Eskimos Have 47 Words For “Snow”

35 Replies to “Eskimos Have 47 Words For “Snow””

1. Did they test yellow snow.

   1. I’d donate to fund that study.

      1. I’d donate to make the snow yellow.

      2. Leftism is changing the smell of bulls**t ; it stinks more.

2. I love the smell of snow in the Morning.

   Might have to go into battle against a raccoon.

3. Its inspiring to know that government funding for climate research is being appropriately allocated.

   “I love the smell of napalm in the morning.” (A quiz for Rupertslander, to see if he can accurately assign this quotation.)

   1. Col. Kilgore, played by Robert Duvall, in Apocalypse Now describes the aftermath of a napalm strike against a Viet Cong position in a previous engagement. He emphasizes how he likes the odour, ending it with: “It smells of…. victory.”

      If I remember correctly, his monologue was after the well-known helicopter attack.

      (I don’t remember the entire quote entirely and I won’t cheat by looking it up.)

      1. I knew you wouldn’t let me down!

         Funny thing is, that line has always stuck with me, although I’ve never seen the movie.

         Now we can have a Tesla variant, “I love the smell of lithium burning in the morning.”

         1. You’re welcome.

            That scene was one of the few that stood out for me in that movie:

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k26hmRbDQFw

            As for AN, I didn’t particularly like it, even after watching it several times. (A lot of people I knew did, though.) I found it far too long, even after it was trimmed down from 4 hours, and I wondered what the point was. I thought Full Metal Jacket was much better.

            If you do have a chance to see it, watch for Harrison Ford early in the movie.

            1. I will make a point to check out Full Metal Jacket. Its difficult living an analog life in a digital world. There’s not a decent variety of DVD’s on the shelf anywhere in this town; and DVD availability is the same.

               That said, I find movies from late in the 20th century far more palatable than the spate of 21st century remakes. Hollywood seems to have lost all creativity. How many Batman remakes are up to now?

            2. Roaddog:

               FMJ is one of director Stanley Kubrick’s best movies. He was known for being a stickler for details and he went out of his way to make it realistic.

               The story takes place in the context of the 1968 Tet Offensive and the main action in the latter half is in the old imperial capital of Hue. It just happened that much of the Docklands area of London was being demolished and about to be replaced by office buildings when the movie was being made. Kubrick obtained permission to use that part of the city to portray the devastation during that part of the war.

               If you want to watch Apocalypse Now, I suggest seeing the original theatrical release, which runs over 2 hours. The director’s cut was in theatres some 20 years ago and it was shown on History Television. I didn’t find that the deleted bits added much to the overall story.

      2. Lotsa memorable quotes from that movie.
         Col. Kurtz’ monologue was epic.

   2. And Charlie don’t surf.

      1. That line was brilliant.

4. Sorry, Wapo, but they already made a movie about something like that:

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr7svnup0Dk

   I watched it on Bravo about 20 years ago. I don’t remember much of it, but I wasn’t impressed with it.

5. These filthy liars keep telling us our climate is getting warmer. But the numbers say otherwise. In fact we’re living in a time where our climate is fairly stable. If anything, over the past 100 years for the most part. we’ve been on a cooling trend. I’ve been on this planet now for over half a century, and the climate isn’t any different now that it was in the 60’s and 70’s, when these same nutters were calling it “global cooling”. Interestingly the solutions to fight “global cooling” were similar to fighting “global warming” and “climate change”.
   Do you remember when they called it “global warming”? Then it was discovered that there really wasn’t any “global warming. That, and combined with the fraudulent activity at East Anglia (hide the decline). It was at this time when the climate nutters stopped calling it “global warming”, and switched over to the more ambiguous “climate change”.
   What I found shocking at the time was how like clockwork, in lockstep and instantaneously, the media started calling it “climate change” as well. Sickening really.

   1. There was the little ice age, in the mid 19th century, you can see paintings of ice-skaters in England, something that hasn’t existed for a long, long time, and it did warm significantly from the end of the little ice age to the beginning of the 20th century.
      But yeah, the climate has been pretty stable since the 1930s or so.

      1. Technically we are still in an ice age.

   2. The hilarious part of “climate science” is that the global temperature dropped steadily from 1939 to 1979, with the atmospheric CO2 concentration steadily increasing. Facts are mere obstacles to delusional groupthink.

6. So THIS is what Canadian Chemistry Professors (McGill Univ.) spend their time *ahem* … researching? Well, TBF the snow in Ottawa does have the slight odor of diesel fuel recently. But that’s only because the filthy police spilled some on their way back to the station.

7. Of course its gonna smell different after the DEA shut down most of the production, its not as pure as it used to be.
   Silly journos snorting the white stuff, again.

   1. Hell, I remember in the early 1970’s that cars passing each other was the cause of tornadoes. Before cars, it must have been two herds of bison passing each other.

      Was that study a recipient of a government grant? Did they promise to find a “result of climate change” in exchange for said grant? I cannot wait for some numb-nuts to quote that study.

      1. Many years ago, I bought a book about university washroom graffiti. It was rude, crude, disgusting, vulgar….. and I never laughed so hard.

         One slogan suggested that cetacean flatulence caused ocean waves.

8. Climate change science fiction stories get more fantastic all the time, they should be submitted for awards!

9. The science is shtetled.

10. It is actually those damn butterflies flapping their wings.

    When the Butterfly Effect Took Flight

    Bonus: An interesting discussion about computer modelling.

11. I guess they didn’t read the latest “science.”

    The earth is being very uncooperative. It’s not doing what the models say it’s supposed to be doing.

12. You want a climate emergency? I’ll give you a climate emergency:
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/a03604d9e3d2d58fd89732cd65330b9a46efe267b662a5e9beb45e1355b62569.gif

    1. Who knew penguins could fly??

       1. Rocket power. Look up: operation paperclip—tuxedo division

13. Its scent is getting stronger as both the atmosphere and the land get warmer, researchers say

    Traditionally, warmer air and land make snow smell like water.

14. I was in Nain over 20 years ago and heard that bullshit, from an Inuit who also spoke English. He went on and on translating different words for ice – black ice, rotten ice, thin ice, clear ice etc etc. After he finished I said too bad there weren’t that many words for ice in English.

    As for climate science, it’s all bullshit right to the turtles and then it’s turtles, all the way to the centre of the Earth.

15. Climate change in it’s worst predictions will change nothing. It will move the weather a couple hundred miles north. Yep, that odour wafting in the air is pure BS.

16. Relax folks.
    I. like Greta, can see CO2 molecules in the air.
    And when I looked again this morning it all looked fine.

    Anyone doubting that Greta and I can see CO2 molecules in the air is just attacking a poor frail child.
    Shame!

17. The 2020 US election was fair and honest.

    The planet is getting warm very fast and we have 10 years to save it.

    The moon is made of Swiss cheese.