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Guess the source of this doomstruck Gaian fantasy:
Southern Britain is drowning. Torrential rain has been hammering down for days, floodwaters saturate road networks and BBC News 24 is back-to-backing footage of families being airlifted from their homes. It feels like the end of the world, an apocalyptic payback for all those pillaged oil reserves and raped rainforests and X5s parked at school gates when our obese children could have staggered home.
And perhaps it is. Maybe Al Gore’s worst case scenario isn’t so far from the inconvenient truth; that we really are deep into a vicious cycle of melting ice caps and brooding, vengeful weather systems. Maybe there’s already no way back ...
Google won’t help you; this was a print-only deal. Commence guessing. Answer in a few hours.
ANSWER: It’s the introduction to a lavish 13-page Ben Barry piece in the October edition of Britain’s CAR magazine, comparing a £94,280 Porsche with a £152,000 Lamborghini. Coverline: “HARDCORE LAMBO & 911 GT3 RS. Head-to-head.”
I used to read CAR quite often. Not so much these days.
#11 It sure ain’t Hillary Clinton. She probably hasn’t had sex since the Reagan administration. Or was it the Carter administration.
Posted by David Crawford on 2007 09 29 at 03:40 PM • permalinkThis is an addendum to the IFCC report.
It’s interesting how atheists can describe an impersonal force like the weather as brooding and vengeful. I guess everyone believes in something.
Posted by Mystery Meat on 2007 09 29 at 03:58 PM • permalinkI vote for
MoonbatMonbiot. Wolcott would having multiple orgasms over the plight of the humans.Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 09 29 at 04:28 PM • permalinkWolcott’s a good guess. The writing’s a little too lucid for Fisk and, besides, this sounds like a Londoner and doesn’t Fisk hang his hat elsewhere? How ‘bout John Pilger?
OT—want some good news (really, really good news maybe) for a change? A Quiet Triumph May be Brewing. Enjoy.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 09 29 at 04:30 PM • permalinkI see the next thread’s about Pilger and Fisk, so I’m betting it isn’t either of them. Although Moonbat’s a good choice, didn’t he already decide that it was the end of the world?
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 09 29 at 04:34 PM • permalinkSounds like Monbiot to me. What’s my prize?
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 09 29 at 04:44 PM • permalinkPerhaps it’s not someone normally associated with gerbil warfing such as Jeremy Clarkson.
Posted by Jack Lacton on 2007 09 29 at 05:22 PM • permalink#19
Video of this incident here:
Diggers defeat Taliban in heavy fighting.Whoever he is, he needs a drink. Stat!!
Posted by Dave in Chicago on 2007 09 29 at 05:50 PM • permalinkIt’s obviously a lost prophecy from the book of El Lune Batte, the actual author of the Nostradamus predictions who was written out of history because she was a deaf black chainsaw-wielding lesbian.
The great Batte, second only to Agnes Nutter in stunning accuracy, unfortunately had her second sight trained on a television playing The Day After Tomorrow. Ah well, even Homer nods.
Posted by Tungsten Monk on 2007 09 29 at 06:02 PM • permalinkO/T’ish. For those not aware, the link at #17 corresponds to the increased levels of Taliban action seen at #19. The lowlands around the southern provinces (Helmland,Oruzgan) are where the Taliban ‘s last tangible source of cash is. Opium poppy plantations. These are being systematically destroyed by coalition forces, the reason that the Taliban is now attacking with greater desperation than before. It’s not safe anywhere for a jihadi now, all their regular supporters have sold them out or are being pressured with annihilation. No thanks to our progressive ‘enlightened’ brethren amongst us.
I’ll see that David Cameron and raise a pair of celebs, David Attenborough and
NobboBonoPosted by eeniemeenie on 2007 09 29 at 07:00 PM • permalinkDeductions:
*It’s from someone experienceing “torrential rain in the UK
* the most recent torrential rains in the UK were in June/July this year.
At around that time, a bunch of nutter bishops (including the Bishop of London) in the UK said the floods were judgement from God, for, amongst other things, the support of “gay rights”
I have a horrible feeling this is from the Archbishop of Canterbury. The top theologian in the UK.
I blame wronwright.
Its actually a verbatim transcription from an ancient text printed on a sumerian mead jar.
Sort of an in joke, most pottery makers left a mark, wron got the poor potters to print out a whole article, it wont bewritten till well into the future when scientists have the bold idea of actually creating a media hive mind. (cutting out the middleman)
They combined all of the above mentioned allong with dan rather, and a portion of every daily kos poster.
It wasnt pretty.Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 09 29 at 07:31 PM • permalinkSouthern Britain is drowning. Torrential rain has been hammering down for days, floodwaters saturate road networks and BBC News 24 is back-to-backing footage of families being airlifted from their homes. It feels like the end of the world ...
Look, all I’m saying is Michael Lonie is running the orbital weather machine, not me. And maybe that wasn’t a sound decision by Karl.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 09 29 at 07:33 PM • permalinkThe morning weatherman on BBC 2, trying to one-up his global-warmening denialist colleague on BBC 1?
