I love it.

Never mind the fact that the exact cause of the blast remains the subject of investigation. Remember that the exact cause of the Challenger shuttle disaster was a faulty O-ring, but at the end of the day it was NASA’s poor management and a the lack of collaboration between departments that made the O-ring possible in the first place.

BP has an established record of doing things that bring down fines about its head. If this is a demonstrated pattern of behavior, the question isn’t, “How much is the contractor responsible for?” It’s, “If fines don’t work, how do we make sure this doesn’t happen again?”

:(

/I live in FL.

lighten up, it’s hilarious.

No, BP hired greedy, incompetent fucktards because they, being greed fucktards themselves, didn’t care how they got the oil, so long as they got the oil. Don’t disparage dorks everywhere by lumping their goofy asses in with the maliciously incompetent. They’re leagues apart.

Well, I’ve heard that South Park’s mockery of George Lucas revamping the old Star Wars stopped him from giving Indiana Jones the same treatment.

Small example, but an example nonetheless.

BP sure acted like it by seemingly regarding numerous government fines for labor infractions as the cost of doing business and never rectifying the situation. They pay out good money to greenwash themselves and look like they care about the environment while failing to take very simple precautions that could have prevented this event, or at least mitigated it. I think this shirt is a tiny, itsy, bitsy, first step in the public shaming BP deserves.

And your statement lacks authenticity in the face of a set of executives who are only too aware of the impact of a fuck-up, and were before the whole thing went pear-shaped. In that environment, you don’t hire incompetent fucktards.

My point is that although BP chose to drill the field, and hired the people to do it, the companies actually doing the work caused the failure, not BP itself – and no, I don’t separate BP’s responsibility from the events, but I do distill out the causative influences that resulted in the tragedy.

And those influences were created by the companies BP hired.

Whether they’re hands off in front of cameras or court isn’t material – the court will judge their degree of responsibility.

We make sure this doesn’t happen again by being more efficient with energy and switching to better sources.

And to my mind, dorks suck. They screw things up. I don’t want dorks running my hydrogen economy, thanks very much.

Marketers are now just as happy with this kind of satirical usage of their logos as they are with traditional ones- more so, because this t-shirt might actually be worn by a cool person, where a straight BP t-shirt would be worn by virtually no one.

For the vast majority of people who see this shirt on another person, it will simply be another quick logo hit to their brain. It will make them more and not less likely to pull into a BP station next time.

The t-shirt STARTS conversation about how BP screwed up . . . JUST LIKE IT’S DOING IN THIS THREAD.

It will do so at family gatherings, work, and bars. So yes, it has a point.

BP just gives us a target OTHER than our own selves to aim at.

The real enemies are these yobbos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EzHNApBdC4

Note that pointing and laughing at BP is NOT the same as pointing and laughing at any of their victims, be it the 11 killed, or the wildlife, or the fisherman, or &c.

Humour. It’s a tough concept. Also; tragedy + distance (spatial or temporal) = comedy, which is probably a better explanation why #1, for example, isn’t too impressed.

can you provide examples of satire bring change in history?

Just thinking out loud on what satire actually accomplishes …

When a person sees this shirt, he/she can either
1) know about the spill and understand this is satire
or
2) not know about the spill and do not understand this as satire

The shirt will have no affect on the number 2 crowd as it doesn’t educate about the spill.

For the number 1 crowd, they already know there’s a spill and they are either …
(A) taking /or will take action or (B) will not do anything.

Are you’re suggesting that there is someone who already knows about the spill and who has not done anything about it and who will not take action until they see this satire?

I’m not so sure that people are motivated by satire. I think greed , fear, envy , anger are better motivators.

BP’s record speaks for itself.

The shirt will have no affect on the number 2 crowd as it doesn’t educate about the spill.”

Think of it as camouflage.