“Possibly the thing one remembers most about Levin – and the most pertinent here – is that although he was certainly a cultured and often an interesting man, he was also possibly the single biggest pompous twit at large in Britain in the Seventies.” – ejh.
Proof thatwanting to punch smug, condescending critics is not a new invention… Bet a few children’s writers want to do this to Martin Amis right now.
Instructions for the making of:
9. There are many different ways to cook eggs but most of them are purely of interest to invalids, children and the feeble-minded. The correct or ‘proper English egg’ is fried with lightly browned edges in the fat left over from the bacon. At the last minute, oil is flicked over the top of the yolk to seal it. This dangerous procedure causes the yolk to form a perfect, golden, viscid capsule, the violation of which with a rough shard of toast, is the nearest that an Englishman will permit himself to unbridled sexual ecstasy.
Via Sore Eyes.
Yesterday, David Willis, creator of webcomic Shortpacked decided to help out a few pals by promoting their book. He wasn’t the only one, this was all a part of a campaign to for one day make Machine of Death the number one book sold on Amazon.com.
They actually succeeded, in the process bumping Glenn Beck’s latest fart collection of that spot and Beck responded in his usual adult manner, mentioning it in his tv show as an example of “the culture of death”.
So the British 10:10 campaign (aiming at cutting carbon emissions ten percent in 2010) put out the satirical video above which, to be fair is a bit heavy handedly ironic and of course the usual numbnuts who still think a wet summer refutes climate change take it seriously and scream about intended genocide. They have to, it’s in their job description (I refuse to believe anybody believes this nonsense without a paycheck being involved somewhere). As everybody who does have a brain should understand by now, these people should be mocked, not argued with.
Unfortunately, climate change deniers are not the onlyones whose sense of humour has been surgically been removed; the same goes for most American environmentalists, who have had their panties in a bunch about this video as well. Case in point:
There were emails from people all saying the same thing: Have you seen this? This was a gross video making its way around Youtube, purporting to show people being blown up for not believing in climate change. It’s been “pulled†from Youtube by its creators, the British climate group 10:10, but of course nothing is ever really “pulled†from Youtube. If you want to watch it bad enough, I’m pretty sure you can find it. Or you can look at the stories by climate deniers assailing it as the latest example of eco-fascism.
The climate skeptics can crow. It’s the kind of stupidity that hurts our side, reinforcing in people’s minds a series of preconceived notions, not the least of which is that we’re out-of-control and out of touch — not to mention off the wall, and also with completely misplaced sense of humor.[…]
JR: The video is beyond tasteless and should be widely condemned. […]
Dear oh dear.
Worrying how the deniers will spin anything is useless. No matter how inoffensive a campaign they will object: that’s what they’re paid for. In fact, all this worrying about how this video sends the wrong message about how authoritarian environmentalists are (percieved to be) is actually reinforcing the deniers’ message. Anybody who thinks this video shows the reality behind the environmental movement or whatever is a loon. Anybody with a functional brain knows that. Complaining about it only validates the loons.
Do big cats like catnip? Signs points to yes.