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Re: What WON'T you miss?

Unread postby cube » Sat 19 Jul 2008, 02:05:57

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Mominator', '.')..
Is it ok to be annoyed at my suburbanite neigbor who leaf blows her entire lawn?

Buy a rake, lady.
How often does she turn that thing on....once a week at most?

If that's the greatest "bad neighbor horror story" you can muster I'm envious of you.
You are "lucky" to have such a good neighbor.
I can think of much worse.
Again like I said before, at least it's being used for work.
I can think of much worse things to waste a non-renewable resource on.

Do you know what annoys me?
Parasitic people who free-load off their parents.
They expect mommy and daddy to pay for their:
1) college
2) wedding
3) down payment for house
4) free day care for their kids
I look forward to the day when society expects a 30 year old to act like an adult.
PO = the end of cheap energy = the end of economic surplus = the end of parents having any surplus money to keep treating their 30 year old "child" like a teenager. :roll:
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Re: What WON'T you miss?

Unread postby Jenab6 » Sat 19 Jul 2008, 10:43:05

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('seldom_seen', 'A')nother vote for leaf blowers.

I've actually found a use for these things. On the evening of Halloween, rake up a pile of leaves and put your leaf blower inside it, trailing the power cord to an outlet on the side of your house near where you'll be handing out the candy and bubblegum. When some little tots come skipping past the leaf pile, plug in the blower and scare the stuffing out of them! Works on teens, too.

My vote is for (or, rather, against) multikulturalizm. Bleh!
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Re: What WON'T you miss?

Unread postby Mominator » Sat 19 Jul 2008, 14:59:53

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('cube', '
')If that's the greatest "bad neighbor horror story" you can muster I'm envious of you.
You are "lucky" to have such a good neighbor.
I can think of much worse.
Again like I said before, at least it's being used for work.

:roll: It wasn't a "bad neigbor horror story". It was what I thought to be a funny use of a leaf blower. :roll:
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Re: What WON'T you miss?

Unread postby Mominator » Sat 19 Jul 2008, 15:36:00

Don't poopoo extended family/multigenerational living. It could be a big help in powering down and there's nothing wrong with it in and of itself.
Go ahead and poopoo people who don't pull their own weight though.
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Re: What WON'T you miss?

Unread postby Cashmere » Sat 19 Jul 2008, 18:57:39

Fat people.

I'm looking forward to meeting their tougher, leaner, inner people.
Massive Human Dieoff <b>must</b> occur as a result of Peak Oil. Many more than half will die. It will occur everywhere, including where <b>you</b> live. If you fail to recognize this, then your odds of living move toward the "going to die" group.
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Re: What WON'T you miss?

Unread postby Cashmere » Sat 19 Jul 2008, 19:02:43

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('cube', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Mominator', '.')..
Is it ok to be annoyed at my suburbanite neigbor who leaf blows her entire lawn?

Buy a rake, lady.
How often does she turn that thing on....once a week at most?

If that's the greatest "bad neighbor horror story" you can muster I'm envious of you.
You are "lucky" to have such a good neighbor.
I can think of much worse.
Again like I said before, at least it's being used for work.
I can think of much worse things to waste a non-renewable resource on.

Do you know what annoys me?
Parasitic people who free-load off their parents.
They expect mommy and daddy to pay for their:
1) college
2) wedding
3) down payment for house
4) free day care for their kids
I look forward to the day when society expects a 30 year old to act like an adult.
PO = the end of cheap energy = the end of economic surplus = the end of parents having any surplus money to keep treating their 30 year old "child" like a teenager. :roll:


Come now. Parents who do a lousy job of raising their children deserve the free-loaders they produce.

It's one of the most perfect pay-back mechanisms in nature that I've ever seen.
Massive Human Dieoff <b>must</b> occur as a result of Peak Oil. Many more than half will die. It will occur everywhere, including where <b>you</b> live. If you fail to recognize this, then your odds of living move toward the "going to die" group.
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Re: What WON'T you miss?

Unread postby darwinsdog » Sat 19 Jul 2008, 19:03:41

I dread the day my 21 year old son leaves home (youngest kid, his big sister & brother are out & on their own). Who's going to climb way the hell up trees to prune branches? Who's going to swing the 12 lb. sledge for splitting wood? Me?!? You've got to be kidding !!
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Re: What WON'T you miss?

Unread postby Ferretlover » Sat 19 Jul 2008, 20:57:26

I'm not going to miss stupid, clueless people, and jeez, are there an awful lot of them.
"Open the gates of hell!" ~Morgan Freeman's character in the movie, Olympus Has Fallen.
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Re: What WON'T you miss?

Unread postby Carlhole » Sat 19 Jul 2008, 21:14:09

Commercials and advertising everywhere - and if peak oil doesn't kill it, I hope something else does.
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Re: What WON'T you miss?

Unread postby mystiek » Sat 19 Jul 2008, 21:19:50

cbxer, sounds like these parents need some lessons in tough love.
You need to start early-my 10 year old son told me the neighbor girl (who is 10 years old) told him she wants to marry him and then they will move in with us. Oh boy, I am reprogramming that thought.
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Re: What WON'T you miss?

