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Post by middleoftheboothen on Nov 4, 2024 10:37:58 GMT
This thread reminds me of the It's ok not be ok thread. Lots of climate change sceptics, net zero critics, green agenda attackers and Thunberg haters suddenly acquiring some sympathy for the victims of one of the repeatedly predicted consequences of the very thing they spend the rest of their time ridiculing. In many ways it's similar to the amount of time some posters spend on the mental health thread desperately trying to come afross as a great guy (many of the same characters, ironically) while continuing to make snide remarks on lots of other threads. It's almost like "if I act all sympathetic now about something I'll continue to be an arse about elsewhere, that's ok" 😏 "You're definitely not, ya overweight, out of shape, middle-aged loser in a dead-end job with a string of failed relationships behind him, living in shitty rented accommodation in the dump that is Stoke-on-Trent..." Guessing someone hacked your account when yoos said this then 😆 🤣 How he's still posting on here after that comment is baffling to say the least. |
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Post by milton58 on Nov 4, 2024 11:09:27 GMT
"You're definitely not, ya overweight, out of shape, middle-aged loser in a dead-end job with a string of failed relationships behind him, living in shitty rented accommodation in the dump that is Stoke-on-Trent..." Guessing someone hacked your account when yoos said this then 😆 🤣 How he's still posting on here after that comment is baffling to say the least. been alot worse said on here tbh...who gives a fuck anyway it's the net... someone said something to me like that wouldn't bother me in the slightest...don't think badge replied to it did he. |
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Post by jordan2009 on Nov 4, 2024 11:59:57 GMT
Heartbreaking what's going on there. I hope the UK government have offered emergency help. We we're in Valencia last summer. It's an absolutely brilliant city. A city where old really does meets new
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on Nov 4, 2024 12:45:21 GMT
This thread reminds me of the It's ok not be ok thread. Lots of climate change sceptics, net zero critics, green agenda attackers and Thunberg haters suddenly acquiring some sympathy for the victims of one of the repeatedly predicted consequences of the very thing they spend the rest of their time ridiculing. In many ways it's similar to the amount of time some posters spend on the mental health thread desperately trying to come afross as a great guy (many of the same characters, ironically) while continuing to make snide remarks on lots of other threads. It's almost like "if I act all sympathetic now about something I'll continue to be an arse about elsewhere, that's ok" 😏 "You're definitely not, ya overweight, out of shape, middle-aged loser in a dead-end job with a string of failed relationships behind him, living in shitty rented accommodation in the dump that is Stoke-on-Trent..." Guessing someone hacked your account when yoos said this then 😆 🤣 No, nobody hacked my account when mees said that. I notice you chose not to copy over the blowing a kiss emoji that accompanied that comment! You must have accidentally missed it!  Badger is just as capable of dishing it out as he is of taking it, as he's said many times. Besides, that life reality probably does go a long way to explaining why he feels the need to describe anyone he disagrees with politically as a "woke, sanctimonious, virtue-signalling, do-gooder, lefty, snowflake" and various versions of it. But back to the original point: it's all very well indulging in a bit of public hand-wringing over the tragic victims of this flooding event (and, let's be honest, is there anything more genuinely virtue-signalling (def: hypocritically pious) than going onto a football forum and effectively saying "look at me, look how compassionate I am about this" when something like this happens or someone dies) and then, in the passing of a heartbeat, moving on to deride climate change, net zero, "eco-zealots", Greta Thunberg, the climate hoax etc etc. And, sadly, there are lots of people on the mental health thread who adopt a similar approach on that topic. The hypocrisy is quite stark. |
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on Nov 4, 2024 12:59:22 GMT
I saw the king and queen of Spain getting mud thrown at them after visiting Valencia. Can you imagine that happening here? I can't. Besides, I don't think they'd be anywhere near the disaster for a good few days or weeks until the anger had died down a bit.
But even then, I don't see why the king and queen got so much abuse, even if they were representing the state as such. It's not their fault that this happened, it's all our faults. This, increasingly, will be the price we have to pay for continuing to pollute the atmosphere with greenhouse gases.
Given that trying to deal with these increasingly frequent disasters and trying to adapt to climate change in the future will be vastly more expensive than trying to mitigate it now, you can only wonder where this will eventually end up. Global greenhouse gas emissions reached a new high last year, up 1% on the previous year. We're not cutting them at all and I don't see any appetite, really, for doing so. I think a lot of people, ultimately, will die as a result and an equal number probably rendered homeless or nationless. It doesn't bode well. But nobody really wants to change the way they live, especially if it means increased cost or inconvenience.
