Greta Thunberg named Time's Person of the Year

Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Dec 12^th, 2019 at 5:49am:


This will really trigger a lot of grumpy old men in here today.

Stand by for an avalanche of child bashing from the loonies on the right   

Carl D wrote on Dec 12^th, 2019 at 8:29am:




It's funny coz it's sooooooooooooo true.

Bobby. wrote on Dec 12^th, 2019 at 8:39am:


Adults acting like children in response to children acting like adults?

Obviously times person of the year
Should be the person who has had the most impact globally over the course of the year

The journalists responsible for the production of time magazine
Should obviously have had noble influential important Donald trump as their person of the year

Donald has has more impact then possibly anyone in the last 50 years
He has created a paradigm shift in the future trajectory of the world

Greta has had a little public tantrum and will now disappear into obscurity

in 1000 years' time people will still be talking about the Donald
Look at Gregory
He can't stop talking about him
Trump has infiltrated his brain like a mind meme

But greta.
She'll be lucky if her school friends recognise her at the school 20 year reunion

You were right greggerypeccary

Spot

greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 12^th, 2019 at 10:46am:



Trump is the most adult behaving person currently treading the planet
He is totally at the action whilst the childlike people react to him
He is resilient with a hide as thick as a rhinoceros
He can absorb enormous amounts of social pressure without batting an eyelid

Greta has none of these characteristics
How could she
She is young and naive and has not had the brutal training that has created Donald
Donald is like that pure diamond forged under enormous pressure
like a diamond people just can't stop looking at him
People can't stop talking about him

Greta has not attained diamond like characteristics
She has not been forged in the brutal competitive world off construction
Of running universities
Of building casinos
Of climbing to the top of the reality television industry
Of conquering political parties
Of staring down the EU
Of staring down North Korea
Of staring down NATO
Of staring down the mainstream media
Of staring down Congress

That's so much brutal training
When Greta has survived and survived these sort of challenges and still can stand tall proud and magnificent she may qualify to polish Donald shoes

greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 12^th, 2019 at 8:21am:


The abuse has started.

greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 12^th, 2019 at 11:32am:


Yes pessary, this girl is clearly being 'abused', but you know that only too well; you're obsessed with child abuse aren't you?

greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 12^th, 2019 at 11:32am:


Yeah but fuzzball never posts anything but abuse so not really counted. There is aqua though

Spot

Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Dec 12^th, 2019 at 11:37am:


Blott on the Landscape....

greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 12^th, 2019 at 11:51am:


And pessary, the child abuse specialist.....whoops I meant expert.....

aquascoot wrote on Dec 12^th, 2019 at 10:55am:


Neither has the alleged child rapist.

He was ordered to stop using the name 'Trump University' as it wasn't a university at all.

It was nothing more than a series of real estate seminars designed to defraud people of their money.

It was the subject of several law suits claiming fraud, and was eventually shut down for racketeering.

Just another one of Mr Trump's criminal ventures.

Bobby. wrote on Dec 12^th, 2019 at 2:56pm:


I started the thread.

Moreover, I didn't introduce the alleged child rapist.

Bobby. wrote on Dec 12^th, 2019 at 3:00pm:


I didn't introduce Donald Trump to the thread.

Talk to your mate, aquascoot.

aquascoot wrote on Dec 12^th, 2019 at 3:18pm:


Hillary was Runner up in 2016 and she wasn't even president

https://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-2016-hillary-clinton-runner-up/

Spot

aquascoot wrote on Dec 12^th, 2019 at 3:28pm:


She was on the cover 19 times

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02/04/the-19-times-hillary-clinton-has-been-on-time-magazines-cover/

Spot

Take the new Revolution by force.
The Mockingjay is here!!!

Chris Hemsworth will save her with his mighty Hammer of Thor.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/climate-environment/climat...

It's pretty long but worth the read

Spot

I wonder if she'll get it twice, like Joseph Stalin did or just once like Adolph Hitler?

aquascoot wrote on Dec 12^th, 2019 at 10:36am:



An truly influential person doesn't need to fake a times front page and hang it in their office so they can pretend they were on it

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2100301/time-magazi...

Gordon wrote on Dec 12^th, 2019 at 9:00pm:

Johnnie wrote on Dec 12^th, 2019 at 7:17pm:


Fair enough. I ask ppl to do that with long youtubes.

Its basically about how siberia is melting. Towns are dying and theres too much water around. The ice that is about 2 feet underground is melting to about 3 feet and exposing plants and animals from 10000 years ago so the whole area stinks. There is a new criminal industry developing there where ppl are taking mammoth ivory and selling it to china.

Spot

Bobby. wrote on Dec 13^th, 2019 at 4:47am:


What if the words 'rape', 'incest', or 'criminal' are in the title?

greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 12^th, 2019 at 10:46am:

Bobby. wrote on Dec 13^th, 2019 at 4:47am:



Let's declare all threads a greggy free zone

Fuzzball wrote on Dec 12^th, 2019 at 11:10am:


What sort of low-life POS attacks a child for having Asperger Syndrome?

