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I've said this in another thread that there will be 4 crises :-

1) Financial
2) Food
3) Oil
4) Climate

Expect "interesting" times on a more or less permanent basis from now on!

leroy wrote:Wouldn't it be fantastic to live in the Shire - good, honest labour, Rosie Cotton, Wednesday night down at the Green Dragon and up to at the Ivy Bush (Hobbiton way) for a few shots with Daddy Twofoot and the Gaffer for afterwards...

Lovely apart from that sodding ring around my neck.....

neckiep wrote:
By the way-Ulrika Johnson becomes 5x5- whats that mean?

She's had 4 children by 4 different fathers so far

+ UK wins Eurovision song contest
+ Amy Winehouse becomes a Jehovah's Witness
+ Bilbo Baggins returns to the Shire
+ Jabba the Hutt is made Chancellor of the Exchequer
+ Ulrika Jonsson becomes a "5x5"


A Merry Xmas and Happy New Year to one & all..

Yeah it's tough trying to save energy when you live in a cardboard house on a road with no 'sidewalk' miles from anywhere and you don't realise there's anything odd about that. But realisation is dawning in the USA that everyone does better if you can walk around... http://seattletimes.nwsource.com...

Bedrock Barney wrote:The grass is not always greener.

In fact in Australia's case it's not green at all.

Hasn't Aus been in the grip of a drought for a decade or more? Can't see the attraction myself.

I too have an electric guitar gathering dust....

Ok, so if you had no mortgage, no children, no debts and no responsibility and ?10k in the bank (or enough to take a year off), yet still had all the PO knowledge that you have today what would you do for a living? Would you retrain and if so to become what and why??? .... A position I'm in. I'm no...

It seems to me as if we are on the brink of a major, global, recession. Worst and first hit will be America but Europe and China/the East will soon follow. I?m convinced this will pull down demand in the short to medium term at least such that the direct effects of depletion will be largely unseen....

I've been preparing since the last one I suffered. To date I only need ?90 a week to live comfy, thats my bills and food sorted. I have reached that magic achievement in life that is only exceed by having children for us commoners which is 'can survive easy on the dole'. I have no debts at all and ...

Oh dear now I'm thinking Betty Blue....

nepenthean wrote:Thanks for the replies.

Do you live up to the stereotype of being clinically obese? Very Happy

No. I am actually trying to gain weight, which is proving more difficult than I thought as I only eat fish, rice, veggies, nuts, grains, fruits.

Have you tried a fillet-o-fish from McDonalds?

Well, at least if inflation is ahead, then we did the right thing by emptying our bank account to buy the wood and a lot of tools! Absolutely, I think your wood and tools are firmly in the ?actual necessaries? inflation proof department. However, if you go over to housepricecrash forum, you will fi...

As you may or may not know, I live across the puddle. I am interested in finding out your views on americans. If I were other in europe, I would be asking myself how deep the conditioned somnolence really is if US citizens simply acquiesce to draconian social policy. Just wanna know what ya'll thin...

Yes Rabbit, Xmas is the time when all the useless, energy consuming tat comes to the surface and I get thoroughly depressed with it all. All it is an orgy of shallow consumerism, hopefully within 10 years most of it will have disappeared from the shelves. This will be one of good points of PO! Meanw...