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ICE IS COLD
Some intros write themselves:
A North Pole expedition meant to bring attention to global warming was called off after one of the explorers got frostbite.
Generally, stories that begin this entertainingly tend to quickly diminish in subsequent paragraphs. Here, however, the fun – unlike certain frozen explorers – never quits:
The explorers, Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen, on Saturday called off what was intended to be a 530-mile trek across the Arctic Ocean after Arnesen suffered frostbite in three of her toes, and extreme cold temperatures drained the batteries in some of their electronic equipment …
Then there was the cold - quite a bit colder, [organiser Ann] Atwood said, than Bancroft and Arnesen had expected.
They went to the North Pole … and they were surprised by the cold. Well, who can blame them, what with all this warming talk? Maybe they’ll sue Al Gore.
"My first reaction when they called to say there were calling it off was that they just sounded really, really cold,” Atwood said.
They. Were. In. The. Arctic.
Atwood said there was some irony that a trip to call attention to global warming was scuttled in part by extreme cold temperatures.
You don’t say. And now, a punchline of such sublime delusion it’s impossible to imagine it being said with a straight face:
"They were experiencing temperatures that weren’t expected with global warming,” Atwood said. “But one of the things we see with global warming is unpredictability."
(Via many readers and commenters, all of whom would have enough sense to predict coldness upon visiting Arctic areas)
::This:: close to Darwin Award territory. Damn.
and extreme cold temperatures drained the batteries in some of their electronic equipment …
I imagine the first to go was the Irony Meter . . .
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 03 13 at 03:02 AM • permalinkNow we know the people for whom all those stupid warning labels are written for.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 03 13 at 03:04 AM • permalinkI think we should sponsor more of these people to go up there. Those polar bears need to eat.
Posted by Jim Treacher on 2007 03 13 at 03:22 AM • permalinkAnn Bancroft? Wasn’t she married to Mel Brooks?
Not that one: Mrs Mel Brooks, Anne (with an “e") Bancroft passed away in June of 2005.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 03 13 at 03:36 AM • permalinkI’m most impressed that these brave explorers suckered a global warming funds committee into sending them on a really expensive vacation, about which they obviously knew nothing. I think that we should ask this same committee to buy us Grand Final tickets to examine the effect of the hot air from the Channel 7 announcers booth on global warming.
It’s a shame she lost three toes to frostbite caused by Global Warming.
But on a positive note, her carbon footprint just got a size smaller.(Well, one of them, at any rate.)
Posted by Copious Maximus on 2007 03 13 at 04:53 AM • permalinkReminds me of when i was stuck in the Outback running Backpacker tours by floods.
Euros...Raining,why is it raining
Me… Um,look you might have trouble um understanding this but it um it rains in this country too,Crazy concept i know.
Euros....This is not good,your country should be sunny,We want to know whats going on.
Me...Um have rang god and i am expecting a fax from my arse shortly.
The 7.30 report did another climate change extended interview tonight. Who did this fearless and unbiassed delver behind the headlines interview?
James Hansen, who is guaranteed to go down the line of waves lapping at your penthouse doorstep.
Are we just rabid anti-ABC bashers, or do they just keep inviting it by their actions?
I confess I went away and ate dinner after that, and there is a chance that they had a contrary view on ... but I think not.“But one of the things we see with global warming is unpredictability.”
Except being able to predict the screaming remnants of civilisation, plagued with malaria, crammed on the rooftops of penthouses, whilst the bloated corpses of drowned polar bears lap at their flood wrinkled toes will happen on the 17th of March 2034.#25 I thought red kezza would have licked him if it was live in the studio. What a sycophant, and as rebase noted, the lead in to the penguin rednecks bothering harmless developers.......
I was wondering why the ABC was a) even interested in something provincial-but not Byron Bay; and b) taking the side of the developers (it was so out of character) until I realised there was a bit of poofter bashing (in a figurative, not literal sense) involved.Suddenly the world made sense again.
I checked three times to make sure there was no mistake. These guys tried to go to the North Pole in March.
