I often use Sunday evening to catch up on news and acquaint myself with the ridiculous crap that the internet churned up over the prior week. I prefer brilliant prose, deep & measured news reporting, irreverent sarcasm, and every now and then, an enlightening video. This one caught my eye from Existential Punk, a blog in the Richmond network: it’s a teaser video that links back to a 20-minute feature on the cycle of product creation, consumption, and disposal. The creator, Annie Leonard, does a really good job explaining in simple terms where we get all the junk we consume [link to video, approx 20min], and how it runs through the system from harvest to trash. Some alarming facts:
- - The cycle is about 6 months long
- - 99% of what begins the cycle becomes waste (burnt or landfilled, or both) by the end of that 6 months.
- - Everything causes cancer (I made that up, but it’s also true.)
Now I’m a reasonable person and I don’t expect anybody to flush their iPod down the toilet and start recycling dental floss, but this video is just another of those cultural memes that made me think about how I use all my crap. Maybe we should all become dirt worshiping earth hippies?
[ed. note - I can't embed the YouTube clip, because gives the site cancer, too. EVERYTHING IS CANCER.]
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Parlie, something tells me you’re not really worried about getting cancer. If you want, I can save my crap and use it to fertilize your vegetable garden. Actually, I already did that. Sorry.
Poisson D’Avril
One thing that I don’t believe gives me cancer is cvillain. I often use it to catch up on the news and acquaint myself with the ridiculous crap that the internet churned up over the prior week. I prefer the brilliant prose, deep & measured news reporting, irreverent sarcasm and every now and then, an enlightening video. It’s a feature on the cycle of product creation, consumption and disposal. The creator does a really good job explaining in simple terms how to get at all the junk we consume and how it runs through the system from harvest to trash. Some alarming facts:
-Today is April Fool’s Day!
-99% of our daily cycle begins on cvillain (burnt or landfilled, or both)
-Everything but cvillain itself causes cancer
Some inform; some prompt the conscience; some entertain, while having more than jollification in mind.
– Stuart Klawans, “A Greek Bearing Gifts”, The Nation, June 21, 1999 This blog is just another of those cutural memes that made me think about how I use all my crap. Maybe we should all become jollification worshipping hippies?
[jollification is word of the day- http://www.dictionary.com for April Fool's Day, April 1, 2008 LOVE IT]
Psych. Parlie spends his Sunday smoking a blunt.
@2: Damn! You beat me to it!
must be a big damn blunt if it takes him all day…
I’d like to be concerned about this, but I don’t know the definition of “memes.”
That explains why parlie sleeps all day Sunday.
That explains why parlie watched a 20 minute video about the production of waste.
@4 Venez-vous ici souvent?
parlie, PLEASE tell me that smoking blunts will not give me cancer
testicular
you might need those
@9 Way to go exotic… translation?
Cancer cures everything.
@9: Cessez de me draguer!
B-yo, are you sure?
Never been more sure. Try it.
/super-metastasize it!
Je n’arrive pas à draguer en boîte. Poisson D’Avril, pour vous. d’accord?
Damn, I thought you’d say “I’m HIV positive.”
@ 18. Are you guys talking about canned fish.
Poisson D’Avril is french version of April Fools
Thank you sir. You had me fooled.
Who’s a fool, the fool or the person that follows french canned fish?
@18:Pourquoi vous n’êtes pas venu à Bohème l’autre soir?
Trop de flics,en raison de l’homme armé Gremlin.
Ce soir?
Pourquoi vous craignez les flics? Vous êtes criminel?
Yer both idiots. I will call you collective les Baconigans.
@ 23 the b you definition of fool is full of ‘ish!
Oh sorry, back to the topic. Parlie smoking up.
Je suis un homme recherché
Dont make me go all “freedom fries” on your french-jacking asses…
ditto!
Ne soit pas jaloux!
Merka!
cancer cancer cancer!
Last night I converted to evangelical christianity (charismatic) and although I am pretty new at it, I am pretty sure there is an “english only” clause in the bible. So buck up, and can the francois patois or its lake of fire for you multi-culti freaks.
Leviticus 27:13 “And thou shalt not bend thine thy tongue to any of the craven languages, noither shat thy jacketh thine threads with the fish that cometh from thy sea, for it is written. All thou who shalt cast off my commands shall get a right good whacking, forsoothe.
SERIOUS-O-METER= HIGHLY SERIOUS
Parlie, well-done young lad, well-done. For all you ass clowns who use this site to talk to each other like monkeys, meet up at miller’s and do your jack-assing around. And if you have time at work to make ridiculous comments non-stop, then use that time to watch the video that Parlie included in the thread, it’s pretty cool.
It’s a good lesson in slowing down consumption and buying useful stuff that doesn’t fall apart 6 months later. We are all guilty of acting like the planet doesn’t exist and only those starving, HIV, tribes in Africa have to deal with the harsh realities of life. Sooner or later the fat dumb people over here in the U.S. have gotta wake up and smell what their shoveling. Buy useful shit, recycle what you can, don’t throw everything away, and watch what you put in your body. BREAST MILK IS POISON! Thanks Parlie.
And I don’t really think ALL you guys are ass-clowns. Just some of you.
Last night I converted to evangelical christianity (charismatic)
This is a serious blow to the agnosticostal movement. I fear for its future.
“Ass clown”, “jackass”… man all you arbiters of levity sure are fixated on anuses. What’s up with that?
/breast milk cures pink eye. ferreals.
Oo oo ah ah ah…
I recycle and I watch what I put in my body. Let’s all go make art out of our garbage.
I prefer to think of myself as an ass-pony – get it right.
Packaging is the Devil. Styrofoam, especially.
The Devil could use better packaging. He should consider getting an agent.
Leviticus 24:16 And yea fear not the fallen one’s packaging, for once thine arbiters of levity descend from on high wielding anuses of truth, thou people shall be to enlightened to maketh jokes or eateth of the fruit of the testube, and there shall be much rejoicing yet no laughter. I have seen.
I prefer to think of myself as an ass-pony
I’ll be in my bunk.
Ass ponies, I like them too. It makes me think of asses with saddles that I ride….wait, sorry.
Ponies are cute and are much nicer than ass clowns, which can be scary and gross. I wanted to call people ugly and gross names.
@48 I had something else in mind. There just aren’t enough sexual deviants on this board.
/so lonely.
@39 You’re just mad because you lost the final rap battle in eight mile.
Pony up!
If anyone needs me, I’ll be out back horking an Assbag.
the internet, broccoli, true love, and staring longingly at the sunset all cause cancer.
this post was actually for serious, which is the biggest april fool’s joke of all. confused? gud.
Broccoli does not cause cancer. Shaddup.
And sorry, everybody goofed up your serious post. That you wrote… while you were high.
;p
Broccoli gives me terrible gas
try breast milk instead clarence.
he really should Caroline.
if you had watched the video you would see that BREAST MILK IS POISON! I would probably try some though
did someone already post this?
http://inventorspot.com/files/images/20060902115720795041593100.jpg
it’s from
The Top Ten Weird and Bizarre Japanese Soft Drinks
by Steve Levenstein, June 18, 2007
http://inventorspot.com/articles/ten_bizarre_japanese_soft_drinks_5225
I like to give the sipper credit.