Aims, my head is hurting from all the sense that is not making.
The local news just had a piece on about a very pretty church near my home town that is being shut down as a parish and community efforts to save it. They interview this one woman who has a very screechy, giddy pitch to her voice, which makes her seem totally crazy. She also has the last name of this absolutely nutty guy I knew in high school. Sure thing, next shot is of him, saying how he was a parishioner of the church and how his grandparents are buried in it's cemetery. I'm 85% that he never lived in that community, but lying about something like that to feel "involved" is totally the kind of thing he used to do.
Whoa. This kid's bar mitzvah video (He's Zack! The peak of fabulosity!) has gotten 20,000 new views in the past half hour or so. (I feel bad for this kid. The mocking and bullying is going to start really soon, in all likelihood.) [link]
"They had to have known it was coming and just didn't do anything about it because of their overpopulation problem."
...How did they know it was coming? Does she think rescue workers found a card in Christchurch saying "You're next, Japan!"?
Somehow, it's the "Like 9/11" that gets me even more. The part of my brain that just REFUSES TO BELIEVE THAT THAT LEVEL OF STUPID WALKS THE EARTH is scrambling around for what, pray tell, 9/11 had to do with population density and natural disasters, hmm??
I wonder what she thinks they could have done.
Duh. If you know the earthquake is happening, you can take all the population that is so large and play a bit of see saw on the fault line. You know? Like Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin in
Beetlejuice
with the dog on the bridge. A big game of teeter-totter.
The EVEN BETTER NEWS?? She's studying to be a SCIENCE TEACHER.
Well, in a sense, they did know it was coming, and they planned for it fantastically. They have checklists and drills and emergency management plans all over the place. Unlike here, where I still don't have an earthquake bag, or even earthquake insurance for my house.
The part of my brain that just REFUSES TO BELIEVE THAT THAT LEVEL OF STUPID WALKS THE EARTH is scrambling around for what, pray tell, 9/11 had to do with population density and natural disasters, hmm??
Well, skyscrapers are highly correlated with centres of population density, you see? No skyscrapers, no 9/11!
Natural disasters are like terrorist attacks, of course, because you have to know they're coming.
Aims, I am sure she knows that she will soon be bitch-slapped by someone.
I'm sure our prof thought she was kidding. He looked at her like, "WTF? Candid camera?"
