You wouldn’t believe …….

Blackheathen

Life around the House of Representatives in Wellington NZ resembles Ottawa and other centres where activists are demonstrating against the COVID vaccine and Government mandates.  The Wellington situation is confused because there appear to be no leaders and different groups are demonstrating against all sorts of issues - all of them anti-Government.

Last Tuesday an organised March of a hundred or so arrived in the grounds of Parliament House and pitched a few tents.  Others soon joined and before long more tents and marquees were erected, police numbers swelled, so too did the demonstrators and now there are a 1,000 or so in full voice.

At the moment it’s teaming with rain and likely to get worse tomorrow with a typhoon expected.  This is what takes some believing.  On Tuesday the Leader of the House, under whose jurisdiction lie the grounds of the House of Representatives ordered the lawn sprinklers to be turned on!  The campers responded by digging trenched in the pristine grass to channel the water away.  The sprinklers are still going and the weather is cold and very wet.  That’s not all …

Earlier today the Leader of the House ordered Barry Manilow music and the 1990s Macarena to be played at full volume to try and shoe the crowd away - unsuccessfully.  The crowd responded with their own music and danced.

SporadicAddick

Saint Jacinda will, despite being an absolute disaster, last longer than this thread...

Mendonca In Asdas

Barry Manilow!

ValleyGary

…its not butter?

thai malaysia addick

Make them watch videos of Charlton losing heavily. That will get rid of them.

seth plum

Jacinda is no disaster compared to Johnson, who if she is a Saint he is most definitely an utter Prince of Darkness.

SporadicAddick

seth plum said:

Jacinda is no disaster compared to Johnson, who if she is a Saint he is most definitely an utter Prince of Darkness.

Now I wonder what it is that you of all people like about Jacinda     

Stig

seth plum

Me ‘of all people’.
Gotta laugh at you digging that out when my post was a comparison of two Prime Ministers.
I wonder what made you swoop on Chineseness, couldn’t be a bit of racially related stereotyping could it?
I will no doubt be accused of derailing this thread, when I clearly have not.

Bournemouth Addick

Imagine thinking a PM of a country that has less than 100 deaths is an "absolute disaster", yet one overseeing 150,000+ got "all the major decisions" right?

Yes, I'm aware we're being trolled.

https://forum.charltonlife.com/discussion/88532/the-politics-of-corona#latest 

eastterrace6168

They need to play "Addicks to Victory" at max, that'll clear them...

SporadicAddick

seth plum said:

Me ‘of all people’.
Gotta laugh at you digging that out when my post was a comparison of two Prime Ministers.
I wonder what made you swoop on Chineseness, couldn’t be a bit of racially related stereotyping could it?
I will no doubt be accused of derailing this thread, when I clearly have not.

No - why would it be? I'm referring to your appreciation of socialism / communism.

seth plum

So why the ‘you of all people’ comment related to an article linking New Zealand behaviour and China?

SporadicAddick

seth plum said:

So why the ‘you of all people’ comment related to an article linking New Zealand behaviour and China?

Because of your appreciation of socialism / communism....

SporadicAddick

Apologies all....

seth plum

SporadicAddick said:

seth plum said:

So why the ‘you of all people’ comment related to an article linking New Zealand behaviour and China?

Because of your appreciation of socialism / communism....

I appreciate Rugby, particularly Irish Rugby, where Rugby is a bigger feature of New Zealand life than it’s international relationships.
America is a socialist country in many aspects of it’s life, Cuba says it is communist.
Are you going to accept your comment personalised unnecessarily a thread that didn’t need it?

North Lower Neil

It's 10am on a Saturday morning, have a lie-in, go for a run, have a fry-up, watch rubbish Saturday morning cooking programmes.

Have people seriously got nothing better to do that whinge at other people and try to look clever on an Internet forum.

Depressing.

North Lower Neil

And yes, I realise I just whinged at other people on an Internet forum.

I'm off to stick crap Saturday morning TV on instead.

