Insulate Britain protests

[2b1ask1]

BIt harsh on the horses, I'm sure they can $hit on command onto the protestors...

from height!

 

[Gazcw]

Leave them super glued to the roads. Pheasants, rabbits etc. all disappear eventually, treat them the same.

If we get them to glue themselves to a pot hole it a) will help smooth the road as they are pummelled into it or b) save our wheels and tyres As they will be easy to spot..

 

[Gazcw]

You're not wrong, chap. It's all about a balance.

C

You are right. It's quite difficult to balance on the edge of the skip as I throw all me apple and dyson sh*t away as it is the wrong colour or it hasn't got enough cyclones.

 

[allandwf]

If we get them to glue themselves to a pot hole it a) will help smooth the road as they are pummelled into it or b) save our wheels and tyres As they will be easy to spot..

A plan!

 

[Scaf]

We may throw away 150,000 tonnes of electrical good a year, but there are a number of very wealthy individuals who make fortunes recycling the stuff.
I was speaking with a guy who recycles almost everything and he recons (if my memory is correct) less than 10% of what is in electrical products goes to landfill.

Where there's muck there's brass as they say.

I wonder if anyone has done calculations on the cost of recycling and it’s impact on the environment.
It’s all very well people saying “don’t worry it’s recycled” but it has to be better to keep things in use for longer.
The mad work we live in often means we buy stuff from China use it for a few years the bin it, then it’s sent back in China for recycling, where is the sense in that.

 

[Swedish Paul]

There’s a saying. It goes something like “A poor man can not afford to buy cheaply”

Someone said about being coerced to buy cheap rubbish that doesn’t last. We weren’t coerced. We were just cheap. Quality was thrown out the window in the name of consumerism. Have it today. Now.

We only have ourselves to blame.

 

[midlifecrisis]

Just watched the Insulate Britain's chairman interview on YouTube from GMB,he was asked why he hasn't insulated his own home? The guy couldn't answer. I thought brexiteers were bad at answering points of freedom of travel or consumers powers but these guys don't even acknowledge the question. They just bleat on that they are prepared to die for the cause.
It won't be long before one will die and I hope that the poor driver who hits them gets the necessary counselling after the accident.

 

[UlstermanAbroad]

How about Naga Munchetti trying to take the hard line interviewing the Chief of Police from Norway. WTF is that about. If it'd been me I'd have told her to **** right off

C

I missed that. Was this over the offender being 'known' to police?
As any journalist worth their salt should know. There are hundreds
and more like thousands of 'known' people in most liberal
Western democracies. Because of how politicians decide to allocate
resources and determine civil liberties, its impossible for police
and the security services to be in the pockets of every 'known' person.
As politely as I could have. I'd also have suggested she go forth and
multiply.

 

[UlstermanAbroad]

When I first heard of 'insulate Britain' I honestly thought it had a political meaning that I,
trying to watch much less news, wasn't aware of. I assumed that the meaning would make
its way to me eventually. Like a Kardashian anecdote. Or some other useless piece of current
affairs flotsam.
I'm still in some disbelief that these protests really are about home insulation. I mean, seriously.
Home insulation? I can easily imagine this being part of a sketch by Monty Python or Not The Nine O'clock
News or similar. Part of The Life of Brian maybe. A mistake in translation. That causes incarnation to be
transcribed as insulation. Jesus re-incarnation become Jesus' re-insulation. Which triggers a schism
amongst today's Christians, many of whom feel compelled to publicly stand up for Jesus the Re-insulator!
Crying, "Re-insulate Now" or "Insulation is Nigh"

'Upon the sound of heaven's trumpets, mighty drums and xylophones.
Jesus shall return to earth, re-insulated and shall be first amongst the flock,
in all help desk queues, bus queues and queues for Spice Girls Comeback Tour tickets.'

 

[happydaze]

When I first heard of 'insulate Britain' I honestly thought it had a political meaning that I,
trying to watch much less news, wasn't aware of. I assumed that the meaning would make
its way to me eventually. Like a Kardashian anecdote. Or some other useless piece of current
affairs flotsam.
I'm still in some disbelief that these protests really are about home insulation. I mean, seriously.
Home insulation? I can easily imagine this being part of a sketch by Monty Python or Not The Nine O'clock
News or similar. Part of The Life of Brian maybe. A mistake in translation. That causes incarnation to be
transcribed as insulation. Jesus re-incarnation become Jesus' re-insulation. Which triggers a schism
amongst today's Christians, many of whom feel compelled to publicly stand up for Jesus the Re-insulator!
Crying, "Re-insulate Now" or "Insulation is Nigh"

'Upon the sound of heaven's trumpets, mighty drums and xylophones.
Jesus shall return to earth, re-insulated and shall be first amongst the flock,
in all help desk queues, bus queues and queues for Spice Girls Comeback Tour tickets.'

Jeez...seems like you need to get vexillated, and insulate for 14 days...

 

[UlstermanAbroad]

Jeez...seems like you need to get vexillated, and insulate for 14 days...

Oh I have been. For a lot longer than that!
And for when Trump gets back in. I am now building a bomb shelter.

