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loose cannon said:
No idea who what and when but if history goes by anything it won't be to long now
What or when was the last big event in history that sent us back to the dark ages? I can't think of any war or other event that did not result in technological advances.I suppose a nuclear war of biblical proportions or a huge chemical event could reset things but the difference to the dark ages would be that we knew different whereas in the dark ages they didn't think it was all that dark...they thought the bloke with the fire was cutting edge and his brick phone (or whatever the dark ages had) was state of the art.
Maybe you just meant another big event and not a trip back to the 70's but my post also refers to the other doomsday preppers.
Prizam said:
Or not as the case may be...
I simply cannot believe the single mindedness and tunnel vision people seem to have these days. Is an epidemic. It used to be older folk who would walk in to shops and then just stop dead in the middle of the isle that is too small... looking at "the shiny", completely bemused by the lights and music playing in shops.
Now everyone is always glued to there bloody phones, hobbling about like a drunk roomba, bumping in to things too afraid to look away from the shiny screen for fear that they might miss a new cat video. The same people that go to some kind of event, and then proceed to watch the air show / concert / race through there 4" phone screen. Why would you do that?
The same idiots whilst on the way to said event will stop at traffic lights, whip out there phone. Update Facebook - "Stopped at traffic lights, YOLO".
Today, on the motorway whilst filtering i could see in the distance two cars in L2 and L3, stopped holding up traffic with the windows down.
I thought, this could be interesting. Looks like some kind of incident and they are having a colorful language competition through the windows before pulling to the hard shoulder to sort it out.
Oh no, nothing like that. They had both stopped for a chat. On the motorway. In rush hour. Blocking L2 & L3. Completely oblivious to the complete and utter carnage they were causing behind them. People were beeping, trying to squeeze round them. But both women were smiling at each other, gassing away. They looked a little put out when i came filtering past between them and interrupted there conversation.
I live near several schools, and this kind of blinkered self righteous behavior is ripe with the school run mums. Between 8-9 and 3 - 4pm it is absolute carnage outside my house. (Very quiet the rest of the time thankfully). I often sit and watch them slowly crash in to each other. Usually at least one of them is looking down at their lap as they saunter across the road, on the wrong side, and in to the front of another mum.
And once they have crashed. what happens? Both cars stay exactly where they were, blocking the road whilst the mummy's get out... Already on their phones. and just amble around in circles looking lost wondering what to do next.
Has the whole f
king world lost the ability to see / feel and THINK about things outside of their 1 foot WiFi bubble?
(I am a 30 something IT manager techno geek, not an old man.)
I like that, good rant. I simply cannot believe the single mindedness and tunnel vision people seem to have these days. Is an epidemic. It used to be older folk who would walk in to shops and then just stop dead in the middle of the isle that is too small... looking at "the shiny", completely bemused by the lights and music playing in shops.
Now everyone is always glued to there bloody phones, hobbling about like a drunk roomba, bumping in to things too afraid to look away from the shiny screen for fear that they might miss a new cat video. The same people that go to some kind of event, and then proceed to watch the air show / concert / race through there 4" phone screen. Why would you do that?
The same idiots whilst on the way to said event will stop at traffic lights, whip out there phone. Update Facebook - "Stopped at traffic lights, YOLO".
Today, on the motorway whilst filtering i could see in the distance two cars in L2 and L3, stopped holding up traffic with the windows down.
I thought, this could be interesting. Looks like some kind of incident and they are having a colorful language competition through the windows before pulling to the hard shoulder to sort it out.
Oh no, nothing like that. They had both stopped for a chat. On the motorway. In rush hour. Blocking L2 & L3. Completely oblivious to the complete and utter carnage they were causing behind them. People were beeping, trying to squeeze round them. But both women were smiling at each other, gassing away. They looked a little put out when i came filtering past between them and interrupted there conversation.