Stu_of_Kunming

SporadicAddick said:

seth plum said:

So why the ‘you of all people’ comment related to an article linking New Zealand behaviour and China?

Because of your appreciation of socialism / communism....

China is neither though. 

Bournemouth Addick

North Lower Neil said:

It's 10am on a Saturday morning, have a lie-in, go for a run, have a fry-up, watch rubbish Saturday morning cooking programmes.

Have people seriously got nothing better to do that whinge at other people and try to look clever on an Internet forum.

Depressing.

But he started it Dad!

😁

JamesSeed

Blackheathen said:

Life around the House of Representatives in Wellington NZ resembles Ottawa and other centres where activists are demonstrating against the COVID vaccine and Government mandates.  The Wellington situation is confused because there appear to be no leaders and different groups are demonstrating against all sorts of issues - all of them anti-Government.

Last Tuesday an organised March of a hundred or so arrived in the grounds of Parliament House and pitched a few tents.  Others soon joined and before long more tents and marquees were erected, police numbers swelled, so too did the demonstrators and now there are a 1,000 or so in full voice.

At the moment it’s teaming with rain and likely to get worse tomorrow with a typhoon expected.  This is what takes some believing.  On Tuesday the Leader of the House, under whose jurisdiction lie the grounds of the House of Representatives ordered the lawn sprinklers to be turned on!  The campers responded by digging trenched in the pristine grass to channel the water away.  The sprinklers are still going and the weather is cold and very wet.  That’s not all …

Earlier today the Leader of the House ordered Barry Manilow music and the 1990s Macarena to be played at full volume to try and shoe the crowd away - unsuccessfully.  The crowd responded with their own music and danced.

‘Eccentrics’ would be a better description (although some might say ‘nutters’). 

These are anti vax, anti lockdown, anti mask, anti capitalist, anti government, pro/anti assange etc etc types. They may represent some of the five percent who refuse to be vaccinated. The 96% who are vaccinated are getting on with their lives, and aren’t pitching tents outside Parliament. We used to call them the silent majority. 

It’s the way of the modern world. All the ‘characters’ gather together and demand attention, and when they get it it makes it looks like it’s a huge protest movement. When it really isn’t. 

It’s a great opportunity for those who want to see a left of centre government fail. They’ll get behind the protestors, no matter what the reality of the situation actually is. 

KiwiValley

i had a meeting near Parliament and had to skirt past the protestors. A motley crew is the most generous I can be about them. 96% of adults here are vaccinated. New Zealand is so small, pretty much the 4% are the ones getting covered in mud and Barry Manilow 

MrOneLung

seth plum said:

SporadicAddick said:

seth plum said:

So why the ‘you of all people’ comment related to an article linking New Zealand behaviour and China?

Because of your appreciation of socialism / communism....

I appreciate Rugby, particularly Irish Rugby, where Rugby is a bigger feature of New Zealand life than it’s international relationships.
America is a socialist country in many aspects of it’s life, Cuba says it is communist.
Are you going to accept your comment personalised unnecessarily a thread that didn’t need it?

He may not be aware of your personal life though Seth and be just be referring to your political views. 

seth plum

MrOneLung said:

seth plum said:

SporadicAddick said:

seth plum said:

So why the ‘you of all people’ comment related to an article linking New Zealand behaviour and China?

Because of your appreciation of socialism / communism....

I appreciate Rugby, particularly Irish Rugby, where Rugby is a bigger feature of New Zealand life than it’s international relationships.
America is a socialist country in many aspects of it’s life, Cuba says it is communist.
Are you going to accept your comment personalised unnecessarily a thread that didn’t need it?

He may not be aware of your personal life though Seth and be just be referring to your political views. 

Is it a good idea to say this?
’You of all people’ was a personal dig, not a response to a particular political point.

MrOneLung

Fair enough

KiwiValley

JamesSeed said:

Blackheathen said:

Life around the House of Representatives in Wellington NZ resembles Ottawa and other centres where activists are demonstrating against the COVID vaccine and Government mandates.  The Wellington situation is confused because there appear to be no leaders and different groups are demonstrating against all sorts of issues - all of them anti-Government.

