Preparedness for when

GreyQueen

Perhaps there should be careful screening of people as they grow up to weed out those with political tendancies before they can properly get going.

I wouldn't worry too much about a lot of things predicted for the near future as they're unlikely to come to pass for several reasons. The obvious ones to me are things like running out of oil and running out of working antibiotics which will make many surgeries impossible.

There is also the tendancy of human beings to use technology for things which were never anticipated. Such as t'interweb growing out of the military industrial complex and being used to pick squabbles with strangers in other countries, play shoot 'em up games, admire stranger's cupboard organisation/ makeup techniques and the size of KK's arris.

I am so glad I'm not on FaceF@rt when I hear about all the passive-aggessive carryons in families and friendship groups and a level of interaction which makes the average primary school playground look advanced.

Not having a telly stops me getting bent out of shape by a lot of things. I am now going off to archery class to practise a skill which has been obsolete for centuries - still bliddy good fun, tho.

Laters, GQ x

jk0

mardatha wrote: »

I absolutely love lab and would eat it 5 days a week if I could afford it.

Poor doggy.

nuatha

GreyQueen wrote: »

Perhaps there should be careful screening of people as they grow up to weed out those with political tendancies before they can properly get going.

Euthanasia - a true mercy killing, it would be killing out of kindness to those left behind.
Certainly there should be a method of preventing those who seek power over others from gaining it. (I then pity the poor sod who ends up with a job they really didn't want. Though modern tech should actually make democracy feasible for the first time in history)

I wouldn't worry too much about a lot of things predicted for the near future as they're unlikely to come to pass for several reasons. The obvious ones to me are things like running out of oil and running out of working antibiotics which will make many surgeries impossible.

At first read I thought you were casting doubt on oil running out and usable antibiotics. I realise that you meant they would prevent some of the predicted disasters.
Though I suspect they will also cause global civil unrest and act as a catalyst for mass migration on a scale even Farage has never predicted.

There is also the tendancy of human beings to use technology for things which were never anticipated. Such as t'interweb growing out of the military industrial complex and being used to pick squabbles with strangers in other countries, play shoot 'em up games, admire stranger's cupboard organisation/ makeup techniques and the size of KK's arris.

I am so glad I'm not on FaceF@rt when I hear about all the passive-aggessive carryons in families and friendship groups and a level of interaction which makes the average primary school playground look advanced.

Having started to use Facebook a few years back as the most effective method of keeping in touch with some friends in different time zones. I'm no find it useful to find out what's happening in my area, am a member of a group which functions as a freecycle group (without the !!!!!ing and politics of the local mailing list versions) and a group which organises various craft and educational groups by skill sharing. I don't see the !!!!!fests that I hear complaints about, possibly because my friends list is restricted to people I know in real life and am happy to spend time with.

Not having a telly stops me getting bent out of shape by a lot of things. I am now going off to archery class to practise a skill which has been obsolete for centuries - still bliddy good fun, tho.

Laters, GQ x

Enjoy firing sharp pointy things, I could suggest a growing list of targets for you. (After you've run out of your own and shortened my list in the process).

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GreyQueen wrote: »

So that's what happens Ooop North on those cold winter nights

Actually more middling and very West.

armyknife

nuatha wrote: »

I'd be sorely tempted to advertise it as the ultimate luxury getaway and sell tickets to all the people poisoning this planet, then slam the door on them while they're gone. (Having made sure the getaway world had some serious predators to ensure zero survival)

That would be all of us then.

milasavesmoney

My daddy spent WWII in China. When the Pacific war ended, he spent three months coming home on a transit ship. They had mutton three meals a day for three months. He said when he finally got home, if he saw sheep in a field his stomach would lurch and he'd become instantly ill. He never did like sheep after that, little on mutton.

Perplexed_Pineapple

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

I listened to the morning news today with an increasing sense of horror, we started with FRACKING in Yorkshire which has been given the go ahead despite over 4,000 objections according to the news 36 people were in favour, it was followed by an item on PIG CORNEAS being transplanted into humans in China to cure blindness and shortly after that by an item saying that GM CROPS were being reviewed with a view to their being grown in the UK as it is now found that GM is not dangerous to humanity or the environment, this followed by a pleading message from the Tunisian government saying why it's a 'safe' place now, they're eliminating terrorist cells once a week and we should all go back there for our holidays!!!

