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malarial france
you know that feeling you get when you do something silly... that sort of embarrassed insecure self-consciousness that creeps into the back of your mind and proceeds to run around shouting abuse at your ego.
well, it's nature's way of stopping you from making a tit out of yourself all the time.
and it's evident that the french don't have this defense mechanism.
in 1857 the french saw fit to drain a vast area of malarial swamp [otherwise known as the camargue] instantly rendering millions of mosquitos homeless...this not only made them angry, but forced them to compete against each other for what was now highly limited habitat.
now, anyone who's even vaguely familiar with the work of darwin knows that when you have a large group of a particular species competing for the same environment or resources, only the strongest and nastiest survive.
the french had just laid the foundations for the creation of a super-hardy, super-virulent,supernoodle species of mosquito.
the stupid, stupid bastards.
this newly reclaimed land was, over the course of the next hundred and fifty odd years put togood use...they made thousands of concentration camps campsites.
these purveyors of displeasure touted their services to the british, who being a nation obsessed with placing themselves in discomfort, were unable to resist the lure of the prospect of spending coupple of weeks a year in squalid misery.
for this service, they were willing to part with extortionate amounts of money. some were willing, almost unbelievably, to get themselves into massive amounts of debt for many months just to sample the most rebarbative conditions that their wine swilling, garlic munching malodorous neighbours had to offer.
this unfortunately proves nothing except the fact that an unacceptably large percentage fo the english are similarly lacking in this defense mechanism...it's a terrible shame that we should be similarly blighted with such a glaring flaw in our mental make up as our favourite continental enemy.
now, nature is a peculiar and vengeful beast, but she's slow to anger and even slower to react when things are done against her will...
so slow, in fact, that after 146 years, she's finally righted that wrong she suffered at the hands of the french.
there's a good reason the bottom of france was unusable, inhospitable swamp ...it was to keep the french from breeding; to place a cap on their numbers. and until fairly recently, it was an effective preventative measure.
everything has it's place in nature's greater plan, and the place for the french is evidently not a big one.
the transgression by the french, now that she's noticed it, has not been left unpunished or unresolved if you will.
and it's with that in mind that i call your attention to the flooding of southern france
...it's not a natural disaster, it's a natural remedy. they shouldn't try and drain the land... they should work out a way of keeping it flooded.
well, it's nature's way of stopping you from making a tit out of yourself all the time.
and it's evident that the french don't have this defense mechanism.
in 1857 the french saw fit to drain a vast area of malarial swamp [otherwise known as the camargue] instantly rendering millions of mosquitos homeless...this not only made them angry, but forced them to compete against each other for what was now highly limited habitat.
now, anyone who's even vaguely familiar with the work of darwin knows that when you have a large group of a particular species competing for the same environment or resources, only the strongest and nastiest survive.
the french had just laid the foundations for the creation of a super-hardy, super-virulent,
the stupid, stupid bastards.
this newly reclaimed land was, over the course of the next hundred and fifty odd years put to
these purveyors of displeasure touted their services to the british, who being a nation obsessed with placing themselves in discomfort, were unable to resist the lure of the prospect of spending coupple of weeks a year in squalid misery.
for this service, they were willing to part with extortionate amounts of money. some were willing, almost unbelievably, to get themselves into massive amounts of debt for many months just to sample the most rebarbative conditions that their wine swilling, garlic munching malodorous neighbours had to offer.
this unfortunately proves nothing except the fact that an unacceptably large percentage fo the english are similarly lacking in this defense mechanism...it's a terrible shame that we should be similarly blighted with such a glaring flaw in our mental make up as our favourite continental enemy.
now, nature is a peculiar and vengeful beast, but she's slow to anger and even slower to react when things are done against her will...
so slow, in fact, that after 146 years, she's finally righted that wrong she suffered at the hands of the french.
there's a good reason the bottom of france was unusable, inhospitable swamp ...it was to keep the french from breeding; to place a cap on their numbers. and until fairly recently, it was an effective preventative measure.
everything has it's place in nature's greater plan, and the place for the french is evidently not a big one.
the transgression by the french, now that she's noticed it, has not been left unpunished or unresolved if you will.
and it's with that in mind that i call your attention to the flooding of southern france
...it's not a natural disaster, it's a natural remedy. they shouldn't try and drain the land... they should work out a way of keeping it flooded.