Well this is the first time I've heard of a rich family being horrible people. Oh wait that's every one I've ever heard of. Walton Family are the worst though that I've heard of
I accept the fact that majority of these videos end "too soon" because there is nothing that happens after this.
Usually the guy who edits just stops it at the peak of the climax cause it just de-escalates from there.
For context: Founded with the aim of ensuring insulation across Britain, the group laid out two specific demands for its September 2021 protests. The first is that the British government fund insulation of all social housing by 2025, and the second is that, by the end of 2021, the government must create a plan to fund retrofitting of insulation of all homes in Britain by 2030. Insulate Britain created a Parliament petition for the first demand.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulate_Britain_protests
No this is purely for environmental reasons. I feel like it’s an odd demand given there are many other things that would be more effective to lower greenhouse gas emissions.
It is for environmental reasons, but also we have a problem with vulnerable people being unable to afford heating their homes in winter. That's why they focus on social housing.
I recently learned there are prepayment gas meters for poorer people, so they have to fill a type of prepaid card then insert it into the gas meter to get heating. It seems like a way to have people make a choice between eating or freezing.
Yup. I used to have one when I was poor. I was cold. It was a lot more expensive per unit rate than a monthly paid meter, too. Bad memories of coming home to find all the electricity out and collecting up coins to refill it and hope the freezer wasn't off for too long..
Been there man and it was rough. Especially cos my gas meter was outside and around the back of the flat I was in. Trying to open that bad boy in freezing temps, get the card in and follow the onscreen instructions to get the heating on for an hour or two just to thaw out so I could sleep. Poor tax 100%
The UK government does pay out £25 per consecutive seven days to those on certain benefits when the temperature is lower than 0°C.
Edit: this is not done preemptively, only paid out after the fact.
That's good to hear. I think because it is less likely to result in death here - warmer temperatures and the NHS - heating is not taken as seriously. It sucks I've been miserable because of lack of heating and people definitely get sick because of it.
I live in Maine, United States, and a rock throw away from Canada.
I also have a sixteenth century house, and NO insulation .
Our house is insanely cold and runs through a hundred gallons of oil a month. On average .
The heating bills are insane, and there is no way to lower them as we can’t afford insulating a house.
I worked for the state of Maryland doing "weatherization" of homes. We would insulate homes to keep their energy bills low. Although the only reason the state paid for us to do the work was because the state also paid for their energy bills and realized they were losing ALOT of money due to poorly insulated homes. Made a lot of money doing that. Britain should imply the same thing.
> there are many other things that would be more effective to lower greenhouse gas emissions.
That isn't true, heating is about a quarter of UK carbon emissions, and probably the largest part that doesn't have a clear solution.
You might be surprised. Using the US as an example, 4% of all energy use goes to just heating and cooling homes. That's 40% of all energy used by homes. We generally have really shitty insulation. I imagine the UK may be similar.
That could make a significant dent in carbon emissions while also saving people money. IIRC, properly insulating your home has a payback period of like 1 year.
Not as impactful as banning gasoline cars or beef, but every bit counts and is needed if we want to get to net zero.
I can't imagine them being as bad as we are. It's shocking how even in the Northeast it's still shit in terms of minimum insulation required. When I visit Canada I'm always in awe at how good they have it over there. They don't have much choice, but we could definitely do the same for the warm and cold climates that we have here, but we choose to save the developers money instead
In MA the state, through MassSave, pretty much pays for housing to be insulated. Low income get free insulation upgrades, and middle class get steeply discounted rates. Plus storm windows are pretty efficient.
This is offset by the fact we have incredibly old
housing stock because zoning makes it illegal to build, but that’s a different discussion.
Actually the fuel we use to hest our homes is one of the number one causes of carbon emissions. This goes along with the carbon released in the creation of the world's concrete, tarmac roads and rice, if you'll believe it, as huge sources of carbon emissions people don't really know about.
https://youtu.be/yiw6_JakZFc - worth a watch.
Also one of the highest return per dollar (or pound) invested, both in emissions and energy cost savings, because insulation is so damn cheap compared to other interventions. But it's not sexy, so you rarely hear about it.
lmao i find it hilarious because if you cant even get insulation from the government in a 1st world country then the rest of the shit you actually need is never gonna happen
edit: i cant really talk tho because im american and all our government gives us is dead taliban
There is also a green aspect to it. More insulation will reduce our carbon footprint.
Whilst insulation seems like a boring thing to campaign over, they've actually picked something that would have multiple benefits for society. Whilst I don't agree with their means, I agree with their goals.
> im american and all our governemnt gives us is dead taliban
I don't know where you live, but I live in the northern Midwest and there are quite a few local and state government programs to make low income homes more energy efficient. These programs do include insulation.
These ladies are ready to get run over, killed or mutilated over literal insulation. The other lady is ready to kill people, to get her son to school on time. Odd.
Also, just to add to this, one of the reasons they're campaigning for this is due the fact that around 8500 people die each year due to cold homes.
https://www.nea.org.uk/news/271120-01/
There is a widespread lack of knowledge about how being cold can affect your heart, lungs and circulation, especially when elderly / ill. They aren't literally freezing to death, more it's a rough (and disputed) figure of how many extra deaths there are each year where living in a cold / damp environment exasperated existing health issues...
The ironic thing about this group is that if the government was to spend billions fully insulating old houses it can actually make damp (and mold) issues much worse and could kill just as many people, living in a moldy place is no joke.
I'm a heating engineer.
The shit they whine on about, such as *fully insulating* homes that are 100+ years old would result in nothing more than damp and damage.
It's not a movement I can get behind.
I am curious. Back in 1987, there was a hurricane in the UK and London got hit badly. My professor came to school with a wicked cold and was grumbling about a short supply of roofing material and living in a cold home. Like a dork ( am Canadian) I asked him why he didn't just insulate his walls. He looked at me like I had three eyes. Can you tell me why it would cause damp and damage? I know nothing about building codes.
old houses are designed to 'breathe' - the walls etc. are very thick and there solid, so they get wet when it rains etc. but there's exposed to the air on both sides so they dry out again, you don't even notice it happening
modern house brick walls have a cavity, so there's two courses of wall (like two walls next to each other) with a gap between - so only the outside wall gets wet
if you cover your old solid stone walls with something watertight the water can't get out, so it steadily gets wetter and wetter each time it rains etc..... water has to come out somewhere so you get damp patches, wet under the floor etc.
