When did Beano dinners become a protest?
First tinned tomato soup.
Now mashed potatoes.
Next thing will be a wheelbarrow of sweets.
Just Stop Oil activist tries to glue own head to Girl with a Pearl Earring
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Museums have started putting up PLEASE DON'T FEED THE ART signs
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Fri 28 Oct 2022, 6:19,
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I had to double-check before I weighed in.
Oil paint gets its name from linseed oil, which was in fact entirely vegan.
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jonbob loves you, Fri 28 Oct 2022, 7:18,
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Good news for the cockroaches who will inherit the planet,
who will value oil paintings only as a food source.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Fri 28 Oct 2022, 14:15,
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An unusually misleading headline from the Grauniad.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Fri 28 Oct 2022, 14:13,
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Yeah, I'm as green a beardy weirdo as the next guy
- but I don't get this "food vs art" protest thing at all.
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Invisible Wizard - 12th Level Errorer, Fri 28 Oct 2022, 17:59,
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I am the next guy, a true beardy weirdy
and my understanding is that it's a disruptive act that attracts attention and upsets people, yet nobody seems to be upset that we are literally destroying the planet.
To compare them to the suffragettes (with not a hint of irony on my part), you would have had people asking what racehorses have to do with giving votes to women.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Fri 28 Oct 2022, 20:18,
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I don't know what "just stop oil" means. I can't even imagine what it could mean. It's not a demand or a plan, it just some people with soup.
I think that's one big difference between the soup-chuckers and the horse-botherers. At least the horse-botherers had a clear, achievable aim.
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mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Sat 29 Oct 2022, 2:58,
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Is this a joke? I hope it is.
I don't wish to be rude, but "Just Stop Oil" means "just stop oil." I'm not sure how that message could be further simplified. (No Oil? Oil Bad?)
It is a demand. How many organisations have their plans nested in their 3-word name?
What is unclear or unachievable about stopping the use and further exploitation of oil?
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Sat 29 Oct 2022, 14:03,
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Well there is certainly plenty of reasons why
immediately just stopping the use of oil is unachievable, most of them are based around living in the real world where huge amounts of infrastructure are based on it. Sure, call for stopping the expansion of the use of oil and reducing future use by developing replacement technologies, but an immediate stop? Simply not possible, no matter how many food based products are placed onto expensive items of art.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Sat 29 Oct 2022, 21:42,
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juststopoil.org says:
"Fossil fuels are killing us
Together, we can demand change.
No new oil & gas projects.
Just Stop Oil is a coalition of groups working together to ensure that the government commits to ending all new licenses and consents for the exploration, development and production of fossil fuels in the UK."
(Emphasis mine.)
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Sat 29 Oct 2022, 22:12,
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I get your point
- but the racehorse in question was the King's, and so it was connected to the establishment that was part of the problem.
These art pieces don't seem to be connected to climate change at all (except in that all of Earth is connected to the problem, I suppose).
Are the galleries sponsored by Shell or something?
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Invisible Wizard - 12th Level Errorer, Sat 29 Oct 2022, 8:40,
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I don't quite get yours.
I think you have just had the connection between racehorses and women's suffrage normalised through familiarity. The king of GB is a figurehead of power, constitutionally speaking he would have no say regarding voting rights for anyone. He doesn't even vote in elections.
Listen to/read what the protestors say. Art, like our planet, is beautiful, precious, and valuable. Our planet is not protected by a sheet of glass, there are no security guards to protect it from vandals. How you feel about a work of art being damaged or threatened is one trillionth of how you should feel about people destroying your ecosystem.
It's a lot less tenuous than chaining oneself to a fence or throwing oneself in the path of a rich man's racehorse in order to secure votes for women.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Sat 29 Oct 2022, 14:13,
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Fair enough - this is more explanation than I'm getting from the media
What the protestors are actually saying hasn't been especially prominent in the coverage.
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Invisible Wizard - 12th Level Errorer, Sat 29 Oct 2022, 18:18,
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