Greta is coming to Bristol ....

[wiskey]

... and it's going to be utter chaos!

So far I've seen headlines on the Beeb, Evening Post and links all over FB about coaches bringing 1000 children for the march, the lack of stewards, the predicted traffic chaos, the fact that there won't be any toilets and all sorts of other negative things. The council has put out statements, the stewarding organisation has asked for help and worst bus are saying it's all going to go to shit.

However one local primary school is taking both it's y2 classes, our MAT have unofficially said that although kids who are off will be marked as absent nothing will be done about it and amongst my friends there's a bigger proportion saying they are going than I would have expected.

Anyway she's speaking at 11am followed by a shuffle round town and then she's off to see herself on the tobacco factory in the afternoon.



Anyone from here going?

 

[i_hate_beckham]

I'm making my 'GO AWAY GRETA!' sign tonight.

 

[xenon]

I am definitely not going. But I have enjoyed all the bitter mouth breathing dullards on Facebook losing their shit and repeating the same fuckwitted, she’s a puppet, go back to school, comments.

 

[kropotkin]

My kids are going

 

[Detroit City]

I'm making my 'GO AWAY GRETA!' sign tonight.

she is sort of irritating isn't she?

 

[i_hate_beckham]

she is sort of irritating isn't she?

Yes and causes more pollution wherever she goes.

 

[big eejit]

The anger she provokes is incredible. It would destroy the Bristol Post "Bloody Cyclists!" anger-ometer.

Was talking about it with my son today. His theory is it's basically people who've done fuck all with their lives venting their frustration at this uppity young woman. Which seems about right from the stuff I've read on Facebook etc.

 

[wiskey]

Pissing off the gammon was my main motivation for going tbh

 

[kalidarkone]

I think Greta is great. But no didn't go. Traffic heading out of Bristol is mental.

 

[chilango]

Some of my family went their first protest

 

[girasol]

Greta is an anagram for great, and, yeah she is that, and she has my respect and admiration. Most people go through life consuming unquestioningly and hating the wrong people, she's a breath of fresh air.

The sort of contempt and hatred she elicited from Trump just crystallises the sort of people who don't like her

 

[i_hate_beckham]

Well, that's College Green fucked for the foreseeable future.

 

[Riklet]

Well, that's College Green fucked for the foreseeable future.

Jesus christ get a fucking life you sound like some kind of BBC Facebook troll or Daily Mail comments moron. It's a patch of grass you nitwit, will have grown back by March. What else pissed you off.. the sight of someone drinking a Starbucks coffee there? Greta 'causes more pollution' where ever she goes'? Fuck off!

I didnt go cos of rain and things to do but good on those that did. Christ couldnt believe the amount of negative whinging and horrible shit being said about the girl personally - a real shame.

 

[Chilli.s]

Well, that's College Green fucked for the foreseeable future.

Moet Island.

 

[i_hate_beckham]

I didnt go cos of rain and things to do.

Literally a fairweather activist.

 

[big eejit]

Greta Thunberg is Litmus paper for gammon.

Mention her name and see what shade of pink they turn.

Scale goes from 'eye-bulging puce' to 'vaguely condescending Sainsbury's processed ham pink'.

 

[BristolEcho]

Had to just wade into my first social media debate after a cousin called her a "jumped up, egotistical excuse for womankind"

She is 45. I don't get it.

 

[Marty1]

Greta is an anagram for great, and, yeah she is that, and she has my respect and admiration. Most people go through life consuming unquestioningly and hating the wrong people, she's a breath of fresh air.

The sort of contempt and hatred she elicited from Trump just crystallises the sort of people who don't like her

Oh yeah, there’s so much to learn from a 17yr old kid repeating our world is on fire.

Does the sort of blind adulation she elicits from her followers crystallise the sort of people who like her?

 

[i_hate_beckham]

Had to just wade into my first social media debate after a cousin called her a "jumped up, egotistical excuse for womankind"

She is 45. I don't get it.

Mrs i_h_b says she is "a misguided but active puppet".

 

[wiskey]

We went, first demo for two of the W's.

It was completely worth going because weebles (6) was so amazed that the person everyone had come to see was a small girl in a raincoat

 

[wiskey]

Well, that's College Green fucked for the foreseeable future.

Were you planning to do something on College Green? Have a picnic maybe?

 

[weltweit]

Good on the people that went, shame it didn't get even more publicity in the media, and good on Greta .. someone has to front up the protest and I think she is doing well. We could go with a British Greta though as she can't be everywhere at the same time.

 

[Steel Icarus]

There's a German anti-Greta

Wattba

 

[a_chap]

Greta Thunberg is Litmus paper for gammon.

Mention her name and see what shade of pink they turn.

Scale goes from 'eye-bulging puce' to 'vaguely condescending Sainsbury's processed ham pink'.

Hurrah!

Despite me being a fat, balding, middle-aged white Englishman you have now proven that I'm not a Gammon.

I respect and admire her. I think she's one of the few people who genuinely "get" man-made climate change.

[changes U75 custom title to "Officially not a gammon" ]

 

[i_hate_beckham]

Were you planning to do something on College Green? Have a picnic maybe?

Yes. We can have one together, are you free next week?

 

[weepiper]

The abuse and threats made to Greta Thunberg by people from Bristol

By grown men, many who appear to have children of their own

www.bristolpost.co.uk

 

[xenon]

Mrs i_h_b says she is "a misguided but active puppet".

Pupppet, of course. That line again. Only ironically it seems to be parroted quite a lot.

 

[i_hate_beckham]

Pupppet, of course. That line again. Only ironically it seems to be parroted quite a lot.

Her visit put 9.3kg of carbon into the atmosphere, if she stayed at home it would be 0kg and College Green would be covered in CO2 reducing grass.

 

[BristolEcho]

Her visit put 9.3kg of carbon into the atmosphere, if she stayed at home it would be 0kg and College Green would be covered in CO2 reducing grass.

Depends what she did at home I guess.

 

[i_hate_beckham]

Depends what she did at home I guess.

Not fucked up College Green is my guess.