Uncomfortable truths about modern life?

Permabear · 23-05-2017 10:07PM

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Beyondgone · 23-05-2017 10:09PM

Outlaw Pete wrote: »

The Chinese are implanting tiny microscopic listening devices in all western children's finger tips via fidget spinners.

That's a lie. They plant them in phones.

Yourself isit · 23-05-2017 10:11PM

Birneybau wrote: »

Manners have gone to fcuk and it drives me mad. Pricks just walking past when you hold a door open. I have actually started saying 'You're welcome'. I may appear mad, but rather mad and mannerly.

Now I'm nearly 40 and I think people are getting more polite. Feral underclass excluded but they were never polite.

Yourself isit · 23-05-2017 10:12PM

Permabear wrote: »

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Indeed. Smart work is the thing.

23-05-2017 10:14PM

Knowing the right people with a mediocre standard of work gives you a far better chance of getting ahead than being good at your job and working hard.

AnnaStezia · 23-05-2017 10:14PM

Crime does seem to pay.....

Birneybau · 23-05-2017 10:19PM

Yourself isit wrote: »

Now I'm nearly 40 and I think people are getting more polite. Feral underclass excluded but they were never polite.

I work in an office block and besuited people of both your and mine age are the main culprits.

milltown · 23-05-2017 10:19PM

Yourself isit wrote: »

Now I'm nearly 40 and I think people are getting more polite. Feral underclass excluded but they were never polite.

Pre-empted my reply ^

Ireland has a huge class problem.

Birneybau · 23-05-2017 10:20PM

This place used to be interesting.

Biggest lickspittle on boardz · 23-05-2017 10:21PM

Hard work, talent, and decency are no longer required for success. In fact, some workplaces see them as weaknesses. Ass kissing, back stabbing, and sneakiness seem to be rewarded in a lot of modern offices. The bosses want a bastard who would knife their own granny.

CalamariFritti · 23-05-2017 10:22PM

Eyes Down Field wrote: »

True but the planet will be fine. The people on it are f*cked. We are peasts on the surface, It's only a matter of time before we destroy ourselves or the earth destroys us.
The earth will live on long after mankind is dead.

While that is true it's not a good excuse to carry on anyway. Its still horrible that we **** up species and ecosystems that are a product of millions of years of evolution.

How anyone can just carry on with everything and have children as if nothing is happening and all will be good... I don't know how they all do it tbh.

Beyondgone · 23-05-2017 10:23PM

AnnaStezia wrote: »

Crime does seem to pay.....

Yup, but the lifestyles crap. It looks good looking in, but inside, it's crap. That one, age and experience has taught me. It's priceless going to bed knowing you're ok and no ones on the way to slot you. 6am comes every day for every criminal. 6am is when the cops call. No crim sleeps well at 6am. It's like their alarm clock. There's always that day when there's the hard knock. That wears thin. Guitarists sleep through till 11. Coders can too, because they're all night-owls. Sleeping well is priceless.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 23-05-2017 10:23PM

People think that their views/opinions and experience are typical of the country, or world, in general but they are usually wrong.

pumpkin4life · 23-05-2017 10:24PM

IQ is the single most powerful predictor of life outcomes in the social sciences, and yet is 70% or so genetic. You're pretty much born dumb, average, intelligent etc; virtually nothing you can about it in all honesty.

Also there are IQ differences between different ethnic groups, sometimes vast.

Same thing with attraction. You're not good with women or men because you're a nice person, or charismatic or to a great extent anyway. You're pretty much stuck at that level with whatever partner you can get and there's very little you can do about it.

Basically a lot of what is worst about you cannot be changed, or is very very hard to do so. Genetics play a far bigger role in your life than yous would like to admit.

Logo · 23-05-2017 10:25PM

AnnaStezia wrote: »

Crime does seem to pay.....

Yeah. In the best little country to do business... if you know where the skeletons are... and bunsen burner is a good little earner at the tax payer expense. Yeah. Justice prevails in this little country... if you were sat next to the judge in secondary school.

D0NNELLY · 23-05-2017 10:25PM

It makes no real difference if the vast majority of the population of the planet exists it not.

tracey turnblad · 23-05-2017 10:26PM

Being a cnut pays off being nice doesn't.

I feel like being Cnut because being nice for me just gets me heaps more ****... one Cnut I know is living the life while I have to pick up the pieces... I didn't ask for any of it... and what annoys me even more is I just can't be a Cnut cause I'm a sap

Aongus Von Bismarck · 23-05-2017 10:27PM

People will judge you on your appearance and what you wear. Rocking up to work in a hoodie, combats and 'cons' might be grand if you work in a tattoo parlour, craft beer pub, or as a low-level code monkey/support drone in an IT company. However your one-fingered disdain for the norms of dressing in an appropriate manner for your age and desired role will have consequences.

pangbang · 23-05-2017 10:29PM

pumpkin4life wrote: »

IQ is the single most powerful predictor of life outcomes in the social sciences, and yet is 70% or so genetic. You're pretty much born dumb, average, intelligent etc; virtually nothing you can about it in all honesty.

