like it, you’re welcome to file a complaint.

By lundy

July 14, 2008 9:05 AM | Link to this

If you read the actual article that Tina wrote, she does not say “Atlantans” are slobs. She simply notes that many tourists who visit do not clean up after themselves. Nice job spinning the truth, AJC.

By Greg

July 14, 2008 9:09 AM | Link to this

James @ 8:58

I’d just like to ask if you guys actualy have jobs. You’ve all commented after 8:00, (except Dennis, who was close enough), and it’s a Monday morning. Go to work! If you are at work, you shouldn’t be using your office’s computer to do this.

Heal thyself, physician.

By Arnold

July 14, 2008 9:10 AM | Link to this

Jolie is only a child who is trying to hide her identity with a fake name. She’s my boss’ daughter, and this isn’t the first time she has done this.

By Arnold

July 14, 2008 9:11 AM | Link to this

Jolie is only a child who is trying to hide her identity with a fake name. She’s my boss’ daughter, and this isn’t the first time she has done this.

By Arnold

July 14, 2008 9:11 AM | Link to this

Jolie is only a child who is trying to hide her identity with a fake name. She’s my boss’ daughter, and this isn’t the first time she has done this.

By Trasher

July 14, 2008 9:17 AM | Link to this

Why worry - Obamam the man will take care of it. ew can do what we want and all will be good :-)

By Trasher

July 14, 2008 9:17 AM | Link to this

Why worry - Obama the man will take care of it. ew can do what we want and all will be good :-)

By Trasher

July 14, 2008 9:18 AM | Link to this

Why worry - Obama the man will take care of it. We can do what we want and all will be good :-)

By Trasher

July 14, 2008 9:18 AM | Link to this

Why worry - Obama the man will take care of it. We can do what we want and all will be good :-)

By lucy

July 14, 2008 9:18 AM | Link to this

Jolie is my best friend. Her father is not the boss of anything; he is the employee in a McDonald’s near my house. Arnold is my brother and he does not like her; please disregard anything he says on this.

By lucy

July 14, 2008 9:21 AM | Link to this

And arnold is about to say that either me or jolie, or maybe both of us, are suffering from mental retardation. we’re not.

By lucy

July 14, 2008 9:28 AM | Link to this

And right now Arnold’s typing that me and lucy are the same person. Huh. like that’s true.

By Arnold

July 14, 2008 9:28 AM | Link to this

Lucy and Jody, please refrain from posting on this website. I know that you are one person (Jennifer, my boss’ daughter). Your father does not work for a fast food company, because if he did, you would not have your own personal computer. This is a place for grown ups. It is not meant for children. Please do not ever post on this website again.

By NA

July 14, 2008 9:31 AM | Link to this

Arnold, this is your father. Please get off this blog right now. You know that you are not allowed on these sites. Please tell your mother what I have just told you, and get back to work on your science homework. This is real; I’m serious.

By lucy

July 14, 2008 9:35 AM | Link to this

and now he’s saying that i’m someone named jennifer (his girlfriend) and that i’m completly fake.

By Arnold

July 14, 2008 9:35 AM | Link to this

Arnold, Lucy, and Jodie don’t exist. It’s Michael and Jennifer, two kids. Don’t listen to Lucy or Jody; they’re both Jennifer. I’m Michael.

By lucy

July 14, 2008 9:37 AM | Link to this

i bet he’ll say that jennifer has made up NA’s comment too.

By TreeHuggerOceanLover

July 14, 2008 9:44 AM | Link to this

I’m from ATL and keep the beach clean, thank you very much. It’s not the young people, it’s all the foreigners and fat lazy slobs that can’t walk ten feet to a trash can or just don’t care. Also, it’s not just SSI…it’s everywhere. Look around. People can’t even put their freakin cigarette butts in an ashtray.

