Climate protesters block roads

[slartibartfast]

motco said:

A Health page said:

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Breathing high levels of toluene during pregnancy has been shown to result in children with birth defects and to retard mental abilities and growth.

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[Tony427]

slartibartfast said:

Tootles the Taxi said:

In my opinion, the police would have been perfectly justified in removing him from the roof of the aircraft using a sniper.

+1

That is completely unacceptable.

The aircraft could have been damaged.

Could it not have been possible to use either air rifles or paint ball guns.

Indeed I would suggest that the pasengers themselves would have stumped up the cost of the air gun pellets or paint balls if not even volunteering to have a few shots themselves.

A few well placed paintballs on the gonad regions would have had the idiot begging to be removed.

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[eccles]

Tony427 said:

slartibartfast said:

Tootles the Taxi said:

In my opinion, the police would have been perfectly justified in removing him from the roof of the aircraft using a sniper.

+1

That is completely unacceptable.

The aircraft could have been damaged.

Could it not have been possible to use either air rifles or paint ball guns.

Indeed I would suggest that the pasengers themselves would have stumped up the cost of the air gun pellets or paint balls if not even volunteering to have a few shots themselves.

A few well placed paintballs on the gonad regions would have had the idiot begging to be removed.

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A taser could have interesting results to the glued on parts....

[Vanden Saab]

eccles said:

A taser could have interesting results to the glued on parts....

Which parts were glued on... asking for a friend...

[Captain Smerc]

Shirley the Captain should've taken off, full throttle.
Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish prison?

[slartibartfast]

Tony427 said:

slartibartfast said:

Tootles the Taxi said:

In my opinion, the police would have been perfectly justified in removing him from the roof of the aircraft using a sniper.

+1

That is completely unacceptable.

The aircraft could have been damaged.

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you make a very valid point.

[ChevyChase77]

eccles said:

ChevyChase77 said:

eccles said:

poo at Paul's said:

ChocolateFrog said:

The guy who glued himself to a plane pleaded not guilty to causing a public nuisance. I'd have an ounce of respect for him if he had admitted it. I hope the sentence/slap on the wrist is proportionally higher as a result now.

As someone previously employed in Aviation safety / operations, I am amazed they're not charging him with endangering an aircraft, and other offences regarding accessing the airfield without proper permission etc.
The ANO has some quite harsh punishments in this regard available, IIRC, but much as the time they cut fences and came onto the runway etc closing the airfield, they seem to just get away with it.

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He had permission to access the airfield, he had a ticket! Endangering an aircraft? It was on the ground waiting for the rest of the passengers (he was put on early as he is partially sighted).
How about doing the fundamentals like reading the story?

He would have had permission to access the airfield within the a specific area. He didn't have permission to get on top of the plane. So he breached the area he should have been in.

In the context of the quote he had permission to be airside, in that he didn't cut the fence to get in.
Does it actually define where you should and shouldn't be when you're airside?
He had a ticket to be on the aircraft, he was on the aircraft!

Yep - I can't recall ever reading in the terms and conditions of my flight tickets that it allows you to climb on top of plane. He would have breached the terms and conditions.

[A Winner Is You]

garagewidow said:

otolith said:

A Winner Is You said:

wkers

They appear to have missed out the words “forced to be”

The poor thing,he really doesn't look too happy does he.

It's straight up animal abuse. Account was deleted following a massive backlash.

[HTP99]

A Winner Is You said:

garagewidow said:

otolith said:

A Winner Is You said:

wkers

They appear to have missed out the words “forced to be”

The poor thing,he really doesn't look too happy does he.

It's straight up animal abuse. Account was deleted following a massive backlash.

My mum is a vegan, her dog isn't.

[slartibartfast]

poor dog.
reminds me of an episode of Futurama, video link below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkR2XEYEFgk

[321boost]

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49997...

