OT - BP Ad Slogan
It's really unfortunate seeing whats going on with the oil spill down here in Louisiana. I worked on a fishing boat in south Louisiana a few summers ago and its sad seeing people like the captain I worked for be out of work.
My brother sent me this, he says it was a BP ad slogan in the 90s. Not sure if thats true but it is a little humor on an unfortunate event.
Boy, we Phucked up!!
That's not how you spell fucked.
Only a high skool graduate
for only being a high skool grad? Where's the love for all us lower class Americans? The ones who grunt the things college grads rely on to make them superior?
Not to defend BP's epic Phuck Up, but I've always liked that they get only a very small percentage of their oil from the Middle East. That never gets mentioned, of course.
That's almost certainly due to economics and not a good conscience. BP is responsible for the two biggest American industrial disasters of the decade, the other being the Texas City explosion. The dickheads didn't learn their lesson after that one. IMHO they don't deserve any sympathy.
Fun Fact: BP began in the colonial era as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, later the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. It was the result of a concession granted to William Knox D'Arcy by the Shah of Iran under the thumb of his imperial overlords in Great Britain. The company was threatened briefly by the election of the nationalist Mossadeq, but a CIA orchestrated coup--with support from the British--returned the shah to power. BP was allowed, once again, to virtually monopolize Iranian oil. The shah was finally removed by the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Until I read this on Wikipedia I refuse to believe it.
i don't know if it's true, but it sounded worthy of a +1 so merry christmas.
BP doesn't get their oil from the middle east so I guess we should forgive them for destroying the gulf ecosystem since at least they were taking oil from outside the middle east. -5000 points to you a-hole. Why don't you head down to ground zero and take a swim in your speedo. Might give you some perspective as to how serious this is.
Completely serious, just asking. Are you implying that it's not as bad as it is being made out to be, or that the OP is making a joke of something really serious?
Michman is making a shitty strawman. On a related tip, it's foolish to think that because I admire Michman's passion, I necessarily admire his debate skills.
Slick
that's just crude
I'm petrofied by where this topic is headed.
You're just adding fuel to the fire.
But oils well that ends well.