that list is nice and all, but it's just putting lipstick on a pig

Green is the new black.

Hey, tires make a pretty damn hot fire.

Hell, I've been doing it for years. Gotta keep them trees warm somehow in a cold snap.

/Redneck

Save the planet my ass. The planet will be just fine. Whether or not we can live on it is another story but the planet we call earth will still be here.

It is much better to protest by starting up my big outdoor fireplace. I designed and built it myself because coal burns at a higher temp than wood and the wood burners wouldn't be able to handle it. It burns coal because it is easier to keep the heat going, no popping and sending ember onto the deck like wood does. It's great, we start it up, fill it up and it keeps us warm from a long time with little oversight. A few of my neighbors love it so much that now we have about 20 of them in the neighborhood. A buddy wants to start a business to sell them.

I am totally against greenitude

I

During a really bad ice storm in the Mid-West a few years back, the tree branches in our front yard were hanging so low from all the heavy ice, we thought they were going to break off and smash through the roof.

So my father found a bunch of old tires and burned them under the trees. In the front yard. In a very very nice subdivision.

The neighbor reactions were absolutely priceless.

/at least it lightened up the branches

People care about the environment. Grrrrrr. I'm mad. Grrrrrr.

pootsie: I

Came here to say that as well... Great minds and all that :-).

People care about the environment if they can make a buck off it. Grrrrrr. I'm mad. Grrrrrr.

FTFY

demanton: People care about the environment. Grrrrrr. I'm mad. Grrrrrr.

There's nothing wrong with caring about the environment, but what TFA is talking about is greenwashing--meaninglessly applying the "green" label to just about anything without making any changes. Talk is cheap; that's why they want to ban the green label.

demanton: People care about the environment. Grrrrrr. I'm mad. Grrrrrr.

Maybe the anger was about the fact that "going green" tends to mean calling yourself responsible for cutting corners.

nicksteel: A buddy wants to start a business to sell them.

Pics/newsletter.
/lives in vermont

offacue: Save the planet my ass. The planet will be just fine. Whether or not we can live on it is another story but the planet we call earth will still be here.

They all want in on Obama's 5 million green collar jobs scam.

Only arrogant people think they can affect the climate. Leave it to the over inflated egos of the left to blame mankind for the cyclical nature of weather patterns on this planet. Leave it to the bloated self absorbed idealogues to think that mankind can control the cycles of the sun. Leave it to the elitist carbon assprint sheeple crowd to preach to the rest of us.. the whole do as I say not as I do crap! Fark em! Screw burning tires... I say we stack up the environmental wackjobs out there like cords of wood and burn them!

Dead for Tax Reasons: that list is nice and all, but it's just putting lipstick on a pig

That's sexist!
Or racist
Or Elitist
/I forget.

shirtsbyeric: They all want in on Obama's 5 million green collar jobs scam.

/Yup.. 5 million people neck deep in green shiat. That's all it will amount to... watch!

not going to bother reading the article, but is al gore and carbon credits mentioned anywhere?

burning all those tires will turn the situation into tiregate.

"Monkey" was on the list because of what some see as its rampant use as a suffix. "Especially on the Internet, many people seem to think they can make any boring name sound more attractive just by adding the word 'monkey' to it," wrote Rogier Landman of Sommerville, Mass.


I've yet to come across this. What do they mean "Monkey names"?


Do they mean like;

"That clever little monkey Drew? That's just gay.

"Come here my little monkey whore" That's actually funny. I will strive to use "monkey whore" more in the upcomming year.

"That monkey President?" That could get me banned.

AMEN.

I love seeing all these inspirational messages about corporations and their groundbreaking "green" environmental habits, when it's really just a commercial with soft lighting and wussy music jammed between crappy sitcoms.

Danger Mouse: What do they mean "Monkey names"?

I think they mean labels of the form "______ monkey"

but the only ones I can think of are "surrender monkey" and "code monkey"

The company for which I work just declared itself "green" a few weeks ago. From what I can tell, this amounted to the following:

1. Removing most of Styrofoam coffee cups from the lunchroom cabinets. Not all, but most.

2. Putting a laminated 8.5x11" sign on the back door instructing people to break down cardboard boxes/shipping cartons before throwing them in the dumpster.

