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| Caterham Member Since: 06 Nov 2008 Location: Birmingham Posts: 6264   
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I'm not sure your last comment is correct?
As I'm sure there's loads of aliens round where I live and certainly where I work! |
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8th May 2014 7:55am |
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| munch90 Member Since: 26 Oct 2013 Location: guildford Posts: 3558
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watched someone driving round and round in supermarket car park trying to get as close as possible to the door when they did park and got out wearing trainers , track suit bottoms , and sweat top thing then go in the shop and come out with one bottle of water
are they going to the gym to run or cycle on a machine for 15 mins and get nowhere and PAY to do it !! if so why worry about getting so close to the door |
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8th May 2014 8:09am |
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| LR90XS2011 Member Since: 05 Apr 2011 Location: bickenhill Posts: 3615  
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The thing that gets me is the sheep mentality, I park at the far side of car parks away from other cars to avoid bangs, almost invariably I will come back to a car each side with loads of empty spaces why does that happen???, the other thing is those people who think its OK to pull out of give way juncctions when turning right and block 1 lane of the road with the right of way, its rife in the centre of Birmingham however a Defender bearing down on them must make them question thier decision. DEFENDER 90 TDCI XS,
I hope everyone is well and your land rovers make you happy |
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8th May 2014 9:54am |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 16884 
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Absolutely nothing in many cases.
Without straying too far into politically incorrect territoy, we have removed the need for thought from daily life, we have removed all peril and hazard from daily life, and we have removed all need for physical prowess and fitness from daily life. As a result, there is nothing removing "stupid" and "unfit" genes from the breeding pool. We also have second, third, and even fourth generation stupid roaming freely amongst us, as evidenced so well by your post. It makes something of a mockery of the "sapiens" part of "homo sapiens", and it will continue to get worse - it is the inevitable result of a "civilised" society. Ever seen the film "Idiocracy"? Scarily predictive. |
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8th May 2014 9:54am |
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| What puddle? Member Since: 25 Oct 2013 Location: Reading Posts: 952
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I haven't seen that film, but I will look it up. I'm serious when I say about my fear for us all. I really don't think we can advance very much beyond our present level. The same professor who said about us meeting aliens carried out a survey of 116 American students. Almost 80% believe in demons and angels!!! Eh? I read the report out to my wife and we both agreed that it's actually scarey. I'm an atheist myself, and try very hard to be tolerant of other's beliefs, so I'm aware that there are VERY many people who believe stuff which I just find funny and bizarre - but 80% in demons and angels?
As for sheep mentality, I have a theory about that. I too have always parked my car away from others in car parks, and come out of the shop to find someone parked right next to me (in one case my wife couldn't get in!). I think they must be doing it for a joke. Surely people cannot be THAT empty-headed? I think I said elsewhere on this forum that in one instance I parked over in a corner, as much as a hundred yards away from the pack, and came out to find an Audi parked right next to me. They guy must surely have been having a joke, and it did make us laugh. Now left. |
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8th May 2014 10:58am |
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| blackwolf Member Since: 03 Nov 2009 Location: South West England Posts: 16884
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We are no longer advancing nor evolving in the accepted sense - we are now un-evolving. The days when "survival of the fittest" - classic Darwinism - was relevant have gone from human society. Technology now means that we don't have to be fit or healthy to survive and breed, we don't even have to be intelligent. Slowly humans will become less and less capable in all respects. This is why we now have motorists who will drive in front of trains, who will follow sat-navs with unwavering faith into obviously unsuitable places, and so on. We have conditioned generations now that there is no need to think, everything is safe and everything is someone else's responsibility and someone elses fault. For many years sci-fi writers and film-makers have revelled in the idea of zombies - the dead walking again - and the "zombie apocolypse". The scenario is not impossible, except the zombies won't be the dead rising and walking, they will be the tenth (or whatever) generation stupid.
Some years ago one of the soaps had a character die in a car crash at a recognisable location near Winchester. Within hours the site had been deluged with flowers etc in a gormless expression of public grief, despite that fact that the whole show is make believe! Apparently many viewers of these things actually believe that they are real! 200,000 years of "evolution" has brought us to this! Last edited by blackwolf on 8th May 2014 11:19am. Edited 1 time in total |
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8th May 2014 11:16am |
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| Laurie Member Since: 22 Feb 2008 Location: Sussex, England Posts: 2897 
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I can only walk about 50 yards unaided.
I use a supermarket trolley as a 'zimmer' frame. I just park near one of the trolley shelters and walk from there. If there's a space near the entrance I'll use it but I don't waste time looking or waiting for one. (Because I can walk more than 50 yards with a stick, I don't qualify for a blue badge.)  |
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8th May 2014 11:19am |
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| jimbob7 Member Since: 06 Jul 2013 Location: uk Posts: 2055 |
A bit naive to think people are getting dumber, "common sense is not so common", was first quoted in 1764
 . Pov.spec,ftw. 2006, 110,TD5. |
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8th May 2014 11:23am |
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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 19579
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People are lazier is the issue I think.
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8th May 2014 11:37am |
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| Tiger Member Since: 06 Jul 2012 Location: Wales Posts: 2265 
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And yet...
(To restore a little faith) |
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8th May 2014 12:32pm |
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| Caterham Member Since: 06 Nov 2008 Location: Birmingham Posts: 6264
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Laurie,
you sound like you 'should' be entitle to a blue badge...... certainly compared to the young 'alien' person that parks near where I work......he seems perfectly fit to me and always seems to be smiling like he's taking the pee when he and his mates park up  |
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8th May 2014 12:38pm |
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| munch90 Member Since: 26 Oct 2013 Location: guildford Posts: 3558
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just had a bloke on the phone about his petrol 1600 car , its 14yrs old and I asked him when it was last serviced , he said oh ive never serviced I don't need too it hasn't got spark plugs its injected !
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8th May 2014 1:01pm |
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| munch90 Member Since: 26 Oct 2013 Location: guildford Posts: 3558
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what about the bloke who wrote to government and requested under the freedom of information act wanting to know what they have done to be ready for a attack by zombies
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8th May 2014 1:06pm |
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| What puddle? Member Since: 25 Oct 2013 Location: Reading Posts: 952
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Some people also applied to Leicester City Council to ask them what their plans were for a zombie attack. The council were forced to reply that they have no plans. I don't know what's more worrying; that someone asked, or that the Council bothered replying. Now left.
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8th May 2014 1:20pm |
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