Okay, this post has a title now — happy, Gromulin?
Check this out. I make that three 24-inch computer monitors and a thirty-inch television. Behind him. Where he can’t even see it.
Oh, yeah…the fat fuck in the middle is Al Gore.
You know, I have a brand new 23-inch monitor, and I find I can watch a movie, surf the web and do Photoshop on it, all at one time, no problemo. And if I believed CO2 emissions were swiftly destroying the whole fucking planet, I could probably do it on a 15-inch monitor. Or, even more convincing, not at all.
The picture? From Time magazine‘s 2007 profile of Gore, from when they made him Man of the Year. And how did I find it? Al uses it in the sidebar of his own blog.
Yeah, see, that’s what gets me. I expect the hypocrisy — I expect celebrity boneheads to live like gods while scolding me about the lavishness of my pretty damned modest lifestyle. But I am always stunned — every single TIME — that they don’t even realize there’s an issue there.
Al thinks it’s a really cool picture that makes him look all science-y and super-smart and stuff, with the stacks of paper and the globe and, like, FOUR monitors and shit! And the fact he’s a giant useless electricity suck who got rich warning other people to cut back on electricity or we’re all gonna DIE…just does not compute.
My old mother used to say, it’s like taking the back off the television and explaining the innards to the dog.
Posted: February 23rd, 2010 under gaia, personal, politics.
Comments: 39
Comments
Comment from Oldcat
Time: February 23, 2010, 5:47 pm
You need to apologize to the dogs of the world for that last remark.
Comment from Spad13
Time: February 23, 2010, 6:14 pm
Your mom must have been a hoot.
Comment from dfbaskwill
Time: February 23, 2010, 6:16 pm
The inventor of the internet and “The Con” has been in hiding for weeks now. His carbon output will ultimately give him away. We just need to analyze where electricity, jet fuel and coal usage is up and we’ll have our man.
Comment from Scubafreak
Time: February 23, 2010, 6:18 pm
Now, you KNOW he uses that setup to play World of Warcraft. He’s REALLY REALLY SERIAL about finding Manbearpig and destroying him once and for all….
(hell, i didn’t even realize that manbearpig had a character in WoW. I know Mike Rowe does)
P.S. You need to ask UB something. Is it considered wrong for a guy to have a pair of pants with his family coat of arms sewn to both back pockets? he basically has his coat of arms on his ass……
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: February 23, 2010, 6:32 pm
Why does it not surprise me that there’s a web site devoted to rat hunting?
I’ll ask later, Scoob. Uncle B is working tonight.
Hey, one of us has to…
Comment from Carl
Time: February 23, 2010, 6:38 pm
Wease, the picture of Gore can’t be 1997. Not with those big flat-screen monitors. Or, of course, maybe he invented them 5 years ahead of everyone else.
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: February 23, 2010, 6:41 pm
Gosh, Carl — thank you! Should be 2007, geez!
Comment from Pavel
Time: February 23, 2010, 7:24 pm
What’s that image he’s looking at on the screen? And where the heck is his left hand?
Dude. Gay scat pron? Dude, whatever yanks your chooch. But seriously: next time shut the door, man.
Comment from Scubafreak
Time: February 23, 2010, 7:32 pm
Pavel, I’d slap you across the face with a dead herring, but somehow I can see AlBore being into that crap, if you’ll excuse the pun…..
Comment from Uncle Badger
Time: February 23, 2010, 7:41 pm
Gore has a coat of arms?!?
WTF is it? Two snakeoil salesmen rampant on a background of gold with bullshit shields?
It does the world no credit that anyone can contemplate Al Gore without laughing. He’s the most transparently obvious crook I’ve ever seen.
Comment from jwpaine
Time: February 23, 2010, 7:52 pm
But–but, you don’t unnerstand! He’s saving our lives, man! He’s saving the freakin’ Earth, man! Oh, why can’t you just leave him aloooooooone!!1!!
Besides, what two adult male coprophages do in the privacy of their own trailer and share with Al via podcast is nobody else’s bidness!
Comment from Scubafreak
Time: February 23, 2010, 8:25 pm
Actually UB, it’s a Cow-Irker of mine. He was getting up to grab his lunch, and I saw the gold embroidery on the back of his pants.
Can’t tease the guy too much though. His girlfriend is HAWT!…
Comment from S. Weasel
Time: February 23, 2010, 8:44 pm
Hm. Sometimes interesting things turn up in my user logs. Wonder what Google plans to do with a dingus called Image Swirl?
Comment from Scubafreak
Time: February 23, 2010, 8:52 pm
I don’t know, but Drudge mentioned something about Google running a new shit-hot algorithm for internet searches.
This might be the beta page.
Comment from Gromulin
Time: February 23, 2010, 9:17 pm
Since no one else has been petty enough to point out stupid typos…
This post is Nekkid. No title. I thought the RSS feed into the google thingy was broked, but nope. Titless. That’s how it’s spelled, right?
No need to thank me.
Comment from Gromulin
Time: February 23, 2010, 9:21 pm
I just had a good laugh imagining those monitors as cardboard mock-ups, like the ones they put in model homes.
His assistants pocketed the cash. It’s been two years, and he STILL hasn’t noticed.
😉
Comment from Allen
Time: February 23, 2010, 9:28 pm
Is he wearing a bib? He should be, look at how he sits there mouth agape, synapses frozen. He might think that picture makes him look smart, but it makes me think he needs a drool cup.
