Ugh indeed. But I guess you missed the reason why... what apparently is the largest fire since the Second World War in Europe happened about 60 miles from here last Sunday... Unusually, I was actually asleep when it happened (at about 6am) but a number of my neighbours heard it go up. One tends to forget that America ignores all news that doesn't directly involve America! This is probably a good place to start...
ps - it's not that I, in particular, ignore news that involves outside America (google news is pretty good) but, rather, that I'm away on weekends and miss news altogether until Tuesday usually :)
Yeah - not a comment on you, merely your compatriot's general inability to comprehend that things actually happen outside the confines of north America! :-)
More photos of the fire here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4524150.stm Amazingly, no-one died, or got seriously injured. Had it not been at 6am on a Sunday, I'm sure it would have been much worse.
And really - I find that in most people don't hear much news outside their general area. If you compared the size of the US to, say, a similar physical chunk of Europe, I would not be surprised to see a similar percentage of people equally clueless about news outside their proximity.
If I'm even making sense. :)
That said, I'm all for picking on Americans. Lord knows a huge percentage of them are flat-out stupid. I would say something about how they voted for Bush twice, but I'm not convinced that they really did. ;)
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Date: 2005-12-16 10:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-16 02:41 pm (UTC)http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4526352.stm
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Date: 2005-12-16 03:01 pm (UTC)My car is just dirty because of all the traffic on our street, I'm afraid.
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Date: 2005-12-16 03:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-12-16 03:07 pm (UTC)More photos of the fire here
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4524150.stm
Amazingly, no-one died, or got seriously injured. Had it not been at 6am on a Sunday, I'm sure it would have been much worse.
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Date: 2005-12-16 04:23 pm (UTC)If I'm even making sense. :)
That said, I'm all for picking on Americans. Lord knows a huge percentage of them are flat-out stupid. I would say something about how they voted for Bush twice, but I'm not convinced that they really did. ;)