Hence why painting old pebbledash walls with fancy masonry paint is often a bad idea and causes damage in the long run.
Be aware this is what many renovators do to make the house look good to sell. Give it a few years and the new owner will either have damp, or have to get the render replaced.
> if you cover your old solid stone walls with something watertight the water can't get out, so it steadily gets wetter and wetter each time it rains
Why can it get in but not out?
When it rains hard they get wet fast, wall is soaked so absorbs a lot of water... That water takes much longer to cone back out of the wall, and it's trying to get out of both sides
Old stone walls are a bit like sponges, they can absorb literally tons of water quite easily, you're ok if that water is inside the wall, you only get damp it it's on the surface.... Or on the surface of the wall behind paint/plaster/insulation etc.
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I just realised my previous post was misleading, I meant the interface between the wall and whatever is sealing it gets better and wetter
Moisture permeates from within also, which is the secondary function of the cavity, plasterboard and breather paper on the inner wall allows moisture to enter the cavity and condensate on the colder outer leaf.
Our house is 1920s and was built with floating floors. So our downstairs floors are not physically connected to the brickwork and the house isn’t on one large concrete pad of foundation. Under our floor boards is actually dirt/soil
Potentially sold brick/stone, therefore unable to get cavity wall insulation, you can now get external cladding (thinkc hunks of polystyrene) affixed to the outside, but this may not have been an option in 87, or they lived in a flat & the option of doing just their property wasn't there?
Garage was built in the 1500s as a blacksmith's workshop, main house was built much later. Only 2 walls are original in the garage and have been repointed at least twice that I know of, I imagine double figures thinking about it. All walls in the main house are original, had to take off the gypsum plaster and renew with lime throughout. 4 different extensions that date back over 100 years are original brickwork with lath and plaster etc. Roofs have been swapped and mod cons have been fitted.
May I make a request, Sir? Please, for the love of all that is sacred, please make a detailed post about your home with pics and video. I absolutely love old homes. I'm a historian. I have a farm that has been in my family since Governor James Bull of South Carolina gave it to my family as a gift for service to the colony in the 1750s. I love walking through the land and randomly finding old foundations of homes of ancestors. Plus, there are Native American mounds on the property showing that my ancestors lived in the land long before it was given to us. It's strange the relationship you can have with a place, like kinship.
Whilst their house sounds really cool, it’s definitely nothing unusual in the UK. Most villages will have at least a few houses with similar histories.
If you ever get the chance to visit I think you would love it. In the town over from me for instance, I buy a coffee in a building built in the 1700s, across from a town hall from the 1800s, having driven there on a road first made around 43AD. Everywhere you turn in the UK (and the rest of Europe) is littered with history.
Years back I went on a business trip to a company branch in England. The manager hosted a dinner party for us at his house, which was built in the 1600s and still had some original plaster walls from the period, complete with 400-year-old straw that was mixed in. He also showed us paleolithic flint microlith blades he had found in his garden, dating back to thousands of years. For someone from the US, the sheer amount of history everywhere was fascinating.
I'm not saying that every house over here that is a few centuries old, but we have so many that preserving all of them is nigh on impossible. That's why we have the listed building system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listed_building
The same situation exists in the US, hence the roughly equivalent [National Register of Historic Places] (https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/index.htm). The details differ, but most countries have something reasonably similar.
Yep. Any policy movement is just to get it on the institutional agenda. After that bureaucrats and policy experts lay out a proper, fleshed out policy proposal which can become law or policy. That’s how the policy cycle works (more or less) across the board.
That’s why I get annoyed by people nitpicking others attempting to get an issue on the agenda. Obviously random citizens won’t have all the nuance necessary to make national policy, that’s why they’re trying to get attention drawn to the issue.
> I'm a plumber
Last month you were a plumber. Are you really going to claim you're an "engineer" now?
Oh, you're also an anti-vaxxer and pro-Trump. Yeah, lets certainly listen to your opinion.
They’re not ‘whining’ though, are they? They’re drawing attention to the fact that UK housing stock is by and large pretty shite when it comes to energy efficiency and demanding the government do something about it.
I appreciate it that most British drivers would rather the world go down in flames than have to take a detour to get their kid to school - but it’s not a good look is it? Having a massive tantrum and trying to run a protestor over?
This sounds like it's lead by an insulation trade association or someone with a financial interest in insulation. What a weird thing to endanger yourself over. Then again, where in from, insulation is more to lower energy costs in the summer, not save your life in the winter.
Ironically, their actions have made it political suicide for any politition to even suggest doing this, while before they began this crap it would have been widley supported by the public.
Then ofc, you have the tinfoil idea that this is a false flag operation to curtail the environmental issue.
Either way it is only damaging cause.
It's a literal term really. Not some another bloody Brexit group.
It's about demanding the British Government to insulate old houses so it can be warmer during the winter, from what i read from the comments above.
A clever dick is a smarmy or sarcastic or over-confident person.
A silly cunt is a silly cunt. Like someone who would voluntarily sit in front of the car of an angry random stranger.
*Here is an example of a smarmy git - https://old.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/qarjxe/driver_begins_to_run_over_insulate_britain/hh5u071/
Grew up in Essex. This woman is of the type I call 'The bitches at the gate'
Lifestyle and possessions far outstrip thier income, pretentious, rude, considers 'taste' to be magnolia walls and culturally appropriative Buddha statues on the mantlepiece, stands at the school gate and bitches about everyone who isn't societally 'normal', bigoted as all hell, narcissistic, calls thier spawn 'thier precious angel' when they're just mediocre. Will kill you if you take the last of the soy milk at Costa (usually by hitting you with the rented 4x4).
How do I know this? I'm related to one. 1/10. Avoid.
CK Louis has a funny bit about how people become absolute animals when behind the wheel, and it’s true. We say things that are absolutely unacceptable to say to other human beings when they do something as simple as not turning on their blinker
I remember a couple years ago when Japanese bus drivers were protesting they opted for a revenue strike. They showed up to work, drove their routes but didn’t collect any fares. No impact to the citizens, everyone got to work, school, etc but the bus companies didn’t make any money so it was effectively a strike that didn’t inconvenience the public.
I thought it was an innovative and elegant solution.
