2 years

Pobby

I was reading today that we are " celebrating " 2 years into the credit . Doesn`t time fly!

PasturesNew

I know... and I've done bugg3r all with my life in that time... just sat and waited, thinking something would happen.

I need to move.

I need to pick a random town, move, apply for jobs.

Maybe Bristol ... anybody got somewhere nice for me to rent? Or a job?

amcluesent

End of the beginning, not the beginning of the end.

Suckers rally, another slide downwards soon enough. Don't know where the bottom is - maybe 80% off peak.

It hardly matters, as we are past peak-oil, peak-water, peak-food, all bets are off.

Next year we have to start trying to pay for Clown's bungling.

Long grim, grinding years of austerity stretch ahead. Millstone of debt. Work till you drop.

No joy, no laughter. Scrimping, getting by, pinched faces grey with exhaustion, 12-hour days, making sacrifices for the kiddies, make-do and mend, eeking out what we have, bread and dripping.

Cleaver

amcluesent wrote: »

End of the beginning, not the beginning of the end.

Suckers rally, another slide downwards soon enough. Don't know where the bottom is - maybe 80% off peak.

It hardly matters, as we are past peak-oil, peak-water, peak-food, all bets are off.

Next year we have to start trying to pay for Clown's bungling.

Long grim, grinding years of austerity stretch ahead. Millstone of debt.

No joy, no laughter. Scrimping, getting by, making sacrifices for the kiddies, make-do and mend, eeking out what we have, bread and dripping.

Au contraire mon amie. I find I get quite a bit of joy and laughter just from reading these types of posts from you.

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amcluesent wrote: »

It hardly matters, as we are past peak-oil, peak-water, peak-food, all bets are off.

I like your posts amcluesent, there are many nuggets of realism in them, like the one above. I've have just finished reading 'The Long Emergency' by James Howard Kunstler, it's possibly the hardest book I've ever read, cold hard facts are presented with chilling accuracy (the book was written in 2004).

The road ahead is going to be terribly difficult in a world where no world leader looks further than 5 years ahead (the life of a parliament), and has no policies to counter the problems that are moving inexorably towards us with every passing day.

Pobby

Cheers Am. Really cheered me up! PN, Bath is nicer!

Cleaver

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I like your posts amcluesent, there are many nuggets of realism in them, like the one above. I've have just finished reading 'The Long Emergency' by James Howard Kunstler, it's possibly the hardest book I've ever read, cold hard facts are presented with chilling accuracy (the book was written in 2004).

I read an article about that dude recently and, whilst I don't think I'd agree with him, it made me want to check out his books.

However, the atricle did point out that he thought Y2K bug would bring mass chaos, destruction of modern society and eventual disease to many (if I remember rightly). You can't get every prediction right though, hey? He sounds right up Dopester's and Amcluesent's street.

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Cleaver wrote: »

I read an article about that dude recently and, whilst I don't think I'd agree with him, it made me want to check out his books.

However, the atricle did point out that he thought Y2K bug would bring mass chaos, destruction of modern society and eventual disease to many (if I remember rightly). You can't get every prediction right though, hey? He sounds right up Dopester's and Amcluesent's street.

The book is very thought provoking Cleaver and perhaps you should check it out, I understand your point about Y2K, but some of the issues contained in the book have already come to pass since the book was published.

Cleaver

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The book is very thought provoking Cleaver and perhaps you should check it out, I understand your point about Y2K, but some of the issues contained in the book have already come to pass since the book was published.

There's a small part of me that thinks that if all of these end of days predictions come true, I'd prefer to spend the next 25 years going on holiday, enjoying life in general and not spend my time either reading books about it or really giving it much concern, as there's nowt I can do about it anyway.

I might give it a read though. Hey, if you want to send it my way, feel free and I'll try and send you something interesting in the other direction.

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Cleaver wrote: »

There's a small part of me that thinks that if all of these end of days predictions come true, I'd prefer to spend the next 25 years going on holiday, enjoying life in general and not spend my time either reading books

You certainly have a point there. My interest was sparked about six years ago when I read an article in the paper. The problem is once you've read it you 'can't put the genie back in the bottle and unread it'. I think about the issues quite a lot and see our world in a different way than others because of it.

So perhaps I should withdraw my remark of telling you to read it.:D Enjoy life and don't read doom, especially doom that has a high chance of becoming the future.

julieq

Jevon's classic "The Coal Question" made many similar prophecies.

You may be able to find a copy in an antiquarian bookshop, it being written in 1865.