The trouble with people
Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 10:00 am
Yesterday, at work, I was burning a lot of rubbish in a steel barrel (I'm sure you can sense where this is about to go...
) and somehow my colleague started talking about how the barrel would begin to melt soon. Now we're only burning wood and paper nothing silly, so I questioned his reasoning. His answer was simple "Look at the twin towers.."
I nearly screamed !!
I didn't tell him I had already researched the subject instead I just tried to explain that steel doesn't melt at the temperature of kerosene or wood or paper. But he wasn't having any of it and said that for the buildings to collapse the steel only had to weaken. I tried to explain the case using this websites research, which I find explains the whole thing pretty succinctly.
Again he just refused to understand. Or maybe he couldn't understand?
When I think that the world is made up of people like him, that don't care/don't see/don't understand I could almost cry at the hoplessness of the whole situation. Nothing will change and we'll be forever cast as the weirdo conspiracy freaks...
The silly thing is I didn't even touch any of the ideas that are floating around, just basic information that cannot be refuted but because the BBC never said it, it can't possibly be true...
Apologies for the mini rant but this has been on my brain since yesterday.
cheers!

I nearly screamed !!

I didn't tell him I had already researched the subject instead I just tried to explain that steel doesn't melt at the temperature of kerosene or wood or paper. But he wasn't having any of it and said that for the buildings to collapse the steel only had to weaken. I tried to explain the case using this websites research, which I find explains the whole thing pretty succinctly.
Again he just refused to understand. Or maybe he couldn't understand?
When I think that the world is made up of people like him, that don't care/don't see/don't understand I could almost cry at the hoplessness of the whole situation. Nothing will change and we'll be forever cast as the weirdo conspiracy freaks...

Apologies for the mini rant but this has been on my brain since yesterday.
cheers!