How will oil depletion affect the way we live? What will the economic impact be? How will agriculture change? Will we thrive or merely survive?
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UndercoverElephant
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by UndercoverElephant 14 May 2011, 23:20
Roger Adair wrote: I shall try to nudge and wink the thread a little bit sort of back on trajectory,
though this might prove to be nile on impossible.
There is an interesting observation in the EOCAWKI novel “Lucifers Hammer” concerning people’s skills JATSHTF.
OK...WTF does "JATSHTF" mean?
Googling for it produces precisely two results - this thread and "Plyewogth of Brooklyn, Whfra Jatshtf"
snow hope
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by snow hope 15 May 2011, 00:11
I guess, Just after the SHTF??
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RogueMale
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by RogueMale 15 May 2011, 00:12
UndercoverElephant wrote: Roger Adair wrote: I shall try to nudge and wink the thread a little bit sort of back on trajectory,
though this might prove to be nile on impossible.
There is an interesting observation in the EOCAWKI novel “Lucifers Hammer” concerning people’s skills JATSHTF.
OK...WTF does "JATSHTF" mean?
Googling for it produces precisely two results - this thread and "Plyewogth of Brooklyn, Whfra Jatshtf"
I take it to mean "just as the shit hits the fan".
Potemkin Villager
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by Potemkin Villager 15 May 2011, 09:20
Sorry folks I never realised how much of an acronym, freudian spelling slip and mispunctuation junky I was before joining this forum (or maybe as a result of joining this forum).
Ireland awards 12 points to Snow Hope's entry to Eurovision for a happy
little ditty about life in a farming community titled "Just after the (cow) slurry hit the fan" .
The slurry in the case of "Lucifers Hammer" is a large extra terrestrial object but I will not spoil the story for those who have not read the book.
Overconfidence, not just expert overconfidence but general overconfidence,
featherstick
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by featherstick 15 May 2011, 10:46
Thought it was a hot fudge chocolate sundae?
"Tea's a good drink - keeps you going"
Kentucky Fried Panda
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by Kentucky Fried Panda 15 May 2011, 15:16
caspian wrote: the mad cyclist wrote: I’m sure we English want to be friendly, it’s just that we’re socially inadequate.
I wouldn't be that generous. There's something rather mean-spirited, suspicious and petty-minded about the English.
As a Scotsman living in England I agree.
energy-village
Posts: 1054 Joined: 22 Apr 2008, 22:44Location: Yorkshire, UK
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by energy-village 15 May 2011, 15:33
Doomsday wrote: caspian wrote: the mad cyclist wrote: I’m sure we English want to be friendly, it’s just that we’re socially inadequate.
I wouldn't be that generous. There's something rather mean-spirited, suspicious and petty-minded about the English.
As a Scotsman living in England I agree.
I always think it varies where you live in England. North vs South, little place vs city etc.
Sorry to hear that's your experience of Manchester though, Doomsday.
Potemkin Villager
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by Potemkin Villager 15 May 2011, 15:47
featherstick wrote: Thought it was a hot fudge chocolate sundae?
...... or I suppose if you started composing a list of people you might want to be stuck in a lift with it would not necessarily include a HP calculator wielding diabetic nerd who knows how to manufacture chemical weapons from everyday materials.......
Overconfidence, not just expert overconfidence but general overconfidence,
2 As and a B
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by 2 As and a B 15 May 2011, 19:48
Oh I don't know. Jordan might be quite fun - like having your very own bouncy castle.
I'm hippest, no really.
JohnB
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by JohnB 15 May 2011, 19:53
foodimista wrote: Oh I don't know. Jordan might be quite fun - like having your very own bouncy castle.
The basket ball player, or the country?
the mad cyclist
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by the mad cyclist 16 May 2011, 07:35
Roger Adair wrote: person they would really dread having stuck in the lift with them?
Count Arthur Strong or Corporal Jones.
Let nobody suppose that simple, inexpensive arrangements are faulty because primitive. If constructed correctly and in line with natural laws they are not only right, but preferable to fancy complicated devices.
Potemkin Villager
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by Potemkin Villager 19 May 2011, 19:22
Doomsday wrote: I'd really only like to be stuck in a lift with a lift engineer.
If being stuck in a lift is an analogy for how we may well find things in the not too distant future what is your lift engineer an analogy for?
Overconfidence, not just expert overconfidence but general overconfidence,
featherstick
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by featherstick 19 May 2011, 19:46
the mad cyclist wrote: Roger Adair wrote: person they would really dread having stuck in the lift with them?
Count Arthur Strong or Corporal Jones.
I've never heard such a calamity, calumty, clampit, oh drat it, CALUMNY, in me life.
"Tea's a good drink - keeps you going"
though this might prove to be nile on impossible.
