Comments on: Coal.

Coal.

brownpau — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:51:56 -0800

Coal. Cheap, Abundant, Clean.

By: birdhaus

birdhaus — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:57:29 -0800

A single link post, but many laffs!

By: coiled

coiled — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:59:39 -0800

...and sexy.

By: Brian B.

Brian B. — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:02:02 -0800

Live by the coal, die by the coal.

By: spikeleemajortomdickandharryconnickjrmints

spikeleemajortomdickandharryconnickjrmints — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:06:46 -0800

Heh.

By: birdhaus

birdhaus — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:08:52 -0800

Coal is a great album by Kathy Mattea, too.

By: dabitch

dabitch — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:13:39 -0800

thankyousomuchforthislaff. I haven't been able to inhale yet.

By: dilettante

dilettante — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:13:55 -0800

coiled, I am so glad you found that. I've just spent the past twenty minutes looking for that stupid ad but kept using search terms like "Sixteen Tons" and getting all distracted.

By: Telf

Telf — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:16:50 -0800

Wow, that is spot on.

By: CitizenD

CitizenD — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:17:52 -0800

"my friend has a pool."

By: chillmost

chillmost — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:17:54 -0800

Ha ha! I get it but where is the rest of your post?

By: konolia

konolia — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:21:47 -0800

My great grandmother actually heated her home with a potbellied coal stove. For those of you who have never been around coal in use, the stuff floats in the air and comes down in soot that covers pert near everything around it. And smears all over when you touch it. That parody needed some SOOT, dangit!

By: chillmost

chillmost — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:23:22 -0800

Hey coiled, isn't that a scene out of Zoolander?

By: five fresh fish

five fresh fish — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:33:46 -0800

Studies are showing that the nearer one lives to a coal plant, the greater the health problems. Especially for children, who tend to become more autistic the nearer the plant. Way too much mercury and radioactive material being released in the fly ash. Coal is just a bad idea all around.

By: maxwelton

maxwelton — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:35:53 -0800

That paint video is awesome. When we bought out 1910 Seattle house in Fremont, there was still a 8 x 8 coal bin in the basement with about four feet of coal in it. Now that I think about it, it may even have been mined locally.

By: freshwater_pr0n

freshwater_pr0n — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:40:03 -0800

Almost perfect, but they ruined it a bit by veering ever so slightly into jokey ha-ha territory. Some of their other videos are great, too.

By: TheOnlyCoolTim

TheOnlyCoolTim — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:41:46 -0800

"Imagine if a 250 year supply of energy were right here at home..." I've got a better one. Imagine going for a better solution than one that, even if we accept propaganda about cleanness and ignore carbon emissions, just leaves society fucked again after a short time. It's also pretty damn offensive to juxtapose a coalminer's lament with a bunch of models showing off how pretty their makeup, hair, lights, and photoshopping are.

By: carsonb

carsonb — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:46:55 -0800

Heh. "Cheap. Abundant. Cheap."

By: doift

doift — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:27:07 -0800

... where I live.

By: eriko

eriko — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:29:04 -0800

I'm all for coal. Burn as much as we can. The faster humanity kills itself, the more chances something else can evolve and actually do things right.

By: paulsc

paulsc — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:44:13 -0800

48.6% of this thread is possible because of coal.

By: Edgewise

Edgewise — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:55:13 -0800

Seems funny now, but don't be surprised if we turn to liquid coal when the gas runs out. I'm not saying it would be a good thing; rather, that high enough oil prices could generate more than enough desperation. It's just not human nature to adequately prepare for problems like these before it's too late (or at least before things get really shitty for a while).

By: clearly

clearly — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:04:17 -0800

"Electricity comes from the walls in my house." This video was fantastic. I also hope that one miner is able to avoid the black lung.

By: davejay

davejay — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:05:54 -0800

the most important thing in the world is my family's money. I don't vote. That's very well done, and funny.

By: davejay

davejay — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:07:41 -0800

The faster humanity kills itself, the more chances something else can evolve and actually do things right. Cut to a cockroach looking at its wristwatch and tapping its foot impatiently.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:15:10 -0800

One of the great coal mining songs, in my favorite version: Dark as a Dungeon.

By: Turtles all the way down

Turtles all the way down — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:21:34 -0800

I didn't realize, until my father told me, that coal is very hard to light, but once ignited gives an extremely hot fire.

By: turgid dahlia

turgid dahlia — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:30:15 -0800

So is there any evidence of actual murder-suicides brought about by reading YouTube comments?

By: stbalbach

stbalbach — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:39:02 -0800

"Paid for by the US Dept of Energy"

By: stbalbach

stbalbach — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:46:38 -0800

The comrades tapped and tapped. Buried like moles beneath the crushing weight of the earth, and without a breath of fresh air in their burning lungs, they simply went on tapping. New men were starting into life, a black army of vengence slowly germinating in the furrows, growing for the harvest of the centuries to come; and soon this germination would tear the earth apart. --Emile Zola, Germinal (1885)

By: Anderson_Localized

Anderson_Localized — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:51:14 -0800

I was going to post a snarky reply about how spot on the ad was, but then I read paulsc's comment, and I had to hang my head in shame.

By: symbioid

symbioid — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:38:15 -0800

Madison Reprazent! ;)

By: meringue

meringue — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:51:35 -0800

Heh, thanks for this. I just killed an hour watching all their videos. The fatal doctor's visit one is especially funny.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:14:39 -0800

Coal is the new black.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:25:38 -0800

Coal is the new black. More like black lung amirite? GE's Ecomagination advertisement for clean coal using models for miners More like EcoSatisfaction amirite?

By: rokusan

rokusan — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 04:33:56 -0800

MetaFilter: The future is later.

By: Fuzzy Skinner

Fuzzy Skinner — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:22:05 -0800

Funny video! Is this where we post mining related stuff? My grandfather was a coal miner in Kentucky. Started as a helper at 10 years old. Died when he was 93.

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 07:26:14 -0800

Is this where we post mining related stuff ? Yup. This fellow was a Kentucky miner. Helluva musician, too.

By: everichon

everichon — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 08:54:40 -0800

Orwell, Down The Mine. Great read. Also: hi-larious video.

By: Fuzzy Skinner

Fuzzy Skinner — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:04:11 -0800

This fellow was a Kentucky miner. Helluva musician, too. Wow. He actually looks quite a bit like my grandfather! But my gramp didn't pay a mean banjo like that!

By: odinsdream

odinsdream — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:05:39 -0800

Awesome.

By: sonic meat machine

sonic meat machine — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:17:18 -0800

You know who else turned to coal to power their war machine after losing access to adequate amounts of oil?

By: dilettante

dilettante — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:40:35 -0800

My grandfather was a coal miner in Kentucky. So was mine. He died at 65, and had black lung. He lost half his right hand in the 30s, and was noted as being in poor health when he was drafted (in spite of the hand) in WWII. His father got his back hurt in a mine roof fall and couldn't work, so they just lived in abject poverty for a couple of generations. Another great-grandfather on the other side was crushed from the chest down in the 40s. Yet another great-grandfather just lost his mind. Fun places, coal mines.

By: ikkyu2

ikkyu2 — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:26:57 -0800

I especially like how, at the end when the O in COAL is a little rotating globe, large parts of what is currently inhabited land on the globe's surface has changed to desert from global warming. Nice touch.

By: dawiz

dawiz — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:22:40 -0800

America needs it's own version of the Asian Brown Cloud. More coal sir!