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>“It was all a bit confusing,” he said. “We walked up and I saw the massive queue. I started speaking to this lady that works at We The Curious, and all of a sudden I was accosted by this woman in a red t-shirt saying ‘the queueing system’s gone today, you can get a full refund, queue up over there, you may or may not get in, it’s up to us, it’s our discretion’.

What a bunch of weirdos, seems more like power tripping dictators

This is one of those fun sounding ideas that doesn’t really work in practice. Parents and kids who are happy with some chaos and mucking in no doubt had a great time, meanwhile SEN parents were inwardly bracing themselves for the inevitable meltdowns to come.

> we’ve been invaded by these people, they’ve taken over We The Curious, it’s about some funding we had ten years ago.’

Sums up how stupid these protestors are. 9 years ago they accepted some funding from the helicopter manufacturer down the road. That’s it.

Since then they’ve implemented a policy to prevent them taking funding from a helicopter manufacturer down the road and haven’t taken any of that money for over 6 years.

> Acorn gave We The Curious a letter listing four demands, which included cutting ‘all ties with arms companies’, donating the same amount of money they originally received from Leonardo in 2016 to a charity supporting Palestinian civilians, making a public commitment not to accept ‘arms industry funding’ in the future, and to join the ‘Bristol Apartheid Free Zone’.

Yeah, get fucked. It’s great you care about wars and all that but maybe do something useful rather than whatever the hell this is in a kids attraction?

Last I heard, Acorn were a renters union, dealing with rogue landlords. 

When did they go off on this absolute tangent to their original purpose? 

How much of an ego trip are those guys on?, and the police stayed there watching and did nothing?

>Acorn were protesting about the venue’s nine-year-old links to military company Leonardo, which funded an exhibition at We The Curious back in 2016.

Really want to get Acorn’s side of this because that’s mental if true.

Idiots, a poorly researched protest that is going to be associated with Acorn and any future actions.

Whoever thought this was a good idea deserves utter contempt.

I am absolutely anti-Israeli government right now. I think the UK needs to stop sending arms and funding to them now and should’ve done years ago.

But this protest is utter nonsense. Oh no they received charitable funding 9 years ago, so flipping what. Just a bunch of see you next Tuesdays ruining people’s day and damaging the operation of a charity to make an irrelevant point.

What’s going on in Gaza is terrible but absolutely no one there is benefitted by a niche tourist attraction in Bristol being shut down for the day because of some historic, and seemingly not repeated, funding they accepted.

I’m a lefty and needless to say, don’t support genocide or anything Israel is currently up to but Gaza as a cause is starting to suffer from god awful performative types who have co opted it as a weird part of their identity. There may not be loads of them but mad shit like this gets the wrong kind of attention.

It’s like attacking Cisco (overall a much better target than We The Curious) but doing so at London Pride thereby derailing another minority group’s event thereby engendering no sympathy whatsoever.

Why don’t these empty heads go and protest in Israel or Gaza?