Everytime I think the of the current population of the earth, man, it's doubled since I was in third grade. That's bittersweet shit! And of course it'll just keep growing....things like this, I think about sharing them with my kids someday and make a long mental sigh. "We used to pick asparagus by the ditch and huckleberries by the woods of our house...now these things cost more than top sirloin." Oh boy. My future.
― Abbott, Friday, 19 October 2007 18:40 (nineteen years ago)
haha no it won't keep growing much more
― El Tomboto, Friday, 19 October 2007 18:41 (nineteen years ago)
see we have these things called the four horsemen
i was thinking about this in the shower today...
― stevie, Friday, 19 October 2007 18:42 (nineteen years ago)
NO, millenarian thinking is what's ruining our society and world! If you think the end's coming around the corner, you are so painfully, foolishly wrong. (NB t-bot I doubt you really think the moon's gonna turn to blood & 1/3 of the rivers will turn to wormwood.)
― Abbott, Friday, 19 October 2007 18:44 (nineteen years ago)
no I just think there's no way we can sustain 7 billion without our fair share of catastrophic public health consequences and significant casualties as a result
― El Tomboto, Friday, 19 October 2007 18:46 (nineteen years ago)
famine, plague, etc. and war but nobody will let us get an accurate body count on those any more
Well, yeah, that's a different matter. I remember reading Mormon church magazine as a wee lass, which said the earth could sustain 21 billion. How they came up with that statistic...wtf.
― Abbott, Friday, 19 October 2007 18:47 (nineteen years ago)
time to move to the moon
― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 19 October 2007 18:47 (nineteen years ago)
NO I HATE THE MOON BASE TOO!
― Abbott, Friday, 19 October 2007 18:48 (nineteen years ago)
It wouyldn't be any fun on the moon, I mean, the place has no atmosphere.
If I'm going to have any children to share nostalgia with it'll be along the lines of "back in the 1980s and 1990s, there were a few things that actually weren't going too badly, and did you know the internet used to not be all porn and snuff clips"
― El Tomboto, Friday, 19 October 2007 18:49 (nineteen years ago)
Yeah, that's something I think about too..."you know, the internet used to be reallllllly slow, but it was new so just watching your first gif depixilate was an exciting new thing."
― Abbott, Friday, 19 October 2007 18:51 (nineteen years ago)
"video games used to be hard"
― El Tomboto, Friday, 19 October 2007 19:04 (nineteen years ago)
"for me"
"They didn't used to have this much coffee."
― Abbott, Friday, 19 October 2007 19:05 (nineteen years ago)
So this thread is for practicing being old, then.
― Kerm, Friday, 19 October 2007 19:53 (nineteen years ago)
"Lik a maid only had one candy stick when i was growing up."
― Mr. Que, Friday, 19 October 2007 19:55 (nineteen years ago)