People send me stuff. Today I got one of the most ridiculous pieces of hate mail, ever, from some fool in Belgium who can’t seem to figure out that what he’s ranting about has already been claimed. On the WUWT contact page it says this, apparently he can’t/won’t read.
So, here is what he sends.
Great way to convince somebody of your position, huh?
100% proven? Apparently he hasn’t seen all the “science is settled” claims made about AGW. Dude, get with the program.
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..ROTFLMAO….Thanks, I needed a good laugh !
Could somebody tell me, please, how the “Broeckx” name is correctly pronounced? Is it “Bricks”?
Pretty well as you’d say brooks. The oe is oo in the low countries, oo is long o.
If you are really lucky he’ll befriend you on Facebook…
Should there not be two S’s in that…
Should there not be two S’s in that…
Anthony’s is a special case.
If that was an actual letter it would be covered in Spit and Snot. One of the great things about e-mail-whatever is affecting his mind is not transmitted by electrons1
……as well as “whole”.
I am getting up to 100 identical emails from you. Please reduce them to one. MG
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I can’t do anything. You’ve subscribed to comments, which is why you are getting so many emails. Simply look at one of the emails, and there should be a link to unsubscribe or change your subscription preferences.
And I thought the Americans had a problem spelling arsehole.
Um er ! Please Sir,
If it hasn’t been proven (well more than 97%) that humans are causing global warming; (izzat similar to climate change), Why are some people wanting to shut down everything ??
He sounds like he’s 100% certain, but then he asks you to wait till it’s 100% proven.
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In addition to “settled science” we also have a President who chides and abuses citizens from the podium with an NRDC/Green Peace script. That’s the new progressive style that ignores impact on science fact checking, science education, and waste of taxpayer funds for the pleasure of advocacy groups.
Not to mention that his mandate entitles him to dictate to the populace of the UK.
Best of luck with that – It’s been tried before, with predictable results.
We’re looking forward to the arrival of Air Force One!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NOT,
Anthony,
I hope you now feel suitably humbled after being put in your place by such a master of wit, sparking repartee & linguistic exactitude’s as M Broeckx.
I’m sure we can all learn something about the warmists level of competence from his erudite issue.
Yeah, Oscar Wilde himself would have been envious of this guy’s eloquence and intelligence. 🙂
This brought back memories of a shaggy dog joke doing the rounds in my youth as follows.
The master of repartee.
One day the circus came to town and the youth attended. A clown came out during the program and engaged the audience. Addressing the youth he shouted, are you a full wit? No the youth answered. then you must be a full wit shouted the clown back. Enduring the laughter of the crowd the youth, embarrassed and ashamed, fled .
Determined to better himself he enrolled in the school of repartee at a nearby city. Graduating with honours with a bachelor of repartee (BofR), he pursued his studies through MofR and on to Phd in repartee studies, becoming world famous as a repartee intellectual, able to decimate opponents with a mere few words in any situation. One day he returned home to visit and as chance would have it the same circus was in town. He decided to attend the performance and there came the same clown much older and non the wiser. Coincidentally, he unknowingly singed out the master of repartee and asked the old script. Are you a full wit? The master said no. the clown pressed on, than you must be a half wit. An anticipatory hush descended over the assembled throng as the master rose from his seat extending himself to full height and loudly proclaimed, Phuc off!
Its pure Shakespeare — Eugene WR Gallun
I love how he advises you to be respectful, after demonstrating a complete lack of respect.
It’s a bit like a pig giving advise on cleanliness.
Not fair to the pig. In fact pigs will do just about everything to stay out of filth – they do like mud but that’s because it protects their skin.
Perhaps “Mark Broeckx” can claim he is protecting his own hide, if he has “skin in the game”.
But I agree about pigs. Most of the time they are cheerful creatures, and it is unfair to compare them to those who are chronically grouchy.
mmmmm-pig skin!
cleeean pig skin!
Or maybe just one of the Millennial college students (or a mimic) who visited this site outside his internet “safe space” and immediately had a mental breakdown which of course required a crybully rant to feel better.
