BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
oh fuck the "what do you think?/decide for yourself/i'm just asking the question" sleight of hand is one of the biggest red flags in all of this. so much of their shite is prefaced with it.
Discussion: UK anti-vaxx 'freedom' morons, protests and QAnon idiots
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BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
it's pretty calming when talking of right/left splits to note that vacinne uptake is, what, 90% - so that captures everyone. and these freaks, like my mate, who gets freaker and more nasty by the day, are out on a limb.
as i've said many times - the real barameter is the national media. if the right wing press start entertaining this stuff...end times. at least there has been largely massive resistance to covid denial across "main stream" right wing outlets. there might be some "we're all vaxed, deaths are down, lets open up sooner" rants, but that is not in anyway the same as what these "truth seekers" propose if you have a close look at their "eco systems".
muscovyduck
Good IT skills and food hygiene competent
long before all this I had a drama queen mate who I eventually clocked onto because she used phrases like this to stir shit once too often
scalyboy
They’re taking the piss now
I’m actually getting lessons off of two instructors cos neither were able to fit in two lessons a week - they’re very busy with the post-lockdown backlog, same thing with the actual tests, people are finding there’s no available slots till the autumn.
I actually prefer the ancient aliens guy as he’s more patient than the other feller who can be sarky on occasion... although sarko is very good at teaching manoeuvres like parallel and reverse bay parking by using reference points: “turn the wheel 360 degrees LEFT - reverse slowly until the wing mirror is covering the other car’s rear wheel arch - STOP - turn wheel 360 RIGHT - reverse slowly till wing mirror is at corner of car - STOP” etc
I don’t think ancient aliens is an antivaxxer - he’s very scrupulous about taking my temperature and giving me hand sanitiser before we begin - more rigorous than Johnny Sarko...
Aliens is so laid-back and laconic that I can’t quite tell if he’s being ironic when he says “gotta watch out for those shapeshifters”... his use of the term “muzzle” for face mask did ring alarm bells though
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
In that case I'd sit down and work out and list what it is that you're not confident about, and tell them you want more practice to improve on those specific things. It won't half save you some money if you get through this time. And you're paying them so they should do what you ask.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
It's fucking everywhere, or at least feels like it at times. Which is why am grateful for fucking urban.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
I would never condone trolling. Does anyone know any antivax forums? Asking for a friend
I haven't looked myself, but I bet David Icke's forums will be one of the main ones in the UK.
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
I got so p155ed off with the sky fairy supporters, conspiracy loonspudery and woo 5h1te on there that I gave up even visiting.
Nothing you say even dents their conviction in their "knowing the TRUTH"
I had to block the domain to stop their "come back to the fold" spam trashing my emails.
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
Facebook. You have to dig though since the great purge. They're there though, but lesser presence. And of course the he'll scape that is telegram., 8 chan, etc. I think Reddit has had a clear out so not there.I would never condone trolling. Does anyone know any antivax forums? Asking for a friend
scalyboy
They’re taking the piss now
Thanks - I think you’re right.
At this stage I really just need more practice on the road and dealing with traffic and the various situations that crop up; best thing I can do now until the test, I reckon, is to do a few of the test routes and some ‘independent driving’ - I’m told the latter will most likely be following satnav directions but with an outside chance of having to use road signs.
scalyboy
They’re taking the piss now
I suppose it might be productive to plant a few seeds of doubt / sanity in the minds of people on those loon boards, people on the fringes who aren’t fully paid-up tinfoil merchants but who are just curious and may be less than half-way to loon.
Good luck to anyone who tries, but personally I wouldn’t have the patience... I imagine it’d have to be done by subtle questioning of their alternative theories and politely casting doubt. (My favourite - when arguing with a couple of friends, or ex-friends - is to ask: why would governments worldwide choose to decimate their own economies, if it was simply to ‘control the people, maaan’?)
Just calling tinfoilers simple-minded dangerous idiots (although that’s pretty much what I think of them!) wouldn’t, I’m guessing, have much effect - they’d dismiss you as a ‘shill’, ‘deep state agent’, ‘MSM dupe’ or whatever other annoying in-group private language they use.
This is what I’d found when trolling the Daily Mail forums... trolling, however, is a different matter - I doubt it would cause many on the fringes to see the light and abandon the tinfoil, but it can be fun.
I’ve even run out of patience for trolling though - I find the whole thing quite depressing tbh. Seeing the hordes repeatedly marching for ‘freedom’ (and some wearing yellow stars) - I never realised how many stupid and selfish people there are. Sad!
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
Also, if I wanted to look at actual 'vaccine' info by EXPERTS only, then I wouldn't be heading toward some crank alternative to YouTube. There's actual peer-reviewed literature I could read instead. Yes I know, peer review is not some cast-iron guarantee of veracity, but it does at least mean that someone who at least has a clue took a look at it and saw no glaring errors or obvious methodological problems. The TubeCranks can't even bring themselves to avoid making basic mistakes of fact.
fucthest8
Cool people die horrible, preventable deaths.
Okay, I looked
Turns out to be some twat called Vernon Coleman conspiracy theorist, anti-vaccination activist, AIDS denialist
Def an EXPERT
Turns out to be some twat called Vernon Coleman conspiracy theorist, anti-vaccination activist, AIDS denialist
Def an EXPERT
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
It's all that heavy metal music, embedded in the nano chip.
Just think about it, and do your own research.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
If you look into the back of that spoon, you see Pete Townsend staring back at you
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
Just cos your wife left you Gates don't take it out on us ffs
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
I fear my driving instructor may be on the fringes of the ‘truther tendency’. He’s very scrupulous about checking my temperature and giving me hand sanitiser before we start each lesson, but he recently referred to the masks we both wear in the car as ‘muzzles’. During previous lessons he’s mentioned ancient aliens, and told me of a YouTube video clip of Obama giving a speech in Israel - where the camera supposedly shows one of the security staff momentarily shape-shifting into a lizard... later, I looked it up myself and wasn’t convinced
Is this him?
pug
Well-Known Member
EXPERT ARSEHOLE
Apparently I need to be more open minded and think more critically, rather than just believe what it says in the papers, I should look at alternative sources and websites where people have different ideas from the mainstream.
BigMoaner
What A Load of Old Bollocks
If you think about, someone like that probably has a body count attached to his name.
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