1. Today I have had my long-held view confirmed that Xmas shopping is as tediously dull as shopping generally.
2. An alarming sixteen per cent of respondents in last week's Fun Online Poll admitted to having had an affair with Tiger Woods, with a further sixty-four per cent choosing "I'm not sure. It might have been Lewis Hamilton or Barack Obama". Congrats to the twenty-one per cent who hadn't.
3. There seems to have been a collective sigh of relief that the UN nonsense in Copenhagen fizzled out without anything in particular being agreed. Anybody who knows anything about negotiating would know, e.g. from the endless WTO talks, that it it more or less impossible for 192 separate parties to come to any agreement whatsoever in any measurable space of time. I just wonder on which side of the argument takes greater solace from this.
So this week's Fun Online Poll is as follows:
That final Copenhagen agreement could have been worse ...
... at least they didn't sign us up to Global Government.
... at least they vaguely agreed to the principle of reductions in carbon emissions.
Vote here or use the widget in the sidebar.
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4 comments:
I'm not sure that the lack of any kindof agreement is a good thing - it means we stick with the other agreements and Chindia don't have any reductions targets.
We on the other hand are signed up to donning our hair shirts and exporting our money and jobs to Chindia.
"Congrats to the twenty-one per cent who hadn't."
Why should they be congratulated because they weren't cute enough for Tiger?
S_L, Chindia's per capita emissions are a lot lower than ours, and a lot of their emissions go into making stuff that they export to us. We're stuck with the hair shirts and thanks to our insane tax and planning policies, have been exporting jobs to Chindia for decades.
R, fair point, let me rephrase that as "Commiserations to the twenty-one per cent who weren't cute enough for Tiger/Obama/Lewis".
(wv:trews no further proof of bias required)
Try reading EU Referendum's take on the outcome and perhaps add a third: They achieved what they wanted and you were all suckered?
You're a money man so cherchez l'argent.
STB.
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