Posts by Publius Aelius Hadrianus 8 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Jul 2008
Whinge, whinge, whinge. Why all the hateful diatribe? The Met office are trying to help you and frankly I think their forecasts are pretty accurate most of the time.
So what if a few Daily Mail -reading cretins got their charcoal soggy? If you can't understand the meaning of 60% probability you don't fricking deserve a weather forecast.
While we're on the topic - does anyone else remember that annoyingly hummable Phil Collins song "It's a groovy kind of love"? It was so obviously a rip-off of Clementi's Rondo from the Sonatina in G major, op. 36 no. 5. I just wanted to put that on record because it's been really bugging me for the last 22 years.
Unfortunately Mr Clementi died in 1832, so there's clearly a need to extend the Copyright entitlement period to Life + 160 years so the Clementi family can then sue the ass off Phil Collins.
(so to speak)
I feel so sorry for Larrikin Music. Think of all the hard work and effort they put into writing and performing Kookaburra. How they must have wailed and gnashed their teeth when they recently discovered that people around the world had been paying Men-at-Work for that blatant rip-off rather than paying them for the rights to sing Kookaburra.
It is a sad tale of great woe.
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Robinson,
Whilst it's true that tropical rainforests are biodiversity hotspots, you shouldn't give the impression that biodiversity would increase in a hotter climate. The fossil record for the last 520 million years shows that biodiversity (on both land and sea) has been relatively low during warm ‘greenhouse’ phases, whilst the rate of extinctions during these periods is relatively high. [see eg http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/275/1630/47 ].
Also note that the overall abundance of life in the oceans is greatest in colder waters, which is important because humans like to feed on fish.
Oh, and chill out man.
Artificial trees soak up thousands of times more CO2 than an equivalent sized real tree.
... and don't forget, real trees breathe out CO2 at night, unlike artificial ones.
Plants really are rubbish at sucking up CO2. To quote the presenters on Top Gear,
Jeremy Clarkson : “How many tomato plants do you need to get rid of the emissions from a Range Rover ?”
James May / Richard Hammond : “400,000…your greenhouse would have to be six miles long.”.
Yep - we need to replace all trees with artificial ones in order to save the environment.
How many people here *really* believe these people were just out to let off a few firecrackers at the check-in desk? This kind of bomb would only kill a few people on the ground, but hundreds in a pressurised aircraft. And when has anyone ever recorded a suicide video for "a documentary"? Their solicitors just made up these weaselly arguments to get them off - and amazingly it worked.
Someone here said the 'clincher' would have been if they'd got their airline tickets. But why stop there? They could say they only wanted the tickets to get airside to make a scary popping noise in TieRack.
Get real. And don't believe that these people will respect you any more for letting them play the system.
Why should forgo my flight to New Zealand and have to buy those irritating low-energy lightbulbs when my next-door neighbour goes and drops four sprogs who will wipe out all of my attempts at being 'green'? And of course their sprogs will soon have more sprogs thus ramping up their carbon emissions exponentially.
I'd much rather live in a world with half the number of people, so we'd all be twice as rich. Houses would be half the price, food cheap as chips and we could burn petrol gleefully without feeling guilty.
And for all those who are worried about having people to care for them in their dotage, there's an obvious solution - LET PEOPLE MIGRATE FROM AFRICA.
Easy. Problem solved.
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