Posted on 08/01/2008 7:51:59 AM PDT by Apollo 13
As the British lads would phrase it: 'those Chinese wankers!' Beijing refused to admit a colonnade of around 80 beautifully restored Dutch classic Volvo cars that partook in a well-led rallye. They simply sent those guys to the nearest port to ship them back to Holland. Why? Because of a fear of spies? Political upheaval?
No. Officials said: 'those cars are just polluters. And our air already is quite polluted. So we won't allow it to be even more polluted by those eighty cars'.
Nice people, those Chinese. So environmentalistic. So human. So Greenpeace. So alert. And so friendly. So supple. So PR-oriented.
And so stupid.
What emits more gas-—80 autos or one billion + a$$holes?
I could see their point if they were driving old 3 cylinder Saab 2 strokes...
Yep, exactly. My thoughts too. Even the Chinese are capable of making an idiotic but politically correct ‘statement’ that’s merely meant to be swallowed by the media and tell the world how caring they are re: the environment.
Banning the BBC. Refusing Volvos. What’s next?
The ChiComs need some radioactive pollutants to give them a good mix of toxic materials.
I nominate about a dozen B-83 nukes, targeted on their military-industrial infrastructure, secret hidden naval bases and all that noise.
Spicy Szechuan Gleen Grass w/spling rolls, yum!
Harsh but fair. Alternatively, we could drop a couple of bombs on Beijing filled to the brim with the poppy harvest from Afghanistan. Two birds killed with one stone. I find those ‘clean’ parades always so terrifying... officials with stony faces, and thousands of youngsters with those horrible ‘rictus’ smiles... my plan would turn everyone into a dozy ming-mong, and the officials perhaps, if droogafied enough, would even throw all their clothes off and dance around naked in the rain. And everything would be made available on YouTube.
One can dream, surely...
Indeed, “To dream, the impossible dream....”
Is it just me or aren’t Volvo’s made in Sweden? To my knowledge, the Dutch have never been automakers. Ice skates, cheese and tulips are more like it.
Oh and cartoons, too.
One of my favorite cars of all time. With a cancered out muffler they sounded like a giant Husquavarna chain saw. Absolutely marvelous on snow and ice.
Saab’s 3 cylinder motor was bullet proof. There was a light blue 2 dr that ding-ding-dinged around Iowa City when I was in school there. It did smell a bit like a chainsaw.
I love the smell of bean oil in the morning. It smells like.....victory!
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