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Just Stop Oil protestors.....

golfaddick
golfaddick Posts: 33,628
edited July 2023 in Not Sports Related
Couldn't find a specific thread on this, although there is one where we debated the traffic problems they've been causing. 

I really really hope that they get decked by a member of the public very soon. Ran onto the playing area at Lord's last week & have twice stopped play at Wimbledon today. 

Can you imagine if they were football fans doing this. General Public wouldn't be so nice then would they.

Aaargghhh. Please lock them all up !!
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  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,265
    No doubt they'll be on the track again at a Silverstone too 
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,952
    Cafc43v3r said:
    Say what you like about them, I wish I had as much luck in ticket ballets.


    Do you reckon I could join, get the tickets on the pretense I was going to chuck stuff, then just watch the cricket/tennis/football?
  • WHAddick
    WHAddick Posts: 1,149
    Cnuts...
  • Sensei
    Sensei Posts: 233
    Cafc43v3r said:
    Say what you like about them, I wish I had as much luck in ticket ballets.


    Have you tried the Coliseum Box Office in St Martins Lane?  ;)
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,126
    edited July 2023
    They have a right to protest, they’re not physically harming anyone and I’m not necessarily against their cause. You have to raise the profile of any campaign (just like Charlton fans have done) and doing it at nationally televised sporting events is a pretty good way of doing it. Quite impressive campaign organisation really if you look at it objectively.

    Awful security at these events mind and did lose my support a bit by targeting the wicket at Lords. 

    Take the point with football fans though, we’d be labelled as hooligans. 
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    edited July 2023
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    we've had our disruptive demos recently .. I don't recall too much bad press or many Addicks fans getting nicked
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,126
    edited July 2023
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  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    The Red Robin said:
    Lincsaddick said:
    The Red Robin said:
    They have a right to protest, they’re not physically harming anyone and I’m not necessarily against their cause. You have to raise the profile of any campaign (just like Charlton fans have done) and doing it at nationally televised sporting events is a pretty good way of doing it. Quite impressive campaign organisation really if you look at it objectively.

    Awful security at these events mind and did lose my support a bit by targeting the wicket at Lords. 

    Take the point with football fans though, we’d be labelled as hooligans. 
    we've had our disruptive demos recently .. I don't recall too much bad press or many Addicks fans getting nicked
    That wasn’t the comparison I was making. 
    OK, deleted the quote to save any comparison confusion 
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  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,255
    It’s a shame as their message is extremely important and one that everyone should be aware of, and if they can, do their bit to support, educate and work together on.  However, their execution is too aggressive in that they alienate people and don’t help foster relations between those that don’t understand/ignore the magnitude of climate change, and those of us that really worry about it

    Hottest day on record globally y’day and we’ve all got to work together.  I know a lot of tackling climate change is out of our hands due to the complexity of carbon output, political collaboration and business, but for me, their actions push people further down a rabbit hole of not caring, if they weren’t that bothered in the first place.

    They will say they need to take drastic action, but short sabotaging refineries, coal plants and doing damage to oil and gas infrastructure, their actions aren’t changing anything.  I’m not advocating they do destroy such infrastructure, just pointing out that what they’re doing isn’t working in the short, medium or long term.

    As an aside, the people that get triggered by them standing in the road and take it into their own hands to move them are also cringe.  Unless you’ve got an emergency, then I don’t understand how you feel you’ve got the right to pick someone else up and physically move them.  The scene when one of them was on a tube in East London a few years back and got pulled off and fell to the ground and all the commuters started laying into him, disgusting.  Some people think that because they’re generally perceived as a nuisance, they have carte blanche to rough them up.  
  • R0TW
    R0TW Posts: 1,676
    The Red Robin said:
    They have a right to protest, they’re not physically harming anyone and I’m not necessarily against their cause. You have to raise the profile of any campaign (just like Charlton fans have done) and doing it at nationally televised sporting events is a pretty good way of doing it. Quite impressive campaign organisation really if you look at it objectively.

    Awful security at these events mind and did lose my support a bit by targeting the wicket at Lords. 

    Take the point with football fans though, we’d be labelled as hooligans. 
    If it any consolation I don’t think you would be classed as a hooligan
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,716
    Keep getting these premium tickets... Got oil money written all over it.. 
  • Boom
    Boom Posts: 1,679
    sam3110 said:
    No doubt they'll be on the track again at a Silverstone too 
    Let’s hope so!
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,353
    edited July 2023
    You wait.  One of the silly cnuts will get killed in one of these stunts.  You watch the usual suspects climb out of the woodwork to defend the fuckers!

