This is part of The Ugly Gardens Project. Go there for an explanation of why this page is here!
One of the most entertaining things about doing this is seeing just how wound up some people get over the whole thing. If it's absurd to dedicate time and energy to a web site about ugly gardens, how absurd is it to get quite so angry? Of course the golden rule of angry emails is to do no research on your target and make wild, inaccurate allegations to make yourself feel better. Here are snippets from some of our favourite angry correspondents.
Get a Job
"...But at 22 I'd say you would be better placed doing something worthwhile, like getting a job perhaps?"
"...I suggest to you Mr Chance you get on with yours, get a proper job (if you can) and stop harrassing people."
Nanny State
"I found the article 'Ghastly gardens face law 'n order' featured in Bedfordshire on Sunday on 26 June 2005 deeply insulting to the owners of the gardens photographed, not to say sinister."
"It may well be that we don't all have the same taste, and it may well be that it doesn't all fall in line with yours, but that's what makes our world the lovely diverse place it is, otherwise we would have a nanny state dictating a uniformed outlook."
"...Are we to be told what we can or cannot put on our front lawn by the garden police, or to be urged to 'shop' our neighbours because, in our view, their gardens are unattractive?"
"...You say that you are a Marxist. I doubt it that you even know what that means? You singled out people. That to me, is somewhat a lesser form of what the Nazis did prior and during the Second World War. They called it Fascism!"
Personal Attacks
"Whilst you are swanning off round the world on tax payers money..."
"The world is crying out for motivated, intelligent people who could launch worthwhile websites promoting world hunger, ethnic tolerance, peace etc, etc. Why not concentrate your energy on something worthwhile?"
"...I would further suggest to you that you grow up a little, chuck your little cuddly toys away and place your simply-designed web site into the trash can on your newly-painted computer."
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