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Earthquakes in Italy / Landslide in Inbox
16 years ago
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Italy have just begun to bury the victims of the recent earthquakes,
it's the second time they've been buried in as many weeks.
Apparently the 'quakes were caused by a fault line in the tectonics.
So watch out, Colorado, 'cause my ex fiancée is very good at finding faults.
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I've finally got around to dealing with all the comments and general hatred of the column that went out in the newspaper last week. Some of you asked for the best of them, and really, there were very slim pickings. I'd been hoping for something stupid beyond the point of belief, something smart and informative, something written in capital letters with lots of swearing, and a good old fashioned death-threat. I was disappointed on all fronts. This one made me smile though:
"You'll be sorry, when in 100 years time, temperatures will be six degrees higher. Your article was tasteless, and could be harmful to the environment by undermining the good work that [Jonathan Porritt] does. You have no idea what you're talking about."
Grammar, punctuation, spelling, etc, all cleaned up. Okay, so I'll be sorry in 100 years, will I? No, I'll be dead, and in death, glad that I did my bit to provide future generations with a warmer, and more interesting world to live in. Although, six degrees hardly seems like enough, especially when you think, it's probably an exaggeration. My column wasn't tasteless, either, it seemed to leave a fairly bitter taste in their mouth anyway. It could be harmful to the environment? How, when only three and a half people bothered to read it? The "good work" of Jonathan Porritt, lets not forget, is to have state control over population, to say that people are not allowed to live, or to reproduce, because they might add to climate change.
No idea what I'm talking about?
Touché.
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it's the second time they've been buried in as many weeks.
Apparently the 'quakes were caused by a fault line in the tectonics.
So watch out, Colorado, 'cause my ex fiancée is very good at finding faults.
*
I've finally got around to dealing with all the comments and general hatred of the column that went out in the newspaper last week. Some of you asked for the best of them, and really, there were very slim pickings. I'd been hoping for something stupid beyond the point of belief, something smart and informative, something written in capital letters with lots of swearing, and a good old fashioned death-threat. I was disappointed on all fronts. This one made me smile though:
"You'll be sorry, when in 100 years time, temperatures will be six degrees higher. Your article was tasteless, and could be harmful to the environment by undermining the good work that [Jonathan Porritt] does. You have no idea what you're talking about."
Grammar, punctuation, spelling, etc, all cleaned up. Okay, so I'll be sorry in 100 years, will I? No, I'll be dead, and in death, glad that I did my bit to provide future generations with a warmer, and more interesting world to live in. Although, six degrees hardly seems like enough, especially when you think, it's probably an exaggeration. My column wasn't tasteless, either, it seemed to leave a fairly bitter taste in their mouth anyway. It could be harmful to the environment? How, when only three and a half people bothered to read it? The "good work" of Jonathan Porritt, lets not forget, is to have state control over population, to say that people are not allowed to live, or to reproduce, because they might add to climate change.
No idea what I'm talking about?
Touché.
:)
You know you spend too much time on FA when you start getting the headlines about your family from some idiot's journal, instead of from the real world.
I didn't say you did get it from me.
Sadly, some people do. A lot of people... Americans, didn't know about the fires in Australia until I mentioned it. A couple of burning trees and a singed dog in California, and the world goes into red alert, with firefighting aid from all over the state, and beyond, and major media coverage globally. In Australia, enormous, all-consuming inferno, spreading at a rate of over 100mph in places, so fast that people in cars are chased down and burned to death by the wall of flames, and America lies largely uninformed, or just ignorant.
I did my little bit to inform:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1980642/
Well, I thought your article was truth, so forget what the others think, they are wrong anyway.
I don't think forgetting what others think is a good way to spark debate, discuss, or write good columns. It's probably not a good idea if you're trying to keep a job. I'm always open-minded to new ideas, and I'm willing to be convinced if someone has what it takes to convince me; real facts, real evidence, and most of all, real effects. But as yet, there really isn't much that convinces me that global warming is the severe horror that will ruin the planet, and even if it's as bad as they say it is, there's not much that convinces me that it's even a bad thing.
The Italians will bounce back from these earthquakes.
After all, they're well known for their ruins, and leaning towers.
Being open minded is a great way to learn, as in the adage about the parachute only working when open.
But like a parachute, if left open to the superflous, it fails to function due to choking, much the same way, with a person who wishes only to loudly announce their beliefs whilst denouncing yours is not a part of a debate, they are merely trying to shout you down.
I like your thoughts, they are provocative and of a wit not seen in general, at least over here. Here, an argument is thought of as a verbal or text disagreement, and those concepts are wholly differing animals.
Be the world's oldest furry, and you can tell everyone about how weird we are.
Earthquakes in Italy:
the planet's way of shaking its booty.