Global Warming – is it all Guy Fawkes’ fault?

finally!,a non gaul on these boards!

@forumhostpb wrote:

Well here we all are worrying ourselves silly about carbon emissions and saving the planet for the future of mankind.

Practically everything we do these days has been ruled ”bad” by the eco-Nazis, whether it is leaving a light on or a TV or computer on standby or (God forbid) driving around in a car of all things. Using ‘energy’ is the new mass murder it seems.

As I recall there is no law against any of the above and yet we now suffer the constant tut tuttings and stares of disapproval from the environmental lobbyists.

And yet how many of us will go out this weekend and celebrate Guy Fawkes night by letting off loads of fireworks??? (Setting fire to £10 notes might be cheaper BTW).

Just think of all the vast clouds of chemical gasses released into the atmosphere from even a small garden display, much less a larger professionally organised one. Does anybody REALLY care … or is the ‘concern’ for the environment all very well, as long as it doesn’t spoil YOUR fun???

Who has contributed to the long term destruction of our planet through global warming this weekend and if Guy Fawkes hadn’t tried to blow up Parliament, would the entire human race live just a little bit longer????

hi and lets not forget all the bombs we and america have droped on,,,,,,,iraq, and all the forest fire, in and AROUND THE WORLD, THEIRS NO COAL FIRE, THEY HAVE DONE AWAY WITH THEM. THEIRS LOAD MORE TO COME,, LIKE SUPER VOLCANO, GOING OFF,

GOVERNMENT ARE ALL WAY LOOKING, FOR MORE WAYS TO , TO TAX THE COMMON MAN,

IN MY OPINION, NO MATTER, how hard we try its all our fault, its the miner its the motor,car

its the consumer, were, will it end, even when the world was forming, we have allkinds off gase, going up up in to the sky,

they say our planet, half way, or middle age…….. more sun shine in place like iceland

maybe, wott comes off the planet off ours, is suppose, to come off it, i think theres no cure, to a greener cleaner planet, like cancer, it will get u in the end, but the taxman

will get us first, lol true or false :lol: :evil: its a pity, guy fawkes failed, we might have had aworld without the lying cheating mp mps,, off parliament,

@rubyred wrote:

Pre-Romanization Roman Attitudes
The traditional Roman view of the Gauls can be expressed easily in one word: excessive. To the Romans the Gauls were excessive in their personal appearance and behavior, in their manner of making war, in their religion. The reported Gallic appearance and modes of behavior violated the traditional Roman virtues of industria, gravitas, constantia, and severitas. One could hardly imagine a people whose countenance and customs would more offend Roman sensibilities. Undoubtedly, the Roman view of Gauls was informed to a large degree by fear, given that the Gauls were the only enemy of Rome that had sacked the Eternal City prior to its fall.

Diodorus Siculus writes that in appearance the “Gauls are tall of body, with rippling muscles, and white of skin, and their hair is blond (Book V. 28. 1).” Further, the Gauls accentuated this foreign lightness by washing their hair with lime and pulling it back from the forehead “so that their appearance is like Satyrs and Pans (Book V. 28. 2).” They, men and women, wear bracelets, heavy necklaces (torcs), rings, and even corselets, of gold. Their clothing is “striking — shirts which have been dyed and embroidered in varied colors, and breeches; and they wear striped coats…in which are set checks, close together and of varied hues (Book V. 30. 1-2).” Diodorus’ description of multicolored checked clothing sounds a lot like tartan plaid.

Strabo describes how this excess in appearance extends into Gallic behavior. They exhibit “simplicity and high-spiritedness…[and] witlessness and boastfulness (Geography 4.4.5).” This “levity of character” makes them look “not only insufferable when victorious, but also scared out of their wits when worsted.”

Both Diodorus and Cicero describe Gallic speech as being harsh. Diodorus (Book V. 31. 1) says that “when they meet together they converse with few words and in riddles, hinting darkly at things for the most part and using one word when they mean another….” All of the sources describe them as boasters. But Diodorus also says that they have sharp wits and “are not without cleverness at learning (Book V. 31. 1).”

Finally, the Gauls drink to excess. Besides drinking their own beer and mead (fermented honey), the Gauls, according to Diodorus “are exceedingly addicted to the use of wine (Book V. 26. 2-3).” They drink the wine without mixing it with water, and they drink until “they fall into a stupor or a state of madness (Diodorus V. 26. 3).” A fragment of Cicero’s Pro Fonteio expresses the wishful admonishment that “the Gauls would hereafter drink in more sober proportions (IV. 9).”

These descriptions of Gauls from Classical sources remind one of the stereotypical 19th-century English attitude toward the sly, primitive Irish and the wild Scots, best expressed in Punch cartoons. Strabo’s phrase “levity of character” is interesting, though, because it reflects on a very real Celtic trait, which springs from a sort of dreamy optimism that during their long history has led Celts into great adventure and unmitigated disaster. Yeats recognized this trait in his countrymen and disapproved of it. The epitaph on his tombstone warns, “Cast a cold eye on life, on death….”

gauls rool ya bass..!

gauls are gay,,so are you!,you gaul!