The Flat Earth Society
Other Discussion Boards => Philosophy, Religion & Society => Topic started by: Thork on July 17, 2014, 07:55:09 PM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhbliUq0_r4
http://grnpc.org/Ig0qP
We love LEGO. You love LEGO. Everyone loves LEGO.
But when LEGO's halo effect is being used to sell propaganda to children, especially by an unethical corporation who are busy destroying the natural world our children will inherit, we have to do something.
http://grnpc.org/Ig0qP
Children's imaginations are an unspoilt wilderness. Help us stop Shell polluting them by telling LEGO to stop selling Shell-branded bricks and kits today. Sign our petition at http://grnpc.org/Ig0qP
Greenpeace is calling on LEGO to end its partnership with Shell to Save the Arctic
I just thought this was a clever video. Oh, and I signed the petition! :D
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Lego bricks are made from plastic which comes from oil. Saying Lego is good but Shell is bad seems strange.
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I think if I were Lego, I'd drop shell, make a Greenpeace limited edition set and donate all the proceeds to Greenpeace.
This is a PR disaster.
I'd then go about making sure we used as much recycled plastic as I could get my hands on.
By the way, the 'everything is awesome' song is a parody of lego's own movie. I just think the advertising company Greenpeace used have done an amazing job.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGnH6JPsv7E
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I think if I were Lego, I'd drop shell, make a Greenpeace limited edition set and donate all the proceeds to Greenpeace.
Lolwut. I would partner with one of the largest companies in the world before I'd partner with some hippy union. I hope you don't actually invest in any stocks, your business sense is abysmal.
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Doesn't Greenpeace support everything Thork hates?
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Doesn't Greenpeace support everything Thork hates?
Yep.
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I don't see Green Peace's argument. Last I checked oil spills were not a world wide epidemic. I also don't buy the evil implication that Shell is trying to kill the environment with oil spills.
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I don't see Green Peace's argument. Last I checked oil spills were not a world wide epidemic. I also don't buy the evil implication that Shell is trying to kill the environment with oil spills.
Of course not, it'd be bad PR, and would cost them money for cleanup.
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I don't see Green Peace's argument. Last I checked oil spills were not a world wide epidemic. I also don't buy the evil implication that Shell is trying to kill the environment with oil spills.
Of course not, it'd be bad PR, and would cost them money for cleanup.
Then what is the video trying to say? That oil spill accidents sometimes happen and therefore Shell is a bad terrible sinful company which brainwashes the feeble minds of children with insidious Lego toys to turn them pro-industry and pro-oil?
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Then what is the video trying to say? That oil spill accidents sometimes happen and therefore Shell is a bad terrible sinful company which brainwashes the feeble minds of children with insidious Lego toys to turn them pro-industry and pro-oil?
It's a surprisingly good way of killing off an industry you don't like. Just look at how much nuclear power was set back due to irrelevant arguments making it look icky.
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The argument is that Shell has been lobbying for drilling rights in the Artic. However, due to a catalogue of accidents and environmental mishaps, they have been refused rights. They are using companies like lego to try to improve their image so they can push for drilling rights again.
However I didn't post the video based on its political message. I posted it based on its creativity and how effective I thought it was.
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Aparently it's been going on for years: http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/Shell
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Aparently it's been going on for years: http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/Shell
...And apparently, it's not going on right now. The Ferrari sets from 2012 were also only released in a few countries.
I guess Greenpeace expects Lego to remove the Shell logo from sets released in the 80s?
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Wait, Th*rk is signing Greenpeace petitions? What happened while I was away?
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Aparently it's been going on for years: http://lego.wikia.com/wiki/Shell
...And apparently, it's not going on right now. The Ferrari sets from 2012 were also only released in a few countries.
I guess Greenpeace expects Lego to remove the Shell logo from sets released in the 80s?
According to Lego they have a long term contract. So it won't be the last.
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Wait, Th*rk is signing Greenpeace petitions? What happened while I was away?
Yeah, and now they won't leave me alone! >o<
They keep asking me to ring up lego, send money, giving me blow by blow updates of the banners they have made and school children that are singing outside the offices.
I signed the thing cos I like the video. Now Th*rk off and leave me in peace! >:(
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once a hippie, always a hippie.
Hippies suffer the worst torments in hell, along with people who talk at the theater.
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Lol Thork got suckered in by irrelevant happenings to support something he doesn't believe in and then bragged about it.
