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- BeShirtHappy, on 01/08/2009, -5/+57 Former Chrysler Chairman, Lee Iacocca, on Air Pollution: “We've got to pause and ask ourselves--how much clean air do we need?” wtf?
- inactive, on 01/08/2009, -2/+46The first quote was admittedly discredited. Why would they make it the #1 quote then?
Buried for bad form and shoddiness. - captainpugwash, on 01/08/2009, -11/+45re:Jennifer Aniston , whats wrong with brushing your teeth in the shower? the article said you could drown in the shower if you did, how the ***** do you drown while brushing your teeth in the shower???
- lazybuoy, on 01/08/2009, -5/+38“I take a three-minute shower. I even--brush my teeth while in the shower.” - Jennifer Aniston
Translation: I take a thirty minute shower. Using Evian Natural Spring Water. - DiggCommentsSux, on 01/08/2009, -1/+31They updated, that quote was a hoax. Nice fact checking.
- inactive, on 01/08/2009, -1/+30"But don't you realize — that's where I sail!"
-Ted Kennedy opposing development of a Cape Cod wind farm near his home - Tonelico, on 01/08/2009, -2/+28Buried for claiming it's "celebrity" quotes when it's a bunch of politicians (including some Alaska governor that most people have never heard of), with Anniston and Carlin tacked on. And what Carlin said wasn't "crazy." It was sadly true.
What a poorly written article...good quotes, but rename it and rewrite it. - Hetman, on 01/08/2009, -2/+27I do not think George Carlin gave a ***** about the enviroment.
We're so self-important. So self-important. Everybody's going to save something now. "Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails." And the greatest arrogance of all: save the planet. What? Are these ***** people kidding me? Save the planet, we don't even know how to take care of ourselves yet. We haven't learned how to care for one another, we're gonna save the ***** planet?
I'm getting tired of that *****. Tired of that *****. I'm tired of ***** Earth Day, I'm tired of these self-righteous environmentalists, these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is there aren't enough bicycle paths. People trying to make the world save for their Volvos. Besides, environmentalists don't give a ***** about the planet. They don't care about the planet. Not in the abstract they don't. Not in the abstract they don't. You know what they're interested in? A clean place to live. Their own habitat. They're worried that some day in the future, they might be personally inconvenienced. Narrow, unenlightened self-interest doesn't impress me.
Besides, there is nothing wrong with the planet. Nothing wrong with the planet. The planet is fine. The PEOPLE are *****. Difference. Difference. The planet is fine. Compared to the people, the planet is doing great. Been here four and a half billion years. Did you ever think about the arithmetic? The planet has been here four and a half billion years. We've been here, what, a hundred thousand? Maybe two hundred thousand? And we've only been engaged in heavy industry for a little over two hundred years. Two hundred years versus four and a half billion. And we have the CONCEIT to think that somehow we're a threat? That somehow we're gonna put in jeopardy this beautiful little blue-green ball that's just a-floatin' around the sun?
The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through all kinds of things worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles...hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worlwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages...And we think some plastic bags, and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet...the planet...the planet isn't going anywhere. WE ARE! - ladyarcher85, on 01/08/2009, -2/+23Ah, George Carlin you are missed!
- AmyVernon, on 01/08/2009, -2/+23Perfectly reasonable. I'd say about 6 pounds.
- serif69, on 01/08/2009, -10/+30Buried. Al Gore doesn't show up once.
- skellener, on 01/08/2009, -7/+25Dugg for photo for George W. Bush on Natural Gas.
- MrSchler, on 01/08/2009, -0/+16dugg for photo of Aniston
- geoboy, on 01/08/2009, -2/+17What's wrong with brushing your teeth in the shower? It's simple math. You don't even need actual numbers to understand. What rate do you suppose water comes out from the shower? What rate do you suppose water comes out from a sink faucet? I'm pretty sure the rate of water coming from the sink faucet is much less. Also, you can stop the water when brushing your teeth at the sink without much hassle. Stopping the water while you shower is a pain in the ass and few people would be willing to do it.
To conserve water, it's best to spend as little time in the shower as possible since the rate of flow is much greater. Using the shower while brushing your teeth ends up wasting water, not conserving it. - IphtashuFitz, on 01/08/2009, -1/+14Well shoving the hand-held shower head into your mouth to use it as a water pick is one possibility...
