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By *tr8MrE OP   Man
21 weeks ago

somewhere near Sheffield

But honestly who do we really point the finger at?

The government? (Are they really at fault for what's lead to this point)

The monarchy?

Social Media?

Us?

So, without naming blame what's the first rule you'd introduce to MBGA

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By *eoBloomsMan
21 weeks ago

Springfield

This might fare better on the Politics section OP ? 🤞

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By *luebell888Woman
21 weeks ago

Glasgowish

Drugs

Politics

Religion

Social media all play a big part.

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By *tr8MrE OP   Man
21 weeks ago

somewhere near Sheffield


"This might fare better on the Politics section OP ? 🤞"

Don't worry, I'm waiting for it to get bumped there....give it 5 mins

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By *eoBloomsMan
21 weeks ago

Springfield


"This might fare better on the Politics section OP ? 🤞

Don't worry, I'm waiting for it to get bumped there....give it 5 mins "

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By *elloWoman
21 weeks ago

alpha centauri

People !

People are the problem.

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By *lan157Man
21 weeks ago

a village near Haywards Heath in East Sussex

Organised crime , Scammers and those who seek to steal using online techniques

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By *tr8MrE OP   Man
21 weeks ago

somewhere near Sheffield


"People !

People are the problem."

I wouldn't disagree it's an "Us" thing

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By *ealitybitesMan
21 weeks ago

Belfast

So when was the last time Britain was Great?

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
21 weeks ago

North West


"So when was the last time Britain was Great?"

Never

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By *luebell888Woman
21 weeks ago

Glasgowish


"People !

People are the problem."

But why?. The world has always had people in it but things are so much worse these days. What makes people act the way they do?.

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By *tr8MrE OP   Man
21 weeks ago

somewhere near Sheffield


"Organised crime , Scammers and those who seek to steal using online techniques "

We've had organised crime for decades, and scams to a degree isn't a new world crime it's just evolved since the arrival of the internet

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By *eoBloomsMan
21 weeks ago

Springfield


"So when was the last time Britain was Great?"

Its always been Great, it literally says so on my passport.

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
21 weeks ago

North West


"People !

People are the problem.

But why?. The world has always had people in it but things are so much worse these days. What makes people act the way they do?."

The world has always been variously shit. I doubt your territory being overrun by the Mongols was pleasant. Nor contracting bubonic plague or being bombed to smithereens in 1940s London. Different eras just have different shit.

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By *tr8MrE OP   Man
21 weeks ago

somewhere near Sheffield


"So when was the last time Britain was Great?"

It's a tongue in cheek reference to MAGA in our lifetime it hasn't

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By *tr8MrE OP   Man
21 weeks ago

somewhere near Sheffield


"So when was the last time Britain was Great?

Its always been Great, it literally says so on my passport."

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By *ealitybitesMan
21 weeks ago

Belfast


"So when was the last time Britain was Great?

It's a tongue in cheek reference to MAGA in our lifetime it hasn't "

I know what the reference was but it was a genuine question because I've never seen any evidence of it and the world really isn't any more troubled than it has been in previous generations.

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By *obyn GravesTV/TS
21 weeks ago

1127 walnut avenue

Trannies...I blame trannies.. these blokes dressing up in women's clothes they've caused the downfall of society..

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By *rHotNottsMan
21 weeks ago

Dubai & Nottingham

What troubles? If you take the long view things are actually a lot better and they have ever been - there are less wars, and the wars that there are have a fractional number of casualties, there is pretty much zero famine anymore and when there is the risk of one aid gets there to prevent people dying from starvation, we’ve actually gone the other way and more people die from eating too much food and too little, we have solved many of the biggest killing diseases, and each time we solve one it gets solved faster, HIV/AIDS and Covid being recent examples of how quick cures or vaccines are produced. There is less crime, more access to education and generally living standards are much higher than they have ever been in history.

Maybe you should be asking what is it? We are doing that is so successful and how can we do even more of it?

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By *bitofaslutWoman
21 weeks ago

Cannock


"People !

People are the problem."

On their own, most people are fine.

Together, we're fucking idiots

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By (user no longer on site)
21 weeks ago

Teach morality as a science.

