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Post by Afgncaap5 on Oct 16, 2012 14:23:43 GMT -5
Man, I cannot wait for the twenties to get here.
I'm gonna listen to jazz and ragtime and invest heavily in stock and do the Charleston all night long, man! It'll be nice to have less Justin Beiber (or whatever pop singer is big in the next eight years) off the radio to let some good legitimate bands (who actually play instruments...) onto the airwaves.
I confess that I'm not going to enjoy Prohibition coming back, though. We might do without that this time... I mean, I don't really drink myself, but it's always fun to hit the bars with friends for karaoke night. And I wouldn't know the first thing about finding a speakeasy.
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Post by Crowfan on Oct 16, 2012 15:22:34 GMT -5
That's great, except we're all dying in 2012.
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Post by nondescript spice on Oct 16, 2012 15:54:17 GMT -5
if the mayans don't get me, let it be cheap bathtub hooch.
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Post by Crowfan on Oct 16, 2012 15:57:47 GMT -5
I'll see what I can do.
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Post by afriendlychicken on Oct 16, 2012 16:51:52 GMT -5
I can't wait for the movies. Getting rid of the sound will improve them immensely!
And the return of the gangsters with Al Capone:
Oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy...
Now that I think about it I think I'll have some non-alcoholic hooch.
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Post by Mitchell on Oct 16, 2012 17:17:32 GMT -5
I hope Fatty Arbuckle hides his beef within you.
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Post by Don Quixote on Oct 16, 2012 21:40:00 GMT -5
I hope his shoes weren't the only thing that were oversized...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2012 16:10:45 GMT -5
"Like myself, the 20's ultimately went to the dogs." Marie Prevost
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Post by mummifiedstalin on Oct 17, 2012 17:33:14 GMT -5
I don't understand any of this. So alcohol required a ponch and vest in the 20's? Where was the vomit and shame?
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Post by Don Quixote on Oct 17, 2012 17:58:20 GMT -5
In the brothels.
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Post by nondescript spice on Oct 17, 2012 19:11:43 GMT -5
my plan is to drink absinthe with fitzgerald, catch syphilis from chaplin and spend the remainder of my life trying on hats.  |
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Post by Don Quixote on Oct 17, 2012 20:18:23 GMT -5
I have to admit, I really love these "WHAT THE FUTURE WILL BE LIKE" videos humanity makes every decade. There's some very charming optimism going on in this one. And those ship designs aren't too far afield from what we have now. |
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Post by Afgncaap5 on Oct 18, 2012 3:14:31 GMT -5
Aye. Every so often people try to imagine what the world will be like after the next singularity event and the predictions tend to be charming (and, sometimes, occasionally accurate to a degree). I still say the biggest singularity so far was the introduction of the mass-produced automobile just by how the infrastructure changed, but the internet and computers are a close second. And, of course, the AI/quantum computing thing that's expected in the next few decades.
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Post by Afgncaap5 on Oct 18, 2012 3:18:20 GMT -5
That's great, except we're all dying in 2012. Look, I know that you're concerned about how the Balkan War is going at the moment, the situation is dire indeed and threatens to spill out and kill us all (plus this time around the Balkan War has a touchy nuclear angle that is, admittedly, nerve-wracking), but I predict that this particular Balkan War will end. |
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Post by Crowfan on Oct 18, 2012 15:47:36 GMT -5
I think some little thing in the Balkans could lead to catastrophe.
Oh and I got a letter from the Black Hand. It sounds cool, so I'm going to join.
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