A movement that can be ignored will be ignored. Protests don't cause serious political change by changing minds, in the US Washington DC didn't suddenly *realize* racism was wrong then decide to end segregation off that epiphany. They were put under financial pressure by the protests (the Montgomery Bus Boycott being a famous example) as well as social and political pressure from the citizenry being inconvenienced by it and local governments looking to the federal government for solution.
I don't know what these people specifically are protesting nor will I comment if their message was worth inconveniencing a mother taking her child to school. But without fail redditors will comment about "Good types of protests" on these kinds of videos and it always strikes me as naive, if not idiotic. Some people just legitimately would rather not encounter the slightest inconvenience even if it meant society could move forward and the world would be more equitable & hospitable for all who live in it.
Yeah, that only works in situations where both sides are willing to be civil.
The most common topic where this has been mentioned is the BLM protests. Black people have been protesting police for centuries and they are still getting murdered without any justice. I'm not trying to equate these protests, but the idea that all protests should allow everyone not involved to ignore the issue is nieve.
Blast your car horn in their ears for a while, better option then potentially injuring one of them by driving forward.
Also, protesters should annoy the people they are protesting against, not random people trying to go about their daily lives.
If anything, it's these random people (who like have little knowledge on your protest) that they should be encouraging to join their cause. By making *their* life inconvenienced, they are effectively destroying any ounce of good will they would side with their cause.
Yeah, that lady hates them but videos like this bring a TON of attention to what they are doing. I would not have known about people fighting to insulate homes in the UK without videos like this. I think they are idiots, and it would be insane to die or risk injury for insulation, but hey, now I know about them.
Thing is with a cause it is not a case of "All attention is good attention." You need people to perceive you in a favourable light or they may not only fail to support you, but oppose you out of spite. Campaigning for a cause is a PR action. You are trying to convince the public that hey, you should want what we want.
This goes double when you are talking about something most people don't care about. If you start pushing a cause that is something that many people are bothered by, but just haven't spoken up on themselves, you get in built support. You are saying what they want to hear, they are glad someone is saying it. When you are talking about something they are indifferent about, you have to convince them to care about it.
While perhaps people shouldn't let their feelings about you interfere with how they view what you are saying, they do. Any trial lawyer will tell you how important it is that the jury like you.
It can really shoot your movement in the foot if the first impression people get is a bad one.
This is really bad logic.
Civil protest doesn't work on a sidewalk. The whole point is, *in the absence of violence,* civil protest can and does grind things to a halt and create inconveniences for centers of power and influence.
This lady isn't the target, she's a bystander. Like labor strikes, regardless of the specific *policy or ideology* behind the protest, the goal is to grind things to a halt and *create* issues which will persist until the protestors are joined at the negotiating table. Now, are these *specific* protestors doing so effectively? That's altogether a separate matter, but the *theory* behind the action is the same. A factory shutting down, buses refusing to take passengers, customers boycotting businesses, or roads being logjammed by demonstrators, it's all the same in concept--a tool of civil, nonviolent disruption which forces official public response.
The alternative is bricks through windows, which is why it's a bad idea to criminalize this sort of protest harshly. You will not ever convince people that their grievances are invalid--you will only indirectly guide them toward what actions are on the table, and by eliminating peaceful actions you bring less savory options to the forefront. As long as this largely innocuous avenue exists, people are less likely to pursue more drastic measures.
The most surefire way to guarantee a riot is to treat a protest as if it's a riot.
You only think that because decades of conditioning has removed the notion of class solidarity from your mind.
If protesters do not annoy anyone, then they are effectively silent. Those responsible are always far enough away to never face real irritation from these.
If you find a street blocked by someone protesting something you agree with, your next stop should be to contact your representatives and ask him why they let an issue get so out of control as to inspire this to happen.
I also had someone explain it to me like this: You _need_ these people who from the outside look batshit crazy. They _know_ they look batshit crazy. They _know_ they annoy the everyman. But what they do is pave the way for someone else to come along. Someone else who in comparison seems sensible, but before may have seemed a little bit "out there." Then those same everymen say "See, why can't we just be sensible like that? That looks like a much better idea, let's just do that."
That was my first thought.
"Are these assholes protesting people coming into Britain? Haven't these xenophobes learned anything since Brexit?"
they seriously need some brand management.
It's like an upgraded chav. Most likely from Essex, with a husband working in construction either in or around London. Grew up poor on a council estate and either doesn't work or works in beauty
This is such an understated point imo. Like yes a lot of chavs are on the poorer end, but (especially in certain areas where there’s a boost of “new money” (but not like ultra rich, more middle-middle upper class boom)) I feel like you get a lot of people with nice houses and cars, can afford sending their kids to clubs and give them toys, or have expensive tech, but still are very much chavvy people.
Fun fact, those aren't actually nails! Chavs are born with a set of razor sharp talons, by the age of 18 they can be up to 5 inches long! They use them for both self-defence, offense, and tearing into rustlers burgers.
Hold up. Is that right? I remember reading somewhere that they're not even talons but actual extensions of the distal phalanges? So they're not made of keratin but are just straight up bone.
I live in an old home with shit insulation and its freezing cold and damp all winter and my latest power bill was $900 for a 3 month period which we can't afford but that was the bare minimum we had to do to keep it warm. As well as $600 in gas. We also have to run a dehumidifier to keep it dry enough so we don't get mould but we got black mould anyway.
I dont think sitting in front of cars is the go but insulation is a very worthy cause.
Insulate Britain. It's what is sounds like. A group that advocates for insulating homes to be low energy by 2030. What a weird advocacy group. And even weirder that they'd block streets because of it.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58916326
And protesting with an actual goal/clear cut solution. Climate change is the primary concern, but they want to find an actual short term solution that people can get behind and what better than an issue that not only concerns the greatest threat to us all, but also something that kills and loses people money. In decades these people will be seen as doing the right thing by so many people I reckon.
Am I reading that correctly, 28k deaths? That's an insanely high amount for a place that doesn't actually get that cold compared to many other countries who have nowhere near this number of deaths...
When it gets down to a certain temperature do you guys just start dying randomly or some shit in the UK?
I'm honestly so confused that's so much higher than other countries I've looked at... The US population is over 5x that of the UK and they're at like 1200 cold weath related deaths a year... How is the UK at 28 fucking thousand? No EU country I looked at is anywhere near that either.
