Archive for November, 2009

Oh The Global Warming Irony!

In the UK you will get fined 40 pounds if you let your car engine idle, to warm up the engine, to drive heat onto the windshield, to melt frost and snow off of it. You get fined, you see, because a running car causes global warming, so much in fact, that you should be experiencing more snow and frost to not let you drive. Morons.

From the DailyMail here:

Drivers who leave engines running to clear screens face fines under ‘idling offence’ rules

Motorists who leave their cars running on frosty mornings to warm up the engine and clear the windscreen could face being fined under anti-pollution rules this winter. Drivers are being told that leaving a car idling for more than a couple of minutes wastes fuel, and they could be served with on-the-spot fines of up to £40.

Many councils now enforce the ‘stationary idling offence’, which was quietly introduced by the Government in 2002.
It is particularly aimed at drivers of buses and taxis who sometimes leave engines running for half-an-hour or more while waiting for passengers, pumping out pollution unnecessarily.

It says running engines while a vehicle is not moving is an ‘inefficient use of fuel’ and results in the release of gases that have a ‘negative effect on both climate change and public health’.

If the world was really getting hotter, why are we still getting frosted windows on cold-ass mornings?


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BelchSpeak is Now on Facebook

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Hidden Dead Golfer



Hidden Dead Golfer, originally uploaded by BelchSpeak.

Got to play some Golden Tee 2010 last night after being stuffed with holiday goodies. On the China Great Wall course I tried to use a driver to slice over the wall. The ricochet off the wall sent me 50 yards away behind some bushes. It was there that I discovered the fate of Chinese golfer dissidents.


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Cousins



Cousins, originally uploaded by BelchSpeak.

Post Thanksgiving horsey rides. Tristan and Cartney are riding on Nathan’s back. The boys were shirtless when I walked in and I have no idea why.


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New Mater CarsToon: UFM – Unidentified Flying Mater

There is an awesome new Pixar Mater CarsToon where Mater relates the tall tale of how he encountered a flying saucer. There are so many references to classic UFO movies in this animated short, such as recreated scenes of Richard Dreyfus from Close Encounters at the railroad crossing, and how the flying saucer gets held in Hangar 18 and when Mater and the saucer are tractor tipping, check out the gear-shaped crop circles that are made. Embedding is disabled, so click the image to enjoy.


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10 PM Music: The Muppets, Featuring Rowlf, Animal, and Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem Band – “Bohemian Rhapsody”

This video is so full of WIN. It features some of the earliest Muppet characters, some new ones and some jamming musicians. Outstanding!


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Smokers Beware: You Void Your Mac’s Warranty

Want to see something gayer than Adam Lambert’s boy on boy kiss during the American Music Awards? Just walk into any Apple Store and check out the smugness of the so-called “geniuses” that staff the place with their tight pants and their Kate Gosselin multi-colored hairdos. Worse, if you go there with a broken Mac, and they smell cigarette smoke on your clothes, they will tell you that your warranty is void because second-hand smoke is a health hazard and nicotine is on OSHA’s list of harmful materials in a workplace. That’s freakin’ GAY.

From CNET here:

Two Mac users’ AppleCare warranties appear to have been voided due to the presence of cigarette smoke in their homes.

One, named Derek, recounts the tale of his overheating black MacBook. He took it into the Apple store in Jordan Creek, West Des Moines.

He told The Consumerist: “Today, April, 28, 2008, the Apple store called and informed me that due to the computer having been used in a house where there was smoking, that has voided the warranty and they refuse to work on the machine, due to ‘health risks of secondhand smoke.’

He continued: “Nowhere in your AppleCare terms of service can I find anything mentioning being used in a smoking environment as voiding the warranty.”

Then along came Ruth, who took her son’s iMac to an authorized repair center. After five days, they apparently told her they couldn’t work on it because it was contaminated with cigarette smoke and was therefore a bio-hazard.

When Ruth appealed to Jobs’ office, she said she was told by someone named Dena that nicotine was on OSHA’s list of hazardous substances.

Computer duster is also on the list of OSHA’s list of hazardous substances, but they work with that.


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