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
21 weeks ago

North West


"What troubles? If you take the long view things are actually a lot better and they have ever been - there are less wars, and the wars that there are have a fractional number of casualties, there is pretty much zero famine anymore and when there is the risk of one aid gets there to prevent people dying from starvation, we’ve actually gone the other way and more people die from eating too much food and too little, we have solved many of the biggest killing diseases, and each time we solve one it gets solved faster, HIV/AIDS and Covid being recent examples of how quick cures or vaccines are produced. There is less crime, more access to education and generally living standards are much higher than they have ever been in history.

Maybe you should be asking what is it? We are doing that is so successful and how can we do even more of it?"

The stats do not support the assertion that starvation is "pretty much zero". The numbers have been going up, not down.

From the WHO, 2024:

"Around 733 million people faced hunger in 2023, equivalent to one in eleven people globally and one in five in Africa, according to the latest State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report published today by five United Nations specialized agencies.

The annual report, launched this year in the context of the G20 Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty Task Force Ministerial Meeting in Brazil, warns that the world is falling significantly short of achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2, Zero Hunger, by 2030. The report shows that the world has been set back 15 years, with levels of undernourishment comparable to those in 2008-2009.

Despite some progress in specific areas such as stunting and exclusive breastfeeding, an alarming number of people continue to face food insecurity and malnutrition as global hunger levels have plateaued for three consecutive years, with between 713 and 757 million people undernourished in 2023—approximately 152 million more than in 2019 when considering the mid-range (733 million)."

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By *bi HaiveMan
21 weeks ago

Cheeseville, Somerset

To be honest....I've never been one to feel any need to make the place I live 'great'.

I'm here purely through chance because my parents lived here. Like anyone on the planet it's just chance where you're born.

I've never had any issues living in the UK. There's been good times and bad times. I could quite happily move to another country tomorrow and not feel any sense of loss of identity. I'd still be me.

The whole 'patriotism' thing has never sat well with me. I've seen too many people in too many countries over the years defend their country just 'because', regardless of what state it was in, what the government at the time was doing or what some of the population believed about others in their country or those abroad.

And personally I've no plans to move this to the politics forum unless is gets all political. So far as I see it, it's a conversation about the country, which doesn't have to go down that road. 🤷‍♂️

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By *tr8MrE OP   Man
21 weeks ago

somewhere near Sheffield


"What troubles? If you take the long view things are actually a lot better and they have ever been - there are less wars, and the wars that there are have a fractional number of casualties, there is pretty much zero famine anymore and when there is the risk of one aid gets there to prevent people dying from starvation, we’ve actually gone the other way and more people die from eating too much food and too little, we have solved many of the biggest killing diseases, and each time we solve one it gets solved faster, HIV/AIDS and Covid being recent examples of how quick cures or vaccines are produced. There is less crime, more access to education and generally living standards are much higher than they have ever been in history.

Maybe you should be asking what is it? We are doing that is so successful and how can we do even more of it?

The stats do not support the assertion that starvation is "pretty much zero". The numbers have been going up, not down.

From the WHO, 2024:

"Around 733 million people faced hunger in 2023, equivalent to one in eleven people globally and one in five in Africa, according to the latest State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report published today by five United Nations specialized agencies.

The annual report, launched this year in the context of the G20 Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty Task Force Ministerial Meeting in Brazil, warns that the world is falling significantly short of achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2, Zero Hunger, by 2030. The report shows that the world has been set back 15 years, with levels of undernourishment comparable to those in 2008-2009.

Despite some progress in specific areas such as stunting and exclusive breastfeeding, an alarming number of people continue to face food insecurity and malnutrition as global hunger levels have plateaued for three consecutive years, with between 713 and 757 million people undernourished in 2023—approximately 152 million more than in 2019 when considering the mid-range (733 million).""

Guess we should be opening more food banks then

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By *elloWoman
21 weeks ago

alpha centauri


"People !

People are the problem.

But why?. The world has always had people in it but things are so much worse these days. What makes people act the way they do?."

The world has always had people in it?

Has it ?

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By *tr8MrE OP   Man
21 weeks ago

somewhere near Sheffield


"People !

People are the problem.

But why?. The world has always had people in it but things are so much worse these days. What makes people act the way they do?.

The world has always had people in it?

