Thread: Greta Thunberg ... just in-case you missed her

Originally Posted by cyrille

Bit of a reach, that one.

If that was directed at my post ... it's NEWS not commentary.

Remember not every is 35.

The injuries were incurred by older folk.

"This week I've seen a 65-year-old lady who had a rotator cuff tear and a 79-year-old lady who already had a rotator cuff injury and ended up damaging her neck as a result of the bags," Mr Bourke

The injury can cause a dull ache in the shoulder which can become worse when you try to sleep on your side.

"Lifting heavy bags into a car is where the injuries usually occur," he said.

"If it's a small rotator cuff tear it can be managed with physiotherapy, but if it's a large tear people may need surgery.

"The problem though is that once you're older than 65, many surgeons are reluctant to repair rotator cuff tendons so they're stuck with the injury for the rest of their life.
"It can be quite debilitating for the person and the injury can have lifelong consequences."

Originally Posted by Neverna

There is no compulsion to give a reason why someone gives a red

Maybe not for a mod but I can't send a red without writing the reason for it..

Originally Posted by cyrille

Bit of a reach

How dare you

Originally Posted by Dragonfly

I can see a new hit coming "How dare you!!!"

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In regards to David's post about the overloading the bags by the elderly.... wouldn't the easy answer as to not hurt themselves be to NOT overload the bags, ffs!

^ I agree with you, PB.

Originally Posted by Jack meoff

How dare you

^So, does that beg for a green then?

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

You do know what "reusable" means, don't you?

Yup, Harry, you know 'bout human nature don't ya?


We live in Nonthaburi Province. Local Tops Market is our grocery store. Westgate Mall. Visit once, twice, three times a week depending. Westgate Mall has most everything we need, 15-20 minutes drive so a convenient shopping venue.

We recycle, not to be green but for “money”. Everything’s always about money. Have a niece-in-laws father who lives off his THB 800/mo. pension. Lives with one of his sons families. Recycles for extra spending cash – so, all our recycles go to him.

Tops Market quite a while back had a plastic free Wednesday promotion where spend more than THB 2,000 get a free reusable plastic grocery bag. Also purchased a few. So, we have ‘em. Yet, in practice, they fail. First, wife’s a clean freak, throws ‘em in the trash when they start to “smell”. So, clean freak that she is they don’t last long before trashed, perhaps three, four, possibly five trips. Second, we go food shopping, where are the bags – at home of course. OK, keep ‘em in the trunk of the car. OK, hit Westgate Mall, hit IKEA, or, True TV, or the pharmacy or “fill-in-the-blank”, hit the Tops Market last stop before heading home - where are the bags – in the trunk of the car of course.

So, anyway, reusable plastic grocery bags are the ideal solution in theory, yet, they fail miserably in practical application.

The solution is/are the 6 month biodegradable plastic bags that run @ 150-200% of the single use seven century plastic bags in use today. Legislate their use. Solve the problem.

I use light weight canvas bags I bring back from California. You have to use them there for your shopping.. I cant believe that stores here dont invest in them. With their logo and slogan on them. Even in California they are $1.50 a bag so that is not a major expense. We have 8 or 10 now as we forget to bring them so often.. Various sizes as well, with strong straps. Never had one break.

Originally Posted by MarilynMonroe

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In regards to David's post about the overloading the bags by the elderly.... wouldn't the easy answer as to not hurt themselves be to NOT overload the bags, ffs!

Try thinking it through a bit more.

You have to take the bags with you when you go. That means all the shopping has to go into those bags. Take four bags, but buy what should go in six? Overload. And hence the problem.

^Like ao said, I have a trunk full of reusable bags. I usually take a few in and more if need be. I often help my mother with her groceries, so my hands are sore from carrying heavy full to the top bags for her. lol.

My sacks are overloaded.

Left Bank French intellectuals grumble at Greta Thunberg — ‘not sexy enough’

Matthew Campbell
September 29 2019, 12:01am,
The Sunday Times




“Jealous” male French intellectuals have provoked uproar by turning on Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old, Swedish climate activist, for not being like the sexy Swedish girls of their youth.

As environmentalists were applauding her speech to the UN last week, Bernard Pivot, 84, president of the Goncourt Academy, which awards the nation’s top literary prize, caused outrage with reflections about the relative sexual merits of English, Swedish and French girls.

“In my generation, boys would run after les petites Anglaises or les petites Suédoises: they had a reputation for being less stuck-up than French girls,” said Pivot. “But I can imagine adolescent me being scared stiff of Greta Thunberg.” He called her the “furious Swede”.

France’s Left Bank “intellos” are a breed apart. Pivot, a household name and host of various cultural television programmes, has 1m followers on Twitter. Many were appalled by his comments.

