global warming

[Scouse Gits]

Well said, La Fayette

But what can one expect from a citizen of the nation that sank the Kyoto Agreement and whose President recently asked a visiting British singer (Charlotte Church) "Which state is Wales in, dear?"

Sorry - I guess I too should go OT

SG[1]

[La Fayette]

Originally posted by Scouse Gits
"Which state is Wales in, dear?"

Sorry - I guess I too should go OT

SG[1]

Isn't Wales one of the 6 nations that play rugby together once in a while?

(Guess which one wins )

OT! OT!

(could playing too much rugby be an explanation for global warming?)

definitely OT

[Scouse Gits]

Hey, La Fayette!
How did I guess you only have 58 posts to go before your Republican ideals will force you to execute yourself!

SG[1] - the boatless ( <- sad in-joke)

[La Fayette]

I had better post those 58 posts before sunday...
because if Le Pen comes to power one won't even need to be king to get executed...
(OT: anyway I bet my forthcoming crown that this is not going to happen)

(La Fayette's face, waiting for something to come on top of it)

[rah]

Originally posted by La Fayette
(La Fayette's face, waiting for something to come on top of it)

That's disgusting, and properly belongs in the OT.


RAH

[Six Thousand Year Old Man]

Originally posted by rah


That's disgusting, and properly belongs in the OT.


RAH

ROFLMAO...

Glad I didn't start all this...

STYOM

[Scouse Gits]

Rah - La Fayette's English is (I hope) not quite that good - but - come to think of it ....



SG[1]

[debeest]

SG1: Be nice, now. Many of us Amurricans are smarter than the oil man appointed by the Supreme Court justices appointed by his daddy. Smart enough to wonder how it is that "politically correct" is only used to refer to left-wingers, when the dominant politics of this country and most governments is thoroughly right-wing. And smart enough to see that that's exactly why the right wing got to define the term.

Then again, maybe I only know about Wales because that's where my grandaddy was born....

[Scouse Gits]

My humble apologies, debeest. Generalisation is extremely dangerous and to tar an entire nation by the actions or comments of a few - even if they appear to be a majority - is unfair and unjustifiable.
But sometimes one just gets wound up too far - here in Britain we live under the most repressive police state in the Western worlld if not in the Northern hemisphere - but will people appreciate this? Not on your life (or their own for that matter). And to hear people from what are perceived to be the more free parts of the world parrotting media hype when at least they have access to the real material is a terrible thing to endure ...........

SG[1]

[La Fayette]

Originally posted by Scouse Gits
Rah - La Fayette's English is (I hope) not quite that good - but - come to think of it ....



SG[1]

...certainly not that good.
Could someone send me a private message to explain?

[debeest]

I'll try to explain Monsieur La Fayette (obviously, by his name, a friend to America ).

Not to worry, SG1, I was just joshin' with ya. (I tried to put a smiley into my last message, but in "quick response" mode I didn't see a way to do it.) I'm not really the sensitive type. The sad truth is that your generalization is justified. If a significant majority of Americans cared enough about avoiding war, protecting our environment, providing health care and housing and education public transport, making sure that all jobs paid enough to live decently on, and caring for the weak and helpless, then we'd elect people who would do those things. Instead we consistently elect people who think the U.S. should throw its weight around in order to make sure that nothing interferes with corporate profit-making. We Americans are in no position to object to criticism.

You're still invited to my house for a big cuppa if you ever want to visit the West Coast.

[Straybow]

debeest: :) is always a smilie unless you disable smilies. Figure this one out.

"oil man appointed by the Supreme Court justices appointed by his daddy"

You crack me up with that one! But that's enough OT for this thread…

[La Fayette]

Originally posted by Straybow

You crack me up with that one! But that's enough OT for this thread…

...just one more post (since I started this and debeest explained):

Rah,
I don't think I would have written that, even in the OT, if my level in English had been high enough.
Let us hope I provided interesting night dreams to some of those who read me .

[Straybow]

I brought somethin to splain myself

Back on topic…

The way global warming is implemented is stupid. No effect (except the little dot changing color) for a long time, then suddenly dozens of tiles change all at once. C'mon, each tile represents thousands of square miles, and changing even one tile should be hard. It takes five turns (a century or more through most of the game) to make an impact by human effort.

LaFayette: We don't need global warming to account for pollution. That's what "pollution" does, which is game feature in itself. You can have gobs of pollution without global warming, and global warming without gobs of pollution.

I'm sure somebody will correct me if I'm wrong, but gw is tied to shield production, reduced by hydro and solar. Pollution is tied to population and production, modified by Automobile advance, Superhighways, Mass Transit and maybe a couple other things.

SG[1]: It distresses me, too, to read otherwise intelligent folk parroting the media when they could be thinking for themselves and looking at the data. Don't confuse pollution (a genuine problem, esp. in northern Europe) with gw IRL.

BTW, glad to hear at least somebody appreciates all that Big Brother does for you there in Britain. Whoops, looks like I'm back off topic

[Scouse Gits]

@ Straybow - thanks Big Bro'

SG[1]