- jason210, on 01/08/2009, -0/+12so they make a list of 7 crazy things. 1 was false, and 1 they agreed with. why not make a list of 5 things?
- oboshoe, on 01/08/2009, -0/+11I forgive Jennifer. She can say whatever she wants.
Heck, if she wants, I'll gladly come over and brush her teeth for her in the shower.
Im just that kind of guy - HyperLithium, on 01/08/2009, -7/+16Dugg for George Carlin.
- cmcagle, on 01/08/2009, -1/+10That's actually a reasonable question. The "proper" amount of pollution in the air is not zero; even if it were theoretically possible to remove all pollution from the air, it would be incredibly costly to do so. When we're faced with limited resources, and we're going to spend some of those resources on cleaning up the air, then we do indeed have to ask ourselves what the acceptable level of pollution will be.
- RaulMuadDib, on 01/08/2009, -0/+9I clean her off with my mouth.
- c010rb1indusa, on 01/08/2009, -5/+14Buried for including George Carlin's genius in the same list as dumb celebrity and political statements.
- KJSatz, on 01/08/2009, -1/+9How can brushing your teeth in the shower save water? You just need like an ounce getting the brush wet and half a cup to rinse it at the end...they taught us in 2nd grade to turn the water off when we're brushing. Compare that to 45 seconds with the shower running...???
- FuzzplugJones, on 01/08/2009, -5/+13Say what you will about him, but George Bush is not a celebrity.
If he were a celebrity, he would care what retards on the internet and in Hollywood think of him, and change. - eightyd, on 01/08/2009, -4/+12Don't give a ***** about the temperature in Guatemala
Don't really see what all the fuss is about.
Ain't gonna worry about no future generations and uh
I'm sure somebody's gonna figure it out.
-a take on the average american's environmental outlook. thanks trent - paperclips4u, on 01/08/2009, -2/+101. Dan Quayle on Pollution
"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
2. Retired Alaskan Governor, Walter J. Hickel, on Nature Conservation
“We can't just let nature run wild...”
3. George W. Bush on Natural Gas
Austin, Texas, Dec. 20, 2000: “Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.”
4. George W. Bush on Nuclear Energy
George W Bush, New Delhi, India, Mar. 2, 2006: “Obviously, nu-que-lar power is a, uh, renewable source of energy, and the less demand there is for non-renewable sources of energy, like fossil fuels, the better it off it is for the American people.”
5. Former Chrysler Chairman, Lee Iacocca, on Air Pollution
“We've got to pause and ask ourselves--how much clean air do we need?”
6. Jennifer Aniston on Water Conservation
“I take a three-minute shower. I even--brush my teeth while in the shower.”
7. George Carlin's Revision of Song "America the Beautiful"
“Oh, Beautiful for smoggy skies, in-sec-it-cided grain. For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee. And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.” - inactive, on 01/08/2009, -0/+8Clean energy? NOT IN MY BACKYARD!
- DiggCommentsSux, on 01/08/2009, -1/+9I remember Ted Danson saying the ocean's would be dried up in 10 years. Where is that one?
- Zarokima, on 01/08/2009, -0/+8Regardless, she's using a LOT more water than she would just by brushing her teeth normally.
- Ajaynow, on 01/08/2009, -1/+8I expected to see at least 5 of the 7 coming from, "An Inconvenient Truth."
- immatellyouwhat, on 01/08/2009, -2/+9Most celebs either do not finish high school or acting classes and yet you people choose to hang on every word they say about politics or the environment. They think just because they are famous they could push their ideas on us, I want them to there job and act, not hear about ***** like this, digg me down but you know it's true
- ChromaVita, on 01/08/2009, -0/+6He invented it, I think he knows what it's capable of...
- Orsenfelt, on 01/08/2009, -0/+6Why does nobody ever talk about Nuclear Fusion power?
Sure we have our hurdles to come across before it's viable, but it would help if it wasn't only ITER chipping away at it.If done right, we could get 150Billion years of relatively clean energy from fusion. And that's 150 Billion years of full power sustainable power for everyone, which I don't think Wind can do, unless we cover every spare patch of land with a windmill.... - Typhoon2009, on 01/08/2009, -1/+71. Apparently that was a hoax
2. Nature Conservation includes authorized hunting to curb populations of certain creatures.
3. That's just stupid.
4. I think he's trying to say that the less demand there is for non-renewables, the more renewables will flourish. That said, it's still a random assortment of words.
