Oh golly, karma comes full circle with this one.
Cartoon by Josh, of www.cartoonsbyjosh.com
BTW, note to other bloggers: Josh encourages distribution of this cartoon, just cite it as I’ve done above – Anthony
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fyi I received an answer from the Carbon Trust in UK – interesting that they distance themselves firmly from 10:10 as below.
The Carbon Trust does not endorse 10:10’s mini-movie “No Pressure”. We were completely unaware of the film until it appeared online. We were not involved in any way with the making of this film and we provide no financial support to 10:10. We do provide practical advice and guidance on saving energy and cutting carbon to organisations that have signed up to the initiative.
Kind Regards
Customer Centre Advice Line
http://www.carbontrust.co.uk
Customer Centre, PO Box 89 , Witney , OX29 4WB
EU Referendum has something on his correspondence with O2 and cancelling his business with them:
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2010/10/splattergate-o2-customer-relations.html
Steve R
I don’t think that throwing 10:10 under the bus will save the Carbon Trust quango from the axe, but it is nice to see the mutual back slappers turning into mutual back stabbers
I wrote in to the 10:10 website and obtained this “form letter” response:
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Hello Charles,
Thanks for your mail. You’re right. We made a mistake with the movie. It was off-the-mark and off-message.
Our UK director has made a statement on the issue, which if you haven’t seen and wish to see, you can find at http://www.1010global.org/uk/2010/10/statement-1010-uk-director. As it says, we are taking the matter very seriously and will be reviewing our processes and procedures to identify how we made the mistake.
We will definitely be returning to our traditional positive messaging from here on in. We hope you will stick with us.
With sincere apologies.
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Dear 10:10,
No need to apologize, just go away….
Golf Charley
I quite agree! The exercise of disolving useless quangos could do worse that start with the Carbon Trust.
Wonder if it’s possible to short sell carbon credits….. 😉
I have now devised the most evil doctory doomy plans to change career from ice melter to a career in blowing kids up.
I’ve come to figure it’s gonna be quite the work load trying to melt all the damn ice — with a refurbished flame thrower no less. Listen to this like, I visited, all happy go like, the local petrol station to refuel my recently recuperated refurbished flame thrower, and what do I get but up in my face screaming and shouting and every god damn invective possible (and not to mention a few a the really bad words of private parts), I immediately thought climate “blow your face up” alarmist at twelve a clock, so I did what every rational person would’ve done, squeezed up and run.
Funny though that with all that screaming and shouting, especially all that shrieking at the end, the last word I heard was like “woof”. How odd I though, I never new they had a dog.
The other day though I woke up with a really nasty smell covering the neighborhood, like burnt napalm. Actually I think it was the day after the whole petrol station oddity. Anyways, I’m there, in bed, figuring that crap I’m not the only careerist ice melter with a refurbished flame thrower out there. Conclusion: Competition. I friggin hate competition, always has, always will! Competition is truly bad for your earning potential.
Of course I could have gotten rid of my competition with a simple squeeze followed by that swooosh of burning napalm (or in my case the environmentally friendly so called E85 that just goes woof), but, apparently, that’d be considered rude.
So I was pretty much forced into a new career path. And lucky me I got my own mind to think with, so I’m like thinking if it’s all ok to blow up kids, why not make a career out of it?
So here’s my business plan, second revision.
I’m gonna blow up kids for a living. I’m figuring I can blow up five kids per day without too much of a hassle. I am fully aware of, and fully understand, kids’, should we say, difficulties in our handling of ’em? Anyways, with enough lubricants they don’t pose any what so ever kind of a problem, believe you me. [insert evil wink smiley]
How to blow up the kids though? Hard question. Not so easy as one thinks. Using refurbished explosives is, sadly, out of the question, what with the, let’s just say for lack of potency of going off a second time.
After much consideration, and after trying it on a toddler without much success I tell you due to some horrendous size issues, I’ve come to the conclusion that for each day I’ll need five canisters of gas, any gas lighter than air will suffice but for fun and profit helium seem to be the best choice.
I’ll also budget for five yay [->. . . . .<-] high balloons. Preferably yellow ones for visibility.
That's it, you lubricate the kids, squeeze 'em into the god damn balloons, and then blow 'em all up (preferably with helium gas–for fun and profit.)
This way I can blow kids up, career wise, sky high, at the same time reducing the carbon foot print by two for each snotty kid that I blow up, sky high. The kids get a laugh reaching the stars–for free, without the fee of cars!