The bbc now seems to mention that there needs to be a shift to lower carbon foods, such as mealworm. Wtf is a mealworm? Google suggests insects....are we meant to eat insects now? The world has truly gone mad.
The article also suggests that the price of “high emission” foods should be increased.
The report suggests increasing carbon taxes and at the same time suggests these changes need not be expensive or reduce well-being...hows that going to work?

[Mort7]

Mealworms are commonly used as bird food - live or dried (when we had chickens we bought the dried version in 11Kg sacks). They taste nutty, apparently, but I've never tried one.

[turbobloke]

321boost said:

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49997...

The bbc now seems to mention that there needs to be a shift to lower carbon foods, such as mealworm. Wtf is a mealworm? Google suggests insects....are we meant to eat insects now? The world has truly gone mad.
The article also suggests that the price of “high emission” foods should be increased.
The report suggests increasing carbon taxes and at the same time suggests these changes need not be expensive or reduce well-being...hows that going to work?

Typical beeb, wanting to tax lettuce and promote bacon butties being four years behind the research.

Lettuce is ‘three times worse than bacon' for emissions
Common vegetables ‘require more resources per calorie’ than many people realise, according to a team of scientists at the prestigious Carnegie Mellon University
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/vegetar...

Not to be disheartened, in the same Indy article there are images and comments about bacon, sausages etc in terms of cancer risk - that changed rather quickly.

https://metro.co.uk/2019/10/01/no-proof-steak-saus...
No Proof That Steak, Sausages and Bacon Cause Cancer

Nice work, Canadian researchers: Health chiefs reveal that bacon IS safe to eat after all
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10038239/bacon-is-sa...

The beeb managed to pick up on that one. After newspaper links here are a couple more, one to Carnegie Mellon Uni four years ago which the beeb 'forgot', and one to some other Canadian research from the same Dalhousie Uni showing how unpopular insects and bugs are as protein alternatives (pdf).

https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2015/dec...

https://cdn.dal.ca/content/dam/dalhousie/pdf/manag...

[garagewidow]

321boost said:

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49997...

The bbc now seems to mention that there needs to be a shift to lower carbon foods, such as mealworm. Wtf is a mealworm? Google suggests insects....are we meant to eat insects now? The world has truly gone mad.
The article also suggests that the price of “high emission” foods should be increased.
The report suggests increasing carbon taxes and at the same time suggests these changes need not be expensive or reduce well-being...hows that going to work?

TBF baked beans are pretty cheap.

[motco]

Mort7 said:

Mealworms are commonly used as bird food - live or dried (when we had chickens we bought the dried version in 11Kg sacks). They taste nutty, apparently, but I've never tried one.

You'd be nutty if you had!

[otolith]

321boost said:

Wtf is a mealworm?

Eat up, yum yum yum!



(the mealworms are the beetle larvae)

[Brave Fart]

What would the XR policy be, I wonder, about vineyards and hop farms? After all, they aren't producing anything genuinely nutritious, are they? And XR suggest a massive re-wilding of the land to absorb CO2.
Right, let's see, so far we've got the following:

• all flights banned
• gas supply turned off
• no ICE private vehicles
• and now, no wine or beer to make it all bearable

All whilst the rest of the world pisses themselves laughing at the UK and carries on chucking truckloads of plastic into the oceans. Yep, seems worth gluing yourself to an aeroplane for..............

[Biker 1]

They'll ban growing weed so the growing space can be turned over to re-wilding. Oh hang on - the crusties have a penchant for smoking the stuff!!!

[plasticpig]

XR are now banned from protesting in the whole of London: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/1...

So the futile protest is over for now. I am sure they will come up with something else. Guerrilla protests at airports sprigs to mind as causing lots of grief and disruption.

[Dog Star]

plasticpig said:

XR are now banned from protesting in the whole of London: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/1...

So the futile protest is over for now. I am sure they will come up with something else. Guerrilla protests at airports sprigs to mind as causing lots of grief and disruption.

While I think that this is bloody brilliant news, there is the issue that they will now start ramping up their disruption in other places around the UK, places where there aren't the police resources and our masters in that London won't actually care about.