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Last updated on August 6th, 2017 at 05:47 am

The YoungTubers celebrate Earth Day. Happily, tubers “persist for one season only.”

Posted by Tim B. on 04/23/2007 at 05:22 AM
    1. Those poor, innocent children.

      Where are their guardians?

      Posted by Ash_ on 2007 04 23 at 05:36 AM • permalink

 

    1. “We can make a difference.” Perhaps, but not a positive one, I think.

      #1 “Where are their guardians?” Behind the camera generating clouds of smug, I’d say.

      Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 04 23 at 06:01 AM • permalink

 

    1. Owww! My eyes!
      All I kept hearing was “SIEG HEIL!!!!” from a bunch of crazed Hitler Youth.  Young Tubers.

      A few observations:
      1) Don’t wear a Skull and Cross Bones hoodie when trying to convince me to do anything.
      2) Don’t lecture to me about litter, while policing up the yard in front of Dad’s $500K mansion in Santa Monica.
      3) Don’t lecture to me about turning down the heat and reducing your parents heating bill, when you should be doing something about reducing their grocery bill.
      4) Recycling gift paper as a book cover? If you were REALLY dedicated, you’d refuse the gifts entirely, thus saving even MORE carbon credits.
      5) Protests and rallies do in fact raise awareness. Your’s alone has risen my awareness to the fact that your parents are morons and should be imprisoned for breeding.

      Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 04 23 at 06:24 AM • permalink

 

    1. The progeny of Mr Potato Head.

      I haven’t seen haircuts like that since when Leif Garrett was hip, and the earth is dying spiel is straight out of the Whole Earth Catelogue era- if bell bottom jeans with rear zips stage a comeback it’ll be time to reintroduce the draft.

      Posted by Habib on 2007 04 23 at 06:52 AM • permalink

 

  • Oops, italic rampage.

    Posted by Habib on 2007 04 23 at 06:53 AM • permalink

 

 

    1. Help!

      Posted by Habib on 2007 04 23 at 06:54 AM • permalink

 

    1. #4 With regards to the hair, they might also be the progeny of Dee Dee Ramone.

      Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 04 23 at 06:56 AM • permalink

 

    1. Those poor, innocent children.

      And one bald, middle-aged, Scottish git who fancies himself a comedian.

      Posted by andycanuck on 2007 04 23 at 07:58 AM • permalink

 

    1. I can’t remember, Habib – why was the earth dying back in the ‘70s?

      What I mostly remember is the crazy feminist collective cookbooks my mother had, and something about ‘Findhorn’ which was some drippy collective in Scotland(?) where if you buried a bulls horn packed tight with yak dung and shredded tiger testicles at midnight on a full moon you could grow lush crops of tomatoes and kumquats and lychees and watermelons out of your own arse.

      And Lyall Watson. Supernature. Marshmellowheads like my mother, god rest her soul, still loved him even after he got debunked. I can just imagine Lyall Watson having a field day with Al Gore’s ‘The earth is out of balance with the rest of the Universe’ thesis.

      Yes, it’s all very ‘70s isn’t it. Horrible effing decade. Sigh.

      PS, talking of the children of hippies, where’s Penguin these days?

      Posted by JonathanH on 2007 04 23 at 08:00 AM • permalink

 

    1. for nostalgia’s sake, here’s a link to Findhorn. And here’s a sample of that yak dung I was talking about:

      ‘The Findhorn garden grew from a rich compost and it is apt that Findhorn spirituality should also sprout from its own steamy mix, a fecund blend of positive thinking, psychism, esotericism, and—less often acknowledged—evangelical Christianity’

      Ah. My lost youth. I’m afraid I had a Leif Garrett haircut too. But I’ve ended up to the right of Genghis Khan so there’s hope yet.

      Posted by JonathanH on 2007 04 23 at 08:13 AM • permalink

 

    1. Nice line in total self aggrandisement.
      “In 2107 when the new Youtubers make a video, they can point to us in 2007 as making the change.”
      FFS.

