Skip to content or view mobile version

Home | Mobile | Editorial | Mission | Privacy | About | Contact | Help | Security | Support

A network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues.

Fossil Fooling in Glasgow

Thinstanley | 02.04.2008 17:08 | Climate Chaos

A bunch of Fossil Fools took to the Streets of Glasgow
today, 1st of April.......

A bunch of Fossil Fools took to the Streets of Glasgow
today, trying to persuade people to up their carbon
emissions by putting more petrol in their cars,
applauding SUV’s and urging pedestrians to Stop
Walking - Start Driving!

The stupid suited Fools, some sporting bowler hats,
facepaint, pin stripes and briefcases, and glasses
adorned with dollar signs, went to a nearby Shell
garage where customers were urged to guzzle more gas,
and big cars were slavered over. One driver refused to
drive over a hand-painted Planet Earth as he left the
scene of Climate Crime, but sanity prevailed as the
next guy in a Jaguar (JAAGGUUAORRRGASSMMMM!!! er
sorry) gleefully put his foot down on the rubbish
planet and sped off, to the delight and applause of
the Fools. The car is mightier than the planet! The
confused Fools then unfurled a giant Award to Shell
for its contributions to climate change.

Next they applauded more 4x4s at traffic lights,
before inadvertently stumbling into a branch of
Starbucks to play – and Starbucks are a well known
model employer and sell Green Coffee! The Fools,
having realised their mistake, then took to the Street
again, and lit upon a branch of the Royal Bank of
Scotland. One of the slightly more sane looking Fools,
more of an idiot really, planted lots of leaflets
about how the RBS is financing climate change on a
massive scale, in amongst the others in the bank
telling you how good money is. When told he shouldn’t
be doing this, he merely smiled and was left alone.
But not for long.

A grotesque of Fools suddenly appeared in the bank,
causing noise and mayhem and laughing at some insane
joke, before unfurling their large Award banner,
applauding the RBS’s contribution to climate change.
It seemed that these idiots would stop at nothing to
show how Foolish they were!

Having somehow negotiated the crossing of a
Sauchiehall Street, after frolicsome times with some
road workers, the Fools socked toward, then into, a
Flight Centre. Here they enquired about getting a
holiday with the biggest, guaranteed CO2 emission.
Then they presented the flight centre staff with
another huge banner Award for their contributions to
climate change, and had a fun game of ‘Chairs’, before
turning into helicopters and flying out of the shop.

Here they learned that many BIG SUVs were to be seen
at a local private school, so they scrambled up there
to drool over all those beoooootiful gas guzzlers. At
one point, some of them, understandably, lost control
of themselves over a specifically Big Beautiful
Carcar, slavering and licking at it. Then, the ‘owner’
showed us how big a hard-on he has for his guzzler by
pushing a Fool, who had produced an old feather duster
from the depths of his bag, and shouting ‘Get away
from MY CAR!!’. Said sane man then proceeded to get on
his mobile, more of that later.

As they went down the street, lots of children were
pleasantly surprised by this strange Frolic of Fools
as they progressed, Then - THE COPS! Gasp! The sane
man had called them because his carcar had been dusted
off and ‘touched’, but they soon realised what a
harmless bunch of Fools confronted them, and went away
smiling.

So the Fossil Fools struggled off into the late
afternoon sunshine. What a confusing day it had been.
Fortunately, the rest of the world went on being sane.

Thinstanley

Thinstanley

Upcoming Coverage
View and post events
Upcoming Events UK
24th October, London: 2015 London Anarchist Bookfair
2nd - 8th November: Wrexham, Wales, UK & Everywhere: Week of Action Against the North Wales Prison & the Prison Industrial Complex. Cymraeg: Wythnos o Weithredu yn Erbyn Carchar Gogledd Cymru

Ongoing UK
Every Tuesday 6pm-8pm, Yorkshire: Demo/vigil at NSA/NRO Menwith Hill US Spy Base More info: CAAB.

