@Rfg1184445@KonstantinKisin You angling for a handout? Reckon you might be owed some land? Or better yet, a pile of cash you never had to earn? You should try to capitalise on your ancestors suffering. 👍
Myth: "I only wear vegan fabrics. Better for the animals, better for the planet."
Let's check in on Doris's annual contribution.
Once a year, in late spring, Doris is sheared. The procedure takes approximately three minutes. Doris does not enjoy it. Doris does not, by any visible measure, suffer from it. Doris is, immediately afterwards, a noticeably more comfortable animal in the British summer.
The fleece weighs approximately 3 kilograms. It is sold to the British Wool Marketing Board for, depending on the year, between £0.40 and £2.50 per kilogram. The shearing costs more than the wool fetches. Brian is shearing Doris at a loss.
The wool is then:
- Naturally flame-retardant
- Naturally antibacterial
- Moisture-wicking
- Biodegradable
- Renewable, annually
- Carbon-storing while in use
The replacement, in performance fabrics:
- Polyester
- Polyamide
- Acrylic
- Polypropylene
- All petroleum-derived
- All shedding microplastics on every wash
- All requiring fossil fuel inputs to produce
- All non-biodegradable, with a typical landfill lifespan of 200-500 years
A single wash of a polyester fleece can release up to 700,000 microplastic fibres into the water system. These fibres are now in: every tested water source on earth, every tested human placenta, every tested rainfall sample, the deep ocean, the Arctic ice, and the lungs of marine mammals.
A single wash of a wool jumper releases: nothing. The wool, when eventually disposed of, returns to soil within a few years.
The fabric being marketed as the "ethical" alternative to wool is plastic.
The plastic is "ethical" because nobody has been asked to slaughter the polymer.
The polymer also has not been asked.
Doris, by being a sheep on a fell, is producing the most thoroughly sustainable performance fabric humans have ever made.
Brian is selling it at a loss.
The fashion industry, meanwhile, is selling petroleum at a profit and calling it ethical.
Reject plastic. Wear wool.
Doris is, this morning, growing next year's batch.
I’ve been called racist and islamophobic hundreds of times today for outlining Restore Britain’s policy on banning halal slaughter, the burqa, sharia law, cousin marriage and plenty more.
I want to be really clear about our party’s official response.
We do not give a shit.
He doesn't actually have all that much money.
Compared to you or I, yeah, sure, but not compared to what you'd expect. What he has is ownership of some companies that some people think are insanely valuable.
His near-trillionaire status is based entirely on what those people think those companies are worth.
Middle-class, working-class, professional-class people like me — and probably you, too, because only a handful of my followers are billionaires — don't usually understand what a billionaire is.
We tend to think of wealth as a measure of what you can afford to buy... this many dollars, you can have this and this, but not that.
Because that's what we do with money. We earn it because we need it to live, we spend it on the things we need. Break even and you're okay for today. Get a little bit ahead and you're safe. Get a little further ahead and you can have some fun, press the hedonic lever a few times, snort some better quality cocaine off a prettier whore's tits.
And that's what Bernie Sanders wants you to think a billionaire is. A guy who's got a billion dollars stashed away for hookers and blow.
But that's not how it works.
A billionaire's wealth isn't a bank account or even a stock portfolio. It's a valuation. An estimate.
It doesn't even mean that he could sell Tesla and SpaceX and Starlink and whatnot for 800-someodd billion, either.
Because 8?? billion is what all these things are worth based on the assumption that Elon Musk will continue running them. Were he to decide to sell, suddenly that confidence, and those estimates, and that selling price, would go way down, fast.
So all those billions are less of reality and more like a description of what's going on, and how important we think it is.
What's going on is that he's obsessed with space tech, he's leading some efforts to develop it, they're working so far, and people think that's important. And he's so obsessed with them that his house isn't the Chateau des Reves, it's just a box for him to sleep in, because that's all he does there.
Some people like Bernie Sanders, see this high valuation as an opportunity to steal.
I see it as a planetwide consensus that something important is going on here, and we shouldn't jostle the table or make loud noises.
Darling @JohnCleese
I love you with all my heart. Thank you for being 50 years ahead of your time …
Now this - this really IS me
(Want to come join in my live shows?)
Katie Hopkins
@NobodymrRobert I love watching birds do this! There is not a flight controller in existence that can do what birds do every day.
Except seagulls… they’re just retarded. 🥴
@pookiepolls These boys are walking through the neighbourhood looking for something manly to do. The best they can think of is to walk slow and let the world admire their shoes!
Go kill a goat motherfuckers!