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Extinction Rebellion Ireland

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    #2252
    cj maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,384 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    gozunda wrote: »
    Another view of the video of guy dealing with the eejits blocking the road. The guy is a hero :pac:

    https://m.imgur.com/gallery/IlnBOpX

    The bar for being a 'hero' must be very very low!


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    #2253
    gozunda
    Registered Users Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    cjmc wrote: »
    The bar for being a 'hero' must be very very low!

    On the contrary "A working class hero is something to be", John Lennon

    Thankfully flag waving does not apply. I hope some one buys that a man a beer at least. He deserves it! :D


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    #2254
    Dr. Bre
    Registered Users Posts: 7,540 ✭✭✭Dr. Bre


    Walked by one of these extinction heads recently and they had a cool new phone. Not exactly sticking it to the man tho !! Disappointed they didn’t have the old school Nokia phone..


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    #2255
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    gozunda wrote: »
    Another view of the video of guy dealing with the eejits blocking the road. The guy is a hero :pac:

    https://m.imgur.com/gallery/IlnBOpX

    That is brilliant!! Fair play to him.


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    #2256
    IamtheWalrus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,075 ✭✭✭IamtheWalrus


    Dr. Bre wrote: »
    Walked by one of these extinction heads recently and they had a cool new phone. Not exactly sticking it to the man tho !! Disappointed they didn’t have the old school Nokia phone..

    How do you know it was new?


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    #2257
    Dr. Bre
    Registered Users Posts: 7,540 ✭✭✭Dr. Bre


    IamtheWalrus wrote: »
    How do you know it was new?

    The latest iPhone


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    #2258
    topper75
    Registered Users Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    nthclare wrote: »
    With all the time herd's of buffaloes, parade's of Mamoths amongst other animals in North America before the pale face came, I'm surprised they're not under water with all the co2 emitted from the flatulence.
    ...

    Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody
    Eco warrior!


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    #2259
    IamtheWalrus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,075 ✭✭✭IamtheWalrus


    Dr. Bre wrote: »
    The latest iPhone

    Couldn’t it be second-hand? Or are trying to distract from the real issue here?


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    #2260
    runawaybishop
    Registered Users Posts: 9,500 ✭✭✭runawaybishop


    IamtheWalrus wrote: »
    Couldn’t it be second-hand? Or are trying to distract from the real issue here?

    The real issue is a lot of the ER protesters are just anarchy tourists. They dont really care about the cause.


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    #2261
    IamtheWalrus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,075 ✭✭✭IamtheWalrus


    runawaybishop wrote: »
    The real issue is a lot of the ER protesters are just anarchy tourists. They dont really care about the cause.

    How many have you met? I don’t mean walking past; I mean have had actual conversations with?


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    #2262
    begsbyOnaTrain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 272 ✭✭begsbyOnaTrain


    runawaybishop wrote: »
    The real issue is a lot of the ER protesters are just anarchy tourists. They dont really care about the cause.

    Ah brings me back to childhood when middle class, wannabe crusties from Dublin would descend on us in the West for the Summer once college broke up for the year :)


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    #2263
    runawaybishop
    Registered Users Posts: 9,500 ✭✭✭runawaybishop


    IamtheWalrus wrote: »
    How many have you met? I don’t mean walking past; I mean have had actual conversations with?

    A rake in McDonalds. Didn't speak to them though, i dont like talking to junkies.


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    #2264
    topper75
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    begsbyOnaTrain wrote: »
    Ah brings me back to childhood when middle class, wannabe crusties from Dublin would descend on us in the West for the Summer once college broke up for the year :)

    Did they descend on ye to take up difficult manual work on farms? Or was it merely to disseminate the glorious bolshevik creedo to the agrarians?


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    #2265
    IamtheWalrus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,075 ✭✭✭IamtheWalrus


    runawaybishop wrote: »
    A rake in McDonalds. Didn't speak to them though, i dont like talking to junkies.

    No further questions, your honour.


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    #2266
    begsbyOnaTrain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 272 ✭✭begsbyOnaTrain


    topper75 wrote: »
    Did they descend on ye to take up difficult manual work on farms? Or was it merely to disseminate the glorious bolshevik creedo to the agrarians?

    Work? :pac: I believe sales of rizzla went up in the local newsagents. Ah they were mainly harmless, just protesting... well anything related to development. The water treatment plant on Mutton Island was fought over for years. That was a big one. Many's the crusty who wanted Galway Bay to be full of human excrement. For some reason.


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    #2267
    blueshade
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 428 ✭✭blueshade


    Dr. Bre wrote: »
    Walked by one of these extinction heads recently and they had a cool new phone. Not exactly sticking it to the man tho !! Disappointed they didn’t have the old school Nokia phone..

    This is a big part of the problem. The days when people waited for phones or electronic equipment to break before replacing them are long gone. Many people change their phones at least once a year. People are buying cheap ''fast''/disposable fashion, people think nothing of upgrading a TV or fridge or whatever and just dumping the old working one in a recycling centre, well there's only so much of a market for recycling.

    I was walking along behind a young lad of about 13 or 14 at lunchtime yesterday he was on his way back to school eating a pizza. When he was finished he just flung it into grass at the side of the path, despite the fact that he'd to walk past 2 bins on the way to school. Absolute dirt bird. I'd have loved to have said something to him but these days it's probably classed as child abuse or sexual assault to say anything at all to a random juvenile so I said nothing.


