Comments | noisefootprint: Not again

noisefootprint

Not again

Apr 08, 2007 20:01

A good conversation is not one that starts out with my George-Bush-voting parents asking me over dessert, "So, what do you think about global warming?" Please don't ask me this, ma and pa. Our relationship is much better when you don't mention yet again that Michael Crichton novel you love so much, State of Fear. You bring it up every time you want ( Read more... )

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labrujah April 9 2007, 16:17:33 UTC

OMG. Spookily familiar.
Does she nag you because you take it out too soon or not long enough?

Mine wants me to use every teabag twice. When normally I'll use two for one mug. AAARGH. It kills her to see me only use them once. She cannot stand by and let it happen.

noisefootprint April 10 2007, 17:00:41 UTC

Mine freaks out if I leave it in for more than two minutes. Then she starts asking me repeatedly if she can take it out for me. I continue to leave it in as long as I can just to challenge her.

labrujah April 10 2007, 17:05:34 UTC

I had an ex-boyfriend who did that too. Finally I was like 'I like it bitter! leave it alone!!"

anonymous April 12 2007, 21:06:31 UTC

This in the same week that the latest in a 40-year series of measurements (not guesses - MEASUREMENTS) shows that the arctic ice cap is melting at its fastest ever recorded rate...and the worst case trend shows that there could be no winter ice cap in just 13 years...

so

given that things are likely to get really rather bad in our lifetimes you'll at least have the satisfaction of saying 'I told you so' to your Mom as NYC disappears between the floods or the Mad Max hordes or whatever it is on the day.

Assuming we all haven't been taken up in the Rapture by then - boy will I look stoopid if that happens.

Airpower

noisefootprint April 12 2007, 21:22:03 UTC

The thing is, it's not that my parents don't believe that stuff -- it's that they believe it to be caused by natural forces and not by mankind's behavior.