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Just Stop Oil Spray Stonehenge Orange

Posted by johnlilburne <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=johnlilburne' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 19, 2024, 4:53 pm

https://x.com/JustStop_Oil/status/1803390932848394570

Faux outrage from Kid Starver

Posted by johnlilburne <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=johnlilburne' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 19, 2024, 4:56 pm, in reply to "Just Stop Oil Spray Stonehenge Orange"

Keir Starmer
@Keir_Starmer
The damage done to Stonehenge is outrageous. Just Stop Oil are pathetic. Those responsible must face the full force of the law.

https://x.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1803420501995344250

Re: Faux outrage from Kid Starver

Posted by Ken Waldron <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ken+Waldron' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 19, 2024, 5:04 pm, in reply to "Faux outrage from Kid Starver"

I would imagine it's an earth pigment: mineral & iron based...so no real damage will have been done.

Some responses.

Posted by johnlilburne <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=johnlilburne' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 19, 2024, 5:12 pm, in reply to "Faux outrage from Kid Starver"

Saul Staniforth
@SaulStaniforth
Interesting what's considered outrageous (and what's not)

https://x.com/SaulStaniforth/status/1803424192626331745

Philip Proudfoot
@PhilipProudfoot
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55m
The cornstarch will wash off, but the blood on your hands over Gaza never will.

James Foster
@JamesEFoster
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1h
Like your pledges, it will wash away.

Jed Maxwell

@RaynbowRhythms
I tell you what’s “outrageous” Kieth. Doing nothing about climate change and expecting people to sit back and take it.

No planet, No Stonehenge.

Perhaps you should listen to environmental groups more respectfully in the future instead of calling them “pathetic”.

And from Rome.

Tiberius
@ecomarxi
Shut the fuck up you lying, conniving, slimy, self-serving wanker

Re: And from Rome.

Posted by RaskolnikovX <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Raskolnikov' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 19, 2024, 5:53 pm, in reply to "And from Rome."

That's my favourite reply.

This has stoked up the pearl-clutching, "NOT OUR STATUES!" brigade. I would bet quite a lot of money 90% of the "this is outrageous" brigade have never been there or tweeted about it until today.

Random personal fact, I had my last every hangover at Stonehenge, 23 years ago

...no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

"last ever" (hopefully) nm

...no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

Re: And from Rome.

Posted by Shyaku <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Shyaku' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 20, 2024, 12:19 am, in reply to "Re: And from Rome."

I was there on a trip to the UK 18 years ago, I signed up as a druid to get special sunrise entry with my special other who is now 18 yrs older but I can objectively say doesn’t look it.

Re: And from Rome.

Posted by Ken Waldron <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ken+Waldron' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 20, 2024, 1:26 am, in reply to "Re: And from Rome."

" I signed up as a druid to get special sunrise entry with my special other who is now 18 yrs older but I can objectively say doesn’t look it."

-Than Stonehenge? Blimey.

And from Kate Hoey (remember her?)

Kate Hoey
@CatharineHoey
Pathetic isnt strong enough.more like a dangerous cult

Obviously, she's referring to JSO but change a letter in the last word and the sentence could refer to KS.

I heard that the Greeks had been approached to give the Henge back

Posted by Keith-264 <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Keith-264' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 19, 2024, 7:46 pm, in reply to "And from Kate Hoey (remember her?)"

but they had said no fear, not until the A303 was a low emission zone.

The last working-class hero in England.

Clio the cat, ? July 1997 - 1 May 2016
Kira the cat, ? ? 2010 - 3 August 2018
Jasper the Ruffian cat ? ? ? - 4 November 2021

Dyeing the stones of Gaza red with children's blood is good though...nm.

Re: Just Stop Oil Spray Stonehenge Orange

Posted by uwontbegrinningsoon <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=blimey' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 19, 2024, 5:06 pm, in reply to "Just Stop Oil Spray Stonehenge Orange"

Just ridiculous behaviour by Juststopoil.

Re: Just Stop Oil Spray Stonehenge Orange

Posted by johnlilburne <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=johnlilburne' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 19, 2024, 5:32 pm, in reply to "Re: Just Stop Oil Spray Stonehenge Orange"

Just ridiculous behaviour by Juststopoil.

Maybe. But they've got the right to protest and there was no harm done to the Henge.

More ridiculous is Starmer's OTT response.