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So Greenpeace have been in touch again. >:(
They have a new video and lots of stories about how children have been to the lego offices to protest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci4I-VK9jew
It's as if they know I live in the same town as Lego HQ and could easily attend the rallies (they don't).
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Did Greenpeace tell those kids that the Antarctic is cool or something? It's not. It's a chunk of ice. They wouldn't want to go there, and they sure as fuck wouldn't be taking their cats.
This is why propaganda is terrible.
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But it is cool. The hell are you talking about?
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honk honk
no
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Reported for off-topic honk.
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People are actually protesting Lego? That's sad.
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People are actually protesting Lego? That's sad.
It's Greenpeace. They hate good things.
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So I'm still getting greenpeace e-mails. I was going to unsubscribe, but I'm enjoying the updates.
Subject: BREAKING: we've taken over a coal train
Hi Thork,
I'm on top of a coal train right now with 49 ordinary people, who believe so passionately that we need to stop climate change, we've stopped a train reaching Cottam power station in Nottinghamshire. We flagged it down at 2.30pm and right now, we’re shovelling coal off the train.
It’s pretty dirty work but I’m here with good friends, and we know it’s the right thing to do.
At this same exact moment, thousands of miles away in New York, global leaders are coming together for a hugely important meeting about the climate.
But while world leaders like David Cameron talk, there’s a plan to give energy companies in the UK millions of pounds of tax-payers' money to keep old coal power plants burning.
See what's happening on top of the train:
https://secure.greenpeace.org.uk/page/m/583048cd/6419af79/61ecad22/204371cc/1651060033/VEsH/
I'm blocking this coal train today to show our leaders that it’s time for action. David Cameron is at the global leaders meeting. When he gets home, he needs to scrap the plan to give tax-payers' money to keep coal power plants going.
And Ed Miliband needs to set out his plan to get us off coal. That could be enough to persuade energy companies to shut down coal plants instead of patching them up.
Click to see photos and video, and read stories:
https://secure.greenpeace.org.uk/page/m/583048cd/6419af79/61ecad22/204371cc/1651060033/VEsE/
There are 50 of us on this train in Nottinghamshire, but Greenpeace is millions of people around the world. Together we’re working for a green, peaceful future powered by renewable energy. We want a protected Arctic, and a world of oceans and forests teeming with life.
Back on the train, we’ll hold on for as long as we can – but to truly get our message out we need thousands more to support our call:
https://secure.greenpeace.org.uk/page/m/583048cd/6419af79/61ecad22/204371cc/1651060033/VEsF/
Thanks for all that you do,
Fran, from a coal train in Nottinghamshire
PS: You can see video clips rushed by bike from the stopped train, read the stories of the people on board, and sign the petition to end dirty coal here: https://secure.greenpeace.org.uk/page/m/583048cd/6419af79/61ecad22/204371cc/1651060033/VEsC/
I have responded to Fran
You have hi-jacked a coal train and are removing the goods. Are you telling me because no one else has involved the police yet? You are an idiot, Fran.
Also, breaking the law is never 'the right thing to do'.
Enjoy your porridge.
Do you think Fran doesn't need that kind of response right now, or do you think it will help spur him and his courageous train robbers on?
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Is it fake?
Flagging down a train can't be easy, they aren't taxies, but actually shoveling the coal on the side of the track without anyone stopping them? Not likely.
Check the news to see if anyone got arrested for train stopping and theft.
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Why can't you use a search engine?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-29334128
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Why can't you use a search engine?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-29334128 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-29334128)
I was on the shitter at the time and felt that it was more important to comment than to google.
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Well you need to google and poo at the same time. This is the digital age and the world can't wait. You need to learn to nip a brown steel rod off, and come back to it later.
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Well you need to google and poo at the same time. This is the digital age and the world can't wait. You need to learn to nip a brown steel rod off, and come back to it later.
Well I can't google, poo, AND respond to you at the same time. So :P
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Well you need to google and poo at the same time. This is the digital age and the world can't wait. You need to learn to nip a brown steel rod off, and come back to it later.
Well I can't google, poo, AND respond to you at the same time. So :P
Then just google, educate yourself and stfu! >:(
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Well you need to google and poo at the same time. This is the digital age and the world can't wait. You need to learn to nip a brown steel rod off, and come back to it later.
Well I can't google, poo, AND respond to you at the same time. So :P
Then just google, educate yourself and stfu! >:(
And miss this wonderful exchange?
Not on your life.
