Perspective.

Howard Roark · 24-11-2015 8:52pm #1

1990 was 40 years ago. We are closer to 2050 than we are to 1990. Just think about that.

We're closer to the hovercar than we are to moon landing I.

Cold War never ended when you really think it over.

Respect means less than it never did and money means more.

tell your loved ones what you think of them before it's too late because if you never try then they never did either.

fleet_admiral · 24-11-2015 8:53pm

Eh, 1990 was 25 years ago Doc

ArnoldJRimmer · 24-11-2015 8:54pm

fleet_admiral wrote: »

Eh, 1990 was 25 years ago Doc

How long have you been asleep?

fineso.mom · 24-11-2015 8:54pm

Ok.

But 1990 was only 25 years ago. Do I still need to tell people I love them ?

Dave0301 · 24-11-2015 8:55pm

I hope for your sake that there are calculators around in 2050.

fleet_admiral · 24-11-2015 8:55pm

ArnoldJRimmer wrote: »

How long have you been asleep?

Id a two hour kip from 5 to 7 this evening

Squall Leonhart · 24-11-2015 8:56pm

Is this just a random thread where we spout whatever fantasy we wish?

alchemist33 · 24-11-2015 8:57pm

ArnoldJRimmer wrote: »

How long have you been asleep?

You can talk, having been asleep long enough for a cat to evolve into a man!

Junkyard Tom · 24-11-2015 8:59pm

R U OK HUN? xx

Azrel · 24-11-2015 9:00pm

1990 wasn't 40 years ago, it was 140 years ago.

whatismyname · 24-11-2015 9:00pm

Howard Roark wrote: »

1990 was 40 years ago. We are closer to 2050 than we are to 1990. Just think about that.

Have thought about that.

Now stop trying to mess with our heads

La Fenetre · 24-11-2015 9:01pm

Drugs they do orNGE

PARlance · 24-11-2015 9:01pm

OP trying to give the impression that they're deep.

A form of perspective.

ArnoldJRimmer · 24-11-2015 9:02pm

alchemist33 wrote: »

You can talk, having been asleep long enough for a cat to evolve into a man!

And I can type a response, even as a hologram

5starpool · 24-11-2015 9:05pm

Living in the future must be great. Tell us about it OP.

Fleawuss · 24-11-2015 9:06pm

Bollixology

Junkyard Tom · 24-11-2015 9:12pm

Der ws dis man an he had such abad headache dey had to amputate he's head off so his body could get a brek frm d pain

Dats perspcetive

Howard Roark · 24-11-2015 9:13pm

Thanks for listening everyone.

24-11-2015 9:29pm

1990 is big, but 2050 is far away.

sonny.knowles · 24-11-2015 9:39pm

OP, which shares should we buy?

Howard Roark · 24-11-2015 9:41pm

sonny.knowles wrote: »

OP, which shares should we buy?

It's a bear market out there at the moment, I would look into Exxon, Shell, US treasury bonds and if you have a good bit of capital then gold.

I like the look of these new real estate investment trusts too but that's just me.

RayM · 24-11-2015 11:11pm

Father Ted is older now than Fawlty Towers was when Father Ted started.

NachoBusiness · 24-11-2015 11:16pm

OP, you've accidentally gone back in time 15 years.

Did you take a Delorean home instead of a taxi?

Son Of A Vidic · 24-11-2015 11:22pm

NachoBusiness wrote: »

OP, you've accidentally gone back in time 15 years.

Did you take a Delorean home instead of a taxi?

Oh they took something alright.

But I don't think it was a Delorean.

Eugene Norman · 24-11-2015 11:24pm

Howard Roark wrote: »

1990 was 40 years ago. We are closer to 2050 than we are to 1990. Just think about that.

We're closer to the hovercar than we are to moon landing I.

Cold War never ended when you really think it over.

Respect means less than it never did and money means more.

tell your loved ones what you think of them before it's too late because if you never try then they never did either.

That's all clod hopping sh1te, particularly the inability to count from 1990 but the greatest nonsense is that you date backwards to the moon landing and forwards to the introduction of a mythical hover car.

(Hover car should be here now in any case).

