In 2000, an American reporter ran this story
Beijing's Desert Storm
The desert is sweeping into China's valleys, choking rivers and consuming precious farm land. Beijing has responded with massive tree-planting campaigns, but the Great Green Walls may not be able to buffer the sand, which could cover the capital in a few years
By Ron Gluckman /Beijing, Fengning and Langtougou, China
http://www.gluckman.com/ChinaDesert.html (http://www.gluckman.com/ChinaDesert.html)
6 years later, we get this:
330,000-ton sand fell on Beijing
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2006-04/19/content_571196.htm
While a few hours ago, Beijing gets struck again...
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Thank God people can't affect the climate.
I took a 330,000 ton dump this morning. I STAND RELIEVED
I heard of this quite a few years back, thought they'd managed to sort it with lots of money pre-olympics...shame they haven't.
Quote from: Razgovory on March 20, 2010, 03:12:37 AM
Thank God people can't affect the climate.
No shit. Couldn't happen to a better bunch.
Unfortunately, the Gobi has a long was to go before it absorbs all of that cursed country. Still, it's a shame that something like this didn't happen during the Olympics. Give China a real black eye.
Quote from: Neil on March 20, 2010, 08:41:16 AM
Unfortunately, the Gobi has a long was to go before it absorbs all of that cursed country. Still, it's a shame that something like this didn't happen during the Olympics. Give China a real black eye.
Do they know you are saying that? I thought China had bought out Alberta.
Quote from: Razgovory on March 20, 2010, 10:55:28 AM
Quote from: Neil on March 20, 2010, 08:41:16 AM
Unfortunately, the Gobi has a long was to go before it absorbs all of that cursed country. Still, it's a shame that something like this didn't happen during the Olympics. Give China a real black eye.
Do they know you are saying that? I thought China had bought out Alberta.
Of course not.
Alberta remains the exclusive preserve of the ethnic Albertans: White, anglophone heterosexuals.
That picture looks familiar. Are you sure it's not from a couple of years ago?
Quote from: Neil on March 20, 2010, 12:03:09 PM
Alberta remains the exclusive preserve of the ethnic Albertans: White, anglophone heterosexuals.
:lmfao:
Quote from: Neil on March 20, 2010, 12:03:09 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on March 20, 2010, 10:55:28 AM
Quote from: Neil on March 20, 2010, 08:41:16 AM
Unfortunately, the Gobi has a long was to go before it absorbs all of that cursed country. Still, it's a shame that something like this didn't happen during the Olympics. Give China a real black eye.
Do they know you are saying that? I thought China had bought out Alberta.
Of course not.
Alberta remains the exclusive preserve of the ethnic Albertans: White, anglophone heterosexuals.
Yes, the white anglophone hetrosexual Stoney Nakoda Sioux for example...
here meeting the last royal of the age of dreadnoughts
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Not to mention the Franco-Albertans and the gay Albertans...
Quote from: Barrister on March 20, 2010, 01:19:32 PM
Not to mention the Franco-Albertans and the gay Albertans...
Second-class citizens.
That blows all the way over the sea to here.
Quote from: Viking on March 20, 2010, 01:16:54 PM
Yes, the white anglophone hetrosexual Stoney Nakoda Sioux for example...
here meeting the last royal of the age of dreadnoughts
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fb%2Fb4%2FTheir_Majesties_greet_chieftains_of_the_Stoney_Indian_Tribe%252C_who_have_brought_a_photo_of_Queen_Victoria.jpg&hash=2382d540d0216eb6b31f520a1b6640baf6f793b4)
Stoney Nakoda now has a casino in the middle of nowhere just before the turn off to Kananaskis. They should have knifed all those ethnic Albertans standing around them in that picture.
"And such this once great civilization disappeared under the sands of time"...
Quote from: Mr.Penguin on March 21, 2010, 02:41:56 AM
"And such this once great civilization diapered under the sands of time"...
Hopefully disappeared and not diapered eh?
Quote from: PRC on March 21, 2010, 02:52:16 AM
Quote from: Mr.Penguin on March 21, 2010, 02:41:56 AM
"And such this once great civilization diapered under the sands of time"...
Hopefully disappeared and not diapered eh?
both works for me... :P