This last bit x100000

( TFD is sporting this season's finest necropants, Mon 14 Jun 2010, 12:34, 2 replies)

Thirded.
I have been saying this.
( Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Mon 14 Jun 2010, 12:36, closed)

8,000 people died at Bhopal.
eight thousand. After all these years the families recieved compensation of about £900 each, and no US employee has ever gone to trial, and it was widely accepted as negligence. Deepwater horizon is a tragedy, but it needs to be put in perspective.

(my favourite perspective stat is that Exxon Valdise killed, at best estimates, 250,000 birds. That's the same number that are killed by cats in the UK every couple of days)
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 14 Jun 2010, 12:38, closed)

To put it into perspective
More oil is spilled every year in Nigeria than has been lost in the Mexican gulf - www.theroot.com/buzz/nigeria-s-agony-dwarfs-gulf-oil-spill

but no-one gives a fuck because, well, it's Nigeria
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 14 Jun 2010, 14:16, closed)

that very much, too.
that would have been my next rant, but hey, one's enough for a monday.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 14 Jun 2010, 17:18, closed)