    NOT you Golfie.
  • PopIcon
    PopIcon Posts: 5,970
    People need to be more pragmatic.

    If you really want to point the finger, aim it at the BBC, Sky and all the broadcast and press outlets.

    This thread by it's very nature is feeding the clicks.


  • Yorkshireaddick
    Yorkshireaddick Posts: 511
    I read that a woman ran onto Epsom race course and got killed by a horse so people will go to any lengths to promote their cause
  • cafcnick1992
    cafcnick1992 Posts: 7,413
    I find it odd how much they target working class people. Stopping plumbers and truckers from going to work is disgraceful.
  • bromleyjohn
    bromleyjohn Posts: 5,986
    I support the just stop oil protesters and wouldn’t mind them running on the pitch at Charlton. So why would I stop them running on any tennis court? Or cricket pitch for that matter? as usual first world problem ….
  • BigRedEvil
    BigRedEvil Posts: 11,071
    Boom said:
    sam3110 said:
    No doubt they'll be on the track again at a Silverstone too 
    Let’s hope so!
    They were lucky last year there was a big shunt on the first corner so it was red flagged otherwise it would have been nasty 
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  • eastterrace6168
    eastterrace6168 Posts: 22,518
    edited July 2023
    Lock the lot of them up for a couple of weeks, and feed 'em bread and water...
    Any support they could have had is lost the moment they disrupt peoples free time, their cause may have been high profile at the start, but now it is boring and just a pain in the arse, and what's more it won't make a jot of difference to the powers that be, oil will still be drilled for until a better more sustainable source of energy is widely available...
  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,164
    Sorry, @golfaddick but the reason you don't like it, is because you're just a grumpy bugger and it inconveniences you and others.

    It's a very important issue and fair play to them for bringing to everyone's attention, otherwise most of us would die, not necessarily from global warming but apathy and sheer laziness to do anything about the problems of our world today!
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,846
    sillav nitram said:
    Sorry, @golfaddick but the reason you don't like it, is because you're just a grumpy bugger and it inconveniences you and others.

    It's a very important issue and fair play to them for bringing to everyone's attention, otherwise most of us would die, not necessarily from global warming but apathy and sheer laziness to do anything about the problems of our world today!
    Sorry to be the one to break it to you, but we're all going to die at some point.
  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    All funded by someone who made her fortune from Getty Oil.
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,353
    edited July 2023
    bromleyjohn said:
    I support the just stop oil protesters and wouldn’t mind them running on the pitch at Charlton. So why would I stop them running on any tennis court? Or cricket pitch for that matter? as usual first world problem ….
    Exactly,  but can they score goals though bj?
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,126
    soapy_jones said:
    bromleyjohn said:
    I support the just stop oil protesters and wouldn’t mind them running on the pitch at Charlton. So why would I stop them running on any tennis court? Or cricket pitch for that matter? as usual first world problem ….
    Exactly,  but can they score goals though bj?
    How tall are they?
  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    edited July 2023
    Hal1x said:
    All funded by someone who made her fortune from Getty Oil.


    They arrest these people need to start locking them up, or sending them to Rwanda where I think they have a few spare places at the mo.

  • Manic_mania
    Manic_mania Posts: 2,258
    I wonder why they are happy to sit in traffic or disrupt sporting events exclusively in the UK but don't have the same drive or passion for the environment to do the same thing out in India or China or even America where the issues really are...? Oh yeah I think I know why... 


  • Todds_right_hook
    Todds_right_hook Posts: 10,883
    The Red Robin said:
    They have a right to protest, they’re not physically harming anyone and I’m not necessarily against their cause. You have to raise the profile of any campaign (just like Charlton fans have done) and doing it at nationally televised sporting events is a pretty good way of doing it. Quite impressive campaign organisation really if you look at it objectively.

    Awful security at these events mind and did lose my support a bit by targeting the wicket at Lords. 

    Take the point with football fans though, we’d be labelled as hooligans. 
    They are vandalising other peoples property. They have closed roads which have caused people to miss appointments. I would say they are hurting people 
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,126
    Manic_mania said:
    I wonder why they are happy to sit in traffic or disrupt sporting events exclusively in the UK but don't have the same drive or passion for the environment to do the same thing out in India or China or even America where the issues really are...? Oh yeah I think I know why... 


    …because they’re a UK campaign group?
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