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Axolotl
14:12 / 07.01.06
Ganesh: not only does it not warrant an entire thread, it's all wrong for a classic barbe-love thread: I didn't lust after her from afar while failing to actually say anything, she's not seeing some other guy who really doesn't understand her like I do, and I actually called her up and asked her out. All of which disqualifies me from starting that thread.
 
 
Ganesh
14:19 / 07.01.06
You're quite right. Damn.
 
 
Goodness Gracious Meme
20:16 / 07.01.06
I am ill. Not seriuosly so, but enough that I'm hacking away, stuck in my flat and am tired all the time and not seeing daylight very much.

This, oddly enough, is making me miserable. And probably a little strange.

Gah, I want to go out, and see people, and LEAVE MY BLOODY FLAT.

Sorry, I think I strayed into Argh,Fuck, but it tired me out so I am passively miserable again now.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
20:26 / 07.01.06
B-but WHY doesn't everyone want to see my MP?1fucking11!!
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
20:33 / 07.01.06
I'm just having the general misery about where my life's actually got to after 34 years and is going to go after that. I try to avoid thinking about this.

Every now and then- like now, for example- it catches up with me. These are the moments when I don't feel so proud of myself for stopping taking the meds. And I KNOW they pass... it's just when they're here, they REALLY make themselves known.

I'll be fine in a minute. Ignore me.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
20:56 / 07.01.06
I wan to leave my bloody flat too.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:58 / 07.01.06
I like retreating to mine. I REALLY like retreating to mine.

I'm really not feeling that bad at the moment, but I'm really enjoying sleeping, and resenting getting out of bed, and that usually presages bad shit.

I worry me sometimes.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
22:21 / 07.01.06
On further reflection...

I think I just don't work properly without a dog. Sounds really stupid, I know... but I just don't.

Arse.
 
 
Ganesh
22:25 / 07.01.06
You have a Dog-shaped hole.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
22:30 / 07.01.06
You make that sound so filthy.

Buuut... that made me laugh. Actually out loud and everything.

And that's good in itself. Thank you.
 
 
Cherielabombe
19:42 / 08.01.06
Sorry that should've gone in the aargh frustration thread - will move !
 
 
Spaniel
09:54 / 16.01.06
James Lovelock's predictions make me very, very miserable indeed.

God, I hope he's wrong.
 
 
Saveloy
11:11 / 16.01.06
Ditto. It's profoundly depressing. "Son, we've brought you into a world that is going to go completely tits-up in your lifetime. There's absolutely nothing you can do about it. Good luck."

If I'm to bother getting out of bed ever again I have to hope that he's wrong (or fibbing) AND that his latest predictions deliver an almighty kick up the arse to anyone with any control over greenhouse gas emmissions.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
20:07 / 16.01.06
The slowly-dawning relisation that I can be just as foul-tempered, brittle and unreasonable sober as I can when I've sunk a six-pack and a couple of chupitas. Le sigh.
 
 
electric monk
13:09 / 17.01.06
I just want to sit my worthless, sorry ass down in the dirt and cry all this out of me, but almost everything depends on me right now, so it's really not an option.
 
 
Spaniel
13:18 / 17.01.06
"Son, we've brought you into a world that is going to go completely tits-up in your lifetime. There's absolutely nothing you can do about it. Good luck."

Yes, it looks like that's exactly what I'll be saying to my soon-to-be-born son in a few years time.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
13:39 / 17.01.06
Actually that article seems a little hysterical. Particularly the bit about warlords.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
13:53 / 17.01.06
Some interesting and slightly mixed responses to Lovelock's comments in the Independent today.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
13:54 / 17.01.06
I guess it's time to start that commune above potential future sea levels. Who's with me?
 
 
Saveloy
13:56 / 17.01.06
Nina>

There is a part of me that thinks: "Well, he does have a book to flog..."

It'll be interesting to see how other environmentalists, greens etc react to it.* Will he himself continue to support moves to reduce carbon emmissions (inc nuclear power)? It would seem pointless if he really does believe that it is too late.