Posted by Tex Lovera on 2007 09 29 at 07:42 PM • permalinkWhoever it is has a career as the next Stephen King. I wonder what they’ll use for a background musical score?
Posted by dean martin on 2007 09 29 at 07:54 PM • permalinkI’ll have the Ben-ster’s job if he doesn’t want it.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 09 29 at 08:05 PM • permalinkI’m leaning towards the Greer camp as this has a definite feminine hand (I know, I know), but can’t help feeling she have included something like: It feels like the end of the world, an apocalyptic payback for all those pillaged oil reserves and raped rainforests and X5s parked at school gates when our obese children could have staggered home and the feminized women who castrated themselves on the alter of marriage, family and monogamy.
#40—No thanks to our progressive ‘enlightened’ brethren amongst us.
The Mideastern skies could be full of nothing more menacing than childrens’ kites, all the troops could be home and Iraq and Afghanistan could be the very models of democratic and economic stability and they still would be bitching about no WMDs, illegal wars, quagmires and Abu Grab while reminding us yet again that Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9-11. They better Impeach Bush Now because after the surge and current actions in Southern Afghanistan prove successful, it will be too late.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 09 29 at 08:05 PM • permalinkI always admire contortionists:
...and BBC News 24 is back-to-backing footage ...
In modern parlence, clearly someone is inputing when they are accessing their output port. In old fashioned speak, they have their foot in their mouth and their head up their arse.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 09 29 at 08:07 PM • permalinkWell, the answer revealed as I was doing the above. Never would have gone there, but we should have guessed it would be something to do with cars. Why is it anymore that everybody from sports writers to food critics to movie reviewers to fashion columnists assumes we’re interested in their lame political commentary. Everybody, it seems, wants to be a pundit.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 09 29 at 08:17 PM • permalinkTim, this writing is obviously a piece of crap. The word rape suggests a feminist hand (or ... but we won’t go there)
I am inclined to Kyda’s view of a Greerist, but then, generally after work, I am inclined. The hysteria fits but the rhetorical maybes are a bit too sophisticated for Germains.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 09 29 at 08:18 PM • permalinkI am taking the prize for being nearest the pin with my answer at #25.
Posted by Jack Lacton on 2007 09 29 at 08:24 PM • permalinkOdd that this Barry guy isn’t penitently reviewing kayaks, which are obviously the wave of the future in the permanently-flooded countryside of Gaia’s Official Whipping Boy, England.
Posted by Crispytoast on 2007 09 29 at 08:34 PM • permalink#57 I posted #60 before your #57 showed up ... so gthe “hand” reference is my Intellectual Property OK,. so KEEP OFF :^)
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 09 29 at 08:34 PM • permalinkJohn Cadogan in this months Wheels Magazine trots out a very similar turgid, breathless ‘world is doomed’ scientific consensus says so spiel.
I’d suggest you stop testing cars for a living John, the dichotomy of burning hydrocarbons whilst at the same opposing their use must be internally destructive. Quit whilst your behind, and go work for the ABC. You’ll fit right in.With the EU and the UN both straight-jacketing the western countries with Political Correctnes and moonbattery, this sort of narrative will eventually find its way into commentary on everything you can buy, or people you might vote for.
The same people who write this crud are likely to spout the other stuff too: “it’s wrong to wage war, but you can’t blame those jihadi/insurgent/hezboes for using weapons/bombs/AK47s/violence when they get mad at you.”
We are being white-anted. As with Churchills best efforts in the 1930s, nobody wants to recognise where the real threats are, and those who do are without honour in their own countries.
Bruce Thornton has a very scary article on how free speech is already being negated in the EU, with benefits not to the good citizens of EU countries, but to interlopers with attitude.I guess there will soon be similar articles appearing in magazines devoted to private jets. Algore, rockstars and Democrat presidential candidates would not only subscribe, they’d contribute the apocalyptic gerbil warming articles with bon mots about their current favourite method of offsetting their carbon emissions including flatulence.
I was so close to saying it’s from a CAR magazine, not American, possibly British. I really was.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 09 30 at 03:11 AM • permalinkBen is saying, watch out for Lambos and Porsches. They’re going to go Christine on us for our rape of the pristine oil fields.
Posted by dean martin on 2007 09 30 at 04:52 AM • permalinkHow short British memories have become. Part of the Southeast of England are the Fens, a low, marshy area (now mostly drained). Here’s a web site with a bit of history. They used to always get flooded and I believe are still vulnerable to floods. In fact, just this weekend (in between trying to get my “new” car home from North Carolina), I read Dorothy Sayers’ The Nine Tailors, a Lord Peter Wimsey mystery set in the Fens area. The story climaxes with a big flood caused by a dam breaking under the stress of a storm. The story was written some time in the 1920s.
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I’ll put money on Hurricane Wolcott!
I love the bit about pillaged oil reserves, as if the planet needs the oil to stay underground in order to keep the gears of the biosphere well-lubricated.