5. How long until the cost outweighs the benefits? Do we really have to make the air cleaner than what's needed? Even arsenic, in small enough amounts, won't do stuff to you.
6. See other comments above mine for this.
7. lulz - IphtashuFitz, on 01/08/2009, -2/+8Suppose it takes you a grand total of 60 seconds to brush your teeth, whether your in the shower or not. That means grabbing your toothbrush and toothpaste, putting some paste on the brush, then scrubbing the pearly whites (or yellows or whatever the case may be) then rinsing out. Even a water-saving shower head flows at a rate of around 1 to 2 gallons per minute, so just by standing in the shower and brushing your teeth you're using gallons of water. Now go brush your teeth for the exact same period of time in front of a sink. The simple process of turning off the faucet while you're scrubbing away at your teeth can save gallons of water. If you do this every day you can save upwards of 10 to 20 gallons of water a week, or 500+ gallons a year. That's a LOT of water you'd be saving by not brushing your teeth in the shower.
- Zarokima, on 01/08/2009, -1/+7The only thing that shows up on both articles is the chick that brushes her teeth in the shower. If you were trying to point out "Oh, look, they stole that article!" then you have horribly, horribly failed.
- MrSchler, on 01/08/2009, -1/+7because the shower is wasting tons of water while you brush when you could use less at the sink...
- Typhoon2009, on 01/08/2009, -1/+6Brush with one hand, scrub with the other. We men do that all the time, except replace 'brush' with 'type' and 'scrub' with 'stroke'
- dandonia, on 01/08/2009, -2/+7This was a ***** article and I am shocked it made the first page. Snap out of it people!
- Claverhouse, on 01/08/2009, -0/+5How about controlling populations of animals like humans ? To protect the other species.
- CedEx, on 01/08/2009, -1/+6Maybe she meant 3 minutes worth of running shower?
She could get a blast of water to soak herself, then do the whole shampoo/soap thing. While the conditioner soaks in, she brushes her teeth, and then when that's done, she fires up the shower again to rinse everything off.
I suppose the 3 minute shower does imply the water is running continuously in that time period, but all this stuff can be done with 3 minute worth of water.
Who knows... I think we ought to ask for video verification on this matter. - Typhoon2009, on 01/08/2009, -0/+4I wonder how this person can call himself a 'tree hugger.' Take an Environmental Science course and you'll learn that sometimes, populations of animals like wolves DO have to be controlled or else they'll wipe out other species that are important to the ecosystem or economy.
- ayeroxor, on 01/08/2009, -1/+5Three per page? ***** buried.
- KH47, on 01/08/2009, -1/+5Obama is a celebrity.
- DifferentAngle, on 01/08/2009, -1/+5if you brush your teeth for the full 2 minutes... then that leave 1 minute to wash... not hot
- 3tcp, on 01/08/2009, -0/+4These are mostly politicians and this is nothing more than lobbying for their movement. This is equivalent to wsj saying '7 crazy things celebrities have said about the economy' and the started out with hillary clinton, al gore, and other democrats
- ricksite, on 01/08/2009, -1/+5I was wondering why natural gas is so powerful, it has a "Hemi".
- VoodooPunk, on 01/08/2009, -0/+4Buried for completely ignoring REALLY stupid quotes by celebrities about the environment such as:
"We'll be eight degrees hotter in 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow, most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals." - Ted Turner in PBS interview with Charlie Rose
"I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in any one sitting." - Sheryl Crow
"It's like the difference between an ice cube floating in a glass of water, which when it melts doesn't raise the level of water in the glass, and a cube sitting atop a stack of ice cubes, which melts and flows over the edge. That's why the citizens of these pacific nations all had to evacuate to New Zealand." - Al Gore in an Inconvenient Truth claiming that rising sea levels led to the evacuation of of certain Pacific Islands. In fact, no evidence validating this claim can be found. - oboshoe, on 01/08/2009, -0/+4I like Guatemala better when its cold.
When Guatemala is cold, its contrasts with the hot steak or chicken on my Fajita very nicely. - FuzzplugJones, on 01/08/2009, -0/+4By your logic, Hitler, Pol Pot, and Jesus Christ are celebrities.
- Hetman, on 01/08/2009, -1/+5So all humans are self centered ego maniacs. Sounds about right to me.
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