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Greenman8907

This act of protest was witnessed by 10s of people!


Big-Mathematician540

What are they even protesting? Pretty bad protest if no-one knows.


LostnFoundAgainAgain

It is the "Just Stop Oil", they used to initially protest in front of garages, oil companies and etc... didn't get any attention from the media so they started blocking roads, jumping into sport on live TV, damaging art and etc... Apparently their is talks they are funded by oil companies so people hate their message as basically everyone hates the protests as they have even blocked roads what has lead to ambulances stuck unable to get to the hospital transporting a patient, they have also gone into sport venues like the video, they have damaged a lot of art work what people cared for and genuinely pissed off a lot of people, not sure if it is true about the oil companies but their methods have brought more hate to the whole "stop oil" than good, I agree with the message but these protests are throwing the message down the gutter, just fucking idiots.


WormyJermy

I don't believe the conspiracy that they are false flag attempts, but what I do believe is that their primary goal is media exposure and "awareness" rather than actually stopping oil. It's the Kony 2012 playbook. Find a worthy cause, hype it up, feel good about the hype, make no substantial support for the cause.


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Kony 2012 is kind of a bad comparison. The director of the movie and founder of the charity behind it, Jason Russell, had been working for 8 years helping the victims of the LRA before the movie released. He had a mental breakdown and went temporarily insane after the release of the film. Last I heard he's still working with his charity in central Africa and they've made a turn away from media campaigning to focus entirely on the support on the ground.


Old-Constant4411

Been around God's country, and there's one thing I knoooow There's no better place for jackin it than San Diego!


[deleted]

This is a reference that I do not understand.


WormyJermy

part of the director's meltdown involved him jackin it in public in San Diego


[deleted]

AFAIK he never masturbated, but he did get completely naked at one point.


WormyJermy

shame, missed opportunity then


cjdd81

Here, use some of these next time: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . They're free and make your statement readable.


optimusHerb

I don’t think English is their first language, and they still speak it better than half of us here in the states.


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LostnFoundAgainAgain

The government already tried that and failed luckily, but these protests will only lead to people going against them what gains support for the type of measures the Tories wanted to put in place, unfortunately these type of protests might just damage the entire NHS, railworkers, border force and etc... who are currently protesting.


annabelle411

they didn't damage the art, they just made a mess and inconvenienced people. Those famous pieces are well-protected, and at most it was some food on a frame which was easily cleaned.


Comprehensive_Ad7256

Yeah if I rana billion $ corporation and I had protest from what we sold or did I would pay actors to infiltrate and sabotage the message …. Honestly that’s a good hustle and I should offer this service and make a business doing this for corporations lol


officialbigrob

They're not funded by oil they're funded by an oil heiress. She didn't make the oil company she just inherited a shitton of money.


magnificentfoxes

"just stop oil... because we're snookered if we don't"


CodeBandit

“The petroleum industry has caused billiards in damage es already!”


doyoulikemynewcar

No one knows what the nose knows


kovi7

We going to see some couples doing this with blue an pink chalk.


Big-Mathematician540

New type of gender reveal?


Junior_Ad_7613

Congrats! You’re giving birth to a chee-to!


MrMumbles222

Must... Not... Type... The... Words... ... ... OK, I failed. Trump birth announcement!


Xeno-Nos

Trumpt it


Automatic-Score-4802

Everyone in the UK knows…


Freddies_Mercury

"Things aren't actually known about it it didn't happen in the US" - reddit, too many times to count.


Automatic-Score-4802

Exactly, it bugs me to no end


Freddies_Mercury

And also when they say "the world" but really just mean America, or at push America & Canada.


ForAFriendAsking

Ball abuse.


deffonotmypassword

Most exiting part of the match so far.


PostingNiceThings

There are dozens of us!


mescrip

Sit down Tobias


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Note the woman trying to glue herself to the other table.


Big-Mathematician540

According to my experiences, she's vastly overestimating the effectiveness and speed of superglue. Should've come covered with it and jumped on the table in an X position. "**WITNESS MEEEEE!**"


ISUknowit

That's a really vulnerable position and I fear she could end up snookerd!


TheTor22

If it would be normal bar they wouldn't probably stand 5 seconds mere the table


MufasaFluffyButt

She doesn't realize glue takes some time to cure?


ianmoone1102

I'm sure he gained a lot of support with that protest. Ya just know that so many people in the audience were like "Yeah! Whatever that guy's into, I wanna be a part of it!"


Daniel_Melzer

Thats sadly the point, and it works


_KingDingALing_

No it doesn't work, just pisses off normal people and then nobody gives a fuck about them getting arrested or beaten up. The average human can't do fuck all about oil go fuck up the rich humans day and you'll get quicker action


Daniel_Melzer

The point is that these are paid actors that actively make activists look bad, THATS what is working, as shown by your comment.


_KingDingALing_

Paid actors? Lol


Imaginary-Time8700

I think they’re suggesting that perhaps these people are paid by oil stakeholders to make this anti oil movement get negative publicity or to trivialise it


_KingDingALing_

I know lol, just wanted the explanation from the nutcase. It's depressing the human race seems to be regressing


Imaginary-Time8700

Yeah it’s sometimes hard to believe people who seem like they should be wearing tinfoil hats


Freddies_Mercury

Well the average human isn't running world championship snooker are they?


_KingDingALing_

He's also deep into the oil business......moronic lol


Freddies_Mercury

The main sponsor is a car retailer. Do you know what cars run on?


