The world is burning down... So what are you up to?

[Tropposurfer]

21 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

What are you smoking? Google tells us 53 million died in WW2.

it was more like 90 million, if the Russian deaths are reported in the total figure.

[bob smith]

1 hour ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Isn't all that non-factual stuff called trolling?

you in the mood for an argument again, Lou?

 

Have you tried contacting this lot? 

 

 

[RocketDog]

16 hours ago, Adumbration said:

Jeesuz wept the fake content on this forum has sunk to new lows.

I second that.

This edition of AN is rank with navel gazing by the usual suspects.

It's all good though. It helps me wean off the site entirely. There is seldom anything of interest here now.

[brianthainess]

 

17 hours ago, bob smith said:

up yours sobriety, when the world is engulfed in flames theres nothing like an ice cold beer to cool you down 

Edited 17 hours ago by bob smith

Like the beginning of hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy

 

[Trippy]

14 hours ago, stoner said:

moving to phuket and providing what will be among the best quality on the island. 

Wish you'd do that in Pattaya instead, and offer free delivery. 

[BritManToo]

17 hours ago, bob smith said:

so the world is all chocolate and roses then?

 

am I missing something? are you an Eloi?

We're all old, the world doesn't matter to us anymore.

[TheFishman1]

Holy guacamole’s this sky  is falling I tend not to worry about stuff that I have no control over. I just enjoy life. Life is good TIT

[bignok]

World is better than 80 years ago

[2baht]

2 minutes ago, bignok said:

World is better than 80 years ago

You'd have been fairly young then, bigbird? Glad you remember it! 

[kevin612]

It could be the beginning of ww3. And then ww4, we fight with spears and swords again. Human destroys human.

[bignok]

Just now, kevin612 said:

It could be the beginning of ww3. And then ww4, we fight with spears and swords again. Human destroys human.

Sounds good

[Red Forever]

19 hours ago, bob smith said:

I firmly believe that we are witnessing the beginning of the end.

 

The world has gone completely mad

it could be the beginning of ww3

global warming is off the charts

everyone is on edge

people are hostile

 

but the beer is cold.

 

up yours sobriety, when the world is engulfed in flames theres nothing like an ice cold beer to cool you down 

Wise words Bob.

[bignok]

Buy shares in bomb shelters like the 1960s 555

[daveAustin]

17 hours ago, VocalNeal said:

Global warming is not off the charts. The planet has been much warmer before.????

CO2 is what plants use for growth. They, and very other species on Earth, cannot survive without it.

 

The rest of the world's lunacy I agree with.  

lol and they will die with too much of it. I hear Venus is nice this time of year. 

[Srikcir]

Moving the lawn, picking my fruit, going to the movies, cooking my favorite meals, staying in touch with my chikdren, grand children and great grand children, and much more. 

[BritManToo]

1 hour ago, bignok said:

World is better than 80 years ago

Agree,

80 years back, no internet, no free TV/music/movies/books, no easy worldwide instant communications, and just the radio and records for entertainment.

Now is the best time ever for us old folks with pensions and living in Thailand.

[Bangel72]

Reminder to self, when you buy some beer on way home tonight pick up some tinfoil, watch youtube crafting guide, make said tinfoil hat, place on head and enjoy cool beer.

[sammieuk1]

My biggest fear is the dip in my sofa is expanding and the 12 hour twitter x ban I got yesterday for a comment about Trump that was deemed hate speech however that was even possible ????

[Walker88]

5 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Don't forget the vegetable in the Whitehouse also has his geriatric finger on the red button.

Yes, the guy who got UE back down from trump's disaster of 6.8%, got the economy out of the trump Recession, forged a bipartisan infrastructure Bill (rather than announce endless "Infrastructure Weeks" that never happened, as trump spent 300+ days and $170,000,000 of Taxpayer money playing golf), engineered the NATO effort to stand against russian aggression in Ukraine, negotiated a drop in prescription drug prices, cut $350 billion in FY2021from trump's last year deficit and $1.3 trillion in FY2022.....we should all be so geriatric.

 

Bloated fatboy trump, the convicted sex offender, convicted charity fraudster, guilty business fraudster, twice impeached clown facing 91 felony counts for everything from trying to overthrow US democracy to stealing highly classified documents, to illegally paying off pornstars so she wouldn't announce his "not quite freakishly small, but well below average Johnson".....and now praising the support he gets from Hannibal Lecter (sic) and lambasting Forbes magazine because it removed him form its 400 list...is not exactly Mr Cognition.

 

trump thought he was John von Neumann because he said "man woman camera TV person".

[Walker88]

I think we delude ourselves or try to make us and our time 'special' by thinking the end is near and it's never been this bad.

 

Few periods in human history have been as relatively quiet as the last few decades.

