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george formby
11th August 2012, 12:53
Oh gawd I here you say, here's the mans perspective on environmentalists endangering the planet.

The Ring view (http://nz.news.yahoo.com/opinion/post/-/blog/14516902/do-environmentalists-endanger-the-planet/)

Murray
11th August 2012, 13:09
Should read "stick the boot in Kens ring"

george formby
11th August 2012, 13:15
Should read "stick the boot in Kens ring"

I did try to think of something along those lines but my wit has left the building for now. I think it might be the friday joke thread that did it.

mashman
11th August 2012, 13:21
So how does mother nature produce exhaust gases? How does she pollute her waterways with nuclear waste and industry byproduct? The funny thing is that we'll never know who's telling the truth until there's no reason to not. We are having an effect, to deny that would be hugely ignorant... to what extent is another matter... but who cares when there's money to be made.

george formby
11th August 2012, 13:23
. but who cares when there's money to be made.


There in lies the rub, one bit I cannot argue with.

Jantar
11th August 2012, 13:44
So how does mother nature produce exhaust gases?
Tongariro is currently emitting CO2, SO2 and F. CO2 is not a pollutant, but SO2 is and Florine is highly toxic.


How does she pollute her waterways with nuclear waste and industry byproduct?
Yes, this paper is peer reviewed http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v4/n9/abs/ngeo1205.html So the earths core is really just a giant fission reactor, and yes, its waste and byproducts DO reach the surface and our waterways.

I agree with you that man is also having an effect, and one that vastly exceeds any natural effects in some areas, but to pretend that all of nature is simply clean and pure is to live life with permanent blinkers on.

Road kill
11th August 2012, 14:29
I have a lot of time for Mr Ring,reguardless of the fact he's been subject to a witch hunt that a lot of people seem to have bought into.
And I don't need some expert telling me the planet is in danger,,or not.
From where I'm sitting I look out across the Manukau harbor all the way to the shy tower some 15kms away.
And what I'm looking at "apart from the water" was only 200 years ago almost completely covered by mix of Kihikatea and kauri forest.
Today it's covered in housing,industry,and some highly modified farm land that in another 50-100 years will also be gone.
On any given day I can watch the semi cleaned up steam and smoke billowing out of the steel mill stacks.
The same shit that has cost local farmers and fruit growers a great deal of their income year after year due to crop damage.
I see of smoke coming from factories around Onehunga/Otahuhu,,chirst knows what that is.
The harbor flats directly off Otahuhu that used to provide an important food source for pre European Maori and later early European settlers have been polluted out of existance for at lest the last 70 years.
Not far from there are the Mangere shit ponds that have been pumping Aucklands crap into the harbor "often untreated" for more years than I know.
On a still day I can sit on my front porch and watch as the yellow haze that hangs over the southern motorway starts to build up from about 6:30-7:00am.
I used to drive into town from where I live and if I saw another vehicle on the road I knew who was driving or riding it.
Today I get tail gated by one car after another the whole way in,and I seldom know who it is this time.
When I moved out here we had a population of around 1500 people,today there's around 7000 an 90% of them are people that moved from Auckland to get away from the rat race but bought their AK attitudes with them.
In only 200 years we've gone from a pristine paradice to a congested and pollutted city that "so they say" nobody wants to live in but more and more people still continue to move into anyway.
See I have this issue with immigration in NZ,not so much the people or where they come from,but just the numbers.
This country is attractive to so many because of life styles,the great outdoors,real freedoms compered to so many other countries.
But the more of them that come,the less all of those things will also become.
I spent a great deal of my child hood growing up on the north shore,Glenfield didn't exist and Albany was out in the sticks somewhere.
My brothers and I used to follow the earth movers picking up the Kauri gum they uncovered as they developed the land for what today is Glenfield.
the north side of Northcote was a new subdivision and Birkdale didn't exist.
I used to fish in the mouth of Heliers creek for huge snapper an the odd kingie,the water was a clean deep green colour,today it's a foggy milky sort of green and I doubt anybody pulled a good snap out of there in the last 30 years.
From the Beach Haven wharf all the way to River head there might of been 2-3 boats on moarings,today it looks like a marina.
The way I look at it people are as much a form of pollution as any industrial waste will ever be.
But nobody really needs to be told this,all you have to do is open your eye's and take a look.
And there's no innocents,we're all in this togeather.

schrodingers cat
11th August 2012, 17:31
And there's no innocents,we're all in this togeather.

