Things that won't be around in 10 years

lisajane

My youth (even though il be 37 in 10 years time).

RMD

ART6 wrote: »

At the next election FF will scrape back into power backed by a small group of desperate Greens, who will then insist on an environmental protection agenda that will result in the following:

All motor vehicles banned with the exception of ministerial cars.

Horse transport will not be permitted a substitute as horses fart methane and contribute to climate change. Mushrooms will no longer exist because they need horse manure to grow, and there won't be any horses. Over the ten year period all surviving horses will be exported to France, where they will be eaten.

Oil or gas fired central heating will be banned and householders with solid fuel fires will be obliged by law to brick them up. People will be advised to keep warm by taking regular exercise. The sick, elderly, or disabled who can't do that will be entitled to claim a warm blanket each on the Welfare State.

Air travel will be taxed punitively to the extent that one air fare to the UK will be the same price as buying an aircraft. Ryanair and Aerlingus will close down and Micheal O'Leary will face a long prison sentence for inciting travel.

All public transport will be electrified using power from wind turbines. People will then only be able to get to work on windy days.

No new roads will be built, anywhere. They will no longer be necessary as there will be no vehicles. Instead the network of public footpaths will be vastly extended and it will be possible, and encouraged, for people to use them to commute daily from Cork to Dublin. That will permit them to work for half an hour every fifth day, and that will dramatically reduce the carbon footprint of commerce and industry.

Tesco, Dunnes Stores, Superquinn etc will have long gone and been forgotten since there wil have been no means of transporting the products they used to sell. Farmers will become used to selling all their produce at the farm gate, and people will do their shopping using the expanded public footpath network, carying bags made from biodegradable natural fibres designed to spontaneously decompose in a mild rain shower.

Televisions, electric cookers, microwaves etc will be a distant memory due to their power demand and carbon footprint. All cooking will be carried out on open fires in the middle of the kitchen, and using a minimal (and closely regulated) amount of carbon neutral renewable fuel such as wood chip or camel dung. Casually using that facility to keep warm will be interpreted as posing a threat of public obesity, and so local authority inspectors will be employed to ensure that no cooking fire is used for more than ten minutes a day.

As a result of these initiatives most of the attributes of modern society will be long gone in ten years, but the Civil Service will have expanded enormously in order to administer the Green laws. Ireland will again become a green land but will be limited to only three shades of green rather than the forty in the interests of the environment, since too much planting will release carbon from the soil and aggrevate climate change.

So there. Better boil the kettle now for tomorrow you might not have one:D

Sounds like Stalin's setting the Green's new enviromental policies.

df1985

wild tigers, polar bears etc. such a shame.

dubai will be a ghost town.

The Express

The packet of chicken kievs in the fridge!

Mars Bar

The ice caps...

TheScribbler

The half bottle of maraschino cherries in my fridge will probably still be there 10 years from now but not so sure about the fridge

g-whizz

brummytom wrote: »

Thatcher


*crosses fingers*

do you know what you're talking about or just jumping on the bandwagon like most of them?

piby

Ringsend

Rising sea levels will have gotten it by then!

TheScribbler

g-whizz wrote: »

do you know what you're talking about or just jumping on the bandwagon like most of them?

I agree

imeddyhobbs

kids loose on the road?

imeddyhobbs

Jobs

TheScribbler

Can we hope that political corruption will have been eradicated by then? It seems to have become an industry

imeddyhobbs

TheScribbler wrote: »

Can we hope that political corruption will have been eradicated by then? It seems to have become an industry

It's only getting started ya big eejit
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If you are not a terrorist then you must be a carbon traitor


Which one are you?

TheScribbler

I know it is straying off the point but we are entering an era where democracy was a nostalgic experiment. We are into a new era of elected dictatorships. What difference will a decade bring? More of the same or a superstate version? As for me I will look for an atoll somewhere and collect conch shells

imeddyhobbs

TheScribbler wrote: »

I know it is straying off the point but we are entering an era where democracy was a nostalgic experiment. We are into a new era of elected dictatorships. What difference will a decade bring? More of the same or a superstate version? As for me I will look for an atoll somewhere and collect conch shells

You're the bad guy.

Sharpshooter

imeddyhobbs wrote: »

kids loose on the road?

Kids are not things.

imeddyhobbs wrote: »

It's only getting started ya big eejit
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If you are not a terrorist then you must be a carbon traitor


Which one are you?

Watch it.

