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TheJudge Flag 15 Aug 15 10.13am

Firstly, don't worry about it.

I am 51 and I have had to fight in no wars, I have always had a roof over my head and had enough to eat. For me, the world so far has been good, but all things are relative.

Is the world getting measurably worse ?

Depends on who and where you are and what you value I suppose.

I seriously doubt that the World is worse than it has been in the past for the majority in any measurable sense.

 

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View Pikester's Profile Pikester Flag Worthing 15 Aug 15 11.39am Send a Private Message to Pikester Add Pikester as a friend

Quote Pawson Palace at 14 Aug 2015 11.57pm

I think its getting better but in todays social media/tele comms society we just hear a lot more bad things much sooner than via traditional methods.


Pretty much agree. A lot more of the world is living in comparative luxury compared to say 60 years ago.

However that means now that all some people have to worry about is the semi-finalist on X Factor has a cousin who once stole a packet of wine gums from the local Spar shop.

I sometimes read a news item that then links to the Daily Mail website and realise there are whole swathes of people who are obsessed with the celebrity culture, or spend their entire lives on Facebook or spend £1000 on a kitchen tap because it's the same one Kim Kardashian has.

And then I start to think maybe society has gone as far as it can. Instead of worrying about surviving or putting a meal on the table people are buying clothes they'll hardly ever wear and food they'll probably throw away. We've lost our purpose and seem to be filling our lives with crap because everything is so easily available. *

*Except for me - I have a deep and meaningful life full of football and internet p***.

 


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View matt_himself's Profile matt_himself Flag Matataland 15 Aug 15 12.52pm Send a Private Message to matt_himself Add matt_himself as a friend

Quote Pikester at 15 Aug 2015 11.39am

Quote Pawson Palace at 14 Aug 2015 11.57pm

I think its getting better but in todays social media/tele comms society we just hear a lot more bad things much sooner than via traditional methods.


Pretty much agree. A lot more of the world is living in comparative luxury compared to say 60 years ago.

However that means now that all some people have to worry about is the semi-finalist on X Factor has a cousin who once stole a packet of wine gums from the local Spar shop.

I sometimes read a news item that then links to the Daily Mail website and realise there are whole swathes of people who are obsessed with the celebrity culture, or spend their entire lives on Facebook or spend £1000 on a kitchen tap because it's the same one Kim Kardashian has.

And then I start to think maybe society has gone as far as it can. Instead of worrying about surviving or putting a meal on the table people are buying clothes they'll hardly ever wear and food they'll probably throw away. We've lost our purpose and seem to be filling our lives with crap because everything is so easily available. *

*Except for me - I have a deep and meaningful life full of football and internet p***.


I thought your view of the World was that the Pyramids, the Apollo space programme, the Hoover Dam, the Great Wall of China and invention of antibiotics pale into insignificance compared to the provision of amateur MILF gonzo p*** on xHamster?

 


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View Pikester's Profile Pikester Flag Worthing 15 Aug 15 1.03pm Send a Private Message to Pikester Add Pikester as a friend

Quote matt_himself at 15 Aug 2015 12.52pm

Quote Pikester at 15 Aug 2015 11.39am

Quote Pawson Palace at 14 Aug 2015 11.57pm

I think its getting better but in todays social media/tele comms society we just hear a lot more bad things much sooner than via traditional methods.


Pretty much agree. A lot more of the world is living in comparative luxury compared to say 60 years ago.

However that means now that all some people have to worry about is the semi-finalist on X Factor has a cousin who once stole a packet of wine gums from the local Spar shop.

I sometimes read a news item that then links to the Daily Mail website and realise there are whole swathes of people who are obsessed with the celebrity culture, or spend their entire lives on Facebook or spend £1000 on a kitchen tap because it's the same one Kim Kardashian has.

And then I start to think maybe society has gone as far as it can. Instead of worrying about surviving or putting a meal on the table people are buying clothes they'll hardly ever wear and food they'll probably throw away. We've lost our purpose and seem to be filling our lives with crap because everything is so easily available. *

*Except for me - I have a deep and meaningful life full of football and internet p***.


I thought your view of the World was that the Pyramids, the Apollo space programme, the Hoover Dam, the Great Wall of China and invention of antibiotics pale into insignificance compared to the provision of amateur MILF gonzo p*** on xHamster?