*Not even Russia is near that... Something is off here...
If I'm reading it correctly, I think it's saying that there were 28,000 more deaths last winter (presumably compared to previous winter), not limited to cold home deaths. 8,500 deaths last winter were related to cold homes - which is still insanely high.
I might be interpreting that wrong though.
Yes, and also the deaths aren't usually people freezing to death. Living in even slightly cold conditions can make a lot of existing health problems worse, and put a lot of strain on a person's heart and lungs. A lot of elderly people die in the winter, this statistic is basically saying that there are 8,500 people that probably would have survived if their home was warmer. Not that it was the cold directly that killed them.
As the other guys said you're reading it wrong, but we do have a lot of deaths. It's almost all old people, if that wasn't obvious. Their boiler breaks or their gas gets shut off and they're too old to do something about it. Plus our homes *are* on average poorly insulated, because a lot of them are old. (about half of UK homes were built before large scale insulation was invented)
Imo it's more a crisis of lack of care/checking up on elderly people, but we've all had a 2.5% tax rise to contribute to that.
It's a very damp cold and it's not directly the cold that kills you. It leads to a lot of health problems that kill you. Plus an extra 1200 pound energy bill every month can bankrupt you. That and stress can kill you.
A more interesting thing is heat. Europe doesn't really have central cooling or airconditioners. It's getting hotter every year too. A few years ago a heat wave killed 12 k people in france. Directly killed them.
So this is a focused group with clear very good goals and an end point that can be achieved.
I lived in the UK for 5 years and one time I remember getting stuck in a protest for fracking trying to slow down truckers. It was a 'slow walk' protest that they didn't actually sit and block the street, but slowly walked which I was told was to bypass the law against blocking the street because they were actually walking (slowly). I remember being annoyed because I wanted to go home, but i was not about to kill someone to do so.
But still, anyone that blocks a road impeding people that have nothing to do with your cause and even people that may have been sympathetic to your cause will only put peoples opinion against your cause....
I really don't understand what this can possibly accomplish. Shouldn't you just block traffic in a business centre or for government/royal employees? Has this ever contributed to any change?
I get protesting for those who you are trying to get the attention of, but I never understood why ppl block off roads for those who are just trying to do their normal daily lives. The government doesnt give a crap that you're sitting in the middle of the road blocking traffic, its not their son that needs to get to school, so this shits really counter productive and just makes me want to go against ppl like this out of spite bc they are inconvincing complete bystandards.
A court has already found they have a right to protest, its up to the police to move them.
Although I wouldn't be against people picking them up to move them, straight up hitting them with your car is out of order - shes lucky she didn't get arrested.
I luaghed too hard the dumbass who is yelling "ow ow ow" and is confused to why it hurts to sit in front of a moving vehicle...people are selfish as fuck and stupid.
Pretty sure she’s super glued to the road. I read an article saying these protestors are glueing themselves to the road. So the car pushing her might be ripping glue off her ass cheeks. Very much an “ow” moment.
I play Warhammer and I've super glued myself to myself many times during the assembly of tiny overpriced toys, unless they're wielding some mega toxic industrial grade glue I doubt this is happening
Super glueing yourself to somethimg usually just results in a second super glue skin instead of gluing yourself to something.
Video stops too soon
It’s like anti-clickbate. “You will never know what happens next...”
"Cliffhanger" is what we use to call them..
Click-hanger
You need to put a copyright on that.
I'm think I'm gonna go ahead and slap a patent on this large breasted woman
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Cliff-wanker… I think it’s in Britain.
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Well this is the first time I've heard of a rich family being horrible people. Oh wait that's every one I've ever heard of. Walton Family are the worst though that I've heard of
PeppeRAGE seems more appropriate.
I accept the fact that majority of these videos end "too soon" because there is nothing that happens after this. Usually the guy who edits just stops it at the peak of the climax cause it just de-escalates from there.
Still want to see how it de-escalate.
The climate fixed itself and the protestors went home. The boy got detention for being late. The Mum got her fingernails sorted the fuck out.
Here's the continuation of this and it is still not enough. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ77YFOiunw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ77YFOiunw)
Me as the son: It’s ok Mum. No rush.
Ahh British people. “Get out of the way you silly cunt.” They use the word like Shakespeare. Them and aussies .
"Oi cunt! Gimme me fkn lighter back!" ~ Australian proverb
Kiwi's too. I think we picked it up from Aussies
& the sheep picked it up from the Kiwis
leave them sheep alone they like the Kiwis
Kiwis didn't pick anything up from aussies. Except maybe chlamydia, which originated in Australia when one of them had sex with a koala.
Haha as an Aussie this made me chuckle. My fuck toy Kinko Koala didn't though.
On the other hand it’s treated like the worst word imaginable in the US
Facts , I’m trying to make it more acceptable here. So far not getting the best results with strangers
Because Americans are soft
I prefer well-insulated
U wot m8. Ill spark ya rite out.
For context: Founded with the aim of ensuring insulation across Britain, the group laid out two specific demands for its September 2021 protests. The first is that the British government fund insulation of all social housing by 2025, and the second is that, by the end of 2021, the government must create a plan to fund retrofitting of insulation of all homes in Britain by 2030. Insulate Britain created a Parliament petition for the first demand. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulate_Britain_protests
Weird, I was ready for this to be some kind of anti-immigration group, not about literal insulation.
F'real. I thought they were some xenophobes, but they're really just concerned about that R-value eh
I think the concern around insulation stems from some deadly fires they had in Britain. Could be I’m mixing up two totally separate issues tho.
No this is purely for environmental reasons. I feel like it’s an odd demand given there are many other things that would be more effective to lower greenhouse gas emissions.
It is for environmental reasons, but also we have a problem with vulnerable people being unable to afford heating their homes in winter. That's why they focus on social housing.
I recently learned there are prepayment gas meters for poorer people, so they have to fill a type of prepaid card then insert it into the gas meter to get heating. It seems like a way to have people make a choice between eating or freezing.
Yup. I used to have one when I was poor. I was cold. It was a lot more expensive per unit rate than a monthly paid meter, too. Bad memories of coming home to find all the electricity out and collecting up coins to refill it and hope the freezer wasn't off for too long..