These are the guys from the “reality based” community?
I was watching Spike TV and there was a show called “When Animals Attack”. The story was about some ‘scientists’, who were obviously hippies, who went to Alaska to study the effects of Climate Change on glaciers. Well needless to say, one of them was attacked by a grizzly bear. The were smart enough to “be equipped” with guns, and they managed to kill the bear before Darwin could claim his prize, but then they said that the bear was “autopsied”, you know, to determine why it would attack a human. You will never guess what the autopsy determined… That’s right, “climate change”.
I think we got the Raw Footage of that Sixty Minutes polar bear attack, BTW. By the way, no liberals were harmed in the video.
#32 - “But one of the things we see with global warming is unpredictability."
Predictability may well be a necessity of a theory; at least it was up until global warming theories were first theorised.
I think there’s a deeper question to be asked. If it’s unpredictable then...why don’t we just replace climate models with random number algorithms and save ourselves hundreds of millions of dollars? Money that could be spent, I’d like to point out, on having a huge-arse party to celebrate how ‘ken smart we are and that we’re doomed anyway, or maybe not, but who cares coz we’re having a party.
Posted by Jack Lacton on 2007 03 13 at 06:50 AM • permalinkIt’s a matter of the protective power of faith. If she really believed in global warming, she wouldn’t have gotten frostbite. It’s like walking on hot coals and not getting burned, in how it operates.
Curiously, though, the hot coal walkers do not claim the coals aren’t hot, and go on about coal-cooling. Instead, they go on about faith.
Today of course they need carbon offsets as well as faith.
Foreign Correspondent tonight:
The Carteret Islands near New Guinea are sinking. No, no, that’s not right - the sea is rising. This will be the first inhabited atoll to be completely swallowed by the sea. The two thousand native people on the Island the size of a couple of football fields all know what’s causing this. Global warming!
Global warming? How the fuck do they know this? Tribal legend? It must be something because as the reporter says gravely not even one scientist has been here to study this catastrophe. The ungrateful bastards. Have they no shame?
But one of the things we see with global warming is unpredictability.
Because the weather was always calm, clear and 25 degrees every day before we upset Gaia with our nasty emissions.
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2007 03 13 at 07:11 AM • permalinkExcept being able to predict the screaming remnants of civilisation, plagued with malaria, crammed on the rooftops of penthouses, whilst the bloated corpses of drowned polar bears lap at their flood wrinkled toes will happen on the 17th of March 2034.
Can’t be the right date. The zombies are gonna rise in 2046. March 31st. 3:04pm.
Or something like that.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2007 03 13 at 07:20 AM • permalinkYou will never guess what the autopsy determined… That’s right, “climate change”.
Coming soon, to an episode of CSI…
(Seriously, just how does one test for “global warming” during an autopsy?)
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2007 03 13 at 07:23 AM • permalink#5: I immediately thought of the immortal line: “Are you trying to seduce me, Mrs. Robinson?”
So, let’s if we have this straight: bring attention to global warming by going to the coldest place on earth during winter. Riiiiiight. You know this is an evil trick by Big Oil to make fun of the global warmongers.
Posted by Tommy Shanks on 2007 03 13 at 08:13 AM • permalinkNews flash, this just in......
Bears shit in the woods.....
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 03 13 at 08:47 AM • permalink”...one of the things we see with global warming is unpredictability."
So gloomy warbling is unpredictable, you say? So that would make it like that other thing ... what’s it called again ... oh yeah - the F***ING WEATHER!
Assclowns.
Posted by Don Charleone on 2007 03 13 at 09:06 AM • permalink"Can’t be the right date. The zombies are gonna rise in 2046. March 31st. 3:04pm.”
Rob, where is Bishop Ussher when we really need him?
Posted by Urbs in Horto on 2007 03 13 at 09:23 AM • permalink#60 There’s no truth to media reports, moptop, that several gentlemen in white fur coats from Hallibearton paid the Pan-Arctic Cooking Organization™ to outfit the group. At least I think that they were fur coats, I mean, if they had existed and requested PACO™ to outfit the group in the first place. That they didn’t. (Ooh. Dodged a bullet there.)