That's true to a certain extent old chap - amateur MILF gonzo p*** on xHamster has so damaged my eyesight that I'd barely be able to see the Great Wall of China.

Although I'll admit antibiotics have got me out of a squeeze on more than one occasion.

 


You fed me, you bred me, I'll remember your name.

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View Jacey's Profile Jacey Flag 15 Aug 15 1.23pm Send a Private Message to Jacey Add Jacey as a friend

If we should lose tomorrow and sell Gayle this transfer window,I would definitely say things are getting worse in the world!!

Regards.

 

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Quote Pikester at 15 Aug 2015 11.39am

Quote Pawson Palace at 14 Aug 2015 11.57pm

I think its getting better but in todays social media/tele comms society we just hear a lot more bad things much sooner than via traditional methods.


Pretty much agree. A lot more of the world is living in comparative luxury compared to say 60 years ago.

However that means now that all some people have to worry about is the semi-finalist on X Factor has a cousin who once stole a packet of wine gums from the local Spar shop.

I sometimes read a news item that then links to the Daily Mail website and realise there are whole swathes of people who are obsessed with the celebrity culture, or spend their entire lives on Facebook or spend £1000 on a kitchen tap because it's the same one Kim Kardashian has.

And then I start to think maybe society has gone as far as it can. Instead of worrying about surviving or putting a meal on the table people are buying clothes they'll hardly ever wear and food they'll probably throw away. We've lost our purpose and seem to be filling our lives with crap because everything is so easily available. *

*Except for me - I have a deep and meaningful life full of football and internet p***.


no mention of thigh boots, pikester.
slipping

 


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Then leave home, get a job & pay your own bills, while you still know everything.

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Quote kingdowieonthewall at 15 Aug 2015 1.28pm

Quote Pikester at 15 Aug 2015 11.39am

Quote Pawson Palace at 14 Aug 2015 11.57pm

I think its getting better but in todays social media/tele comms society we just hear a lot more bad things much sooner than via traditional methods.


Pretty much agree. A lot more of the world is living in comparative luxury compared to say 60 years ago.

However that means now that all some people have to worry about is the semi-finalist on X Factor has a cousin who once stole a packet of wine gums from the local Spar shop.

I sometimes read a news item that then links to the Daily Mail website and realise there are whole swathes of people who are obsessed with the celebrity culture, or spend their entire lives on Facebook or spend £1000 on a kitchen tap because it's the same one Kim Kardashian has.

And then I start to think maybe society has gone as far as it can. Instead of worrying about surviving or putting a meal on the table people are buying clothes they'll hardly ever wear and food they'll probably throw away. We've lost our purpose and seem to be filling our lives with crap because everything is so easily available. *

*Except for me - I have a deep and meaningful life full of football and internet p***.


no mention of thigh boots, pikester.
slipping


I don't want to get typecast!

But let's not turn this into a 'Pikester' thread there are far more worthy.. etc. etc.

 


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View Red-Blue-Yellow's Profile Red-Blue-Yellow Flag Surrey 15 Aug 15 1.52pm Send a Private Message to Red-Blue-Yellow Add Red-Blue-Yellow as a friend

Worse
Limited Resources
Ever Uncreasing Demand
More Destructive Wars
Unstable Climate
Increasing Social Injustice
Rapidly Eroding Rights and Privacy
Stephen Mulhearn

 


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View Osvaldo's Profile Osvaldo Flag Epsom 15 Aug 15 2.10pm Send a Private Message to Osvaldo Add Osvaldo as a friend

The last 100 years has seen this world spiral out of control. The first WW was a war to end all wars!
Man has a habit of forgetting tragedies and it's just as well if they don't learn from them!

 

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nickgusset Flag Shizzlehurst 15 Aug 15 2.11pm

It all went to s*** when they stopped making party sevens.

 

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Quote nickgusset at 15 Aug 2015 2.11pm

It all went to s*** when they stopped making party sevens.


Chicken and egg, those pointy ended openers ceased to be at the same time.... Could not open the evaporated milk either!

 


Most certainly not European.

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View johnno42000's Profile johnno42000 Flag 15 Aug 15 3.41pm Send a Private Message to johnno42000 Add johnno42000 as a friend

The world is f*cked. My advice is take up any religion that believes in re-incarnation, take a break in the otherworld for a few thousand years, let the powers that be use the nukes and come back to a new paradise.

 


'Lies to the masses as are like fly's to mollasses...they want more and more and more'

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