Alcohol, Govt waste, the future, an Emo scientist and some fun

[matgb]

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  Living in the future - May Contain Nuts
  Andrew Ducker asks: When did you start feeling like you were living in the future? And if you don't - what would make you?
  (tags: questions speculation progress)
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  Pickled Politics » Know your limits
  The Govts Know Your Limits campaign, all £10million of it, is both a misplaced use of our money and

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[matgb]

Not announced yet, they're still finalising the code. I'm hoping the rest of my extensions'll come back up soon as well.

[andrewducker]

Hari's piece on Mary Whitehouse a couple of days ago was also good.

[matgb]

Aye, Jennie linked, he'd been really annoying me over a lot of stuff a few years back, so I stopped paying attention (partially as I stopped buying papers).

Nice to see he's caught up and back on track to actual sanity.

[andrewducker]

I think I stopped reading him when he started claiming that hating Big Brother made you anti-working class...

[greyarea]

That whole "emo" article is just a toe-curling embarrassment.

I never really understood the "goth=miserable" thing, either. Most goths I know/knew were no more miserable than the average person, they just wore more black clothes. Ditto emo; it's just another youth tribe, isn't it? It's not some bizarre cult - I don't really understand the interest in it. Thankfully most comments seem to agree.

If we're going to generalise, I've found nu-metal kidz to be more angsty than the emo kids. One wonders why the BBC hasn't done an article on them. Perhaps it's easier to hear the lyrics to a My Chemical Romance tune than a Slipknot one?

[matgb]

Possibly because nu-metal was less organised being mostly a past fad, emo has t'internet to be angsty over in an accessible way.

I bet that march they're talking about was organised on Facebook.

Oh yeah-I took a non-goth friend to a goth club once and he was amased to see people he knew from campus as grumpy aloof morose miserable gits being all smiley and happy, the miserable act is a persona around 'normals' for the most part.

[paulgregory]

Organised? A march on the Daily Mail's offices on a SATURDAY? When the only people present work for the Mail on Sunday? Not particularly well-thought through... so yeah, it probably did originate on Facebook.

[strangefrontier]

spEak You're bRanes! Oh, I haven't read that in ages. It's just terrifying, isn't it...

If you want to know about living in the future, the answers are here: The Usbourne Book of the Future. It's a work of genius. What I love about it and the two "World of Tomorrow" books on the same site is the lovely balance between predictions that are almost accurate and ones that are totally batshit. Good reading. :)

[matgb]

Genius. Danke.

[davegodfrey]

"...dolphins, the sheepdogs of the underwater world".

I do love the fact that all the vehicles look like something out of Thunderbirds.

[ginasketch]

Emo kids take themselves far too seriously. Of course, so do a lot of goths.

THEY SHALL BE MOCKED EQUALLY MWHAHAHA

Actually, the whole emo thing bugs me a lot more because of the whole "cutting" fad. A lot of people start to then think that all people who self harm are doing it for positive attention. LOOK- I MADE A HEART ON MY ARM AND POSTED IT ON FACEBOOK AREN'T I SPECIAL??

*collapses from blood loss*

[freddiefraggles]

Well, don't a lot of people who self-harm actually not do it for attention, but actually for the 'release' they feel it gives them? I've never understood why anyone would want to cut themselves, getting a papercut hurts me plenty, but I do understand that sometimes people use it as a last resort sort of measure. My best friend self-harms periodically, and I wish there was a way I could help her not to. There just isn't, unfortunately.

[ginasketch]

You're talking to someone who self harmed a lot. I always hid it, and yes I did it for the "release."

Emo kids do it for attention.