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 03 13 at 09:42 AM • permalinkBancroft, 51, became the first woman to cross the North Pole on a 1986 expedition. She and Arnesen, 53, of Oslo, Norway, were the first women to ski across Antarctica in 2001.
So, these two two people were experienced in arctic/antarctic conditions? And they were surprised by the cold?
The frostbite sounds like something almost out of their control (almost). But the rest of their problems could have been anticipated, it seems to me.
WTF!?!??!?!
Comedy gold, people. Comedy gold.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 03 13 at 09:44 AM • permalinkAutopsy revealed “climate change” as a cause of the bear’s death? I am sure the 30.06 slugs the hippies fired into the bear had naught to do with it’s demise…
Posted by Major John on 2007 03 13 at 10:01 AM • permalinkThey went to the North Pole … and they were surprised by the cold.
I guess the tank top, short shorts, and flip-flops didn’t work out.
Posted by Bruce Rheinstein on 2007 03 13 at 10:18 AM • permalink#4 Speaking of warning labels to stupid folks, take a look at this. http://www.flickr.com/photos/49405310@N00/416068029/
I believe it is addressed to global warming folks, specifically.
#42 - it’s probably just Gilligan moving the lobster trap sticks again!
Posted by Nova Scotia Mike on 2007 03 13 at 10:26 AM • permalinkA North Pole expedition meant to bring attention to global warming was called off after one of the explorers got frostbite.
ROFLMAO! “Too stupid to live” really should be a valid diagnosis.#35: “By the way, no liberals were harmed in the video.”
Too bad. :-( Better luck next time.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut on 2007 03 13 at 10:48 AM • permalinkHmmmm.
And this is the “reality-based community”.
My brain exploded at around comment #20.
Posted by memomachine on 2007 03 13 at 10:59 AM • permalink"#9 That is good romeo. I put that alongside the remark that reducing one’s carbon footprint (or whatever) is the eco-equivalent of a Christian’s crossing himself: we know it makes no difference but we do it to demonstrate our piety”
Who’s this ‘we’? I neither know or care why you do it, or if you do it. Why I do it is none of your concern, and by definition, you can’t know. You can only take a wild ass guess.
If the Religion of Peace hacks children and aid workers apart, we have to be subjected to inane comparisons to Christianity.
Now Christians are getting the same for this eco stupidity. Next time, make the comparison to Muslims praying five times a day. And don’t forget to post your home address with it.
O?T
Poor oppressed little mass she is, rooted a couple of Jihadis and all of a sudden your government grants stop for no apparent reason.....
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 03 13 at 11:38 AM • permalink#79 You said it Blue Hen. Christian bashing is perfectly acceptable (to everyone aside from Christians, that is).
And I don’t even want to hear Don’t turn this into a theology thread!! either. Blame #8 and #9 for opening the can of worms.
And for the record, not all Christians cross themselves. Catholics and some Lutherans do (maybe others too - don’t know)
Don’t they know, if you pack your swim suit you’re pretty much guaranteeing it’s going to be colder than you expect.
Posted by alien kiwi on 2007 03 13 at 11:46 AM • permalink"But one of the things we see with global warming is unpredictability."
Quite right, because who could predict sub-zero temperatures in the Artic in March?!
The North Pole will freeze over before I let dumbass, clueless wankers like this decide anything about my future. Er, wait a minute…
BACKLASH ALERT! BACKLASH ALERT!
Hollywood has a thing for Al Gore and his three-alarm film on global warming, “An Inconvenient Truth,” which won an Academy Award for best documentary. So do many environmentalists, who praise him as a visionary, and many scientists, who laud him for raising public awareness of climate change.
But part of his scientific audience is uneasy. In talks, articles and blog entries that have appeared since his film and accompanying book came out last year, these scientists argue that some of Mr. Gore’s central points are exaggerated and erroneous. They are alarmed, some say, at what they call his alarmism.
