Protestors gluing to roads

[Davidtav]

Not really a post about their cause. Although I would say that I disagree with their methods.

I was wondering though, what sort of glue they use?  Because I wouldn’t have thought a road would be an easy surface to glue to. 
So I googled it. And this may or may not be correct. It’s the internet. 

it would seem that it is superglue. But apparently the police can’t simply pull them off. They have to send for specialists. And that takes time. And sometimes the protestors don’t actually glue themselves. They just pretend to!

[Bender]

6 hours ago, Davidtav said:

Not really a post about their cause. Although I would say that I disagree with their methods.

I was wondering though, what sort of glue they use?  Because I wouldn’t have thought a road would be an easy surface to glue to. 
So I googled it. And this may or may not be correct. It’s the internet. 

it would seem that it is superglue. But apparently the police can’t simply pull them off. They have to send for specialists. And that takes time. And sometimes the protestors don’t actually glue themselves. They just pretend to!

Sticky situation for the police then...  

[Fish]

Sorry, but not sorry.... they deserve to just have the parts glued to whatever just ripped off. Stupid should be painful!

[Mississippi Bullfrog]

Super glue would do it as it's effectively a two pack. It sticks skin very well as that's what it was invented to do as a battlefield dressing.

[billy sugger]

I'm getting  p****d off with these nobheads, and these other twats pouring milk on supermarket floors, trying to get us to go plant based cos cows produce too much methane, or the tyre deflating w*****s

[Pie man]

Why is it when I come to use super glue It never sticks together what I want it to, or it starts to burn. As for the morons gluing themselves to the road. I would just leave them there, council set up barriers along with diversion signs and we all ignore them. Why should we pay for specialists to remove them. 

[KiwiBob]

16 minutes ago, billy sugger said:

I'm getting  p****d off with these nobheads, and these other twats pouring milk on supermarket floors, trying to get us to go plant based cos cows produce too much methane, or the tyre deflating w*****s

I don't have a problem with any of the protests! .. But I do want the police and the courts to take proper action and not just let them go!

[Mickly]

If someone was to forcibly remove them & they leave skin attached to the road, what might be the legal consequences?

Asking for a ‘Friend’

[billy sugger]

A while ago some drivers did drag the idiots out of the way but as far as I know none were prosecuted for assault, etc, after all they were illegally blocking a public highway. Me, I'd just ride the bike through or over them, as if they were a speed hump

[Blackholesun]

Over privileged university drop outs , absolute karnts the lot of them.

[S-Westerly]

My son in law is a specialist ungluer. Apparently they use some chemical to do it although he'd prefer to just rip em off. However he's had a couple of knobheads glue themselves in a stupid position which after a few minutes really starts to hurt. He likes to leave those to last.

[Blackholesun]

I really wish one day someone would run one of the feckers over...that lady who brushed one of them got done though....shame someone in the supermarket didn't chin one of the karnts greasy smelly wanakers

[Davidtav]

5 hours ago, Mississippi Bullfrog said:

Super glue would do it as it's effectively a two pack. It sticks skin very well as that's what it was invented to do as a battlefield dressing.

I do understand that. I just can’t seeing it sticking to oily porous roads very well. I just can’t see it. I might well be wrong 

[Mississippi Bullfrog]

4 hours ago, Pie man said:

Why is it when I come to use super glue It never sticks together what I want it to, or it starts to burn. 

Super glue is activated by a super secret formula. H2O. It won't stick anything that is dry. I got banned from a model shop who was pushing super glue activator, which was mostly just water in a spray.

 

A modeller's trick was to blow cigarette smoke onto it. This works due to the high moisture content, but the side effect is the production of cyanide gas which is perhaps not great if your modelling shed is small and airtight.

 

In the early days of electric flight when we had crap motors and heavy NiCad battery packs model aircraft frames had to be super lightweight I used to sand wing skins so thin you could read newsprint through them, then pour about a quarter of a pint of super glue over it and work it by hand whilst it set. The wings would smoke with the heat but you ended up with a very light wing that was as hard as steel. You did have to keep your hand moving though or you stuck to it pretty quick.

 

I imagine most road surfaces will stick to skin pretty well if you add a bit of moisture with the super glue. Kids used to super glue 10p coins to pavements to watch people try to pick them up 

Edited October 16, 2022 by Mississippi Bullfrog

[Fozzie]

These groups are creating increasingly insane splinter groups as they aren't challenged. 

 

There was a squad in both London and Manchester letting down tyres, including those of EV cars, as "they still contribute to congestion, and therefore deaths". Another group has just thrown soup/paint over art exhibits/car showrooms. I'm unsure on if it's true, but some reports link the stop oil group back to an oil heiress, which I'm on the fence with as it's coming from unreliable often alt right sources. But it would make sense, as it's done exactly what you'd want as an oil baron, which is turn people against these protestors and keep people buying oil based products. 