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Post by Foster on Nov 4, 2024 14:47:10 GMT
"You're definitely not, ya overweight, out of shape, middle-aged loser in a dead-end job with a string of failed relationships behind him, living in shitty rented accommodation in the dump that is Stoke-on-Trent..." Guessing someone hacked your account when yoos said this then 😆 🤣 No, nobody hacked my account when mees said that. I notice you chose not to copy over the blowing a kiss emoji that accompanied that comment! You must have accidentally missed it! Badger is just as capable of dishing it out as he is of taking it, as he's said many times. Besides, that life reality probably does go a long way to explaining why he feels the need to describe anyone he disagrees with politically as a "woke, sanctimonious, virtue-signalling, do-gooder, lefty, snowflake" and various versions of it. But back to the original point: it's all very well indulging in a bit of public hand-wringing over the tragic victims of this flooding event (and, let's be honest, is there anything more genuinely virtue-signalling (def: hypocritically pious) than going onto a football forum and effectively saying "look at me, look how compassionate I am about this" when something like this happens or someone dies) and then, in the passing of a heartbeat, moving on to deride climate change, net zero, "eco-zealots", Greta Thunberg, the climate hoax etc etc. And, sadly, there are lots of people on the mental health thread who adopt a similar approach on that topic. The hypocrisy is quite stark. I guess it comes down to being able to show empathy to others that have differing (political or otherwise) opinions to your own. The majority on there have greatly differing views from all over the spectrum on all kinds of topics, but I doubt any would use it for point scoring elsewhere. That just takes it to another personal level which isn't really called for. If you're looking for virtue signalling then feel free to take a gander at the Israel thread. |
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Post by middleoftheboothen on Nov 4, 2024 17:19:31 GMT
How he's still posting on here after that comment is baffling to say the least. been alot worse said on here tbh...who gives a fuck anyway it's the net... someone said something to me like that wouldn't bother me in the slightest...don't think badge replied to it did he. Don't disagree that worse has been said mate and it wouldn't bother me in all honesty but it may bother some people which is why there is no need in saying it. |
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Post by lordb on Nov 4, 2024 17:50:32 GMT
Can't get my head around how devastating these floods have been with such levels of unpreparedness as well as such a poor response from the authorities
Have to agree with Ancelotti who said that football should have stopped in Spain
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Post by Veritas on Nov 4, 2024 18:02:13 GMT
Can't get my head around how devastating these floods have been with such levels of unpreparedness as well as such a poor response from the authorities Have to agree with Ancelotti who said that football should have stopped in Spain I agree with your sense of horror but not sure what stopping football would have achieved. |
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Post by mtrstudent on Nov 4, 2024 18:16:07 GMT
It’s very nuanced, climate change exists of course and then there is what I call the “human induced” climate change which is what everyone is talking about. But you are right there is a lot more to this than just the human climate change side - extreme weather in this region has been happening for a very long time and this isn’t the first disaster in the area, hence why river diversions were needed in the end decades ago. (The old riverbed is a park i think now?) You're right about it being nuanced. I've worked on it for a while and still aren't confident I know exactly how to talk about it. We've found extreme rain is becoming far more common, IMO beyond all reasonable doubt, from human-caused global warming. Let's say the type of rain that caused these floods has only got twice as common thanks to global warming. How do we talk about a flood then? Sometimes they also happened in the past, but 100% more suffering caused by our global warming already is bad too. |
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Post by lordb on Nov 4, 2024 19:43:28 GMT
Can't get my head around how devastating these floods have been with such levels of unpreparedness as well as such a poor response from the authorities Have to agree with Ancelotti who said that football should have stopped in Spain I agree with your sense of horror but not sure what stopping football would have achieved. To show solidarity with those affected |
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Post by thebasfordhedgehog on Nov 4, 2024 19:44:59 GMT
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Post by Veritas on Nov 4, 2024 20:44:50 GMT
I agree with your sense of horror but not sure what stopping football would have achieved. To show solidarity with those affected A national day of mourning then rather than just cancelling football games |
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Post by mtrstudent on Nov 5, 2024 1:33:16 GMT
To show solidarity with those affected A national day of mourning then rather than just cancelling football games Just saw some more footage. Absolutely horrible 😢 I think the arguments are: cancel the football to show respect because it's less important than lives. Continue the football to show resilience and do some kind of display to show solidarity. I'm in the camp of playing the footy anyway. It gets community together. |
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Post by crouchpotato1 on Nov 15, 2024 10:14:43 GMT
What the hell is happening with the weather🤷♂️
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Post by oggyoggy on Nov 15, 2024 10:42:51 GMT
What the hell is happening with the weather🤷♂️ It definitely isn’t climate change because that’s too woke. |
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