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PUBLIC TRANSPORT IS DANGEROUS

Bad news: little children are about to be crushed by the runaway train that is global warming. Good news: for now, at least, the Smurfs remain threatened only by aerial assault.

(Via andycanuck)

UPDATE. Gerry C. emails: “Just reflecting on that train ad and it occurred to me that everything should be OK when those kids grow up. All they will need to do is say sorry for our treatment of them, and award themselves some compensation.”

UPDATE II. The ad would be much cooler if the children were run over by a Pitbull.

Posted by Tim B. on 03/16/2008 at 07:00 PM
  1. I’m not sure why they think nothing can adapt to a 1-degree temperature change over 100 years (although I’m not sure whether there has actually been a temperature change or not)when the day to evening temperature change may be 50 degrees or more.

    Posted by SwampWoman on 2008 03 16 at 07:13 PM • permalink

  2. That was a feel good message. We’ve got 30 years! Some crank told me we had until 2012! What a relief.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 03 16 at 07:17 PM • permalink

  3. A shock jock says we have 10 years to tackle it, tho it’s the same guy that interviewed Dr Karl after Dr Karl made those comments about clean coal.

    Posted by Old school on 2008 03 16 at 07:40 PM • permalink

  4. re the smurfs..

    KILL THEM!  KILL THEM ALL!!!  MWAHAHAHAHA!

    Posted by bondo on 2008 03 16 at 07:51 PM • permalink

  5. I think Tim has previously reported, though I can’t find it, someone saying “It’s too late”. I’ve heard people on the radio saying the same thing.
    The problem is that they patently don’t believe it is too late. They keep laughing wryly about it in the comfort that they are so right and others so doomed.
    But really if there was nothing we can do anymore, then firstly we could all stop trying to do anything, and secondly we could all descend into an orgiastic frenzy including really big credit card debts.
    No these people who occasionally let slip “it’s too late” are newbies who haven’t learnt the proper alarmist techniques.
    It will never be too late. Because AGW was only ever meant to be a behavioural lever, and it only works as long as the possibility of future salvation remains as a fulcrum.

    Posted by ooh honey honey on 2008 03 16 at 07:51 PM • permalink

  6. Soul Asylum - Runaway Train

    Runaway train never going back
    Wrong way on a one way track
    Seems like I should be getting somewhere
    Somehow I’m neither here no there

    Nice song.
    But is not using children for immoral purposes a crime?

    Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 03 16 at 07:51 PM • permalink

  7. Wait. Weren’t we all meant to be dead from Bird-flu by now?

    Or was that SARS.

    No, wait. It was asteriods hitting the earth.

    Or was it ManBearPig?

    I find these global catastrophes which will kill us all, so hard to remember…

    Posted by Dan Lewis on 2008 03 16 at 07:53 PM • permalink

  8. Asteroids! I’m STILL paying off my credit card bill from that one.

    Posted by ooh honey honey on 2008 03 16 at 09:02 PM • permalink

  9. I think I have a runaway train news item…

    ABC
    WTVN

    The hazardous material was, by the way, wood.

    Posted by rhhardin on 2008 03 16 at 09:04 PM • permalink

  10. Credit cards?  Don’t y’all know about the coming financial meltdown?

    Wait a minute here.  If the only debt I owe is a house with a year’s worth of payments left, if the financial markets implode and life as we know it stops, I’m the one screwed by not having a serious amount of stuff charged that I don’t have to pay for.

    Damnit, this financial stuff always messes me up.

    Posted by SwampWoman on 2008 03 16 at 09:06 PM • permalink

  11. Hey here’s a runaway jet ABC again of course.
    Anxiety for South Dakota!

    Posted by rhhardin on 2008 03 16 at 09:09 PM • permalink

  12. Another scare campaign involving kiddies

    Posted by Pickles on 2008 03 16 at 09:41 PM • permalink

  13. #7: Silly rabbit, it was Global Cooling, of course.  Am I the only one old enough to remember Newsweek getting all tragedy-Jill about what would happen to those polar bears of their time, the tigers? (Someone wrote in to ask about the ones in Siberia and their survival rates, but the letter got shoved off into a corner and no one ever talked about it again.)