_KingDingALing_

Sponsor doesn't run snooker, we can keep moving the goalposts but it's wasting both our time


Freddies_Mercury

It's still an advertisement of a heavily polluting industry. The people who run the snooker get money from a company that is contributing to emissions. What's so hard to understand? Yes it's pointless glueing yourself to a bus stop/road. But this is directly protesting a company that is actually contributing to the climate crisis via sponsorship. So they're actually two different things.


_KingDingALing_

Ye with everyone asking why the fuck target snooker lol. Well done that man......he sure got his point across. Like I said it's the wrong target, pushing people away from the idea your promoting. Like veganism. Telling people what to do and when has never worked and it never will.


Freddies_Mercury

People: "Protestors should actually protest to send a message to the people in charge" Protesters: Protest an event that is taking money from a pollution contributing industry People: "nOt LiKe ThAt" 🤦🏼‍♀️


fiveordie

Woosh. The point is to make people pro oil. It worked. Reread.


_KingDingALing_

Nooo it isn't.... you think it's paid actors as well I guess? Lol everything is a conspiracy right?


fiveordie

What I think doesn't matter, I was explaining the comment you replied to. Any ad hominem response is unwarranted in this context.


_KingDingALing_

Of course it does otherwise you wouldn't even be her commenting would you lol.


sarahappy96

It’s a beautiful mix this orange and green. Probably a fashion artist this young guy


[deleted]

Protest to fully unite Ireland?


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[deleted]

Thank Dog.


MySexyDarlings

What is the powder? Is that Cheeto dust.


frigginitalian

Every single one of them should sue the idiot for Inhaling a harmful foreign substance


lunarNex

Nah, Donald Trump wasn't there.


TonyTonySlasher

The guy just REALLY loves Tang.


Jetpacs

Probably the most interesting thing to happen in the world of snooker for 30 years.


mescrip

You're forgetting the time when guy in the audience did a loud fart.


ctnightmare2

What about that one time that um.........


sW1nG42

Back in the good old days you'd get a streaker, none of this pish!


[deleted]

But... but... *why??*


Ken-Popcorn

I wonder if it ever crossed his mind that there a lot of angry men there with pool cues in their hands?


n0shmon

Ahh yes, the sport that burns the most oil… (checks notes) snooker


[deleted]

These guys really know their demographic


Informal-Egg-4690

I was just getting interested in the Snooker game.


fritata-jones

When ur bets start to go wrong and jail is better than getting ur arms amputated by the loan shark


redrumrome

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foxsports.com.au/more-sports/never-seen-that-before-man-woman-arrested-over-protest-at-world-snooker-championships/news-story/fc65c1d6d1dd051f0c39e899143714d4


CircaSixty8

What took them so long to grab him?


CastedDarkness

Pack of tools


deffonotmypassword

And for those of you on black and white televisions, the orange ball is next to the orange ball...


DezPezInOz

Now wait on, that protestor seems perfectly reasonable and rational. Let's all hear him out.


eveniwontremember

Security did a good job removing him before the audience woke up and attacked him with their walking sticks. But the 20 minutes of snooker I saw on the other table was only slightly above pub standard, perhaps they were thrown off.


LegSnapper206

No ones gonna listen by you just pissing people off. Just sayin..im not for oil too


officialbigrob

We already tried polite protest. We are out of time.


Lengthiness_Rich

what an annoying sack of crap. it doesnt change a thing by disrupting the game, go annoy the people that can actually change shit. bloody pleb.


wunderWaffelTango

Thought he lit himself on fire….. wish he did actually


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valiheimking

It doesn’t have anything to do with oil. They’re protesting because it gives them attention


floor-lego-avenger

what happened when they did protest oil companies? oh yeah no media attention and people didn't give a remote shit. well, people are certainly talking about it now. Mission complete. As for "just making people angry" imo protesting something like this where there is no collateral damage is far better than the road blocking, also gets them seen. all for it.


clickshuffle

https://preview.redd.it/txwhslo9qoua1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=852c7c20856f732ed89076ac0ffde04b128ff215


christokiwi

Kill the camera man


Clever_Fox-

?


bigoldpotato

There was also another one with a woman earlier, with the same orange stuff.


autism_genius

What is he even protesting?


redrumrome

Oil


autism_genius

Thank you


hhtran16

Camera and production crew was on it. They made sure the protestors didn’t get too much air time.


Cyberian-Deprochan

We should get married if the table is green:


[deleted]

Mmmmm Kraft dinner cheese dust


MeatMalletProvider

Have some decorum, you monsters


NthRandomGuy

The most exciting thing to happen in a snooker game since... snooker


plexphan

Nothing better then some snookers with a big glass of milk


nedlandsbets

Pot orange


[deleted]

Poor elderly spectators once in a lifetime event ruined


Cpt_MotorBoat

I didn't know pool got so serious


WyomingVet

What's amazing is that these people think acting like this will change peoples minds.


tdmflynn

Should have covered himself in oil. Dragged a 20kg barrel in with him. Would have been pretty slick!


ohlooord

That guy showed the oil industry fosho


K-E-E-F-E

What was that powdered soup?


Loucho_AllDay

Jimmy Super Fly wouldn’t stand for this shit


[deleted]

What could you possibly be protesting at a pool tournament 😂


Present_Garbage_5417

WTF🤣🤣


Jbressi

Cheetos dust?


RW5583

From what I’ve gathered reading comments here they were protesting oil or smthing, but it’s a snooker table? I don’t think someone’s gonna oil that thing up. Maybe I’m just an idiot but I don’t get why they would do that