Originally published at: U.K. talk show host argues with carpenter by insisting concrete can be grown like trees | Boing Boing
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Appropriate typo is appropriate.
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I wonder if Mike Graham has a similarly air-tight case against vegans. “You kill carbon-capturing plants! How is that sustainable?”
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It’s a keeper, @frauenfelder!
This UK radio host must believe the lime used in concrete is the same as the fruit lime in his Corona.
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“You can grow all sorts of things”
Should try growing some brain cells
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You grow the concrete right next to the spaghetti trees. It’s kind of like planting corn, beans and pumpkins.
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I have just been robbed of some brain cells.
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What he says is so stupid that it reveals he isn’t thinking at all. Like most of the current ilk of right wingers, he is just calling up various react-and-attack templates from his mental library. It is content free, it’s just a trigger-response pattern. He might as well be a bot.
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I liked the just dead eyed stare.
“You can’t grow concrete.”
“Yes you can!”
(the stare of one unable to process this level of stupidity)
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Man: I came here for a good argument!
Arguer: AH, no you didn’t, you came here for an argument!
Man: An argument isn’t just contradiction.
Arguer: Well! it CAN be!
Man: No it can’t! An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a proposition.
Arguer: No it isn’t!
Man: Yes it is! 'tisn’t just contradiction.
Arguer: Look, if I argue with you, I must take up a contrary position!
Man: Yes but it isn’t just saying ‘no it isn’t’.
Arguer: Yes it is!
Man: No it isn’t!
Arguer: Yes it is!
Man: No it isn’t!
Arguer: Yes it is!
Man: No it ISN’T! Argument is an intellectual process. Contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says.
Arguer: It is NOT!
Man: It is!
Arguer: Not at all!
Man: It is!
(The Arguer hits a bell on his desk and stops.)
Arguer: Thank you, that’s it.
Man: (stunned) What?
Arguer: That’s it. Good morning.
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Don’t stand under them at harvest time.
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And the related argument that growing plants kills insects and mice in the fields (which somehow aren’t killed when growing a much higher percentage of plants to feed the animals who are then killed for food).
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That’s the UK’s version of the Colbert Report I hope
Honest question: Did the entire world get dumber in the past 4-ish years or are we just giving more of a platform to dumb people? Or at some point does one ensure the other?
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Explains where the concrete jungle comes from.
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I doubt he has the faintest idea what the constituent parts of concrete are
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Surely he must know about the course aggregate. His head is chock full of it!
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