“I don’t want to pick on Al Gore,” Don J. Easterbrook, an emeritus professor of geology at Western Washington University, told hundreds of experts at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America. “But there are a lot of inaccuracies in the statements we are seeing, and we have to temper that with real data.”
Mr. Gore, in an e-mail exchange about the critics, said his work made “the most important and salient points” about climate change, if not “some nuances and distinctions” scientists might want. “The degree of scientific consensus on global warming has never been stronger,” he said, adding, “I am trying to communicate the essence of it in the lay language that I understand.”
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Kevin Vranes, a climatologist at the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado, said he sensed a growing backlash against exaggeration. While praising Mr. Gore for “getting the message out,” Dr. Vranes questioned whether his presentations were “overselling our certainty about knowing the future.”
snip
In his e-mail message, Mr. Gore defended his work as fundamentally accurate. “Of course,” he said, “there will always be questions around the edges of the science, and we have to rely upon the scientific community to continue to ask and to challenge and to answer those questions.”
That’s a bit of a tune change for the (no nuancy boy he) Gorebot, yes? Seems suddenly there’s room for debate. Link
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 03 13 at 11:48 AM • permalinkCompletely irrelevant, but an autopsy performed on an animal is called a necropsy. [/pedant]
OK, then what do you look for during a necropsy that identifies the cause of death as “global warming”?
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2007 03 13 at 11:49 AM • permalinkBy the way, you have to click on that link on #35. It is too good to miss. A little girl (who doesn’t get hurt BTW) goes to a polar bear exhibit dressed as a polar bear herself. She looks more like a baby seal. Hilarity ensues as the cuddly wuddly bear suddenly and inexplicably goes into predator mode.
#85, since I brought it up. First, they used the term “autopsy”. Second, they said that the bear had almost no fat reserves. They then concluded that the only reason for this must have been that the salmon had disappeared. Missed that one, last time I was in Alaska, there were so many rotting salmon in the streams that the seagulls ignored them.
"They were experiencing temperatures that weren’t expected with global warming,” Atwood said. “But one of the things we see with global warming is unpredictability.”
In the Catholic Mass, the host and the wine are transformed into the body and blood of Christ. But they don’t taste like flesh and blood. That’s part of the miracle!
#86 moptop,
Look again, she’s wearing a baby seal on her head.....that makes it even better!!
Posted by Old Tanker on 2007 03 13 at 12:43 PM • permalinkOk, here’s how truly stupid these people are:
They are being flown hundreds of miles south to Resolute from their current position. So, what’s the weather like in Resolute for March 13th:
Average maximum temperature: -28C
Average minimum temperature: -35C
Highest temperature recorded: -7C (in 1950)
Lowest temperature recorded: -46C (in 1961)For those of you unfamiliar with Canadian weather in general and the arctic in particular, these temperatures do not take into consideration ‘windchill’. Forecast for today: high of -30C with an extreme wind chill making it feel like -56C.
So, the current weather conditions are about normal for the area (extremely cold).
# 82 Texas Bob
Good point. Why the Christain bashing? And why the complaining when Christians react to it? I don’t notice Christians here starting any of it.Also, comment # 9 says free will is that little hook on which to hang the inconsistent, and that only makes real sense to believers.
That makes no sense even coming from an atheist. If there is no God then admittedly your life is without any intrinsic meaning or value (cheery thought) so that may explain the hostility to Christians, but what does it have to do with free will? In fact if you believe your life is the result of a series of purposeless accidents then the whole question of free will versus determinism, or any other question for that matter, must also be meaningless.Moonbats. Arctic. Mid-Winter. Frostbite.
Could there be any other result?
Moonbats never let reality get in the way of their fondest fantasies.
They were experiencing temperatures that weren’t expected with global warming,” Atwood said. “But one of the things we see with global warming is unpredictability”.
Naturally. Severe cold is a sure symptom of gerbil worming.
