Wandering Off Topic

[barrier]

And our lives are so heavily dependant on electricity & gas theses days that there's no going back.

The oil runs out in the next hundred years, no one wants Nuclear, renewables are inefficient, what are we going to do?

I reckon we made a mistake ever climbing down from the trees & walking upright tbh.

Yep this mobile will want some trickery to charge later  even my lamp will need it.

[G-Unit]

Such people are a hindrance to capitalism.
We should be encouraging filling the country with a healthy, able bodied workforce & eradicating illnesses & disabled people.
They are a drain on resources & we shouldn't be encouraging them to breed or breathe.
There should be a disability island somewhere where they could all be dropped off & never worried about again.

Jacob Rees Johnson.
Conservative minister for the department of Work and pensions.

Capitalism rests on the assumption that human beings always act in their own interests. They wotk hard to look after themselves and their families. Those who did well opposed calls for an end to child labour, a reasonable working day, decent pay and trades unions. Concessions were made, but reluctantly. Thatcher epitomised the face of capitalism; withdrawing free school milk, imposing a poll tax and smashing the miner's unions. Then she sold our assets. Make no mistake; when the going gets tough those with money and power will take care of number one.

[Mr Gray]

And our lives are so heavily dependant on electricity & gas theses days that there's no going back.

The oil runs out in the next hundred years, no one wants Nuclear, renewables are inefficient, what are we going to do?

I reckon we made a mistake ever climbing down from the trees & walking upright tbh.

Nuclear Fusion..clean nuclear energy.. Dig a hole 30k down and tap into an almost inexhaustible heat source to boil water to drive turbines.. And there's more

[Wonderfulspam]

Yep this mobile will want some trickery to charge later  even my lamp will need it.

Nobody thought this through.

I had a roughly 8 hour power cut at my house during the storm a few weeks ago.

Without the internet, can't bank, buy, pay bills, do anything.

If every shop & home in town had a long term power outage & nobody had cash anymore, only a chip & pin, then what?

[Vertigo Swirl]

Empathy doesn't pay people's bills - in fact it achieves nothing. Actions make a difference so what do you do to help the poor?

I do what I can, when I can.  A lack of empathy is a defining characteristic of the present government imo (and just look at their performance), therefore I think you are quite wrong to say empathy achieves nothing. 

[Vertigo Swirl]

Is that it?  Good God.   Sexually Abuse small children.  This is a disgrace.  And not a word from any of you.

What, what?

[Wonderfulspam]

I am so offended that I can't even think.  If John is so hot on the spot then he should have seen this.  But apparently not.  John only sees what he wants to see.

No wonder that I don't want to be a Moderator anymore.

Oh get a sense of humour.

I very obviously wasn't being serious ffs.

[Mr Gray]

Capitalism rests on the assumption that human beings always act in their own interests. They wotk hard to look after themselves and their families. Those who did well opposed calls for an end to child labour, a reasonable working day, decent pay and trades unions. Concessions were made, but reluctantly. Thatcher epitomised the face of capitalism; withdrawing free school milk, imposing a poll tax and smashing the miner's unions. Then she sold our assets. Make no mistake; when the going gets tough those with money and power will take care of number one.

Unfortunately socialism works on caring about those less fortunate.. But as we see on this forum its looked upon with derision that we should sympathise with the McCanns whom we've never met. That's why socialism/communism can't work.. Because whether you have a capitalist or socialist society a lot of people care only about themselves.. Not a lot of difference

[Vertigo Swirl]

Capitalism rests on the assumption that human beings always act in their own interests. They wotk hard to look after themselves and their families. Those who did well opposed calls for an end to child labour, a reasonable working day, decent pay and trades unions. Concessions were made, but reluctantly. Thatcher epitomised the face of capitalism; withdrawing free school milk, imposing a poll tax and smashing the miner's unions. Then she sold our assets. Make no mistake; when the going gets tough those with money and power will take care of number one.

You’ve pretty much summed up where a lack of empathy will get you IMO.  I can’t work out if you admire what you have described or are critical of it tbh.

[Wonderfulspam]

Unfortunately socialism works on caring about those less fortunate.. But as we see on this forum its looked upon with derision that we should sympathise with the McCanns whom we've never met. That's why socialism/communism can't work.. Because whether you have a capitalist or socialist society a lot of people care only about themselves.. Not a lot of difference

Can't get rid of corruption in any system imo.

All the socialist leaders are fantastically wealthy while their people have to eat their pets.

[Eleanor]

Capitalism rests on the assumption that human beings always act in their own interests. They wotk hard to look after themselves and their families. Those who did well opposed calls for an end to child labour, a reasonable working day, decent pay and trades unions. Concessions were made, but reluctantly. Thatcher epitomised the face of capitalism; withdrawing free school milk, imposing a poll tax and smashing the miner's unions. Then she sold our assets. Make no mistake; when the going gets tough those with money and power will take care of number one.

I had more less the same life style a you did, although my time without my husband was always much longer than yours.  Two years away at sea was normal for me.

Meanwhile who the hell do you think you were with your privileges?  You wouldn't understand normal people anymore than I could have done.

[Eleanor]

Oh get a sense of humour.

I very obviously wasn't being serious ffs.

Oh Really.  Even in fun you are disgusting.

[Wonderfulspam]

Oh Really.  Even in fun you are disgusting.

I'm a realist.

The world isn't a nice place, you can either try & see the funny side or just be miserable.

I tend to combine the two, gallows humour.

[Eleanor]

I'm a realist.

The world isn't a nice place, you can either try & see the funny side or just be miserable.

I tend to combine the two, gallows humour.

You wouldn't understand realism if it smacked you in the gob.  There is nothing even remotely funny about sexually abusing small children.

Personally, I think you only wish to shock for some abhorrent reason known only to you.

But if you have a real problem then my PM is always open for you.

[Wonderfulspam]

I remember reading about Colonel Gadaffi years ago.

He used Libya's oil reserves to bring the country to zero debt.

They had free education & healthcare, if you wanted to start a farm you'd be supplied with the land & materials to do so, gas prices were almost non existent, plenty of food etc etc.

But unfortunately for Libyan's, he wanted to stop trading his oil in U.S dollars, so Obama had to take him out, like they did with Saddam.