Can anyone tell me the sense in a community tuning out it's household lights, while the streets remain fully illuminated?
What is the point, in a coal-fired, power-derived society of tuning out the house lights in the full and complete knowledge that coal continues to be fed to furnace fires to heat steam for turbines? Nothing changes, people! You can shut off your house lights and nothing happens!! Not a bloody thing! Emissions don't go down. Carbon dioxide isn't reduced. Turning off your lights for a hour has to be the most futile of symbolic gestures I've ever heard of.
Why not do something more productive. Breed frogs. Stop feeding wildlife in national parks. Don't throw your cigarette butt out of the car window. Get involved in solar cell technology by installing some on your roof. Make your own beer for crissakes!!!!
You think turning your lights out for an hour makes a dot of difference to the ultimate fate of the species and this planet we all live on? Wake the fuck up!!!!!!!!!
What do you think is too serious to joke around about?
The Iraq War. We know from the news that 4,000 American military lives have been wasted. What we don't know are the number of civilian lives - Iraqi and foreign - which have been squandered to suit the ideology of a tiny political elite inside American politics. It's not a joke. It's not something to respond to questions about by saying "So??". The entire scenario is a crime. Invasion was always illegal. Those who planned and perpetrated this gross display of human pride and ineptitude need to be held to account. Not just by history, but by the present. In the here-and-now. They need to be made to pay.
Until this week, I couldn't have told you who the wife of the French President was. I knew he had one, because of all the hoo-hah with the marriage shortly after he took office, but as for who she is - or was - I wouldn't have had a clue. Could have cared less as well.
Then this week we discover that she was actually a nineties supermodel, and she used to get her kit off as well. Not only that, a 1993 black-and-white portrait style photograph of her in the all together was to be auctioned off. Talk about 'attention getter'. There's quite a few shots of her around but very few good ones of the shot to be auctioned. I managed to find a reasonable one.
As B&W shots go, I guess it's okay. She looks awkward and posed and I'm not one for posed photos. She also looks very 'waifish' to me. Stilted. Small titties as well, but that's just me.
When you look at the current shots of her, she's clearly an incredibly attractive woman. At forty, her skin & complexion are flawless. Throw in the fact that she is also an accomplished singer/songwriter, and I'd suggest Nicolas Sarkozy is one privileged SoB, to use the American vernacular.
She's been around the block a few times as well, dating Eric Clapton (eewwww!), Mick Jagger (yuk!) and Donald Trump (pffft!) so it's reasonable to presume she likes older men. That said, she's also a cuckold, seducing the son of a man she was living with, who was also married, and subsequently having a son to him in 2001. Quite some lady. She is quoted as having stated, "Love lasts a long time, but burning desire - two to three weeks". Hot Tamales! Get 'em while they're hot!
Hey, to each their own, I say. As a man I have absolutely nothing against any woman who has the mind to know what she wants and the gonads to go get it. She's to be applauded, both for her openness and honesty. She's also to be applauded as a fantastically attractive woman in the prime of her life. Here's a few more shots I thought particularly attractive.
What do you most hate sharing with other people?
My time. It's too valuable to waste on other people. Lords know we get so little of it to ourselves and then others want to horn in on it. As Ford Prefect tells Arthur Dent, "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so". To me it's so illusory I seem to always have someone else wanting theirs and mine as well. Fuck off! Give me my space. If I want to share my time, I'll put up a sign saying so. Until then.....HTRJ.
What's the one thing you're most neurotic about?
Sexual performance, believe it or not. But then, aren't most men?
A woman was flying from Seattle to San Francisco. Unexpectedly, the plane was diverted to Sacramento along the way. The flight attendant explained that there would be a delay, and if the passengers wanted to get off the aircraft the plane would re-board in 50 minutes.
Everybody got off the plane except one lady who was blind. The man had noticed her as he walked by and could tell the lady was blind because her seeing eye dog lay quietly underneath the seats in front of her throughout the entire flight.
He could also tell she had flown this very flight before because the pilot approached her, and calling her by name, said, "Kathy, we are in Sacramento for almost an hour. Would you like to get off and stretch your legs?" The blind lady replied, "No thanks, but maybe Buddy would like to stretch his legs."
