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When protesters glue themselves to 'things'.......why don't the police etc just leave them there.
Not forever (although thats an idea) maybe just a week or so.

Like this?
https://metro.co.uk/2022/10/20/prot...-volkswagens-floor-left-in-the-dark-17601987/

I think that if they are in public then they have to be removed as they are causing an obstruction of might come to some harm

personally I would leave them there - if they have glued themselves to something andhave no plan to get unglued or get food (and do 'other things') then if they can be left there then I would regard it as respecting their right to protest and their decision on how to do it
and leave them

but the Police have policies to comply to
 
Eating at a chain restaurant last night I noticed that although the food options were dutifully allocated a calorie rating the beers and ciders were unmarked. This seems a major omission as beer is known to be calorific, hence the expression 'beer belly'.

Is there a reason for this?

What is the calorific value of chains? I guess they're rich in iron, but can't be much apart from that.
 

Ming the Merciless

There is no mercy
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When protesters glue themselves to 'things'.......why don't the police etc just leave them there.
Not forever (although thats an idea) maybe just a week or so.

They did in Germany
 
Why does my local food bank want donations of bottled water?

Maybe kids are expected to take a bottle of water to school with them? But it'd be better, surely, to provide a reusable bottle and fill it from a tap.
Unless the only tap accessible is in some grubby shared bathroom 'facility' rather than a clean - even if dilapidated - kitchen. Or what if the water is cut off, or a person is living in their car or an old van? Or a tent?
There are any number of scenarios where bottled water may - sadly - be necessary.
 

classic33

Leg End Member
Maybe kids are expected to take a bottle of water to school with them? But it'd be better, surely, to provide a reusable bottle and fill it from a tap.
Unless the only tap accessible is in some grubby shared bathroom 'facility' rather than a clean - even if dilapidated - kitchen.
Or what if the water is cut off, or a person is living in their car or an old van? Or a tent?
There are any number of scenarios where bottled water may - sadly - be necessary.
If a school can't provide drinking water, it shouldn't be open.
 
If a school can't provide drinking water, it shouldn't be open.

The comment about the schoolkid expected to take a bottle of water to school, but a reusable bottle would be better, is a totally separate matter to the person who only has access to a tap in a grubby shared bathroom.
Hence the separate paragraphs.

Both need access to clean drinking water, of course - and in a food-safe environment rather than a $h!tty, pee-y one.
If the schoolkid doesn't have a reusable bottle to refill conveniently and safely somewhere, then it seems to me that providing bottled water is a reasonable thing to do.
If a family in temporary accommodation doesn't have easy and safe access to drinking water. then it seems to me to be perfectly reasonable to provide bottled water for them to keep in their provided accommodation, especially if it enables the vulnerable to minimise contact with strangers in the corridors of communal accommodation.
 
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