SupaDupaFly

Stupid Fcukin Play Tv :mad:

OutlawPete

SupaDupaFly wrote: »

Stupid Fcukin Play Tv :mad:

Hope that phone bill doesn't come this side of Christmas for ya

imeddyhobbs

Sharpshooter wrote: »

Kids are not things.

They are when you run over them.They wont be around in 10 years after that.

brendansmith

imeddyhobbs wrote: »

They are when you run over them.They wont be around in 10 years after that.

Dude, Whats with the attitude?

Sharpshooter

imeddyhobbs wrote: »

They are when you run over them.They wont be around in 10 years after that.

Do not post in this thread again.

If you do it will result in a ban.

daveharnett

Plastic cards
Car keys
Most of the traditional news media
Desktops computers (for the most part) - mobile devices will be 50-100 times faster than today
Data/power cables for most electronic devices
High street banks
Broadcast tv (give or take)
Chinese communism
TVs will be 3d, monitors will be replaced by 'minority report' style displays
Corporate sponsorship of sports - advertising will be radically different

And one of the following:
Israel
Most of the middle east
The concept of state religions

OutlawPete

My sanity ..

sdanseo

Cash and cheques
Brian Cowen (burnt at stake)
Most tv series except possibly fair city which we just cant seem to get bloody rid of
Petrol, Diesel and Coal will be wasted
Minister of Transport will be renamed Minister of Arsing About(but with our luck it'll still be Noel Dempsey)
Half the population of Ireland will be gone to live elsewhere at this rate

Run_to_da_hills

Cash will be completely replaced by mobile phones and smart cards, transactions will be so transparent that crime and fraud will be almost eliminated.

The Internet as we know it will be killed off. Censorship, IP tracking and data retention will put a lot of people off using it.

Media censorship will also be widespread.

The Tricolour will be replaced by an international flag and some tune by Beethoven will be the anthem. :mad:

Fago!

piby wrote: »

Ringsend

Rising sea levels will have gotten it by then!

Ah ballbags.

The Al Lad

me granny ...(well, probably not anyway, fair play if she is:P)

TheScribbler

Inflation linked pensions wont exist in 10 years

brummytom

g-whizz wrote: »

do you know what you're talking about or just jumping on the bandwagon like most of them?

Who are 'most of them'? I know my politics, I know my history.

That 'woman' ruined this country, I won't be shedding a tear when she goes. Might get out the party poppers though

patwicklow

bertie will he be about in ten years??

Mike 1972

Chinese communism

Been gone for ~20 years

Seloth

white dog poo...that stuff was everywhere...now you rarely see it so it'll probably be extinct by then.

jumpguy

Tungsten Light Bulbs
Any sprays
Petrol pumps
Turf
Sweets
Good TV

orourkeda

The irish economy wont be here.

Seloth

orourkeda wrote: »

The irish economy wont be here.

Hopefully jokes that have been said 20 times over wont be either :rolleyes:

MelissaLahive

The middle class

Bandit12

Head shops

Misty Chaos

Me living in Ireland, I will have left for elsewhere, the sooner the better!

USA will lose its super power status. Welcome China as our new Super Power!

Baring Hard Drives, almost all hard media will be gone, taking rental stores with them!

Excise duty on booze, it will be so depressing to live here, the government will have to do away with excise duty on booze to keep us drunk constantly as we live in an overtaxed and over stretched, bankrupt country. Like I said, I'll hopefully be gone from Ireland by then!

Irish trade unions, they'll be crushed and wound up next year.

At least one of my grandmothers, if not, I'll be shocked. Can't say I'm looking forward to having to deal with those, though.

McDonalds in Ireland, for the exact same reasons they pulled out of Iceland.

Kynareth

Misty Choas wrote: »

Baring Hard Drives, almost all hard media will be gone, taking rental stores with them!

What about Microsoft's Xbox Live type thing for movies, I'd say stores like that will spring up all over the place.

and me living in Ireland also, Bring on the games programming! Ohhh yeahhh.

Quint

OutlawPete wrote: »

Liberty Hall

I have very found memories of the place.

When I was 16 we all went to celebrate our Inter results and I met a girl in the pub next door and had some sexy fun.

Tucked into the corner between Liberty Hall and The Liffey Bar where the fire exit is was one of the best hours of my life.

Grolsch played it's part too

http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/1008/libertyhall.html

You should have started a seperate thread to tell everyone you had sex

asdasd

The theory of AGW.

jdivision

Newspapers could well be gone.

TheScribbler

jdivision wrote: »

Newspapers could well be gone.

Sadly you may well be right about that

trish23

Global warming... Can't take too much more of this snow...