roubaixtuesday
self serving virtue signaller
"Siri, list me synonyms for curmudgeon"
The human race.
- Thread starter gavroche
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I'm also 72 and to think that that song was released when I was 15!
We all thought that then and still do!
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I remember my sister playing it at the time. (She is 71 now.)
Time Waster
Veteran
"Too late for us!"
Perhaps a good truth for the generation in positions of power when the origins of our modern society came about from the 60s onwards.
Not wishing to be all generational about it but it seems to me there's cycles where the young rebel against their older generations, become like their older generations as they work for their families and then there's a final stage coming about now where the older generation are rebelling again against what they helped set up. An example is the older stop oil campaigners. There's a fair few in their 70s.
I just wonder why people couldn't have these thoughts when it might have made a difference like the 70s when the climate change movement first came about. The young are ineffective due to no power. The old are not much better. The working age probably have the most opportunities to effect change but are probably too busy getting by and being paid.
Beebo
Firm and Fruity
- Location
- Hexleybeef
I’m in my 40s and the population has doubled in my lifetime.
Everyone is living their own best life. As an individual it is understandable that everyone wants to better themselves. But as a population it is clearly unsustainable.
The problem is who wants to volunteer to be removed from the gene pool.
Everyone is living their own best life. As an individual it is understandable that everyone wants to better themselves. But as a population it is clearly unsustainable.
The problem is who wants to volunteer to be removed from the gene pool.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
ME!
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Do you get a finish medal?
AndyRM
XOXO
- Location
- North Shields
Sure, as a species we have flaws. But also greatnesses which are to be celebrated, admired and cherished.
I reckon on balance, the good outweighs the bad.
I reckon on balance, the good outweighs the bad.
Cycleops
Legendary Member
- Location
- Accra, Ghana
1965. When you look at the events around that time it's hardly surprising. The Info Pakistan war had started and the cold war was at its height with the fear of Russia and it's arsenal of nuclear missiles.
Cycleops
Legendary Member
- Location
- Accra, Ghana
That might apply to Putin and his mates but don't tar us all with the same brush.
DCBassman
Guru
- Location
- The lumpy far South West
I'm thinking your balance needs its calibration checked...
There is an urgent need to reduce humanity by around, or maybe at least, 50%, and then stop us going above that ever again. Faced with that need, THEN we see our true colors. It will not be pretty.
Brandane
Legendary Member
- Location
- Costa Clyde
In 1900, the world population was less than 2 billion. So it has quadrupled in 120 years. Completely unsustainable to anyone who doesn't have their head completely buried in the sand. Yes it's going to peak and then slowly fall, but not until it reaches about 12 billion. Unless of course something happens in the meantime to decimate the population.