By Pedro

July 14, 2008 9:58 AM | Link to this

I travel all over this great nation on business and I can tell you that Georgia, particularly the Atlanta suburbs (north and south) are the most painfully polluted areas I encounter. Nowhere else do I see people, especially young males, blatantly toss fast food bags, and cups and cans out their car windows like I see here on a regular basis. Add to that the debris that flies out of the beds of pickups and the huge uncovered trash trucks that roll down 75 and 575 delivering trash that blows out all over the place. Oh, don’t let me forget the countless cigarette butts, particularly those strewn at every off ramp. This state is disgusting. Southern pride? Not here folks.

By Mrs. Godzilla

July 14, 2008 10:13 AM | Link to this

Mrs. Godzilla:

Will it really matter?

Reports say Bush will lift executive order prohibiting off-shore drilling today.

Soon St. Simon’s Island will look like the coast of Louisiana…..

No need for SPF 15 with 20W40 floating onshore….

By Arnold

July 14, 2008 10:16 AM | Link to this

NA is Jennifer, also.

By Geezer

July 14, 2008 10:28 AM | Link to this

We need to bring the crying Indian to the south. The entire southeastern US is a large dump.

By lucy

July 14, 2008 10:29 AM | Link to this

What did i tell you!?

By MANGLER

July 14, 2008 10:35 AM | Link to this

How about we give people incentive (tax break?) for joining clean up crews? Why have the only people who ever are out cleaning up litter be city employees or the occasional chain gang or someone who was forced to do community service? The more citizenry we get out to help, the more vocal they will become about keeping the world a little cleaner - and the way to get someone wanting to help is money (just the way it is).

By Sugar

July 14, 2008 10:55 AM | Link to this

I live off a main road up in the Buford area, and main thorough-fare to the lake. I walk my two dogs every single day, down this one main road. Sometimes twice a day…….there are beer/soda cans/bottles, fast food boxes and bags, etc all strewn on the sidwalks and grassy areas.

While you all are complaining and passing the buck, I am being pro-active. I actually carry a huge garbage bag, and pick up litter while walking. It’s my community, and I like it clean, so why not pitch in. I will not sit around and whine and hope that people will stop littering. I am doing something for my community.

Now I don’t like picking up others messes, I can’t stand to see the trash on the side of the road, so I simply do something about it. It’s no big deal, just do it.

By PoFo

July 14, 2008 11:19 AM | Link to this

We need more slobs on the beach. That will keep all the topless sunbathers away. What am I saying? I meant less slobs, more topless sunbathers, but more beer and wine to get the babes drunk, so they only talk like slobs.

that’s it. Okay, everthings cool. Count me as DOWN for less slobs!

By Ugh

July 14, 2008 11:34 AM | Link to this

PoFo, you are the reason there are lesbians.

By Mike

July 14, 2008 12:11 PM | Link to this

“Are Atlantans, becoming Georgia’s version of the Ugly Americans?”

Well, first you have to buy into the myth that Americans are ruder than any other group of travellers. This is another myth perpetuated by an America-hating media. In Atlanta, we see plenty of folks from all over. Guess what? I lot of them are rude boors. A lot of them are polite. Kind of like Americans.

It’s unfortunate that the AJC has to extrapolate their self-loathing as Americans to self-loathing as Atlantans.

It’s also interesting that Ms McElroy is so convinced that the littering is being done by Altantans. I guess none of their other vistors dump trash and that Altanta’s write their return address on cups before they drop them.

Finally, folks need to realize that when you live near a tourist destination, such rudeness is par for the course. That being said, I live near the civic center and I am not going to tag all gay folks as “ugly” because some of them left beer bottles on my porch.

By atlpaddy

July 14, 2008 12:46 PM | Link to this

Maybe if there was somewhere to recycle my beer cans and bottles in St. Simons Island, I wouldn’t have to throw them in the ocean or at nesting sea turtles.

By AH

July 14, 2008 2:33 PM | Link to this

This topic is nothing but a waste of electrons.

By Nature Boy

July 14, 2008 2:56 PM | Link to this

All beaches should be Clothing Optional as nudists are more concerned with nature and the environment. They bring little, and leave nothing behind but their footprints in the sand. Those of you in the textile world should take note.