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Francesco Aquilini Interview Thursday OCT 3 @ 10 AM
189lb enforcers? replied to Squamfan's topic in Canucks Talk
189lbs of happy Canucks fan here. Well, that’s not entirely true, I’m just over 200lbs, myself. Got my way, all of it. Enjoy what I enjoy about the game, this year, fellow fans. -
[Official] 2019 Training Camp Thread
189lb enforcers? replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
What a great day. -
[Official] 2019 Training Camp Thread
189lb enforcers? replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
Believe -
[Official] 2019 Training Camp Thread
189lb enforcers? replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
And that’s not a feel good story. -
Global Student Strike for Climate Change
189lb enforcers? replied to Roberts's topic in Off-Topic General
Never change/ Never Fade -
You Green Bastard
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Kamloops Blazers
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Best C choice in decades.
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Global Student Strike for Climate Change
189lb enforcers? replied to Roberts's topic in Off-Topic General
My complaint with the movement is that it doesn’t seek to wrangle rampant, gluttonous consumerism at the high school level, but shakes its mighty first at a faceless boogeyman their fingers haven’t quite pointed out just yet. God forbid they actually did as Hippy and others are suggesting and gave up all their products... and also stayed in class to further their understanding on how to actually achieve their supposed goals. I don’t have a solution either. I’m a pig of a consumer. I am using an ipad and a complex internet server somewhere made out of offshore polluting badness. I bring you nothing except some humility and a reservation for any narratives in our media, especially those given airtime to or those which are focusing on our kids. Maybe one of you has some answers, I don’t. -
Global Student Strike for Climate Change
189lb enforcers? replied to Roberts's topic in Off-Topic General
I’m serious and sincere about the Sedins being awful playoff types. Doesn't make me popular or right. That speech she gave sounded exactly like one Hitler once gave. Her tone, pacing and appeal is really something. Too bad her behaviours and own personal experience wasn’t more aptly suited to her cause. (Think racing boat -doesn’t come from coconuts) This platform and movement’s exposure has a hitch to it, somewhere. We’ll eventually see it. -
Global Student Strike for Climate Change
189lb enforcers? replied to Roberts's topic in Off-Topic General
Agreed. And thanks. All nuances or instances are possible and genuine, simultaneously. There is also something to be said for age and wisdom, which as you’re aware, isn’t on this protest’s side. I’m not who I was at 17, thank puck, as I’m sure will one day be the case for the kids’ idealistic, though naive, demands and their complicit relationship with the current. -
Global Student Strike for Climate Change
189lb enforcers? replied to Roberts's topic in Off-Topic General
A deep convo which I can’t have right now. All I’m seeing here is the opening of the door for MSM to “help” corral a new generation of NPC-like convictions and affiliation with “good/environment/insert issue of the times here” into slavery, but they can’t yet see it. I’m saying this platform isn’t a gift, it has strings, which nobody seems to recognize until way late in the dance. Speaking of distracting ourselves, I am burning a day here. Time to get cracking on my own life and not posing as somebody with something to say worth your reading(s). -
Global Student Strike for Climate Change
189lb enforcers? replied to Roberts's topic in Off-Topic General
There we are! These are the conversations I enjoy because they acknowledge both sides simultaneously and weigh options and value instead of ploys of utter sophistry and other interesting, scandalous endgames we’ve witnessed our elite lives, all served up by your harmless MSM engineers. Just a reminder to back this point... -
Global Student Strike for Climate Change
189lb enforcers? replied to Roberts's topic in Off-Topic General
No, no, it’s the kids’ demanding Government, begging even, look after them so they can continue to enjoy the distracting creature comforts they fight with to pass their days with while expecting a green climate. The shift into the dependence on big brother by the population to police, systemized and thus control behaviour and consumption is the 1984-esque relevance here. The kids aren’t calling for change to their behaviour, they’re calling for a globalist effort to, control others’. They want big brother. It’s no small coincidence that this Gretta puppet has the platform she has. Lol does anyone think the mega corps owned by MSM actually want to stop production? Down the rabbit hole we go. -
Global Student Strike for Climate Change
189lb enforcers? replied to Roberts's topic in Off-Topic General
Tell that to a sailor taking on water at sea. Tell him to just plug that small hole he’s next to first, not those big holes over there. On the surface, who could disagree with such a statement? Well played. But that’s the entire point of Forsberg et al. On the surface, the protesters have not likely looked at the issue or what fixing it means. The fallacy here, IMO, is the aim and mark of the grandiose gesture of a Canadian consumer-kid taking on actual global warming or climate change while being completely disconnected from actual mega-contributors. I envision a boy with his finger in the dyke, holding back the ocean, while excavators are working around the clock to dig trenches in the dyke while that boy swells with a feeling of achievement and well-doingness. You can say your part all you like as its the socially acceptable thing to say, the status quo, no doubt. Others are suggesting both actions, personal responsibility and Canadian policy and pressuring India/China, whomever, to change their horrific manufacturing costs, can happen at the same time, yet that’s not systemized, nor happening. Clean up your own house first? What if the one beside you is on fire? Poor analogy unless of course you’ve ever tried to protect your house from that instead of working on the fire at hand. -
Global Student Strike for Climate Change
189lb enforcers? replied to Roberts's topic in Off-Topic General
Sign of the times... Government in place of personal responsibility and even liberty. 1984 is here. I miss the old version of the hippies, at least they opposed the man, not invoked him to take care of their every behaviour, even thought. -
Global Student Strike for Climate Change
189lb enforcers? replied to Roberts's topic in Off-Topic General