Good thing breathing is an involuntary mental function.
Comment from Mrs. Compton
Time: February 23, 2010, 9:55 pm
What’s that saying? “A messy desk is the sign of ….”
A liar, thief, conman, fat pig…
I could go on, but I’m busy doing real things, not imaginary.
Comment from weirdsister
Time: February 23, 2010, 10:59 pm
All that shite on his desk is supposed to make him look smart? Looks likes a freakin’ slob! And, hey, isn’t that a copy of Hustler on his desk?
Comment from GarandFan
Time: February 23, 2010, 11:27 pm
Probably checking his bank accounts to see how many suckers purchased ‘carbon credits’ this week.
Comment from cbinflux
Time: February 23, 2010, 11:30 pm
Weird Al has a lot of explainin’ to do. I hope that he brings his charts and graphs to Congress, and his checkbook to courts.
Comment from Caper29
Time: February 23, 2010, 11:33 pm
Plus, he has half the trees from Washington state on his desk! LOL!
Comment from Lazarus Long
Time: February 23, 2010, 11:53 pm
Hey, my Corgi fixed an old CB radio just last week.
But nobody can understand him because of the Welsh accent.
Comment from Lazarus Long
Time: February 23, 2010, 11:56 pm
And HAH!
Go over to Cold Fury and find this classic:
“We can build a collective civic space large enough for all our separate identities, that we can be e pluribus unum — out of one, many.”
–Al Gore
Comment from Tink
Time: February 23, 2010, 11:57 pm
OK, this is hilarious.
Comment from francis
Time: February 24, 2010, 12:05 am
This cracks me up…one way to help save the world? According to Repower America, “Turn off electronic devices — Simply turning off your television, DVD player, stereo, and computer [or perhaps the TV behind you] when you’re not using them will save you thousands of pounds of carbon dioxide a year.”
Found that quote via a link on…algore’s blog.
Comment from arhooley
Time: February 24, 2010, 12:22 am
Oh, but look at his old-man sweater. He’s sitting there with no heat on, so that makes up for it all.
Comment from Kevin in ABQ
Time: February 24, 2010, 12:24 am
You forgot to mention the piles of dead trees on his desk which make the Unabomber look composed.
Comment from Wiccapundit, the Red State Witch
Time: February 24, 2010, 12:29 am
Weas! Your post got the full treatment over at Ace!
“Sweasel gnaws on ManBearPig”
Yowza!
Comment from Scubafreak
Time: February 24, 2010, 12:32 am
a coworker just gave this to me. Off-Topic, but worth it..
A U.S. Marine Colonel was about to start the morning briefing to his
staff.
While waiting for the coffee machine to finish its brewing, the colonel
decided to pose a question to all assembled.
He explained that his wife had been a bit frisky the night before and he
failed to get his usual amount of sound sleep.
He posed the question of just how much of sex was “work” and how much of
it was “pleasure?”
A Major chimed in with 75-25% in favor of work.
A Captain said it was 50-50%.
A lieutenant responded with 25-75% in favor of pleasure, depending upon
his state of inebriation at the time.
There being no consensus, the colonel turned to the PFC who was in
charge of making the coffee. What was HIS opinion?
Without any hesitation, the young PFC responded, “Sir, it has to be 100%
pleasure.”
The colonel was surprised and, as you might guess, asked why?
“Well, sir, if there was any work involved, the officers would have me
doing it for them.”
The room fell silent.
God Bless the enlisted man.
Comment from cdajoe
Time: February 24, 2010, 1:20 am
now this rubbish is becoming more than an irritation about lightbulbs and holier than thou liberal ponces http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100027173/global-warming-time-to-get-angry/
Comment from not so brave rodney
Time: February 24, 2010, 2:09 am
Coolest part of the whole picture…the dude on the TV must be reporting from a Glowbull Wormening conference. Check the hat and coat.
Comment from Gromulin
Time: February 24, 2010, 11:10 am
Yes. Delighted. 🙂
Comment from Fido
Time: February 24, 2010, 12:30 pm
Do *not* tinkle on the flyback transformer….
Jus’ sayin’….
Comment from James
Time: February 24, 2010, 3:51 pm
I guess he’s proud of those extra monitors–proud enough to turn them so the camera gets a good view. They don’t seem to be positioned conveniently.
Comment from The Dread Pirate Neck Beard
Time: February 24, 2010, 5:09 pm
“Press any key to . . . dagnabit, where’s the ‘any’ key?”
Comment from Michael X.
Time: February 25, 2010, 12:06 am
I can’t believe I said something this stupid, either. A P-shop suggestion/request: replace the images on algore’s monitors with appropriate screen-caps of sweasel.com, Ace, and any other right-of-center blogger of your choosing. On the TV behind algore, throw up a shot of Sarah Palin at the R Convention.
Hilarity will ensue.
Comment from GaryC
Time: February 26, 2010, 6:11 am
I’m fairly confident those are Apple 30-inch monitors, so the TV in the background is probably 37-46 inches. (He is on the Apple board of directors, which should give him a really good discount in addition to all of the stock options.)
With regard to the cardboard mock-up suggestion, remember the Dilbert cartoon in which the Pointy Haired Boss was given an Etch-a-Sketch instead of a real laptop. When the screen filled up, he had to shake it to “save the file”.
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