      Posted by boxofmatches on 2007 04 23 at 08:25 AM • permalink

 

    1. I think it was pollution, nuclear war/winter and overpopulation. When you think about it, one would cancel out the other two, but logic’s never had any place in any of these hippy dip scenarios.

      The really pathetic thing is that these little creeps are utterly mainstream, marching to the beat of a whitebread band so regimented and dogmatic it makes the Coldstream Guards look and sound like Snoop Dog.

      They’re latter day Mouseketeers, with Al Gore in the role of an overweight, sartorially challenged Mickey (at least he’s got the annoying, cloying vocal style down pat).

      Posted by Habib on 2007 04 23 at 08:26 AM • permalink

 

    1. Stop this bitching, Beau Geste is just about to start on Fox Classics.

      Posted by Rafe on 2007 04 23 at 08:35 AM • permalink

 

    1. OK kids, it’s sing-along time!

      Who’s the leader of the mob, that’s fooling you and me?
      F-U-C, K-I-N, G-G-O-R-E

      Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 04 23 at 08:38 AM • permalink

 

    1. Doo-doo-doo, da-da-do-do-wow!
      There’s a place that is magical and full of rain
      But now it needs help because it is in pain
      Protecting the earth is a mighty big chore
      We’re spreading awareness like never before!
      Getting Gay with Kids is here
      To spread the word, and bring you cheer
      Lets save the rainforest, whaddaya say?
      Being an activist is totally gay.

      Someday if we work hard boys and girls..
      There’ll be nothing but rainforests covering the entire world..

      Getting Gay with Kids is here
      To spread the word, and bring you cheer
      Getting Gay with Kids is here
      Lets save the rainforest, it’s totally gay
      It’s totally gay.

      Posted by iowahawk on 2007 04 23 at 08:44 AM • permalink

 

    1. Off Topic: Isn’t it great that a non-Gaullist, Anglo-friendly Hungarian, who’s hated by the left, is on his way to becoming President of France.

      Posted by monaro on 2007 04 23 at 09:39 AM • permalink

 

    1. #16 What will Adele Horin’s French friends say when they meet up with her for a latte?

      Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 04 23 at 09:46 AM • permalink

 

    1. #17 sotto voce you have some froth on your mouth.

      Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 04 23 at 10:24 AM • permalink

 

    1. `umi ter~o tag/o

      Esperanto for “Fuck Earth Day”

      Posted by joe bagadonuts on 2007 04 23 at 10:29 AM • permalink

 

    1. Texas Bob—You kidding?  You can’t buy a poolhouse in Santa Monica for $500k…

      Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 04 23 at 10:47 AM • permalink

 

    1. more like US$850-900k for a “fixer-upper.”

      Posted by dub kitty on 2007 04 23 at 11:47 AM • permalink

 

    1. Happily, tubers “persist for one season only.”

      Unhappily, it seems like a lot longer.

      Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 04 23 at 12:47 PM • permalink

 

    1. Um, isn’t that a private swimming pool to the right of the kid picking up trash “in the neighborhood”?

      Posted by m on 2007 04 23 at 02:01 PM • permalink

 

    1. Sorry, a “Tuber” is someone who rides an inner tube from a tire (or tyre, depending) down a snow-covered hill.

      Smashing into trees is, of course, entirely optional.

      Posted by mojo on 2007 04 23 at 03:27 PM • permalink

 

    1. Smashing into trees is, of course, entirely optional.

      Yeah, but they’d only do it once.

      Posted by kae on 2007 04 23 at 07:19 PM • permalink

 

    1. Don’t wear a Skull and Cross Bones hoodie when trying to convince me to do anything.

      This generation’s Niedemeyers all wear hoodies and bandanas…

      Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 04 23 at 11:42 PM • permalink

 

    1. Niedemeyers. heh

      Posted by dean martin on 2007 04 24 at 03:44 AM • permalink

 

    1. #20-21. OK, OK, so I’m out of touch with real estate prices in the land of Fruits and Nuts. So sue me.

      Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 04 24 at 06:22 AM • permalink

 

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