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[Mazthehobo]

Got wondering the other day how many fireworks it would take to have the same power as an atom bomb…

 

Anyway I did a Google and the strength of a firework is 0.000001 of the atom bomb but it’s estimated over 20m fireworks are set off in uk every year…

 

So does that mean that we let off the same energy as an atom bomb into our skies every bonfire night?

 

Or is my maths just terrible. 
 

 

[Campion]

53 minutes ago, Mazthehobo said:

Yeah I agree with you. 
I think people should be able to protest if they want to but it’s disrespectful. 
That being said, in a world where freedom of speech is being censored more every day who am I to tell someone they can’t protest… 

 

Quite right. If you want the right to protest yourself, it's hypocritical to interrupt someone else's peaceful expression of whatever it might be, in this case the Remembrance. 

 

Having said that, it's not clear to me what exactly he was protesting about and what it had to do with Remembrance day, which to be fair might be as much about how it was reported as what he actually said. 

[SimonTV]

On 11/9/2024 at 12:56 AM, Fluke said:

I agree. I hate thinking about their relatives.

 

you hate their relatives? are you suggesting that family members should cover up the crime of their family? 

 

 

[Campion]

51 minutes ago, Mazthehobo said:

Got wondering the other day how many fireworks it would take to have the same power as an atom bomb…

 

Anyway I did a Google and the strength of a firework is 0.000001 of the atom bomb but it’s estimated over 20m fireworks are set off in uk every year…

 

So does that mean that we let off the same energy as an atom bomb into our skies every bonfire night?

 

Or is my maths just terrible. 

 

It's hard to say because both atom bombs and fireworks come in a wide range of sizes! But with your figures, 0.000,001 x 20m = 20.  So equivalent to 20 atom bombs. That sounds a lot! 

[Grumpy Owl]

15 minutes ago, Campion said:

 

Quite right. If you want the right to protest yourself, it's hypocritical to interrupt someone else's peaceful expression of whatever it might be, in this case the Remembrance. 

 

Having said that, it's not clear to me what exactly he was protesting about and what it had to do with Remembrance day, which to be fair might be as much about how it was reported as what he actually said. 

 

I can't find it now, but there was a story yesterday about some privileged group of young toffs planning to disrupt Remembrance services with 'pro-Palestine protests'.

 

A group calling themselves "Youth Demand" who are associated with 'Just Stop Oil'.

 

With the lack of details provided in this local news report (typical Reach Plc), it's not clear if this was some way related.

 

I would suspect that as the police swiftly removed and arrested this fella, and the crowds were seen/heard to be shouting "rat, traitor", he was probably some 'white dude' rather than anyone of an ethnic minority.

[Grumpy Owl]

1 hour ago, Mazthehobo said:

So does that mean that we let off the same energy as an atom bomb into our skies every bonfire night?

 

Sadly round by me, we no longer have a 'bonfire night', but a "fireworks month".

 

So much for a cost of living crisis!

[Mazthehobo]

14 minutes ago, Campion said:

 

It's hard to say because both atom bombs and fireworks come in a wide range of sizes! But with your figures, 0.000,001 x 20m = 20.  So equivalent to 20 atom bombs. That sounds a lot! 

Yeah. It must be my bad maths. I came to the same conclusion that 20 atomic bombs would surely be too much to ignore…

 

 

[Mazthehobo]

10 minutes ago, Grumpy Owl said:

 

I can't find it now, but there was a story yesterday about some privileged group of young toffs planning to disrupt Remembrance services with 'pro-Palestine protests'.

 

A group calling themselves "Youth Demand" who are associated with 'Just Stop Oil'.

 

With the lack of details provided in this local news report (typical Reach Plc), it's not clear if this was some way related.

 

I would suspect that as the police swiftly removed and arrested this fella, and the crowds were seen/heard to be shouting "rat, traitor", he was probably some 'white dude' rather than anyone of an ethnic minority.

I suppose it’s the best way to get your protest heard. Guarantee to get in the media. 
It’s like those guys in the states that picket funerals of gay soldiers killed in combat. I don’t like it. But I guess that freedom of speech is either all in or nothing. 

[1velocity7]

after 2020 does anyone else get wound up when ppl say they died for our freedom?

[Captainlove]

1 hour ago, 1velocity7 said:

after 2020 does anyone else get wound up when ppl say they died for our freedom?

If you talking about war veterans then no.  Those people were told to fight for their country and thought they were doing the right thing, lied too most likely yes. Now freedoms they died defending are now being destroyed. so the people who died during the wars now died for nothing. If thats what you mean.

Edited November 10, 2024 by Captainlove

[Fluke]

2 hours ago, SimonTV said:

 

you hate their relatives? are you suggesting that family members should cover up the crime of their family? 

 

 

Yes. Exactly what I'm saying mate. 

