UK in extreme weather alert

by | Nov 26, 2010


Newsflash just in from the Daily Mash:

BRITAIN ground to a standstill today after the heaviest November global warming bullshit in more than a decade. Across the country thousands of people found themselves trapped in pubs by a relentless blizzard of tedious, predictable observations by the sort of people who post comments on the Daily Mail website. The Met Office said there was around 24 inches of dreary, ill-informed piss in most parts of the UK, while strong winds could cause bullshit drifts up to 40ft deep.

Tom Logan, who is trapped in a pub in Stevenage, said: “I popped into the White Hart for a few triple vodkas before I went back to work and there was Geoff just sitting there. With his newspaper. I could see it coming towards me like a huge, dark cloud full of utter fucking shit about things that he does not even begin to understand.

“It started with a flurry of statistics that simply aren’t true and then the really heavy stuff came down – ‘so why is it so cold?’ and ‘it’s all a Marxist conspiracy’ which was, of course, followed immediately by ‘that Al Gore is a billionaire, you know’. It stopped, very briefly, while he ordered another Guinness and then he just dumped this massive, disgusting comment about Africans right into the middle of my head. Thank God I wasn’t driving.”

Dr Julian Cook, a senior research fellow at the Institute for Studies, said: “One of the nastier effects of the global warming debate is that a lot of people – Daily Mail readers, fuckers, that kind of thing – seem to think climate science is based on looking out the window. So, over the next couple of days, if someone says to you ‘I suppose this is so-called climate change?’ just say ‘yes, it fucking is actually’.”

Via @caspertk, whose Twitter feed is a smorgasbord of delights.

Author

  • Alex Evans

    Alex Evans is founder of Larger Us, which explores how we can use psychology to reduce political tribalism and polarisation, a senior fellow at New York University, and author of The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren’t Enough? (Penguin, 2017). He is a former Campaign Director of the 50 million member global citizen’s movement Avaaz, special adviser to two UK Cabinet Ministers, climate expert in the UN Secretary-General’s office, and was Research Director for the Business Commission on Sustainable Development. Alex lives with his wife and two children in Yorkshire.

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