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    #2268
    weldoninhio
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    blueshade wrote: »
    This is a big part of the problem. The days when people waited for phones or electronic equipment to break before replacing them are long gone. Many people change their phones at least once a year. People are buying cheap ''fast''/disposable fashion, people think nothing of upgrading a TV or fridge or whatever and just dumping the old working one in a recycling centre, well there's only so much of a market for recycling.

    I was walking along behind a young lad of about 13 or 14 at lunchtime yesterday he was on his way back to school eating a pizza. When he was finished he just flung it into grass at the side of the path, despite the fact that he'd to walk past 2 bins on the way to school. Absolute dirt bird. I'd have loved to have said something to him but these days it's probably classed as child abuse or sexual assault to say anything at all to a random juvenile so I said nothing.

    So you were afraid of a 13 year old. Cool story.


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    #2269
    Tasfasdf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 660 ✭✭✭Tasfasdf


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    So you were afraid of a 13 year old. Cool story.

    Your typical activist hard man on the internet, a child in the real world.


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    #2270
    gozunda
    Registered Users Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    begsbyOnaTrain wrote: »
    Ah brings me back to childhood when middle class, wannabe crusties from Dublin would descend on us in the West for the Summer once college broke up for the year :)

    Bizarrely we had a bunch of them who moved from England a few years back looking for some rural idyll. Of course once they got here - they didnt actually like the rural idyll at all and spent all their time bitching about the natives. Tbh such crusties seem to be a fairly common occurrence. Maybe Brexit will be a good thing ;)


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    #2271
    blueshade
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 428 ✭✭blueshade


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    So you were afraid of a 13 year old. Cool story.

    Afraid of a 13 year old? Where did you pull that from? Amused at the irony of a kid who'd probably attend a protest for the environment dumping litter on the street, yes. Appalled that he did it yes. Equally appalled that kids are so coddled now that pointing out that littering is not acceptable would probably lead to cops knocking my door and telling me off for telling off a kid.


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    #2272
    blueshade
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 428 ✭✭blueshade


    gozunda wrote: »
    Bizarrely we had a bunch of them who moved from England a few years back looking for some rural idyll. Of course once they got here - they didnt actually like the rural idyll at all and spent all their time bitching about the natives. Tbh such crusties seem to be a fairly common occurrence. Maybe Brexit will be a good thing ;)

    Yep, it's like people who move to the country thinking country life will be peaceful then complaining that it's actually quite noisy, what with the farm animals and farm equipment etc, not to mention the lorries hurtling down the rural roads at speeds they wouldn't get away with on motorways.


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    #2273
    blueshade
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 428 ✭✭blueshade


    Tasfasdf wrote: »
    Your typical activist hard man on the internet, a child in the real world.

    :confused:


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    #2274
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    blueshade wrote: »
    Afraid of a 13 year old? Where did you pull that from? Amused at the irony of a kid who'd probably attend a protest for the environment dumping litter on the street, yes. Appalled that he did it yes. Equally appalled that kids are so coddled now that pointing out that littering is not acceptable would probably lead to cops knocking my door and telling me off for telling off a kid.

    You’ve said it in both posts now. Afraid to ask a 13yo to pick up garbage he’d dropped right in front of you, while wearing his school uniform. Did you report it to the school? Or were you afraid they’d send the Army Rangers after you??


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    #2275
    blueshade
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 428 ✭✭blueshade


    weldoninhio wrote: »
    You’ve said it in both posts now. Afraid to ask a 13yo to pick up garbage he’d dropped right in front of you, while wearing his school uniform. Did you report it to the school? Or were you afraid they’d send the Army Rangers after you??

    Wow. You really are out of touch, or you're a teenager. :D


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    #2276
    weldoninhio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    blueshade wrote: »
    Wow. You really are out of touch, or you're a teenager. :D

    Did you inform the school that one of their students were littering?? I'm 37 and very well in touch.


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    #2277
    maccored
    Registered Users Posts: 10,661 ✭✭✭✭maccored


    runawaybishop wrote: »
    A rake in McDonalds. Didn't speak to them though, i dont like talking to junkies.

    how do you know they were 'extinction heads' then? Were you at one of the marches and seen them or did they have a big sign with them? Or were you making unfounded assumptions?


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    #2278
    [Deleted User]
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    Not sure if it’s the same in Ireland, but why work when you can get up to £400 a week “volunteer living expenses”

    “ Activists can claim so-called "volunteer living expenses" of up to £400 a week, which set the group back £130,000 for the months of June, July and August alone.”
    https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50087022


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    #2279
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,177 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    Wheres this money coming from?

    (maybe i should read the article)
    the group has raised more than £2.5m this year. Between the beginning of March and the end of September, gifts from large donors - those giving £5,000 or more - totalled £1.2m. Meanwhile, an online fundraising page has attracted another £1m from smaller donors.
    Extinction Rebellion's site lists every single expense,...


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    #2280
    Beechwoodspark
    Registered Users Posts: 15,287 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    Great to see attentbrough regularly raise climate change on his new show on bbc at mo.

    I hope all the climate deniers are taking good notes !!!!


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    #2281
    blinding
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭blinding


    Beechwoodspark wrote: »
    Great to see attentbrough regularly raise climate change on his new show on bbc at mo.

    I hope all the climate deniers are taking good notes !!!!
    I am sure he will be giving up his vast wealth to solve climate change .

    To have the wealth that man has gathered is in no way Green . ( ok , the Greenbacks are )


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