 

Yes, we had Covid, but the two bouts of Plague wiped out 25% of Europe the first time and upwards of 10% the second. Genghis Khan rolled across South Asia into Europe 8 centuries ago wiping out 20% of humanity. Even in the last hundred fifty years we've had two World Wars, the Holocaust, The Great Depression, The Armenian Massacre, Stalin's purges, Mao's killing of 60 million, Cambodia of the 1970s, three major Middle East wars, Vietnam, the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.......

 

All things considered, the world is actually pretty quiet today. I can get on a plane and fly anywhere in the world today, save for over Ukraine and Israel. I'll find food and shelter wherever I go, and in most places decent medical care if I need it. We're a heck of a long way from Hobbes or Mad Max or Cormac McCarthy.

 

Relax.

[thecyclist]

21 hours ago, bob smith said:

I firmly believe that we are witnessing the beginning of the end.

 

The world has gone completely mad

it could be the beginning of ww3

global warming is off the charts

everyone is on edge

people are hostile

 

but the beer is cold.

 

up yours sobriety, when the world is engulfed in flames theres nothing like an ice cold beer to cool you down 

Kind of agree. Yes, a cold beer, and for a little while longer a nice joint 

 

[bignok]

39 minutes ago, Walker88 said:

Yes, the guy who got UE back down from trump's disaster of 6.8%, got the economy out of the trump Recession, forged a bipartisan infrastructure Bill (rather than announce endless "Infrastructure Weeks" that never happened, as trump spent 300+ days and $170,000,000 of Taxpayer money playing golf), engineered the NATO effort to stand against russian aggression in Ukraine, negotiated a drop in prescription drug prices, cut $350 billion in FY2021from trump's last year deficit and $1.3 trillion in FY2022.....we should all be so geriatric.

 

Bloated fatboy trump, the convicted sex offender, convicted charity fraudster, guilty business fraudster, twice impeached clown facing 91 felony counts for everything from trying to overthrow US democracy to stealing highly classified documents, to illegally paying off pornstars so she wouldn't announce his "not quite freakishly small, but well below average Johnson".....and now praising the support he gets from Hannibal Lecter (sic) and lambasting Forbes magazine because it removed him form its 400 list...is not exactly Mr Cognition.

 

trump thought he was John von Neumann because he said "man woman camera TV person".

Covid caused the higher unemployment plus recession.

 

You should stop posting such nonsense.

[Dexxter]

21 hours ago, bob smith said:

when the world is engulfed in flames theres nothing like an ice cold beer to cool you down

Personally, I am having a nice hot mug of delicious coffee right now while doom-scrolling all the bad news.

 

[KannikaP]

1 hour ago, Srikcir said:

Moving the lawn

I prefer to MOW it in place. 555

[Walker88]

14 minutes ago, bignok said:

Covid caused the higher unemployment plus recession.

 

You should stop posting such nonsense.

Besides the fact trump eff'd up Covid by denying its existence and doing nothing (such as banning flights from China, ramping up PPE production) until it has taken firm hold in the US, his economy was nothing special BEFORE Covid, as his GDP growth ranked in the bottom 30% going back to WWII. He also began running up record deficits even before Covid, and ended up adding almost $8 trillion in all before getting his butt kicked in 2020. THAT $8 trillion is what caused the subsequent inflation.

 

Obama's job growth dwarfed his, and Biden's job growth also beat trump. Obama's stock market was far superior to trump, too.

 

Because I call out your messiah doesn't make it nonsense. Nonsense is that trump ever did anything beneficial since his mother squirted him out.

[bignok]

1 minute ago, Walker88 said:

Besides the fact trump eff'd up Covid by denying its existence and doing nothing (such as banning flights from China, ramping up PPE production) until it has taken firm hold in the US, his economy was nothing special BEFORE Covid, as his GDP growth ranked in the bottom 30% going back to WWII. He also began running up record deficits even before Covid, and ended up adding almost $8 trillion in all before getting his butt kicked in 2020. THAT $8 trillion is what caused the subsequent inflation.

 

Obama's job growth dwarfed his, and Biden's job growth also beat trump. Obama's stock market was far superior to trump, too.

 

Because I call out your messiah doesn't make it nonsense. Nonsense is that trump ever did anything beneficial since his mother squirted him out.

This is nonsense. Private sector drives stocks plus world economy.

[Woof999]

19 hours ago, VocalNeal said:

The planet has been much warmer before.

...and how many primates were alive at the time?

[swm59nj]

Just keep boozing it up . That seems to be the cure all for many in the LOS. 

[connda]

Studying music theory.  I plan to fiddle play guitar as the world burns.

[oxo1947]

5 hours ago, Red Forever said:

Wise words Bob.

The ultimate oxymoron .................................