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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2019 15:29:40 GMT
Globalisation is bad news as those who run it aren’t interested in our well being (unlike CRT of course).
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2019 19:08:01 GMT
Its a shame if the police did sctually "dismantle" the boat in oxford street as it was a nice little boat. Someone could have enjoyed using it for boating rather than a load of dickheads with no valid argument towing it using a road vehicle and dumping it in a public area leading to disposal by police. I guess it will be broken up and land filled. How helpful.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2019 22:44:15 GMT
Its a shame if the police did sctually "dismantle" the boat in oxford street as it was a nice little boat. Someone could have enjoyed using it for boating rather than a load of dickheads with no valid argument towing it using a road vehicle and dumping it in a public area leading to disposal by police. I guess it will be broken up and land filled. How helpful. I hardly think in a police operation to remove these folks that their prime consideration was to save the boat...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2019 22:46:49 GMT
Well the back seems to be improving, was able to pick up the dogs shite this evening and only get asked whether I was ok by one person. The morning mutt walk resulted in almost everyone who I passed asking if I was ok, another dog walker picking up the dogs shite for me and a lovely young lady insisting on helping me get back on the boat. Never felt so old.
Thanks for all the sympathy <iframe width="17.200000000000045" height="4.319999999999993" style="position: absolute; width: 17.200000000000045px; height: 4.319999999999993px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none;left: 15px; top: -5px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_47326701" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe width="17.200000000000045" height="4.319999999999993" style="position: absolute; width: 17.2px; height: 4.32px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 806px; top: -5px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_98258561" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe width="17.200000000000045" height="4.319999999999993" style="position: absolute; width: 17.2px; height: 4.32px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 15px; top: 155px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_76933625" scrolling="no"></iframe> <iframe width="17.200000000000045" height="4.319999999999993" style="position: absolute; width: 17.2px; height: 4.32px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 806px; top: 155px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_95924589" scrolling="no"></iframe> you have a bad back? Welcome to the club, now remind me what was your point?
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Post by patty on Apr 20, 2019 5:08:45 GMT
Well the back seems to be improving, was able to pick up the dogs shite this evening and only get asked whether I was ok by one person. The morning mutt walk resulted in almost everyone who I passed asking if I was ok, another dog walker picking up the dogs shite for me and a lovely young lady insisting on helping me get back on the boat. Never felt so old.
Thanks for all the sympathy Oops missed that... Hope it continues to improve 'they do say'(haven't a scoobies who 'they' are but 'they' are full of wisdom) with backs u just have to keep going so it doesn't seize up. However daughter last year opted for surgery..went in as an emergency. She still has problems but nowhere near as bacd.
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Post by patty on Apr 20, 2019 5:11:34 GMT
I love hearing about the pink boat in Oxford Circus and if i was in London Id have gone see but mindful of carbon footprint I cannot justify going unless there is valid reason(looks for super smug smiley).... (hmm none quite right but this will have to do)
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Post by bodger on Apr 20, 2019 9:14:57 GMT
since I retired I don't need to fly all over the world, or drive to the furthest bastions of this little island. I have only made one return flight (a short hop) in the past 8 years. Because of low mileage I only fill the car once a month these days. I feel so smug now!!
.... and my little boat is electric powered so I feel good about that too.
mind you it doesn't stop me from enjoying a luxury gas guzzling car that I picked up for a song because no-one who does reasonable mileage could afford the fuel bills, and I have been found guilty of leaving the patio door open for the dogs while the central heating is on.
in theory I fully support those campaigners, in practice I don't believe any effort from me in my declining years will make a real difference.
I suppose that is the problem - each (most) of us just feel that any efforts we might make would be insignificant in the bigger picture, so we don't bother.
perhaps it would help if non-urban highway lighting was dimmed and then switched off after 11pm, and if all lighting of offices and city buildings was switched off when the staff go home. .............. oh, and if we all changed to 'staycations' which ironically is becoming more attractive given the warmer weather we seem to be experiencing these days. .............. and more video conferencing instead of regular trips to head office for meetings. ...... until we see road, air (and eventually rail) travel decreasing there is really not a hope in hell of David Attenborough's dreams coming true, in the UK, let alone the developing countries.
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Post by naughtyfox on Apr 20, 2019 11:29:17 GMT
There is also a 70 year old serial protester,Angie something who has travelled to protests all over the world.I wonder about her carbon footprint ! Perhaps she should be incinerated already, and her two-faced hypocritical carbon swept under the mat.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Apr 20, 2019 11:33:06 GMT
perhaps it would help if non-urban highway lighting was dimmed and then switched off after 11pm, I don't know why they don't just fit PIR sensors to lamp posts so that whenever a car passes one, the next three or four are lit and the ones it has passed are extinguished.
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Post by naughtyfox on Apr 20, 2019 11:38:35 GMT
I suppose that is the problem - each (most) of us just feel that any efforts we might make would be insignificant in the bigger picture, so we don't bother. Check-in completed for tomorrow's flight. The plane was full yesterday. No-one really gives a toss. Just pop your head into any CRT rubbish skip to see how 'environmentally green' boaters really are. Burn oil, diesel and petrol while you got the chance - future generations won't thank you for anything, so why care what they end up with? Just the kids of other people who are flying today and driving huge Range Rovers.
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Post by patty on Apr 20, 2019 16:31:45 GMT
I suppose that is the problem - each (most) of us just feel that any efforts we might make would be insignificant in the bigger picture, so we don't bother. Check-in completed for tomorrow's flight. The plane was full yesterday. No-one really gives a toss. Just pop your head into any CRT rubbish skip to see how 'environmentally green' boaters really are. Burn oil, diesel and petrol while you got the chance - future generations won't thank you for anything, so why care what they end up with? Just the kids of other people who are flying today and driving huge Range Rovers. I just hope your viewpoint is in the minority.. I now take small bags to decant all the punnet of fruit fro greengrocers and they reuse the punnet ..ok small steps but we have to start somewhere.
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Post by thebfg on Apr 20, 2019 16:32:22 GMT
The street lights getting turned of are becoming more common.
It's not an issue for drivers but for pedestrians it's a big thing. Safety wise
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Post by patty on Apr 21, 2019 5:30:22 GMT
The street lights getting turned of are becoming more common. It's not an issue for drivers but for pedestrians it's a big thing. Safety wise I rarely go out after dark now... i do run downhill from daughters through area with no lighting..its not far but i'm always relieved to shut my door
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Post by bodger on Apr 21, 2019 7:11:40 GMT
if it's a choice between personal fear of walking along an unlit street and the inevitable breakdown of society and eventually the potential mass extinction of many (most?) animals and plants when global warming reaches the point of no return, I think the protesters have got it right.
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Post by JohnV on Apr 21, 2019 7:17:24 GMT
if it's a choice between personal fear of walking along an unlit street and the inevitable breakdown of society and eventually the potential mass extinction of many (most?) animals and plants when global warming reaches the point of no return, I think the protesters have got it right. Nah !!! LED street lights and electronic controls are reducing massively the power needed for street lighting and as well considerably lowering light pollution due to better designed luminaires, a high (and increasing) amount of the electricity supply is coming from renewable and low pollution sources. Sometimes technology has the answers to problems caused by technology. What is often lacking is the will to deploy it.
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