[Livia]

Originally Posted by Cherie

The circle of life on TiBB

I imagine there will come a time when I wander off on shaky legs, to die at the Great Forum Member Burial Ground... Digital Spy.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Livia

I imagine there will come a time when I wander off on shaky legs, to die at the Great Forum Member Burial Ground... Digital Spy.

[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by Cherie

How old are you going with this? it only really since the early 80s when consumerism has really took off and this has really driven climate change, older generations didn't have central heating, they didn't buy their veg smothered in plastic in fact most grew their own, most didn't take foreign holidays, or if they did it was once a year, they didn't have two cars sitting on the drive, they didn't buy clothes, wear them a few times and throw them away, they used bars of soap, not shower gels full of plastic beads, they didn't buy loads of old tut at Christmas or buy their kids loads of plastic toys all to end up in landfill, I could go on?

Yeah sorry, I agree with this tbh. Blaming older people is a cop out. Its not older people (speaking generally) buying all the plastic ****e. And most older people I know grow their own veg and stuff and are quite into recycling? Not sure where this version of older people you speak of comes from really, are most older people you know like that?! I find that..sad really. Speaking broadly, I have found older people care much more about global warming than younger ones. They consume less plastic tat crap, and seem to be more bothered about littering and recycling than most. I mean, these protesters have left behind hundreds of ****ing plastic bottles on the floor instead of cleaning uip after themselves, so clearly they DONT actually care about the environment? So why awre they protresting? Seems attention seeking to me to be quite honest, if they aren't actually bothered about global warming and that given they are contributing. The celeb woman who flew 6000 miles to join a protest about air travel and such, I find ****ing hilarious. And shes being hailed as a hero?! Hypocrites, the lot of them tbh. A few may be genuine, but it seems the majority are just there for something to do to get their faces in the news!

[Kazanne]

Originally Posted by Cherie

oh please call it what you like, consumerism is at the heart of how we are killing the planet,

Right on point Cherie,some people want the convenience but not the bother of the consequences, we have a waste bin not far from our house and people STILL drop their litter ,dog crap etc just anywhere but the bin,lazy fookers ,fooking up the planet and killing the wildlife,but hey its ok as long as I have my plastic bottle of water/pop(a glass one is far too heavy) and some other mug can pick up my littler and fag ends,as they like to work !!! People don't like to admit they are last barstards but many are. If we all sorted our litter out the oceans wouldn't be full of it,it's just common sense.

[Kazanne]

Originally Posted by Vicky.

Yeah sorry, I agree with this tbh. Blaming older people is a cop out. Its not older people (speaking generally) buying all the plastic ****e. And most older people I know grow their own veg and stuff and are quite into recycling? Not sure where this version of older people you speak of comes from really, are most older people you know like that?! I find that..sad really. Speaking broadly, I have found older people care much more about global warming than younger ones. They consume less plastic tat crap, and seem to be more bothered about littering and recycling than most. I mean, these protesters have left behind hundreds of ****ing plastic bottles on the floor instead of cleaning uip after themselves, so clearly they DONT actually care about the environment? So why awre they protresting? Seems attention seeking to me to be quite honest, if they aren't actually bothered about global warming and that given they are contributing. The celeb woman who flew 6000 miles to join a protest about air travel and such, I find ****ing hilarious. And shes being hailed as a hero?! Hypocrites, the lot of them tbh. A few may be genuine, but it seems the majority are just there for something to do to get their faces in the news!

[arista]

Youtube video

A video from 2019 on BBC Look East.
This the Leader of this Group
Rupert Read aged 53
was a Green MP.



