What the hell is WRONG!!!

[Soushi]

-Warning, very depressing thread -

I can usually deal with this stuff, but today i have finally snapped. This is getting ridiculous!!! Has the world gone mad? Have we lost all shreds of common sense! What on Earth can we do to fix all of this! Is no one else banging their heads against the wall!!!

- France is thinking of banning the Burka in some places, even for people who WANT to wear them
- Certain European countries have banned the little towers on mosques, something akin to banning a cross on the tops of churches if I am not mistaken
- Australia is banning things left right and center, setting their standards like in 198-fucking-4
- In China, the ability to make cheap little plastic toys are more important than workers rights
- Religious nuts in the US are getting ridiculous amounts of attention and air time
- People are scientifically arguing that the world will end in 2012
- China doesn't give two shits what the world thinks of them anymore
- Canada is going frigging insane with its Olympic regulations
- The economy is in the crapper, yet thousands and thousands of people are spending way beyond their means
- The media is filled with more private interests than ever before
- And the cherry on top, this generation is going to live shorter lives than the last one, a trend not seen since the f*cking DARK AGES!!!
I...i just... this is all so..... AAAAAAAAAAARRRGGGGGG!!!!! *thump*

What can we do? What do you do? How do you cope? What is some light news?

This generation's going to live shorter lives than the last one? Can you elaborate, I feel I've missed something rather crucial. (and compared to the other news, quite relevant)

From my understanding: STD's are more prevelant and deadly especially the Aids epidemic. smoking and second hand smoke is killing us off still, even though it is less prevelant than before, obesity and heart disease has reached insane levels (in my part of teh world anyways)and is going to shorten a LOT of lives, weakness due to sitting at computers for hours on end and eating bad food, skin cancer and other cancers cause our ozone layer is fucking GONE!!!, Lack of essential nutrients and vitamins as a result of said staying in doors. and probable occurrences that will result from global warming such as natural disaster, famine, war and disease.
Then again, this generation hasn't died yet, so this is just a projection. Maybe it will not come to be. And please keep in mind, i am no expert, this is just waht i have been able to gather.

 

[Kurokami]

-Warning, very depressing thread -

I can usually deal with this stuff, but today i have finally snapped. This is getting ridiculous!!! Has the world gone mad? Have we lost all shreds of common sense! What on Earth can we do to fix all of this! Is no one else banging their heads against the wall!!!

- France is thinking of banning the Burka in some places, even for people who WANT to wear them
- Certain European countries have banned the little towers on mosques, something akin to banning a cross on the tops of churches if I am not mistaken
- Australia is banning things left right and center, setting their standards like in 198-fucking-4
- In China, the ability to make cheap little plastic toys are more important than workers rights
- Religious nuts in the US are getting ridiculous amounts of attention and air time
- People are scientifically arguing that the world will end in 2012
- China doesn't give two shits what the world thinks of them anymore
- Canada is going frigging insane with its Olympic regulations
- The economy is in the crapper, yet thousands and thousands of people are spending way beyond their means
- The media is filled with more private interests than ever before
- And the cherry on top, this generation is going to live shorter lives than the last one, a trend not seen since the f*cking DARK AGES!!!
I...i just... this is all so..... AAAAAAAAAAARRRGGGGGG!!!!! *thump*

What can we do? What do you do? How do you cope? What is some light news?

This generation's going to live shorter lives than the last one? Can you elaborate, I feel I've missed something rather crucial. (and compared to the other news, quite relevant)

From my understanding: STD's are more prevelant and deadly especially the Aids epidemic. smoking and second hand smoke is killing us off still, even though it is less prevelant than before, obesity and heart disease has reached insane levels (in my part of teh world anyways)and is going to shorten a LOT of lives, weakness due to sitting at computers for hours on end and eating bad food, skin cancer and other cancers cause our ozone layer is fucking GONE!!!, Lack of essential nutrients and vitamins as a result of said staying in doors. and probable occurrences that will result from global warming such as natural disaster, famine, war and disease.
Then again, this generation hasn't died yet, so this is just a projection. Maybe it will not come to be. And please keep in mind, i am no expert, this is just waht i have been able to gather.

Oh I see, well that makes sense, I took a completely different spin to the idea.

