Posted on 10/15/2021 8:05:48 PM PDT by moonhawk
You think FFF kids are mad at their parents for trashing the planet? That’s nothing compared to their anger when you ask them to walk the talk.
Angry Greta. Image cropped here.
At FaceBook, two German parents of a young schoolgirl decided that if their daughter was going to skip school on Fridays and demand the rest of the world start being responsible for the planet as Greta and Fridays For Future prescribe, then she should begin to do so at home.
Well, that didn’t go over too well.
Here’s what the two parents wrote:
Thanks Greta…. thanks Fridays For Future!
Oh oh… doors slamming, loud screaming
Our daughter recently got back from more stupid FFF truancy. She was teed off because we didn’t pick her up (climate friendly) and so she had to tough it out in a bus and train for 3 hours to get home.
After having a chalky vegan soy cake (only for her – we had real cheesecake) there was a surprise. She now has to take the bus to school in the morning. But that’s a drag, because the bus only leaves every hour and she either arrives at school an hour early or arrives too late. We suggested to stop heating the bus, because it still uses oil. But she also doesn’t want to go by bicycle because of all the hills and grades – besides soon it’ll be winter and it’s too cold and windy. But she says she might consider the option if she gets an e-bike for Christmas.
“Christmas? But that’s totally anti-eco,” I told her. “All those lights and CO2 emissions from candles!” This sparked the first pre-pubescent protest, which was amazingly similar to her defiant phase between the ages of 2 and 3. ‘E-bike? Hasn’t our little daughter even seen the devastated areas that result from the extraction of rare earths for the batteries?’
Now she’s sitting upstairs in her room at 8°C (46°F), moping. We have already turned off the heat there to be ecologically conscious. Maybe she’s keeping her fingers warm typing angry mails about her “shitty parents” to her friends on her i-Phone. But here we’ve announced to her that she will be rid of this iPhone at 7 pm. After all, it’s irresponsible to keep wasting electricity to have more or less useful conversation and, secondly: again the lithium extraction and its ecological consequences.
In response to her protests against this expropriation, we assured her in a calm voice that we would either send the iPhone directly to needy children in Africa, or sell it and then donate the financial equivalent to help save the South American rainforest.
But the real fun starts on Monday. That’s when we swap out her trendy clothes for jute, wool and hemp fiber woven stuff. Her Nikes with the cool plastic soles will be replaced by Dutch wooden shoes. And if someone thinks this is satire: No, we are GOING THROUGH IT!
If she then still screeches on, she has two possibilities: 1) recognize what brainless eco-fascists she’s listening to 2) recognize what brainless eco-fascists she’s listening to!
Thank you Greta. You have inspired us, as no one else would have done in educational matters. Mommy and I have just shouted up to our daughter: ‘We’re going to Mc Donald’s, want to come along?’ We hope the hysterical screaming will stop by the time we get back.'”
Every parent should make their activist children really practice what they preach.
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HILARIOUS! I love it!
LOL!
This reminds me of a young German girl who I got to know after she’d been a foreign exchange student here and came back to visit her host family. She was livid when the German government informed her that the handouts her mother had received as an artist would be considered as income in her financial aid assessment. It was a lot of fun educating her about what happens when you run out of other people’s money!
The double standard seems to be a byproduct of socialism.
If only more parents would do this instead of being as brain dead as their children.
The example given is amusing, but I also see a family where the child is used to openly disrespecting her parents.
Me and my siblings were not allowed to end a discussion by yelling at the parents then running out of the room and slamming doors. Well, maybe my oldest sister, but nobody else!!
They calmly informed me that I could, as a member of the family, follow the rules and contribute or I could become a dependent of the family.
Do you know how tasteless oatmeal is without salt, sugar or milk?
I congratulate these parents on being parents.
How dare you....
Hilarious.
Thank you for not posting a photo of that malnourished little haglet.
I got quite a laugh out of that. Thanks for sharing!
Ha!
Great idea
I hope lots of parents follow this wise example!!
Rush used to seem befuddled by seemingly sensible parents, who would seem to be taken in, and go along with the kids...
A funny little story when my young nieces went to visit my sister and her husband. They were scurrying around looking for the OTHER trash can to discard their soda cans.
Niece: Where should I throw my can?
Sister: Just put it in the trash under the sink.
Niece: “Don’t you recycle?!?”
BIL: We drive Hummers. What do you think?
Chuckle.
This just reminds me, with the foul phraseology in there, that the German word is “Scheiss”.
BTW, tip to everyone…this is the origin of the term “scheisster” - which hence, you can see, is NOT “shyster” as some have spelled it.
Ha! It’s sad that an almost 90 year old looks better & happier. My brother and Sister inlaw saw Willie about a moth ago.
If more parents actually gave a crap about their kids and the future of this planet, they would do things like this.
Sadly most parents find it easier to give their kids everything and just not be hassled. And the world suffers for it.
It was fairly recently (pre-Wuhan Virus) that students at either Cambridge or Oxford University (England’s premier places of higher learning) ‘occupied’ their Principle’s office in protest at what they saw as the college’s capital being invested in companies (such as Shell) that weren’t eco-friendly. It was only when the Principle ordered that the central heating be switched off throughout the college that the students relented.
This is what the best university education does for you!
leftards have always been the biggest hypocrites..ALWAYS
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