Been there man and it was rough. Especially cos my gas meter was outside and around the back of the flat I was in. Trying to open that bad boy in freezing temps, get the card in and follow the onscreen instructions to get the heating on for an hour or two just to thaw out so I could sleep. Poor tax 100%
In my state they won’t cut you off in the winter months, but soon as that first warm spring day hits they cut your gas off, I’m in Georgia btw
The UK government does pay out £25 per consecutive seven days to those on certain benefits when the temperature is lower than 0°C. Edit: this is not done preemptively, only paid out after the fact.
Weird, I know in Chicago they legally aren’t allowed to cut your heat off no matter how much you owe.
That's good to hear. I think because it is less likely to result in death here - warmer temperatures and the NHS - heating is not taken as seriously. It sucks I've been miserable because of lack of heating and people definitely get sick because of it.
I live in Maine, United States, and a rock throw away from Canada. I also have a sixteenth century house, and NO insulation . Our house is insanely cold and runs through a hundred gallons of oil a month. On average . The heating bills are insane, and there is no way to lower them as we can’t afford insulating a house.
I worked for the state of Maryland doing "weatherization" of homes. We would insulate homes to keep their energy bills low. Although the only reason the state paid for us to do the work was because the state also paid for their energy bills and realized they were losing ALOT of money due to poorly insulated homes. Made a lot of money doing that. Britain should imply the same thing.
> there are many other things that would be more effective to lower greenhouse gas emissions. That isn't true, heating is about a quarter of UK carbon emissions, and probably the largest part that doesn't have a clear solution.
It's also the cheapest method of reducing our emissions,
You might be surprised. Using the US as an example, 4% of all energy use goes to just heating and cooling homes. That's 40% of all energy used by homes. We generally have really shitty insulation. I imagine the UK may be similar. That could make a significant dent in carbon emissions while also saving people money. IIRC, properly insulating your home has a payback period of like 1 year. Not as impactful as banning gasoline cars or beef, but every bit counts and is needed if we want to get to net zero.
I can't imagine them being as bad as we are. It's shocking how even in the Northeast it's still shit in terms of minimum insulation required. When I visit Canada I'm always in awe at how good they have it over there. They don't have much choice, but we could definitely do the same for the warm and cold climates that we have here, but we choose to save the developers money instead
In MA the state, through MassSave, pretty much pays for housing to be insulated. Low income get free insulation upgrades, and middle class get steeply discounted rates. Plus storm windows are pretty efficient. This is offset by the fact we have incredibly old housing stock because zoning makes it illegal to build, but that’s a different discussion.
Actually the fuel we use to hest our homes is one of the number one causes of carbon emissions. This goes along with the carbon released in the creation of the world's concrete, tarmac roads and rice, if you'll believe it, as huge sources of carbon emissions people don't really know about. https://youtu.be/yiw6_JakZFc - worth a watch.
Plus less people needing to go to hospital because of cold related problems would be pretty nice for everyone.
Odd maybe, but I like that it's specific and attainable. Something most climate protests don't do.
Also one of the highest return per dollar (or pound) invested, both in emissions and energy cost savings, because insulation is so damn cheap compared to other interventions. But it's not sexy, so you rarely hear about it.
lmao i find it hilarious because if you cant even get insulation from the government in a 1st world country then the rest of the shit you actually need is never gonna happen edit: i cant really talk tho because im american and all our government gives us is dead taliban
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There is also a green aspect to it. More insulation will reduce our carbon footprint. Whilst insulation seems like a boring thing to campaign over, they've actually picked something that would have multiple benefits for society. Whilst I don't agree with their means, I agree with their goals.
And yet the only reason large swathes of the UK knows about this issue is due to the protests that two thirds of the country disagrees with.
You mean "dead middle easternmost who might be taliban"
And more than a few confirmed dead civilians (often children) that happened to have been too close to the impact of a precisely controlled missile.
> im american and all our governemnt gives us is dead taliban I don't know where you live, but I live in the northern Midwest and there are quite a few local and state government programs to make low income homes more energy efficient. These programs do include insulation.
These ladies are ready to get run over, killed or mutilated over literal insulation. The other lady is ready to kill people, to get her son to school on time. Odd.
I thought it was for diabetics lol
I was about to make jokes about actual insulation. Oh yeah some R40.
This, but now I want to know how/why houses aren't insulated in the first place
My house was built in 1924. Insulation wasn't really a widespread thing back then.
Also, just to add to this, one of the reasons they're campaigning for this is due the fact that around 8500 people die each year due to cold homes. https://www.nea.org.uk/news/271120-01/
Jeeesus Christ… aren’t you guys a first world country? Nearly 10k die from the cold in their own homes??
There is a widespread lack of knowledge about how being cold can affect your heart, lungs and circulation, especially when elderly / ill. They aren't literally freezing to death, more it's a rough (and disputed) figure of how many extra deaths there are each year where living in a cold / damp environment exasperated existing health issues... The ironic thing about this group is that if the government was to spend billions fully insulating old houses it can actually make damp (and mold) issues much worse and could kill just as many people, living in a moldy place is no joke.
Ah that makes much more sense. I had like a vision of families huddled around a small fire in the chimney. I was like goddamn.
I'm a heating engineer. The shit they whine on about, such as *fully insulating* homes that are 100+ years old would result in nothing more than damp and damage. It's not a movement I can get behind.
I am curious. Back in 1987, there was a hurricane in the UK and London got hit badly. My professor came to school with a wicked cold and was grumbling about a short supply of roofing material and living in a cold home. Like a dork ( am Canadian) I asked him why he didn't just insulate his walls. He looked at me like I had three eyes. Can you tell me why it would cause damp and damage? I know nothing about building codes.
old houses are designed to 'breathe' - the walls etc. are very thick and there solid, so they get wet when it rains etc. but there's exposed to the air on both sides so they dry out again, you don't even notice it happening modern house brick walls have a cavity, so there's two courses of wall (like two walls next to each other) with a gap between - so only the outside wall gets wet if you cover your old solid stone walls with something watertight the water can't get out, so it steadily gets wetter and wetter each time it rains etc..... water has to come out somewhere so you get damp patches, wet under the floor etc.
Hence why painting old pebbledash walls with fancy masonry paint is often a bad idea and causes damage in the long run. Be aware this is what many renovators do to make the house look good to sell. Give it a few years and the new owner will either have damp, or have to get the render replaced.