Has it ? "

Dinosaurs definitely would disagree

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By *rHotNottsMan
21 weeks ago

Dubai & Nottingham


"What troubles? If you take the long view things are actually a lot better and they have ever been - there are less wars, and the wars that there are have a fractional number of casualties, there is pretty much zero famine anymore and when there is the risk of one aid gets there to prevent people dying from starvation, we’ve actually gone the other way and more people die from eating too much food and too little, we have solved many of the biggest killing diseases, and each time we solve one it gets solved faster, HIV/AIDS and Covid being recent examples of how quick cures or vaccines are produced. There is less crime, more access to education and generally living standards are much higher than they have ever been in history.

Maybe you should be asking what is it? We are doing that is so successful and how can we do even more of it?

The stats do not support the assertion that starvation is "pretty much zero". The numbers have been going up, not down.

From the WHO, 2024:

"Around 733 million people faced hunger in 2023, equivalent to one in eleven people globally and one in five in Africa, according to the latest State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report published today by five United Nations specialized agencies.

The annual report, launched this year in the context of the G20 Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty Task Force Ministerial Meeting in Brazil, warns that the world is falling significantly short of achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2, Zero Hunger, by 2030. The report shows that the world has been set back 15 years, with levels of undernourishment comparable to those in 2008-2009.

Despite some progress in specific areas such as stunting and exclusive breastfeeding, an alarming number of people continue to face food insecurity and malnutrition as global hunger levels have plateaued for three consecutive years, with between 713 and 757 million people undernourished in 2023—approximately 152 million more than in 2019 when considering the mid-range (733 million).""

Don’t believe those stats look at the actual science and the history.

People are hungry all the time. It is not a bad thing if you’re eating the right amount of food then you’re gonna be hungry at times. My comment was about people dying of starvation which no longer happens in our world because we are fast communication and fast delivery of aid and many prevention systems are placed to protect people at risk of famine.

I don’t think millennial was being a bit bored and peckish camps as a real problem

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By *tr8MrE OP   Man
21 weeks ago

somewhere near Sheffield


"What troubles? If you take the long view things are actually a lot better and they have ever been - there are less wars, and the wars that there are have a fractional number of casualties, there is pretty much zero famine anymore and when there is the risk of one aid gets there to prevent people dying from starvation, we’ve actually gone the other way and more people die from eating too much food and too little, we have solved many of the biggest killing diseases, and each time we solve one it gets solved faster, HIV/AIDS and Covid being recent examples of how quick cures or vaccines are produced. There is less crime, more access to education and generally living standards are much higher than they have ever been in history.

Maybe you should be asking what is it? We are doing that is so successful and how can we do even more of it?

The stats do not support the assertion that starvation is "pretty much zero". The numbers have been going up, not down.

From the WHO, 2024:

"Around 733 million people faced hunger in 2023, equivalent to one in eleven people globally and one in five in Africa, according to the latest State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report published today by five United Nations specialized agencies.

The annual report, launched this year in the context of the G20 Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty Task Force Ministerial Meeting in Brazil, warns that the world is falling significantly short of achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2, Zero Hunger, by 2030. The report shows that the world has been set back 15 years, with levels of undernourishment comparable to those in 2008-2009.

Despite some progress in specific areas such as stunting and exclusive breastfeeding, an alarming number of people continue to face food insecurity and malnutrition as global hunger levels have plateaued for three consecutive years, with between 713 and 757 million people undernourished in 2023—approximately 152 million more than in 2019 when considering the mid-range (733 million)."

Don’t believe those stats look at the actual science and the history.

People are hungry all the time. It is not a bad thing if you’re eating the right amount of food then you’re gonna be hungry at times. My comment was about people dying of starvation which no longer happens in our world because we are fast communication and fast delivery of aid and many prevention systems are placed to protect people at risk of famine.

I don’t think millennial was being a bit bored and peckish camps as a real problem"

Playing devil's advocate here...but I'm considering recent times as last 10 years? So South Sudan doesn't count no?

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By *rHotNottsMan
21 weeks ago

Dubai & Nottingham

Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2, Zero Hunger

Who comes up with this rubbish? Is this really what you want to pay your taxes for? Every time I finish my swim, I’m hungry, no government is ever gonna fix that.

