Horrors of late capitalism

[bowlinggreen]

Signs of late capitalism - that creepy internet spying that watches every site you visit and then for the next several days will bombard you with irrelevant ads based on sites you have visited.

Last week I visited a couple of religious sites to get some info I needed to post a reply to a debate thread on another forum. Now when I go here and there I am being cajoled to buy bibles and religious textbooks. I don't want a bible. Actually, even though I am not a believer, I already have a couple sitting around - family heirloom stuff.

Stop that, capitalist internet. Your desperation is showing.

[otokonomidori]

Originally Posted by xyzde69

But we all know that you are born in a country where men were used to wear a skirt. That probably explains a lot of things.

"Nothing is worn under the kilt - it's all in perfect working order!!"

[Roubignol]

Relocating our not recyclable garbages to African and Asian countries, where dictators never thought to build efficient structures or even better to refuse them.

[Old Jud]

Originally Posted by xyzde69

Relocating our not recyclable garbages to African and Asian countries, where dictators never thought to build efficient structures or even better to refuse them.

Mind you, to redress the balance Europe accepts some of the Asian and African countries garbage.

[bowlinggreen]

Originally Posted by xyzde69

Relocating our not recyclable garbages to African and Asian countries, where dictators never thought to build efficient structures or even better to refuse them.

Look on the bright side - all those poisons in our junk that the Third-Worlders are exposed to inevitably kill some of them off. It's a subtle form of population control. Every time you junk an old phone or computer and it goes off to one of those places you are helping to save the planet, in a dark sort of way.

[Roubignol]

Originally Posted by Old Jud

Mind you, to redress the balance Europe accepts some of the Asian and African countries garbage.

Yep. But only their rotten fruits and their vegetable peelings.

[otokonomidori]

Originally Posted by xyzde69

Yep. But only their rotten fruits and their vegetable peelings.

Quite a lot of bad eggs too !

[Old Jud]

Originally Posted by otokonomidori

Quite a lot of bad eggs too !

Naughty!..............But true!

[Roubignol]

Modern Tourism, mass tourism, low cost airplane companies.

In practice, the actual consumption of each international passenger (grouping medium and long distance) is of the order of 5 liters to 100 for a company having recent airplanes (type Air France/Luftansa/British Airways).

In these conditions, a family of four persons going on holiday from London burns for a round trip to:


Madrid: 420 liters of kerosene (about 3.5 barrels refined)
New York: 2100 liters of kerosene (about 13 barrels refined)
A safari in Kenya or Mozambique: 2500 to 2900 liters of kerosene
Los Angeles: 3650 liters of kerosene (about 23 refined barrels)
Rio de Janeiro: 3680 liters of kerosene (about 23 refined barrels)
Buenos Aires: 4430 liters of kerosene (about 27 refined barrels)
Bangkok: 3780 liters of kerosene (about 24 refined barrels)
Johannesburg: 3500 liters (about 22 refined barrels)
Bali: 4950 liters of kerosene (about 31 refined barrels)
Sydney: 6800 liters of kerosene (about 42 refined barrels)
Auckland: 7430 liters of kerosene (about 46.5 refined barrels)

For a person traveling under the same conditions alone, you divide these figures by 4 and for a couple, these figures by 2.

As example, what would you think if your neighbour (having 3 members in his family) would buy instead to travel to New York during 2 weeks, 13 refined barrels and burn them in front of his house... during the same period?

[otokonomidori]

Originally Posted by xyzde69

Modern Tourism, mass tourism, low cost airplane companies.


As example, what would you think if your neighbour (having 3 members in his family) would buy 13 refined barrels and burn them in front of his house... during the same period?

I'd think he was a daft c*nt!