Greenpeace are idiots

[chuckskull]

Used to get these all the time in b'ham.

"I love whales, see this necklace is made from whale bone, where do I sign?"

That usually confuses them, and no it's not really whale. Not come across any activists who can tell the difference though

[Stoo]

"I love whales, but I couldn't eat a whole one"

[TheAnimus]

The ones i really hate are the animal rights lot that show pictures of 'crewlty' to animals by the testers.

First off today there was great annoncement that in mice they're been able to stop one of the types of breast cancer. Excellent.

But these loonies all too often get bogged down in miss information, showing pictures of sows in birthing cages, and other such. I swear i posted a rant about how i was acostered by one rude troglodyte who it transpired had a family member who was dependent on insulin..... retards.

[Rave]

I'm rarely out and about in town without my uniform on, so I just look purposeful and they leave me alone. I've been succesfully 'chugged' twice- the first time was about 7 years ago when I was out with my best mate and a guy from Amnesty International stopped us. Mate claimed to be a member already (I think he was lying TBH), encouraged me to sign up, which I did, and have been paying my fiver a month ever since. Very pleased to have done so too.

Second time was on my way back from an interview for a civil service job which I subsequently got. It was for Friends of the Earth. I paid up for about three years but when they campaigned to prevent those old US supply ships from being broken up in Hull (or Hartlepool or some similarly benighted area) I cancelled my direct debit. That struck me as the height of Nimbyism. Toxic old ships have to be decomissioned somewhere, I'd rather it was here than on a beach in Bangladesh.

Just before I got promoted I got back from a day's bus driving to find a woman in the garage signing people up for payroll giving. She had a list of about 60 charities to sign up to, and she was really nice. She only wanted a pound a week, which I decided to give to SightSavers International, a charity that I've always been keen on. When my mum got a three grand payout from the demutualistaion of the Leeds/Halifax she reckoned it was money we weren't really entitled to, so she split the money 10 ways and insisted that each of the 5 members of our family (as was ) give £300 to charity before we could have the other £300 for ourselves. I gave £150 to Sightsavers and £150 to Shelter. Anyway that's by the by.

Once the charity woman had expressed her gratitude for my fairly pathetic donation of £1 a week to Sightsavers, I decided that it was in fairness a pittance and asked to look at her list of charities again. I figured I could spare an extra pound a week for Action for Neurological Disorders. The friend who helped me sign up to Amnesty now has Parkinsons and is a misanthropic bastard, so I thought that would be a good way to cheese him off.