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BP Spills Coffee

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BP Tries To Clean Up Coffee Spill

What would happen if BP spilled a bunch of coffee on their conference room table? Pretty much the same thing if they spilled a whole bunch of oil in the Gulf of Mexico. This Upright Citizen's Brigade theater sketch spoof explores the delicate mapping between the two scenarios, and the delightful comedy that ensues. Kevin Costner's voice, or a reasonable facsimile, guest stars. NSFW for one naughty word.

BP Spills Coffee [UCBComedy]

what a hoot!

First of all, I'm not all up-to-date exactly on what and why the 'Gulf Oil Spill' seems to want to corrall (sp?) the masses to place the blame squarely on either BP or Obama, other than those two are the 'head-honchos' of the operation, and failure to secure the damage means that they might as well started the mess in the first place (this is just what I think others are thinking). My point is that I don't know how responsible BP really is for what could have been just a manufactural/extraction accident, if not actually something that might also have been naturally-related(responsible) as well.

Anyways, while I don't know if BP is "evil" or not, I suppose I can contribute a few illustrations here, even if I do so reluctantly.

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See Mike Draw

Watched the short just now, and gotta say, it was funny (if only because I don't know the history of it).
Though, I am now thinking what the net cost of a solution of actually setting the surface spillage on fire would accomplish (other than outrage).

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Portrait of a BP executive by ~MikePMitchell

I just watched it with a few office mates looking over my shoulder, the one with the large breasts kept poking the back of my head, dammit!, and we all thought the concept was good, potentially funny, but in the end the execution of the comedy let us down.

I wanted the cleaning lady or person to walk in and just mop it up.

I thought it was hilarious, Cynthetic. Thanks

Kevin Costner: You are all fucked.

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Pollution
Source: l'homme d'aujourd'hui
(Éditions Hachette-1971)
Illustrateur: inconnu

-- courtesy of Mondorama 2000.

BP is Burning Sea Turtles Alive [VIDEO]

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Mike Ellis is a boat captain who's been rescuing the endangered Kemp's Ridley sea turtles near Deepwater Horizon.
He's got some pretty horrifying news to share: BP is burning turtles caught in the oil spill and turning away rescue
workers who want to save them.

The 10 worst BP gaffes in Gulf oil spill. [Yahoo News]

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1. Who’s in charge? On Friday, BP board Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg presented the news that many Americans had long been waiting for. Hayward was being shunted out of his lead role in the Gulf oil spill crisis, to be replaced by BP Managing Director Bob Dudley. On Saturday, BP media relations personnel said the chairman of the board was wrong. They said Mr. Svanberg was suggesting that BP was merely beginning a long-planned and gradual transition of authority to Mr. Dudley “over a period of time.”

2. The ‘small people’ It was not the first time Svanberg misspoke. After meeting with President Obama, Svanberg said he shared Mr. Obama’s compassion for the “small people” in the Gulf. Needless to say, the comment did not go over well. Spoken by a man who owns a yacht in Thailand, the phrase “small people” smelled of rank class condescension. Swedes, however, note that the word “småfolket” in Svanberg’s native Swedish has a positive connotation with undertones of egalitarianism.

3. ‘I want my life back’ Six weeks after the Deepwater Horizon blowout, Hayward uttered these words: “We’re sorry for the massive disruption it’s caused their lives. There’s no one who wants this over more than I do. I’d like my life back.” To those shrimpers and fishermen who have essentially lost an entire year’s wages – not to mention the families of the 11 men killed in the blowout – this seemed an inordinately insensitive comment.

4. ‘Very, very modest’ impact On May 18 – a month after the blowout – Hayward told the BBC: “I think the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to have been very, very modest.” Four days earlier, he told the British newspaper, the Guardian: “The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume.”

5. ‘A trickle’ On June 8, BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said that the spill “should be down to a relative trickle by Monday or Tuesday.” According to the best scientific estimates, between 10,000 and 35,000 barrels of oil (420,000 to 1.5 million gallons) are still leaking into the Gulf daily.

6. 5,000 barrels a day. Part of the reason for the continued leak is that BP low-balled the flow rate from the well and then refused to try to amend it. For a short time after the blowout, BP estimated that the well beneath the Deepwater Horizon was spewing 1,000 barrels of oil a day into the Gulf. That was swiftly changed to 5,000 barrels daily. Last week, scientists suggested that the real number could be as much as 60,000 barrels a day and no less than 35,000.

7. ‘Top kill’: 70 percent chance. The underestimation of the flow rate mirrors the repeated overestimation by BP of its own capabilities. Hayward said that the failed “top kill” procedure, which would have stopped the oil, had a 60 to 70 percent chance of working. It failed.

8. ‘We have turned the corner.’ Earlier, on May 17, BP stuck a siphon into the ruined riser pipe – collecting 1,000 barrels a day – leading Hayward to say: “I do feel that we have, for the first time, turned the corner in this challenge.” That siphoning effort was later abandoned.

9. What spill? When BP share prices recently plummeted, BP intended to convey the idea that it could handle the costs of the Gulf oil spill. Its statement, however, was obtuse to the point of absurdity: “The company is not aware of any reason which justifies this share price movement.”

10. Waste of money? Six weeks after the spill began, BP started a $50 million TV ad campaign, promising to restore the Gulf. Obama said the money would have been better spent on relief efforts and damage claims.

