What Do You Think Today?

[Skyweir]

I saw her getting funky on a state trip to Africa somewhere .. it was hilarious. Good on her for giving it her best crack tho

Sometimes you just need to know when to quit and know where your strengths are ..

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Haha, it was to SA...she danced with some orphan kids or something. I didn't bother watching.

--A

[Skyweir]

Well it wasnt really a show stopper

She was pretty stiff and awkwardly .. well awkward

[peter]

The one at the party conference was truly toe-curling! You had that horrible feeling of embarrassment by proxy in whatever company you saw it - as though you yourself were executing the shuffling and hunch shouldered shimmy!

[Skyweir]

mmm .. haha glad I didnt see it then

But still good on her .. she clearly doesnt care what she looks like .. and thats either a sign of absolute oblivion or that she just doesnt care what she looks like ... and thats a good thing.

[peter]

.......or bad advice?

[Skyweir]

[Kizza]

Stevie G is in Wineland, and I am on the road again. That sucks. Next time.

The lady next to me on the plane was beside herself this morning. She was heading back to her fathers. He had died the day before. Poor lady. Nothing I could do to help her.

Sometimes, in spite of all the moaning I can find opportunities for, I forget how good life can be.

[StevieG]

Yep, missed by that much. I fly in, you fly out.

Life's 'goodness' reminders do come around at any time. That sounds like a difficult circumstance.

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Better you than me. My "comforting" tends to be along the lines of "Well, he's got no problems anymore..."

--A

[Kizza]

Yeah, the poor bugger could not speak for sobbing. Obviously I offered if I could help her in any way, and it seemed to cause her to get more upset as she shook her head at me.
The hosties were great. It was a full flight but they managed to hover close and to comfort her.

I made a point of emailing the airline to commend the staff. I plan on seeing my folks this week while I get the chance.

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Yeah, always a little reminder that they won't last forever.

--A

[peter]

The IPPC reports that in the absence of wide ranging and immediate change by society it will be impossible to mitigate the worst effects of global climate change by the year 2050, by limiting temperature increase to 1.5 degree C. If I understand it correctly we have already seen an average increase of 1 degree to which we can attribute the extreme weather conditions we have experienced of late, giving us but half a degree left to play with. Even this level of increase sees pretty major disruption of the planets ecosystems - for example a sevty to eighty percent loss of the Pacific coral reefs - but it does at least reduce the worst effects of rising sea levels and extreme weather events on the wellbeing of humanity going forward. I think even the worst of sceptics and outright deniers must now be coming round to the idea that something must be done - you'd have to be running around with your head up your ass not to be - yet apparently the Australian administration have already announced that it will continue with it's proposed increases in coal production as intended, and it is unlikely that Trump will soften his position as a disbeliever in the science any time soon.

Produced for the UN by over ninety authors from forty countries, the report contains references to 6,0000 plus scientific papers with contributions from thousands more. Yet still there will be those who will pooh-pooh its conclusions - and an odd way I understand this. The scenario we face if we accept he report is so stark, so uncompromising, that one's every instinct is to deny that this an be so. Either we change our lives completely, all of us, right here and right now - or we face a dystopian horror of war, famine and death as we are squeezed ever closer and closer into shrinking land area while being simultaneously battered by extreme weather events from which we cannot protect ourselves, and from which only the few can survive and in a much reduced state at that. This is beyond the acceptance of most of us and so, like a rabbit in the headlamps of the car that kills it, we continue to wash our ears - or in this case to put our fingers in them.

[Kizza]

https://www.news.com.au/technology/envi ... 1f4b8d9bb2
Above to add to your post.

Post apocalypse anyone? Maybe I need to start looking for even higher ground.

[peter]

And none of these reports even touch on the huge tensions, both geopolitical and cutural, that mass migrations of people would cause as water levels rise; already we see the effect that sub-Saharan and middle Eastern outflows of people is having in Europe in terms of the migration crisis and rise of the far right (which is largely immigration focused in it's outlook). This will be as nothing in terms of what can be expected to result of rising water levels - and this can be envisaged within a good number of our own, and definitely our children's lifetimes. How do we deal with this? Can each and every one of us become zero carbon footprinters? How do you do that without tearing your life up by the roots?

And in respect of the deniers; why is it that people who place one hundred percent belief in the scientific method all of a sudden choose to deny it's findings on this one. They would no doubt argue that the case for manmade climate change is not proven; perhaps so - but it is the overwhelming consensus view of the professionals specialising in the field, and the case for arguing against it rests somewhere between that of smoking causing cancer or Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection not being proven either.

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I've been saying for years already that we're past the point of no return. Doesn't matter what we do now, the climate will change.

That's what it does. All that's happened is we've sped it up a bit. (And on a geological timescale, it really is only a bit.)

The future always contains a dystopian horror of war, famine and death for somebody.

--A

[peter]

Talking about which, my Google news feed this morning informs me that a London University professor, 'expert in zombie apocalypse scenarios', advises that in the event of said apocalypse the best thing to do is to get the f*** out of Dodge and head for where I live! Well thanks for that, asshole! Like I want every zombie bug carrying cockney flooding into my neck of the woods - damn place is crawling with wannabe delboy's as it is without having the additional problem of World War Z arriving alongside them!

And what the f*** is a 'zombie apocalypse expert' anyway? Am I paying for that?!!!

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--A

[Skyweir]

Yeah, the poor bugger could not speak for sobbing. Obviously I offered if I could help her in any way, and it seemed to cause her to get more upset as she shook her head at me.
The hosties were great. It was a full flight but they managed to hover close and to comfort her.

I made a point of emailing the airline to commend the staff. I plan on seeing my folks this week while I get the chance.

Good for you .. I think its awesome to make that little bit of effort to praise good service, a little kindness etc.

percent respect

Sorry you and StevieG couldnt catch up for a drink .. and I completely forgot about him ... had the gran baby up for the week .. and the poor love was a bit sick .. and was going to organise a catch up with my sister and her family but completely forgot

< worst human ever



Therell always be next time

[Skyweir]

Talking about which, my Google news feed this morning informs me that a London University professor, 'expert in zombie apocalypse scenarios', advises that in the event of said apocalypse the best thing to do is to get the f*** out of Dodge and head for where I live! Well thanks for that, asshole! Like I want every zombie bug carrying cockney flooding into my neck of the woods - damn place is crawling with wannabe delboy's as it is without having the additional problem of World War Z arriving alongside them!

And what the f*** is a 'zombie apocalypse expert' anyway? Am I paying for that?!!!

Oh dear .. thats hilarious ... I wonder if there are also vampire and were wolf experts out there and do they graduate from the University of Transylvania???