Every Tuesday, UK & worldwide: Counter Terror Tuesdays. Call the US Embassy nearest to you to protest Obama's Terror Tuesdays. More info here

Every day, London: Vigil for Julian Assange outside Ecuadorian Embassy

Parliament Sq Protest: see topic page
Ongoing Global
Rossport, Ireland: see topic page
Israel-Palestine: Israel Indymedia | Palestine Indymedia
Oaxaca: Chiapas Indymedia
Regions
All Regions
Birmingham
Cambridge
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Sheffield
South Coast
Wales
World
Other Local IMCs
Bristol/South West
Nottingham
Scotland
Social Media
You can follow @ukindymedia on indy.im and Twitter. We are working on a Twitter policy. We do not use Facebook, and advise you not to either.
Support Us
We need help paying the bills for hosting this site, please consider supporting us financially.
Other Media Projects
Schnews
Dissident Island Radio
Corporate Watch
Media Lens
VisionOnTV
Earth First! Action Update
Earth First! Action Reports
Topics
All Topics
Afghanistan
Analysis
Animal Liberation
Anti-Nuclear
Anti-militarism
Anti-racism
Bio-technology
Climate Chaos
Culture
Ecology
Education
Energy Crisis
Fracking
Free Spaces
Gender
Globalisation
Health
History
Indymedia
Iraq
Migration
Ocean Defence
Other Press
Palestine
Policing
Public sector cuts
Repression
Social Struggles
Technology
Terror War
Workers' Movements
Zapatista
Major Reports
NATO 2014
G8 2013
Workfare
2011 Census Resistance
Occupy Everywhere
August Riots
Dale Farm
J30 Strike
Flotilla to Gaza
Mayday 2010
Tar Sands
G20 London Summit
University Occupations for Gaza
Guantanamo
Indymedia Server Seizure
COP15 Climate Summit 2009
Carmel Agrexco
G8 Japan 2008
SHAC
Stop Sequani
Stop RWB
Climate Camp 2008
Oaxaca Uprising
Rossport Solidarity
Smash EDO
SOCPA
Past Major Reports
Encrypted Page
You are viewing this page using an encrypted connection. If you bookmark this page or send its address in an email you might want to use the un-encrypted address of this page.
If you recieved a warning about an untrusted root certificate please install the CAcert root certificate, for more information see the security page.

Global IMC Network


www.indymedia.org

Projects
print
radio
satellite tv
video

Africa

Europe
antwerpen
armenia
athens
austria
barcelona
belarus
belgium
belgrade
brussels
bulgaria
calabria
croatia
cyprus
emilia-romagna
estrecho / madiaq
galiza
germany
grenoble
hungary
ireland
istanbul
italy
la plana
liege
liguria
lille
linksunten
lombardia
madrid
malta
marseille
nantes
napoli
netherlands
northern england
nottingham imc
paris/île-de-france
patras
piemonte
poland
portugal
roma
romania
russia
sardegna
scotland
sverige
switzerland
torun
toscana
ukraine
united kingdom
valencia

Latin America
argentina
bolivia
chiapas
chile
chile sur
cmi brasil
cmi sucre
colombia
ecuador
mexico
peru
puerto rico
qollasuyu
rosario
santiago
tijuana
uruguay
valparaiso
venezuela

Oceania
aotearoa
brisbane
burma
darwin
jakarta
manila
melbourne
perth
qc
sydney

South Asia
india


United States
arizona
arkansas
asheville
atlanta
Austin
binghamton
boston
buffalo
chicago
cleveland
colorado
columbus
dc
hawaii
houston
hudson mohawk
kansas city
la
madison
maine
miami
michigan
milwaukee
minneapolis/st. paul
new hampshire
new jersey
new mexico
new orleans
north carolina
north texas
nyc
oklahoma
philadelphia
pittsburgh
portland
richmond
rochester
rogue valley
saint louis
san diego
san francisco
san francisco bay area
santa barbara
santa cruz, ca
sarasota
seattle
tampa bay
united states
urbana-champaign
vermont
western mass
worcester

West Asia
Armenia
Beirut
Israel
Palestine

Topics
biotech

Process
fbi/legal updates
mailing lists
process & imc docs
tech