Last Tuesday an organised March of a hundred or so arrived in the grounds of Parliament House and pitched a few tents.  Others soon joined and before long more tents and marquees were erected, police numbers swelled, so too did the demonstrators and now there are a 1,000 or so in full voice.

At the moment it’s teaming with rain and likely to get worse tomorrow with a typhoon expected.  This is what takes some believing.  On Tuesday the Leader of the House, under whose jurisdiction lie the grounds of the House of Representatives ordered the lawn sprinklers to be turned on!  The campers responded by digging trenched in the pristine grass to channel the water away.  The sprinklers are still going and the weather is cold and very wet.  That’s not all …

Earlier today the Leader of the House ordered Barry Manilow music and the 1990s Macarena to be played at full volume to try and shoe the crowd away - unsuccessfully.  The crowd responded with their own music and danced.

‘Eccentrics’ would be a better description (although some might say ‘nutters’). 

These are anti vax, anti lockdown, anti mask, anti capitalist, anti government, pro/anti assange etc etc types. They may represent some of the five percent who refuse to be vaccinated. The 95% who are vaccinated are getting on with their lives, and aren’t pitching tents outside Parliament. We used to call them the silent majority. 

It’s the way of the modern world. All the ‘characters’ gather together and demand attention, and when they get it it makes it looks like it’s a huge protest movement. When it really isn’t. 

It’s a great opportunity for those who want to see a left of centre government fail. They’ll get behind the protestors, no matter what the reality of the situation actually is. 

No politicians (not one) of any colour have endorsed or spoken to the protestors. 

letthegoodtimesroll

Bournemouth Addick said:

Imagine thinking a PM of a country that has less than 100 deaths is an "absolute disaster", yet one overseeing 150,000+ got "all the major decisions" right?

Yes, I'm aware we're being trolled.

https://forum.charltonlife.com/discussion/88532/the-politics-of-corona#latest 

The outcome of one major decision has yet to be determined whether she got it right or wrong. ‘Isolation’ in a pandemic could have a potential downside when things open up again. Ie, no immunity from all the diseases from the rest of the world has learnt to live with but will still be carriers of 

IdleHans

Me of all people won't be joining in this little spat

SporadicAddick

seth plum said:

SporadicAddick said:

seth plum said:

So why the ‘you of all people’ comment related to an article linking New Zealand behaviour and China?

Because of your appreciation of socialism / communism....

I appreciate Rugby, particularly Irish Rugby, where Rugby is a bigger feature of New Zealand life than it’s international relationships.
America is a socialist country in many aspects of it’s life, Cuba says it is communist.
Are you going to accept your comment personalised unnecessarily a thread that didn’t need it?

Seth if you don't like my posts then don't respond to them.

I'll accept that I made it about you when I didn't need to.  

Are you going to accept that you suggesting I indulged in "racially related stereotyping" is incorrect?

SporadicAddick

Stu_of_Kunming said:

SporadicAddick said:

seth plum said:

So why the ‘you of all people’ comment related to an article linking New Zealand behaviour and China?

Because of your appreciation of socialism / communism....

China is neither though. 

Perhaps the CCP should change its name and its constitution which has at its heart a Marxist - Leninist One Party State.

SporadicAddick

MrOneLung said:

seth plum said:

SporadicAddick said:

seth plum said:

So why the ‘you of all people’ comment related to an article linking New Zealand behaviour and China?

Because of your appreciation of socialism / communism....

I appreciate Rugby, particularly Irish Rugby, where Rugby is a bigger feature of New Zealand life than it’s international relationships.
America is a socialist country in many aspects of it’s life, Cuba says it is communist.
Are you going to accept your comment personalised unnecessarily a thread that didn’t need it?

He may not be aware of your personal life though Seth and be just be referring to your political views. 

Correct on both counts.