Part of me thinks "yeah the world is shit" but then again, none of this really has a huge effect on my day to day life personally, so at least I can sit back and watch idiots scramble frantically to fix their stupid shit by doing stupider shit.
What the hell is WRONG!!!
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People are stupid.
That's the sad reality.
They look for problems where there aren't any
They continually try and make the world more and more PC, which inflicts upon our rights to free speech, among other things
They think they are better than everyone else, purely because of arrogance
That's why I'm glad I have escapism to turn to.
That's the sad reality.
They look for problems where there aren't any
They continually try and make the world more and more PC, which inflicts upon our rights to free speech, among other things
They think they are better than everyone else, purely because of arrogance
That's why I'm glad I have escapism to turn to.
Just turn off your TV. Don't check the web for news. Tune out.Soushi said:
Just try to make the best of what you've got and what you influence or have control over.
Nothing ever changes. The news is always bad. People worry over nothing. The only time people will have a chance to do anything about it, they will know it without having to watch the news, because it will involve them.
I agree with the anti-religious laws, but they should apply to both minaret and church. burka and jew-cap etc.
I'm generally a miserable bugger, and can usually find the dark side in everything.
Damn tho, there's a limit...
Ok, there's China, which I'm not sure has changed much since I was born, we're just having more info thrown at us.
All the racial and religious hate comes from us actually mixing more and being MORE integrated than we used to be and is actually a sign of things improving.
As for me personally, I don't think I'm REALLY that much worse off than I was 5 or 10 years ago, I'm sure some people are, but I genuinely don't believe we're all going to be starving in the streets a couple of years down the line, we're in a downturn, and soon enough we'll be back on the up, and things all work out in the end.
As so many before me have said, just don't worry about the news, they live thru scaremongering, simply relating facts is not enough any more.
I recommend Newswipe on BBC iPlayer as a nice behind the scenes look at how bloody idiotic news shows are.
Also, a vast amount of the more ridiculous stories about things getting banned, either by 'Europe' or 'the PC brigade' (who?) are entirely fabricated and only there to get a reaction, because it sells newspapers and its been shown a lot of people actually quite enjoy having a grumble about something. Combine that with the fact that as a national newspaper, you can pretty much print any bollocks over the front page and a double page spread inside, then a week later print an inch high 'sorry, we got some facts incorrect' on page 37, and that's all they need to do.
Why on earth wouldn't they tell us Belgium is banning bendy bananas or that muslim lesbian disabled asylum seeking benefit cheats are getting a free ferrari each?
Just ignore it and it won't really bother you, as I'm patently not proving right here
Damn tho, there's a limit...
Ok, there's China, which I'm not sure has changed much since I was born, we're just having more info thrown at us.
All the racial and religious hate comes from us actually mixing more and being MORE integrated than we used to be and is actually a sign of things improving.
As for me personally, I don't think I'm REALLY that much worse off than I was 5 or 10 years ago, I'm sure some people are, but I genuinely don't believe we're all going to be starving in the streets a couple of years down the line, we're in a downturn, and soon enough we'll be back on the up, and things all work out in the end.
As so many before me have said, just don't worry about the news, they live thru scaremongering, simply relating facts is not enough any more.
I recommend Newswipe on BBC iPlayer as a nice behind the scenes look at how bloody idiotic news shows are.
Also, a vast amount of the more ridiculous stories about things getting banned, either by 'Europe' or 'the PC brigade' (who?) are entirely fabricated and only there to get a reaction, because it sells newspapers and its been shown a lot of people actually quite enjoy having a grumble about something. Combine that with the fact that as a national newspaper, you can pretty much print any bollocks over the front page and a double page spread inside, then a week later print an inch high 'sorry, we got some facts incorrect' on page 37, and that's all they need to do.
Why on earth wouldn't they tell us Belgium is banning bendy bananas or that muslim lesbian disabled asylum seeking benefit cheats are getting a free ferrari each?
Just ignore it and it won't really bother you, as I'm patently not proving right here
Wekk humanity is stupid, I used to get pretty upset about all the bad things, but I realised it didn't do any good, so I decided to simply not care anymore, and just focus on my own well being.
Yes, look it up on Youtube. Something like "Liberty Prime best speeches" should do it.Trist66 said:
It's a cartoon intended for kids. I highly doubt realism was one of the artist's top priorities.maninahat said:
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.Kurokami said:
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.Soushi said:
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.
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'.
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'.