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Title: That's a lot of oil.
Post by: Emperor Reagan on May 16, 2010, 11:30:14 PM: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126809525 (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126809525)

70,000 barrels of oil per day spurting into the ocean.

Of course, BP "believes" there's absolutely no possible way to calculate how much oil is currently destroying the gulf...
Title: Re: That's a lot of oil.
Post by: Tru on May 17, 2010, 12:06:23 AM: It's simply devastating to the people who depend on fishing, clams, shrimp and other aquatic enterprises. And it's all because Haliburton didn't install the proper shut off for the well head. They probably saved about 5 million on that decision.

And WE will pay for all of it (heed my words) and Halliburton will skate yet once again.

<edited for spelling error while TUI.>
Title: Re: That's a lot of oil.
Post by: Tru on May 17, 2010, 12:19:41 AM: Lets start a conspiracy theory. lets say that the explosion was no accident, the result expected and that the devastation to the local inhabitants is an effort to continue the ethnic cleansing that Katrina afforded.

We will still pay for it either way.
Title: Re: That's a lot of oil.
Post by: FAH-Q on May 17, 2010, 02:35:58 AM: Fuck a conspiracy theory, this shit is just awful no matter who suffers from it. Animals, fishermen, whoever. It's fucking terrible and ridiculous to think that BP will take a loss of some sort (by their standards) but will still come out of this fine and will continue to be a super-productive, super-huge corporation. This is a fuckup of a magnitude so colossal that it should sink almost any company in any business, but BP will go on just fine and then everyone will forget, and they'll eventually go back to making their "look how eco-friendly we are!" ads. Bleh.
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Post by: Thrash on May 18, 2010, 11:23:45 PM: /me nods *
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Post by: Lothar on May 19, 2010, 03:35:21 AM: Limbaugh asked today when we are going to go after the Sierra Club for the money to pay for the cleanup.

The.

Sierra.

Club.

From what I remember of it when I was in college, it was a bunch of chicks who liked rock climbing and the dudes who were trying to nail them. When did they become big enough to push all drilling offshore?
Title: Re: That's a lot of oil.
Post by: FAH-Q on May 19, 2010, 05:32:30 AM: This is the second time I've ever heard the Sierra Club mentioned. The first time was in a Hiaasen novel; Native Tongue, I believe. In that, it was in reference to a bunch of old ladies with lots to say but that accomplished nothing. I'm almost surprised to learn that it wasn't some Hiaasen-invented group.

BTW, I opened this thread just now thinking that it was a new one. Then I realized that I'd read it and, oh, there's what I wrote at some drunken point. And my post made pretty good sense to me, which my drunken posts often don't.

Then I realized that I'm currently about as drunk as last night, and I'm up even later. FIngers crossed that anything I've posted tonight makes some kinda sense tomorrow.
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Post by: Tru on May 19, 2010, 06:19:13 AM: I used to be a member of the Sierra Club and how the fuck are they blaming this shit on them?
Did they blow the fucker up? Because I have often advocated destruction of the global oil empire.
But I doubt they would take such an action, calculating the human toll.

Sorry, I don't watch the news.
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Post by: Zoomie on May 19, 2010, 07:37:19 PM: It's Limbaugh. The tighty righties hold them responsible for the price of gas since they lobbied to STOP drilling on public lands, most of which became national parks. So Limbaugh, that fat fuck who is not a political commentator, he's an infotainer, thinks it's funny to ask them to pay for the clean up. On what fuckin planet is that even entertaining, much less thoughtful commentary. And Lothar why are you putting that excrement in your ears?
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Post by: Lothar on May 20, 2010, 04:56:39 AM: My doctor told me that I have to fly into a murderous rage once a day.
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Post by: fyrenza on May 20, 2010, 06:08:04 AM: imho, there won't BE any "forgetting" NOR "getting over" this.

I'm in shock over this.

MILLIONS of people are going to die over it, and it's going to be a miracle if there is ANY marine life, plant OR animal, left in the oceans of our plant.

