Guest essay by Eric Worrall
An Aussie climate activist group is worried that their supporters can’t read the instructions on tubes of superglue, so they are holding training sessions to ensure activists know how to glue themselves to pavements and miscellaneous landmarks.
While I don’t support people glueing themselves to landmarks, well its a start. Who knows, if the activists attend enough training sessions, they might learn enough life skills to be employable.
Below is a video of a glue wielding climate activist professor who didn’t attend the “how to use superglue” training course.
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Epoxy resin.
Much more permanent and I believe more difficult to dissolve than superglue.
If they really mean what they say they will welcome my advice and stay permanently glued to their chosen spot for decades to come, for generations of children to marvel at their rank stupidity.
And they may well be rank for a while, but that will wear off after a year or so, depending on the exposure, and we can all delight in shaking hands with green skeletons.
Not that I wish them any harm whatsoever but if their choice is to glue themselves to something to demonstrate their commitment, they may as well do it properly.
GO GREENS! Epoxy resin is the ultimate protest. I’m sure I can organise a whip round on WUWT to ensure your protests are done properly with gallons of the stuff.
Epoxy resin? … isn’t that the stuff used to make carbon fiber?
WXcycles
I understand what you’re getting at, but no. What you’re thinking of is the end result of the saturation of carbon fibre matting with epoxy resin, which you can buy from Amazon to make and repair things from boats to spectacles.
The carbon fibre matting is just a material (usually woven) like fibreglass matting.
I stand by my wording.
Reminds me of this old post:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/05/29/new-branch-of-science-coined-on-wuwt/
After the protests they will get in their SUVs and drive home, and turn on the lights and use fossil fuels every day.
Continuous ad placement is the real pollution in society.
I heard a story from a friend in Adelaide about the Roxby Downs mine. ~1984.
Environmentalists, or “Greenies” as they were called in those days, decided it would be a good idea to chain themselves to the front gate to block traffic. The police arrived, took the gate off its hinges, marched the 100 meters down the road and off to the side, took their keys and left them there. No cell phones back then, so they were there for a long time.
Police would not be permitted to do that these days, their human rights and feelings would be hurt.
Free super glue for anyone gullible enough to believe CO2 is a pollutant. Hell I’ll pay for it for the amusement factor!
Reading about this is genuinely like an amped-up classic Monty Python skit.
How can people possibly be this stupid?
If they were really serious they’d be using JB Weld-black. It contains alloy particles and is unbelievably strong. I pillar bedded a K31 (Swiss Army straight pull rifle) using it and alloy tubing in the stock. It feels like a forging. Cool if you like everything going through one hole…
The most important thing to remember when planning superglue related activism is to stick to the plan.
Still, training can also be useful. It helps the team bond. I am almost tempted to join, but are not really sure I could hold it all together for long enough.
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I’ll get my coat.
You would become unglued as you failed to adhere to your target audience.
LOL
Do they wear diapers?
Do they deliberately chose cool humid weather?
I’m trying to think how it must work . . .
Option 1/ One arrives at designated target, succeeds in attaching oneself to some structure or other. Eight-plus hours later . . . . dehydration is becoming a bit of a problem.
Option2/ You get your water in early (as marathon runners are heard to say), arrive at target and duly attach oneself to it. Two hours later, overhydration could become a bit of a problem – but not if you’re wearing diapers! (or a “TravelJohn” http://www.traveljohn.com/products/ )
They should superglue their lips to Al Gore’s rear end.
Easy time to pick their pockets. Or de-pants them if they have no money. Or……. Oh god, no. They really have no sexual attraction. Just get creative with a big colored Sharpies. Or asphalt crack sealer and feathers.
They had a rally in Brisbane over the Adani mine and a few glued themselves to the road. They got arrested and removed from the road without charge, it was viewed removing them from the road was painful enough to act as punishment. The more amusing part was all they could get for a crowd was 700 people, perhaps they should have offered few coffee because that will generally get you a few thousand 🙂
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-21/adani-protest-in-brisbane-cbd/11236554
Have not heard from them for a week, I think they have worked out there isn’t a huge amount of support and trying to work out a new stunt to try and grab headlines.