Also there are IQ differences between different ethnic groups, sometimes vast.

Same thing with attraction. You're not good with women or men because you're a nice person, or charismatic or to a great extent anyway. You're pretty much stuck at that level with whatever partner you can get and there's very little you can do about it.

Basically a lot of what is worst about you cannot be changed, or is very very hard to do so. Genetics play a far bigger role in your life than yous would like to admit.

Half agree. Most of what makes us is hardwired. BUT determination and clarity of vision can make a huge difference. Its the combination of both positives that's unstoppable, or the combination of both negatives that's unavoidable.

As for attraction, there are so many non-biological things at play, "attraction" itself is not pre-determined.

MilesMorales1 · 23-05-2017 10:33PM

Social Media is fake, utter nonsense, rubbish. I've no idea why we put so much store into it.

pangbang · 23-05-2017 10:35PM

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

Social Media is fake, utter nonsense, rubbish. I've no idea why we put so much store into it.

It will be the pied pipers song for leading us into the next world war.

RayCon · 23-05-2017 10:37PM

Consume or conserve .... you can't do both.

D0NNELLY · 23-05-2017 10:37PM

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

Social Media is fake, utter nonsense, rubbish. I've no idea why we put so much store into it.

The Likes are akin to heroin.

pangbang · 23-05-2017 10:39PM

D0NNELLY wrote: »

The Likes are akin to heroin.

Did you get the buzz there? hmmmmmmm oooohhohhhhhh

D0NNELLY · 23-05-2017 10:40PM

pangbang wrote: »

Did you get the buzz there? hmmmmmmm oooohhohhhhhh

That's the shït

23-05-2017 10:40PM

pumpkin4life wrote: »

IQ is the single most powerful predictor of life outcomes in the social sciences, and yet is 70% or so genetic. You're pretty much born dumb, average, intelligent etc; virtually nothing you can about it in all honesty.

Also there are IQ differences between different ethnic groups, sometimes vast.

Same thing with attraction. You're not good with women or men because you're a nice person, or charismatic or to a great extent anyway. You're pretty much stuck at that level with whatever partner you can get and there's very little you can do about it.

Basically a lot of what is worst about you cannot be changed, or is very very hard to do so. Genetics play a far bigger role in your life than yous would like to admit.

Agreed....some of the things I criticise my father for (who I'm not particularly close to) I find myself doing them myself without thinking.

Not being so close to him in my mind would preclude an influence he has on me, and in fact would drive me to try and do things differently....but I still fall into the same mindset as him sometimes. Have only recently realised this so hopefully will make me more self aware from now on.

Beyondgone · 23-05-2017 10:51PM

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

People will judge you on your appearance and what you wear. Rocking up to work in a hoodie, combats and 'cons' might be grand if you work in a tattoo parlour, craft beer pub, or as a low-level code monkey/support drone in an IT company. However your one-fingered disdain for the norms of dressing in an appropriate manner for your age and desired role will have consequences.

I rock up wearing a hoodie, **** combats and trainers. I'll happily wager I could buy and sell you, your suit and your financed apartment.

Never judge a book by its cover.

greencap · 23-05-2017 10:58PM

Most of your stuff was made in slave like conditions. But you don't care.

You don't really give a toss about those natural disasters and genocides you hear about, at most you spout some hot air and act all high and mighty for a few minutes, but thats about it. Long as they're not white.

You're too much of a wussy to kill the food you eat. So some poor fcker in an abattoir does it for you, probably gradually going nuts along the way.
You'll throw half of it in the bin.

If you eat sausage, oh good lord do you eat all sorts of nastiness, bits of nose and tail and butthole.

Nobody will remember you in a couple of generations. Even those people who got their stars on hollywood blvd are totally forgotten these days, they thought they'd be remembered somehow but nobody knows or gives a tiny rats ass - I mean you'd walk over their name and be like Maevis WHO, Gladstone WHO. Gone with the what. Then you scratch your hole and send a text.

Life has a price. Foreign aid might be an example, I mean we could probably do some good stuff, save lives, prevent suffering and war, but we'd prefer a motorway.

edit;

you can barely make it in the cozy modern western lifestyle. you wouldn't last a day in the poverty most of the rest of the world lives in.

Yourself isit · 23-05-2017 11:36PM

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

People will judge you on your appearance and what you wear. Rocking up to work in a hoodie, combats and 'cons' might be grand if you work in a tattoo parlour, craft beer pub, or as a low-level code monkey/support drone in an IT company. However your one-fingered disdain for the norms of dressing in an appropriate manner for your age and desired role will have consequences.

Didn't work for mark zuckerberg.

Ulysses Gaze · 23-05-2017 11:38PM

By consuming the vast quantities of oil we do, we are funding the terrorism we see in Europe.

Uncomfortable truths about modern life?

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