Dear Mr. Comprehensive,
Our apologies that we have not been timely in fellating you as expected.
A man will be along shortly to complete this function.
Yours sincerely,
British Petroleum
Having experience working in a resposible site position for a major construction corporation, I believe that decisions leading to the disaster could be entirely the resposibility of on site personnel.
Yes , Exxon was responsible for the Alaska/tanker trajedy, but in the end it was one man to be at blame and he was nowhere near the top administration.
It is just my opinion, but yes I think the damage caused by the destruction of this ecosystem is worse than the damage caused by the 911 attacks. The harm caused to the US by the wars seems to a large degree self-inflicted, so I suppose I am not factoring that in. Not to downplay 911, but this oil spill is not over yet. Millions of pounds of food that otherwise would be pulled from the Gulf are instead rotting at the bottom or poisoned. All that food is being replaced with some other source. Will this mean people somewhere else will starve to death? In what numbers? It is not as if the world is becoming any less crowded. And the staggering number and variety of creatures killed, and possibly extincted, is heartbreaking.
But even if the human death toll doesn’t rise beyond the number of slain workers, there is still something like 10,000+ square miles of dead ocean. Is a square mile of ocean and all of the living things in it worth as much as one human life? Well… going back again to 911, officials valued human lives at an average of ~$7 million for compensation purposes if I am not mistaken. Surely a square mile of ocean could directly yield $7 million. The *cubic * mile of the deeper sections of ruined ocean are surely worth many times that, not even counting factors like scientific value or what it might be worth to the humans affected for it to remain not fucked up.
So yeah, in terms of damage done, I think the oil spill is comparatively worse than the 911 attacks.
The ‘I hate Brits thing’ is getting old? Well boo-fucking-hoo. Maybe the reputation of Brits is just one more casualty in this mess. The destruction of the Gulf is pretty fucking old if you ask me. FWIW, it is probably a mis-characterization to use the word ‘hate’. And I suppose I have at least narrowed it down. When I hear people speaking in Irish or Scottish accents, I don’t seem to perceive those as ‘The Tones of Deceit.’ It seems like it is more accurately the English I suspect of plotting and scheming their next screwing-over of somebody. And not all of them either. The hooligan types (is that a stereotype or a reality? Maybe let us skip that question for now) may appear drunken idiots, but all the same they seem innocent to me. It is the House of Lords types I feel are enjoying the harm they have caused our country. And the ones circulating around British Petroleum’s headquarters in London? well, let’s take a break.
Just when I think you cannot come across as any more stupid, you pull something like this out.
Bravo! I say again, bravo!
seriously…Fuck Off,
You considering me guilty by implication is neither here nor there. I couldn’t give a shit what you think about me and my 50 million other island dwellers.
However, your comparisons above are deliberately offensive, childish and weak.
Shrimp-flavoured Xanax?
Let’s not dispute the impact on the local economies …
… but is it really your contention that those Americans whose diet is dependent on Gulf shrimp, oysters, jumbo crabs and clams will be forced to consume corn grits to sustain their daily calorific requirements, else US obesity levels will fall?
The Tones of Deceit? Seriously? That genuinely made me snort with amused derision.
Man, I wish I had enough spare time and mental energy to get this misguidedly angry at something stupid.
If it makes you feel any better, Union Carbide sold off its Indian subsidiary ages ago, and is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Dow Chemical.
Are you saying people in the South are fat? I suppose some of them are. My question on this point: How interdependent is the world’s food supply? If a million tons of food production per unit time is removed from any area, does that cause starvation somewhere in the system? Because we are talking about an amount of food that could feed an army… lost!
I dunno. I can’t say I have much opinion of Dow either way. I wouldn’t be surprised if Indian citizens feel at least a little better this way. Also- I was so young when the Union Carbide disaster happened, I consider it ‘before my time’.
I don’t think I have an issue with xenophobia. You might expect me to have a problem with Mexicans if that were the case. The media is full of stories and images of ‘illegal aliens’ from Mexico. But I don’t. I studied Spanish for years and don’t really care how many Mexicans live here.
Japanese? French? No xenophobia towards them. Uganda and Nigeria? Well… I trace their gay-murder attitudes to American evangelical interests, and I suppose I have an axe to grind with the evangelicals, but really I see Ugandans and Nigerians more as victims than perpetrators. I could be wrong.
BP? People say it was only ‘on-site’ personnel responsible, and no larger entity is on the hook for this? Are you kidding me??
Oh Britannia, Britannia fucked his with his brain waves…
It’s just my opinion, but I think you’re a complete fucking idiot.
Really? Not to downplay 9/11 and the war in Afghanistan, but the BP oil spill was worse than the violent death of 5,000 people? Uh-huh.
Funny. Didn’t you say that
You seem not to be following through on this at all young grasshopper.
Does America export much Gulf shrimp, oysters, jumbo crabs and clams? Does much finish up in emergency disaster relief food drops?
Not bloody likely. So the shortfall is borne by the American consumer. Maybe the tourists down south, and the bankers and brokers up north aren’t woofing down as much gumbo and bouillabaisse as last year, maybe they are even paying a little more for it. But nobody, but nobody needs to go hungry, let alone starve.
The gulf will repair itself in time. All the wildlife will return and 100 years from now no-one will know anything happened.
A short term tragedy for those killed but in the longer term…it’s just a flesh wound
One could argue that this is a wake up call for those involved in deep water drilling.
From this they should learn and it may end up saving more lives and livelihoods than it has taken.
Oh please, if you’re going to be xenophobic, at least be consistent about it and blame us all. After all, the company was never called House of Lords Petroleum.
Sadly, I’m a gay girl, so cock sucking is out. I could drop by and give your nipples a tweak if that helps? Oh, and while we’re at it, my girlfriend and I both lost our jobs as a direct result of the Sub-prime fiasco in America. When are you popping in to give me some much deserved cunnilingus?
I reckon you’re actually a really good marketing ploy by BP. Personally, I think BP’s pretty much as vile as any other oil company but every post of yours I read makes me think “well if they annoy Try2B this much, they’ve got to be doing something right”
Very true, I’m not aware of too many oil companies that act a beacon of goodness and charity.
And of course, seeing as Try2B is so dead against them it will a trivial matter for them to tell us the ways in which they are avoiding BP products and derivatives thereof.
Perhaps he had some dental work in England? Drives an English car?