Armed Polite Society
Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Scout26 on February 04, 2009, 10:57:27 AM
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-talk-pestsfeb04,0,3527782.story
Chicago canvassers, including a Greenpeace worker, discuss their jobs
By Colleen Mastony | Tribune reporter
February 4, 2009
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Armed with a clipboard and a smile, the street-corner solicitor has a brutal job. Day after day, through punishing weather, these young, nervy canvassers stand amid the rush of pedestrians, trying to get someone—anyone—to stop and listen to their cause.
Sometimes, they're cursed. Mostly, they're ignored. Why do they do it? Three workers share their secrets to staying motivated, their tricks to overcoming rejection and their hopes for the future.
Andrea Wallace, 23→
Hometown: Trilla, Ill.
Organization: Greenpeace
Job: Persuade strangers to join Greenpeace and pay a $15 minimum membership fee
Her line: "You want to save a cute, cuddly polar bear today, right?"
Why she does it: "Global warming. That's always been a huge concern of mine."
Worst thing: "Being out here six hours every day during the freezing cold. There's also some negativity on the street. People think they can take their frustrations out on us."
How many people stop? "About 25 to 35 people stop over six hours."
Do you get discouraged? "Every day. But, obviously, if you go out there and put on a sad face, nobody is going to talk to you."
Her strategy: "Approach people from 15 feet away, so you really have a chance to connect with them while they're walking toward you."
Her life plan: "I want to be an activist."
Her message to others: "We actually can save the world. People together can make a difference."
And if you flip to the next page in the Tribune, there's an article with a picture "Brits frolic in rare London Snow."
;/ :rolleyes:
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Without getting into the AGW debacle yet again, clueless little idiots like this girl are the reason we have our current President. One can only hope his inevitable failure will help to introduce them to cynicism and distrust of the .gov.
SHoot, now I'm being naive. They'll probably just keep blaming Bush.......
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Her line: "You want to save a cute, cuddly polar bear today, right?"
Mmmm, polar bear steak!
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I always thought polar bear to be the most exciting non-African game one could hunt. At least since tigers are so rare. /sigh, oh to be alive in the late 1800's.....
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"You want to save a cute, cuddly polar bear today, right"
I wonder if we can get her to hug a polar bear.
Then we'll see how cute and cuddly they can be when they realize that there's a free meal clinging to them...
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Mmmm, polar bear steak!
but they are cute and cuddly. which is why if you get your steak, i want the fur. :lol:
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You want to save a cute, cuddly polar bear today, right?
No, but can I save one of the ugly animals? :laugh:
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She only has to work 6 hours a day?
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I always thought polar bear to be the most exciting non-African game one could hunt. At least since tigers are so rare. /sigh, oh to be alive in the late 1800's.....
Double rifle,, Webley revolver in a leather holster, monocle, pith helmet and a handlebar moustache? Yeah, that would be grand! =D
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While people like to poke fun at this naive girl I think its admerable. I really do think something is happening to this planet call it "Global Warming" or whatever but some facts are indisputable.
Their are holes in the Ozone Layer, NASA's confirmed this and I doubt their the tinfoil hat wearing bunch.
Arctic ice is melting, (which is why the polar bears are dying).
The seasons are getting a little screwy, Summers hotter and longer, Spring and Fall almost seem non existant and Winter is colder than ever.
Hell I dont know whats causing it, scientist cant even agree on whats causing it. Some say its us causing it due to green house gas emitions, others say not that it is the natural cycle of the planet.
Well I dont know whats causing it but I do think we are distroying our planet and any action big or small might help "save" our planet. Hell we dont know whats causing it but some scientist say once the holes in the Ozone layer get to a "critical mass" that the damage might be irreversible. If this is true whats the harm in trying to cut our green house gas emitions and trying to better the enviornment. Cause hell if you guys are right, no harm no foul, if those scientists are right about the irreversible damage to the ozone layer, the worlds population might last another 100 years and then the plant would be inhabitable.
Thats one big gamble.
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Seenterman, I agree that fighting for a cause one thinks is important is admirable.
However, this lady is accosting people on the streets with lame bumper sticker phrases, while freezing her ass off, and continues to do so even though she openly admits that the return on investment is nearly zero.
That, my friend, is not admirable- it's naive and foolish.
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Arctic ice is melting, (which is why the polar bears are dying).
No. Polar bear populations are increasing, and as far as anyone can tell, are at or near all-time highs. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116778985966865527.html?mod=opinion_main_review_and_outlooks
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I think NASA is causing the holes in the ozone layer.
Do you remember any holes before they started shooting rockets through it?
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Their are holes in the Ozone Layer, NASA's confirmed this and I doubt their the tinfoil hat wearing bunch.
But aren't they the ones who just admitted to fabricating some of the data that has supported Global Warming theories? Or was that just Hansen?
