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That’s not stupid. It’s not like the environment is already on its last legs. Theres a proud tradition of coal mining in cape breton after all. A great career where no one gets hurt and safety conditions are always superb. —I’d prefer fracking
This article appears in Dec 4-10, 2014.
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That’s why I’ve invested heavily in Amalgamated Zeppelin.com and an innovative new start-up that plans to import healthy West African males to the Carolinas.
Spats, man! The real money is in spats!
LACKING SOPHISTICATION IN SARCASM
“A great career where no one gets hurt and safety conditions are always superb.” I’d prefer fracking
I found this bitch to be somewhat sarcastic but enjoyable nonetheless since I enjoy sarcasm, particularly my own. Having said that, there are degrees of sophistication in sarcasm and, frankly, the bitcher’s level of sophistication ranks at or near the bottom. Try to be less obvious. Try a bit of humour. Try to lighten up. Try to be more like me.
Look at the pseudo-quote from “The Coast” in my Avatar. Now that, and I’m sure you agree, has a high level of sophistication.
Avatar #100: A 100,000 Reichsbanknote from the Infaltionary period in Germay (“Another Outstanding Achievement!” The Coast)
A pleasure as always,
Cheerio!
Those who liked Ivan’s comment are now banned.
Oh, my god! I demand that this post be deleted immediately and that the OB be banned for life!
OB used the f-word! …..not the original one but the new one …. you know, f-r-a-c-k-i-n-g. Makes me blush to even spell it out!
How was that for sarcasm, mm? Too much? Too little?
On a more serious note, I have relatives in Cape Breton and suspect that some would go back to coal mining if they could because the pay is relatively good. However, I can’t think of anything worse for the environment than burning coal – especially CB coal which tends to be of poor quailty. Coal is really harmful to air quaility, is probably the worst CO2 emitter per unit of energy, and releases large quantities of toxins, such as mercury, into the environment. The worker health and safety issues, especially with soft-rock mining like coal, add another dimension of undesirability. So, IMO we must not return to coal mining in Nova Scotia.
Furthermore, there are sound financial and environmental reasons (more stable energy costs, lower health costs, less global warming) for moving away from the worst fuels like coal and towards renewables such as wind, solar and hydro. The problem is that the transition is going to take a numer of years, so, in the meantime, we have to continue to “keep the lights on” and have no choice but to continue to use fossil fuels to some degree. And we can’t expect other jurisdictions to take all the risk and just send us their gas and oil. So, there are tough decisons to be made. However, I can accept any collective decision, regardless of my own opinions, if it is based on informed discussion ….. and not just governments catering to the vocal, ill-informed minority often referred to as CAVEs (Citizens Against Virtually Everything).
Banned….and SEX-AY!
Not only should we open up coal mines but uranium and other mines and start to become a have province. But we couldn’t have that. We just love the Fed dollars coming in. Just like when dad gave us an allowance, a roof over our head, clothes on our backs and food in our bellies.
WTF is up with nordic walking sticks? Moreso, those who use them…
^^^ supposedly the nordic walking sticks provide a good, full body workout (like cross-country skiing) and help take the weight off the arthritic joints of aging overweight boomers (typical users.)
The problem is that it’s impossible not to look like a twit when using them.
Reminds me of something I overheard a young guy say once: “Dating an older woman is like riding a moped. It may be a lot of fun but you sure don’t want your friends to see you”.
take more than a couple of skinny poles to lift the weight off my disreputable knees.
maybe a couple of hefty Ukrainians….
^^ don’t get all excited about the upper case u zeit. damn software does it by itself.
VIVA IL DUCE!
RSVP
: Zappy Zietgeist (10:45AM)
Sorry to be a “douche froide” Zappy, but your “fracking” reference scored only a 2/10 on my card. The reason for this is that it lacked that essential element of humour essential to all sophisticated sarcasm.
For example, take my “douche froide” above. As you may know, in Italy during the time of Mussolini the popular chant was “Il Duce ha sempre ragione! Viva il Duce! Viva il Duce!” (“The Leader is always right! Long live the Leader! Long live the Leader!” They pronounced it “Il Doochay.”
After the war the troops were being interviewed as they came down the ship’s gangplank.
“What do you think about think about the popularity of the Duce in Italy today?” the interviewer asked a soldier. “Do you think there will be another resurgence of fascism?”
“Nah,” a soldier replied, “today you’ll find not too many people have any use for the douche.”
Get it? What did I score out of 10? Write back soon.
A pleasure as always,
Cheerio!
mm,
Personally I would give a 0/10 since you were simply recounting the soldier’s sarcasm and provided nothing of substance of your own.
BTW, if you admit to being a douche froide does that mean you carry your lunch sandwich in a douche baggie?
Cheers,
Zeit
I was just teasing about the lack of caps, BDM
And I much prefer all lower case over ALL CAPS which, of course, conveys AN ANGRY TONE! or RAISED VOICE!
I don’t use the shift key because I am a lazy assed bugger. really.
at work the software I use is total caps. so when I send out a work email, I stay in uppercase. I explain once to recipient ( if they question it).
if an entire post is in caps, the case is not significant. if all lower case, the case is not significant. if someone makes one word UPPERCASE then it’s deliberate and conveys emotion.
I am a 2 finger typist. taking typing in my day went along with hair spray and gum snapping.
RSVP
Zippy Zeitgeist (4:29PM)
You have misconceived my point. It was a play on words – “Doochay” as opposed to “douche.”
Clearly, it was beyond your ability. Your second sentence was incoherent.
A pleasure as always,
Cheerio!
^^ mm. The misconception is entirely on your own part since your contribution of “douche froide” is clearly neither satire (in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule) nor is it “sophisticated sarcasm” as you claimed. It is a simple homophonic pun (a play on words using a pair of simialr sounding words with differing meaning – doochay and douche).
… which is why I replied with a pun of my own…..but clearly, my “douche baggie” went “over your head”! (ba-da-bing! heh,heh,heh!)
THE “DOUCHE”-“DOOCHAY” CONTRAST
RSVP Zeitgeist (2:59PM)
Actually, the entire joke was one of my own, including both the “DOUCHE” and the “DOOCHAY” contrast. The first, the “DOUCHE FROIDE,” was to prepare you for the disappointment you would feel on receiving only a 2/10 for your feeble fracking reference but, on typing it out, the old joke about the “DOOCHAY” bubbled up into consciousness.
The humour in contrasting the two words and their meanings will be evident to those who have lived in both Montreal and Rome. In your own case, however, having lived in neither, it clearly was not evident or, as with so much else, even intelligible.
If I were you I would try to get out of Spryfield. Clearly, it does not offer the wide cultural perspective required to understand and appreciate Montrealman’s subtle humour. Alternatively, you might act on your assertion that you are departing Bitch. You must just recognize defeat and humiliation when they are heaped upon you.
A pleasure as always’
Cheerio!
mm said, “If I were you I would try to get out of Spryfield.”
Maybe you should follow your own advice and move out of that room above a crackhouse. Attrocious crime rate in your neighbourhood from what i hear. Be careful!
On my way to the airport recently I noticed a sign advertising an apartment above a laundromat in Côte-des-Neiges. It would be a much better neighbourhood for an older gent like yourself – a step up for you. Think about it.
Hope this helps!
Cote-des-Neiges? You must be joking!
I can’t believe there’s 20 posts & not 1 crack at Cape Bretoners , wouldn’t want to screw up their pogy claims by working’ in a coal mine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FPmSLzsbd…
^^countering with Margaret’s museum. working in a coal mine makes yer dick fall off.