BP Fails Booming School 101

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imstellar28says...

I agree, language ruined it.

On a related note, nobody cares about the environment so what is this even gonna do? People lost the ability to stand up for themselves a long, long time ago. "I don't live off the gulf of Mexico so I don't care"

Out of sight, out of mind...the mantra of the 21st century.

joedirtsays...

"language ruined it"... *sigh*... for one thing the point is that is how they all speak. For another thing it will make this video reach a much wider audience, but you don't get that.



Anyways, all you fucking cocksuckers should pledge to promote spam this so we can keep this front and center for like a week. Also, does anyone know if promote will always stack and add on to timer?

ravermansays...

Pull back the curtain and expose the corporations proving that they actually control everything with money.

Democracy is just a nice fantasy storyline you can act out for the people to follow and believe in - but it has nothing to do what-so-ever with who actually runs things and the decisions that get made.

Good booming and saving the environment doesn't mean shit to BP. It's not like people can / will stop filling their cars.

Previous oil spills have proven that politicians will learn nothing and still demand more drilling and oil consumption - regardless of the environmental damage. One promise that "everything is safe now" plus extra funding and it will all be like it never happened!

NordlichReitersays...

>> ^Mcboinkens:

Language ruined it. We get it, youryou're pissed, just like everyone else. Using language with that kind of an annoying voice is just frustrating. Also, if the media got this right(they probably didn't), didn't BP hire a lot of local workers to help drop booms? If so, that may answer part of why the booming blows.


Might I point out that your first comment had one of the biggest grammar mistakes in the English language? I do it too, and I regret making a grammatical error every time; it stings a little.

Aside from that the video reached me just fine, although it could use more diagrams. Also, if BP did hire a bunch of local people to do booming, those people are still part of BP even if they are contracted. I doubt the locals would be put in charge; unless they had excellent knowledge of how to boom. However, if the data shown to us in the video is true it is clear that BP needs to attend booming school; but too little and too late.

Satellite pictures of the oil spill.

http://mashable.com/2010/05/21/oil-spill-pictures/

Look at the third picture of the slide show in the following National Geographic link. Somethings not right there.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/04/photogalleries/100430-oil-spill-gulf-mexico-pictures/#gulf-oil-spill-threatens-birds-wildlife_19741_60
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Oh Pussy-feathers.
-Lewis Black



Boise_Libsays...

>> ^Mcboinkens:

Language ruined it. We get it, your pissed, just like everyone else. Using language with that kind of an annoying voice is just frustrating. Also, if the media got this right(they probably didn't), didn't BP hire a lot of local workers to help drop booms? If so, that may answer part of why the booming blows.


Yes, misuse of language is terrible. BTW, it's you're not your.

Where is your pissed at.

notarobotsays...

@Mcboinkens, Your comments about the language in this video have definitely stirred up some discussion here, so I am glad you made them. In general, I would agree that strong crude language often works against an effective argument. However, given the nature of this crude issues, it is my opinion that the strong language is more than justified. That being said, there are a few points in the video that I thought were worth pointing out if you have not reviewed them already.

2:01. The woman you heard reading this monologue, who knows so much about booming, is not the author. The author chose to remain anonymous, as was stated in text two minutes into this video. The author, who knows so much about booming, may very well be working on cleaning up this mess or cooking for those who are. He says he is good at it.

You can read his original essay here. If you are up for it, his follow up article is also well written.

3:07. This is the point at which the language begins to... deteriorate. It is at this point that the intended audience of the video shifts from general audience to being directed towards people who need/must/ought to know about booming. The author lists off the people he believed should know about booming in the video. This change is marked by the following statement:

Nomenclature. Since this is your first day of booming school, you have to fight--no wait--lets go over some important definitions in oil field grammar.

I'm not going to lie, I am no linguist. I had to look up the definition of nomenclature. But yeah, he's talking to oil/gas/producition/workers using the same language they use amongst themselves.

3:40. "Boom is long and bright orange or yellow. It is not bright orange or yellow so that you can see it, fledgeling boomer, but so that it governors, senators, presidents, and the media can see it."

Again addressing the boomer trainees, the author re-affirms that the intended audience here is people who use crude language routinely. Noting this, the statement describing booms lacks some of the crude language you find offensive because it contains information important for the rest of us: the lion's-share of the booming you see going on is just for show.


Now that that's off my chest. Fucking *promote this fucking tutorial already!
There's fucking oil hitting the motherfucking coast there and it's a goddamned tragedy!

Oh, and check out these images about how the oil/spill/cleanup is going.
(They make me cry on the inside.)
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/05/oil_reaches_louisiana_shores.html

>> ^Mcboinkens:

@NordlichReiter
Thanks for catching my mistake. Normally I edit my posts before I submit them, but I was kind of in a rush so my your and you're were mixed up, haha. But anyway, that is what I meant. I still don't know if this occured, but I remember hearing that BP hired locals to drop booms. I think that everyone was in such a hurry to try to contain the spill that they were not properly trained in booming techniques. It is a shame this woman was not down there to help out, she seems to know a good deal about booming.

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