Mountainsandh · 24-11-2015 11:25pm

You didn't happen to lose a hat OP ? Black, woolly..

tomwaterford · 24-11-2015 11:31pm

Worst of all....I'm closer to 30 than 20

RayM · 24-11-2015 11:35pm

Dougal is now older than Ted. Lewis is older than Morse.

SoulTrader · 24-11-2015 11:35pm

tomwaterford wrote: »

Worst of all....I'm closer to 30 than 20

I'm closer to 30 than 20 too.

(I'm 33)

jimgoose · 24-11-2015 11:37pm

The notion of "Linear" time is rather odd and peculiar to Judaeo-Christian societies. Most of the World's great cultures have or had a cyclical view of time, a bit like a circular buffer Round-Robin-database type of thing-a-majigg.

The Backwards Man · 24-11-2015 11:40pm

jimgoose wrote: »

The notion of "Linear" time is rather odd and peculiar to Judaeo-Christian societies. Most of the World's great cultures have or had a cyclical view of time, a bit like a circular buffer Round-Robin-database type of thing-a-majigg.

Fancy meeting up for a pint last week?

jimgoose · 24-11-2015 11:43pm

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Fancy meeting up for a pint last week?

Sure. We've already done that in several parallel Universes, might as well do a couple more and get what astrophysicists call Quasared.

jamesbere · 24-11-2015 11:53pm

jimgoose wrote: »

The notion of "Linear" time is rather odd and peculiar to Judaeo-Christian societies. Most of the World's great cultures have or had a cyclical view of time, a bit like a circular buffer Round-Robin-database type of thing-a-majigg.

Hey this is a great excuse to use for been late for work, thanks.

jimgoose · 24-11-2015 11:58pm

jamesbere wrote: »

Hey this is a great excuse to use for been late for work, thanks.

The word "late" is abused and overused. Whether one is "late" or work is "early" depends entirely on your frame-of-reference.

Micky Dolenz · 25-11-2015 12:05am

Getting stoned used to be so much fun.

Austria! · 25-11-2015 12:08am

It's hard to believe that today was already 30 years ago.

Wibbs · 25-11-2015 12:09am

Newbs and doob, a baaaad combo.

colossus-x · 25-11-2015 12:18am

Whats "respect"?

TheLastMohican · 25-11-2015 1:11am

Hitchhiking The Galaxy One Last Time - Douglas Adams

'The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.'

valoren · 25-11-2015 11:29am

Zach Morris (Mark Paul Gosselaar) is now the same age as Mr Belding (Dennis Haskins) was during Saved by the Bell.

Duggy747 · 25-11-2015 11:39am

20 years ago Arnie and Stallone had just released True Lies and Demolition Man. 20 years from now they'll be nearly 90 and more than likely dead.

Johnny Depp & Brad Pitt will be in their 70's.

I'll still be talking shíte in my 50's

Hammer89 · 25-11-2015 12:20pm

Howard Roark wrote: »

1990 was 40 years ago. We are closer to 2050 than we are to 1990. Just think about that.

We're closer to the hovercar than we are to moon landing I.

Cold War never ended when you really think it over.

Respect means less than it never did and money means more.

tell your loved ones what you think of them before it's too late because if you never try then they never did either.

Brilliant post. So ahead of its time.

Whitewinged · 25-11-2015 2:08pm

I always wished that I was born on the ninth year of a decade.

I was born in the early 80s but if you were born in 1989, then you are only 26 but have lived within 4 decades, 80s, 90s, 00s and 10s. I know it means nothing but I just think it's kind of cool.

LDN_Irish · 25-11-2015 2:26pm

When the OP hits your eyes and it is a load of ****e

Thaaaaaat's perspective.

biko · 25-11-2015 4:19pm

The smallest bit of fact checking would have saved us all this thread.

endacl · 25-11-2015 8:02pm

Howard Roark wrote: »

Thanks for listening everyone.

I haven't listened yet. I plan to listen in 20 years time, when this will all make sense. Except now will be then have been. Or something.

endacl · 25-11-2015 8:03pm

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Fancy meeting up for a pint last week?

Don't you have a flight to catch a couple of days from yesterday?

Perspective.

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