Posted on 04/24/2009 5:41:19 AM PDT by Lucky9teen
| Your Life is 24% Green |
 You care about the earth, and hopefully this quiz has given you some ideas on how you can do more! |
Most of these make good economic sense, independent of their "Earth Friendly" garbage.
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| Your Life is 100% Hypocritical |
 Only algore is a bigger hypocrite |
NOBODY parties harder than that dude right there. Don’t even try.
Your life is pretty green - and you know a lot about how to live an eco friendly life.
So congratulate yourself for being good to the earth. And maybe think about implementing some of the ideas from this quiz!
Every answer I gave was due to frugality or common sense. I donate my used goods to places like goodwill, purchase alot of stuff secondhand, grow a garden, hang my clothes out, and turn out lights when not in a room.
this is a ridiculous poll. I did not once pick an enviromentally friendly idea because I don’t use a cloth shopping bag, pick items for their reduced packaging, or use enviromentally friendly cleaning supplies or any other tree hugging nonsense. I still got a 48 percent in their poll. Sheesh. Just living frugally is enough for them, which many have been doing for years.
"It's FRIDAY!!!"
INTERESTING HISTORY LESSON
Railroad tracks. This is fascinating.
Be sure to read the final paragraph; your understanding of it will depend on the earlier part of the content.
The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That’s an exceedingly odd number.
Why was that gauge used? Because that’s the way they built them in England, and English expatriates built the US railroads.
Why did the English build them like that? Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that’s the gauge they used.
Why did ‘they’ use that gauge? Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they use d for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing.
Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing? Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads in England, because that’s the spacing of the wheel ruts.
So who built those old rutted roads? Imperial Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe (and England) for their legions. The roads have been used ever since.
And the ruts in the roads? Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels. Since the chariots were made for Imperial Rome, they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing. Therefore the United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot. Bureaucracies live forever.
So the next time you are handed a specification/procedure/process and wonder ‘What horse’s ass came up with it?’, you may be exactly right. Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the rear ends of two war horses. (Two horse’s asses.) Now, the twist to the story:
When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRB’s. The SRB’s are made by Thiokol at their factory in Utah . The
engineers who designed the SRB’s would have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRB’s had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains, and the SRB’s had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses’ behinds.
So, a major Space Shuttle design feature of what is arguably the world’s most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse’s ass. And you thought being a horse’s ass wasn’t important? Ancient horse’s asses controlled almost everything... and
Today’s Horses Asses are controlling everything else.
The first Earth Day just happened to fall on the 100th Anniversary of Vladmir Lenin’s birth.
Coincidence?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenin
What was it about that first Earth Day that made millions of teenagers who THOUGHT they were going to live forever suddenly believe that the Earth was going to die before they reached middle age?
I need Solyent Green and a side of french fries with that.
| Your Life is 16% Green |
 So the environment is not your thing. Would it kill you to at least not litter? |
We should make sure that the fallacies of Earth Day prophets live on in the Smithsonian. But museum staff should not be permitted to steer public policy.
This is slanderous.
| Your Life is 12% Green |
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So the environment is not your thing. Would it kill you to at least not litter? |
I don't give money to green causes, local businesses aren't necessarily greener, and why should I put on an extra sweater when the President lives in a much bigger home and has said he will raise the thermostat because "he's from hawaii (not chicago) and used to the warmth" (paraphrased press office quote).
That’s pretty impressive, does he use that technique often on the bulls?
| Your Life is 4% Green |
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So the environment is not your thing. Would it kill you to at least not litter? |
DON'T LOOK, ETHYL!!!
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