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
21 weeks ago

North West


"What troubles? If you take the long view things are actually a lot better and they have ever been - there are less wars, and the wars that there are have a fractional number of casualties, there is pretty much zero famine anymore and when there is the risk of one aid gets there to prevent people dying from starvation, we’ve actually gone the other way and more people die from eating too much food and too little, we have solved many of the biggest killing diseases, and each time we solve one it gets solved faster, HIV/AIDS and Covid being recent examples of how quick cures or vaccines are produced. There is less crime, more access to education and generally living standards are much higher than they have ever been in history.

Maybe you should be asking what is it? We are doing that is so successful and how can we do even more of it?

The stats do not support the assertion that starvation is "pretty much zero". The numbers have been going up, not down.

From the WHO, 2024:

"Around 733 million people faced hunger in 2023, equivalent to one in eleven people globally and one in five in Africa, according to the latest State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report published today by five United Nations specialized agencies.

The annual report, launched this year in the context of the G20 Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty Task Force Ministerial Meeting in Brazil, warns that the world is falling significantly short of achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2, Zero Hunger, by 2030. The report shows that the world has been set back 15 years, with levels of undernourishment comparable to those in 2008-2009.

Despite some progress in specific areas such as stunting and exclusive breastfeeding, an alarming number of people continue to face food insecurity and malnutrition as global hunger levels have plateaued for three consecutive years, with between 713 and 757 million people undernourished in 2023—approximately 152 million more than in 2019 when considering the mid-range (733 million)."

Don’t believe those stats look at the actual science and the history.

People are hungry all the time. It is not a bad thing if you’re eating the right amount of food then you’re gonna be hungry at times. My comment was about people dying of starvation which no longer happens in our world because we are fast communication and fast delivery of aid and many prevention systems are placed to protect people at risk of famine.

I don’t think millennial was being a bit bored and peckish camps as a real problem"

Those numbers I quoted are people who have "too little food for basic health". That's starvation. And it's a bad thing.

People are starving all over the world and no-one is coming to help them. In Gaza, in DRC, in Yemen. In all kinds of places.

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By *rHotNottsMan
21 weeks ago

Dubai & Nottingham


"What troubles? If you take the long view things are actually a lot better and they have ever been - there are less wars, and the wars that there are have a fractional number of casualties, there is pretty much zero famine anymore and when there is the risk of one aid gets there to prevent people dying from starvation, we’ve actually gone the other way and more people die from eating too much food and too little, we have solved many of the biggest killing diseases, and each time we solve one it gets solved faster, HIV/AIDS and Covid being recent examples of how quick cures or vaccines are produced. There is less crime, more access to education and generally living standards are much higher than they have ever been in history.

Maybe you should be asking what is it? We are doing that is so successful and how can we do even more of it?

The stats do not support the assertion that starvation is "pretty much zero". The numbers have been going up, not down.

From the WHO, 2024:

"Around 733 million people faced hunger in 2023, equivalent to one in eleven people globally and one in five in Africa, according to the latest State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report published today by five United Nations specialized agencies.

The annual report, launched this year in the context of the G20 Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty Task Force Ministerial Meeting in Brazil, warns that the world is falling significantly short of achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2, Zero Hunger, by 2030. The report shows that the world has been set back 15 years, with levels of undernourishment comparable to those in 2008-2009.

Despite some progress in specific areas such as stunting and exclusive breastfeeding, an alarming number of people continue to face food insecurity and malnutrition as global hunger levels have plateaued for three consecutive years, with between 713 and 757 million people undernourished in 2023—approximately 152 million more than in 2019 when considering the mid-range (733 million)."

Don’t believe those stats look at the actual science and the history.

People are hungry all the time. It is not a bad thing if you’re eating the right amount of food then you’re gonna be hungry at times. My comment was about people dying of starvation which no longer happens in our world because we are fast communication and fast delivery of aid and many prevention systems are placed to protect people at risk of famine.

I don’t think millennial was being a bit bored and peckish camps as a real problem

Those numbers I quoted are people who have "too little food for basic health". That's starvation. And it's a bad thing.

People are starving all over the world and no-one is coming to help them. In Gaza, in DRC, in Yemen. In all kinds of places. "

But fractional numbers compared to 50 or 100 years ago , and where aid is prevented it’s primarily not because we don’t know about the problem and haven’t got the resources to fix it. It’s just too dangerous or being prevented due to conflict. People are hungry, yes but they’re not starving to death like they have done for all of history on a massive scale.

