Don't quote me on this, but I think there are restrictions on internation shipping of solid-state dihydrogen monoxide. Sort of irritating, since they wouldn't even need to use refrigerated trucks, let alone covered trucks; Just drive around until it's full, then head North.
I'm not sure why LJ flagged this post as "unsuitable for minors" (I got logged out, apparently).
Actually, I think it was flagging everything you post as unsuitable for minors. Maybe it's just your whole account that's flagged? Stop corrupting the youth.
And personally, I don't see why we even need to go to the US for snow. We've got plenty straight to the north in the Yukon, Nunavut and Northwest Territories. No need to buy foreign.
I put up an age advisory because I occasionally post on issues of gender and sex and I don't want to have to self-censor. Not that I think kids are likely to read my blog, but I thought it was worthwhile avoiding an "OMG Think of the kids!" moment from someones Mum. I also occasionally swear like a trooper.
On the other thing, I guess the U.S. will simply have to put up with their untimely abundance. Your point is worthy.
'Tis a worthy idea, but I think that other concerns are far more pressing. Consider, for example, the enormous, worldwide consonant disparity, and particularly the consonant impoverishment of a number of areas in the south Pacific, as compared with the tremendous surplus of consonants in Eastern Europe, where whole sentences can be composed without resorting to a single vowel.
Obviously, this is because Eastern Europe is one pole of the Earth's consonant field, and the south Pacific is the other, but I still think that there is a serious humanitarian need which must be addressed here, and the UN ought to start shipping consonants from Eastern Europe to the south Pacific forthwith.
We couldn't possibly do that! Vowels and Consonants are like the positive and negative ions of the world.
We depend on the flow of vowels for all kinds of essential linguistic systems, and if one were to effect a sudden equalization, in effect shorting out the consonant field, the results could be catastrophic and explosive.
Indeed. Just imagine what would happen to the Welsh if a sudden wave of consonants flooded the streets. They'd be putting them everywhere, and that railway station would have to extend it's platform to fit the massively-expanded sign.
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Sort of irritating, since they wouldn't even need to use refrigerated trucks, let alone covered trucks; Just drive around until it's full, then head North.
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bwahahahahaha!
*ahem*
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Actually, I think it was flagging everything you post as unsuitable for minors. Maybe it's just your whole account that's flagged? Stop corrupting the youth.
And personally, I don't see why we even need to go to the US for snow. We've got plenty straight to the north in the Yukon, Nunavut and Northwest Territories. No need to buy foreign.
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I put up an age advisory because I occasionally post on issues of gender and sex and I don't want to have to self-censor. Not that I think kids are likely to read my blog, but I thought it was worthwhile avoiding an "OMG Think of the kids!" moment from someones Mum. I also occasionally swear like a trooper.
On the other thing, I guess the U.S. will simply have to put up with their untimely abundance. Your point is worthy.
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Obviously, this is because Eastern Europe is one pole of the Earth's consonant field, and the south Pacific is the other, but I still think that there is a serious humanitarian need which must be addressed here, and the UN ought to start shipping consonants from Eastern Europe to the south Pacific forthwith.
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We depend on the flow of vowels for all kinds of essential linguistic systems, and if one were to effect a sudden equalization, in effect shorting out the consonant field, the results could be catastrophic and explosive.
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