He’ll be back, because the “safe space” gets too dull. A “safe space” is like parrots in an echo chamber, or perhaps like mirrors reflecting mirrors off into a long tunnel towards darkness. Like a moth, he’ll be back, attracted to the light.
It should be noted that temporary mental breakdowns are now available in bottles and cans. I’m not saying that is the case for “Mark Btfsplk,” but it should not be ruled out for certain well-known AGW advocates.
“When it is 100% proven that humans cause global warming…” than you’ll probably read here first. Stay tuned.
Well, they’ve been trying for almost 30 years to “prove” it’s caused by Human activity, & so far, failed miserably! Never mind, keep trying, don’t give up hope!
Alas, I finally understood the meaning of Hope AND Change.
Whole as opposed to half-assed.
Obviously the guy believes in “global warming”. I even suspect he means anthropocentric global warming due to CO2 rather than just “the globe is warming” due to various natural reasons along with perhaps a bit of human activity.
One wonders how so many became so confused on the issue. I knew the minute we went from “a new ice age is coming soon” to the globe “is going to fry due to CO2” that they did not know what they were talking about. (that and I knew neither J. Hansen nor C. Sagan was a decent scientist)
This bloke believes folks like our host and most commenters here are “destroying the planet” via our use of energy which releases a trace of CO2. He believes that so much that he sends hate mail out to total strangers. Wow.
We need to find a way to show these deluded people that CO2 does not do what they think it does.
I would alert South Korea to a possible watch list since they recently announced that they will not be meeting the Paris targets and in fact will be building a few snazzy coal fired power plants.
I like the CO2 is greening the earth button someone made awhile back. A clear message delivered in a positive way.
Maaaaaybe the new mass movement for social good will be the greening of the world !!!
Do they have coal in South Korea? If not, maybe we can sell them ours, now that both Obama and now Missus Clinton want to close all our coal power plants and coal mines.
/Mr Lynn
https://www.eia.gov/beta/international/rankings/#?prodact=7-3&iso=KOR&pid=7&aid=3&tl_id=3-A&tl_type=a&cy=2013
I didn’t know South Korea was such a large importer of the stuff. I haven’t dug deeper but I imagine the Aussies sell it to them.
The USA has been a net exporter of coal. I got curious. Google shows we export alot to the Netherlands who then distribute it to Europe.
I think we sail it over on the SS Social Justice.
https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=66&t=2
Our coal is only good enough to be burned in Europe–it’s not good enough to be burned domestically. /sarc.
What an insane setup. We dig it out of the ground here, move it by rail to some port and ship it by oil burning tanker to the Netherlands who then distribute it to folks who have it in the ground there but can’t get it to market. Where is the reincarnation of Carlin ?
:::: it could be the quality of the coal is better as I haven’t researched it, but I doubt that ::::
So Mr Broeckx from Belgium gets the benefit of USA coal via the Netherlands.
What an ingrate.
Put up the price.
Belgium also has the largest network of roads fully lit at night!
It might be a good idea for him to consider an anger management course. It’s just a suggestion, sir. If you happen to have a gun, please don’t shoot me. I’m only trying to help. I understand your frustration. It’s awful when the obvious truth just won’t be accepted by some people. I think ISIL suffers from the same frustration. They have a quick solution for non-believers: convert or die!
ISIL are more like “just die”
btw, tony, the word mirth is already a noun and it does not need the iness to make it into one
It’s just a play on truthiness. Something that sort of sound like it’s mirthful, but in reality, it sounds like Donald Trump.
Btw, cha, the suffix “Ness” can also be added to root nouns, so you must be relying on your own assumptions about what “tony” intended. “Ness” indicates “the state of” the word it is modifying.
Examples: tired+ness=tiredness, happy +ness=happiness (both were nouns to begin with)
” tired+ness=tiredness, happy +ness=happiness (both were nouns to begin with) “
?? They were adjectives where I come from.
Come now, y’all. It is a silly word to have fun with. Does everything have to be serious 100% of the time? This is what poetic license is for.
+1!
‘You are an asshole….you should be more respectful.’
I am guessing not the debate team captain.
‘You are an asshole….you should be more respectful.’