I don't know if any of y'all might know ~ WHY were the dispersants used? What made it a Good Idea to force this noxious SHIT to MIX with the water, instead of floating up and being siphoned out of some sort of "corral?"
Title: Re: That's a lot of oil.
Post by: Emperor Reagan on May 20, 2010, 10:07:14 AM: The reason they want to just dump chemicals is because all of the other technology is really expensive and no one has had the balls to force oil companies to plan for disaster. Oil skimming ships, centrifuges, etc. were ignored by the oil industry and the only way they would have been built is if the government had held the oil industry's feet to the fire about having feasible plans to recover from a disaster.

Evidently, the valves like the valves that failed in this instance fail pretty frequently. And the regulatory body that is supposed to oversee such things is so chummy with the oil industry that they often fail to inspect or supervise when it comes to the installation and maintenance of said valves.

On one hand, this won't be forgotten. This is going to be devastating to the environment in the gulf and in coastal regions. It's going to affect multiple generations of people and wildlife in both the gulf and in the surrounding areas.

On the other hand, this is going to be immediately forgotten. Look at how quickly the politicians have forgotten the disaster with banking - the can't even agree to do something about extremely basic things in the banking industry that would be fraud if you or I did them, to say nothing of the larger issues that have to be addressed with respect to "too big to fail" institutions.
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Post by: Lothar on May 20, 2010, 05:14:35 PM: Well, we certainly can't hinder the free expression of Capitalism, can we?
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Post by: Lothar on May 20, 2010, 05:17:07 PM: P.S. Has anyone actually seen this oil rig's birth certificate?
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Post by: Zoomie on May 20, 2010, 08:40:59 PM: Things I learned listening to NPR today:

The well had no been commissioned yet; that is to say it had not started producing. Haliburton had the contract to mud (pour concrete into the drilling tobe to form the well head. A job they obviously did very poorly because industry analysts, engineers and experts believe that it was this failure that cause the rupture and ensuing explosion. Thank you once again Dick Cheney. Of course Haliburton had a stockholders meeting yesterday and told everyone that there was no way they would be held responsible.

It is not the toxicity of the dispersants but the toxicity of what they convert the oil INTO that we need to worry about. Don't eat seafood for the rest of your life. It would be very bad.

BP has been lying all along. Examinations of the spill plumes from satellite and undersea cameras indicate that the well is not leaking 5,000 barrels per day but somewhere between 20,000 and 100,000 barrels per day. The reason BP hasn't capped the well is because it is likely to be the highest producing petroleum well ever drilled and we can't let those profits just slide away, can we? Also the sheer amount of production has them scared and confused. Allegedly.

Shrimp, crabs, and the majority of seafood that is caught in the Gulf of Mexico are spawned in the deltas and bayous and shallow estuaries of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida panhandle. These delicate ecosystems will not likely survive. The vegetation that grows there will die almost instantly. This vegetation also is a natural form of erosion control. One big storm like Katrina and the gulf coast could move inland. Up to 20 miles. The islands almost the gulf coast will be annihilated.

The surface and subsurface plumes have reached the gulf loop of the gulfstream. This could conceivably pollute every beach and destroy all marine life from Biloxi, down the gulf coast to the straits of Florida, all of Cuba and the Bahamas, all the beaches and coastal islands from Key West to Newfoundland, Greenland, Iceland, Ireland, England, France, Spain, North Africa, etc etc etc.

Looks like 2012 came a little early...
Title: Re: That's a lot of oil.
Post by: mosh on May 20, 2010, 09:12:14 PM: You need to stop listening to that alarmist communistical utopian radio network. Only FOX news has the TRUTH!

Eating hydrocarbon infused seafood is GOOD for you! And what's GOOD for you is GOOD for all!
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Post by: Zoomie on May 20, 2010, 09:52:15 PM: Peace and love, peace and love!

