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Title: New Broom, Different Tune!
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 24 November 2020, 19:41:21
President Elect Biden says the USA will re-join the Paris Climate Agreement on day one of his presidency, and his Climate Envoy nominee John Kerry says that the Paris Agreement doesn't go far enough...  :-\

I suspect they'll spout a lot of hot air lecturing everyone, but won't do anything concrete to change Americans behaviour, like slapping a huge UK style fuel duty on a gallon of gasoline to force all those Good Ole Boys outa those big gas guzzling pickups and SUV's that they love so much!  ::)

We'll see how they get on!  :)
Title: Re: New Broom, Different Tune!
Post by: STEMO on 24 November 2020, 19:47:48
America, eh?
America is a totally different kettle of fish to the uk. Different culture, different attitude.
Title: Re: New Broom, Different Tune!
Post by: STEMO on 24 November 2020, 19:54:21
Then again, Nigel Farage has got time to start a 'Fossil fuel is cool' party well before 2030.
Title: Re: New Broom, Different Tune!
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 24 November 2020, 20:13:03
America, eh?
America is a totally different kettle of fish to the uk. Different culture, different attitude.

If CO2 is indeed the cause of climate change, then the Americans as one of the worlds leading emitters of the stuff need to change their culture and attitude!  :)

I doubt Sleepy Joe is up to the challenge though.  :-X
Title: Re: New Broom, Different Tune!
Post by: Migv6 le Frog Fan on 24 November 2020, 20:16:08
Then again, Nigel Farage has got time to start a 'Fossil fuel is cool' party well before 2030.

That would get a lot of votes.  :)
Title: Re: New Broom, Different Tune!
Post by: dave the builder on 24 November 2020, 20:20:45
the oil companies will dig up Lee Harvey Oswald to sort him out if he tries to curb petrol sales  :P
or some other gun toting yank will oblige
Title: Re: New Broom, Different Tune!
Post by: STEMO on 24 November 2020, 20:30:37
Then again, Nigel Farage has got time to start a 'Fossil fuel is cool' party well before 2030.

That would get a lot of votes.  :)
Yep. I'd vote for it. My grandchildren may die, coughing and spluttering, their lungs full of tar but, hey, I can carry on driving my astra diesel.  ;D
Title: Re: New Broom, Different Tune!
Post by: biggriffin on 24 November 2020, 21:13:25
Going green won't stop natural evolution of the planet, which has/will continue infinitally. The planet has heated and cooled down throughout it's history, and will continue to do so,...
Title: Re: New Broom, Different Tune!
Post by: STEMO on 24 November 2020, 21:15:00
Going green won't stop natural evolution of the planet, which has/will continue infinitally. The planet has heated and cooled down throughout it's history, and will continue to do so,...
Thanks for that, professor  :y
Title: Re: New Broom, Different Tune!
Post by: dave the builder on 24 November 2020, 21:17:05
I thought we where trying to cut down on the colour based racism
yet it seems us "white folk" are being forced to turn green  :(
Title: Re: New Broom, Different Tune!
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 24 November 2020, 21:30:10
Wait until the woke people find out that the greens are being prioritsed :o
Title: Re: New Broom, Different Tune!
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 25 November 2020, 12:59:24
I thought we where trying to cut down on the colour based racism
yet it seems us "white folk" are being forced to turn green  :(

With white privilege you can be any colour you want. Extremely wealthy black chat show host Oprah Winfrey was banging on about this imaginary crap recently.
Title: Re: New Broom, Different Tune!
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 25 November 2020, 13:00:18
Wait until the woke people find out that the greens are being prioritsed :o

Surely most of the 'woke' are green.
Title: Re: New Broom, Different Tune!
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 25 November 2020, 13:10:10
https://youtu.be/UkN27iMbFog (https://youtu.be/UkN27iMbFog)

You'll note the compulsory white liberal required to 'nod submissively along in agreement' with poor black Oprah, who is apparently worth $2.6 billion.
Title: Re: New Broom, Different Tune!
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 25 November 2020, 13:16:35
Wait until the woke people find out that the greens are being prioritsed :o

Surely most of the 'woke' are green.
I thought they were white upper middle class ???

This shit is sooo confusing  :-\
Title: Re: New Broom, Different Tune!
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 25 November 2020, 13:23:44
Wait until the woke people find out that the greens are being prioritsed :o

Surely most of the 'woke' are green.
I thought they were white upper middle class ???

This shit is sooo confusing  :-\

It is confusing. What is the difference between middle class and upper middle class?

My brain hurts.... ::)
Title: Re: New Broom, Different Tune!
Post by: deviator on 25 November 2020, 14:17:04
I read somewhere recently, that if all SUV's became an imaginary island, they'd be the 7th largest polluter in the world.
Title: Re: New Broom, Different Tune!
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 25 November 2020, 16:26:48
Wait until the woke people find out that the greens are being prioritsed :o

Surely most of the 'woke' are green.
I thought they were white upper middle class ???

