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Hurricane Sandy - "Perfect Storm"

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Someone letting people charge up their phones
 
editor said:
Mind you, you'd be whingeing like fuck if you had no power for two days.
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I know. This thread is a laugh, coming from a country where people pee their pants over an inch of snow and don't leave their houses for days.
In fact, that should be a good indication of how serious this storm was. Think about the fact that NYC, New Jersey, etc., can handle dozens of big snowstorms each year, and generally get on with things immediately after the snow has stopped falling.
Yet with this storm, airports and subways are still closed 2 days later.
 
gabi said:
Hell yeah. I'd be taking pictures of the outrage.
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If it was where I lived, I would be taking pictures and probably sending them to my friends and family (like those where up north (UK) earlier this year.
I would also not think it outside the norm for those people I sent the pictures to, to share them with people they knew when in a discussion about the general situation.
By sharing a picture of your personal situation you are not demeaning the situation in Cuba, Haiti etc as long as they are discussed as well.
If the situation is slightly worse in Haiti than it is in Cuba, would you berate the Cubans for sharing photos of their situation?

I do however agree that the general UK news has been too USA centric in it's coverage of this hurricane.
 
temper_tantrum said:
Has anyone said yet how many people need to die before it becomes something we should be posting about?
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Post about it by all means. I'm posting about it too.

But don't believe the hype. This was not a "disaster." For almost everybody, this was a mild inconvenience at worst. In fact, having been stuck here for 5 unplanned days, I am presumably more inconvenienced than most, and you don't see me whinging and moaning do you?

The real story here, as others have also mentioned, is the ridiculously disproportionate media coverage this storm in a teacup has received. It's not like there's nothing else going on in the world, is it?

So ask yourselves: Why do they want us focusing on this? Go on, ask yourselves.
 
petee said:
not above 30th street in manhattan, no. except, er, you can't use the subway.
of course, 90% of the people in nassau and suffolk are without power, and 135 are dead (65 in the cariccean, 50 in the states).

ps - get the fuck out of my town.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, meet an American.

Notice the illiteracy (although "cariccean" might also be the result of the geographical ignorance for which his compatriots are justly renowned), the innumeracy (65 plus 50 = 135, nice one Einstein), the uncouth manners, the self-centeredness, the laziness (not being able to use the subway constitutes a major disaster in his world), the immediate recourse to obscenity, the automatic sense of entitlement, of ownership, and of course the untestable bravery of the keyboard hardman.

We're not all like this. I'm American too, after all. But there is a sizeable minority of tossers who give the rest of us a bad name.
 
Miss Caphat said:
I know. This thread is a laugh, coming from a country where people pee their pants over an inch of snow and don't leave their houses for days.
In fact, that should be a good indication of how serious this storm was. Think about the fact that NYC, New Jersey, etc., can handle dozens of big snowstorms each year, and generally get on with things immediately after the snow has stopped falling.
Yet with this storm, airports and subways are still closed 2 days later.
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How's things in your 'hood, Miss C? Any lasting damage, or is it back to normal? Have you re-visited those areas on the shore which you went & filmed as the hurricane was coming in?
 
Miss Caphat said:
I know. This thread is a laugh, coming from a country where people pee their pants over an inch of snow and don't leave their houses for days.
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That's because we'd rather sit at home than risk damage to life or limb in order to dash to work and suck our boss's cock and keep his profits rolling in.
 
Citizen66 said:
I thought you were Welsh?
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That is hardly incompatible with being American.

And as an American patriot, I resent what Petee and his like have done to my country. He represents the archetypal Ugly American:

petee said:
135 are dead (65 in the cariccean, 50 in the states).
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Can't spell, can't add and--let's be honest here--basically can't think in any sense that most of us would acknowledge.

How did this greatest of all nations come to produce such characters? The answer can be found in the way this so-called "hurricane" has been treated throughout the world. It seems to me that New York is approaching the status of a Holy City. Not in the same sense as Mecca, Jerusalem, Benares, Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul or even republican Rome. In the sense of imperial Rome. We have reverted to the days when the statement "civis Romanus sum" was a guarantor of worldwide invulnerability. What happens in America, or to Americans, is regarded as more important than what happens elsewhere, or to other people.

How much more important? Do the math (even Petee's idiosyncratic math will do). 50 dead in the USA: instant, massive, constant, worldwide media coverage until everyone is heartily sick of it. 30,000 dead in Turkey: about 2 days of headlines, a week of minor follow-ups, then basically forgotten. And never even noticed by the Ugly American-- I'm willing to bet that Petee couldn't even find Turkey on a map of the world. Actually I'll bet he couldn't find the world on a map of the world.

There is something very wrong with this picture, very wrong indeed.
 
phildwyer said:
That is hardly incompatible with being American.

And as an American patriot, I resent what Petee and his like have done to my country. He represents the archetypal Ugly American:



Can't spell, can't add and--let's be honest here--basically can't think in any sense that most of us would acknowledge.

How did this greatest of all nations come to produce such characters? The answer can be found in the way this so-called "hurricane" has been treated throughout the world. It seems to me that New York is approaching the status of a Holy City. Not in the same sense as Mecca, Jerusalem, Benares, Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul or even republican Rome. In the sense of imperial Rome. We have reverted to the days when the statement "civis Romanus sum" was a guarantor of worldwide invulnerability. What happens in America, or to Americans, is regarded as more important than what happens elsewhere, or to other people.

How much more important? Do the math (even Petee's idiosyncratic math will do). 50 dead in the USA: instant, massive, constant, worldwide media coverage until everyone is heartily sick of it. 30,000 dead in Turkey: about 2 days of headlines, a week of minor follow-ups, then basically forgotten. And never even noticed by the Ugly American-- I'm willing to bet that Petee couldn't even find Turkey on a map of the world. Actually I'll bet he couldn't find the world on a map of the world.

There is something very wrong with this picture, very wrong indeed.
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On the webcam - were you wearing white trousers, or just beige ones?
 
Miss Caphat said:
I know. This thread is a laugh, coming from a country where people pee their pants over an inch of snow and don't leave their houses for days.
In fact, that should be a good indication of how serious this storm was. Think about the fact that NYC, New Jersey, etc., can handle dozens of big snowstorms each year, and generally get on with things immediately after the snow has stopped falling.
Yet with this storm, airports and subways are still closed 2 days later.
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I still remember the guffaw of laughters from my New York girlfriend when she came over to London and saw the news reports about "SNOW CHAOS!" in London after a light dusting had arrived. New York does snow.
 
teuchter said:
The answer would tell us something about your legitimacy in judging the character of others.
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Just for the record, Teuchter, what are you wearing today? I need to know in order to assess your fashionista ability.
 
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