Ringo Starr says he's too busy to sign autographs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAU0l7325w0#lq-lq2-hq)
Title: Re: That's a lot of oil.
Post by: Emperor Reagan on May 20, 2010, 10:30:06 PM: I always thought the bit in the book of Revelations about poisoning the earth's waters was pretty terrifying when I was into reading it all of the time, with the poisoning of a third of the waters.

We've already done better than that, with runoff, heavy metals, toxic chemicals, medications, and now this ongoing disaster. Who needs divine intervention to fulfill prophecies that say humans are dicks and destroy everything?
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Post by: mosh on May 20, 2010, 10:32:14 PM: MONEY GOOD, ECOLOGY BAD!
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Post by: Zoomie on May 20, 2010, 10:46:48 PM: I just applied to go down there and cleanup. Pay is ok, overtime, per diem, etc. We'll see.
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Post by: fyrenza on May 20, 2010, 11:53:20 PM: Oh, Aaron!

Though I'm excited that you might be coming our way,

I'm scared shitless about you being on the "front lines!"
Title: Re: That's a lot of oil.
Post by: Thrash on May 21, 2010, 08:49:15 PM: They say that if this "next move/try" doesn't work it way be until AUGUST until they can do something when they commission ANOTHER drilling rig ...
Title: Re: That's a lot of oil.
Post by: Tru on May 21, 2010, 09:09:14 PM: Quote
Re: That's a lot of oil.
Title: Re: That's a lot of oil.
Post by: fyrenza on May 22, 2010, 08:17:48 AM: It's hit Louisiana, and the pix aren't looking good...

You know, Exxon Valdez happened in '89, and 31 Years Later,

it's STILL not "cleaned up" NOR has the aquaculture returned to normal.

Once it's out there, there is NO getting it back,

yet it is allowed to just GUSH forth more and more death, while everyone sits around twiddling their thumbs.
Title: Re: That's a lot of oil.
Post by: ttfg on May 22, 2010, 11:24:40 AM: Seems to me they are doing exactly what was done on the rig off the WestAu coast.

"allowed to just GUSH forth" Really ? Sounds like you know how to stop it.
Title: Re: That's a lot of oil.
Post by: Zoomie on May 22, 2010, 12:50:45 PM: Check out the big brain on Brian! You got better ideas, let's hear them.
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Post by: ttfg on May 22, 2010, 12:55:10 PM: I didnt say any ideas (they have tried) so far, were good or bad. I'm just telling people this has happened recently... and this is exactly what they did.

You got a problem with that ?
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Post by: Nitya on May 22, 2010, 01:19:38 PM: Fight! Fight! Fight!
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Post by: Zoomie on May 22, 2010, 04:47:38 PM: Actually I do. Your oil company (and since it is BRITISH Petroleum with you being a subject) is destroying our country. I don't give a damn what they did in Australia. It's not working here. Do something else. Do it now. This is apparently something that BP thinks they can buy their way out of and I think they're going to find out that they are wrong.
Title: Re: That's a lot of oil.
Post by: ttfg on May 22, 2010, 05:24:46 PM: 1st: Was not a BP rig in WestAu. I was refering to Big Oil and what the can do about spills aint no different to what they did here.

2nd: Au is to Britian as Canada is to Britain... We (Au) just cant be fucked to sign the divorce papers.

3rd: There is no else. You gota wait it out till the drill down and tap it out. BP has already bought it way out of it with the cap on enviro damages.

4th: It aint BP destroying your country. It's your country destroying your country. (that I know you know and I know you don't support)

5th: You got another 2 months of this (rough guess, id bet a bit shorter)... then we got a lifetime of shit. Just like we will have next time it happens... and it WILL happen.
Title: Re: That's a lot of oil.
Post by: FAH-Q on May 22, 2010, 07:27:25 PM: Quote from: fyrenza on May 22, 2010, 08:17:48 AM
You know, Exxon Valdez happened in '89, and 31 Years Later,

Umm...?
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Post by: mosh on May 22, 2010, 11:57:29 PM: hahahahahaha
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Post by: Lothar on May 23, 2010, 02:37:05 AM: Well at least I can fry my shrimp in the oil that it is prepackaged in.

