Aug 2009
The Hypocrisy of Climate Change Protesters
28/08/09 13:07 Filed in: Personal
I was looking at the pictures from the BBC website regarding the “Climate Camp” that has been setup on the site where Watt Tyler protested poll tax over six hundred years ago.
I just wonder whether my reaction to the protesters would be the same as the reception I gave “Greenpeace” in Portsmouth over twenty years ago.
In that incident the “Green” group had setup a Ford Transit outside our digs and where running the engine the power their P.A. system. The noxious fumes coming out the back of the tailpipe were so bad that it made a fellow housemate suffer an asthmatic seizure. Little of which seemed to matter to the shouting group of hypocrites.
You see it’s “OK” for them to use petrol, plastic etc. because they are doing it for a “good cause”. It’s just everybody else who has to go back to Middle Age technology in order to protect the planet.
Fact is, much to my own shame, I had something of a “set too” with a particularly vermant member of the group who, when I told them about the fumes and the problems shouted in my face that I was a “f’ng fascist racist b*stard and should die!”.
To be honest, his fellow protesters where also less than impressed.
Jump twenty years forward into the present and I see from the images provided by the BBC that the current bunch of CO2 protesters are;
In fact, the entire operation is either transported using oil, constructed from oil based products or will likely to be cooked or warmed using so called fossil fuels.
My point is simple. If you are trying to make a point, follow your own dictum. Offering up a “do as we say, not as we do” doesn’t work for politicians and it certainly doesn’t impress anybody following environmental issues.
Why are protesters just such a bunch of hypocrites?
Al Gore, spouting non-scientific rhetoric, while jetting between climate speeches in his own private jet... as environmentally damaging as a medium sized jet liner.
Remember “swampy” protesting pollution from cars, while sleeping in a tree he wrapped in thick blue plastic?
I wish there was a work stronger than hypocrite. My only option would be to swear in advance. But I promised myself I’ve try and avoid that kind of thing.
Speaking on Swampy, aka Daniel Hooper. he appears to have settled down somewhat and has TWO CHILDREN! TWO!! Can you imagine the environment damage that’s causing to the world. How will we be able to feed ourselves with such insensitive behaviour towards the planet and it’s resources! Perhaps you should kill one of your children, as a boost to the planet. Obviously, I’m not serious. But it’s not pleasant being on the other side of the debate, is it Daniel?
I just wonder whether my reaction to the protesters would be the same as the reception I gave “Greenpeace” in Portsmouth over twenty years ago.
In that incident the “Green” group had setup a Ford Transit outside our digs and where running the engine the power their P.A. system. The noxious fumes coming out the back of the tailpipe were so bad that it made a fellow housemate suffer an asthmatic seizure. Little of which seemed to matter to the shouting group of hypocrites.
You see it’s “OK” for them to use petrol, plastic etc. because they are doing it for a “good cause”. It’s just everybody else who has to go back to Middle Age technology in order to protect the planet.
Fact is, much to my own shame, I had something of a “set too” with a particularly vermant member of the group who, when I told them about the fumes and the problems shouted in my face that I was a “f’ng fascist racist b*stard and should die!”.
To be honest, his fellow protesters where also less than impressed.
Jump twenty years forward into the present and I see from the images provided by the BBC that the current bunch of CO2 protesters are;
- Sleeping under tents made from man-made fibres - produced from oil.
- Wearing water proofs made from nylon etc. - Made from oil (as apposed to wearing a waxed cotton coat)
- Have brought large plastic nets to hang banners on.
- Marked out the areas using plastic hazard stripping.
- Arrived in an array of transit vans and cars! Nobody seems to have walked or taken a bus!
- Are handing out rations in large plastic boxes (no cardboard then?).
- Wearing nomex hats, gloves etc - oil based.
- Baseball caps - nylon / polyester?
- Have brightly coloured T-Shirts (hopefully made from cotton) but dyed using pigments produced from oil based inks.
In fact, the entire operation is either transported using oil, constructed from oil based products or will likely to be cooked or warmed using so called fossil fuels.
My point is simple. If you are trying to make a point, follow your own dictum. Offering up a “do as we say, not as we do” doesn’t work for politicians and it certainly doesn’t impress anybody following environmental issues.
Why are protesters just such a bunch of hypocrites?
Al Gore, spouting non-scientific rhetoric, while jetting between climate speeches in his own private jet... as environmentally damaging as a medium sized jet liner.
Remember “swampy” protesting pollution from cars, while sleeping in a tree he wrapped in thick blue plastic?
