27 Replies to “The World Is Being Run By Crazy People”

  1. On the other hand Kate; you could write a new pop psychology book titled:
    “Zen and the Art of Vacuum Cleaner Maintenance.”
    EU governance sucks and blows all at the same time.
    On the other hand you can shop at Big Gary’s Vacuum; and avoid this nastiness. It’s too late for me as I just had my Miele vacuum cleaner fully serviced; so I’m good for another ten years.
    In the meantime, as they say; “INCOMING!”
    Keep your helmet on, and only get out of bed when the glass from the windows has settled.
    Cheers
    Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North”

  2. Marlene Holzner, energy spokesman for the EC, said: “Technology is a rapidly developing and we have seen in other areas that it is capable of reducing energy while keeping all the functions and performance the same, if not improving them.”
    Pfizer trying to increase V1agra sales?

  3. We all know what this means.
    In another few years, organized crime, shorn of their ability to sell now-legal marijuana for a high profit, will resort to the most vile of crimes.
    Vacuum cleaner smuggling.
    Not that they won’t still be dealing hard drugs for a high profit. But the vacuums will be more profitable than the pot.
    🙂

  4. Perhaps they can also cut the power of electric car re-charging stations. Just imagine how much more power they could save.

  5. Years back I rescued an old vacuum from the spring cleanup….
    It work good……and loud….it just needed a new bag….
    I christened it the “B29″…..which went right over my X’s head…
    If you think a B52 is loud…..you can feel a B29 through yer shoes…..4 Double Wasp Major radials….about 3500 hp each.

  6. They need to commandeer leftist brains. There is a never-ending source of vacuum, like a pipeline to deep space.

  7. No Kate, you don’t.
    B29s were a “pedal to the metal” wear out fast, overstressed,
    mechanics nightmare of an airplane, which were very similar in
    theory to the war fighting ideas behind the “hot rod” P47
    Thunderbolt air superiority fighter but on a much larger scale.
    The plane you “must have” is the B50D with many critically
    needed postwar mods (Wiki) like “redesigned (larger) engine
    nacelles and engine mounts” for the new much more powerful P&W
    engines which replaced the original unreliable, gamely struggling
    to do the job, Wright designed original selection.

  8. “Alex Martin, technical director at the Association of Manufacturers of Domestic Appliances, said manufacturers were concerned about the move.”
    No doubt they fear that consumers will just go back to using corn brooms after they behold the cleaning power of a 750Watt vacuum.
    Carpet manufacturers must be nearly apoplectic.

  9. It gets even more absurd when you realize that any energy shortage in Europe is SELF INFLICTED.
    Sometimes I wonder if, as an infant, I fell through an interdimensional vortex into bizzaro world. Then I remember that in the end it’s all about crushing the population into crippling poverty to make them easier to control, and in historical terms, that’s fairly normal.
    It’s a shame most of them will be cheering all the way down.

  10. First they came for my light bulbs and I did not speak out. Then they came for my vacuum cleaner…

  11. Never assume these regulatory “insanities” are random. I’d be more inclined to believe a political crony has a clunky non functional “green” vacuum cleaner to flog and he’s paid handsomely for the political juice to kill his competitors – thus is life in the new crony capitalist system.

  12. If a country’s not Anglospheric, it’s not quite “civilized”. That’s the secret.

  13. So, it’s been 4 years since the article was written. Is there an update on Euro vacuum power? Did the proposed cuts pass?

  15. They’re trying to make it official that only their politicians can suck that hard.

  17. Oh good. Vacuum cleaners that don’t work to go with the toilet that won’t flush away stuff and the light bulbs that don’t work at 40 below.

  18. Just from a basic physics point of view, it’s obvious that this won’t work. It requires a certain amount of work to lift particles off the floor, the principal variable being friction supplied by the surface (ie carpeting). Weaker cleaner motors will lift less, requiring the user to “scrub” at the surface to break the particles free. This means longer cleaning times, hence more energy use.
    Virtually all of these government energy efficiency programs fail because the dolts who design them are NOT engineers and incapable of considering secondary effects. But this is Brussels, so you expect stupidity to reign supreme.

  19. I’ve got another idea. Why not use 1.2 liters of fossil fuel to produce 1 liter of bio-fuel and save the world in the process?

  20. My dear Saski-Yank, the B-29 received only minimal use in the European Theatre of Operation. If you want US metal,
    then try for a B-17 or a B-24 (I’d opt for a B-24; it was a sturdy aircraft). But since you are a Canadian, you would
    want that fine old dump-truck of a bomber, the Lancaster. There are two in Canada I believe, one in Calgary (almost
    flyable) and one in Mount Hope outside of Hamilton, which flies regularly.
    Furthermore, a lot of Lancasters were built in Canada.
    There is the additional advantage that the Battle of Britain Flight, RAF, has a Lancaster and I have seen it several times
    over Utrecht in the Netherlands – so sneaking in wouldn’t be a problem.
    Sir Arthur Harris had the right idea about solving Europe’s problems, which you will like: just bomb the Hell of out them,
    and then bomb some more. And then drop a few more booms, just in case. Guy Gibson was his acolyte –
    would probably have become C in C Bomber Command if he had lived.

  21. The idea of making vacuuming more difficult is a bad one. It will come naturally to Eurocrats, because Europeans
    tend to be rather dirty compared to North Americans. The problem is that disease likes dirt, and bacteria are learning
    to like antibiotics. So the decision is a decision which favours disease – plague!

  24. Perhaps they could reuse these inventions of hand cranked vacuum cleaners:
    “Another early model (1869) was the “Whirlwind”, invented in Chicago in 1868 by Ives W. McGaffey. The bulky device worked with a belt driven fan cranked by hand…”
    “In the United States, several dozen firms produced manual vacuum cleaners in the early 1900s, 1914 being the peak year. Three different models were sold by Sears, Roebuck between 1909 and 1917. Their main market was in rural areas, where as late as the mid-1930s, 90% of American farms (over 5 million) did not yet have electricity.”
    from Wikipedia.

  26. To get a little more technical: it doesn’t take much horsepower to lift a little dirt out of the rug. The big power demands come from forcing the air through finer and finer filters. Old-style vacuum cleaners had relatively coarse filter bags, and really fine dust, and microscopic stuff, like say, bacteria and fungal spores, would blow right through them. Those new HEPA filters are very effective, but they are restrictive, and it takes a lot of horsepower to move air through them.

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