DRILL BABY DRILL
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Post by: Zoomie on May 23, 2010, 08:27:30 AM: Again, it's supposition, but it is strongly suspected that the reason they haven't just terminated the well is because it is likely to be the highest production oil well ever drilled and BP refuses to abandon it.

Yes Brian I know these things, That was half joking and half anger after watching some videos of the area. And congress is debating lifting the cap. We'll bleed those bastards.
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Post by: mosh on May 23, 2010, 09:24:10 AM: When is the US going to break up, USSR style?
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Post by: Thrash on May 23, 2010, 08:12:24 PM: ... piece by piece as the damage settles in
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Post by: Tru on May 23, 2010, 11:13:04 PM: I give it about another 60 years. Maybe less. So much for the great New American Century.
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Post by: Zoomie on May 23, 2010, 11:57:32 PM: About 20 years after the EU breaks up. You don't see the fed rushing to bail out California like the EU did Greece. Same level of corruption though. Very stupid move...
Title: Re: That's a lot of oil.
Post by: Emperor Reagan on May 24, 2010, 12:24:19 AM: At least the people in Greece are rioting, because they know they've been ripped off by corrupt leaders.

No one is rioting in the US.
Title: Re: That's a lot of oil.
Post by: Zoomie on May 24, 2010, 12:25:56 AM: I blame O.B.E. White America can no longer do math.
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Post by: Thrash on May 24, 2010, 12:40:49 AM: Quote from: Emperor Reagan on May 24, 2010, 12:24:19 AM
At least the people in Greece are rioting, because they know they've been ripped off by corrupt leaders.

No one is rioting in the US.

No, we're "tea partying" ...
We're such pussies ...
Title: Re: That's a lot of oil.
Post by: Lothar on May 24, 2010, 04:46:13 AM: I would say that you wouldn't believe the crackdown that would happen in this country. it would make T-Square look like a tickle fight.

However, some of you are old enough to remember Kent State. Hell, Tru was probably there collecting pop cans.
Title: Re: That's a lot of oil.
Post by: fyrenza on May 24, 2010, 07:28:21 AM: Quote from: banal on May 22, 2010, 11:24:40 AM
Seems to me they are doing exactly what was done on the rig off the WestAu coast.

"allowed to just GUSH forth" Really ? Sounds like you know how to stop it.

Well, actually, I do. The way to seal it is nukes, used as had been planned for construction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plowshare (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plowshare)

So do they, but if they seal it, it's all over. They won't be allowed a second chance. (Good call, Zoomie ~ I think you're spot on!)

Quote from: FAH-Q on May 22, 2010, 07:27:25 PM
Umm...?

21 years! (Oops!)

Quote from: passmore on May 22, 2010, 11:57:29 PM
hahahahahaha

And You! Shut that piehole!

Quote from: Lothar on May 24, 2010, 04:46:13 AM
However, some of you are old enough to remember Kent State.

Kent State wasn't the ENTIRE COUNTRY, and it also wasn't the hugely popular cause that this is.

tbh, I'd be surprised if anyone in our military/national guard/police/whatever were to kill other citizens for rioting about this. If they did, without some UBER exceptionally good reason, it would be the beginning of the end 'cuz it would be ON.
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Post by: Tru on May 24, 2010, 11:38:49 AM: Quote from: Lothar on May 24, 2010, 04:46:13 AM
I would say that you wouldn't believe the crackdown that would happen in this country. it would make T-Square look like a tickle fight.

However, some of you are old enough to remember Kent State. Hell, Tru was probably there collecting pop cans.

Pop came in bottles back then.
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Post by: ttfg on May 24, 2010, 12:08:19 PM: Quote from: fyrenza on May 24, 2010, 07:28:21 AM
Quote from: banal on May 22, 2010, 11:24:40 AM
Seems to me they are doing exactly what was done on the rig off the WestAu coast.

"allowed to just GUSH forth" Really ? Sounds like you know how to stop it.

