Well, we have this stupid tabloid news channel run by that Aussie guy... It has really fucked up the whole political discourse here and Obama cannot affpord not to play up to it a little. I remember he used to not wear a flap lapel pin claiming that so many people who wear them aren't all that patriotic. A few weeks later he was wearing one.Rum wrote:Well for a few days there Obama was very pointedly calling it 'British Petroleum' instead of the more usual BP. It is about as British as Camembert these days.Ian wrote:I don't think Americans are blaming BP because it's a foreign company. I think people would be just as critical of Exxon-Mobil if they were the ones who owned that rig.Martok wrote:I wonder how many Americans know BP is half American?
Our shiny new Prime Minister phoned him a couple of days ago (true) and told him to fucking stop it and he has. That'll learn him.
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What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
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Price of gas will go up.
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That would have happened anyway. Now they have another excuse.Woodbutcher wrote:Price of gas will go up.
What I've found with a few discussions I've had lately is this self-satisfaction that people express with their proffessed open mindedness. In realty it ammounts to wilful ignorance and intellectual cowardice as they are choosing to not form any sort of opinion on a particular topic. Basically "I don't know and I'm not going to look at any evidence because I'm quite happy on this fence."
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Why gas, I thought it's an oil leak 
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Please welcome our esteemed colleagues from the "Thoughts on BP" thread. Mergie mergie!!
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Imagine a world in which we are reliant upon juggling babies for most of our energy. Usually our energy producers do not drop the baby. Any of them who do are bad persons for dropping a baby. A world populated by rational persons might attempt to move away from baby juggling or oil as a major energy source and thus do away with the looming threat of dropping babies or killing countless millions of animals and polluting hundreds of thousands of miles of coastline (and Americans are rather upset right now because it's American coastlines and American industry that are impacted- not because BP is British). Unfortunately, neither my hypothetical world nor this world is populated by rational beings.
So don't drop the fucking baby.
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Need to merge this with the "People are picking on OJ" thread, please.
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It's like being black. One drop of British and the whole company's British!Martok wrote:I wonder how many Americans know BP is half American?
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I wonder how many Americans know that Obama is half white?
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I'll pass that on.Mishakal wrote:
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FBM wrote:I wonder how many Americans know that Obama is half white?
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