Picture this:
All the people in the gate area came to a complete standstill when they looked up and saw the pilot walk off the plane with a seeing eye dog!
The pilot was even wearing sunglasses. 
People scattered. They not only tried to change planes, but they were trying to change airlines!
True story... Have a great day and remember...
THINGS AREN'T ALWAYS AS THEY APPEAR.
A DAY WITHOUT LAUGHTER IS A DAY WASTED!!! 
Show us your favourite flower.
'tis easy. I don't have one, but an entire genera. Orchidaceae. I've not yet found an orchid flower I didn't like. They're all so different and all so very alluring. Here's a couple of mine, in flower right now.
I was bored beyond belief this arvo, so thought to watch a freebie online doco to pass the time. Which category to select.....decisions! decisions! I selected Geo-Politics and a doco about peak oil. After 15 minutes it wasn't telling me anything I didn't already know & frankly, was boring me even more than I'd been before it. I changed categories, selecting an ancient egyptian doco about the new kingdom era.
I found myself wondering if our civilisation will regress once fossil fuels are exhausted. We're supposedly past 'peak oil' now. Egypt prospered mightily without fossil fuels, although she thrived on the back of those who would have taken what she had, if she'd let them. Can it be possible in decades to come, that supposedly civilised empires, the likes of Europe and the US, not to mention Russia and China will stoop to waging wars of both conquest and defence in the drive to secure what they have, and seize what they need from those who have it?
What of nations like my own? The worlds largest island continent, securely isolated by ocean, but open to aerial incursion. Although, in days of zero fossil fuels, will any nation have the capacity to mount a viable air force? This raises other questions. Will nations have air forces, if viable fuels don't exist to power them? Evidence the ex-Soviet air forces post 1991. Aircraft atrophied from lack of use and adequate servicing, not to mention sheer lack of roubles to pay for their fuel. Times have changed somewhat, with massive investment into finding her own fossil fuel reserves and processing it, but nothing lasts forever.
Will the rarefying of viable fossil fuel substitutes make waging war a near impossibility on current scales? Will such an inability change power balances towards those nations better able to mount weight-of-numbers assaults? China, for example? Unfortunately, I find myself believing that our so-called civilisation will shatter as the pressures of dwindling fossil fuels grow. Only the rich and powerful will have access. Military collectives will hold sway on the pathetically weak excuse of providing security in national interests. We, the simple people, will probably still have reasonable lives, but cultures will change irrevocably. The freedoms to come and go as & when we please, which someone such as myself has today, will be severely restricted because travel costs energy. We'll eat and have housing, but I suspect more resources then ever will be directed towards food production and energy creation than are currently the case.
In short, I believe so-called human civilisation will change, becoming something we'd never contemplate tolerating today. Will we be worse off? In many cases, I suspect so, but the changes will be insidiously gradual, and we'll be conned and coerced by politicians into believing that all changes are inevitable, and for our greater good. Trust us, they'll say. Sound familiar? I wonder what the common people of Egypt thought and felt about their lives?
If you could go back and change one thing you've done in your life, what would it be?
Submitted by Devinoid.
In 1972 I won a cadetship to study drafting at the Queensland Institute of Technology (now the Queensland University of Technology). I enjoyed what was then called, 'technical drawing' as a subject, but didn't have any understanding of what drafting was. The education system didn't provide any guidance either. It was simply a matter of "Hey, you've won a cadetship. You wanna take it up, or not?" Of course, being entirely ignorant of just what I'd won, I opted out. I only found out years later that what I'd won would have seen me eligible to enter a vast field of studies leading to architectural, engineering and design professions. Instead, I joined a bank, taking up a job secured for me by my parents through a friend who was high up in the bank at the time.
Where would I be today? Would I be happier? Would I be better off financially? Would I have lived the life I've lived to date, seen the things I've seen and done the things I've done? It's a complete unknown, but I'd sure as hell like to know. The message to me over the past 36 years has been to always make your own decisions. Never allow others to decide what's best for you.