Well, actually, I do. The way to seal it is nukes, used as had been planned for construction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plowshare (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plowshare)

So do they, but if they seal it, it's all over. They won't be allowed a second chance. (Good call, Zoomie ~ I think you're spot on!)

Nukes ? umm, A controled nuke would need to be burried...

It would be quicker to drill the tap hole and plug the leak... (that's just one (and the least) reason to not use a nuke)

Nukes ?

I'm .. I

Nukes ?
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Post by: Zoomie on May 24, 2010, 01:04:17 PM: Wow. Banal knows how to cap a broken pipe that is at least 24 inches in diameter, gushing at a pressure of +1000psi and is over a mile underwater.

Halelujah, the world is saved.
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Post by: ttfg on May 24, 2010, 02:57:05 PM: I nukes aint the answer.

And tapping IS a method known to work. It's the last option to be tried due to being the most expensive.

Sorry if I actually paid attention to how the other leaks were delt with. We can't all be new to this type of story.
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Post by: Lothar on May 24, 2010, 05:53:18 PM: So, ending the Vietnam War wasn't a hugely popular cause?

Ok, then. I'll go get my textbooks from Texas.
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Post by: Zoomie on May 24, 2010, 07:31:42 PM: Quote from: banal on May 24, 2010, 02:57:05 PM
I nukes aint the answer.

We're Americans, cleaning up some other country's bullshit. Nukes are precisely the answer.
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Post by: fyrenza on May 25, 2010, 04:52:46 AM: Quote from: banal on May 24, 2010, 12:08:19 PM
blah, blah, blah

Nukes ?

Did you read that article??? It's so exciting, to me!

YES, nukes. WHATEVER "fallout" may occur couldn't be worse than all of the chemicals, and it would be SEALED. ONE shot.

Have you considered lasers?

I wonder about that, but it seems like they'd have to be on site, which means BUILDING something that could malfunction, it's OWN self.

What are YOUR ideas?

<~ waits with baited breath
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Post by: fyrenza on May 25, 2010, 04:57:09 AM: Quote from: banal on May 24, 2010, 02:57:05 PM
We can't all be new to this type of story.

We must be SUCH a disappointment to you! roflmfao!!!

We're NORMAL. Which means: Whatever we might have learned, a thousand years ago, in SCHOOL?

Yeah. We forgot!

But I can only speak for Zoomie and me! rofl!!!

Sorry, babe!!! It's teh funneh!!!
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Post by: fyrenza on May 25, 2010, 05:01:29 AM: Quote from: Lothar on May 24, 2010, 05:53:18 PM
So, ending the Vietnam War wasn't a hugely popular cause?

Ok, then. I'll go get my textbooks from Texas.

Do.

I didn't grow up here,

nor was I educated here,

except for college.

No. When Kent State happened? It wasn't something that anyone let themselves think about too long, nor too hard.

Folks gave up their children, and worried about them, and watched them die, and if we weren't "right?"

It was all for nothing.

The history books won't tell you that, but we will.
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Post by: fyrenza on May 25, 2010, 05:04:36 AM: Quote from: Zoomie on May 24, 2010, 07:31:42 PM
We're Americans, cleaning up some other country's bullshit. Nukes are precisely the answer.

And you wEnder how I could love him, SO MUCH?!?

<~ closet pyro, that almost cums at the thought of blowing shit up!
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Post by: Lothar on May 25, 2010, 04:40:29 PM: You do realize the Vietnam war wasn't "won" by the Vietnamese, but rather "lost" at home?
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Post by: Thrash on May 25, 2010, 05:12:58 PM: Shshshshshshshsssshhhhhh!!!

Tru might hear you as well!!!
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Post by: mosh on May 25, 2010, 07:26:59 PM: Quote from: Tru on May 24, 2010, 11:38:49 AM
Quote from: Lothar on May 24, 2010, 04:46:13 AM

However, some of you are old enough to remember Kent State. Hell, Tru was probably there collecting pop cans.