Mark : Congratulations, you have won first prize in the oximoron of the week competition and it is only Monday. This is a record, well done.
+1
Blue Bomber fan base debate team maybe. Go Riders!
Interesting level of butchery of English there. You can be an “aswhole” but you must stay “respectfull.” You can be “awfully stupid” and an “idiot.” That looks like a tautology and an oxymoron in the same sentence.
Hope he turns up to defend himself. He might learn something (e.g. that many denizens of this place do not dispute AGW but dispute level of same and the “C” in CAGW).
tautology is a retired professor
and an oxymoron is someone starved of oxygen
A former Canadian prime minister will explain it to you.
A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It’s a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it’s because it’s proven.
Jean Chretien
re: chretien
On behalf of Canadians everywhere, I would just like to apologize for this guy ever being born.
Drugs? Let dem come! It’s more trade!
No need to apologize, CodeTech. We’ve got @sshole losers in America, too.
Unfortunately, there seem to be plenty to go around. 🙁
der once was a man from Quebec
Wid me he did not agree
So I grabbed ‘is face
and twisted ‘is neck
And now ‘e looks just like me!
By Jean Chretien
No worries CodeTech. We have them in UK and Australia too and I believe NZ has its own complement; Canada and the USA aren’t alone!
Are you sure it’s not Cretin?
Let’s see, they’ve got whiskey in Ireland, vodka in Russia, tequila in Mexico. What is it that people like him abuse in Belgium?
Kwak Beer
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/pauwel-kwak/3658/
Good manners?
“What is it that people like him abuse in Belgium?”
Belgian “French fries”? (une fois)
i go for a Duvel (strong beer on which foreigners and belgians get busted with being drunk or a gaegeleer (other strong beer) ROTFLMAO
Correctly a “zaakie met” which is a “bag with” and the condiment in question is mayonnaise. Being part Dutch I can confidently inform you that the traditional Dutch jokes about the Belgians are that they are stupid, smelly and love a “zaakie met.” The Belgian jokes about the Dutch are that they are mean misers. How was copper wire invented? Two Dutchmen fighting over a penny. /boomtish and so on…
Beer. Trappist Ale. Very good stuff. Very strong stuff. Don’t blame the bubbly though, it has a lot of CO2 in it. So maybe this happens when you ingest too much CO2.
ignorance
Don’t forget chocolates, beer (300 different kinds…), real Belgian waffles (not what they sell for “Belgian” in the US), ice cream, Brussels sprouts (which I hate), chicory,… And a lot of al good food from all over the world, which we can enjoy here in a small country with a pub/bar/restaurant on every corner of the street…
BTW “French” fries weren’t French at all, but a Belgian finding, but because the army in the first WW was mainly under French/Belgian command the English and American made it “French” when they did take that at home…
French fries were actually a NZ invention.
Mid 19th century a French sailing ship in the Bay of Islands managed to upset the local Maori. A Maori war party caught a group of French sailors away from the protection of the ship’s cannons and as was the custom they ended up in a large oil filled cooking pot. The world’s first French fries.
Here Mai.
How ridiculous … next you are going to claim you invented the pavlova and that Russel Crowe is a Kiwi. Actually, wait, you can keep him 😉
Chocolate.
Wheat beer, may the Lord forgive them!
I vote it is waffles they abuse! 🙂
Cheers!
Joe
Let’s see, they’ve got whiskey in Ireland, vodka in Russia, tequila in Mexico. What is it that people like him abuse in Belgium?”
My guess would be that he gets frequent visits from the Ether Bunny
yeah, whatcha gonna do Anthony
It’s hard to know whether Warmist Belief attracts the mentally unstable, or if it is a cause of same. Clearly, they have a hatred for humanity in general, but a particularly venemous hatred towards non-Believers.
Worthy of study.