    Posted by Celaeno on 2008 03 16 at 09:42 PM • permalink

  14. At least no-one would ever try saying that the Smurfs didn’t deserve it…

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2008 03 16 at 09:50 PM • permalink

  15. Apparently Farfour is looking for a job. Maybe these guys could employ him?

    Posted by BB77 on 2008 03 16 at 10:00 PM • permalink

  16. The train thing is exactly the same simile used in the movie 1900, which was supposed to represent the inevitable coming of a socialist new order.

    Hardly suprising that these guys would go along the, ahem, same track.

    Posted by BB77 on 2008 03 16 at 10:03 PM • permalink

  17. Well I for one wish the world would quit dilly-dallying around and end already. Piss or get off the pot, Gaia!

    Women. We just can’t make up our minds.

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2008 03 16 at 10:28 PM • permalink

  18. Funny moment during the Australian Gran Prix, when Barrichello exited the pits before they removed the fuel hose from his car. Hilarious shot of the Honda pit crew, wearing their “Earth Dreams” slogan-ed uniforms, standing by watching as fuel poured out all over the ground. Not as funny as those Smurfs, though.

    Posted by Latino on 2008 03 16 at 10:30 PM • permalink

  19. #4- Someone’s followed your suggestion, and gotten medieval on their baby blue bots.

    Posted by Habib on 2008 03 16 at 10:38 PM • permalink

  20. People get ready
    There’s a train a-commin’
    Its squashing young children
    From coasts to coast

    Posted by Irobot on 2008 03 16 at 11:25 PM • permalink

  21. Isn’t that to tenderise them for the polar bears?

    Posted by kae on 2008 03 16 at 11:29 PM • permalink

  22. Will Al make the trains run on time?

    Posted by andycanuck on 2008 03 16 at 11:29 PM • permalink

  23. #21 Works for me

    #22 Might be a bit difficult if they have to stop every so often to scrape off the cow catcher.

    Posted by Irobot on 2008 03 16 at 11:35 PM • permalink

  24. Due to routine maintenance the runaway train has been cancelled today. There will be a runaway bus instead.

    Posted by splice on 2008 03 17 at 01:05 AM • permalink

  25. #24 Who gave the bloody contract to Connex again?!

    Posted by Ash_ on 2008 03 17 at 01:58 AM • permalink

  26. I showed my family some youtube clips of Father Abraham singing the Smurf song. Then i showed them the UNICEF version. Next I told them that this was a pretty good example of why I hate the UN.

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2008 03 17 at 07:54 AM • permalink

  27. #7 When I was a kid, it was acid rain.  It was going to destroy all the trees, kill all the animals, and poison all the water.  They scared the heck out of us with that.  Of course, as a rational adult, I can look back at the “science” of it and spot the nonsense.  As a kid, though… that stuff was scary.  That’s why I get so angry when they try to indoctrinate kids into the AGW nonsense.

    Posted by MikeTheLibrarian on 2008 03 17 at 09:10 AM • permalink

  28. I’m subject to that top propaganda wonderful public service message every now and then on Armed Forces Network Korea, and yes, it has emboldened me at times to crank my aircon and floor heating to the max and let them duke it out (floor heating is the turtle to aircon’s hare).

    And in the Unintended Consequences Dept., if that Smurf’s video isn’t one of the best reasons to go war, I don’t know what is.

    Posted by Tommy Shanks on 2008 03 17 at 09:19 AM • permalink

  29. Obviously Papa Smurf was building Smurfs of Smurfy destruction.  Uday Smurf was still raping Smurfette when the bombs started to fall.  Sadly, the UN Peacekeepers left Rent-boy Smurf HIV positive.

    Posted by Carl H on 2008 03 17 at 09:46 AM • permalink

  30. Dear Santa,

    I’ve been a good girl so far this year, so I’m getting in early.

    Please can I have a pitbull and a selection of smurfs to practice on?

    Yours in eager anticipation,

    love

    nilky.

    Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2008 03 17 at 05:33 PM • permalink

  31. One must have a heart of stone to watch the Smurf video without laughing.

    Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2008 03 18 at 12:46 AM • permalink

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