[cemeterycrow]

 

[RobinJ]

16 hours ago, 1velocity7 said:

after 2020 does anyone else get wound up when ppl say they died for our freedom?

That's what their programming was at the time. Many would have considered it their life purpose perhaps, many still go to war with that misguided idea pushed on them by someone else.

Why would it wind you up? Those folks suffered their entire life from what they went through and witnessed.

Perhaps, something you may like to open up to consider,  is that it winds you up because you haven't found your own life purpose yet.

When we have negative reactions its often because we need to examine why.

[Mazthehobo]

17 hours ago, 1velocity7 said:

after 2020 does anyone else get wound up when ppl say they died for our freedom?

I get what you’re saying. Also worth remember that in a lot of wars in the past people didn’t really have a choice to go and fight or not. If they refused they were branded a coward with white feathered and shamed from society (bit like the anti vaxxers come to think of it). And if you tried to escape from the army you were sent to prison or shot. 
so for a lot of people they didn’t die for freedom, the died because they were forced to go to war.

 

But for those who went believing they were fighting for freedom and who believe all the patriotic propaganda, then I guess they died fighting for freedom because that’s what they believed they were doing. 
 

I think most country will say their soldiers died for freedom. I guess it depends which freedom you are raised into.

[Tinfoil Hat]

4 hours ago, RobinJ said:

That's what their programming was at the time. Many would have considered it their life purpose perhaps, many still go to war with that misguided idea pushed on them by someone else.

Why would it wind you up? Those folks suffered their entire life from what they went through and witnessed.

Perhaps, something you may like to open up to consider,  is that it winds you up because you haven't found your own life purpose yet.

When we have negative reactions its often because we need to examine why.

I agree that people will die fighting for a purpose they believe is defending their own, even though they've been lied to about who, precisely, is the enemy. 

[Tinfoil Hat]

https://youtu.be/9kI_F6P8PdM?si=cRqzvr0dK0d28_q9

 

Spot on!

[Captainlove]

10 minutes ago, Tinfoil Hat said:

https://youtu.be/9kI_F6P8PdM?si=cRqzvr0dK0d28_q9

 

Spot on!

Well said Andrew couldnt have put it better myself.

[northern star]

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Edited November 12, 2024 by northern star
put in another thread

[Freaky Dragonfly]

 

[SimonTV]

They are trying to prevent Le Pen from being able to win the next election by banning her from the democracy due to allegedly spending EU funds "incorrectly"

 

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/french-prosecutor-seeks-5-year-ban-from-office-against-french-far-right-leader-le-pen/ar-AA1u2bIy

[RobinJ]

On 11/12/2024 at 4:52 AM, Freaky Dragonfly said:

 

Hahaha! Not via trump they won't. He is just another great deceiver. Doubt he will live much longer anyway. Hanging on to a belief that politicians will save you is utterly ridiculous.

Those in power know exactly whats happening, they know they are already on the way out. What we are witnessing is the final destruction of the veil. 

[Mr H]

Don't like the right? Just simply ban them!

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg0q711vl2o

 

Prosecutor seeks jail and election ban for Le Pen

[Mr H]

Another paedo off the hook, whilst posting stuff on interwebs gets u sent to ze gulag

 

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/31724864/trainee-teacher-videos-newborn-babies-raped-court/

 

TEACHER LET OFF Trainee teacher who shared sick videos of newborn babies being raped walks free from court

[Katsika]

5 hours ago, Mr H said:

TEACHER LET OFF Trainee teacher who shared sick videos of newborn babies being raped walks free from court

"But he dodged a custodial sentence as a judge said he was not a direct danger to the public."

 

and because of the mitigation i.e. "Chouffot’s lawyer Kellie Enever said her client had experienced abuse from age 11 and was self-medicating with drink and drugs during his offending."

 

"Chouffot was given just 30 rehab sessions and 180 hours of unpaid work" - is that enough to fix his damaged mind?

 

I wonder who the judge was, perhaps an admirer of John Jackson Smyth QC (deceased)? 

 

 

[Mazthehobo]

18 minutes ago, Katsika said:

"But he dodged a custodial sentence as a judge said he was not a direct danger to the public."

 

and because of the mitigation i.e. "Chouffot’s lawyer Kellie Enever said her client had experienced abuse from age 11 and was self-medicating with drink and drugs during his offending."

 

"Chouffot was given just 30 rehab sessions and 180 hours of unpaid work" - is that enough to fix his damaged mind?

 

I wonder who the judge was, perhaps an admirer of John Jackson Smyth QC (deceased)? 

 

 

I mentioned it in another thread but cases and sentences like this when added to the stories about violent gun gang criminals being released within 18 months due to prison shortages, it shows you just exactly who is the real enemy in the eyes of the government when Alex Belfield is still behind bars for harassing a bbc worker.

 

Soon the prisons will be full of people that don’t agree with the narrative.