Unread postby Toploader » Sun 20 Jul 2008, 02:58:26

Watching close family, friends, and society as a whole destroy themselves either knowingly or unknowingly with: drink, drugs, cigarettes, antidepressants, junk food, meaningless causal sex, brainwashing video games, TV, and what ever else they need to convince themselves that they are free and happy.

I know I’ll never live to see the other side (even if I survive the die-off/purging, it’s unlikely I’ll live long enough to see anything but mass human suffering) I’m still glad this craziness is coming to an end.
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Re: What WON'T you miss?

Unread postby skeptik » Sun 20 Jul 2008, 06:50:57

McDonalds. There again they might have morphed into a 1930's style chain of soup kitchens and still be around.

McSoup - bowl of thin watery soup with a few lumps of McMeat and a bit of cabbage floating around, plus a breadroll, for the very reasonable price of $50
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Re: What WON'T you miss?

Unread postby Kingcoal » Sun 20 Jul 2008, 07:50:21

Reading through the posts, I'm detecting that some people think that post peak will be a sort of Utopian reprieve from human nature. People will still lust after power, material things, sex, drugs, rock and roll and all the other frivolous diversions humans love. The only thing that will be different is the lack of "energy financing," which people take absolutely for granted today.
"That's the problem with mercy, kid... It just ain't professional" - Fast Eddie, The Color of Money
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Re: What WON'T you miss?

Unread postby Toploader » Sun 20 Jul 2008, 11:43:17

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Kingcoal', 'R')eading through the posts, I'm detecting that some people think that post peak will be a sort of Utopian reprieve from human nature. People will still lust after power, material things, sex, drugs, rock and roll and all the other frivolous diversions humans love. The only thing that will be different is the lack of "energy financing," which people take absolutely for granted today.


Fair point, but you seemed to have overlooked how modern media has pushed many more people into many more extreme ways of living. And most of the time these said humans do not love these diversions, they are just trying to numb the pain from living in a very shallow culture that promotes disconnection. (thus keeping the powerful, more powerful)

I don’t see a utopia, but I see something more real and much more human (when the dust settles), should we still exist and bio diversity not completely destroyed by war, bioweapons or simply just from the waste run off that will come when the machine stops functioning.

Then again I’m happy to admit I probably just need to think that something good will come out of the energy/climate apocalypse to keep going ('roll')
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Re: What WON'T you miss?

Unread postby bonehead » Sun 20 Jul 2008, 13:02:51

I will not miss:The anti-abortion debate and the thought process that got Bush elected in 2000.When people start starving,we'll get a chance to see how cheap life really is.
Gimme some demand destruction.
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Re: What WON'T you miss?

Unread postby cube » Sun 20 Jul 2008, 21:15:55

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Toploader', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Kingcoal', 'R')eading through the posts, I'm detecting that some people think that post peak will be a sort of Utopian reprieve from human nature. People will still lust after power, material things, sex, drugs, rock and roll and all the other frivolous diversions humans love. The only thing that will be different is the lack of "energy financing," which people take absolutely for granted today.


Fair point, but you seemed to have overlooked how modern media has pushed many more people into many more extreme ways of living.
Let society take accountability for their own actions.
I've noticed that blaming Big corporations is a popular pastime on this forum. It's probably the 2nd most popular pastime people have in their lives or maybe even the first! :roll:
I once opened my mouth and said the world is the way it is because we made it that way.....or perhaps we allowed it to become that way.
*scratches chin and thinks deeply*
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for anybody who's read my posts you'll notice that I'm quite the doom sayer however I have never "blamed" big oil, big government, etc--->my position has always been "society made a choice".
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Re: What WON'T you miss?

Unread postby plainjane6476 » Sun 20 Jul 2008, 23:19:44

One thing that I miss now, that will come back... is the old shoe repair guy. I just can't wait to see shoe repair shops prospering again!
..and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.- Gandalf
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Re: What WON'T you miss?

Unread postby Keith_McClary » Mon 21 Jul 2008, 02:20:08

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('plainjane6476', 'O')ne thing that I miss now, that will come back... is the old shoe repair guy. I just can't wait to see shoe repair shops prospering again!

Our old cobbler died, nobody wanted to be the new cobbler. I don't know what happened to his equipment ("last")?. We are in mountains where boots get used, but modern boots are glued, not sewn. I glue my own boots - I don't think I would need a cobbler.
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Re: What WON'T you miss?

Unread postby Keith_McClary » Mon 21 Jul 2008, 02:32:31

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ferretlover', 'I')'m not going to miss stupid, clueless people, and jeez, are there an awful lot of them.
Are there less of them here on PO?

And BTW i like your ferret photo better than your current Avatar.
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Re: What WON'T you miss?

Unread postby MidwesternMom » Tue 22 Jul 2008, 16:55:43

This one sounds strange, but my neighbors trash. Every week, a few neighbors wheel their carts down to the end of their driveway and the thing is packed full and then they proceed to bring more to set next to it. It drives me nuts. Meanwhile i wheel my cart down with one small kitchen bag in it, why do i have to pay the same amount as them anyway? So in essence, the throw away culture, where is 'away' anyway? Do my neigbors know?

Well manicured lawns.

TV.

Fast food

Marketing specifically for children, please stop brainwashing our kids to buy products, clothes, gizmos and gadgets please.
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