I think a wake up call is in order.
The amazing thing is that both of these women had been there before and they were STILL surprised. Proof that for a true progressive, dogma trumps experience every time…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 03 13 at 03:15 PM • permalink#68. The frostbite sounds like something almost out of their control (almost). But the rest of their problems could have been anticipated, it seems to me.
I dunno, it would appear the frostbite was also due to stupidity. Namely, they failed to ensure their gear was well clear of a landing plane. You guessed it, the plane hit their gear. Thence in repairing the resultant damage to a shoe, failed to ensure the strapping tightness would not create problems for the foot, hence the frostbite. Elementary really.
# 97 & 98
The remark (#9) that started all this was directed against Christians, but only when it’s responded to are your delicate sensibilities somehow offended.If you believe you are able to create meaning in a meaningless universe, which was somehow the result of a cosmic accident and you’re calling what I said stupid, then what you said is cosmic stupidity.
If anyone ever created any meaning in this universe it wasn’t you and your wishful thinking - it was Jesus Christ.
"Maybe our Christian friends should refrain from calling our lives worthless”
By my count, one person made a comment about worth. Using a plural isn’t called for here.
I had asked for people to refrain from likening Christianity with eco fads. No support came from anyone, except someone else who appears to be Christian.
I’d rather ignore the atheist/agnostic trolling, Blue Hen, no matter how b.s. or OT. You, Texas Bob and Newman didn’t (although I fully agree with your motivation), so we were treated to a second and third bout of sermons from our intellectual and moral superiors, which is something I’d have preferred to do without especially as it’s so OT.
Posted by andycanuck on 2007 03 13 at 04:50 PM • permalinkCan I add on to Kyda (#84) with this from the SMH on Al Gore:
There is a rising chorus of concern, extending even to “moderate” scientists with no political axe to grind, over the former US vice-president’s tactics and advocacy.
The debate is ‘settled’, but there’s a ‘chorus of concern’.
Oh and Quiggy is shaving his beard.
Have your say on the Today show Daily poll. It seems viewers are running at 61% not believing Al Gore.
Posted by Viril Brun on 2007 03 13 at 06:25 PM • permalinkIt’s mid March and I’m already having to run my air conditioner to stay comfy.
I am now a gerbil warmenonger. If gerbils having warms that need enongering in order for me to be able to save on my utility bills until later in the year, then lets all get to enongering them gerbils until they’re all warmed out.
Since I am a newly converted GW Fanatique, I ask that all of you send me photocopies of your purchase receipts for your new Prius’s by end of business, Friday after next.
Also, I like blue, so all y’all get blue Prius’s and then we could be like in a club, or whatever.
# 103 Motop
I looked at your link. You said “...worshipping a false god” is a waste of “...our incredibly precious time on the planet.” (Calling life “precious” seems like quite a leap of faith for an atheist. The planet came about by accident, remember?)
Clubbeaux responded that “...life without God is meaningless.” (Keep in mind that the topic that day had to do with God.) And you took that as a personal insult? (By your own standards your original remark should have been considered insulting to those who believe in God - i.e. Christians.)
Today, as usual, there were no gratuitous and unnecessary remarks about atheists’ beliefs, but it was a jibe about Christians which started this. Now the atheists are acting wounded and sensitive. Atheists like to dish out the insults, but apparently they can’t take any response to them.
ot my old boss is an athiest and I have seen him struggle to find meaning / higher purpose. In the end it settled down to his family and him improving himself and teaching others to be successful. He finally seems happy and settled with his lot.
I don’t see anything wrong with agnostics saying they are happy with their intrinsic value to society through what they contribute. I don’t see anything wrong with christians who get blamed for all of the world’s ills responding it is either mans’ choice or simply nature. Neither should feel smug over the other.
group hug*
on topic - smart adventurers would have called for fresh supplies if their damaged supplies was going to endanger themselves.
And Scientists so loved the world that they gave their only begotten son, that the United States might not be flooded with 30 foot tidal waves.
