If you could get rid of ONE thing in the......

Paddy_Smith · 06-04-2011 2:25am #1

If you could get rid of ONE thing in the world, apart from anything violent in any way or even anything natural, what would you get rid of???

Mine?
Simple answer: Facebook..(There would be no more talk about it. It would be a dream come true).

hondasam · 06-04-2011 2:26am

Paddy_Smith wrote: »

If you could get rid of ONE thing in the world, apart from anything violent in any way or even anything natural, what would you get rid of???

Mine?
Simple answer: Facebook..(There would be no more talk about it. It would be a dream come true).

you would get rid of facebook but keep boards, what is the difference ?

Potential-Monke · 06-04-2011 2:26am

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Paddy_Smith · 06-04-2011 2:29am

hondasam wrote: »

you would get rid of facebook but keep boards, what is the difference ?

Well to be honest, there actually is a difference. Not going to go into it though, too tired.

Caoimhín · 06-04-2011 2:29am

Irrational beliefs in deities.

Topper Harley · 06-04-2011 2:37am

Paddy_Smith wrote: »

If you could get rid of ONE thing in the world, apart from anything violent in any way or even anything natural, what would you get rid of???

Mine?
Simple answer: Facebook..(There would be no more talk about it. It would be a dream come true).

Wow, you really, really don't like facebook.

I'd get rid of anyone wearing pyjamas in public. Not really one thing, but in getting rid of all those eejits I'd be getting rid of one ridiculous fad.

Links234 · 06-04-2011 2:41am

I'd get rid of accidentally biting the inside of your own cheek.

TeddyTedson · 06-04-2011 2:41am

mobile phones.
I love to be alive in the 80's to experience life before all this technology (I was actually alive in the 80's but not for long)

Saila · 06-04-2011 2:43am

greed

OutlawPete · 06-04-2011 2:53am

Smug atheists.

Savage Tyrant · 06-04-2011 2:53am

Katie Price... Or Kerry Katona... Or the fuckers that keep buying magazines with their mugs on the covers...

kieran26 · 06-04-2011 2:55am

the countrys debt?????

anyone??

ok i'll get my coat

RichieC · 06-04-2011 2:56am

The second law of thermodynamics.

crazypanda · 06-04-2011 3:00am

Alarm clocks.

Potential-Monke · 06-04-2011 3:09am

The-Rigger wrote: »

It's not a case of soon, it's a case of rape be aberrant.

I looked that up, and my little head still can't understand it... :-/

nicmarie · 06-04-2011 3:12am

paedophiles!

blackdog2 · 06-04-2011 3:54am

My hatred of using squat toilets, had the most satisfying dump ever on one a few days ago, but they just look...wrong

hondasam · 06-04-2011 4:45am

politicians

AskMyChocolate · 06-04-2011 4:50am

Caoimhín wrote: »

Irrational beliefs in deities.

You're right. Whatever about the Atkins one, that F-plan one was a complete fcuking farce.

AskMyChocolate · 06-04-2011 4:54am

OutlawPete wrote: »

Smug atheists.

I'll see your smug atheists, and I'll raise you two smug married couples.

AskMyChocolate · 06-04-2011 5:06am

Poverty.

No, actually strike that, War... aah who am I trying to fcuking kid? I'd get rid of the foil on Dairylea, DairyGold, DairyYoreMa or any spread in a tub.:mad:

Why do I just keep peeling it back a little bit instead of ripping the fcuker off from the word get-go?:(

mawk · 06-04-2011 5:06am

the lack of zombies

Kiva.D · 06-04-2011 5:54am

hondasam wrote: »

politicians

I agree.

R0ot · 06-04-2011 6:09am

The idea of Reality tv shows.

myflipflops · 06-04-2011 6:10am

Jedward.

yoshytoshy · 06-04-2011 6:16am

Nuclear power in Japan.

Biggins · 06-04-2011 7:29am

Complacency.

MagicMarker · 06-04-2011 7:33am

Children.

PeterIanStaker · 06-04-2011 7:44am

Religion

and money.

Knight who says Meh · 06-04-2011 8:05am

OutlawPete wrote: »

Smug atheists.

And correct people generally?

maximoose · 06-04-2011 8:08am

Those f*cking Go Compare ads

RachaelVO · 06-04-2011 8:21am

TeddyTedson wrote: »

(I was actually alive in the 80's but not for long)

Why what happened that is wasn't for long??? Did you die? :pac:

Biggins · 06-04-2011 8:25am

OutlawPete wrote: »

Smug atheists.