Hmm, I’m not sure why we’d be in any form of opposition then, actually. Global warming isn't a debate, agreed, nor has it ever been man made, and we can’t say that it is now, because like you said, those experts disagree. Really though, I have long questioned why only one side of the debate was granted MSM privilege and funding, while the other side was thrown down into the realm of denier, with all of its conspiracy theorist connotations. I have no issue with anything you said, though either of us could likely produce some bizarre inverse of your graphic there with relative ease and it will have the credentials behind it that allow us to do so, tit for tat all day. That, is an awfully tiring and pointless rally we could play on here like time vampires. -
Global Student Strike for Climate Change
189lb enforcers? replied to Roberts's topic in Off-Topic General
But... the argument is not about not doing something or the other, it’s about what/where/how the actual pollution is, elsewhere, meanwhile and what can be done about it, while consuming those products. When your global effort equates to a drop in the bucket, despite all those Western resources and good intentions, there must be a better place to start, like that poster was possibly suggesting. One argument is not any any better than the other, but I’d like to think we could discuss the value of each potential outcome without being misaligned in our scope at all. -
Global Student Strike for Climate Change
189lb enforcers? replied to Roberts's topic in Off-Topic General
Well put. Solutions aren’t a patchwork of temporary fixes and shuffling problems around. The issues are so very complex. What these kids may have done for the world is to force the rest of us to correct some of their misinformation or misguided, though well-meaning, efforts. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if, in an attempt to discredit the value of the protest, we actually turned the corner and innovated something of a consensus, technology or whatever, that some good comes from this other than some shrieking and drama class auditioning in front of a microphone? -
Global Student Strike for Climate Change
189lb enforcers? replied to Roberts's topic in Off-Topic General
It is lazy, just like your few stats. Did you expect me or any other poster to post a book and would that actually change any minds here, really? No. You know that, so spare me. We’re all lazy because we don’t have time, or shouldn’t, to lay down a thesis paper at every topic point to base our opinions on. Give me a break. Would it change your mind if I wrote an essay, or better yet, either plagiarized some opinion as my own , the norm here, or that I posted a few rival stats to yours, as we all know the whoring of stats is an actual job for some people. Its not deflection. Deflection is all around us and this subject, though dressed-up otherwise, is a flagship of societal deception. You tell me why it moved from Global warming to climate change. You tell me how we are worse off than ever before and how that happened if it’s not completely consumers in the West driving a large part of it. -
Global Student Strike for Climate Change
189lb enforcers? replied to Roberts's topic in Off-Topic General
Who is us, though? Aren't I also an us? Did you stomp around in the streets of Canada, or some other commonwealth type country, where we have stringent environmental law while, like some ultra ignorant, disconnected, consumer seemingly unaware that your outsourced consumption is partly the reason the environment is threatened? I’m going to say, no, no you’re not that base and recognize, not deny, that there are better ways to protect the environment than be a disconnected poser, who likes clean air, but is unwilling to become the ideal, which I’m not suggesting... you should see my premium gasoline bill for my toys... I want clean air. That’s partly why I don’t live in Vancouver with the consumers who want others to clean up their act, but that’s a separate complaint I have with the footprint of the cities tree hugger types predominantly reside in and contribute to. Your opinion becomes somewhat invalid, yes, if you’re just some disconnected kid-consumer who wants to save the world, but consumes the things that destroy it. As long as there are people to consume the products, manufactured goods will pollute. Easy enough to understand, so why can’t people act on that? Yes, if you’re not doing your part, you’re not part of the solution. Going as far as holding a rally or ripping across the ocean to save the environment in a fibreglass super-boat is a joke in itself, Gretta, but she, and many others, are to disconnected too know why. That, is kind of scary, in that people can organize themselves under any false pretences/practices, in the name of good. Hey, it’s my opinion here, not anything more. Your opinion matters, but so do your behaviours, as did the footprint of the protest. -
Global Student Strike for Climate Change
189lb enforcers? replied to Roberts's topic in Off-Topic General
There are contingents that will dismiss things, sure. Others, myself included, see a trend and are more inclined to react with less haste than a flash mob looking to align under a feel-good banner of creed and whatever they think they accomplished. I don't conflate the plight of our oceans with what global warming used to be about. I separated the issues. Today, the new banner of climate change encompasses all practices, even fishing all the way to mining under one banner - the very banner these kids were claiming to hope to fix. But theres the problem. Its not solutions, it’s a mountain of emotion delivering a mountain of problems, not solutions. How productive. Forgive my snicker, my lack of support for and my posts concerning a global effort with no answers, but a whole eff of a lot of consumption! Starting somewhere is on the person. Personal responsibility might be a thing of the past and now a job for government, but recognizing our own power as consumers is more powerful than any emotionally-charged doomsday speech by some stupid kid too ignorant to know their own place at the table they claim “I” set for them in the future. There is no denial of a changing climate. We may vary on the assessments, but we do know Kamloops will again be cleaned out by a massive ice sheet, no deniers of that type of climate change. How that change is coming is a minor detail in the story of our future survival, I don’t know why that’s seemingly never referenced in any of the “news” we get. Whether or not I think that Nike is going to bring us to the brink before a volcano does isn’t a debate, anywhere, no money in that, I guess. Speaking of Nike, etc, what is on your guys’ feet today? What is Ruperts’ closet looking like while he accuses others of “denial” of climate change? We can guess. Guitar strings - bad. Electricity - bad. Booze - bad. Profiting on these - real eff-ing bad, for the environment, but not as bad if you accuse others of it first. Hollow, virtuous, pretentious noise, these folks lecturing others on their beliefs and principles. Hypocrites. It’s easy to virtue signal, just look around this thread, harder to live the life of a light footprint. Those of you who are, respect. Those who aren’t, shhh.