3. Having literally thousands of custom-printed and highly-elaborate oversized coffee mugs and cold-beverage (insulated) cups made and emblazoned with our company logo superimposed over the silhouette of a tree. Distributing said materials in paper gift bags with "we're going green" printed on them.

4. Sending out dozens of graphics-intensive emails to the entire 6000+ employee company stating that we're going green, thus throttling down our mail server bandwidth and throughput to a crawl, and breaking everybody's mail clients with their sheer size when everybody decided to "reply to all with attachments".

So, yeah...we're doing great things for the environment, and we feel good about it, too.

vudukungfu: nicksteel: A buddy wants to start a business to sell them.

Pics/newsletter.
/lives in vermont

Do I have a potential customer??

Xerxes99: Only arrogant people think they can affect the climate. Leave it to the over inflated egos of the left to blame mankind for the cyclical nature of weather patterns on this planet. Leave it to the bloated self absorbed idealogues to think that mankind can control the cycles of the sun. Leave it to the elitist carbon assprint sheeple crowd to preach to the rest of us.. the whole do as I say not as I do crap! Fark em! Screw burning tires... I say we stack up the environmental wackjobs out there like cords of wood and burn them!

Amen!!!!

offacue: Save the planet my ass. The planet will be just fine. Whether or not we can live on it is another story but the planet we call earth will still be here.

That...beat me to it!

PJ_the_Barbarian: Danger Mouse: What do they mean "Monkey names"?

I think they mean labels of the form "______ monkey"

but the only ones I can think of are "surrender monkey" and "code monkey"

Ah. Thanks. Of course, understanding the differnence between prefix and sufix would have also helped me out too. Duh.


I still plan to use "monkey whore" at every available opportunity.

Xerxes99: Only arrogant people think they can affect the climate. Leave it to the over inflated egos of the left to blame mankind for the cyclical nature of weather patterns on this planet. Leave it to the bloated self absorbed idealogues to think that mankind can control the cycles of the sun. Leave it to the elitist carbon assprint sheeple crowd to preach to the rest of us.. the whole do as I say not as I do crap! Fark em! Screw burning tires... I say we stack up the environmental wackjobs out there like cords of wood and burn them!

YYYYYYYYYYYes! I think I just blew a load reading that!

A corporation calling itself green is kinda like calling Scientology a religion.

/The only safe sex is no sex
_{//Or oral}

I believe that "oftentimes" must be banned. It is ridiculously redundant, dammit! my pet peeve. stop frigging saying it! If you write it and I am copy editing, I will delete it and purposely change "often" to "frequently" you dumb-monkeys!

As a long standing environmentalist I have to agree with him. "Green" has gone from a meaningful term used by eco-activists to a necessary label on absolutely every piece of corporate shiat.
Just print a picture of a tree with "caring for our future" on anything you produce.
Shell Oil's ads with tropical seas and lush landscapes really ground my gears. I forget the slogan but it was something like "investing in our planets eco systems", all this from the biggest scum on the planet.

Danger Mouse: "Monkey" was on the list because of what some see as its rampant use as a suffix. "Especially on the Internet, many people seem to think they can make any boring name sound more attractive just by adding the word 'monkey' to it," wrote Rogier Landman of Sommerville, Mass.


I've yet to come across this. What do they mean "Monkey names"?


Do they mean like;

"That clever little monkey Drew? That's just gay.

"Come here my little monkey whore" That's actually funny. I will strive to use "monkey whore" more in the upcomming year.

"That monkey President?" That could get me banned.


I Think it may be used in the same context as "powder-monkey". Well, not the same job, of course, but say someone's job was to run paper from the printer to the office, or sumthin, and then someone got the brilliant idea to call them a paper-monkey, or sumthin. At least, thats my hypothesis.

unfarkingbelievable: I believe that "oftentimes" must be banned. It is ridiculously redundant, dammit! my pet peeve. stop frigging saying it! If you write it and I am copy editing, I will delete it and purposely change "often" to "frequently" you dumb-monkeys!

