Like the illusion of Wall Street, with its vast and powerful investment banks, now shuttered, China too is an illusion perpetuated by the Globalists that gave us the 15,000 mile Caesar salad, poisoned cat food and lead based paint on babies' pacifiers. Like the illusion that money would come from thin air to always push housing prices higher, China has spent a generation pursuing its illusion. Pursuing an unattainable dream to be like the West, while 6000 years of its carefully shepherded top soil blows into the sea.
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 10:11 pm Post subject: Re: What WON'T you miss?
cube wrote:
seldom_seen wrote:
Another vote for leaf blowers.
To see a grown man with an engine strapped to his back blowing dust around a parking lot, whilst spewing out a cloud of exhaust and annoying the hell out of anyone in earshot is a pathetic sight, and testament to what a depraved lot we've become.
Why is it annoying and pathetic for a person to do useful work?
Somebody has to blow the leaves and dust out of the way to keep the city clean.
Is it ok to be annoyed at my suburbanite neigbor who leaf blows her entire lawn?
Buy a rake, lady. _________________ ~Laura
"If you weren't smart enough to plan ahead then Doom on you!" ~Dodo bird
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 12:05 am Post subject: Re: What WON'T you miss?
Mominator wrote:
...
Is it ok to be annoyed at my suburbanite neigbor who leaf blows her entire lawn?
Buy a rake, lady.
How often does she turn that thing on....once a week at most?
If that's the greatest "bad neighbor horror story" you can muster I'm envious of you.
You are "lucky" to have such a good neighbor.
I can think of much worse.
Again like I said before, at least it's being used for work.
I can think of much worse things to waste a non-renewable resource on.
Do you know what annoys me?
Parasitic people who free-load off their parents.
They expect mommy and daddy to pay for their:
1) college
2) wedding
3) down payment for house
4) free day care for their kids
I look forward to the day when society expects a 30 year old to act like an adult.
PO = the end of cheap energy = the end of economic surplus = the end of parents having any surplus money to keep treating their 30 year old "child" like a teenager.
Joined: Dec 25, 2005 Posts: 607 Location: Hillsboro, West Virginia
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 8:43 am Post subject: Re: What WON'T you miss?
seldom_seen wrote:
Another vote for leaf blowers.
I've actually found a use for these things. On the evening of Halloween, rake up a pile of leaves and put your leaf blower inside it, trailing the power cord to an outlet on the side of your house near where you'll be handing out the candy and bubblegum. When some little tots come skipping past the leaf pile, plug in the blower and scare the stuffing out of them! Works on teens, too.
My vote is for (or, rather, against) multikulturalizm. Bleh!
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 12:59 pm Post subject: Re: What WON'T you miss?
cube wrote:
If that's the greatest "bad neighbor horror story" you can muster I'm envious of you.
You are "lucky" to have such a good neighbor.
I can think of much worse.
Again like I said before, at least it's being used for work.
It wasn't a "bad neigbor horror story". It was what I thought to be a funny use of a leaf blower. _________________ ~Laura
"If you weren't smart enough to plan ahead then Doom on you!" ~Dodo bird
Joined: Jun 02, 2008 Posts: 539 Location: Someplace where the sun does not shine
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 1:19 pm Post subject: Re: What WON'T you miss?
[quote="cube"]
Mominator wrote:
...
Do you know what annoys me?
Parasitic people who free-load off their parents.
They expect mommy and daddy to pay for their:
1) college
2) wedding
3) down payment for house
4) free day care for their kids
I look forward to the day when society expects a 30 year old to act like an adult.
PO = the end of cheap energy = the end of economic surplus = the end of parents having any surplus money to keep treating their 30 year old "child" like a teenager.
Hows this one?
My wife's parents still have two "kids" living at home. One is 43, the other is 37 and also has his two kids living there. The 43 year old has never left home, not once. The 37 year old moved back home about 6 years ago after a nasty divorce. Since then,he has been in and out of work, mostly lays around all freakin day playing video games. Both the In-Laws are retired, living on fixed income. Yet everytime you go over there, lights on all over the house in rooms no one is in, t.v.s on in all rooms with no one watching them.
The 43 year old spends all his money buying fancy hunting and fishing gear, or at the horse race track gambling. The 37 year old has been out of work for about 6 months now, so has no money to support himself or his two kids. So guess who pays for everything?