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By *tr8MrE OP   Man
21 weeks ago

somewhere near Sheffield


"What troubles? If you take the long view things are actually a lot better and they have ever been - there are less wars, and the wars that there are have a fractional number of casualties, there is pretty much zero famine anymore and when there is the risk of one aid gets there to prevent people dying from starvation, we’ve actually gone the other way and more people die from eating too much food and too little, we have solved many of the biggest killing diseases, and each time we solve one it gets solved faster, HIV/AIDS and Covid being recent examples of how quick cures or vaccines are produced. There is less crime, more access to education and generally living standards are much higher than they have ever been in history.

Maybe you should be asking what is it? We are doing that is so successful and how can we do even more of it?

The stats do not support the assertion that starvation is "pretty much zero". The numbers have been going up, not down.

From the WHO, 2024:

"Around 733 million people faced hunger in 2023, equivalent to one in eleven people globally and one in five in Africa, according to the latest State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report published today by five United Nations specialized agencies.

The annual report, launched this year in the context of the G20 Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty Task Force Ministerial Meeting in Brazil, warns that the world is falling significantly short of achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2, Zero Hunger, by 2030. The report shows that the world has been set back 15 years, with levels of undernourishment comparable to those in 2008-2009.

Despite some progress in specific areas such as stunting and exclusive breastfeeding, an alarming number of people continue to face food insecurity and malnutrition as global hunger levels have plateaued for three consecutive years, with between 713 and 757 million people undernourished in 2023—approximately 152 million more than in 2019 when considering the mid-range (733 million)."

Don’t believe those stats look at the actual science and the history.

People are hungry all the time. It is not a bad thing if you’re eating the right amount of food then you’re gonna be hungry at times. My comment was about people dying of starvation which no longer happens in our world because we are fast communication and fast delivery of aid and many prevention systems are placed to protect people at risk of famine.

I don’t think millennial was being a bit bored and peckish camps as a real problem

Those numbers I quoted are people who have "too little food for basic health". That's starvation. And it's a bad thing.

People are starving all over the world and no-one is coming to help them. In Gaza, in DRC, in Yemen. In all kinds of places.

But fractional numbers compared to 50 or 100 years ago , and where aid is prevented it’s primarily not because we don’t know about the problem and haven’t got the resources to fix it. It’s just too dangerous or being prevented due to conflict. People are hungry, yes but they’re not starving to death like they have done for all of history on a massive scale. "

I think the 80000 that died in South Yemen in 2017 might say differently

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
21 weeks ago

North West


"What troubles? If you take the long view things are actually a lot better and they have ever been - there are less wars, and the wars that there are have a fractional number of casualties, there is pretty much zero famine anymore and when there is the risk of one aid gets there to prevent people dying from starvation, we’ve actually gone the other way and more people die from eating too much food and too little, we have solved many of the biggest killing diseases, and each time we solve one it gets solved faster, HIV/AIDS and Covid being recent examples of how quick cures or vaccines are produced. There is less crime, more access to education and generally living standards are much higher than they have ever been in history.

Maybe you should be asking what is it? We are doing that is so successful and how can we do even more of it?

The stats do not support the assertion that starvation is "pretty much zero". The numbers have been going up, not down.

From the WHO, 2024:

"Around 733 million people faced hunger in 2023, equivalent to one in eleven people globally and one in five in Africa, according to the latest State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report published today by five United Nations specialized agencies.

The annual report, launched this year in the context of the G20 Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty Task Force Ministerial Meeting in Brazil, warns that the world is falling significantly short of achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2, Zero Hunger, by 2030. The report shows that the world has been set back 15 years, with levels of undernourishment comparable to those in 2008-2009.

Despite some progress in specific areas such as stunting and exclusive breastfeeding, an alarming number of people continue to face food insecurity and malnutrition as global hunger levels have plateaued for three consecutive years, with between 713 and 757 million people undernourished in 2023—approximately 152 million more than in 2019 when considering the mid-range (733 million)."

Don’t believe those stats look at the actual science and the history.

People are hungry all the time. It is not a bad thing if you’re eating the right amount of food then you’re gonna be hungry at times. My comment was about people dying of starvation which no longer happens in our world because we are fast communication and fast delivery of aid and many prevention systems are placed to protect people at risk of famine.