Aye. Can't have this standard of living and no pollution.

You want to be 'green'? Stop consuming

mashman
11th August 2012, 17:45
Tongariro is currently emitting CO2, SO2 and F. CO2 is not a pollutant, but SO2 is and Florine is highly toxic.

Yes, this paper is peer reviewed http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v4/n9/abs/ngeo1205.html So the earths core is really just a giant fission reactor, and yes, its waste and byproducts DO reach the surface and our waterways.

I agree with you that man is also having an effect, and one that vastly exceeds any natural effects in some areas, but to pretend that all of nature is simply clean and pure is to live life with permanent blinkers on.

All very true and I don't that nature has her own tricks up her sleeve... I was hoping to convey extra natural processes outwith what we call background noise. Nature doesn't dump it all in drums in the ocean being an analogy for what I was failing to convey... where nature would/has probably distributed the noise more evenly and has been able to manage that "waste" it will be used to it.

AllanB
11th August 2012, 18:17
Very interesting reading.

Regardless of your personal opinions on Mr R, I have not forgotten the absolute disaster of a 'interview' that cock John Cambull (SP? bull as in bullshit suits) did over the quakes. Interview my arse!

Swoop
11th August 2012, 20:01
Environmentalists' should be treated carefully.
Gently massaged in garlic with soy, then heated in a warm oven for over an hour. They can be VERY bitter if not cooked carefully. Enjoy with a nice chianti.

flyingcrocodile46
11th August 2012, 20:17
Oh gawd I here you say, here's the mans perspective on environmentalists endangering the planet.

The Ring view (http://nz.news.yahoo.com/opinion/post/-/blog/14516902/do-environmentalists-endanger-the-planet/)

An interesting enough read but hardly cause for Ken Ring to gain kudos, if that was was he was out to achieve.

I see he works for Oz channel 7 news. I wonder how come he hasn't got a similar role with an NZ channel?

avgas
11th August 2012, 21:58
I read motorbike magazines every day. But I do no profess to be a MotoGP mechanic.

Mr Ring is lapping up all the attention he is getting, perhaps that was his goal all along. If so, hats off to you Mr Ring. Bravo.

They say this guy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Ron_Hubbard) was a nut job. May be he was right too?!!!??

Smoker
12th August 2012, 01:27
I have a lot of time for Mr Ring,reguardless of the fact he's been subject to a witch hunt that a lot of people seem to have bought into.
And I don't need some expert telling me the planet is in danger,,or not.
From where I'm sitting I look out across the Manukau harbor all the way to the shy tower some 15kms away.
...

Nicely written RoadKill, some good points. But pollution doesn't affect weather is what I thing Ring is saying. Thing is, Auckland's weather and climate would have been the same 200 years ago as now. Cities mean transport and that means engines, but there no worse than horse shit in the streets in the 1800s. I think Ring is right, climate change is a rort and a money trail. Good on him for saying the truth.

Road kill
12th August 2012, 10:05
An interesting enough read but hardly cause for Ken Ring to gain kudos, if that was was he was out to achieve.

I see he works for Oz channel 7 news. I wonder how come he hasn't got a similar role with an NZ channel?

Because NZ TV is very much an old boys club,and Ken is not in the club.
Keep in mind a lot of Radio and TV types that have not towed the company line in NZ are now doing quite well outside NZ.

flyingcrocodile46
12th August 2012, 10:59
Because NZ TV is very much an old boys club,and Ken is not in the club.
Keep in mind a lot of Radio and TV types that have not towed the company line in NZ are now doing quite well outside NZ.

