This farmer decided to fight B.S. with B.S., literally.
Josh writes: Emma Thompson is in the news again with her mobile bake off protest against fracking in Lancashire.
The actress joined Greenpeace fracking protesters by occupying private land slated for gas exploration that had been posted as “no trespassing” by court injunction, even mugging for cameras as they climbed over the fence.
Images from SWNS.com via UK Daily Mail
Josh decided Emma was worth parodying:
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Well, green and red do make brown.
Good one! Can’t argue with that.
I presume the Thompson sisters walked to the farm, or rode bicycles with no steel or aluminum in them. And that the clothes they are wearing are made out of cotton or wool fabrics only prepared entirely from water wheel driven power. And Sophie is not really cooking on a metal stove using propane, is she? Without petroleum fuels, these hypocrites would be standing naked in a field cooking over a wood fire. There is a certain special kind of ignorance that goes along with this sort of stance.
Spinning and weaving can be done by hand, no power required. The skills are as old as human civilization but I seriously doubt these modern greenies have ever seen a wheel or loom except as a prop in a movie, much less would know how to use them. And evennif they did, it would take too much time from their law breaking adventures to encourage people to reject modern conveniences and embrace that which they know nothing of…because it’s “morally” correct. I’d love nothing better than to take all these idiots and make them pick/shear, bow/comb, spin and weave a shirt out of cotton/wool respectively. After an hour with very little progress made and muscles hurting I’m convinced they will praise electricity. And celebrate all the people in the textile industry that electricity has made possible. LOL.
Or just sit them down next to a retting stack of flax…let them smell it and they’ll change their tune pretty quickly.
We take clothes and fabric that surrounds us for granted but if you knew what is involved in doing it by hand you’d understand and be grateful for the energy to have machines do it for you.
Just an opinion from a spinner and weaver. 🙂
I think the common farmer may have more sense than most of the USA population. If only we could randomly pick one to be president. (could not be worse than the A##s we normally get)
~ Mark
But not a puppet farmer like Jimmy Carter
I can think of a few farmers who would qualify. Most of them have farms of less than 400 acres and understand the problems of government overreach, noxious neighbors, and overly restrictive rules and regulations at the local, state and federal level. They also understand you can’t spend money you don’t have and know how to prioritize what spending there is to gain maximum effect.
Sounds like a good background for a future president to me.
Abraham Lincoln was a real dirt farmer. He had a choice: farm the rocky acres (yes, they were well named) or sell them and learn law.
American politics was never the same. But they don’t have anybody with that quality anymore.
For some reason, this reminds me of a nasty case.
A Canadian farmer, Wiebo Lidwig, was rather unpopular with his neighbors because of his anti-sour-gas stance.
His kids were tent camping on his farm.
A bunch of teenagers trespassed on his farm and menaced his kids by driving a pickup truck at them.
One of the trespassing teenagers was shot to death.
The police never found the weapon and could not identify the shooter. No charges were laid. link
I have no clue how the case would have gone if the shooter had been identified. It probably would depend on the quality of Ludwig’s lawyer. It isn’t a stretch to call a pickup truck a deadly weapon. (but I am not a lawyer)
In any event, in every jurisdiction I am aware of, a property owner has the right to use reasonable force to evict tresspassers. Spraying someone with liquid manure sounds like reasonable force to me. 🙂
Come now, then we’d have tyranny of the As
@ur momisugly Ben of Houston, don’t we have that now?
Quotes from the Daily Mail piece:
‘Greenpeace’s Hannah Martin said: ‘We don’t need fracked gas to keep Britain baking.
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‘We need renewable energy, like wind and solar. We are fighting for this land to remain frack free.”
Solar energy? In Britain? Is Ms. Martin aware how far north Britain is located on the European map? Did she bother checking with Britain’s meterological service to determine how much sunshine Britain gets in a typical year? In wattage? We aren’t talking about the Mediterranean region here, are we?
“But Ken Cronin, chief executive of UK Onshore Oil and Gas, said it was ‘ironic that Sophie Thompson, who uses gas stoves in videos to promote her own cook books,…….”
I noticed that it appeared to be a cloudy day in those videos on the Dail Mail’s website. What is that word that starts with the letter ‘h’ that I’m thinking of here?
Someone should tell them about this study which claims that wind energy causes significant Climate Change, adding up to 0.72C per decade, which is more than all the warming that alarmists claim CO2 caused in the last century.
https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/04/30/wind-farms-cause-7c-warming-per-century/
A bit of fertilizer for the watermelons.
Leftists have no respect for laws, or other people’s property.
Here is the video.
Translation for readers across the pond:
Oop north = Up north. Up north is where poor people with strange acents actually work for a living. You know, getting their hands dirty and making things. While the luvvies from London just call each other daahhrrling and swig champagne all day.
Absolutely Fabulous….
…and we wear clogs and shawls and keep whippets in’t loft!
But the whippet is normally in the brick sht house. The loft is for the pidgeons – tumblers are for racing, not drinking.
Don’t forget we oop t’northerners keep the tin bath hung on the wall outside the kitchen. No whippets in our sheethouse. That’s where the chickens roost and the whippets would stop ’em laying.
The tragedy of the Sheetstorm of Woodplumpton is that I live a few miles away in Over Wyre, an even more rural area just north of the Fylde, and didn’t know it was going down. I’d have jumped into my Land Rover (an absolute necessity since the roads around here are prone to regular flooding) and whizzed over to view the spectacle.
An appreciative pat on the back to the farmer who gave ET a smellier pat on the back.