Re: Just Stop Oil Spray Stonehenge Orange

Posted by Fionn <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Fionn' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 19, 2024, 8:31 pm, in reply to "Re: Just Stop Oil Spray Stonehenge Orange"

Moronic beyond belief. JSO are undoubtedly infiltrated and riddled with agent provocateurs if this is the best they come up with. It's not as if there is no shortage of corporate and political targets.

And it goes without saying that Starmer can fuck off.

Absolutely spot on! Self-destructive halfwits. They haven't a clue.

Posted by Der <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Der' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 20, 2024, 9:36 am, in reply to "Re: Just Stop Oil Spray Stonehenge Orange"

Who came up with such an idiotic idea?

Hey, we want the public on our side. What can we do? Hey let's show complete and utter contempt for a national monument. That should do it.

Or, hey, we need some exciting photos in order to get the public on our side. Let's show some complete and utter contempt for a national monument...

Sit the fuck down and work out what your goal is. Two possible goals here: 1) Get the gov to stop investment in fossil fuels 2) get the public to stop burning fossil fuels.

What will showing contempt for Stonehenge achieve? Will it put pressure on gov to stop burning? Absolutely not. It will, in fact, strengthen their position because now they will have a load of angry members of the public on their side. Will it get the public to stop burning fossil fuels? Will it heck. It won't make a blind bit of difference.

And what is the connection between Stonehenge and fossil fuels, anyway? I don't see any. And if there were that would be the first thing you would do - show the connection.

As you say, riddled with police spies and agent provocateurs, most likely.

I'm amazed and appalled to see so many people on here excited by this action. Easy to see who's been on actions and who hasn't.

Have people learnt nothing from London Greenpeace versus McDonalds? That's not Greenpeace with the ship, by the way. These guys were very careful anarchists who discovered when McDonalds took them to court that some of their members were actually working for McDonalds while attending Greenpeace meetings.

Expect police. And use your goddamn brain - ask yourself what will this achieve. If I was in a meeting, planning an action and noted the enthusiasm for these stupid actions by so many members I would immediately think police!

Which, looking at the support for this self-destructive action on the Lifeboat rather suggests some of our buddies are cops! Blimey! To be expected, though.

Nicely put, Fionn.

Not the lichen

Posted by johnlilburne <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=johnlilburne' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 20, 2024, 10:36 am, in reply to "Absolutely spot on! Self-destructive halfwits. They haven't a clue."

Stonehenge U.K
@ST0NEHENGE
Stonehenge is protected by the ancient monuments act and it is a criminal offence to damage the Stones. There are also multiple rare lichen species growing on the stones that are also protected. Expect a prison sentence.

https://x.com/ST0NEHENGE/status/1803397371058897074

Of course, such actions will make no damn difference to the disastrous trajectory we are on re: climate change.

But, I am genuinely amused by the ranty reactions to such actions. About supposedly alienating Joe Public. It's like the average guy/ess was really concerned about CC but because of such actions now doesn't give a fuck anymore. As if...

BTW, I am genuinely interested in lichen. A wonderfully primitive form of symbiosis.

The world will be a far, far, better place when the lichen take over.

Posted by Der <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Der' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 21, 2024, 6:05 am, in reply to "Not the lichen"

The quality of posts should increase enormously.

Meanwhile, if Joe Public doesn't give a toss we are seriously fucked. It's as simple as that.

Might as well laugh at the headlines as we depart this sad world.

Gotta think intelligence is seriously over-rated. The human variety, anyway. Jiddu Krishnamurti had a whole different take on 'intelligence'. As in his The Awakening of Intelligence.

Tangohenge...I think it looks nice with a bit of colour! (nm)

Posted by Ed <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ed' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 19, 2024, 8:13 pm, in reply to "Just Stop Oil Spray Stonehenge Orange"

Don't feck with the stones maaan, really heavy. nm

Posted by marknadim <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=marknadim' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 20, 2024, 6:57 am, in reply to "Just Stop Oil Spray Stonehenge Orange"

Especially Keef. NM

Posted by johnlilburne <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=johnlilburne' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 20, 2024, 10:15 am, in reply to "Don't feck with the stones maaan, really heavy. nm"

Re: Especially Keef...just as well they didn't paint it black. NM

Posted by Ed <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Ed' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on June 20, 2024, 11:40 am, in reply to "Especially Keef. NM"

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