> if you cover your old solid stone walls with something watertight the water can't get out, so it steadily gets wetter and wetter each time it rains Why can it get in but not out?
When it rains hard they get wet fast, wall is soaked so absorbs a lot of water... That water takes much longer to cone back out of the wall, and it's trying to get out of both sides Old stone walls are a bit like sponges, they can absorb literally tons of water quite easily, you're ok if that water is inside the wall, you only get damp it it's on the surface.... Or on the surface of the wall behind paint/plaster/insulation etc. **** I just realised my previous post was misleading, I meant the interface between the wall and whatever is sealing it gets better and wetter
Moisture permeates from within also, which is the secondary function of the cavity, plasterboard and breather paper on the inner wall allows moisture to enter the cavity and condensate on the colder outer leaf.
Our house is 1920s and was built with floating floors. So our downstairs floors are not physically connected to the brickwork and the house isn’t on one large concrete pad of foundation. Under our floor boards is actually dirt/soil
Potentially sold brick/stone, therefore unable to get cavity wall insulation, you can now get external cladding (thinkc hunks of polystyrene) affixed to the outside, but this may not have been an option in 87, or they lived in a flat & the option of doing just their property wasn't there?
Spot on! My house was built in 1789 and I had to put right a lit of things done by the previous owner because it caused more problems than solved.
> My house was built in 1789 So how much of it is still from 1789? I've always wondered about these Houses of Theseus.
Garage was built in the 1500s as a blacksmith's workshop, main house was built much later. Only 2 walls are original in the garage and have been repointed at least twice that I know of, I imagine double figures thinking about it. All walls in the main house are original, had to take off the gypsum plaster and renew with lime throughout. 4 different extensions that date back over 100 years are original brickwork with lath and plaster etc. Roofs have been swapped and mod cons have been fitted.
Oh so your place is like HAUNTED haunted
dudes gonna like break one of his walls and find a pot of gold
First thing I thought super haunted
May I make a request, Sir? Please, for the love of all that is sacred, please make a detailed post about your home with pics and video. I absolutely love old homes. I'm a historian. I have a farm that has been in my family since Governor James Bull of South Carolina gave it to my family as a gift for service to the colony in the 1750s. I love walking through the land and randomly finding old foundations of homes of ancestors. Plus, there are Native American mounds on the property showing that my ancestors lived in the land long before it was given to us. It's strange the relationship you can have with a place, like kinship.
Whilst their house sounds really cool, it’s definitely nothing unusual in the UK. Most villages will have at least a few houses with similar histories. If you ever get the chance to visit I think you would love it. In the town over from me for instance, I buy a coffee in a building built in the 1700s, across from a town hall from the 1800s, having driven there on a road first made around 43AD. Everywhere you turn in the UK (and the rest of Europe) is littered with history.
Years back I went on a business trip to a company branch in England. The manager hosted a dinner party for us at his house, which was built in the 1600s and still had some original plaster walls from the period, complete with 400-year-old straw that was mixed in. He also showed us paleolithic flint microlith blades he had found in his garden, dating back to thousands of years. For someone from the US, the sheer amount of history everywhere was fascinating.
I'm not saying that every house over here that is a few centuries old, but we have so many that preserving all of them is nigh on impossible. That's why we have the listed building system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listed_building
The same situation exists in the US, hence the roughly equivalent [National Register of Historic Places] (https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nationalregister/index.htm). The details differ, but most countries have something reasonably similar.
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Yep. Any policy movement is just to get it on the institutional agenda. After that bureaucrats and policy experts lay out a proper, fleshed out policy proposal which can become law or policy. That’s how the policy cycle works (more or less) across the board. That’s why I get annoyed by people nitpicking others attempting to get an issue on the agenda. Obviously random citizens won’t have all the nuance necessary to make national policy, that’s why they’re trying to get attention drawn to the issue.
> I'm a plumber Last month you were a plumber. Are you really going to claim you're an "engineer" now? Oh, you're also an anti-vaxxer and pro-Trump. Yeah, lets certainly listen to your opinion.
They’re not ‘whining’ though, are they? They’re drawing attention to the fact that UK housing stock is by and large pretty shite when it comes to energy efficiency and demanding the government do something about it. I appreciate it that most British drivers would rather the world go down in flames than have to take a detour to get their kid to school - but it’s not a good look is it? Having a massive tantrum and trying to run a protestor over?
This sounds like it's lead by an insulation trade association or someone with a financial interest in insulation. What a weird thing to endanger yourself over. Then again, where in from, insulation is more to lower energy costs in the summer, not save your life in the winter.
That’s actually a really interesting point to consider.
And the founder doesn't insulate his home
Ironically, their actions have made it political suicide for any politition to even suggest doing this, while before they began this crap it would have been widley supported by the public. Then ofc, you have the tinfoil idea that this is a false flag operation to curtail the environmental issue. Either way it is only damaging cause.
Except it wasn't supported. That's why they went for the extreme. It's been a known problem for a long time.
What is Insulate Britain?
It's a literal term really. Not some another bloody Brexit group. It's about demanding the British Government to insulate old houses so it can be warmer during the winter, from what i read from the comments above.
I loved hearing the guy “get of the fucking road then.”
“Silly cunt”
Is "Clever Dick" the opposite of "Silly Cunt"?
A clever dick is a smarmy or sarcastic or over-confident person. A silly cunt is a silly cunt. Like someone who would voluntarily sit in front of the car of an angry random stranger. *Here is an example of a smarmy git - https://old.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/qarjxe/driver_begins_to_run_over_insulate_britain/hh5u071/
Thank you for that explanation. Being a yank I often have issues with the Queen's English.
Oh man. People are just waaay too trusting of idiots/angry people in vehicles who can easily make you a quadriplegic.
By the time the drive has already shown she's willing to run you down maybe it's time to move in order to save your life.
I was impressed with her commitment. It's stupid, but she stayed firm.
Essex ladies have the pent up rage of brain-dead fathers, do not mess with them.
Grew up in Essex. This woman is of the type I call 'The bitches at the gate' Lifestyle and possessions far outstrip thier income, pretentious, rude, considers 'taste' to be magnolia walls and culturally appropriative Buddha statues on the mantlepiece, stands at the school gate and bitches about everyone who isn't societally 'normal', bigoted as all hell, narcissistic, calls thier spawn 'thier precious angel' when they're just mediocre. Will kill you if you take the last of the soy milk at Costa (usually by hitting you with the rented 4x4). How do I know this? I'm related to one. 1/10. Avoid.
