Quote: chipolata @ July 31 2008, 3:58 PM BSTLogan's Run's great. Very racy, and you get to see Jenny Augutter completely naked. Again.
Not on the last channel 4 screening you didn't! At the right moment they brought in a commercial break, and resumed after it had happened. Er, so I'm told. *Cough*
Quote: DaButt @ August 1 2008, 1:46 PM BST
Yaaay!!! My faith was well placed (phew)
Quote: Gavin @ August 1 2008, 1:48 PM BSTIf only the middle east was that easy to solve lol
Quote: Griff @ July 31 2008, 2:18 PM BSTI'm now worrying whether I should have written "over-30's" with an apostrophe.
No.
Quote: PhQnix @ July 31 2008, 2:24 PM BST"30s" is Hitler's personal preference.
Then he wasn't all bad, was he? Still, the vegetarianism is pretty damning.
Quote: PhQnix @ July 31 2008, 2:33 PM BSTIt's not the OED which moderates this board so angrily though.
Damn straight.
Quote: Frankie Rage @ July 31 2008, 9:15 PM BSTI am not against the Chinese as a nation by the way. I like fish and chips as much as anyone!
I'm going to assume that Chinkies run your chippy then.
Quote: DaButt @ July 31 2008, 9:17 PM BSTIndia is China's only partner in the billion population club.
Are those real billions, or American billions?
Quote: sootyj @ July 31 2008, 11:46 PM BSTI'm a social worker (sort of) do you mistrust my judgement on matters of life and death?
Anyone who trusts your judgement on anything should be locked up for their own safety.
Quote: ian_w @ July 31 2008, 11:52 PM BSTThis is like some extreme capitalism.
...?
Quote: ian_w @ August 1 2008, 12:02 AM BSTThen for God's sake let's do it before Aaron gets back off holiday!
You'll be going straight to the top of my "population lessening" list. 
Quote: DaButt @ August 1 2008, 12:03 AM BSTI think people are losing touch with the importance of working hard and taking responsibility for one's actions.
That's what you get with lefty types. No sense of responsibility, relying on the state and others, etc etc etc...
Quote: roscoff @ August 1 2008, 12:16 AM BSTThey have no moral guidelines or idea of consequences. They do know how to fiddle the social though.
Exactly.
Quote: Griff @ August 1 2008, 12:26 AM BSTCome to think of it, yes I do hate social workers.
But not comedy-writing ones!
So you hate sootyj then.
Quote: Frankie Rage @ August 1 2008, 12:34 AM BSTGriff: So if I have the kids and they starve/freeze to death on the street due to lack of benefits, that's OK is it?
Your kids? Less ok, more ideal. 
Quote: sootyj @ August 1 2008, 1:07 AM BSTIt's this dernaged Labour obsessions with endless exams, and every one going to UNI.
Why are you suddenly saying sensible things this week? 
Quote: sootyj @ August 1 2008, 1:10 AM BSTBrown has a nasty habit of producing guidelines, and plans with no money, and saying it's already there.
It isn't.
And then reannouncing it in 8 months time, adjusting the figures to account for the lastest inflation levels, and proclaiming it to be a shining example of 'New' Labour innovation and social progression.
Quote: DaButt @ July 31 2008, 5:45 PM BSTBut I *am* in favor of getting rid of all the stupid people. That should give us all a little breathing room.
But then who would serve and slave to the intellectuals?
Quote: Frankie Rage @ August 1 2008, 1:47 AM BSTOnce a woman is past 25 they can only get older men anyway!
Pfft. Rubbish!
Well, older men or Aaron then!
Fx
A lot of interesting theories, opinions and proposals discussed in this thread. Ultimately, arbitrary state-imposed regulation is not the answer to ANY problem, certainly not of this nature. Individuals must take more responsibility for themselves and not expect the state to give them everything. A nice big overhaul of the benefits system in this country alone would be a great place to start.
Amen to that! 
Very well said.
Long ago in a far distant discussion board I came up with a (theoretical) solution to the population expansion problem.
Get the chemists (or gene splicers) to come up with a drug which makes children grow up only on average 63% as tall as the parents. Their average weight will then (if I got the maths right) be only half of what their parents weigh.
Ensure this drug cannot be avoided (put it in all the worlds water supplies).
Since (roughly) the population doubles with each generation, this little exercise will mean that though the population doubles, the actual mass (weight) of humanity remains constant and individual food requirements are halved. So total food requirement stays at current level.
As the generations go by we get ickle tiny human beings, and you can fit an awful lot of those on the Earth.
I envisage converting old abandoned 'Giant' cars into towns of (and later cities of) itsy bitsy teeney weeney human beings.
It makes great settings for Science Fiction stories. Wars with ants etc.
Well what do you all think?
I think you're a mental.
Quote: billwill @ August 3 2008, 2:42 PM BSTGet the chemists (or gene splicers) to come up with a drug which makes children grow up only on average 63% as tall as the parents.
I'm already enough in danger of being eaten by ants. It'd be interesting to shrink to nanoscale though, when it all goes funkeeeh.
I'm going to have nightmares tonight.
Nightmares about uber-super-efficiency and the struggles of making things that small?
P.S. Almost at 400!
Quote: billwill @ August 3 2008, 2:42 PM BSTAs the generations go by we get ickle tiny human beings, and you can fit an awful lot of those on the Earth.
It would seem that snakes are way ahead of us: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7537932.stm
Quote: Aaron @ August 3 2008, 2:49 PM BSTNightmares about uber-super-efficiency?
If there's any über-super-efficiency near me, I'm most certainly counterbalancing it.
That means I'm the nightmare of everything über-super-efficient...
Quote: DaButt @ August 3 2008, 2:53 PM BSTIt would seem that snakes are way ahead of us: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7537932.stm
Very smart. They're just sitting there waiting for us to shrink to their size.
Quote: Finck @ August 3 2008, 2:56 PM BSTIf there's any über-super-efficiency near me, I'm most certainly counterbalancing it.
My curious nature gets the better of me. What do you look likeeeeeeeeeeee?
Quote: Aaron @ August 3 2008, 2:59 PM BSTMy curious nature gets the better of me. What do you look likeeeeeeeeeeee?
Who Me?
