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He refused a Bypass..... |
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heart!!!!! crap.... |
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I can only just remember that guy... who was he? |
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haha :P Xammax: He is a dirty hippy who got famous during the protests against the Newbury bypass. (Swampy not Jivver) |
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Whilst I'm all for conservation that guy was a clueless hippie. More bothered with the "idea" of being green than the practicalities of it. My brother saw him leading the idiot protestors at Faslane when he was stationed there. |
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I've got to ask why someone would refuse medical help. |
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Why would someone refuse medical help? |
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Usually it's religious reasons... In his case though, I imagine he thought his course of chi tea and accupuncture prescribed by his herbalist would be enough :D |
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Religious I can understand but still think is stupid but his... well he clearly wasn't thinking straight. :P |
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There are a lot of protestors like that though. In fact if you feel strongly enough to protest in the way he does against anything the odds are that you have a very one sided view of the subject. |
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"Idiot Protestors" is a bit harsh isnt it? |
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I don't know for a fact that he didn't do it (or not as the case may be) for religious reasons- I was just speculating. Although, I doubt he is a devout orthodox muslim or roman catholic (both of which sometimes refuse operations on religious grounds). :) |
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Protesting against idiots? |
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They are idiots because we NEED nuclear weapons. |
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its a joke. he was protesting against a bypass. 'refused a bypass' geddit. |
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They are only people who stand up for what they believe though. |
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Yes, the very fact that you feel strongly enough about it to go and protest against something that is (in the case of Faslane) perfectly: safe; legal; approved of by a huge majority of the populance and will never, in our lifetime at least, be changed shows you are unlikely to be open to see the other side of the argument. Jedi Chris: Amusingly, I just bumped into that aquaintance of ours who until recently looked like the recently departed swampy at Tesco. On the subject of the faslane protestors, yes, they were "idiot protestors". Swimming naked out to a submarine, climbing aboard and dancing on it till you collapse from hypothermia whilst the naval guards look on an laugh, when you're not even in an area where TV crews/reporters can get to, so it won't even get publicity is stupid IMO. I wonder if they actually understood that none of the subs there were actually equipped with nukes and were (like all operating naval submarines the world over) merely nuclear powered? Probably not, which makes their protest even more amusing/pointless. |
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As an act of remebrance, I propose we all go out and play this game: |
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Nahh, I'll pass |
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did It take jivvy THIS long to come up with that joke?? |
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how does bob marley like his doughnuts? wi' jam in |
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We should be hearing some howlers about Bin Laden in say ooh 2008 |
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How stupid, sounds like he actually needed a brain transplant. Lol. |
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Ha ha, I am the buffoon. I missed tge second "o" out :D |
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haha, he looks such a nice lad as well, but I remember that episode of HIGNFY and he was made to look stupid. I think Paul Merton even felt sorry for him at the end of it. |
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what a buffon. |
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I have to admit, I felt a bit bad for him as well... it's just a shame his thirst for publicity for his cause made him go on shows like that. I mean, even David Beckham had the good sense not to go on it (or at least listen to whoever told him not to)... I think the problem the protestors had was using someone like that as a figurehead. It reinforced people's stereotype of environmentalists. Had they used a "green" business man or even a member of the aristocracy who did a lot of environmental work the focus would have been on their cause. Even his own people realised towards the end (before he disappeared) that the media just saw him as this sort of clown and as soon as he cleared off the protests disappeared from the news. |
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any chance you'd believe me if I said it was a typo on "button"? :) |
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If anything though the supposedly clever protestors messed themselves up because he was an excellent media draw...and if someone with a bit of sense had have been wise enough to realise it they could have used that to massive effect. |
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If they had sense they wouldn't be protesting against half the things they did though! ;P |
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pff. that is one hell of a dumb joke..! |
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