Pop came in bottles back then.

So I've heard... no woman would touch him.
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Post by: Tru on May 25, 2010, 10:39:28 PM: Quote from: Lothar on May 25, 2010, 04:40:29 PM
You do realize the Vietnam war wasn't "won" by the Vietnamese, but rather "lost" at home?

Fuck you dumbass
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Post by: Lothar on May 26, 2010, 01:16:52 AM: Put on your bifocals so you can see the quotation marks, or else go ahead and build that crow's nest across the street so you can get a good shot as I come out the door.

Actually, I guess you'd need the bifocals for that, too.
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Post by: Tru on May 26, 2010, 10:50:08 AM: Hahahaha
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Post by: FAH-Q on May 26, 2010, 08:55:12 PM: Quote from: passmore on May 25, 2010, 07:26:59 PM
Quote from: Tru on May 24, 2010, 11:38:49 AM
Quote from: Lothar on May 24, 2010, 04:46:13 AM

However, some of you are old enough to remember Kent State. Hell, Tru was probably there collecting pop cans.

Pop came in bottles back then.

So I've heard... no woman would touch him.

BA DUM CHING!

Haha good one though, I actually chuckled out loud.
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Post by: Tru on May 26, 2010, 08:58:43 PM: Would you prefer touching pop in the can?

Aww hell, pop's in the bottle right now.
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Post by: fyrenza on May 27, 2010, 06:43:52 PM: As soon as sex toys became common,

sodie in bottles sort of went out of style.

Coincidence?
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Post by: Phaedrus on June 03, 2010, 02:31:35 PM: THE BP BLUES www.dirtycajuns.com (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du2O8MY5CrI#lq-lq2-hq-vhq)

I don't know....I kinda like it.
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Post by: Tru on June 04, 2010, 04:53:51 AM: I Too
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Post by: fyrenza on June 04, 2010, 05:16:32 AM: Quote from: fyrenza on May 25, 2010, 05:04:36 AM
Quote from: Zoomie on May 24, 2010, 07:31:42 PM
We're Americans, cleaning up some other country's bullshit. Nukes are precisely the answer.

And you wEnder how I could love him, SO MUCH?!?

<~ closet pyro, that almost cums at the thought of blowing shit up!

It was Lost At Home 'cuz we didn't stand the fuck UP and say:

Those dudes that DIED?

They died for ME, 'cuz i'm a fucking pussy that can't have to kill folks, on demand.

They did what i just couldn't,

and even though I might not "agree,"

they didn't even resort to the I Am Special option,

they went,

and they did,

and they did it for US.

Right, wrong or in between, you cannot question someone about how they were willing to put their very LIVES down for us.

They DID it, and all we can do is cry, and thank them.

Soory* ~ daughter, wife AND sister to military personnel who were there and did that, as asked, for ME,

and all of us.

*that means SO SORRY
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Post by: 13chemicals on June 05, 2010, 12:29:36 AM: Soooo you are FOR war and killing? I don't get it.
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Post by: The Geek on June 05, 2010, 09:29:00 AM: if I wrote a book
incomprehensible posts
would this board buy it?
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Post by: Zoomie on June 05, 2010, 09:34:41 AM: I'm considering
if you type with your penis
it's a bestseller.
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Post by: mosh on June 05, 2010, 09:15:38 PM: Quote from: FAH-Q on May 26, 2010, 08:55:12 PM
Quote from: passmore on May 25, 2010, 07:26:59 PM
Quote from: Tru on May 24, 2010, 11:38:49 AM
Quote from: Lothar on May 24, 2010, 04:46:13 AM

However, some of you are old enough to remember Kent State. Hell, Tru was probably there collecting pop cans.

Pop came in bottles back then.

So I've heard... no woman would touch him.

BA DUM CHING!

Haha good one though, I actually chuckled out loud.

