Treehugger Commenters Have No Sense of Humor: Must be Nipple Chaffage

Lloyd Alter is one of my favorite Treehugger writers. He mostly covers green architecture but isn’t afraid to wander into other green realms. He’s a really smart dude and a great writer and he just got dogpiled by a bunch of Treehugger commenters for a tongue in cheek post –tagged with “Humor” — he wrote about the 88 pounds of petroleum jelly that will be used during the London Marathon.

His entire post was a one sentence pull out quote:

If recent years are any guide, 40 kilograms, (88 pounds) of petroleum jelly will be used during today’s London Marathon to prevent chaffing, blistering and “runner’s nipple.”

and a link to the story.

Unleash the dogs of Holy Hell, because here come the crazy greenies! They are not happy. Not happy at all.

Here are a few of the choice comments:

what an idiotic article.

Im glad to see that the tree huggers are finally starting to admit that global climate change has NO affect on hurricanes.
maybe soon they will realize that the people of this world do not have the affect on this planet that they think they do. Sorry, but you guys are all going to look like fools in ten to twenty years.

conroy

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Llyod,

Since you haven’t indicated you’re joking, then one has to assume you’re rather dim: the amount of petroleum used by runners is on the scale of worldwide use, infinitesimal.

I hope that, for the sake of the site, you retract, or that a treehuger editor resects. This entry cheapens your publication.

Luckily Nick chimes in to help prove that not all Treehugger readers are uptight assholes folks with stunted senses of humor with:

BACK IN THE HOLES, TROLLS.

Are we all unable to take a joke?

And failing that, did nobody see the “Humour” tag at the bottom of the article?

In my opinion, it’s good to have little jabs like this, to get us to laugh at ourselves. It keeps us from getting too self-righteous about environmental causes, which makes our entire movement more approachable to and resonant with the public at large. Treehugger PROtip: If it looks like a silly article, take it with a grain of salt. The writers here have a sense of humour.

And here I thought Treehugger was the one with the intelligent readership.

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Catch Us After You Plug Back In: EarthFirst is Liveblogging Earth Hour Tonight 8-9pm

I’ll be liveblogging tonight from 8-9pm to help celebrate Earth Hour, the 60 minute span when the world is being asked to turn off all lights and electricity. I will be camped out at EarthFirst HQ East (my living room) with all my lights on watching the TV set to something good and trashy while warming my hands over my plugin heater. My posts will cover what I’m watching on TV, any snacks I happen to make, and the general atmosphere in the room as we suck up all the excess energy left on the power grid by the rest of you do-gooders.

If you’re a good little greenie you’ll have to catch up on things after you plug back into the system at 9pm. Woot.