Sycamore Gap tree felled | Man in his 60s also arrested

[Saddleworth2]

Will do thanks.
Probably best you do leave it there if you're incapable of debating and defending your position and view point.

Mate, I’m not debating with an idiot. Waste of both our time.

 

[dadnlad]

Steady on now, I know Liverpool and Spurs have won a couple of games but they’re both a long way from winning titles.

have liverpool claimed it yet

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

There is a toxic culture war going on and it's not out of the question that this act was undertaken as some sort of protest or gesture against what some people refer to as 'woke tree-huggers'. Attitudes stoked up and encouraged by large sections of the media and various click-bait merchants.

That’s a mental take but the way the world is you’re possibly right.

 

[kaz7]

Yeah, I know it's a terrible thing that has happened. But the reaction is surprising.

In the UK, we will lose our shit over a tree being cut down, or a cat being kicked.

But when a baby dies in Rochdale, because their bedroom was covered in black mold. There's no outrage at all.

We've got our priorities all skewed upside down.

Absolutely not true and why try and compare the two ?

 

[The Shallyman]

Absolutely not true and why try and compare the two ?

Tree gets cut down. Headline news, last night. Social media goes crazy. 21 pages on here. People have changed their facebook pics to display a tree. Something that was previous adopted for a massacre in Paris.

Meanwhile, a kid dies in Rochdale because his room is filled with Black Mold. No national news outcry, nothing on social media. Not one mention of it on Blue moon.

What's not true?

 

[west didsblue]

I'm not sure why you feel the need to trivialise and minimise the issue and suggest I'm exaggerating it.

Speak to any individual or organisation that has responsibility and custodianship of the more remote and wild parts of the UK countryside and they'll tell you there has been a huge increase in the number of visitors to such locations in recent years, much more than the "uptick" that you're attempting to dismiss it as, along with a corresponding increase in issues of littering, antisocial behaviour, wildlife disturbance, vandalism and damage.

I'm guessing you're not really familiar with the kind of areas I'm referring to if your experience of the UK Countryside is limited to the typical tourist honeypot spots you’ve mentioned or places you go fishing (which I'd guess won't be particularly remote)

Im not sure what your agenda is for attempting to dismiss and trivialise the issue, maybe you're not familiar with the kind of areas I'm referring to, maybe you're just not very observant, or maybe you're one of those who are scared of their own company and only feel comfortable in places where there are crowds of other people and you don't value or appreciate solitude and piece and quiet.

Aren’t you the bloke who gets by on about a tenner a week in non-essential spends?

Amazing how it stretches to getting you all round the country visiting all these remote areas of the countryside.

 

[BlueHammer85]

Yeah, I know it's a terrible thing that has happened. But the reaction is surprising.

In the UK, we will lose our shit over a tree being cut down, or a cat being kicked.

But when a baby dies in Rochdale, because their bedroom was covered in black mold. There's no outrage at all.

We've got our priorities all skewed upside down.

remember that next time City lose a match then? or a ref gets a decision wrong ? or when your next takeaway turns up late?

we all get 'angry' over everyday things, it's human nature.

comparing tragedies you personally deem not a big deal every time to a baby dying is f*ckin pathetic.

 

[BlueHammer85]

Got to be more to it than meets the eye. To cut a tree that big down with a neat cut would require a skilled lumberjack not a 16 year old kid with a chainsaw.

I asked my mate who's a tree surgeon.

he said it's easy for a 16 year old to do this with a chainsaw.

 

[west didsblue]

I asked my mate who's a tree surgeon.

he said it's easy for a 16 year old to do this with a chainsaw.

Fair enough. I stand corrected.

 

[BlueHammer85]

Fair enough. I stand corrected.

I was surprised too.