Summarise the current state of the world in one sentence.

dr.bollocko

See I've been on Mars, in a cave, with my fingers in my ears for the past 20 years.

I now need your assistance to quickly formulate an understanding of what things are like right now.

I'll go with a TS Eliot quote. We live in a world "distracted from distraction by distraction".

holystungun9

Thank me, thank me, thank me, look at me, look at me, look at me, look at my pouty photos, look at me having the 'craic'.

landsleaving

Mostly water, some land, no more dinosaurs.

Death and Taxes

"Th' whole worl's in a terrible state o' chassis" (Sean O'Casey)

efb

Flux.

woodoo

The rich shall continue to be rich the poor can eat cake.

Prodigious

Tomorrow, tomorrow and tomorrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day.

L.Jenkins

It's only a dogs bollícks of a planet.

Kidchameleon

Death and destruction.

One word - Bankrupt

BBDBB

Its life Jim, but not as we know it

Sh1tbag OToole

It's terrible, Joe

foxinsox

Well, it's quite wet in some places whereas other places are rather hot.

Standard Toaster

Sharon Curley's up the pole, did ye hear?

My name is URL

Still the best place on Earth.

The King of Moo

Roundish.

meath4sam

Blue and green and goes round and round all day long.

KDII

Is there anything to be said for saying another mass?

Cee-Jay-Cee

In the 23rd Century, Earth is a member of the United Federation of Planets, a peaceful alliance of democratic worlds that runs a ‘Starfleet’ of space vessels to patrol the final frontier of space.

galwayrush

Same old ****e happening to new people.

BASHIR

Well Cher won an Oscar and Sonny's a congressman.

pipelaser

Standard Toaster wrote: »

Sharon Curley's up the pole, did ye hear?

Hey Baby its the Georgy Porgey..... Let me tell ya where I been, Let me tell ya where I been

Death and Taxes

The oil ran out, the Chinese overtook everyone, politicans are still crooked, and its warmer than it was, but thats not a good thing at all!

An Coilean

Much ado about nothing.

Gloomtastic!

I'm fooked, you're fooked, we're all fooked!

Mardy Bum

One step forward, two steps back.

TheUsual

Jedward.

Can I join you on Mars ?

Chuck Stone

Same ****, different decade.

Archeron

Last stop for deep fried mars bars until Alpha Centauri.

Pig Benis

A shower of bastards.

holystungun9

holystungun9 wrote: »

Thank me, thank me, thank me, look at me, look at me, look at me, look at my pouty photos, look at me having the 'craic'.

To those of you who have left thanks,...er...thanks.

Manach

O tempora, o mores.

Sunnyisland

We are all waiting for tomorrow but tomorrow never comes...

cosbloodymick

Jaysus, where did all those humans come from!

Odats

Robbing Peter to pay Paul but Paul is never paid.

b.harte

A lot done, more to do

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, "The King and I" and "The Catcher in the Rye"

Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser aand Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

Roy hn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, dacron
Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock"

Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev
Princess Grace, "Peyton Place", trouble in the Suez

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, "Bridge on the River Kwai"

Lebanon, Charlse de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide

Buddy Holly, "Ben Hur", space monkey, Mafia
Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go

U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, "Psycho", Belgians in the Congo


Hemingway, Eichmann, "Stranger in a Strange Land"
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion

"Lawrence of Arabia", British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex
JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodsto/ck/, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

"Wheel of Fortune", Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide
Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law
Rock and roller cola wars, I can't take it anymore


Wait............wait.......wrong Century, sorry OP!

DonkeyStyle \o/

"Because I'm worth it."

Rayne Wooney

That money was just resting in my account.

Praetorian Saighdiuir

People now have more respect and admiration for "Reality TV celebrities" than people who actually contribute to the moving forward of civilisation.

Eve_Dublin

Probably as bad as it always was only we've invented stuff now to rub it right in our faces in our own homes more often.

GoldenLight

In answer too the OP question.

"the world is like a bold parent, thinking they are right (and trying to prove it), even though it's children can actually see how wrong that parent is (it's like demanding respect, when we all know we earn respect).

End of my sentence.

Fromthetrees

But there's no toilet in here.

Jacob T

F u c k e d - u p

Hunchback

Fromthetrees wrote: »

But there's no toilet in here.

sliding into mass extinction, the like of which we haven't seen for 65 million years

Chemical Burn

dr.bollocko wrote: »

See I've been on Mars, in a cave, with my fingers in my ears for the past 20 years.

I now need your assistance to quickly formulate an understanding of what things are like right now.

I'll go with a TS Eliot quote. We live in a world "distracted from distraction by distraction".

We're bollixed.

Ah_Yeah

'Tis a fine barn, but 'tis no pool, English.

Burky126

Evidently Chickentown.

BASHIR

"People would pay more to be entertained than educated." Jonny Carson

TeddyTedson

I'm not really sure what's going on but for the most part it's ****ing boring.

Czarcasm

dr.bollocko wrote: »

See I've been on Mars, in a cave, with my fingers in my ears for the past 20 years.

I now need your assistance to quickly formulate an understanding of what things are like right now.

I'll go with a TS Eliot quote. We live in a world "distracted from distraction by distraction".

Dr. B you are now the smartest person in the world-