alibaba Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 I find it hard to believe people would live in an area where typhoons of this magnitude happen so often. Is this a recent development? Ugh. Makes me think of this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woody2 Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 A genuinely tragic event and I'd like to see a post from Amadeus just to let us know he's okay. +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jefferson Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 A genuinely tragic event and I'd like to see a post from Amadeus just to let us know he's okay. As for TJ' s incredible ignorance - I like to take the mickey out of his outlandish ramblings, but this goes far beyond that and reveals him to be a brain-dead moron. Of course these things happened in the past, but they seem to be happening a lot more frequently in recent years. Climate change? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jefferson Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 Instant communication and allegedly better reporting do not explain the increased frequency of these events. It's not merely a perceived increase in frequency. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alibaba Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 Instant communication and allegedly better reporting do not explain the increased frequency of these events. It's not merely a perceived increase in frequency. And hurricane season in the gulf of mexico/carribbean had how many this year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mojomonkey Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 Instant communication and allegedly better reporting do not explain the increased frequency of these events. It's not merely a perceived increase in frequency. The frequency of these events is not particularly increasing, there is some discussion as to whether the intensity of them is though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempus Fugit Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 A genuinely tragic event and I'd like to see a post from Amadeus just to let us know he's okay. Amadeus is on holiday in Germany by his twitter posts and pictures Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 Good, glad he is away from it. TJ, you really can be such a dick at times. Do you expect people to upsticks en masse and move out of an area prone to natural diasters? Has the coincidence that very often areas that are prone to such events are amongst the poorest in the world? Has that made any kind of connection in your head? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jefferson Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 I expect people to not have moved into such areas in the first place if they were originally so prone to "natural" disasters; what I am suggesting is that these disasters obviously didn't happen at the time these places were originally inhabited by human beings. Or at the very least they would be very sparsely inhabited. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jefferson Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 I expect people to not have moved into such areas in the first place if they were originally so prone to "natural" disasters; what I am suggesting is that these disasters obviously didn't happen at the time these places were originally inhabited by human beings. Or at the very least they would be very sparsely inhabited. Try visiting Sicily. The only reason that most of it is populated - and has been for many thousands of years - is because of Mt Etna erupting and providing fertile ground. You really have to be trolling, because there's just no way that anyone could really be as utterly pig-ignorant as you've been in this thread. People in the olden days didn't realise it was natural and thought it was all caused by God and that if they were good then it wouldn't erupt or whatever, but people have no excuse now -- if they're in a place where the eruption could hit, they're completely bonkers to stay there. Sure, set up work there to use the soil, but I wouldn't live there; I'd be living on a boat or something to get out quick! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woody2 Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 Do you expect people to upsticks en masse and move out of an area prone to diasters? whats inbred tynwald got to do with this thread? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 I expect people to not have moved into such areas in the first place if they were originally so prone to "natural" disasters; what I am suggesting is that these disasters obviously didn't happen at the time these places were originally inhabited by human beings. Or at the very least they would be very sparsely inhabited. Try visiting Sicily. The only reason that most of it is populated - and has been for many thousands of years - is because of Mt Etna erupting and providing fertile ground.You really have to be trolling, because there's just no way that anyone could really be as utterly pig-ignorant as you've been in this thread. People in the olden days didn't realise it was natural and thought it was all caused by God and that if they were good then it wouldn't erupt or whatever, but people have no excuse now -- if they're in a place where the eruption could hit, they're completely bonkers to stay there. Sure, set up work there to use the soil, but I wouldn't live there; I'd be living on a boat or something to get out quick! Despite your self-professed erudition, you are quite dense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jefferson Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 I expect people to not have moved into such areas in the first place if they were originally so prone to "natural" disasters; what I am suggesting is that these disasters obviously didn't happen at the time these places were originally inhabited by human beings. Or at the very least they would be very sparsely inhabited. Try visiting Sicily. The only reason that most of it is populated - and has been for many thousands of years - is because of Mt Etna erupting and providing fertile ground.You really have to be trolling, because there's just no way that anyone could really be as utterly pig-ignorant as you've been in this thread. People in the olden days didn't realise it was natural and thought it was all caused by God and that if they were good then it wouldn't erupt or whatever, but people have no excuse now -- if they're in a place where the eruption could hit, they're completely bonkers to stay there. Sure, set up work there to use the soil, but I wouldn't live there; I'd be living on a boat or something to get out quick! Despite your self-professed erudition, you are quite dense. Despite being dense, you are quite erudite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Domino Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 I think most could find a better way of using £100,000 on the Island right now - there is no way the big-eyed kids or weeping women will EVER see a penny of it: http://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/isle-of-man-news/manx-cash-to-help-the-philippines-1-6240363 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Tatlock Posted November 13, 2013 Author Share Posted November 13, 2013 I think most could find a better way of using £100,000 on the Island right now - there is no way the big-eyed kids or weeping women will EVER see a penny of it: http://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/isle-of-man-news/manx-cash-to-help-the-philippines-1-6240363 It's not a lot of money...why for that you can't even get a new Chief Exec for DED for a year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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