In any case I assume you're right, I'm fairly positive I'm gonna die from either cancer or a rather traumatic stab to the face. I didn't know vitamins were a huge issue, I actually thought people tend to consume excess amounts to the point of redundancy what with them being handed out in huge bottles of pills. (though I assume this makes people prioritize some vitamins and neglect anything they haven't heard of)

Well its nice to know we're screwed, personally I could care less to survive beyond 40. For now at least.

 

[Soushi]

-Warning, very depressing thread -

I can usually deal with this stuff, but today i have finally snapped. This is getting ridiculous!!! Has the world gone mad? Have we lost all shreds of common sense! What on Earth can we do to fix all of this! Is no one else banging their heads against the wall!!!

- France is thinking of banning the Burka in some places, even for people who WANT to wear them
- Certain European countries have banned the little towers on mosques, something akin to banning a cross on the tops of churches if I am not mistaken
- Australia is banning things left right and center, setting their standards like in 198-fucking-4
- In China, the ability to make cheap little plastic toys are more important than workers rights
- Religious nuts in the US are getting ridiculous amounts of attention and air time
- People are scientifically arguing that the world will end in 2012
- China doesn't give two shits what the world thinks of them anymore
- Canada is going frigging insane with its Olympic regulations
- The economy is in the crapper, yet thousands and thousands of people are spending way beyond their means
- The media is filled with more private interests than ever before
- And the cherry on top, this generation is going to live shorter lives than the last one, a trend not seen since the f*cking DARK AGES!!!
I...i just... this is all so..... AAAAAAAAAAARRRGGGGGG!!!!! *thump*

What can we do? What do you do? How do you cope? What is some light news?

This generation's going to live shorter lives than the last one? Can you elaborate, I feel I've missed something rather crucial. (and compared to the other news, quite relevant)

From my understanding: STD's are more prevelant and deadly especially the Aids epidemic. smoking and second hand smoke is killing us off still, even though it is less prevelant than before, obesity and heart disease has reached insane levels (in my part of teh world anyways)and is going to shorten a LOT of lives, weakness due to sitting at computers for hours on end and eating bad food, skin cancer and other cancers cause our ozone layer is fucking GONE!!!, Lack of essential nutrients and vitamins as a result of said staying in doors. and probable occurrences that will result from global warming such as natural disaster, famine, war and disease.
Then again, this generation hasn't died yet, so this is just a projection. Maybe it will not come to be. And please keep in mind, i am no expert, this is just waht i have been able to gather.

Oh I see, well that makes sense, I took a completely different spin to the idea.

In any case I assume you're right, I'm fairly positive I'm gonna die from either cancer or a rather traumatic stab to the face. I didn't know vitamins were a huge issue, I actually thought people tend to consume excess amounts to the point of redundancy what with them being handed out in huge bottles of pills. (though I assume this makes people prioritize some vitamins and neglect anything they haven't heard of)

Well its nice to know we're screwed, personally I could care less to survive beyond 40. For now at least.

That's the thing though, we aren;t screwed. We just need to exercise a little common sense. Your life is what you make it, so make good choices and it will be strong.

 

[SenseOfTumour]

What we should have done was design a sugar and fat substitute that was cheap and worked well, THEN designed all the foods we love with those already in place.

Then we could all drink soda and eat pizza and donuts all day without worry.

I tell ya, the first person to come up with a WORKING fat or sugar substitute is gonna be sooo rich. BY working, I mean when you taste it you don't go 'whats this diet shit?'

On a more sensible note, why the hell we can't send expired foods to third world countries I don't know.

Do starving africans really care that a tin of food is a week past sell by?

Trouble is, I imagine it's fear of lawsuits, and I blame a lot of the worlds ills on frivolous lawsuits. It's so often now safer to do nothing, than try to do good, because if 'good' goes wrong in any way, suddenly you as the good guy are liable to be sued. I was always told the last thing you do in a car collision is say 'sorry' even tho it's natural, as it's admitting liability.

Sadly, if we saved a million lives by sending our slightly out of date food, but 3 people got sick from it... those 3 people would have a lawyer flying over to take their case and sue the people who sent the free food.

Note I'm not knocking all lawyers, I know the majority went into the career wanting to do the right thing, but I'm talking about the ambulance chasers 'as seen on TV'.