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Dave, I'm tired. I've been teaching you rudimentary life skills for over 5 years now. Frankly, I'm still surprised you know how to use a toilet. Maybe you don't. Maybe your carpet is 2 feet deep in fast food turds. But I want you to pause before reply. Think "This guy Thork has an IQ nearing 180. Do I really want to ask him if he can tell the difference between a fake e-mail and a real one? Could I allow that massive brain to do something more useful with its time than to spell out every little thing I can't think of instantly?"
You are single handily slowing down the progress of mankind. Without you and Markjo, I'd likely have finished my teleport by now. >:(
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Dave, I'm tired. I've been teaching you rudimentary life skills for over 5 years now. Frankly, I'm still surprised you know how to use a toilet. Maybe you don't. Maybe your carpet is 2 feet deep in fast food turds. But I want you to pause before reply. Think "This guy Thork has an IQ nearing 180. Do I really want to ask him if he can tell the difference between a fake e-mail and a real one? Could I allow that massive brain to do something more useful with its time than to spell out every little thing I can't think of instantly?"
You are single handily slowing down the progress of mankind. Without you and Markjo, I'd likely have finished my teleport by now. >:(
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If you're tired, why are you still up? Or are you up really early?
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If you're tired, why are you still up? Or are you up really early?
GOOGLE! >o<
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If you're tired, why are you still up? Or are you up really early?
GOOGLE! >o<
If your personal schedule is on Google, I'm going to lose respect for you.
And yes, I am aware of what time it is in the UK. Doesn't make my statement any less valid.
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If you're tired, why are you still up? Or are you up really early?
GOOGLE! >o<
If your personal schedule is on Google, I'm going to lose respect for you.
And yes, I am aware of what time it is in the UK. Doesn't make my statement any less valid.
It is 1:37 am. No one gets up at 1:37 am, Dave. ::)
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If you're tired, why are you still up? Or are you up really early?
GOOGLE! >o<
If your personal schedule is on Google, I'm going to lose respect for you.
And yes, I am aware of what time it is in the UK. Doesn't make my statement any less valid.
It is 1:37 am. No one gets up at 1:37 am, Dave. ::)
Some get up at midnight to do night work. I don't know your schedule. But I figured the first, hence why I put that first.
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If you're tired, why are you still up? Or are you up really early?
GOOGLE! >o<
If your personal schedule is on Google, I'm going to lose respect for you.
And yes, I am aware of what time it is in the UK. Doesn't make my statement any less valid.
It is 1:37 am. No one gets up at 1:37 am, Dave. ::)
Some get up at midnight to do night work. I don't know your schedule. But I figured the first, hence why I put that first.
I've been at FEs for years. You know everything about me. What I look like, how terrible I am with women, my job, my political views, religious views, what I dream, what I fear, what I find funny.
If I did night work, I'd have fucking moaned about it by now.
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Please start discussing Greenpeace or LEGOs. Otherwise, I will report both of you.
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If you're tired, why are you still up? Or are you up really early?
GOOGLE! >o<
If your personal schedule is on Google, I'm going to lose respect for you.
And yes, I am aware of what time it is in the UK. Doesn't make my statement any less valid.
It is 1:37 am. No one gets up at 1:37 am, Dave. ::)
Some get up at midnight to do night work. I don't know your schedule. But I figured the first, hence why I put that first.
I've been at FEs for years. You know everything about me. What I look like, how terrible I am with women, my job, my political views, religious views, what I dream, what I fear, what I find funny.
If I did night work, I'd have fucking moaned about it by now.
Unless you are secretly working with Green Peace to rid another train of it's coal.
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I'm about to go to bed and my room has 6 daddy long legs all making annoying buzzing noises. Jedis everywhere are about to feel a disturbance in the force.
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I'm about to go to bed and my room has 6 daddy long legs all making annoying buzzing noises. Jedis everywhere are about to feel a disturbance in the force.
You can hear spiders? Are they that loud in the UK?
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A daddy long legs is not a spider. GOOGLE! >o<
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A daddy long legs is not a spider. GOOGLE! >o<
http://spiders.ucr.edu/daddylonglegs.html (http://spiders.ucr.edu/daddylonglegs.html)
There's two. One actually is called daddy long legs spiders. The other is not a spider.
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I'm very familiar with them, but I've never heard them make "buzzing noises" or any noise at all.
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Think "This guy Thork has an IQ nearing 180."
Come on, not even Dave is so dumb as to think that.