-- courtesy of American Apologies

Could Kevin Costner's Machine Work on the Oil Spill? : Discovery News

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Over the last couple of [weeks], I've seen a number of stories about the actor Kevin Costner promoting an oil-separating machine that could be used to help clean up the oil in the Gulf of Mexico. It works by sucking oily water up a hose, sending it into a spinning chamber, where centrifugal forces separate the oil from the water. According to this NY Times piece, the machine could remove 210,000 gallons of oil from water a day, at 200 gallons a minute.

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a view by / from NASA:
On Saturday, June 19, 2010, oil spread northeast from the leaking
Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico. The oil appears as a
maze of silvery-gray ribbons in this photo-like image from the
Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on
NASA’s Terra satellite.

[DaMn.]

Oil Tide is disheartening.

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(Let's see if this works - :.:test image:.: ... testing. click to zoom.)

Delicate patterns in the sea breaking on Orange Beach, Alabama, more than 90 miles from the
BP oil spill, cannot distract from the mess four to six inches deep on parts of the shore.
-- (Dave Martin/AP)

[Guardian.]

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Petro Lio
'Via del Mare 58'
Messico
DISPERSO

[simonerea.]

Captured: The Gulf Oil Spill

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Oil and oil sheen are seen off an island in the waters of Chandeleur Sound, La.,
on Wednesday, May 5, 2010. [Entire 62-photo gallery can be seen in the source link below.]
-- (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

[DenverPost.]

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Disney, Pixar, and BP present "Finding Nemo 2: Escape from Oilglobs" - Boing Boing

ummm, Jetee? I don't know how to tell you this: this thread started as an appreciation of making light of a difficult situation, &!:

"...somebody dropped a spanner, dropped it in the hole." -?

I'm not making light of this? Save for a few half-dozen posts, none of these illustrations are really serious (or to be taken as so, it is just a visual compendium, and conextual awareness of the situation).

Plus, I think people stopped visiting this thread after the first week, so I thought what harm could come of this trans-morphing into the "let's bash on BP" commons.

Ah...

No harm intended.
I'm just gaining the knowledge
you leave your light off.

"Sky and Water (II)"

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Next week's cover for The New Yorker, illustrated by Bob Staake.

*context

[NewYorker.]

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A brown pelican covered in oil from the Deepwater Horizon is seen on the beach
at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast on Thursday, June 3, 2010.
-- (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

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There Will Be Oil

"Come in crude. Go home refined."

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A sign marked a beach closed in Grand Isle, La., due to the Deepwater Horizon
oil spill. As BP tried the “top kill” method, President Barack Obama told a news
conference the government is in charge. He suspended planned drilling off the coasts
of Alaska and Virginia and on 33 wells currently being drilled in the Gulf of Mexico.

[WSJ.]

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The Xbox Video Game About The Gulf Oil Spill Isn't Very Fun

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Seventy days hasn't been enough for BP to find a way to stop the oil spewing into the Gulf, but in today's world, it's plenty of time to create a game based on the disaster.

Super Boise, an independent game development company, has just released "Crisis in the Gulf" for the Xbox 360. It allows players to tackle different difficulties of oil spills using submersibles equipped with lasers, cannons and torpedoes.

The game developers from Super Boise describe their game like this: "The government and oil corporations have failed to stop the oil leak. Clearly they haven't tried tower defense!! Do you have what it takes to cap the leak?"

While you blast away at the oil, a news ticker scrolls across the top with current events. There's even a little zinger at Sarah Palin's "Drill, Baby, Drill" slogan.

[mnn.]

Seriously? I hope they're giving any profits to the clean-up effort.

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Inappropriate Jazz Hands. BP Edition || by The Searcher

alleged transcripts:

Emergency Response Meeting, BP Field Headquarters, Ritz-Carlton New Orleans. Penthouse suite. click to show

"TWITTER IS OVER CAPACITY": A Poem by Jim Behrle

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Just dump oil all over everything

Everywhere and get it over with

I lost my baby due to penalty kicks.

Hope has turned to cobalt goo

Change we can believe in the way

We believe in unicorns and Jedis.

It's too hot to be a free agent

Each atom is a poem with its

Own spinning agenda, which demands

[Line of poem drowned out by vuvuzelas].

Let me put my poems inside you with

A spatula and we'll ride across the grammar

To a whistle on the mortgage of a field

Speckled with dusky crickets who have

No regard for human life.

It's not Convex Mirror, it's Houseboat Days

And you're the sunburned, bearded captain

Drifting further out away from the cherry

Chocolate harbor.

I tried to climb the ladders but a gorilla

Was throwing barrels at me.

You'll need guide wires, a harness and a team

of Sherpas just to get through the day.

Here we go

The whale reminds us how much we have failed.

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[theawl.]

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Originally Posted by Jetée (Post 2803062)

[Line of poem drowned out by vuvuzelas].

This line is fantastic.

Niger Delta, you are not forgotten.

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In the oil town of Afiesere, in Warri North district of the Niger Delta, local Urohobo people bake "krokpo-garri", or tapioca in the heat of a gas flare. Since 1961, when Shell Petroleum Development Company first opened this flow station, residents of the local community have worked in this way. Life span is short for these people, as pollutants from the flare cause serious health problems.

photo & caption by Ed Kashi

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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq (Post 2796852)

YouTube - BP Spills Coffee

what a hoot!

//threadjack//:)

continuing the hijack:

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---------- Post added at 01:40 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:36 PM ----------

Oil spills are not only funny,
they're sexy too.

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Niger Delta

"Priorities, I suppose."
You remember "Ain't we been usin'"
& how we wouldn't go there.