This shit is sooo confusing  :-\

It is confusing. What is the difference between middle class and upper middle class?

My brain hurts.... ::)

This (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppv97S3ih14) might help M'lud.  :)
Title: Re: New Broom, Different Tune!
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 25 November 2020, 16:37:13
Wait until the woke people find out that the greens are being prioritsed :o

Surely most of the 'woke' are green.
I thought they were white upper middle class ???

This shit is sooo confusing  :-\

It is confusing. What is the difference between middle class and upper middle class?

My brain hurts.... ::)

This (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppv97S3ih14) might help M'lud.  :)

Nah....that just demonstrates the difference between upper class (posh pricks) middle class (aspiring to become posh pricks) and the working or lower class (proletariat peasants to be used as expendable cannon fodder)

Title: Re: New Broom, Different Tune!
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 25 November 2020, 16:50:35
Wait until the woke people find out that the greens are being prioritsed :o

Surely most of the 'woke' are green.
I thought they were white upper middle class ???

This shit is sooo confusing  :-\

It is confusing. What is the difference between middle class and upper middle class?

My brain hurts.... ::)

This (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppv97S3ih14) might help M'lud.  :)

Nah....that just demonstrates the difference between upper class (posh pricks) middle class (aspiring to become posh pricks) and the working or lower class (proletariat peasants to be used as expendable cannon fodder)

I think you just answered your own question.  :y
Title: Re: New Broom, Different Tune!
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 25 November 2020, 17:18:56
Wait until the woke people find out that the greens are being prioritsed :o

Surely most of the 'woke' are green.
I thought they were white upper middle class ???

This shit is sooo confusing  :-\

It is confusing. What is the difference between middle class and upper middle class?

My brain hurts.... ::)

This (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppv97S3ih14) might help M'lud.  :)

Nah....that just demonstrates the difference between upper class (posh pricks) middle class (aspiring to become posh pricks) and the working or lower class (proletariat peasants to be used as expendable cannon fodder)

I think you just answered your own question.  :y

I asked the difference between middle class and upper middle class. Both are 'middle class' :)
Title: Re: New Broom, Different Tune!
Post by: STEMO on 25 November 2020, 17:21:48
Middle class[edit]
The middle-class in Britain often consists of people with tertiary education and may have been educated at either state or private schools.[54]
Typical jobs include: accountants, architects, solicitors, surveyors, social workers, teachers, managers, specialist IT workers, engineers, doctors, university-educated nurses and civil servants. Displays of conspicuous consumption are considered vulgar by them; instead they prefer to channel excess income into investments, especially property.
Members of the middle-class are often politically and socially engaged (a Mori poll in 2005 found 70% of grades AB voted at the 2005 general election compared to 54% of grades DE) and might be regular churchgoers (a YouGov poll in 2014 found 62% of those attending church at least once a month were NRS grades ABC1),[58][59] might sit on local committees and governing boards or stand for political office. Education is greatly valued by the middle-classes: they will make every effort to ensure their children get offered a place at university; they may send their children to a private school, hire a home tutor for out of school hours so their child learns at a faster rate, or go to great lengths to get their children enrolled into good state or selective grammar schools; such as moving house into the catchment area.[60]
They also value culture and make up a significant proportion of the book-buying and theatre-going public. They typically read broadsheet newspapers rather than tabloids. The only Mosaic 2010 geodemographic type where the proportion of residents in NRS social grade B was rated as "high" in the 2010 index was "People living in brand new residential developments".[57] The middle classes particularly of England and Wales are often popularly referred to as "Middle England".[61]
The comedy character Margo Leadbetter is a satirical stereotype for this group, as is Jilly Cooper's Howard Weybridge.[49]
Upper middle class[edit]

Harrow School. The public school is traditionally one of the key institutions of the upper-middle-class in Britain.[62]
The upper middle-class in Britain broadly consists of people who were born into families which have traditionally possessed high incomes, although this group is defined more by family background than by job or income. This stratum, in England, traditionally uses the Received Pronunciation dialect natively.
The upper middle-class are traditionally educated at independent schools, preferably one of the "major" or "minor" "public schools"[63][64] which themselves often have pedigrees going back for hundreds of years and charge fees of as much as £33,000 per year per pupil (as of 2014).[62][65]
A minority of upper-middle-class families may also have ancestry that directly connects them to the upper classes. Armorial bearings in the form of an escutcheon may denote such past status. A lesser status historically directly relevant to the upper-middle class is that of squire or lord of the manor, however, these property rights are no longer [66] prevalent.
Although such categorisations are not precise, popular contemporary examples of upper-middle-class people may include Boris
Title: Re: New Broom, Different Tune!
Post by: Varche on 25 November 2020, 17:30:16
Fantastic explanation.

Thanks for taking time out of your busy day to write that for us.
Title: Re: New Broom, Different Tune!
Post by: STEMO on 25 November 2020, 17:34:16
Fantastic explanation.