 

No doubt the story with these protestors is they woke up that morning in a gas heated home, ate cereal from a "100% recycled cardboard box" that still has a plastic bag inside, they then got on board a train either powered by diesel, or an electricity grid averaging 50% gas, while arranging with their friends via a smartphone chock full of rare earth metals how to cause disruption, then they commit an act of petty vandalism, go to tesco for a meal deal in yet more plastic wrapping, and declare moral victory... 

 

As a side note, Robert Llewellyn has a youtube channel, and his home is fitted with solar panels, a heat pump, an electric high efficiency electric boiler, and actually openly discusses the challenges, and benefits in a nice way that doesn't f**k anybody off.

[Davidtav]

30 minutes ago, Mississippi Bullfrog said:

Super glue is activated by a super secret formula. H2O. It won't stick anything that is dry. I got banned from a model shop who was pushing super glue activator, which was mostly just water in a spray.

 

A modeller's trick was to blow cigarette smoke onto it. This works due to the high moisture content, but the side effect is the production of cyanide gas which is perhaps not great if your modelling shed is small and airtight.

 

In the early days of electric flight when we had crap motors and heavy NiCad battery packs model aircraft frames had to be super lightweight I used to sand wing skins so thin you could read newsprint through them, then pour about a quarter of a pint of super glue over it and work it by hand whilst it set. The wings would smoke with the heat but you ended up with a very light wing that was as hard as steel. You did have to keep your hand moving though or you stuck to it pretty quick.

 

I imagine most road surfaces will stick to skin pretty well if you add a bit of moisture with the super glue. Kids used to super glue 10p coins to pavements to watch people try to pick them up 

Maybe. It just seemed a bit unlikely to me

[Mississippi Bullfrog]

32 minutes ago, Davidtav said:

Maybe. It just seemed a bit unlikely to me

Try it. 

 

Obviously not anywhere where you'd cause disruption. But you could safely glue yourself to your own driveway as an experiment. If it works then you can call the local freebie newspaper and announce you're holding an anti-protest protest. 

 

 

 

 

[MikeHorton]

The milk protesters are annoying me. A local family dairy is worried they will turn up on their doorstep one day. great enterprise you can get milk and milkshakes out of a vending machine all done on premises, the local arla/muller run dairies have had issues I use the local family one £1 per litre of full fat milk and just reuse the bottles they also supply for £1 it's pasturised not the raw milk another farm locally does that too but as I get diverticular issues I steer clear of that 

[Fiddlesticks]

Nothing says climate justice like making a load of unnecessary work for an overworked minimum wage shop assistant.

[Six30]

Kill the pricks with fire .

[onesea]

Put them in a field with some chickens, cows, seeds vegetables, a tractor a horse, a hand plough, a horse driven plough, some diesel, paraffin lamps a lake full of fish.

Canvas tents with no water proofing, some oil to seal the tents, duck down duvets, some fur blankets 

 

Give them a moral challenge see how long they last...

Edited October 17, 2022 by onesea

[Throttled]

History will be kind to the climate protestors, as it is to the Suffragettes. They chained themselves to things (no superglue back then) and smashed windows (no spray paint back then). But they were right, it was madness women lacked basic rights and the government was dragging its feet over those rights. It is the same now, we need immediate action over climate change and the government is not acting fast enough.

[Six30]

17 minutes ago, Throttled said:

History will be kind to the climate protestors, as it is to the Suffragettes. They chained themselves to things (no superglue back then) and smashed windows (no spray paint back then). But they were right, it was madness women lacked basic rights and the government was dragging its feet over those rights. It is the same now, we need immediate action over climate change and the government is not acting fast enough.

 

always been climate change always will be ....Scotland had a Mediterranean climate thousands of years ago... what caused that , turbo charged horse and carts ? uk  

[Davidtav]

41 minutes ago, Throttled said:

History will be kind to the climate protestors, as it is to the Suffragettes. They chained themselves to things (no superglue back then) and smashed windows (no spray paint back then). But they were right, it was madness women lacked basic rights and the government was dragging its feet over those rights. It is the same now, we need immediate action over climate change and the government is not acting fast enough.

I disagree. The suffragettes acted to achieve a change in political thinking. However there is no disagreement between the main political parties about needing to act to tackle climate change. The scale of the task is enormous. And the targets set are incredibly ambitious already. The environmentalists seem to want even quicker action. They may be correct. However I certainly don’t think gluing people to roads. Or climbing bridges is in any way going to advance their cause. The route they should be pursuing, in my opinion, is reasonable debate and the ballot box. .… no way will history look on them kindly. 

[Bender]

The world has been almost entirely covered in ice and completely devoid of it. 

 

Late cretaceous co2 was at 1000ppm it's currently less than half that. 

 

No one complained when the dinosaurs ruined the planet last time with the big Mexican bbq they had