Gore 3:16
The Book of GlobalWarmiansPosted by Jay Santos on 2007 03 13 at 06:59 PM • permalink"They were experiencing temperatures that weren’t expected with global warming,” Atwood said.
Well, what in hell did these two oh-so-experienced Arctic explorers expect? 78 and sunny? Dumbshits.
Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 03 13 at 07:11 PM • permalinkGee another thread hijacked because of some miner comment.
Shrill on brother, get those heretics.
Posted by armageddon on 2007 03 13 at 07:23 PM • permalinkI don’t see what’s so bad about comparing environmentalism to an organized religion (whether Christianity or any other). Nobody’s saying that being openly religious is functionally equivalent to being a nutty enviro, just like nobody (at least here; I can’t speak for crazy leftoid atheists) asserts that all religions are functionally equivalent irrespective of what a religion’s followers choose to do with it.
Still, the language and certain rituals certainly do start to show some definite resemblances; if anything that’s a knock on environmentalists for not admitting the religious nature of their own belief system already.
Nevertheless, making comments like “If there is no God then admittedly your life is without any intrinsic meaning or value” don’t strike me as terribly helpful if you’re annoyed about public anti-Christian prejudice. But then that specific commenter has repeatedly had trouble holding his own anti-atheist/anti-agnostic prejudices in check (and he hardly ever comments on anything else), so it’s not like it’s coming as a big surprise. “Don’t feed the troll” cuts both ways.
Very f*cking upset today. The Simpsons has been threatening to jump the shark for ages, but I didn’t expect it to be on a commie motorcycle.
I’d heard bad reports about the insurgent sympathetic, army recruitment episode, but… FUCK THAT.
WORST. FUCKING. EPISODE. EVER. ARSEHOLES.
Luckily I could switch the channel and watch loons raving about Global Unpredicitabilty, wrongly arrested Al-jazeera operatives or (shudder) Dancing With the We Wish We Were Fucking Stars.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 03 13 at 07:31 PM • permalinkHere’s a list I made of a few of the world’s leaders I thought have been reasonably good and were believers in God, (most of them Christian or Jewish) some current, some historical:
Abraham Lincoln
Winston Churchill
George Washington
Ronald Reagan
Margaret Thatcher
Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Netanyahu
Franklin Roosevelt
Dwight Eisenhower
John Kennedy
Theodore Roosevelt
George W. Bush
Tony Blair
John HowardI know there were plenty of bad ones - Jimmy Carter, Torquemada etc., but I’m talking about the good ones here.
Now the good atheist leaders I could think of:
Pol Pot
Josef Stalin
Vladimir Lenin
Mao Tse Tung
Fidel Castro
Enver Hoxha - glorious Albanian dictator
Nicolae Caeusescu - Butcher of the Carpathians
Kim Il Sung
Kim Jong Il
Ho Chi Minh
Adolph Hitler - I think he was a pagan/atheist but feel free to disagree and drop his name.Care to add any names to the list of good atheist world leaders? I realize this isn’t proof of anything, but food for thought if your mind is open.
#120 - Could just as easily say, the difference is they are all from the anglosphere.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 03 13 at 07:44 PM • permalinkDemonstration of how humans are responsible for warming on Mars
Posted by TattooedIntellectual on 2007 03 13 at 07:48 PM • permalinkPW 116
I have never brought up the subject of religion first that I can recall. But when I reply to a remark about Christians by an atheist like you, if that’s what you are, you get your shorts in a knot. So that makes me a troll? Let’s not get into name calling. You wouldn’t like it if I called you a Euroweenie crybaby, would you?
This is the first time I ever recall hanging out for the appearance of the Blair News Helicopter. Where the hell are you, 1.6?