What do you do for an encore - tip quadriplegic kids out of their wheelchairs?

greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 13^th, 2019 at 10:52am:



What sort of a low life POS manipulates a child with a mental health condition to fulfill that own political ends

What do they do for an encore

Post pictures of dogs defecating on the faces of world leaders

greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 13^th, 2019 at 1:15pm:



The strong noble confident cocky competent businessman is often seen sitting behind a large red cedar desk with a kitten on his lap which he strokes
Have you not seen any James bond movies

aquascoot wrote on Dec 13^th, 2019 at 1:20pm:


While the ignoble failed businessman throws himself to the floor and has a tantrum because he can't handle the fact that a child with more common sense, intelligence, and education than him gets on the cover of magazine instead of him.



Pathetic.

Hitler was Times man of the year in 1938, this doesn't mean her autistic outbursts make her a role model.

Mortdooley wrote on Dec 13^th, 2019 at 2:19pm:


The criterion is “the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or ill, and embodied what was important about the year.”

Nothing to do with role models.

Trump just said that the Mockingjay should just 'chill'. 

Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Dec 14^th, 2019 at 10:06am:


It's not the first time he's put himself on a young girl.

Ajax wrote on Dec 14^th, 2019 at 11:23am:


Better to be a morlock ya reckon? . . . . . cannibalism

Spot

greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 13^th, 2019 at 2:24pm:



I would call that a fail, she wasn't even news worthy until the Media decided to put her in the spotlight!

As you know she was speaking of all the youth of this generation

Spot

cods wrote on Dec 17^th, 2019 at 7:02am:



Well they wont have to work in coal mines

Spot

Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Dec 17^th, 2019 at 6:05am:


Unfortunately, he doesn't know that.

Moreover, he doesn't care.

mothra wrote on Dec 17^th, 2019 at 9:38am:


If time wanted to choose a young person for their cover a better choice would have been
Boyan Slat.
This fine young man at the age of 22 became the founder and CEO of the ocean cleanup
Through several years of brutal training and dedication
He developed a floating machine like a large manta ray which is solar powered
And which cruise is the upper layer of the ocean removing tons of plastic particles
Boyan is not a self promoting drama queen

He is a fine young individual who saw a problem and rather than becoming a whining little b****. He applied all his strength and energy and will power solving that problem and it looks like he just might do it

Strong noble contributory unflappable competent and confident

The antithesis of the brat

aquascoot wrote on Dec 17^th, 2019 at 10:06am:



why havent I heard of this young man???????


oh thats right   hes not a whinger and full of negatives...

seems to me thats all some folk are interested in today...

bravo Boyan

funny I didnt think you were yelling aqua..maybe you should just destroy this thread instead much better than yelling!

cods wrote on Dec 17^th, 2019 at 10:13am:


He hasn't been on ACA or talk-back radio.

cods wrote on Dec 17^th, 2019 at 10:30am:


Yet, you didn't.

I can feel the love   

Climate change is a problem
But it is only one of many many many problems on the horizon

An economist has written a book on the best way to spend 100 billion dollars looking at cost benefit analysis for the planet

Money spent on climate change produces a very very poor return
In fact spending that sort of money on climate change produces a negligible effect on temperature rise

Surprisingly spending as little as 5 billion dollars could eradicate tuberculosis
Also surprisingly adding extra protein and vitamins to the diets of young children especially in Africa and South America produces a benefit of $250 for every dollar spent

Providing contraception to African mothers would cost as little as 2 billion dollars
And the number one way to save the planet is to make people smarter and richer

This seems paradoxical
Why would richer people be better for the planet

Because richer people don't have to chop down every tree and kill every animal I come across and catch every fish they can and kill every rhinoceros for it's horn just so they don't starve

China now has more forest than 20 years ago
Europe now has more forest in 20 years ago
North America now has more forest than 20 years ago
Once people become rich they care about the environment

And what is the number one way to make people rich
Cheap electricity
And what does the religion of climate change say about cheap electricity
What does it say about providing cheap electricity to Africans South Americans Indians etcetera
It says not for you

You need to buy the expensive renewables

By denying cheap electricity 2 half the world courtesy of coal
We are paradoxically keeping people in poverty well they will continue to polluted rivers
Cut down vegetation to burn in their fires to keep warm and kilil every native animal they come across

so we need to recognise that their religion of climate change is probably not good for the planet
And there are other priorities which we can spend that money on and received a much better environmental return

cods wrote on Dec 17^th, 2019 at 10:33am:


Thing is Cods, anyone who questions the circus surrounding the Greta puppet is called a child abuser by the same people who like to level pedo accusations.  Funny that!

Personally I prefer not to listen to the the panicking idiots but to people like the Australian chief scientists etc who lay out a practical path forward.

Gordon wrote on Dec 17^th, 2019 at 4:06pm:


Sounds like Scoot's problem is that it wasn't a fine young man on the cover...

Personally I don't care, but I find it interesting how much it has triggered Trump and his supporters to the point that as they'd just finished wiping the foaming from their mouths over the "child abuse" of Baron yet they instantly transition into targeting Greta all over again, another child, but actually targeted her unlike what happened to Baron whose name was just mentioned to illustrate the behaviour of his father and had nothing to do with him.

Firstly we all knew the concern about Baron was total faux-outrage and that was proven by the 180 and the resumption of personal attacks against Greta.

Peccahead and Sad Kangapoo are just bitter and upset  that Red-haired Ranga Men and Blonde Aryan Men can do better in Politics than the old Raven-haired (Car Salesman  ) and Brunette-haired (Spin Doctor  ) ...which is what they probably are.  Fake Whites - the pair of em. 

Out with the old (they've had their chance) and in with the New.

Ya a pair of crybabies.