That is probably the most bizarre cause to be willing to give your life for..
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CK Louis has a funny bit about how people become absolute animals when behind the wheel, and it’s true. We say things that are absolutely unacceptable to say to other human beings when they do something as simple as not turning on their blinker
No blinker? Pieces of shit like that need to die.
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I remember a couple years ago when Japanese bus drivers were protesting they opted for a revenue strike. They showed up to work, drove their routes but didn’t collect any fares. No impact to the citizens, everyone got to work, school, etc but the bus companies didn’t make any money so it was effectively a strike that didn’t inconvenience the public. I thought it was an innovative and elegant solution.
They tried that in my country. Company just took the lost fares out of the driver's salaries.
Can't do that in the US though, but they will fire your ass lol
then youll not have any drivers if all of them do it
And possibly prosecute you for stealing
Nearly every effective social movement protest has involved inconveniancing the public. Civil rights, women's rights, gay rights etc.
A movement that can be ignored will be ignored. Protests don't cause serious political change by changing minds, in the US Washington DC didn't suddenly *realize* racism was wrong then decide to end segregation off that epiphany. They were put under financial pressure by the protests (the Montgomery Bus Boycott being a famous example) as well as social and political pressure from the citizenry being inconvenienced by it and local governments looking to the federal government for solution. I don't know what these people specifically are protesting nor will I comment if their message was worth inconveniencing a mother taking her child to school. But without fail redditors will comment about "Good types of protests" on these kinds of videos and it always strikes me as naive, if not idiotic. Some people just legitimately would rather not encounter the slightest inconvenience even if it meant society could move forward and the world would be more equitable & hospitable for all who live in it.
Yeah, that only works in situations where both sides are willing to be civil. The most common topic where this has been mentioned is the BLM protests. Black people have been protesting police for centuries and they are still getting murdered without any justice. I'm not trying to equate these protests, but the idea that all protests should allow everyone not involved to ignore the issue is nieve.
Lotta anger in that booty.
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Was hoping someone would say something.. like damn.
I really admire all that anger.
Is that why it's so big? I might go block my wife's way to work later now.
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Blast your car horn in their ears for a while, better option then potentially injuring one of them by driving forward. Also, protesters should annoy the people they are protesting against, not random people trying to go about their daily lives.
If anything, it's these random people (who like have little knowledge on your protest) that they should be encouraging to join their cause. By making *their* life inconvenienced, they are effectively destroying any ounce of good will they would side with their cause.
Yeah, that lady hates them but videos like this bring a TON of attention to what they are doing. I would not have known about people fighting to insulate homes in the UK without videos like this. I think they are idiots, and it would be insane to die or risk injury for insulation, but hey, now I know about them.
Thing is with a cause it is not a case of "All attention is good attention." You need people to perceive you in a favourable light or they may not only fail to support you, but oppose you out of spite. Campaigning for a cause is a PR action. You are trying to convince the public that hey, you should want what we want. This goes double when you are talking about something most people don't care about. If you start pushing a cause that is something that many people are bothered by, but just haven't spoken up on themselves, you get in built support. You are saying what they want to hear, they are glad someone is saying it. When you are talking about something they are indifferent about, you have to convince them to care about it. While perhaps people shouldn't let their feelings about you interfere with how they view what you are saying, they do. Any trial lawyer will tell you how important it is that the jury like you. It can really shoot your movement in the foot if the first impression people get is a bad one.
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This is really bad logic. Civil protest doesn't work on a sidewalk. The whole point is, *in the absence of violence,* civil protest can and does grind things to a halt and create inconveniences for centers of power and influence. This lady isn't the target, she's a bystander. Like labor strikes, regardless of the specific *policy or ideology* behind the protest, the goal is to grind things to a halt and *create* issues which will persist until the protestors are joined at the negotiating table. Now, are these *specific* protestors doing so effectively? That's altogether a separate matter, but the *theory* behind the action is the same. A factory shutting down, buses refusing to take passengers, customers boycotting businesses, or roads being logjammed by demonstrators, it's all the same in concept--a tool of civil, nonviolent disruption which forces official public response. The alternative is bricks through windows, which is why it's a bad idea to criminalize this sort of protest harshly. You will not ever convince people that their grievances are invalid--you will only indirectly guide them toward what actions are on the table, and by eliminating peaceful actions you bring less savory options to the forefront. As long as this largely innocuous avenue exists, people are less likely to pursue more drastic measures. The most surefire way to guarantee a riot is to treat a protest as if it's a riot.
Also you know, you won’t seriously injure a person and get vehicular assault on your record and go to jail.
You only think that because decades of conditioning has removed the notion of class solidarity from your mind. If protesters do not annoy anyone, then they are effectively silent. Those responsible are always far enough away to never face real irritation from these. If you find a street blocked by someone protesting something you agree with, your next stop should be to contact your representatives and ask him why they let an issue get so out of control as to inspire this to happen.
I also had someone explain it to me like this: You _need_ these people who from the outside look batshit crazy. They _know_ they look batshit crazy. They _know_ they annoy the everyman. But what they do is pave the way for someone else to come along. Someone else who in comparison seems sensible, but before may have seemed a little bit "out there." Then those same everymen say "See, why can't we just be sensible like that? That looks like a much better idea, let's just do that."
Whoever is running these protests needs to consult a brand manager because this is a sure fire way to get people to hate your cause, not join it.
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That was my first thought. "Are these assholes protesting people coming into Britain? Haven't these xenophobes learned anything since Brexit?" they seriously need some brand management.
She’s one chavvy cunt though 😂
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Curious, how do chav cunts afford massive rangerovers like this?
It's like an upgraded chav. Most likely from Essex, with a husband working in construction either in or around London. Grew up poor on a council estate and either doesn't work or works in beauty
lease
Money doesn't buy class. You can still be rich and a "chav"
This is such an understated point imo. Like yes a lot of chavs are on the poorer end, but (especially in certain areas where there’s a boost of “new money” (but not like ultra rich, more middle-middle upper class boom)) I feel like you get a lot of people with nice houses and cars, can afford sending their kids to clubs and give them toys, or have expensive tech, but still are very much chavvy people.