 

[CatmanV2]

I missed that. Was this over the offender being 'known' to police?
As any journalist worth their salt should know. There are hundreds
and more like thousands of 'known' people in most liberal
Western democracies. Because of how politicians decide to allocate
resources and determine civil liberties, its impossible for police
and the security services to be in the pockets of every 'known' person.
As politely as I could have. I'd also have suggested she go forth and
multiply.

Partly yes. And it begs a further question or two:

1. Does she really not know that, and therefore probably has no business being a 'journalist'
2. She does know this and therefore is openly self serving to forward her own agenda, which is probably not something we want in journalists.

Or not.

C

 

[Nayf]

These people are pretty much cut from the same cloth as Piers Corbyn (miraculously even more loopy than his brother Jezza) and Roger Hallam, the founder of XR, who incidentally went on record last week saying he'd have allowed that poor women who was in the ambulance to die for the good of IB's cause. Their religious zealot mindset and ideology is more important than anyone else's views. Truly despicable. They have every right to protest peacefully, but they do not have the right to interfere with anyone else's business or disrupt their livelihoods.

XR - doing more damage to the environmentalist cause than the oil giants. The latter must be hardly believing their luck.

 

[UlstermanAbroad]

Partly yes. And it begs a further question or two:

1. Does she really not know that, and therefore probably has no business being a 'journalist'
2. She does know this and therefore is openly self serving to forward her own agenda, which is probably not something we want in journalists.

Or not.

C

Unfortunately, I can't find the interview on YouTube and I know that news broadcasts have a very limited shelf life on BBCiplayer. So, I have to speculate, to an extent.

She can't not know it, C. When every person on the planet who takes even the vaguest interest in domestic security
knows it. If for no other reason than, every time there's an attack, governments trot this fact out as part of their defence when criticised for not stopping an attack. I think I heard recently that in the UK there are about 4,000 'persons of interest'. But that's a shaky guess. Either way. Given the very low morale and overworked nature of our police today, I'd be very cautious about criticising police in any Western democracy, for not stopping an attack of this nature. Munchetti came up via the news rooms of newspapers. I don't know for how long. But it ought to have taught her to stick to the facts.
As to your second question. She regularly reminds others that she's a Streatham girl and I'd say that she must have had pretty sharp elbows and a definite personal agenda to get where she is. Looking at Google results, she has a long, long history of using vinegar instead of honey in interviews, as well as being less than polite to fellow presenters. As a person of Indian ethnicity, I'd suspect that short of calling a member of the Royal Family a nazi to their face, live on air, she's pretty untouchable as far as the BBC is concerned. And she knows it.
I'd be surprised if she doesn't have a bit of a chip on her shoulder, being surrounded by Oxbridge grads.
I'd speculate that she's in the role she's in because her agenda and the Beeb's happened to coincide and its as much about that, as it is about merit.
Kay Burley seems to be cut from the same cloth. I no longer watch Sky, but at times I was shocked by how roughly she regularly treated interviewees. I think she was told to soften her approach somewhat at one point, following a lot of viewer complaints. I can't recall if there was a pattern to her behaviour. It's so long ago.

I watched Naga's interview with Sir David Attenborough, where he agreed to the interview so he could promote the annual butterfly count, in late summer. Its on YouTube. That interview ought to be used in media studies courses everywhere, as an example of a car crash interview that was caused by extremely poor interviewing. Watching a normally hugely talkative Sir David shut down to the extent of one word answers, was hilarious.

 

[daverichardson]

All cut from same cloth
Laura K is my least fav at the mo but it is close with Naga
The ITV morning team are atrocious (all except Dr Hilary) and as for Alan Titchmarsh....................

 

[midlifecrisis]

I've bowed to terrorist pressure....

I'm in process of doing the rest this afternoon...

 

[CatmanV2]

XR - doing more damage to the environmentalist cause than the oil giants. The latter must be hardly believing their luck.

I may reach for a tin foil hat

I watched Naga's interview with Sir David Attenborough, where he agreed to the interview so he could promote the annual butterfly count, in late summer. Its on YouTube. That interview ought to be used in media studies courses everywhere, as an example of a car crash interview that was caused by extremely poor interviewing. Watching a normally hugely talkative Sir David shut down to the extent of one word answers, was hilarious.

Oh yes. I caught that. I think your other points are valid, but sadly indicates the increasing (at least to me) irrelevance of the BBC.

Laura K is my least fav at the mo but it is close with Naga

Perfectly understandable.

I also have issues with Rory Celyn knows nothing about technology and Hugh Pym, the Health Editor with zero scientific training.....

C

 

[Simon1963]

I wish the press would just shut the f**k up. If there nothing serious to report, maybe tell some positive stories? ..... But no, start more panic buying! It'll be toys this week, fireworks next week, turkeys the week after that. Idiots.

Ps. I'm OK, I've still got a massive turkey in the freezer from last year, as I was called away to work last minute, so didn't have Xmas dinner.

On the Turkey note does anybody know how long you can keep a turkey in the freezer for?

 

[CatmanV2]

On the Turkey note does anybody know how long you can keep a turkey in the freezer for?

Assuming properly prepped and wrapped it'll be fine for a couple of years. Might start getting a bit dry if it gets freezer burn from bad wrapping but last year's should be just dandy this year

C

 

[Saigon]

On the Turkey note does anybody know how long you can keep a turkey in the freezer for?

Depends on whether it’s dead or alive to start with I should imagine, you need to be more specific.