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    I watched a film that said eating fish was causing ocean pollution and the eventual destruction of humanity. A spokesman from PETA said we should not kill the plague of mice currently eating Australian farm crops. Another said eating farmed meats was not sustainable if we want to halt climate change.
    We shouldn't use cement/concrete for the same reason. Eating wild meats introduces pandemics. Airconditioning and refrigeration cause global warming. Using wind farms or solar panels leaves unrecycleable toxic residue or windmill blades and hydro power diverts rivers and destroys the local and river ecology. So electricity is out. Cars and trucks are polluting the atmosphere.
    Human population growth is unsustainable so we need to start neutering the population. So far I've got to living in a grass hut alone without a cooking fire which is now not needed as we now have a diet limited to insects. (Obviously not bees, butterflies or other plant polinators).
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    Quote Originally Posted by JPPR2 View Post
    Yeah Cyrille, I say that's a HUGE win. Who in the hell wants to live to be near 80 or older anyway. I hope to check out long before then. Preferably with an outstanding Bourbon or Tequila in hand and not remembering who I am...
    Given your post content, I rather think you are fast achieving your ambition.

    I must say, I have not met that many folk who wanted less life available to them but of those I did encounter they were usually fucking idiots or mentally unwell.

    Or of course puerile nitwits mired in permanent adolescence.

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    Ouch. I'm right here SA.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Seekingasylum View Post
    Given your post content, I rather think you are fast achieving your ambition.

    I must say, I have not met that many folk who wanted less life available to them but of those I did encounter they were usually fucking idiots or mentally unwell.

    Or of course puerile nitwits mired in permanent adolescence.
    Well I find it amazing that people will spend a good part of their later life in misery and sacrifice to extend there life a few extra years. It makes absolutely no sense to me at all. I have known quite a few that continually bitch, piss and moan about all the things they have given up for the sake of potentially living a few more years. Its not that I want to reduce available life to me but I am very realistic that at say 75 to 85 life is not going to be blazing fun. So I am making a cognizant decision to enjoy life, eat what I like, do what I like now while I am quite capable.

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    Dude, a major part of it is having quality of life due to good health in old age, rather than a litany of ailments dragging down one's mood and very being for years.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Latindancer View Post
    rather than a litany of ailments dragging down one's mood and very being for years.
    This is your problem is it not? Has to be as you have been in a bad mood for many a year.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JPPR2 View Post
    Its not that I want to reduce available life to me but I am very realistic that at say 75 to 85 life is not going to be blazing fun. So I am making a cognizant decision to enjoy life, eat what I like, do what I like
    So your 'want' is kind of irrelevant, then.

    All you're really saying is 'Why worry, I could get hit by a bus tomorrow'.

    It's a little puzzling that you're taking up so much time saying something so straightforward, tbh.

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    Unthinking, stupid lumpen behaviour among the lower end and blue collar fraternity, so exemplified by many posters here on TD, is scarcely unusual but it seems to me to be irrevocably bound up in the one all-embracing theme trumpeted by them which is, life is all about having fun. And if you cannot have fun then you might as well die. Quite silly, really, but there it is.

    A human lifespan is infinitesimally short in terms of cosmic everythingness and as such has as much intrinsic value as a mayfly, and has no purpose except procreation. For the vast majority it offers little prospect other than drudgery and disappointment distracted by vacuous hope, the pursuit of ephemera and the nagging fear that things could, and will, get worse.

    Life is in truth an unsolicited prize in a lottery of inconsequence that for most amounts to little more than a walk-on part in an amateur theatre production facing a very uncertain run.

    And most of us just keep on going simply to see if there is a punchline to this cosmic joke.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    So your 'want' is kind of irrelevant, then.

    All you're really saying is 'Why worry, I could get hit by a bus tomorrow'.

    It's a little puzzling that you're taking up so much time saying something so straightforward, tbh.
    Yep Pretty much Cyrille. .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Seekingasylum View Post
    Unthinking, stupid lumpen behaviour among the lower end and blue collar fraternity, so exemplified by many posters here on TD, is scarcely unusual but it seems to me to be irrevocably bound up in the one all-embracing theme trumpeted by them which is, life is all about having fun. And if you cannot have fun then you might as well die. Quite silly, really, but there it is.

    A human lifespan is infinitesimally short in terms of cosmic everythingness and as such has as much intrinsic value as a mayfly, and has no purpose except procreation. For the vast majority it offers little prospect other than drudgery and disappointment distracted by vacuous hope, the pursuit of ephemera and the nagging fear that things could, and will, get worse.

    Life is in truth an unsolicited prize in a lottery of inconsequence that for most amounts to little more than a walk-on part in an amateur theatre production facing a very uncertain run.

    And most of us just keep on going simply to see if there is a punchline to this cosmic joke.
    Good Grief. Don't you ever get tired of your endless Thesaurus Diatribe? You're like a broken record in every single thread. You should work on some new material.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JPPR2 View Post
    Well I find it amazing that people will spend a good part of their later life in misery and sacrifice to extend there life a few extra years. It makes absolutely no sense to me at all. I have known quite a few that continually bitch, piss and moan about all the things they have given up for the sake of potentially living a few more years. Its not that I want to reduce available life to me but I am very realistic that at say 75 to 85 life is not going to be blazing fun. So I am making a cognizant decision to enjoy life, eat what I like, do what I like now while I am quite capable.
    Well, I do kind of understand where you are coming from. But there is a big difference between suddenly snarfing it at 45 or 50, and at 80 or 85.

    Personally, as I am largely on the "cut any decent shit out" wagon, a big part of it is my intention to be around long enough to see my kids graduate and establish themselves independently. For that, it seems worth it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
    All you're really saying is 'Why worry, I could get hit by a bus tomorrow'.
    Especially if you're walking around the streets of Birmingham.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nidhogg View Post
    Well, I do kind of understand where you are coming from. But there is a big difference between suddenly snarfing it at 45 or 50, and at 80 or 85.

    Personally, as I am largely on the "cut any decent shit out" wagon, a big part of it is my intention to be around long enough to see my kids graduate and establish themselves independently. For that, it seems worth it.
    I agree as well. I mean biting the bullet at 45 is not a life lived. I had my 2 daughters when I was quite young so they have been out and on their own now for some time. One is getting married soon. Both have college degrees. They are set. Now this is my time and my point I was making at my age I am not going to give up the things I enjoy that bring me pleasure because I could possibly eek out 3 or 5 more years on the back end. I just do not see it being worth it at all. Hypothetically speaking If some medical professional said. "Hey, if you give up steak and chips and beer and bourbon, eat fresh fruit, nuts, drink mineral water and take vitamins you will live to 80 but if you don't you will die at 75. I will take the 75 and be happy versus being a miserable old coffin dodger but living to 80.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Latindancer View Post
    Dude, a major part of it is having quality of life due to good health in old age, rather than a litany of ailments dragging down one's mood and very being for years.
    So how to get rid of SADs?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mendip View Post
    Especially if you're walking around the streets of Birmingham.
    He's been lost on Spaghetti junction for the past week

    Think he likes the view of Villa Park..

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    Quote Originally Posted by JPPR2 View Post
    miserable old coffin dodger
    We have a few of those on TD.

    Quote Originally Posted by Joe 90 View Post
    He's been lost on Spaghetti junction for the past week
    Oh, look who has slept off last night's bender.

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    Might have known you'd be on this thread like a car bonnet.

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