I don’t think millennial was being a bit bored and peckish camps as a real problem

Those numbers I quoted are people who have "too little food for basic health". That's starvation. And it's a bad thing.

People are starving all over the world and no-one is coming to help them. In Gaza, in DRC, in Yemen. In all kinds of places.

But fractional numbers compared to 50 or 100 years ago , and where aid is prevented it’s primarily not because we don’t know about the problem and haven’t got the resources to fix it. It’s just too dangerous or being prevented due to conflict. People are hungry, yes but they’re not starving to death like they have done for all of history on a massive scale. "

They are. People ARE starving to death.

From the International Rescue Committee:

"More than 27 million people in South Sudan, Nigeria and Yemen are facing starvation and living on the brink of what could become the biggest humanitarian crisis of our time."

"East Africa is facing its worst drought in 40 years and there are now over 1.4 million people displaced by drought in Somalia alone."

Drought is one of the biggest causes of famine, after conflict. It doesn't matter if we know about it but can't act due to war or whatever. Famine is famine and people are dying, especially children.

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
21 weeks ago

Central

Ultimately, governments set the laws and would then enforce them.

I'm disappointed with how feeble international restraint and enforcement there actually are.

I understand that with democracies - a minority of the world? - there's public involvement but ultimately it's leaders who have to be informed and looking out for their people and international well-being.

Human climate change and the minimal action shows how shite we are. Global growth pursued, at the expense of wildlife and long-term health and survival of the masses. And the richest looking at escape to Mars etc

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By *ansoffateMan
21 weeks ago

Sagittarius A

We are a temporary inconvenience, the planet just needed to make plastics for it's next evolutionary epoch.

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By *riar BelisseWoman
21 weeks ago

Holibobs

The Internet

The ungoverned access to the world, has made all the nasty things very easily accessible.

We all need internet moderation in some form across all platforms, to stop things spiralling out of control, automatic word recognition is amazingly helpful, It should be made standard across all platforms as a basic level of protection.

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By (user no longer on site)
21 weeks ago

People and criminality are the problem. Imagine a world where everyone treated everyone else with respect and were nice to one another.

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By *oodmessMan
21 weeks ago

yumsville

I say better weather. If we upped it from cold to nice all year round, with the odd bit of rain to keep things regular, I think it would sort us right out.

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By *uchessdoeWoman
21 weeks ago

Northampton


"To be honest....I've never been one to feel any need to make the place I live 'great'.

I'm here purely through chance because my parents lived here. Like anyone on the planet it's just chance where you're born.

I've never had any issues living in the UK. There's been good times and bad times. I could quite happily move to another country tomorrow and not feel any sense of loss of identity. I'd still be me.

The whole 'patriotism' thing has never sat well with me. I've seen too many people in too many countries over the years defend their country just 'because', regardless of what state it was in, what the government at the time was doing or what some of the population believed about others in their country or those abroad.

And personally I've no plans to move this to the politics forum unless is gets all political. So far as I see it, it's a conversation about the country, which doesn't have to go down that road. 🤷‍♂️"

This is perfectly articulated 👏

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By *oubleswing2019Man
21 weeks ago

Colchester

People = Shit (Thank you Slipknot).

We're an Apex Predator. The top Apex Predator.

.

All apex predators have risen to their status by warfare and the fight for survival. It's hard-baked in to their genes. Strip away the social constructs and we're still apex predators.

Looks at Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.

Look the the bottom, most fundamental row of all, which applies to all beings, human or otherwise.

That row is physiological needs, which is "Air, Food, Water, Shelter, Sleep, Clothing, Reproduction".

.

Not a single item is uncontested or uncompromised in one sort of way or another.

Air - Not always of good quality

Food - Not always available

Water - As above

Shelter - As above

Sleep - Not always possible if Safe Shelter is not possible

Clothing - Varies in quality and not always available to all

Reproduction - Not a given guarantee.

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If the basic building blocks of life are compromised, then it's little wonder conflict begins at this level and permeates upwards.

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Put it another way. Imagine you click your fingers and summon a world in to existence and populate it with beings. Each of the 8 "Needs" is compromised in some sort of way.

What do you think it going to happen ?

Repeat the same existence with a self-contained "ant-farm". Limit the needs. Guess what happens ?

Predation.

Some will perish, some will survive based on their predation of others.

