Wow!

[Duncer]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-20828832

[DangerUXD]

dam South Americans, don't they know we are trying to stop carbon emissions!

[FredPuli43]

There's a lot of it about. Etna was pouring out molten lava last week. I blame global warming !

(Mount Etna remains the only volcano I have ever gone up, only to find that it was shut ! The guides at the top had closed the access to the crater )

[Duncer]

AOG, it is in the news section, not the crossword section, so I have no question, other than what are you on, rude pills?

[anotheoldgit]

Duncer

I wasn't being rude to you.

As I pointed out I wouldn't dream of mentioning it.

It was the only way that I could have a go at all those who are so quick to attack me if I dare to put up a news item without asking a question.

Seems very strange that they do not mind being purposely rude to me, but choose to ignore others.

[jake-the-peg]

A drop in the ocean UXD!

humans produce 135 times more CO2 that all the world's volcanoes

[DTCwordfan]

This was a pre Xmas item, duncer, has there been some update?

[AB Editor]

Wow: http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/28/4039718/wow-all-the-way-down-donald-trump-sparks-twitters-latest-weird-meme

(I thought it was going to be about that!)

It's pretty impressive however :)

[Bazile]

ah , donald trump .

Has he finally accepted yet that Obama has been voted into the White House for a second term ?

[bazwillrun]

@AOG

Its been pretty obvious for some time on here that there are two sets of rules...them and us

[anotheoldgit]

bazwillrun

You are not wrong, but at least we are individuals in our own right, who do not wish to follow the rest of the flock, and still refuse to be brow beaten into submission.

[sir.prize]

Isn't this thread about a volcano . . .?

[anotheoldgit]

bazwillrun

Yet another example of one rule for them and another for me.

Just noticed that my post has been deleted, yet when the same thing is directed against me it never is.

I sometimes wonder why I bother, when the real nerds are never chastised.

[sp1814]

AOG

Here here...you're like the Rosa Parks of AnswerBank.

[DangerUXD]

I find that hard to believe JTP. Just one example known as "Son of Krakatoa" has been erupting more or less continuously since 1883. Then there's the oceans....

[anotheoldgit]

"And the question is"?

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1212880.html

Why wasn't this answer also removed?

Aren't we all supposed to be governed by the same rules?

[anotheoldgit]

And the tumble-weed blew quietly down the deserted street.

[emmie]

wow indeed, at least that might concentrate the minds of the politicians in Argentina away from the Falklands, or will it?

[FredPuli43]

aog, you should have "Wow!" in the title. Then we'd know that we are to reply, respond, to your expressed amazement. Try it: Wow! Socialist Workers' Party finds..

But it's a nice conceit to say "I wouldn't dream of mentioning it" as a preamble to mentioning it. I wonder what figure of rhetoric that is? Some Greek term, no doubt: 'aogogisis', perhaps

[Gromit]

Sometimes there is no question. We post some things we find interesting or clever or amazing incase other ABers have not seen it, as a sort of service.

In that instance, the lack of question is fine, and other ABers are welcome to express their own wows.

In instances such as the socialist workers post, the lack of any comment, question, or point leaves many asking why it has been posted other than some bizarre malice from the OP.