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 13 at 07:58 PM • permalink#124 - Sure didn’t. Because the things that set those leaders apart have far more to do with the institutions and rule of law of the countries and people they represent, than their own personal religious beliefs. Personally, I like my leaders to have a touch of the fear of God about ‘em. Stops the bastards getting cocky.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 03 13 at 08:00 PM • permalinkBut when I reply to a remark about Christians by an atheist like you, if that’s what you are, you get your shorts in a knot
Actually, what gets my panties all wadded up is that you’re coming across as a bonafide asshole most of the time. Your religious message is mostly incidental here; I tend to get similarly annoyed by people pushing any other subject with the zealotry and one-sidedness that you do.
You wouldn’t like it if I called you a Euroweenie crybaby, would you?
Hey, I’ve called myself that, so go right ahead. Okay, I think my words were “Euroweenie wuss”, not “crybaby”. Not that I expect that approach to be for everyone...your shtick is evidently “obsessive defensiveness” rather than “self-deprecation”; well, whatever works.
I do feel pretty vindicated in my assessment that you’re pretty much a troll (of the “single-issue poster” variety), by your post #120 alone. If not in intent, then at the very least in effect. It’s just very hard to take seriously anything you write, even if there might be a good point hidden among it from time to time.
(Feel free to have the last word, I’m done here.)
Hey 1.6, thank cripes you are here to bring a little commonsense to this thread…
BTW I think that there is a fantastic mockumentary just begging to be written about globular warming ala inconvenient truth. In fact, I’m sure some commenters here could write it.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 13 at 08:22 PM • permalinkMargos, I have the chopper waiting and ready to go. You’re the winner, Swinish didn’t turn up to win his prize. Let’s go for the Chopper ride!!!!
I’ve packed a chicken and Champers lunch abd we’re off to the Snowy Mountains to see Australia’s “god” country .
Ready? (Tim B, you’re not invited as Dave S says you have a girlfriend!!)Have she left you yet? If so Im still available, not for long but still am.All ready, 1.6.
This could be like Thelma and Louise, except good.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 13 at 08:26 PM • permalink#132 - Hey 1.6, go easy on the champers if you’re the pilot. We need Margos back here later to clean up the lint and dropped apostrophes.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 03 13 at 08:26 PM • permalinkThanks 1.6, but I’d only cramp Margos style. Very romantic out there I hear.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 03 13 at 08:33 PM • permalinkMmmh comfy. This is also the first chopper I’ve been in that uses a runway.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 13 at 08:36 PM • permalinkMy day is certainly looking more interesting…
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 03 13 at 08:37 PM • permalinkSo which one of you guys is Margos and which one is 1.618?
Any chance of a drink?
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 03 13 at 08:39 PM • permalinkI’m the one with sideburns, and she has the moustache.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 13 at 08:40 PM • permalinkAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagghh…
Sorry 1.618. I’ve bailed out. That movie reminds me of an ex-girlfriend. Lying, cold, gold digger…
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 03 13 at 08:43 PM • permalink#115 armageddon
Shrill on brother, get those heretics1 Unnecessary derogatory comment made OT about Christians
2 Several Christians object to the comment
3 Wounded atheists reply to the cruel nature of some of the objections although one of them started it
4 armageddon wisely determines that this is a hijacking which occurred after a miner made a harmless comment
Spew on brother, get those fanatics
Dr. Alice, why does Christian bashing (however “harmless") have a place on this thread, or at least has to be ignored. If you don’t like what I said, why don’t you ignore it? What are you, some kind of hijacker?
And as a supposed Christian, what’s your answer to mild mannered Texas Bob who first objected to it? I respect him for having the guts to address it in this forum which is full of hypersensitive atheists ready to cry “hijack” if anybody replies to a snide remark. But what you said is insincere drivel.Time for heading back 1.6, I think we lost IT.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 13 at 08:47 PM • permalinkThe original occupants of this thread are dead set unlucky. They’ve been hijacked twice, by very different groups indeed!
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 03 13 at 08:48 PM • permalinkThanks 1.6 - awesome trip. Only downside is helicopter hair.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 13 at 08:50 PM • permalink....one of the things we see with global warming is unpredictability."