Giver everyone who glued themselves to the road coffee too. Half an hour later they’ll be begging to be unglued 🙂
These fools need to be very careful they are pushing to situation where new laws will be passed. In Western Australia we introduced a law (Prevention of Lawful Activity Bill 2015) which will see you land a $24K fine or 2 years jail for things like gluing yourself to property.
It still sits as passed both houses but not enacted by the police.
http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/bills.nsf/BillProgressPopup?openForm&ParentUNID=1E00CF48C52EF57848257DF6000AA4DF
Police instead have opted to use “move on notices” to protestors causing problems, in which case the person must unglue themselves and move on or else face arrest.
New South Wales is considering similar laws.
If I remember correctly two years ago a bunch of socialist/greenie activists super-glued themselves to the visitors gallery railing in the House of Representatives Chamber in Canberra’s Parliament, to disrupt Question Time, so I’m not surprised it’s finally being made illegal by governments.
I note that the climate activist’s clothes are a product of the petrochemical industry.
Any of these delusional people who believe that we are living in a global extinction event need gallons of super glue per person. Let them glue themselves firmly to whatever large heavy objects they can find.
Glue themselves to the top of a coral reef at low-tide and let the wildlife liberate their carbon.
Proper Aussies would be using Clag.
Keeping growing minds active and little fingers busy!
https://web.archive.org/web/20040214100353/http://www.clag.com.au/index.html
Love the video of the idiot in blue.
Outsmarted by a door.
A pity the doors didn’t stay closed for long enough for him to glue his hands to the doors. Then when they started opening again – wow, spatchcocked activist!
If they really wanted to help they could glue their lips closed and nostrils together, plus glue the other end first to keep their farts in.
Not exactly environmentally friendly, is it? With the effort it takes to get them unstuck, treat them at a hospital, etc., they’re doing more damage than they can make up for in a lifetime.
Why glue? Stick their feet in a large bucket of fast curing concrete. Preferably under water…..
Just loose a colony of Fire Ants in their midst. They will then be able to prove their steadfastness for their cause.
“Forgive them Mother for they know not what they do!”
All this supegluing is a bit silly — one can go to any good Hobby Shop offering glues to build model airplanes etc, and buy a simple superglue debonder for a buck or two that “undoes” the superglue (without it, I never would have been able to complete any models, tending to rush and get things in the wrong places).
Un-superglue is a lot easier for the police to use than bolt cutters for the old-fashioned protesters that chain themselves to things.
A quicker and more effective way would be to spray them with Poss-Off
There’s also a product called “Goo-Gone”.
I don’t know if it works on super glue but it should take care of the green goo.
Upon a successful adhesive protest, with Extinction Rebellion folks all stuck to something substantial, I can’t avoid but picture the market scene from ‘Soylent Green’… when the “scoops” move in to clear the street. Looking forward to the news on August 6th!
My experience with super glue debonder is not so positive. It works, albeit very slowly. Also, I have built many planes using super glue. I’ve had instances where thin super glue dripped onto a clean, slightly sweaty finger and cured so quickly that I was afraid I might end up with a blister. Invariably, two fingers glued together this way are VERY hard to get apart even with debonder. If you’re interested is seeing the heat of curing, squirt some onto a pile of fine balsa sawdust and you’ll almost always end up with smoke.
Let the glue dry, then slowly saw through it with a razor blade to separate the fingers. Some fine grit sandpaper will remove most of the residue. The rest will shed off with the skin in about a day.
I’ve never had any luck supergluing anything. It all falls apart again.
I can only hope our police are being offered lessons on how to leave them where they are, so they have to free themselves
I suggest gluing themselves to a rock at the edge of the sea.
At low tide.