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Allow me to add that the protesters are almost entirely renta-mob extras, being bussed-in from nearby Brighton.

Brighton is the gay/’Green’ capital of Southern England – the only place in the entire country with a ‘Green’ Party MP and a ‘Green’ council. The leader of which is called Jason Kitkat.

No, I did not make that up.

Just consider the contrast in militarization of police. In the U.S. get cops in armored personnel carriers, kevlar everthing and with full Seal Team 6 armaments; in the U.K. you get cops wearing UPS uniforms and with bicycle helmets equipped with custom sneeze guards.

And really. Can you believe I just said something that stupid?

Shit, just put a “Voluntary Anti-Cheap Energy Tax” line on every billing form, tax sheet, & grocery receipt for them to fill in with what ever amount they think is fair.

Make it a matter of public record & mock them mercilessly for not paying enough.

Interesting how the eco-kooks are free to live in their fossil energy free nirvana, but they never choose to do so.

I seem to recall a similar group firmly entrenched outside the gates of RAF Greenham Common during the 80’s protesting the whole cruise missile thing…. they were there for years, living in ragtag tents and little camps… they were fun to watch.

Someone could come up with a way to run cars on leftist well-meaning and they’d rise up in opposition to it for some damn reason even if they had to invent it.

Orwell said that pacifists during WW2 were objectively pro-Nazi. Charitably, these people are objectively pro-Islamofascist, pro-Chavista and pro-Putin and all his neo-Stalinist thuggery. However I wonder if, unlike the pacifists of yore, modern Greens are outright fifth columnists. If I were a Saudi princeling or a director of Rosneft, I’d be very keen on encouraging as much eco-freak monkey-wrenching in the West as I could.

There is only one answer – Eugenics ….

Wasn’t it Niche who once said mankid was something to be surpassed?

Sigh… Okay, one last time – it’s “fracing”, not “fracking” and it’s “frac”, not “frack.” See any “k”s in the word “fracture”? No you don’t. And no, I really don’t care how many ignorant media types don’t know how to spell things correctly. This is how we wound up with abominations like “inflamable” (= “flamable”) and “irregardless” (= “regardless”).

I say “one last time” because I know this battle is already lost, but after 40 years in the oil and gas business, the inability of people to actually look in a standard English oilfield dictionary for the proper spelling still irritates the hell out of me. I’ll shut up and go away now…

While you are worried about Fracker Crackers …

We’re about to descend into civil war here … things are starting to come unstuck.

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A hacksaw? Man, that is why I have a reel of Orange Primacord in my Tahoe. 3-4 turns around the wrist, and the protester is set free, and no damage to the item he chained himself to.

As a child, I had a Matchbox Merryweather Fire Tender like the one they are chained to!

Upper Class Twit of the Year?

How say ye?

Dear Mike C.,

Frack:Fracturing::Fridge:Refrigerator

Yours in Christ,

Stark

And then there’s Battlestar Gallactica’s version of frack and frak.

I hate to see someone panicking about a highly disputable spelling question when there are serious issues like human trafficking to be concerned over.

They should be frolicking and picnicking, or burping colicky babies. Or even politicking with Quebeckers.

‘K?

“We’re about to descend into civil war here”

Welcome to the party, pal…!

Comment from Rich Rostrom
Time: August 2, 2013, 8:46 pm

I hate to see someone panicking about a highly disputable spelling question when there are serious issues like human trafficking to be concerned over.

They should be frolicking and picnicking, or burping colicky babies. Or even politicking with Quebeckers.

‘K?

Comment of the year, if you ask me. You didn’t, but that’s okay, I forgive y’all.

Though, I have to admit, Ænglisc has definitely suffered from the (obnoxious, scribal) intruduction of the Greek “K”.

Awrite, knock off that unseemly amusement and mirth…

Though I gotta go with mister umlaut – 23 letters was good enough for the Romans.

My son graduated from Berkeley in 2007, and walking to the Greek Theatre for the ceremony led us past some kindred spirits to these morons, living in a grove of oak trees that the University had planted a half a century ago to fill in some space until they were ready to build on it. It didn’t work, as the university gave them short shrift and there is now a state-of-the-art at athletic facility on that spot.

During my time at that august institution they were protesting animal experimentation by climbing up the sides of buildings El Capitan style, living there on the side of the mountain in their high-tech climbing gear until the University stopped building more science labs.

Should you ever appen to visit you will notice that there are several nice new science buildings that, amazingly enough, date from that era. Imagine that.

Most of these were not students, but the same sort of protestor-for-hire as you’ve got going there in Jolly ol’ England. Lucky you!

inflammable/flammable
Mike C, look them up. Inflammable (that which can be inflamed) is correct. Flammable was invented for reasons of safety, in case anybody should think the “in” meant “not”.