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No. Polar bear populations are increasing, and as far as anyone can tell, are at or near all-time highs. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116778985966865527.html?mod=opinion_main_review_and_outlooks
You heartless bastard! Using fact in the face of groundless assertion is unsportsmanlike.
Probably a "denier."
But aren't they the ones who just admitted to fabricating some of the data that has supported Global Warming theories? Or was that just Hansen?
Oh, yeah, that ought to have been embarrassing. Kind of a "we didn't carry the two" or "we forgot to convert from English to metric" stupid human trick.
Formerly, they (NASA or some other agency) thought 1998 was the hottest year on record. Turns out, the hottest year on record for the Earth was in the 1930s.
Add that to the "Hockey Stick Diagram" debunking, and you'd think any pro-AGW shill with a sense of shame would go and hide in a cave.
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one really cute one came up to me, asking me to "help save the environment"
I told her .... "I'm against the environment"
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Well, uh...
The guy that puts girls in the well as part of his process of making the "lady suit" must get them from somewhere.
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don't you hate it when they are cute?back in late 80's i had the hots for one of petas spokepersons. smoking hot not stupid per se but disconnected from real life . did i remember smoking hot? :angel:
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I advocate for the relocating of polar bears to the Antarctic
I wonder what they would do when they find a penguin rookery miles from shore
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don't you hate it when they are cute?back in late 80's i had the hots for one of petas spokepersons. smoking hot not stupid per se but disconnected from real life . did i remember smoking hot? :angel:
I had a cute coed here come up to me and ask me if I wanted to donate to UNICEF.
Hell no I'm not donating ANYTHING to the UN. The government already steals enough from me and gives it to them...
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I gave the World Wildlife Fund 20 bucks when I saw they're "polar bears floating around on ice chunks" commercial. I called the 800 number and the agent I got asked why I was joining. I referenced the commercial I saw and asked if it was true; he said it was. I responded with, "Well we need to get these numbers up or I have no hope of hunting one in my lifetime." I think the dull thud I heard on the other end of the phone was him laying an egg.
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No. Polar bear populations are increasing, and as far as anyone can tell, are at or near all-time highs. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116778985966865527.html?mod=opinion_main_review_and_outlooks
And the (north) polar ice cap has gained everything it lost earlier, plus more ice.
The greenies are, as usual, lying.
jb
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I want to see the security camera footage when she tries to hug a polar bear. It probably won't be safe for work...
Do you think it'll chew off a limb first, or just go for the abdomen...?
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swat to the head
grab by the neck
drag off, devour
My buddy Norbert Rosing got trapped in a fenced fortified cabin by a large male polar bear intent on eating him
He decided to leave the area because it was obvious the bear had decided to return every day until it ate him
http://www.rosing.de/index_e.html
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Her line: "You want to save a cute, cuddly polar bear today, right?"
Timothy Treadwell wanted to save the cute cuddly bears. And he did, right up to the point where one killed and ate him.
Brad
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Ok, the usual arse is being talked. I'm sure we've been through this before, anyway:
1. 1998 correction was for the continental US only, and I believe the correction was insignificant in stats terms. 1998 still one of the hottest years, due to significant El Nino event. Not up on whether 2006 exceeded it.
2. More ice yes - new ice though in areas where there had previously been multi-year ice.
scientists said they believe that the increased area of sea ice this winter is due to recent weather conditions, while the decline in perennial ice reflects the longer-term warming climate trend and is a result of increased melting during summer and greater movement of the older ice out of the Arctic.
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/seaice_conditions_feature.html
3. I'm not even going to touch the "hockey stick" based on the fact that people who seem to know all about it are many and vocal (no both sides). 'Seem' usually being the operative word.
Back on topic - that job sucks, and unfortunately those guys do seem to have a track record of lying. Not necessarily about the areas they are raising money for, but about how they are paid:
Chuggers working for WRVS, formerly the Women's Royal Voluntary Service, and Great Ormond Street claimed to be working as volunteers when they were not, the watchdog said. One did not know what the "W" stood for.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3509162/Charity-chuggers-may-be-breaking-law-and-should-be-boycotted.html
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"cute, cuddly polar bear"
Do not belong in the same sentence as polar bear. Cunning and maniacal are words more akin to polar bear. A sporting goods shop in Reno has 2 polar bears stuffed and mounted. The suckers stand 9 ft tall. The skulls were bronzed and the teeth were huge.
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Well, uh...
The guy that puts girls in the well as part of his process of making the "lady suit" must get them from somewhere.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDgS6qLsVM4
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Timothy Treadwell wanted to save the cute cuddly bears. And he did, right up to the point where one killed and ate him.
Saved it from dying of starvation.
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Timothy Treadwell wanted to save the cute cuddly bears. And he did, right up to the point where one killed and ate him.
Brad
that is what you call "commitment".
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDgS6qLsVM4
:laugh: Get out of my head man...
I almost posted that link to the Greenskeepers.