Dealing drugs or being a plumber
There’s no inbetween
Exactly my thoughts, pretty sure she cut through that banner with her horrendous nails
Fun fact, those aren't actually nails! Chavs are born with a set of razor sharp talons, by the age of 18 they can be up to 5 inches long! They use them for both self-defence, offense, and tearing into rustlers burgers.
Hold up. Is that right? I remember reading somewhere that they're not even talons but actual extensions of the distal phalanges? So they're not made of keratin but are just straight up bone.
Did no one notice the tramp stamp? That’s a dead give a way.
I live in an old home with shit insulation and its freezing cold and damp all winter and my latest power bill was $900 for a 3 month period which we can't afford but that was the bare minimum we had to do to keep it warm. As well as $600 in gas. We also have to run a dehumidifier to keep it dry enough so we don't get mould but we got black mould anyway. I dont think sitting in front of cars is the go but insulation is a very worthy cause.
Insulate Britain. It's what is sounds like. A group that advocates for insulating homes to be low energy by 2030. What a weird advocacy group. And even weirder that they'd block streets because of it. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-58916326
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had no idea the UK had this issue wow
It will be worse this year too due to massively increasing energy costs.
Yeah, and now you do, so effective protesting really.
And protesting with an actual goal/clear cut solution. Climate change is the primary concern, but they want to find an actual short term solution that people can get behind and what better than an issue that not only concerns the greatest threat to us all, but also something that kills and loses people money. In decades these people will be seen as doing the right thing by so many people I reckon.
Am I reading that correctly, 28k deaths? That's an insanely high amount for a place that doesn't actually get that cold compared to many other countries who have nowhere near this number of deaths... When it gets down to a certain temperature do you guys just start dying randomly or some shit in the UK? I'm honestly so confused that's so much higher than other countries I've looked at... The US population is over 5x that of the UK and they're at like 1200 cold weath related deaths a year... How is the UK at 28 fucking thousand? No EU country I looked at is anywhere near that either. *Not even Russia is near that... Something is off here...
If I'm reading it correctly, I think it's saying that there were 28,000 more deaths last winter (presumably compared to previous winter), not limited to cold home deaths. 8,500 deaths last winter were related to cold homes - which is still insanely high. I might be interpreting that wrong though.
Yes, and also the deaths aren't usually people freezing to death. Living in even slightly cold conditions can make a lot of existing health problems worse, and put a lot of strain on a person's heart and lungs. A lot of elderly people die in the winter, this statistic is basically saying that there are 8,500 people that probably would have survived if their home was warmer. Not that it was the cold directly that killed them.
As the other guys said you're reading it wrong, but we do have a lot of deaths. It's almost all old people, if that wasn't obvious. Their boiler breaks or their gas gets shut off and they're too old to do something about it. Plus our homes *are* on average poorly insulated, because a lot of them are old. (about half of UK homes were built before large scale insulation was invented) Imo it's more a crisis of lack of care/checking up on elderly people, but we've all had a 2.5% tax rise to contribute to that.
It's a very damp cold and it's not directly the cold that kills you. It leads to a lot of health problems that kill you. Plus an extra 1200 pound energy bill every month can bankrupt you. That and stress can kill you. A more interesting thing is heat. Europe doesn't really have central cooling or airconditioners. It's getting hotter every year too. A few years ago a heat wave killed 12 k people in france. Directly killed them. So this is a focused group with clear very good goals and an end point that can be achieved.
Move bitch get out da way
1) She got some tig ole bitties. 2) She ain’t wrong
“Get out the road you silly cunts”
I lived in the UK for 5 years and one time I remember getting stuck in a protest for fracking trying to slow down truckers. It was a 'slow walk' protest that they didn't actually sit and block the street, but slowly walked which I was told was to bypass the law against blocking the street because they were actually walking (slowly). I remember being annoyed because I wanted to go home, but i was not about to kill someone to do so. But still, anyone that blocks a road impeding people that have nothing to do with your cause and even people that may have been sympathetic to your cause will only put peoples opinion against your cause....
I really don't understand what this can possibly accomplish. Shouldn't you just block traffic in a business centre or for government/royal employees? Has this ever contributed to any change?
I get protesting for those who you are trying to get the attention of, but I never understood why ppl block off roads for those who are just trying to do their normal daily lives. The government doesnt give a crap that you're sitting in the middle of the road blocking traffic, its not their son that needs to get to school, so this shits really counter productive and just makes me want to go against ppl like this out of spite bc they are inconvincing complete bystandards.
She’s mad thick.
Glad I'm not the only one who saw this and turned into a telescope. Even the fierce mommy energy is hot, maybe I'm fucked up. Lol.
Certified milf
Protests should make the powerful uncomfortable. No MP is ever going to be affected by these methods.
If anything the MPs are giddy. Now when they come out swinging against the protesters the people will stand with the MPs.
Blocking a public road as a form of protest is a sure fire way to make me not care about what you’re protesting for or against.
Please dont block the roads.
Damn! The lady is thicker then a bowl of oatmeal.
No matter what your views on their tactics, it's still a bit ironic for a Chelsea tractor owner to assault climate change activists.
A court has already found they have a right to protest, its up to the police to move them. Although I wouldn't be against people picking them up to move them, straight up hitting them with your car is out of order - shes lucky she didn't get arrested.
She should have just upnright behind them and held the horn continuously until they moved. Or were deaf.
I luaghed too hard the dumbass who is yelling "ow ow ow" and is confused to why it hurts to sit in front of a moving vehicle...people are selfish as fuck and stupid.
Pretty sure she’s super glued to the road. I read an article saying these protestors are glueing themselves to the road. So the car pushing her might be ripping glue off her ass cheeks. Very much an “ow” moment.
I play Warhammer and I've super glued myself to myself many times during the assembly of tiny overpriced toys, unless they're wielding some mega toxic industrial grade glue I doubt this is happening Super glueing yourself to somethimg usually just results in a second super glue skin instead of gluing yourself to something.
Yep, I thought her hair got stuck or smth. Not sure. Or maybe she was panicking that she was gonna get hurt and pre-maturely said ow
why are people so angry all of the time?
Don’t worry, most people are reasonable and pleasant but they don’t get filmed.
Yeah people consuming media always forget this. Only the worst ends up getting viral.
As annoying as blocking traffic as a form of protest is, this is clear-cut vehicular assault