I wish there was a work stronger than hypocrite. My only option would be to swear in advance. But I promised myself I’ve try and avoid that kind of thing.
Speaking on Swampy, aka Daniel Hooper. he appears to have settled down somewhat and has TWO CHILDREN! TWO!! Can you imagine the environment damage that’s causing to the world. How will we be able to feed ourselves with such insensitive behaviour towards the planet and it’s resources! Perhaps you should kill one of your children, as a boost to the planet. Obviously, I’m not serious. But it’s not pleasant being on the other side of the debate, is it Daniel?
The weakest question
14/08/09 18:01 Filed in: Personal
Another quiz show, another goof.
This time Ann “Smug Git” Robinson asked the question “What is the only land locked principality in Europe” - The answer Liechtenstein.
Which isn’t correct!
No, I mean Liechtenstein is both in Europe, land locked AND a principality. But it’s not the only one.
Obviously, whoever sets the questions at “The Weakest Link” clearly is only interested in central Europe. Because what about Andorra in the Pyrenees? I mean it’s a European principality and very much land locked.
Muppets!
This time Ann “Smug Git” Robinson asked the question “What is the only land locked principality in Europe” - The answer Liechtenstein.
Which isn’t correct!
No, I mean Liechtenstein is both in Europe, land locked AND a principality. But it’s not the only one.
Obviously, whoever sets the questions at “The Weakest Link” clearly is only interested in central Europe. Because what about Andorra in the Pyrenees? I mean it’s a European principality and very much land locked.
Muppets!
So... he landed in a tree?
13/08/09 12:34 Filed in: Personal
Another interesting story on the BBC website.
In a nutshell. Man successfully crashes into a tree in order to save himself.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/8198268.stm
One question.... why didn't he just land on the fairway?
In a nutshell. Man successfully crashes into a tree in order to save himself.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/8198268.stm
One question.... why didn't he just land on the fairway?
Bader Walk!! Give me a break.
11/08/09 13:08 Filed in: Personal
You have to take your hat off to Birmingham Council for allowing this pun-tastic street name.
I’ve used Maps.Live.com to provide a very clear image of the offending street.
So... obviously we have a flying theme running in this estate. Hawker Drive, Sopwith Croft, Concord Drive, Hurricane Drive and... Bader Walk.
Just in case you don’t know, Douglas Bader was a famous World War Two fighter pilot who crashed his plane and lost BOTH HIS LEGS. He managed to learn to walk again, and indeed fly again, by using artificial legs.
But really.... Douglas Bader walk.
I’ve used Maps.Live.com to provide a very clear image of the offending street.
So... obviously we have a flying theme running in this estate. Hawker Drive, Sopwith Croft, Concord Drive, Hurricane Drive and... Bader Walk.
Just in case you don’t know, Douglas Bader was a famous World War Two fighter pilot who crashed his plane and lost BOTH HIS LEGS. He managed to learn to walk again, and indeed fly again, by using artificial legs.
But really.... Douglas Bader walk.
Slipstream
11/08/09 12:14 Filed in: Personal
Slipstream is a BBC radio play that was broadcast in early August 2009. It centres around the attempts of British intelligence to steal an experimental German V weapon following the destruction of 150 British planes.
The V4 of Slipstream has the appearance of a flying disc and moves at incredible speed.
The V4 of Slipstream has the appearance of a flying disc and moves at incredible speed.
Knowitalls?
04/08/09 19:11 Filed in: Personal
I love it when “expert” programs make an arse of themselves. There is something deliciously about a smug show making a goof. Witness BBC’s latest attempt to create a new quiz to surpass the “Weakest Link”.
The show stars irritate-a-compare Gyles Brandreth presenting the quiz “with no questions”.
Essentially contestants are given a subject and have to yak about it, hoping to name actual facts (rather than something heard in a pub) and in particular hit the list of facts that have be pre-selected.
Unfortunately, the shows aspirations of expertise are not always matched by the quality of the subjects or the staff in charge of the graphics. Here is the three “facts” pre-selected for the subject “Sahara Desert”. Just in case you miss it, the Sahara is in fact in “Northern Africa” and not “Nothern Africa” which of course doesn’t actually exist at all
Nice one!
The show stars irritate-a-compare Gyles Brandreth presenting the quiz “with no questions”.
Unfortunately, the shows aspirations of expertise are not always matched by the quality of the subjects or the staff in charge of the graphics. Here is the three “facts” pre-selected for the subject “Sahara Desert”. Just in case you miss it, the Sahara is in fact in “Northern Africa” and not “Nothern Africa” which of course doesn’t actually exist at all
Nice one!