Today feels like a turning point, a pivotal day perhaps when common sense and values have been reviewed and found wanting by those powerful entities who value the money we spend and their profits over the good and health of the country, land and populace. Perhaps of all the days I have been alive today is the day when the prepping and that mindset begins to be a necessity and not an indulgence, God help us all!!!

I can't agree with your concern about the pig corneas, MrsLW. They have been using bits of pig to transplant into people for years - heart valves for example. It's medical technology that helps people live and see and it doesn't seem likely to precipitate armageddon. Fracking, I do think we should be looking elsewhere for our energy supplies. The UK is way behind most countries in renewables:
http://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_medium/public/thumbnails/image/2016/05/24/20/renewables2.jpg

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Not necessarily concern but the thought of where it might lead in the future and I'm aware that it might also lead to new and better lives for many folks so I'm not quite the Luddite that it might appear from my initial post. I wish I had the faith in humanity that would lead me to think that applications of science in animal-human transplant would ALWAYS be to the benefit of humans but I don't and the idea of animals being bred purely to harvest their useable bits and pieces, which is where it MIGHT lead is as unacceptable to me as breeding animals purely for their fur. Just MY opinion and by no means the only one.

PP what's your take on GM crops?

thriftwizard

milasavesmoney wrote: »

My daddy spent WWII in China. When the Pacific war ended, he spent three months coming home on a transit ship. They had mutton three meals a day for three months. He said when he finally got home, if he saw sheep in a field his stomach would lurch and he'd become instantly ill. He never did like sheep after that, little on mutton.

One of my fellow-traders was born into a "self-sufficient" household that lurched from one disaster to another. The result is that she cannot bear to eat eggs, or anything with eggs in, as quite often they were the only food they had, day in, day out - eggs for breakfast, lunch & tea! Her parents didn't "believe" in bartering (luckily, mine did) her mother was not an adventurous cook, and her father never really got the hang of vegetable growing although they were vegetarian... Even the smell of eggs makes her nauseous!

I couldn't help a shudder of there-but-for-the-grace-of-God-go-I recognition when she was telling me this; luckily my Dad, who earned very little & had to keep up appearances in a big house & garden with what he did earn, was good at growing veg & fruit for our own consumption. Also he bartered; he raised (or at least, our bantams raised) boxes of day-old chicks and the cockerels went to the butcher at a certain age; a few would come back each time for the freezer, usually along with a leg of lamb and a few nice cuts from one of our "uncle's" (the churchwarden) steers or pigs. Curiously, a number of pheasants also appeared from time to time, and Dad was a great fisherman; many a happy hour was spent down at the reservoir or further up the river. We sold eggs at the gate, which raised money for the things Mum & Dad couldn't or wouldn't do; mind you, down in the far rural West Country, there wasn't all that much available to buy anyway, in the way of cutting-edge fashion or modern furniture!

I suspect those who tried to be totally self-sufficient, existing solely on their own resources, are missing the same points as milasavesmoney's father's quartermasters; man does not live by bread (or mutton, or eggs) alone, and no man is an island. We do better when we can pool resources & knowledge, and when we can eat as widely as possible from what's available to us. I've been reading the "Good Fat/Bad Fat" thread so you'll have to forgive me a bit of wandering off-thread as I can see that one developing a bit of a FB-style "oh yes it is/oh no it isn't" ish-ness! But FB too is a tool, and can be very useful for keeping in touch with friends far away or up to date with news; I wouldn't expect daily phone calls from my friends in the US or NZ, nor they from me, and I'd never get round to writing all those letters I'd like to, but we do at least feel we're in touch.

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For me the most beneficial and useful technical development in years is the ability to SKYPE. If in my youth someone had told me I'd in 2016 be able to sit at a screen and have a telephone conversation with live instant moving pictures I'd have laughed and said 'Science Fiction' don't be ridiculous! It IS the best thing since sliced bread as far as I'm concerned!