On the contrary, I think it’s entirely predictable that goreball wampuming will be blamed/credited/used as an excuse for everything from charcoal filter impregnated fartcatchers to the real estate bubble, until some new idiocy rears its head.
I’m predicting alien invasion as the next big thing- hasn’t been around since the ‘50s, and fashion knows nothing else except recycling.
This threads harder to follow than a David Lynch film.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 03 13 at 08:57 PM • permalinkNewman, the one who started being unpleasant is you. As for the rest of you who have decided to bring up the BORING TEDIOUS IMPOSSIBLE-TO-RESOLVE atheism-vs.-Christianity argument in this unrelated thread are all on the verge of being banned. As is Newman. Shut up or be shut out. It’s that simple.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 03 13 at 08:59 PM • permalinkI should have said “join in” not “bring up.” I am tired and therefore cranky. I have not gotten over my time-change rage, so watch it.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 03 13 at 09:00 PM • permalink#169 - Jews, followed by the slowest runners.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 03 13 at 09:13 PM • permalinkMs. Bancroft was interviewed on National Public Radio today. The interviewer gently tried to suggest that it seemed a bit ironic to abort the mission, so to speak, because it was so cold.
Ms. Bancroft saw nothing humorous or even ironic in the way things turned out. In short, exactly according to the old joke about how many feminists it takes to change a light bulb.
#171 It is so unlike the left not to see the funny side
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 03 13 at 09:17 PM • permalinkIt’d be fun to start spreading the word among the Gorons that these clowns weren’t stopped by the cold, but were bought off by the US government to keep their mouths shut about the near-tropical conditions they found (littered with bloated, half-rotten corpses of drowned polar bears of course). I wonder how many of them would buy it.
Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 03 13 at 09:18 PM • permalinkOr doesn’t it matter, as we’re all going to drown in superheated, rising oceans, or be scarfed by starving, shedding polar bears?
I’m confused.
If the atmospehre is heating, shouldn’t this increase evaporation and lower ocean levels?
I for one would like to know just what’s being done by the worlds governments to overcome the greatest current threat to the planet and its resident fauna and flora- I speak of the Illudium Q36 Explosive Space Modulator!
(I believe Tim Flannery’s just finishing a book, and the Al Gore movie’s in final editing as we speak).
#170- you haven’t been keeping up- it’s a well known fact that those cunning Yids will use their giant brians, financial acumen and scientific self-interest to flee the doomed Earth prior to the cataclysm du jour, having pillaged the planet of all its resources (and a goodly quantity of Gentile baby blood for the trip).
#175 - Nefarious foreskin dodging bastards.
The Caliphate and the beheadings would almost be worth it, if they promised to do the arts community first. I’d even pay to go to that festival.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 03 13 at 09:29 PM • permalinkPW 130
I think you’re more “deprecatory” than “self-deprecatory” so I don’t think you should be bragging about how endearing you can be. I haven’t ever called anyone here an asshole, but I guess only an atheist should be allowed to do that and still congratulate himself on how great a guy he is. But remember, it’s the last resort of an ignoramus to start name calling.
Once again, I have never been the first to bring up any “religious message” as you call it. I just replied to anti-religious (mainly anti-Christian) nonsense from people like you. You’re the ones with the OT “message”. You just get mad as hell when it’s opposed. Sounds like fanaticism to me. Hmm. A fanatical atheist, I wonder what that would look like. Oh, yeah, Pol Pot, Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Castro…But remember, it’s the last resort of an ignoramus to start name calling.
That is a beautiful sentence.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 03 13 at 09:34 PM • permalinkAndrea, sorry, I wrote my last comment before I read your command to stop the argument.
Well, what would Jesus do? Meekly submit or continue to provoke the Administrator and get banned? Just kidding. Obviously, I’m not much like Him, or I wouldn’t have gotten the nice atheists so mad at me, but I’ll stop.glubbul wommering eats sea off sydney. sort of. well maybe not
#161 He, Habib, you forgot the polytheists.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 03 13 at 10:06 PM • permalink
Who are they going to sue?
Santa?