We're only smug 'cos we right all the time!

jackiebaron · 06-04-2011 8:48am

TeddyTedson wrote: »

mobile phones.
I love to be alive in the 80's to experience life before all this technology (I was actually alive in the 80's but not for long)

YOu know how I got in touch with my friends in the 80's? I called round to their houses...IMAGINE!! If their mother told me they were out, I went off out myself and found them and we chatted and mucked about for hours rather than being indvidually cooped up in our respective bedrooms, sealed off from the world and texting or messaging each other in some chat room. If I went to the pub after lectures in the late 80's the considerate thing to do was to drop 20p into the pub payphone and ring home telling my ma I was having a few scoops with mates and so not to wait up and not to make a dinner for me or put a plate of meat and spuds to the side and I'd eat it when I got home. She would have no way of contacting me, you see.

MidlandsM · 06-04-2011 8:50am

*****

I'd get rid of them.

06-04-2011 8:52am

jackiebaron wrote: »

YOu know how I got in touch with my friends in the 80's? I called round to their houses...IMAGINE!! If their mother told me they were out, I went off out myself and found them and we chatted and mucked about for hours rather than being indvidually cooped up in our respective bedrooms, sealed off from the world and texting or messaging each other in some chat room. If I went to the pub after lectures in the late 80's the considerate thing to do was to drop 20p into the pub payphone and ring home telling my ma I was having a few scoops with mates and so not to wait up and not to make a dinner for me or put a plate of meat and spuds to the side and I'd eat it when I got home. She would have no way of contacting me, you see.

A friend has taken to calling/texting from her mobile when she's standing outside the fcuking house. I asked her why she won't use the doorbell - that's what it's there for - shrug.
:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

RachaelVO · 06-04-2011 8:53am

jackiebaron wrote: »

YOu know how I got in touch with my friends in the 80's? I called round to their houses...IMAGINE!! If their mother told me they were out, I went off out myself and found them and we chatted and mucked about for hours rather than being indvidually cooped up in our respective bedrooms, sealed off from the world and texting or messaging each other in some chat room. If I went to the pub after lectures in the late 80's the considerate thing to do was to drop 20p into the pub payphone and ring home telling my ma I was having a few scoops with mates and so not to wait up and not to make a dinner for me or put a plate of meat and spuds to the side and I'd eat it when I got home. She would have no way of contacting me, you see.

Was that the same thing as turning up when you said you were going to turn up, and being on time, and not texting that you'll be 20 mins late... all that sorta thing. I bloody well remember it well

jackiebaron · 06-04-2011 9:16am

RachaelVO wrote: »

Was that the same thing as turning up when you said you were going to turn up, and being on time, and not texting that you'll be 20 mins late... all that sorta thing. I bloody well remember it well

Indeed. I was usually late when meeting my college mate at Trinity Front gate. But usually he anticipated this and nipped into O'Neills on Sufflok Str. for a swift ale. If when I arrived at front gate and he wasn't there then the pub was the logical default. Never missed each other on a night in four years. Can you imagine taking the mobiles off a group of punks today and then having them organise meeting up for a night on the town. Feckers would be screwed. Even if they did manage to all get together (probably take an hour) they'd be frightened to even go to the jacks or dance with a girl for fear of not being able to find the group again through frantic texting.

languagenerd · 06-04-2011 9:21am

The X-Factor!

Scripted, auto-tuned, predictable tripe.

Angron · 06-04-2011 9:56am

Fake tan, or the people who use it so much, they turn orange.

RachaelVO · 06-04-2011 10:12am

jackiebaron wrote: »

Indeed. I was usually late when meeting my college mate at Trinity Front gate. But usually he anticipated this and nipped into O'Neills on Sufflok Str. for a swift ale. If when I arrived at front gate and he wasn't there then the pub was the logical default. Never missed each other on a night in four years. Can you imagine taking the mobiles off a group of punks today and then having them organise meeting up for a night on the town. Feckers would be screwed. Even if they did manage to all get together (probably take an hour) they'd be frightened to even go to the jacks or dance with a girl for fear of not being able to find the group again through frantic texting.

Yep, the good ol "if we get seperated spot" we always had one, it just made sense... Even now when I'm out, if my phone goes, I rarely hear it. My view is, is that I'm out with friends, and taking a phone call while I'm with those friends sorta diminishes the fact that I'm with them and not who ever is calling/texting me...

I'm with ya, lets get rid of mobiles!!!!