Yeah! Like that slapper Dawson and fuckwit Henry eh. Australia can keep them. At least Ring isn't as embarrasing as those two arse wipes.

Akzle
12th August 2012, 17:50
prosperity is of spirit and not investment, that power rests with people instead of over people, and that truth has nothing to do with money or taxes, we will continue to be enslaved by profit
. .

mashman
12th August 2012, 18:10
prosperity is of spirit and not investment, that power rests with people instead of over people, and that truth has nothing to do with money or taxes, we will continue to be enslaved by profit

bullshit... it sorts the wheat from the chaff and leaves the chaff to suffer by their own choice, as nature intended it. Fuckin hippy!

Akzle
12th August 2012, 18:14
bullshit... it sorts the wheat from the chaff and leaves the chaff to suffer by their own choice, as nature intended it. Fuckin hippy!

i had a problem with chaff. a bit of mum's talcum powder sorted it out.

i wasn't including the myself under the "slave to profit". just teh sheepie.

mashman
12th August 2012, 18:18
i had a problem with chaff. a bit of mum's talcum powder sorted it out.

i wasn't including the myself under the "slave to profit". just teh sheepie.

Thanks for sharing, however some things are best left unsaid.

Lucky you... do you just go straight to the dick measuring contest then?

Akzle
12th August 2012, 18:37
Thanks for sharing, however some things are best left unsaid.

Lucky you... do you just go straight to the dick measuring contest then?

12 inches. i thought i was in the polling booth. turns out it was a pulling booth.

mashman
12th August 2012, 19:26
12 inches. i thought i was in the polling booth. turns out it was a pulling booth.

heh heh... pics or it nev........ hang on, scratch that.

Road kill
12th August 2012, 19:28
Yeah! Like that slapper Dawson and fuckwit Henry eh. Australia can keep them. At least Ring isn't as embarrasing as those two arse wipes.

Yeah right'o sweetie,go back to hanging off every word of John the hair implant Campbell.

Really couldn't give a shit one way or the other myself,was just making an observation that got a better responce than I could of hoped for.
Cheers.

Zing.

avgas
12th August 2012, 19:35
12 inches. i thought i was in the polling booth. turns out it was a pulling booth.
So was it Key or Shearer?
Knew there was a reason why I didn't visit those anymore.

avgas
12th August 2012, 19:49
prosperity is of spirit and not investment, that power rests with people instead of over people, and that truth has nothing to do with money or taxes, we will continue to be enslaved by profit
Wow so many holes in that one. Please don't tell me its from a valid source.

Prosperity doesn't equal investment anyway. Its showing what you've got. Regardless of if is spiritual, gold or penis size.
Power always rests with the individual - it is given, not taken. Always.
Truth never had anything do with $.....ever.
Profits are a want not a need, to be enslaved by a want means that you would sacrifice all to achieve it. Which basically means that whole scenario would not last long anyway as you would forget to breathe. What I think they mean is "enslaved by money" meaning they must purchase their required needs. Not that they must have "profit" which means all your needs are met and this is excess that is required (which means your addicted to being awesome).

Its all in books. Go look it up. Or ask nicely and I will go find some good titles for you (once again my collection ain't no library - so there are probably better ones out there).

Akzle
12th August 2012, 20:05
Wow so many holes in that one. Please don't tell me its from a valid source.


dude. last sentence of the link in the OP.

i thought it was quite profound. of course i've just smoked a joint the width of my thumb and also find the irony between the WIND outside my WINDow, quite profound.
:doobey:

flyingcrocodile46
12th August 2012, 20:10
Yeah right'o sweetie,go back to hanging off every word of John the hair implant Campbell.

Really couldn't give a shit one way or the other myself,was just making an observation that got a better responce than I could of hoped for.
Cheers.

Zing.


Fail on all counts.
1. Ain't sweet.
2. Hate Campbell.
3. As for your claim that you only made an observation designed to illicit a response. Well! That's such a crock of shit that it's laughable given that your "observation"(snigger) was actually a 'response' to my earlier probe. Feel fee to keep the "Zing" though if it makes you feel cool. :bleh:

mashman
12th August 2012, 20:30
Wow so many holes in that one. Please don't tell me its from a valid source.

