If Everyone Swept The Street In Front Of Their Own Houses

[KittyWampus]

then the entire street would be clean...

Old saying a German friend told me.

[kick-ass-bob]

1. Communist!!

:grr:





:silly:

[KittyWampus]

3. Wouldn't That Be More Libertarian... As In, We Don't Need Big Govt. To

sweep our streets for us?

[kick-ass-bob]

6. Since when has calling someone a Commie

ever made sense?

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. And they're be big old piles of sweepings everywhere.

:hi:

[HamstersFromHell]

4. But not in front of MY house!

The neighbor will just have to deal with it. (Or buy a kick ass vacuum.)

[jobycom]

5. Then everyone would have to sweep

away the dirt their neighbor swept over to the front of their house. We'd be endlessly sweeping away the crud of another short-sighted Republican policy, and the Republicans would blame the street sweepers and not their own stupid ideas.

[flvegan]

7. I've outsourced my sweeping to India.

[amazona]

8. yeah what's that about?

I have a neighbor who does that. I thought he was had an obsessive compulsive disorder or something. Talk about your classic example of wasting your time doing something that doesn't need to be done.

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of communists
and other subversives. We intend to clean them out,
even if it means rounding up every birdwatcher in the country.
--John Mitchell, US Attorney General 1969-72

[Mutley]

9. i sweep in front of my house

and people look at me like i'm crazy. but i have the cleanest section of street and sidewalk on the block!

[underpants]

10. Yep that's how it is in Germany

Sunday morning everyone is expected to sweep the sidewalk in front of their house. If they don't their neighbors let them hear about it.

[Aiptasia]

11. ask him what "Schoddenfreuder" means...

pronounced shod-den-freud-der.

Old saying an old Nazi told me. It means, "Taking guilty pleasure in other people's suffering."

Republicans are full of it. Just mention it and see what kind of reaction crawls across his face.

[KittyWampus]

14. You Mean Schadenfreude?

[Blue Diadem]

12. I've heard they actually used to do that,

My mother told me that during the 20's when she was growing up, the new immigrant families from Poland and Germany used to sweep their streets and sidewalks and even scrub them down.

I think that this particular saying has more meaning, kinda like clean up your own life and not worry about what everyone else is doing. May be a good thing to say to a few fundies.

[KittyWampus]

15. That's Exactly My Interpretation. Work For Your Own "Salvation"

and let others worry about theirs.

[RaleighNCDUer]

13. Philosophical considerations aside, when I was a kid I lived in

Germany, and they did sweep their walks reagularly, and German streets were always neat and tidy and clean.

It works.

[BiggJawn]

16. I used to sweep and hose-down my sidewalk.

And I'd shovel the grit that collected in the gutter and dump it in the dumpster, too.

Hey, it was MY 'hood, y'know?

I don't live there anymore. I have enough fun now picking up trash from the yard of my apartment building. Hey, it's my LANDLORD'S building, y'know?

[KittyWampus]

I Pick Up Trash On My Street & The Beach As Well...

[KittyWampus]

17. Hmm, Computer Keeps Hiccuping.

[shesemsmom]

18. Ha my neighbors don't sweep inside

I can't see them doing the street lololo:rofl:

[Technowitch]

19. I heard a different version from my grandfather:

"If everyone swept the street in front of their own houses, all the garbage would end up in the yard of guy on vacation."

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[Xithras]

20. I sweep my street every other weekend

When I mow my lawns.

Doesn't everybody do this?