Luton Airport Car Park Fire

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Vixen said:
People are resistant to change. I dare say in the early part of last century, people were saying, 'I b'ain't be giving up my horse and carriage. There b'ain't be no power like horse power'.

There is a lot of ignorance amongst the public about EV's. Whilst the majority of the public are merely change-resistance, the remainder can be divided into three basic groups:

  1. Those, like yourself, eager to try out the latest gadget and with plenty of money to afford it, for reasons because it makes sense; in this case, environmental sense.
  2. Those with a wait-and-see attitude who let the early aforesaid adopters point out the flaws and need-for-improvements and for the price to come down, first, before buying, themselves.
  3. the old anti-vaxx brigade who see everything as a 'woke' campaign to force everyone to become green and conformist, and to put profits into the coffers of Bill Gates and/or Tesla. These include those who claim, 'We'll soon be overrun by Chinese EV's'.

I myself settled on a hybrid as I wanted a new car but wasn't sure about the practicalities of an EV and the substantially higher price. Plus I wanted a sporty little number that went vroom-vroom, not something with 'just one gear'. A little bit change resistant, too.
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That's as may be, but your theory is that the fire officials are conspiring to pretend it was a diesel fire, to avoid public panic about EVs.

This might make more sense if we had any reason to believe that people who don't like the idea of EVs actually posed such a serious concern that fire officials would feel obligated to lie about their work, just to protect those feelings.

Also, writing in ethnic or class dialect is not a good look.
 
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So now, anyone who wants to understand how something in current affairs has happened, for example the Luton Airport Car Park fire must be greatly feared as a conspiracy theorist, because after all, we mustn't ask questions for fear of upsetting those who aren't particularly interested in why the Range Rover caught fire in such a way as to cause the entire multilevel car park to collapse.

Oh well, c'est la vie. So much for scepticism. Too threatening to think about.
 
theprestige said:
That's as may be, but your theory is that the fire officials are conspiring to pretend it was a diesel fire, to avoid public panic about EVs.

This might make more sense if we had any reason to believe that people who don't like the idea of EVs actually posed such a serious concern that fire officials would feel obligated to lie about their work, just to protect those feelings.

Also, writing in ethnic or class dialect is not a good look.
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Where did I say it was my theory?
 
theprestige said:
You're promoting it here, you own it here.

Are you rejecting the hypothesis that it was an EV fire and fire officials are lying about it?
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Not at all. It has been headline news in the UK. It was the no.1 trending topic on X, after the Israel-Hamas issue. Over a quarter of a million views of the tweet I quoted.

You think current news topics should be repressed and that people should not speculate as to why a car burst into flames in that manner?

But almost every single comment in the DAILY MAIL article is claiming it must have been an EV.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...rk-fire-chaos-flights-cancelled.html#comments


So I am BAAAAAA-AAAAD for daring to start a topic to understand why this has aroused so much scepticism amongst the UK public.
 
JoeMorgue said:
The Parking Garage at the Hospital Where I work collapsed last month and squashed about 5 cars.

https://www.jacksonville.com/story/...e-garage-collapse-latest-updates/70856694007/

Oh I'm sorry I thought you starting a "Most Mundane and Easily Explained Parking Garage Disaster Thread" and I'm competitive by nature.
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If you had opened a current affairs topic about it does that make it a conspiracy theory because you are interested enough to understand what happened?
 
Vixen said:
If you had opened a current affairs topic about it does that make it a conspiracy theory because you are interested enough to understand what happened?
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... you not understand something doesn't make it a mystery to be solved. You insisting it does is what makes it a conspiracy theory.

There's no mystery to explain here.
 
Vixen said:
Not at all. It has been headline news in the UK. It was the no.1 trending topic on X, after the Israel-Hamas issue. Over a quarter of a million views of the tweet I quoted.

You think current news topics should be repressed and that people should not speculate as to why a car burst into flames in that manner?

But almost every single comment in the DAILY MAIL article is claiming it must have been an EV.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...rk-fire-chaos-flights-cancelled.html#comments


So I am BAAAAAA-AAAAD for daring to start a topic to understand why this has aroused so much scepticism amongst the UK public.
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Are these comments from people who know anything about car fires? I mean if the fire started on the interior of the vehicle, the interior materials would go up pretty quickly and plastics will burn pretty hot. Why is it unusual to have a diesel car fire, when they have a higher incident rate than EVs?
 
Vixen said:
Not at all. It has been headline news in the UK. It was the no.1 trending topic on X, after the Israel-Hamas issue. Over a quarter of a million views of the tweet I quoted.

You think current news topics should be repressed and that people should not speculate as to why a car burst into flames in that manner?

But almost every single comment in the DAILY MAIL article is claiming it must have been an EV.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...rk-fire-chaos-flights-cancelled.html#comments


So I am BAAAAAA-AAAAD for daring to start a topic to understand why this has aroused so much scepticism amongst the UK public.
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Are you rejecting the hypothesis that it was an EV fire and fire officials are lying about it?
 
Vixen said:
If you had opened a current affairs topic about it does that make it a conspiracy theory because you are interested enough to understand what happened?
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It doesn't stop being a conspiracy theory just because the media is participating and a lot of the general public is buying into it.
 
Vixen said:
So now, anyone who wants to understand how something in current affairs has happened, for example the Luton Airport Car Park fire must be greatly feared as a conspiracy theorist, because after all, we mustn't ask questions for fear of upsetting those who aren't particularly interested in why the Range Rover caught fire in such a way as to cause the entire multilevel car park to collapse.
Oh well, c'est la vie. So much for scepticism. Too threatening to think about.
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It didn't. There was partial collapse, but most of it is relatively unaffected. Plenty of images online will confirm this.
 
Vixen said:
People are resistant to change. I dare say in the early part of last century, people were saying, 'I b'ain't be giving up my horse and carriage. There b'ain't be no power like horse power'.

There is a lot of ignorance amongst the public about EV's. Whilst the majority of the public are merely change-resistance, the remainder can be divided into three basic groups:

  1. Those, like yourself, eager to try out the latest gadget and with plenty of money to afford it, for reasons because it makes sense; in this case, environmental sense.
  2. Those with a wait-and-see attitude who let the early aforesaid adopters point out the flaws and need-for-improvements and for the price to come down, first, before buying, themselves.
  3. the old anti-vaxx brigade who see everything as a 'woke' campaign to force everyone to become green and conformist, and to put profits into the coffers of Bill Gates and/or Tesla. These include those who claim, 'We'll soon be overrun by Chinese EV's'.

I myself settled on a hybrid as I wanted a new car but wasn't sure about the practicalities of an EV and the substantially higher price. Plus I wanted a sporty little number that went vroom-vroom, not something with 'just one gear'. A little bit change resistant, too.
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Is “b’ain’t” some kind of Cockney slang?
 
How did wet get from parking garage fire to vaccines? How many Kevin Bacons even is that?
 
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