This Pathetic Fool Leader of Extinction Rebellion
is on Politics Live BBC1HD today
He said in 5 years
No more Flying
No more Driving your Petrol Car

He is a Bloody Fascist

[Crimson Dynamo]

if you found a Irn Bru bottle as kid you got 5p for it from the Icy or corner shop. 5p could buy you a lot of sweets (probably same a quid now). We would go looking for workies in building sites as they were always on the Irn Bru and sometimes would give you a fag

Mind you some people were on a mission to get bottles and would like get crates of them, they were called "bottle Genies" and were looked down upon

[Livia]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

if you found a Irn Bru bottle as kid you got 5p for it from the Icy or corner shop. 5p could buy you a lot of sweets (probably same a quid now). We would go looking for workies in building sites as they were always on the Irn Bru and sometimes would give you a fag

Mind you some people were on a mission to get bottles and would like get crates of them, they were called "bottle Genies" and were looked down upon

Not quite the same thing I know, but... but when my Dad was a kid he discovered that, behind the Green Shield Stamps shop in the High Street, there were bins full of redeemed books that had just been torn in half. He and his mates spent hours steaming them out and sticking them into new books and went on to have the finest toy collection in all of east London.

[Kazanne]

Originally Posted by Livia

Not quite the same thing I know, but... but when my Dad was a kid he discovered that, behind the Green Shield Stamps shop in the High Street, there were bins full of redeemed books that had just been torn in half. He and his mates spent hours steaming them out and sticking them into new books and went on to have the finest toy collection in all of east London.

now there's the making of an entrepreneur, good thinking

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by Twosugars

Well it's to do with dirty industrialization, not consumer lifestyle, but go off I guess

Do you understand how consumerism works? If no-one spends their money on things, they go away. If people stopped consuming the results of industrialisation, it would shrink and possibly die.

[Twosugars]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Do you understand how consumerism works? If no-one spends their money on things, they go away. If people stopped consuming the results of industrialisation, it would shrink and possibly die.

and why are you lecturing me?
I have no problem with industrialisation or consummerism as such, both are essential. We just have to be clever about it, now that technology allows it.

[Twosugars]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

hang on you are no spring chicken are you not like late 30s?

many folk on here consider you an "oldie"

36 is NOT late thirties, grandad! Mid-thirties

Originally Posted by Cherie

Aren't you in your 30s? sorry for you but that is an oldie on Tibb, LT will send you a sign up form for the knitting club

Tibb is not the world, Cherie

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by Twosugars

and why are you lecturing me?
I have no problem with industrialisation or consummerism as such, both are essential. We just have to be clever about it, now that technology allows it.

A three sentence response to something you said is hardly a lecture

[Twosugars]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

A three sentence response to something you said is hardly a lecture

it is if you teaching me basic concepts

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by Twosugars

it is if you teaching me basic concepts

Eh, perhaps. I just wasn't sure if you knew them

[Twosugars]

Originally Posted by Livia

It takes dirty industrialisation to produce the crap that people are buying. Isn't that right?

Well Idk, but that ship has sailed in most of the world anyway.
We didn't know back then the climate was at risk, we didn't have much clean technology if at all so it happened as it happened.

[Twosugars]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Eh, perhaps. I just wasn't sure if you knew them

I'm touched.

[chuff me dizzy]

Originally Posted by Livia

And now, in charge of all the facts, our current glut of eco-warriors are still drinking from single use plastic bottles while they're protesting.

Yes they was and brought it in plastic carrier bags !!

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Twosugars

36 is NOT late thirties, grandad! Mid-thirties



Tibb is not the world, Cherie

You are nearer middle age in the world as well

[Twosugars]

Originally Posted by Cherie

You are nearer middle age in the world as well

yes, but I'm not old yet like you or LT

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Twosugars

yes, but I'm not old yet like you or LT

4 years to 40 then we will share the same decade

[arista]

Extinction Rebellion protesters gathered in Parliament Square
a photo from around 1PM

Police making sure they stay away from
working MP's

[Livia]

It's going to get colder later in the week... maybe time to deploy a water canon or two.

[Oliver_W]

It's their families I feel for. Just imagine everyone's sat round for Easter dinner, but there's the empty chair ... Nanna says "eyyup, where's our Deirdre then?" and Mum says "ohh eck, he's at that silly little protest in That London...."

[arista]

They claim
to leave tomorrow night.........................................