Hey Bruce! I do not pretend to be a psychiatrist, but I have observed a lot of CAGW enthusiasts and have noticed a pattern among those about whom I have known personal details. They all seem to have some major source of personal strife which they are unwilling to face or rectify. Maybe it is drug use, depression, bad marriage, elderly parents who require support, or perhaps financial problems. Embracing CAGW is a wonderful emotional crutch to them. It allows them to blame their ever present unhappiness on something which is external to themselves and which does not require them to make any great personal effort. CAGW does not make them happy, but it lets them tell themselves, “Of course I can’t sleep, of course I feel like the world is going to garbage! We are destroying the biosphere!” Instead of facing up to the fact that they are living in a hole which they need to get out of, they can tell themselves that bad men with CO2 are making them unhappy. They can recycle their trash bags and pretend that even though the world is dying, THEY are not responsible.
Jason, I think that like a lot of us they believed the CAGW position at first, but can’t say that they made a mistake and now have changed their minds like many of us here have done.
So they bluster and rant because they can’t face the fact that they were taken in in the first place.
“A most basic desire of human nature is to feel important.”
Adopting a “cause” can satisfy a need. This may be a (the?) major motivator in The Carbon War.
I believe you’re right, but I wouldn’t rule out a Messiah Complex in at least one very prominent Warmist.
Maybe even a Holy Trinity
It’s a religion.
Mb Broeckx asks: Where are you going to hide ?
Perhaps the nearest mountain top
http://www.kraiggrayson.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/shark-global-warming.jpg
hmm …. perhaps not such a good idea
Wait a sec! According to all the AGW doomsayers, we’ve already hit the “tipping point”, the ice caps should be melted, coastal cities should be under 30 feet of water, and freak storms should be ravaging the world! Every record breaking weather event is PROOF!
If this is the case, then:
Isaiah 22:13
But see, there is joy and revelry, slaughtering of cattle and killing of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine! “Let us eat and drink,” you say, “for tomorrow we die!”
lol
… Mark said, furiously shaking a pot-stained finger at the screen, “Zen Waves and Birds” music playing softly in the background, the smell of algae cooking on the dung-stove filling the air, along with….
…. coal powered electricity running the computer… the phone charger…. the microwave (for the frozen burrito — oh, and the refrig/freezer — he’ll heat up after taking one bite of his holy food)…
Actually, Anthony. Come to think of it, he has paid you a high compliment. The man thinks you are God.
Or maybe Santa. And that’s a pretty big compliment, too. Maybe, tell him…. “If you are really, really, good, Marky, I will be bringing you that new bicycle you admired last week. Oh, yes, I can see EVERYTHING you do.”
Nah, that would be mean, for a guy like that would believe you and TOTALLY FREAK OUT.
I theeenk I know what the problem is. Poor Mark completely missed the point of this movie…
“Bruce Almighty”
🙂
This email appears to be from a recently “indoctrinated” 2nd grader encouraged by his re-educator to become active in the fight against global warming.
Yeah, I suspect there are quite a few sub-types of warmist.
There are those who have quite some knowledge and seem to be smitten by the whole “massive evidence” thing.
Others have a lot less knowledge but see themselves as helping to save the planet.
Still others that have less knowledge, believe in the consensus and are truly scared the planet is in trouble.
I feel a bit sorry for the last lot.
I believe a 2nd grader would be more polite.
A.D. — you are right! 🙂
It might be hard to know – googling Mark Broeckx shows the Belgians are singularly unimaginative when it come to names, apparently. Unless the EU has reached the point where they’ve discovered they can reduce paperwork for their automatons by only allowing a small set of new baby names in any given week. Seems the writer was one of many born the week they gave out “Mark Broeckx”…
Paul
I think its this Mark Broeckx – scroll down his facebook postings and CO2 starts getting a lot of mentions
https://www.facebook.com/mark.broeckx.1
I’m surprised he thinks 100% is high enough.
The author is probably the Mark Broeckx who, about 30 years ago, created a (small) group called UFO21 (because his age was 21 years then….!). He believed in flying saucers.
Can carbon pollution protect against UFOs?
Will carbonic acid dissolve flying saucers?
I was thinking MEL Broecks….
Jean, I found a Mark Broeckx on Faceboek, which is an adept of Greenperace and he Green Party, but at the same time posts anti-Islam posters of Pegida… Seems quite a scatterbrain to me, if that is the same guy…
FE
You mean this one?
https://www.facebook.com/mark.broeckx.1