14 Oct 2021

And Then A Count...

   With the TV ramping-up the terror of climate change with every passing hour, I spotted a bit about the need for volunteers to count walrus as I was told that some folk believe numbers are on the decline and this, they say, could foretell of the end times.
   As I’m terribly worried about mans continuing destruction of our planet, I joined in with the counting. Hay, anything to help, right?
   My findings are quite alarming and the decline in walrus numbers is obviously much worse than even the ‘experts’ believe. For the whole of today I’ve carefully observed my garden and spotted nary one walrus. Shocked beyond words be I.
   Seriously, you see the TV? Talking to kids – looked to be between five and ten years old – and broadcasting the fear they feel for the future to other kids. Wot are these kids going to be good for, as they grow ever older, if they’re being scared to death at such an early age? Probably only good for gluing themselves to motorways. Weaponizing kids? How low can ‘they’ go.
   In the very next breath, the BBC was emoting about the rise in climate anxiety amongst kids and wondering who could be to blame for this. Ah shacks ma heed.
   The other stunning ‘news’ revolved around how over worked, stressed, depressed and exhausted our NHS, blessed be its name, doctors are. Not one of those highly paid seekers of truth TV news hounds seemed capable of making the correlation between importing a cities worth of our newest bestest ever friends every year and the resulting increasing work load on our services.
   News bulletins, as us of an age remember them, no longer exist do they? No apology for repeating this clip:
        
   Bringing up the bottom, another of they Twatter thingies. I’m presently glued to our own ‘news’ channels waiting for them to mention this and possibly UK figures as well, hell, they must be available... I suspect I’m in for a jolly long wait.
  In Taiwan the number of people dying after their Covid vaccination is exceeding the number of deaths from the virus itself…”

Quote;  Sol Luckman.

“Worry wasn't an emotion to which he was particularly accustomed - and it worried him.”

8 comments:

A K Haart said...

Good idea about walrus spotting, I haven't seen any either. Maybe we need to put food out for them like birds, but the Co-op didn't have a single packet of walrus food so that's not going to work.

Doonhamer said...

Walrus need good fresh oysters. Together with vinegar, pepper and bread.
Also try calling out "goo, goo, ga-joob"

Judd said...

No sign here either, the garden CCTV camera covers the goldfish pond, presuming Walrus might be partial to a cooling dip whilst passing by i checked the footage, and despite scrolling through the last 7 days of not a glimpse of one.
Our cocker spaniel drinks from said pond several times a day and not much she misses, but no pricked up ears, no frantic screaming and excitement such as when she spots a rabbit squirrel or deer (anything that moves really) to chase.

So they must be right, Walrus' are extinct, its all over for the climate, the doom goblin was right all along.

Anonymous said...

I thought I saw one - but it turned out to be the french bulldog from down the road.

Little known climate fact: (as reported on uk column news yesterday):
Temperatures in the antarctic have dipped to minus 144 degrees F, the coldest winter since records began.

Rick

Mac said...

A K Haart,
No sightings? So things are much more serious than we think.

Mac said...

Doonhamer,
I followed your advice regards oysters but they didn't make out o' the kitchen and it looks like your recommended call of goo, goo, ga-joob may have been mistaken for "Come get your jab." as nobody showed up.

Mac said...

Judd,
Yup, I checked with the neighbours and nothing. All we can do now is sit and wait for the end I guess unless there's a charity I can give a fiver a week to of course, but that's only common sense...

Mac said...

Rick,
Now that is interesting. And would seem surprisingly of little interest to our beloved media.