I live near several schools, and this kind of blinkered self righteous behavior is ripe with the school run mums. Between 8-9 and 3 - 4pm it is absolute carnage outside my house. (Very quiet the rest of the time thankfully). I often sit and watch them slowly crash in to each other. Usually at least one of them is looking down at their lap as they saunter across the road, on the wrong side, and in to the front of another mum.
And once they have crashed. what happens? Both cars stay exactly where they were, blocking the road whilst the mummy's get out... Already on their phones. and just amble around in circles looking lost wondering what to do next.
Has the whole f
king world lost the ability to see / feel and THINK about things outside of their 1 foot WiFi bubble?(I am a 30 something IT manager techno geek, not an old man.)
luckystrike said:
If you tell everyone from birth that they're a special snowflake is it surprising that they act like it when older?
If you promote the merits of self-gratification regardless of wider impact and the principle of success only being measured in relation to other people, is it surprising that people aren't compassionate?
This is one of the most accurate things I've heard in a very long time. I genuinely fear for the future of mankind when this has become the norm!If you promote the merits of self-gratification regardless of wider impact and the principle of success only being measured in relation to other people, is it surprising that people aren't compassionate?
I'm on the upper side of 50 and seeing a, presumably educated, 30 something misuse the word carnage makes me wonder where the world is going.
What is wrong with commotion, disorder, chaos, pandemonium, anarchy, mayhem or bedlam for example? Some of those are nicely ott without being as badly wrong as carnage.
Unless the drivers wereactually literally slaughtering each other in an effort to get past, in which case the world really has gone to st.
What is wrong with commotion, disorder, chaos, pandemonium, anarchy, mayhem or bedlam for example? Some of those are nicely ott without being as badly wrong as carnage.
Unless the drivers were
t.Edited by Toltec on Wednesday 30th September 21:24
Toltec said:
I'm on the upper side of 50 and seeing a, presumably educated, 30 something misuse the word carnage makes me wonder where the world is going.
What is wrong with commotion, disorder, chaos, pandemonium, anarchy, mayhem or bedlam for example? Some of those are nicely ott without being as badly wrong as carnage.
Unless the drivers wereactually literally slaughtering each other in an effort to get past, in which case the world really has gone to st.
I often see emails with URGENT in the title, after reading them they are little more than slightly more in need of some action to relieve the writers anxiety than any other.What is wrong with commotion, disorder, chaos, pandemonium, anarchy, mayhem or bedlam for example? Some of those are nicely ott without being as badly wrong as carnage.
Unless the drivers were
t.Edited by Toltec on Wednesday 30th September 21:24
Toltec said:
Unless the drivers were actually literally slaughtering each other in an effort to get past, in which case the world really has gone to st.
The world went to st.t when the OED altered the definition of literally, to include something we already have a word for. "Figuratively". That and the total failure of all drivers the world over to indicate and the death of all good deeds except that one bloke the other day.It's OK though. I had a delivery of logs for the wood burning stove the other day, and I've got like 3 litres of water on top of the fridge. So I'm totally ready for the apocalypse, which apparently is happening if this thread is anything to go by.
Edited by _dobbo_ on Wednesday 30th September 21:56
Caddyshack said:
I often see emails with URGENT in the title, after reading them they are little more than slightly more in need of some action to relieve the writers anxiety than any other.
I've long stressed to my employees that there is no such thing as an URGENT email. If an issue is urgent then use the phone. Then you know that the intended recipient understands why something needs to be done urgently and you know whether they are or aren't going to act on it.eMail is something that you catch up on over a beer or at weekends. Or don't get around to at all!
We moved our son to a different school,one that doesn't have a massive carpark
he's been there for a month now and the school run is horrific, its all on street parking and there 3 schools in a very small area. A common game I'm observing is can i fit my car in the middle of two spaces, double yellow lines mean fk all to me, why are you moaning at me for parking across your drive blocking your exit, i love to her the v8 scream as i drive like a fking maniac, lets all stand on the path outside the school gates chatting/bhing/gossiping etc blocking the entrance then tutting when someone wants to pick there child up. I miss his old school for the parking..