“Luckily you are a species on the way to extinction,” said Yasmina Bennani, a TV producer.

“Easy on the Beaujolais, Bernie,” quipped Bruno Masure, a fellow presenter. Another of his followers branded Pivot a “fat misogynist pig”.

François Beaudonnet, a TV journalist, accused him of picking on “an autistic adolescent” — Thunberg has Asperger syndrome — adding: “That’s classy.”

Pivot, a grocer’s son, was by no means the only “intello” upset by the young Swede. Michel Onfray, 60, a philosopher and author of 100 tomes with titles such as Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism and Islam, called Thunberg a “cyborg” and her student followers a “herd of sheep bleating the catechism inculcated in them by adults”.

“She makes you think of those silicon dolls heralding the end of humanity, the post-human era,” he wrote. “She has the face, age, sex and body of a cyborg of the third millennium, her envelope is neutral, she is, alas, where mankind is heading.”

Then Alain Finkielkraut, 70, a philosopher famous for his critique of relativism, weighed in. One of the “immortals” of the Académie Française, whose members police the French language, he derided Thunberg’s “abstract warnings” and “puerile discourse” about cutting carbon emissions.

“There are better things to be done,” fulminated Finkielkraut, a veteran of the May 1968 student protests, than “bowing to a 16-year-old child”. He added: “Ecology deserves better.”

Pascal Bruckner, 70, a self-styled “new philosopher”, also fired a broadside, accusing Thunberg of flaunting her autism “like a title of nobility” and having a “scary” face.

Most of the intellos are scarcely known outside the Gallic world — and that, say their critics, is what upsets them most.

“They are jealous of Thunberg,” says Olivier Esteves, a professor at Lille University. “Jealousy often expresses itself in a fairly irrational way, a bit like what you see in the playground.”

Thunberg herself has been on a whirlwind tour of the Americas, where she denounced the inaction of world leaders at the UN, and critics were as cutting as the French. “She is not a victim of climate change but of crappy parents who would allow her to be a pawn in a political game,” tweeted Graham Allen, a political commentator.

Donald Trump also mocked her in a tweet: “She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future.” Thunberg now has the American president’s words as her self-descriptive profile on Twitter.

Shrugging off the attacks, she wrote: “The haters are as active as ever, goin


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Originally Posted by taxexile

French intellectuals

Originally Posted by MarilynMonroe

In regards to David's post about the overloading the bags by the elderly.... wouldn't the easy answer as to not hurt themselves be to NOT overload the bags, ffs!

Bags cost money, it's usually that simple.

“Many shoppers will now have dozens of reusable bags stored under their kitchen sink, but they still forget to take them shopping, and end up coming home with more.
They’ve gone from throwing away plastic bags to throwing away money."

Originally Posted by Jack meoff

My sacks are overloaded.

Are you asking MarilynMonroe to help in your moment of need?

Michel Onfray, 60, a philosopher and author of 100 tomes with titles such as Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism and Islam, called Thunberg a “cyborg” and her student followers a “herd of sheep bleating the catechism inculcated in them by adults”.

“She makes you think of those silicon dolls heralding the end of humanity, the post-human era,” he wrote. “She has the face, age, sex and body of a cyborg of the third millennium, her envelope is neutral, she is, alas, where mankind is heading.”

i find that quote sums up the cult of st. greta quite well.

Actually it sums up the dinosaurs railing against her for her ‘face, age, sex and body’.

Meanwhile climate change...

Originally Posted by David48atTD

Are you asking MarilynMonroe to help in your moment of need?

The offer is out there
You interested Dave?

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Meanwhile climate change...

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Still cold, raining here in Jockland.

We welcome climate change.

Originally Posted by Jack meoff

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Still cold, raining here in Jockland.

We welcome climate change.

How about some lessons on weather cf. climate instead

Meanwhile climate change...

piss, poisoning the atmosphere for children everywhere.

Originally Posted by MarilynMonroe

^Like ao said, I have a trunk full of reusable bags. I usually take a few in and more if need be. I often help my mother with her groceries, so my hands are sore from carrying heavy full to the top bags for her. lol.

Yeah. Silly me. I forgot all old people had cars or access to cars.

My bad.

Originally Posted by taxexile

piss, poisoning the atmosphere for children everywhere.

Yeah that’s not me, nothing to do with me. These random irrelevant cut ‘n pastes of yours are becoming very FaRTesque.

Meanwhile...

Thunberg: ‘Climate change is an issue...’

Septuagenarian quoting a sexagenarian: ‘No let’s make it about that 16 year olds face, sex, body...’

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Septuagenarian quoting a sexagenarian: ‘No let’s make it about her face, sex, body... we don’t find that 16 year old to be ‘sexy’ enough...’

Yeah, for someone to read that and think 'he nailed it' is....pretty fuckn creepy.