When I get fresh vegetables from my local farmers market, my posh neighbour mutters word ‘yokels’
https://youtu.be/R9fHb9JN9vQ
(hope that this ‘name game’ doesn’t get me into trouble)
The Two Ronnies. Two giants of comedy now sadly no longer with us. That clip must be forty years old and it’s still funny.
The Daily Mail article refers to it as “raw sewage”. I don’t think that’s quite accurate, as it is liquefied manure – a useful fertilizer. (And certainly considerably more useful than these “celebrities”, just sayin’.)
Shouldn’t be called sewage unless it comes from a sewer.
Raw sewage is likely has far less solid content than liquefied manure. The latter has enough to pump and spray reliably, but not much more than that.
We call it slurry and it stinks to high heaven. You can smell they’ve been muck spreading from miles away.
Poor Emma. In this case she doesn’t seem to exhibiting much Sense nor Sensibility
Thanks Mod – needless to say
it’s just the rememberance that people that first come with accusations Nazi, communist and so on themselves have the wildest dreams of ‘reasonable, unpolitical, non partisan. ..’ Action.
The odd thing about Emma and her ilk is that they seem to want to provoke an all-out war, but they’re clueless about what will happen to them if that war actually happens. They will all be oshiterated, oops I meant to say obliterated!
Yep, they will be the first to be taken around the back of a remote farm building, lined up against a wall and sprayed with muck.
I wish Yoko had been there too.
Poor Yoko. Can’t even get an invite to a manure spraying! They’re too afraid she’ll sing back at them!
At least they could have illegally climbed over the gate at the hinge side. Don’t they read the countryside code?
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If BP boycotted her mansions and studios, would she sue to force them to drill and refine oil and gas for her?
I’d love to find out.
She’s another “has been” in need of a cause to keep her in the limelight. She needs Greenpeace more than they need her. And no one needs Greenpeace.
Old Joke about Emma Thompson and Kevin Branaugh (when they were still married):
Emma: Honey, where are you?
Kevin: In the kitchen.
Emma: Can I be in it too?
One farmer with an appropriate response to what comes from the Gang Green.
Hope to see more such appropriate treatment of crop damaging fools more often.
Hope the farmer sends dear Dizzy Em an invoice for compacting of his top soil by trespassers..
With that little spray announcement, every time they plan to protest a fracking event, if farmers are involved they should sell tickets for people who want to watch.
Other than that, every farmer is forewarned on how to deal with unwelcome trespassers now.
Bet the eco-loons sue for damages; I hope they’re denied. I’m sure the farmer can arrange a free plain water spray and some bars of soap, off property.
We Texans salute you Mr. Farmer, you have successfully spread you fertilizer where it would do the most good…..
The farmer should make that a regular event until they leave. Better still, get the neighbors in to help. It could be the best naturally fertilized patch of land in the country!
I also hope the judge that issued the no trespassing order is angry enough to do something about it. What message does it send that protesters can ignore the courts and ride roughshod over people’s rights? Do the town’s people have to get together and deal with them themselves? There must be many who think it because it’s looking more and more that no one in authority cares.
I think the English farmer could take some lessons from French farmers about spraying liquified manure.
Bank manager Alan Bell told Newcastle magistrates: “There was a large deposit of manure sprayed up the walls to considerable height and lying in a heap outside the door. The effluent was too deep to walk into the bank unless you had waders on.”
Farmers are the backbone of modern civilization. Energy is an essential nutrient for positive progress. Environmental lobbyists, activists, and celebrities, not so much.
“Emmanure Thompson”, I like it. The woman’s nuttier than a fruit cake (or squirrel shit).
Somebody really needs to do something to stop imbecilic actors and actresses from attempting to use their pretended authority to promote the causes of international socialism.
“{Emma Thompson] took a swipe at old Blighty for being a ‘cake-filled misery-laden grey old island’: ‘A tiny little cloud-bolted, rainy corner of sort-of Europe, a cake-filled misery-laden grey old island.’
As for the right approach to remaining in the EU? ‘We should be taking down borders, not putting them up,’ she explained, before adding that she would ‘of course’ vote to remain in the EU in the upcoming referendum.
Yet despite her assurances, Thompson hasn’t always been such a fan of the vote. In fact back in 2014, the actress said she was encouraged by Russell Brand — the comedian-turned-revolutionary — saying ‘don’t vote’:
‘We’re going to have to have a revolution… I am encouraged by people like Russell Brand saying ‘Don’t vote’. I’ve got to the point where I listen to reports about what’s happening on the FTSE or the Dow Jones and I think I’m in an Orwell.’
Happily no such revolution has put an end to British democracy since Thompson’s comments — so she will still be able to exercise her right to vote in the referendum.” (see link below for more)
What is this issue that she has with cakes?
There she is in the photo eating a cake, and now I discover that she is in general critical of the national consumption of cakes.
Just as she flies all over the world in jet-planes (to collect awards and spend her vast personal wealth) but desires to deny the often poor working British people access to the cheap fossil fuels that lie beneath their feet.
A master of hypocrisy. She couldn’t be more full of shit, if you attached that muck spreader directly to her face.
Since she is so keen on shoving her shit down our throats, then I feel that the image was not wholly gratuitous or unjustified.
The acting world seems to create some of the most ignorant yet simultaneously arrogant human beings on the planet.
They are extremely troubling and dangerous people.
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/02/emma-thompson-backs-the-in-campaign-britain-is-a-cake-filled-misery-laden-grey-old-island/