If there's a silver lining to Britain's anti-democratic Oxbridge oligarchy, it's that the class-bound status quo allows the more enigmatic members of the elite to spout fabulously politically incorrect sentiments. To wit: the Torygraph reports that Professor Sir David King, the United Kingdom's outgoing Chief Scientific Adviser (how Mikado is that?), thinks "women must stop admiring men who drive sports cars." Translation: global warming (a theory to which Sir David wholeheartedly subscribes) requires that motorists stop burning petrochemicals for the sheer bloody Hell of it. To that end, babes must stop offering their eggs to carbon profligate males. No really. "I was asked at a lecture by a young woman about what she could do [to save the planet] and I told her to stop admiring young men in Ferraris," he said. Of course, Sir David's sexist castigation represents a fairly quaint not to say Victorian view of the world. Only the United Kingdom's sports car drivers don't quite see it that way. The secretary the Ferrari Owners Club is more than slightly miffed at the suggestion that his members may be melting the polar ice caps. "There are fewer than 5,600 cars made a year by Ferrari," Peter Everingham said. "To suggest Ferraris are a factor in climate change is unhelpful." For whom?
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I think women might be ahead of Prof King on this point… for many years BCSD has had meaning to the female of the species.
Yeah, that will help tremendously….
Instead women will admire men who live in 10,000 square foot homes and sail around in huge yachts – both of which are just GREAT for the environment.
Face it, living a small carbon footprint lifestyle isn’t sexy.
Somehow, I don’t think thats going to stop a wealthy man from owning and driving his Ferrari around though.
It has always been said that men with sports cars have small penises. So, conversely, women with SUV’s must have enormous….well, you know what!* ;O)
* = Special thanks to Jimmy Carr.
What else do you buy a car for, though?
“unhelpful”??
Then it must still be OK to drive my big block chevy.(but only on sunny weekends)
Tell women to stop forcing their men to buy SUVs the second the pregnancy test shows positive… that’d go a lot further to saving the environment.
Awwwww, cummon.
If AlGore can carbon offset his lifestyle to a Noble “PC” prize maybe others can contribute for the “right” to admire others cool stuff.
It would open up another marketing tool for the carbon offset biz.
Have a beautiful Christmas.
Bunter
I’ve always wondered exactly what the thought process is for that. I mean, how does the mental conversation go?
“Hmm, he drives a nice car. Maybe I should have sex with him.”
Virtual Insanity,
The thought process is more like
“Hmm, he drives a nice car, he must be loaded with money! I WILL have sex with him!”
Needless to say, I don’t understand it either and I have no time for people that shallow……
It has always been said that men with sports cars have small penises.
but that is always said by people with small and crappy cars.look at jimmy Carr he’s had two Rovers
Apprently the global warming alarmists and profiteers aren’t quite as enlightened as they would have us believe.
I totally agree with this. I am just sick and tired of all these women attacking me every time I step out of my car.