Thanks for taking time out of your busy day to write that for us.
Everything is on the internet, so why ask?
Title: Re: New Broom, Different Tune!
Post by: Varche on 25 November 2020, 21:13:03
Oh  :o
Title: Re: New Broom, Different Tune!
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 26 November 2020, 13:20:40
Middle class[edit]
The middle-class in Britain often consists of people with tertiary education and may have been educated at either state or private schools.[54]
Typical jobs include: accountants, architects, solicitors, surveyors, social workers, teachers, managers, specialist IT workers, engineers, doctors, university-educated nurses and civil servants. Displays of conspicuous consumption are considered vulgar by them; instead they prefer to channel excess income into investments, especially property.
Members of the middle-class are often politically and socially engaged (a Mori poll in 2005 found 70% of grades AB voted at the 2005 general election compared to 54% of grades DE) and might be regular churchgoers (a YouGov poll in 2014 found 62% of those attending church at least once a month were NRS grades ABC1),[58][59] might sit on local committees and governing boards or stand for political office. Education is greatly valued by the middle-classes: they will make every effort to ensure their children get offered a place at university; they may send their children to a private school, hire a home tutor for out of school hours so their child learns at a faster rate, or go to great lengths to get their children enrolled into good state or selective grammar schools; such as moving house into the catchment area.[60]
They also value culture and make up a significant proportion of the book-buying and theatre-going public. They typically read broadsheet newspapers rather than tabloids. The only Mosaic 2010 geodemographic type where the proportion of residents in NRS social grade B was rated as "high" in the 2010 index was "People living in brand new residential developments".[57] The middle classes particularly of England and Wales are often popularly referred to as "Middle England".[61]
The comedy character Margo Leadbetter is a satirical stereotype for this group, as is Jilly Cooper's Howard Weybridge.[49]
Upper middle class[edit]

Harrow School. The public school is traditionally one of the key institutions of the upper-middle-class in Britain.[62]
The upper middle-class in Britain broadly consists of people who were born into families which have traditionally possessed high incomes, although this group is defined more by family background than by job or income. This stratum, in England, traditionally uses the Received Pronunciation dialect natively.
The upper middle-class are traditionally educated at independent schools, preferably one of the "major" or "minor" "public schools"[63][64] which themselves often have pedigrees going back for hundreds of years and charge fees of as much as £33,000 per year per pupil (as of 2014).[62][65]
A minority of upper-middle-class families may also have ancestry that directly connects them to the upper classes. Armorial bearings in the form of an escutcheon may denote such past status. A lesser status historically directly relevant to the upper-middle class is that of squire or lord of the manor, however, these property rights are no longer [66] prevalent.
Although such categorisations are not precise, popular contemporary examples of upper-middle-class people may include Boris

So......I'm certainly not upper middle class or even middle class.

I'm just a poverty stricken prole. :'(



Title: Re: New Broom, Different Tune!
Post by: Doctor Gollum on 26 November 2020, 13:23:41
Pleb :P
Title: Re: New Broom, Different Tune!
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 26 November 2020, 13:27:41
Pleb :P

Did you once post that you were sent to a 'posh'  fee-paying school, Al?.........or am I confusing you with another toff. ;)

I went to a humble grammar school where I was regularly caned and slippered. :y happy days.
Title: Re: New Broom, Different Tune!
Post by: Rangie on 26 November 2020, 13:44:45
Grammar school here as well , although I spent more time bunking off than attending, got called in to the headmasters office towards the end of my school days and he announced
"Master T you have amounted to nothing education wise & you will have nothing to show for your life !" Proved the silly old bugger wrong..😂
Title: Re: New Broom, Different Tune!
Post by: Field Marshal Dr. Opti on 26 November 2020, 13:53:09
Grammar school here as well , although I spent more time bunking off than attending, got called in to the headmasters office towards the end of my school days and he announced
"Master T you have amounted to nothing education wise & you will have nothing to show for your life !" Proved the silly old bugger wrong..😂

My old headmaster said I would undoubtedly gravitate toward nefarious activities. I remember I had to look the word up. ;D

He wasn't a million miles wide of the mark. :y
Title: Re: New Broom, Different Tune!
Post by: Rangie on 26 November 2020, 14:11:47
Grammar school here as well , although I spent more time bunking off than attending, got called in to the headmasters office towards the end of my school days and he announced
"Master T you have amounted to nothing education wise & you will have nothing to show for your life !" Proved the silly old bugger wrong..😂

My old headmaster said I would undoubtedly gravitate toward nefarious activities. I remember I had to look the word up. ;D

He wasn't a million miles wide of the mark. :y
.   

Been there done that..😃😃😃
Title: Re: New Broom, Different Tune!
Post by: ronnyd on 26 November 2020, 19:58:16
Failed my 11+ so had to go to the local Secondary Modern school. Didn't do too bad over the years really.  :y
Title: Re: New Broom, Different Tune!
Post by: Shackeng on 27 November 2020, 08:05:26
Headmaster to (fee paying boarding) school assembly on me leaving: “..and finally we come to *****, who, if not famous, is at least notorious.”
Can’t think why he said that. ::)