I don't even miss the 500 miles a week school run.
he's been there for a month now and the school run is horrific, its all on street parking and there 3 schools in a very small area. A common game I'm observing is can i fit my car in the middle of two spaces, double yellow lines mean fk all to me, why are you moaning at me for parking across your drive blocking your exit, i love to her the v8 scream as i drive like a fking maniac, lets all stand on the path outside the school gates chatting/bhing/gossiping etc blocking the entrance then tutting when someone wants to pick there child up. I miss his old school for the parking..I don't even miss the 500 miles a week school run.
Edited by gtidriver on Wednesday 30th September 22:17
Edited by gtidriver on Wednesday 30th September 22:19
Caddyshack said:
loose cannon said:
No idea who what and when but if history goes by anything it won't be to long now
What or when was the last big event in history that sent us back to the dark ages? I can't think of any war or other event that did not result in technological advances.I suppose a nuclear war of biblical proportions or a huge chemical event could reset things but the difference to the dark ages would be that we knew different whereas in the dark ages they didn't think it was all that dark...they thought the bloke with the fire was cutting edge and his brick phone (or whatever the dark ages had) was state of the art.
Maybe you just meant another big event and not a trip back to the 70's but my post also refers to the other doomsday preppers.
We went from using biplanes and horses to jet fighters and nuclear weapons in six years.
That really held up progress.
AREA said:
I've long stressed to my employees that there is no such thing as an URGENT email. If an issue is urgent then use the phone. Then you know that the intended recipient understands why something needs to be done urgently and you know whether they are or aren't going to act on it.
eMail is something that you catch up on over a beer or at weekends. Or don't get around to at all!
Not specifically related to email, but the difference between URGENT and IMPORTANT seems to confuse many here. I had to list items in the correct sequence for them:eMail is something that you catch up on over a beer or at weekends. Or don't get around to at all!
1. Urgent & important
2. Urgent
3. Important
4. Not urgent or important.
We live in a system where pretty much only money matters and the truth is most of us are 'selfish' because that is what the system for decades and more has shaped us to do and be. When we sell something the important thing is to reel every last cent out of the other guy and when we buy, we knock him down to within an inch of his life, preferably waiting until he/she is desperate to sell whatever it is.
My brother is a very successful car dealer and whilst like myself, outside of motoring, he donates regularly to wildlife projects and childrens' charities, he is 'lethally' tight when it comes to buying and selling cars; sourcing cars is a big part of his business and he is painfully ruthless. Some of the deals border on 'criminal' in my book, but people do those deals! Just as every other car salesman does/would do.
Add in people killing each other over who has the best imaginary idol/superpower and then consider the abuses by governments and the big enterprises purely for financial gain and the world, as the OP suggests, is a pretty nasty place to be. Getting worse.
But i get one vote every 5 years and it has taken me an awful long while to realise that i can only do so much to change things and thus i am less active than i for a long time was in trying to change the world. I donate monthly and i help out where i can.
All we can do at the end of the day is treat others with respect, help someone or a creature you see in trouble, donate regularly if you can afford to and then enjoy the one life you are going to get.
We all get very old, very quickly and none of us are coming this way again.
My brother is a very successful car dealer and whilst like myself, outside of motoring, he donates regularly to wildlife projects and childrens' charities, he is 'lethally' tight when it comes to buying and selling cars; sourcing cars is a big part of his business and he is painfully ruthless. Some of the deals border on 'criminal' in my book, but people do those deals! Just as every other car salesman does/would do.
Add in people killing each other over who has the best imaginary idol/superpower and then consider the abuses by governments and the big enterprises purely for financial gain and the world, as the OP suggests, is a pretty nasty place to be. Getting worse.
But i get one vote every 5 years and it has taken me an awful long while to realise that i can only do so much to change things and thus i am less active than i for a long time was in trying to change the world. I donate monthly and i help out where i can.
All we can do at the end of the day is treat others with respect, help someone or a creature you see in trouble, donate regularly if you can afford to and then enjoy the one life you are going to get.
We all get very old, very quickly and none of us are coming this way again.
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