I oftentimes feel that way myself!!

littleray42: Xerxes99: Only arrogant people think they can affect the climate. Leave it to the over inflated egos of the left to blame mankind for the cyclical nature of weather patterns on this planet. Leave it to the bloated self absorbed idealogues to think that mankind can control the cycles of the sun. Leave it to the elitist carbon assprint sheeple crowd to preach to the rest of us.. the whole do as I say not as I do crap! Fark em! Screw burning tires... I say we stack up the environmental wackjobs out there like cords of wood and burn them!

YYYYYYYYYYYes! I think I just blew a load reading that!

I was going to just let this pass, but someone agreeing with it means it should probably be addressed.

Tell me either of you 2: how is pumping many millions of tons of excess greenhouse gases into the atmosphere NOT affecting the climate? What mechanism is there for counteracting the effect of us burning fossil fuels and emitting all those gases? Have you ever even heard of acid rain, a climate affecting result of dirty industry? Or global dimming, something that has been on the decline since many countries enacted emissions restrictions to curtail particulate matter?

I will await answers, these are all well known and documented results of human activity.

Kazuya:
Shell Oil's ads with tropical seas and lush landscapes really ground my gears. I forget the slogan but it was something like "investing in our planets eco systems"

You can say that again.

Yeah, kazuya, I agree there. There should probably be some sort of standard that has to be achieved and verified to be an "official" green company, no clue what it'd have to be though. Probably having to do with using a certain percent of recycled goods and/or getting a certain percent of your energy from "green" sources, like solar, hydro, etc.

I just came in here to say AL GORE! The idea of man made global warming has made him a BIG pile of money, so YAY for global warming and Al Gore!

Let's see, how can we adjust this to reflect the other pure opinion view...

Xerxes99: Only arrogant ignorant people think they can can't affect the climate. Leave it to the over inflated egos of the left right to blame mankind only natural causes for the cyclical nature of weather patterns on this planet. Leave it to the bloated self absorbed idealogues wishful thinking to think that mankind can control the cycles of the sun can't offset the natural balance of the ecosystems. Leave it to the elitist carbon assprint sheeple crowd to preach to the rest of us.. the whole do as I say not as I do crap puppets of polluting corporations to tell us that millions of tons of pollution a day can't possibly have an effecton our environment! Fark em! ScrewStop burning tires... I say we stack up the environmental wackjobs destoyers out there like cords of wood and burn them!

There I believe that sounds just as farking crazy either way to your respective sides of the argument.

\"Like German tourists, the stupid are everywhere."

Get ready for "Purple" to become the new synonym for "Good".

/Get it, Democrats are blue, Republicans are red, so "Purple" means unity and peace and harmony and all that crap.

//Already sick of it.

Sir Roderick Ponce von Fontlebottom

And purple is an ugly color on top of all that. Why identify primarily one way or the other to begin with?

"If I see one more corporation declare itself 'green,' article that makes reference to a list without showing the list, I'm going to start burning tires in my backyard,"

/yes, there is a link at the end of the article
//link is farked

I liked it better a year ago, when I said "The next time I hear something about going green, I'm going to flush a quart of motor oil down my toilet.

As an IT Director at my company, I love the "green" mantra.

It gives me the added boost to my paperless projects so I don't have to argue with people about why we don't need to keep three years of paperwork when we could easily store them electronically.



/I can't tell you the hours I've cut of our office personnel

PJ_the_Barbarian: Danger Mouse: What do they mean "Monkey names"?

I think they mean labels of the form "______ monkey"

but the only ones I can think of are "surrender monkey" and "code monkey"

Or Trunk Monkey. You can't forget that.

Danger Mouse:
I will strive to use "monkey whore" more in the upcomming year.


I think I'll join you on that. I also decided to yell "Battle Stations !!!!" more often at work.