So many problems still to solve
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So many problems still to solve

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The World is not as big as it used to be, either through global warming or the use of wireless laptops.  Never has science, technology or information, been more prevalent in forming the boundaries of the global market.  Now before you question this statement, I would like to pose a few of questions to you.

Bacon on the moon

First of all, if man walked on the Moon why can’t we provide an easy to use packet of bacon, I mean what’s the deal here, those guys were supposed to live forever with those rations but without a pair of scissors I would die in a week.  Survivalist’s will state that a human being can live for thirty days without food; I contend that that is true but is it worth it without bacon?

Secondly, I know this has come up before but it really gets my giblet’s in a stew.  Sell buy dates?  It got me going around Christmas (I know I wrote Christmas – sorry to those of you who don’t celebrate the death of our Lord - I know I do, but for those who really take offence take up golf).  Anyhow, I was talking about sell buy dates.  On December 15th 2006 I purchased six Tesco’s luxury mince pies with brandy and butter, the best before date on the box was 23rd December 2006, two days before the big event!

How about this one then...  If the so-called "War on Terror" is going so well why am I still paying more a litre for petrol than I am for a litre of Tropicana Orange Juice?  Don’t get me wrong I think the war is totally unjust, but at the end of the day why should we not feel the benefit if we are stabilising the regime and the nation.

Tropicana petrol pump

Finally, and this will probably upset a lot of people within the flat earth community but what the heck.  The good old US of A was enacted by a misfit bunch primarily from England and surrounding countries (i.e. Europe).  The ruling classes didn’t care much for the taxation they had to pay so threw the mother of all hissy fits and declared a few self evident truths and thus was born the good old US of A.  So why in the nature of all that is holy is one nation based on liberty for all trying to impose its version of democracy on a region that has never contemplated voting let alone voicing their concerns without fear of torture or reprisals.


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Your last paragraph about Iraq is true. What's even more ironic is that the US of A criticised the genocide of the Kurds in Iraq and resolved to rid the world of this evil regime. They did so by attacking it with Apache helicopter gunships, ironically named after a race of indiginous people subjected to virtual genocide by the US of A.

Hypocrites of the highest order!
*The whole truth!  22-Feb-2007 12:31

 
Here in the UK life is cheaper than Oz. We kill people for absolutely no reason at all. We shoot them dead. They are blown up on the Tube or on buses. Dead. Licenced to kill.
*Bond  13-Feb-2007 23:56

 
Here in Australia, petrol costs a third of what it does in the UK. Diesel is more expensive than petrol, which I found a pretty strange concept at first.

Aside from what Euclid said about tax, you'll probably find that pretty much everything costs more in the UK than most other places in the world.
*NotHalleBerry  10-Feb-2007 23:09

 
is this a gripe, or the mutterings of a deranged pyscho?..... LOL
*Jimmy Wyld  10-Feb-2007 12:30

 
Bacon and Eggs! Or is Fried Green Tomatoes cooked in olive oil via recycled global warming? So many problems still! We wouldn't have all these problems if there wasn't technology. Just think would we have a pensions crisis if people just died younger? Or a war in Iraq if we didn't know or care where it was? Every problem solved by technology generates two new problems.

If man walked on the Moon why can’t we provide an easy way to open a packet of bacon? A sharp knife or a flint stone fashioned into a burin works fine everytime! Where's your ubiquitous, multipurpose Swiss knife?

Luxury mince pies with brandy and butter, sell by date = 23rd Dec. Well Tescos is actually a Jewish owned store. They celebrate Channukka, which is really earlier that Christmas.

Paying more for a litre for petrol than a litre of Tropicana Orange Juice? Petrol tax.

USA enacted by a misfit bunch primarily from England and surrounding countries. The ruling classes didn’t care much for the taxation. True but that taxation was primarily for paying for the wars with France. France owned half of North America at the time. Eventaully the USA got the Louisiana territories for cheap, otherwsie today most of North American would be speaking French and the whole of the West coast would be Spanish speaking.

A round Earth does not fit a square whole.
*Euclid  09-Feb-2007 20:38


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