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Whilst we remain a Type I civilisation on the Kardashev scale, this will be our fate. If we can move to a Type II, things can improve, but that's not a guarantee.

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By *mileyculturebelfastMan
21 weeks ago

belfast


"So when was the last time Britain was Great?

It's a tongue in cheek reference to MAGA in our lifetime it hasn't

I know what the reference was but it was a genuine question because I've never seen any evidence of it and the world really isn't any more troubled than it has been in previous generations. "

You do realise the great part is to do with land.

You lit need to stop bringing your pathetic sectarian shite into everything.

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By *mileyculturebelfastMan
21 weeks ago

belfast

Ban religion.

Legalise all drugs

Corporal punishment for terrorists and sex offenders.

Sterilise those who don't work.

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
21 weeks ago

North West


"Ban religion.

Legalise all drugs

Corporal punishment for terrorists and sex offenders.

Sterilise those who don't work."

All those who don't work? What about those people who, due to illness, disability etc, are completely unable to work?

And no, before you clap back at me, I'm not (yet) one such person, though continuing to work is making my physical disabilities worse quickly and probably sending me towards welfare dependency quicker than I otherwise might. The ever worsening physical disabilities are making me very keen to cease being present on the earth, often.

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By *obilebottomMan
21 weeks ago

All over


"Ban religion.

Legalise all drugs

Corporal punishment for terrorists and sex offenders.

Sterilise those who don't work.

All those who don't work? What about those people who, due to illness, disability etc, are completely unable to work?

And no, before you clap back at me, I'm not (yet) one such person, though continuing to work is making my physical disabilities worse quickly and probably sending me towards welfare dependency quicker than I otherwise might. The ever worsening physical disabilities are making me very keen to cease being present on the earth, often. "

Youbare so kind tobrespond to that. Some people. Wow

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By *inky_couple2020Couple
21 weeks ago

North West


"Ban religion.

Legalise all drugs

Corporal punishment for terrorists and sex offenders.

Sterilise those who don't work.

All those who don't work? What about those people who, due to illness, disability etc, are completely unable to work?

And no, before you clap back at me, I'm not (yet) one such person, though continuing to work is making my physical disabilities worse quickly and probably sending me towards welfare dependency quicker than I otherwise might. The ever worsening physical disabilities are making me very keen to cease being present on the earth, often.

Youbare so kind tobrespond to that. Some people. Wow"

I'm waiting to be informed that's why they're looking into euthanasia etc etc. Blah blah.

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By *obilebottomMan
21 weeks ago

All over


"Ban religion.

Legalise all drugs

Corporal punishment for terrorists and sex offenders.

Sterilise those who don't work.

All those who don't work? What about those people who, due to illness, disability etc, are completely unable to work?

And no, before you clap back at me, I'm not (yet) one such person, though continuing to work is making my physical disabilities worse quickly and probably sending me towards welfare dependency quicker than I otherwise might. The ever worsening physical disabilities are making me very keen to cease being present on the earth, often.

Youbare so kind tobrespond to that. Some people. Wow

I'm waiting to be informed that's why they're looking into euthanasia etc etc. Blah blah."

I would not have botheted with people like that personally. They are incapable of respect and caring for those less fortunate or volnurable. And I am out

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By *ansoffateMan
21 weeks ago

Sagittarius A

Close all tax-avoidance schemes and appropriate all historic monies in tax havens.

Then use the funds to offer free university tuition to all students in demand subjects. e.g. Medicine and Nursing.

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By *ealitybitesMan
21 weeks ago

Belfast


"So when was the last time Britain was Great?

It's a tongue in cheek reference to MAGA in our lifetime it hasn't

I know what the reference was but it was a genuine question because I've never seen any evidence of it and the world really isn't any more troubled than it has been in previous generations.

You do realise the great part is to do with land.

You lit need to stop bringing your pathetic sectarian shite into everything. "

Seriously. You read that and all you saw was sectarianism? You need to get out and live a little. There's more to life than that narrow view.

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By *aryportmanMan
21 weeks ago

Whitehaven

Countries gone soft, the generation that are coming through now have 0 coping skills,

They are spoilt, spare the rod spoil the children has never been more prevalent,

There is 0 respect for anyone or anything, we live in the “well watcha gonna do about it” generation, I know what my parents and grandparents would have done, gave me a hiding.

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