And here I was thinking that slid by...
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Post by: Nitya on June 06, 2010, 05:59:01 AM: BP pensioners are so screwed.
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Post by: Zoomie on June 06, 2010, 07:30:09 AM: Just on a general point it's "BP" no longer "British Petroleum". Half the Board are Americans, more shareholders (by %) are Americans than from the UK and way more workers are US employees than in UK. Shares listed in London, Frankfurt, Paris and... New York. Head office is still in the UK - at the moment. It's possibly fair to call BP an international company, but a bit of a stretch nowadays to call it a "British" company. If anything it's American.

So sorry for my earlier comments about Brits. OTOH, Fuck you Randy Prescott. "Louisiana is not the only place that has shrimp" you say? The Gulf of Mexico is not the only place that has oil. And fuck the pensioners. The oil business is a risk.
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Post by: mosh on June 06, 2010, 08:00:11 AM: Yeah, we have shrimp on barbies... apparently.

Royal Dutch Shell isnt a Dutch company by any means either. The whole concept of nationality for multinationals is quaint, to say the least.
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Post by: Zoomie on June 06, 2010, 08:17:55 AM: If Paul Hogan says it's true, I believe him.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b3/ShrimpOnTheBarbieScreenshot.jpg)
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Post by: mosh on June 06, 2010, 08:37:18 AM: Paul Hogan LIES!
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Post by: Zoomie on June 06, 2010, 09:47:53 AM: Blasphemer!
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Post by: Thrash on June 09, 2010, 03:42:35 PM: Now they're saying there is, and there isn't, a second leaking drill ...
WTF?!?

/me sighs *
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Post by: Emperor Reagan on June 09, 2010, 04:41:50 PM: There's been a lot of outright lying and disinformation with respect to this oil spill.
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Post by: Thrash on June 09, 2010, 05:38:54 PM: Tell me about it ...
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Post by: 13chemicals on June 10, 2010, 01:10:20 AM: Why don't you guys stop bitching about the oil thing, go down to the Gulf, and plug that fucking leak with your dicks?
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Post by: mosh on June 10, 2010, 04:35:17 AM: .
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Post by: Tru on June 10, 2010, 04:55:26 AM: If my balls were big enough I'd sit on it for you ... but sadly ....
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Post by: Zoomie on June 10, 2010, 06:35:20 AM: Because if I wanted to stick my dick in a greasy, fishy-smelling hole... never mind.
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Post by: Thrash on June 10, 2010, 10:28:22 PM: (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f6/SouthPark1403.jpg)
Title: Re: That's a lot of oil.
Post by: Tru on June 19, 2010, 12:29:38 PM: OS Related:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/niger-delta-bears-brunt-after-50-years-of-oil-spills-421634.html (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/niger-delta-bears-brunt-after-50-years-of-oil-spills-421634.html)
Title: Re: That's a lot of oil.
Post by: Zoomie on June 24, 2010, 02:50:25 PM: It's never as bad as you think, it's worse. 2.5 million gallons per day.
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Post by: Emperor Reagan on June 24, 2010, 03:28:44 PM: To be fair, there were scientists saying 2,000,000-4,000,000 gallons per day from the very beginning. It's just that the government and BP have been completely full of shit.

Of course, there are also some geologists that say this well is unlikely to be able to be capped and BP will never extract the "majority" of the oil.
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Post by: Thrash on June 24, 2010, 04:07:54 PM: I'm leaning towards that conclusion as well ....
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Post by: Zoomie on June 24, 2010, 04:29:04 PM: Oh I knew it was worse than they were claiming and I said so in this thread. But 2.5 million GPD just sounds so massive...
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Post by: Thrash on June 24, 2010, 04:41:24 PM: Into how many quintillions of gallons of water?
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Post by: Emperor Reagan on June 24, 2010, 05:07:32 PM: 3.4x10^20 gallons or so.

The problem, of course, is that the "leak" is pouring out in an area where it greatly affects human activity. It's another example of why humans aren't to be trusted with anything other than maybe sticks...and that's a big maybe.
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Post by: Zoomie on June 24, 2010, 08:41:31 PM: I've turned in my stones. But not my guns.