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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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I'm fairly well convinced by man made climate change.
And even if I am wrong, there's no harm in acting as if it's definite anyway. That's what I really don't understand about deniers. What harm can possibly be done by trying not to fuck things up?

Alt: When I was really young, I was in the car on a long journey and I sang 'Do your ears hang low, do they wobble to and fro, can you tie them in a knot? Can you tie them in a bow?' and my Dad told me to stop and asked me who taught me that grown ups song.

I think that said more about him than he intended it to.
(, Fri 7 Oct 2011, 12:15, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)
You see?
I had to read your post several times and still took me a while to understand why your father thought that song was rude. Dirty mind, he's got.
(, Fri 7 Oct 2011, 12:18, Reply)
Indeed.
The first poem he taught me, which I promptly told a teacher and got told off was

Ships on the water, smooth as glass
I saw a monkey sliding on his ask no questions
tell no lies, I saw a chinaman doing up his flies are a nusiance
bugs are worse, that is the end of my little verse.

Not dirty really, but not the best thing to teach a five year old.
(, Fri 7 Oct 2011, 12:32, Reply)
Something is scaping me
Unless you think the word chinaman is racist and kids shouldn't say it.
(, Fri 7 Oct 2011, 12:42, Reply)
No, it's teh implied
sliding on his arse/ask no questions

and flies being the bit that gentlemen zip up and down when they need a wee wee, which is rude when you are five...
(, Fri 7 Oct 2011, 13:05, Reply)
That's my argument against deniers basically.
Ok so you might not believe in climate change, but we are wasting a lot of "stuff" and we shouldn't waste so much "stuff" and we're too reliant on other countries for our energy needs so why fight against the green movement.
(, Fri 7 Oct 2011, 12:18, Reply)
Yep
I tried to convince them by comparing their every day lives and how they wouldn't want to wast their money or time, so why wasting anything else... most of them buy food for a family twice the size of their family and end up throwing away a full fridge every week.
(, Fri 7 Oct 2011, 12:21, Reply)
Their comeback is always
"the economic damage caused by trying to pander to these ignorant people who believe in climate change will be awful for us all"
(, Fri 7 Oct 2011, 12:21, Reply)
And that's so much not true
Developing countries can't see it yet, because they usually have a lot of raw material, but in Europe and the States, making machinery and factories more efficient means less waste, which means more product/energy saved. The initial cost might be more expensive, but the profits are a lot higher too.

It's like spending money on a car that consumes very little and has almost no emitions. Yes, it's more expensive, but yes, you save a lot on fuel and you recover the money pretty quickly.
(, Fri 7 Oct 2011, 12:30, Reply)
I usually answer that with "shut up"

(, Fri 7 Oct 2011, 12:30, Reply)
My answer is better

(, Fri 7 Oct 2011, 12:43, Reply)
Shut up

(, Fri 7 Oct 2011, 12:46, Reply)
:_(

(, Fri 7 Oct 2011, 12:48, Reply)

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