Prosperity doesn't equal investment anyway. Its showing what you've got. Regardless of if is spiritual, gold or penis size.
Power always rests with the individual - it is given, not taken. Always.
Truth never had anything do with $.....ever.
Profits are a want not a need, to be enslaved by a want means that you would sacrifice all to achieve it. Which basically means that whole scenario would not last long anyway as you would forget to breathe. What I think they mean is "enslaved by money" meaning they must purchase their required needs. Not that they must have "profit" which means all your needs are met and this is excess that is required (which means your addicted to being awesome).

Its all in books. Go look it up. Or ask nicely and I will go find some good titles for you (once again my collection ain't no library - so there are probably better ones out there).

or

Someone somewhere had to put in some form of investment in order to prosper, be it putting in time to become spiritual, be it putting in time and effort to "mine" for gold, bet it putting in a penis to create a child with a member large enough to have a man passing out everytime he thinksh shexshy thoughtsh.
Power resides with the group... they allow the individual to believe that they have power. Individuals are powerless unless given power and where they may once have had power, it can easily be taken away... threatening someones family is probably a good example of that.
Truth most definitely has something to do with $. It just depends on what your truth is.
Profits are a need. Ask any business man. Any action is a want for a desired outcome and doesn't necessarily require sacrifice... some engineer war to fill that void and sacrifice others. We are enslaved by other peoples "drive" for profit, which may or may not be an addiction thing.

Books are just some fuckers pretentious over-educated opinion of what they consider to be the perception of mankind at any given point in time. They're generally all wrong as they group and categorise individuals and individual behaviour based on books that some other fucker has written... books are worse than chinese whispers.

Akzle
12th August 2012, 20:31
........ hang on, scratch that.

i did. it got infected. the doc gave me some cream though.

mashman
12th August 2012, 20:32
i did. it got infected. the doc gave me some cream though.

Did he apply it to your face personally?

Akzle
12th August 2012, 20:35
or...
Books are just some fuckers pretentious over-educated opinion of what they consider to be the perception of mankind ...chinese whispers.

dude. step away from the window. go back to sleep. (we'll keep you safe from truth, choice. and other poison devils.

cos you know they don't give a fuck about you, like i do.)

mashman
12th August 2012, 20:47
dude. step away from the window. go back to sleep. (we'll keep you safe from truth, choice. and other poison devils.

cos you know they don't give a fuck about you, like i do.)

:rofl: I tried that... turns out it didn't agree with me... who knew. Would dearly love to go take a dump in their pool as payback for smudging my window. (:love:)

puddytat
12th August 2012, 21:52
So...stay with me, safe & ignorant.....go back to sleep,go back to sleep.........<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/lrEP3RPgEao" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

mashman
12th August 2012, 22:29
dude. step away from the window. go back to sleep. (we'll keep you safe from truth, choice. and other poison devils.

cos you know they don't give a fuck about you, like i do.)


So...stay with me, safe & ignorant.....go back to sleep,go back to sleep.........

WTF has the rhythm of the wardrobe got to do with anything? I ain't gonna sleep now in case there's boogeymen in my wardrobe. Dancers. They scare the shit out of me.

avgas
13th August 2012, 11:00
Books are just some fuckers pretentious over-educated opinion of what they consider to be the perception of mankind at any given point in time. They're generally all wrong as they group and categorise individuals and individual behaviour based on books that some other fucker has written... books are worse than chinese whispers.
Books are just collections of words. How you interpret them depends on your personality.

Except for 50 shades of grey - that's just like watching porn and masturbating with razor blades.

The Lone Rider
13th August 2012, 17:26
I was in Paper Plus yesterday, returning a Harley Davidson book I was given for my birthday for something interesting (got two Garfield comic books instead), and I saw that Ken Ring book of his. :facepalm: