thank you...
Posted on 10/25/2008 9:18:51 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
The word "drought" makes farmers feel depressed and should be replaced with "dryness", a panel of Australian government experts has said.
The group also warned farmers to get used to the lack of rain because dry conditions are expected to continue.
"Words like drought ... have negative connotations for farm families," a report by the Drought Policy Review Expert Social Panel found.
"There needs to be a new national approach to living with dryness, as we prefer to call it, rather than dealing with drought."
The country is currently in the grip of "the big dry" - a drought which has lasted seven years so far and is crippling the farming sector.
The report into the social effects of the drought found it had eroded farming communities and forced families apart. The weather conditions were also a major cause of depression among farmers, it found.
Panel member Lesley Young said the the research revealed the drought did not just affect men.
Women had been forced off farms to earn extra income, and often took the children with them, breaking up families, she said.
Small towns were also suffering, the report found.
Local sporting teams in rural communities had been affected because residents were so depressed that they no longer had the will to join in.
Several small towns no longer had enough people to form a team because "people could no longer justify both the cost and the time away from the farm".
More than 1,000 farmers and their families turned out to talk to the panel about how the drought had affected them.
Panel chairman Peter Kenny said it was obvious that the enduring dryness made life very hard for farming communities.
"We wonder why people have got so much pressure on them out there and they are blowing
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Water challenged.....LOL!
So if they celebrate Halloween down under, the little kiddies can run around saying “drought” instead of boo. That’ll slay ‘em...
drought drought drought drought drought drought drought drought drought drought drought drought drought drought drought drought drought drought drought drought drought drought drought drought...
Just replace all negative terms with “ungood.” If you need to be emphatic, “double plus ungood.”
Gimme a break. Farmers know what the weather is. You don’t have to couch it and tiptoe around it. Sheeesh. Bunch of government yuckity-yucks who have waaaaaay too much time on their hands.
People are just turning f@cking nuts. Worrying about things that are not problems, and totally sidestepping huge issues that are enormous problems.
lol...'dryness'? "We're experiencing at 10-year 'dryness', mate."
Dry? Drink a few beers.
> “There needs to be a new national approach to living with dryness, as we prefer to call it, rather than dealing with drought.”
I can imagine Australian farmers having a few choice words that might upset this panel of pointy-headed experts.
thank you...
What are they, babies? Is this Kindergarten? Treating adults with this kind of disrespect is despicable.
Nuke heating piles + the Indian Ocean = Fresh water for all.
Oh, and Australia having the world’s largest supplies and stores of fissile uranium, can’t hurt, either.
I agree. These are Aussies...not pu**ies. They can handle it...honest.
Now if the farmers break down and cry after hearing “drought”, well, that’s not my problem.
A rose by any other name...
water on the brain!
Newspeak! This is 1984, and, yes, Big Brother is watching you!
That's good. I got a chuckle out of that.
Where, o where, is George Orwell when you need him?
"Using the name Hussein is racist." Seems to work.
yitbos
And everyone realizes that except the “experts.” But I’m not really sure how we the people can put a stop to this nonsense. We already ignore it, obviously that isn’t working.
Please someone tell me this is just satire.
Oh, Lord have mercy, farmers get depressed because there is no rain, not because of a word that means there is no rain.
Amusing thread. I’d like to add some more words I’d not want to hear too often, this being in the spirit of a weekend. “Last call” and “I’m pregnant”. “fired” I’d rather not hear on a weekday. “Veto proof” gives me the shivers as well. Yep, lots of things I’d rather not be said to me.
Hey the Aussies may be on to something. I want to ban the name “Obama” as too upsetting to Patriots, People holding onto their Bibles and their Guns, People who actually pay Taxes, Capitalist, Rednecks, Wal*mart shoppers, Retirees, All 5 branches of the U.S. Military and anyone else who believes in Truth, Justice and the American way.
If I close my eyes, they’ll never see me.
Dryness hits Australia, women and children most affected
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