* Aha! Cheers, Petey
 
 
BlueMeanie
14:25 / 17.01.06
I think Lovelock's being a bit of a doom-monger, and I doubt it's all going to go Mad Max very soon, although I don't dismiss him completely, much the same as Porrit says here:

"If there was one scientist you would listen to on a proposition of that kind, it would be Jim Lovelock," said Jonathon Porritt, now head of the Government's Sustainable Development Commission. " Is he right? I simply don't know. I'm not enough of a scientist to make a judgement. With many people you would be tempted to dismiss the idea, but Jim is different."

I wonder how the US's actions on the issue of global warming will change once Dubya's out of the Whitehouse? Not much, probably.
 
 
Loomis
14:31 / 17.01.06
I reckon he's gone a bit OTT. I can't see the entire population being reduced to only a few pairs of humans. Flowers started a thread in the Lab, if anyone wants to discuss it.
 
 
illmatic
15:34 / 17.01.06
Nina, you've got nothing to fear. You'd make a wonderful warlordess.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
21:54 / 17.01.06
As I've mentioned in Lab I think Lovelock's scaremongering and good for him! No one in power has listened to the pressure from the scientific community on this issue because economics take precedence. If that community would only present a unanimous front and pretend that they think the planet is completely screwed they might pressurise various governments to start working a little more quickly on the issue. It certainly seems the only way to influence the current US administration on any subject at all.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
22:03 / 17.01.06
(On the other hand I would like to be a warlordess)
 
 
■
22:16 / 17.01.06
that commune above potential future sea levels

Ahead of you, it's called most of Scotland. Shame I don't own any of it.
 
 
Bed Head
22:21 / 17.01.06
Get a big boat for your commune, kids. You’ll always be above rising sea levels then. Theoretically.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
22:23 / 17.01.06
Are you not coming with me? We need an artist in residence- actually I think we'll need a few if we're going to be called a commune. I was thinking we could find a mountain with a flat large enough to grow organic crops on. I'll need Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall to kill some critters as well... and he does live in Dorset so he'll be wanting to vacate when the floods arrive.
 
 
Bed Head
22:33 / 17.01.06
Why, I’ll happily be one of your artists-in-residence if we’re talking boats. Maybe a series of boats, lashed together into a sort of ‘fleet’. Old aircraft carrier with a field of topsoil where the landing strip used to be, windmills and solar panels everywhere, and maybe some gubbins that harnesses all the tidal energy that’ll be constantly swirling around, too. That sort of thing.

Think about it - sea levels can rise all they want! Also - we could winter in the tropics! or something. You’ll never run out of room if you stick to the open sea! Now, the only slight problem, that I can see, is a steady supply of fresh water....
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
22:37 / 17.01.06
Filtration systems powered by the wind, of course.

Your floating island sounds like the city in China Mieville's The Scar - the best thing about that book, in fact. As soon as I read that I wanted to visit it, so I'd be up for a commune on the sea. As long as it is in the nice calm seas. There will be nice, calm seas apres-deluge, won't there?
 
 
Tryphena Absent
22:40 / 17.01.06
We'll need to collect rainwater unless we start stocking up on the bottled stuff now!
 
 
Bed Head
22:41 / 17.01.06
Hop aboard, T-M! We’ll go somewhere where the seas are nice and calm. Promise.

Can't do that with a mountain.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
22:42 / 17.01.06
But think of the constant maintenance work.
 
 
Bed Head
22:49 / 17.01.06
Well, hang on. Mountain communes need constant maintenance, too! And if they’re nice mountain communes, nice place to live with lots of food, they need defending, too. Don’t have that with a boat. With a boat, there’s always room to run away.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
22:51 / 17.01.06
But our mountain commune will be like a fort. Made of stuff and there will be no trouble on a sunny day when everyone wants to lie on the grass outside but someone has to steer.
 
  

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