Me, I would have kicked them out on their azzes a long time ago. I do not even like going over there because I have to see the DEAD-BEAT KIDS. _________________
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 1:36 pm Post subject: Re: What WON'T you miss?
Don't poopoo extended family/multigenerational living. It could be a big help in powering down and there's nothing wrong with it in and of itself.
Go ahead and poopoo people who don't pull their own weight though. _________________ ~Laura
"If you weren't smart enough to plan ahead then Doom on you!" ~Dodo bird
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 4:57 pm Post subject: Re: What WON'T you miss?
Fat people.
I'm looking forward to meeting their tougher, leaner, inner people. _________________ Massive Human Dieoff must occur as a result of Peak Oil. Many more than half will die. It will occur everywhere, including where you live. If you fail to recognize this, then your odds of living move toward the "going to die" group.
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 5:02 pm Post subject: Re: What WON'T you miss?
cube wrote:
Mominator wrote:
...
Is it ok to be annoyed at my suburbanite neigbor who leaf blows her entire lawn?
Buy a rake, lady.
How often does she turn that thing on....once a week at most?
If that's the greatest "bad neighbor horror story" you can muster I'm envious of you.
You are "lucky" to have such a good neighbor.
I can think of much worse.
Again like I said before, at least it's being used for work.
I can think of much worse things to waste a non-renewable resource on.
Do you know what annoys me?
Parasitic people who free-load off their parents.
They expect mommy and daddy to pay for their:
1) college
2) wedding
3) down payment for house
4) free day care for their kids
I look forward to the day when society expects a 30 year old to act like an adult.
PO = the end of cheap energy = the end of economic surplus = the end of parents having any surplus money to keep treating their 30 year old "child" like a teenager.
Come now. Parents who do a lousy job of raising their children deserve the free-loaders they produce.
It's one of the most perfect pay-back mechanisms in nature that I've ever seen. _________________ Massive Human Dieoff must occur as a result of Peak Oil. Many more than half will die. It will occur everywhere, including where you live. If you fail to recognize this, then your odds of living move toward the "going to die" group.
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 5:03 pm Post subject: Re: What WON'T you miss?
I dread the day my 21 year old son leaves home (youngest kid, his big sister & brother are out & on their own). Who's going to climb way the hell up trees to prune branches? Who's going to swing the 12 lb. sledge for splitting wood? Me?!? You've got to be kidding !!
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 7:14 pm Post subject: Re: What WON'T you miss?
Commercials and advertising everywhere - and if peak oil doesn't kill it, I hope something else does. _________________ "May you live in interesting times"
Joined: May 20, 2008 Posts: 336 Location: Tennessee
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 7:19 pm Post subject: Re: What WON'T you miss?
cbxer, sounds like these parents need some lessons in tough love.
You need to start early-my 10 year old son told me the neighbor girl (who is 10 years old) told him she wants to marry him and then they will move in with us. Oh boy, I am reprogramming that thought.
Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 12:58 am Post subject: Re: What WON'T you miss?
Watching close family, friends, and society as a whole destroy themselves either knowingly or unknowingly with: drink, drugs, cigarettes, antidepressants, junk food, meaningless causal sex, brainwashing video games, TV, and what ever else they need to convince themselves that they are free and happy.
I know I’ll never live to see the other side (even if I survive the die-off/purging, it’s unlikely I’ll live long enough to see anything but mass human suffering) I’m still glad this craziness is coming to an end.
Joined: Aug 24, 2005 Posts: 439 Location: Costa Geriatrica, Spain
Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 4:50 am Post subject: Re: What WON'T you miss?
McDonalds. There again they might have morphed into a 1930's style chain of soup kitchens and still be around.
McSoup - bowl of thin watery soup with a few lumps of McMeat and a bit of cabbage floating around, plus a breadroll, for the very reasonable price of $50
Joined: Sep 29, 2004 Posts: 2330 Location: Pennsylvania, USA
Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 5:50 am Post subject: Re: What WON'T you miss?
Reading through the posts, I'm detecting that some people think that post peak will be a sort of Utopian reprieve from human nature. People will still lust after power, material things, sex, drugs, rock and roll and all the other frivolous diversions humans love. The only thing that will be different is the lack of "energy financing," which people take absolutely for granted today. _________________ "That's the problem with mercy, kid... It just ain't professional" - Fast Eddie, The Color of Money
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