Big things you would change if you could

[Ralphie]

Having to eat animules for sustenance, and to burn up all our fossil fules by driving everyfrickenwhere.  Oh yeah, and while we're at it, let's get rid of war and terrorism and senseless killing and work, too.

- signed, John Lennon Jr.

As far as what I can do if I don't like these things and want to change the world, I guess I could become a vegetarian and activist, but I a mostly concerned that it just is this way, the way of the wild.  I would have designed things differently.   For instance, propulsion would be by non-polluting dilithium crystals.  And we'd have very tasty food pills (dogfood-like, I guess. )

 

[Some Old Guy]

I think our biggest problem (the elephant in the room no one ever addresses) is population.  We need less people on this planet.  Less population would solve a lot of problems.

[Ralphie]

1 hour ago, Tim Burr said:

I think our biggest problem (the elephant in the room no one ever addresses) is population.  We need less people on this planet.  Less population would solve a lot of problems.

It is amazing how we have adapted to what we have now.  And interesting that all the 19th century predictions of impending doom due to population explosion never really happened.

Unless maybe you count all the excess CO2 from cars, now that we have played Peter Frampton and shown China the way.

BTW, speaking of Frampton, where the flock is @AirwickWithCheese?

[Road Runner]

19 minutes ago, RalphWaldoMooseworth said:

interesting that all the 19th century predictions of impending doom due to population explosion never really happened.

Global warming with all of it's enormous impact and massive starvation looming on the African continent as the population there explodes.  Just to name a few.

[MickinMD]

I wish I could make it so that politicians can't accept large donations from PAC's, unions, wealthy, etc. and no out-of-state donations for in-state-only elections and that political campaigning is restricted to within 6 months of an election so that the elected officials would not be so owned by an oligarchy.

[maddmaxx]

There were about 140 million people in the country when I was born.  Today an additional 120 million is close to doubling that figure.  An important component of that increase is in the form of urban population leaving many of the rural folks out in the cold.

[Ralphie]

1 hour ago, MickinMD said:

I wish I could make it so that politicians can't accept large donations from PAC's, unions, wealthy, etc. and no out-of-state donations for in-state-only elections and that political campaigning is restricted to within 6 months of an election so that the elected officials would not be so owned by an oligarchy.

NJs gubernatorial election choices make me ill. 

[Zephyr]

If I had a big thing, I wouldn't want to change it.

[BuffJim]

Cmon people think bigger. 

Id get rid of the DH (not that DH) and the infield fly rule. 

[Zephyr]

I infield fly is a legit rule, you cannot have a play you cannot defend against.

get rid of the fair catch rule on punts.  Pussies.

[Dirtyhip]

21 minutes ago, BuffJim said:

Cmon people think bigger. 

Id get rid of the DH 

HEY!

 

[Airehead]

How about pollutant free, practical transportation is eliminated and we really achieve whirled peas.

[The_Karen_Cooper_Incident]

We to free Kekistan.

DK

[Dirtyhip]

How about being able to live in a world where people respect each other.

I want to live in a place where we care about the environment, a place where people won't take what doesn't belong to them, and a place where politicians aren't so greedy and corrupt.

 

[Ralphie]

1 hour ago, BuffJim said:

Cmon people think bigger. 

Id get rid of the DH (not that DH) and the infield fly rule. 

I'd just go ahead and get rid of baseball altogether.

 

[donkpow]

I've always admired the ancient cultures for their respect to the planet. It would be a different place if we had retained the idea of living with the planet instead of on it.

[Dirtyhip]

I wish that men would stop rating women by their looks.  It's degrading. 

[Wilbur]

17 minutes ago, Dirtyhip said:

I wish that men would stop rating women by their looks.  It's degrading. 

But they are so pretty!  

[Wilbur]

I would eliminate countries, borders and religions.  

[shootingstar]

Everyone gets good health care with no direct fee (remember Canadians do still have to pay for certain things), counselling with no direct fee, housing to be warm and for good sleep.

[Road Runner]

30 minutes ago, Dirtyhip said:

I wish that men would stop rating women by their looks.  It's degrading. 

Yeah, like women don't care about men's looks.  

[Dirtyhip]

17 minutes ago, Road Runner said:

Yeah, like women don't care about men's looks.  

Don't roll your eyes at me.  I think it is rude.

There is physical attraction.  I won't deny that.  However, how often do you see the gals here talk about rating men by their looks, like a number system?  How many Men's attractiveness pageants are there?  How often do we post sexual stuff about men and their looks?   Do we have a men in suits thread?  Do we have a men in speedos thread? 

[Road Runner]

10 minutes ago, Dirtyhip said:

Don't roll your eyes at me.

[Wilbur]

12 minutes ago, Dirtyhip said:

Don't roll your eyes at me.  I think it is rude.

There is physical attraction.  I won't deny that.  However, how often do you see the gals here talk about rating men by their looks, like a number system?  How many Men's attractiveness pageants are there?  How often do we post sexual stuff about men and their looks?   Do we have a men in suits thread?  Do we have a men in speedos thread? 

At my age they grade men on long they have to put up with us.   

[Further]

If you're going to dream, dream big

 

 

[maddmaxx]

7 hours ago, Dirtyhip said:

Don't roll your eyes at me.  I think it is rude.

There is physical attraction.  I won't deny that.  However, how often do you see the gals here talk about rating men by their looks, like a number system?  How many Men's attractiveness pageants are there?  How often do we post sexual stuff about men and their looks?   Do we have a men in suits thread?  Do we have a men in speedos thread? 

I suppose that world is simply an imaginary one then?

Not.

[Longjohn]

What big things would you change if you could?

i would change my socks, when I had the broken hip I couldn’t reach to change my socks. My wife had to change them for me. It’s much nicer being able to do it myself.

[Ralphie]

15 hours ago, Wilbur said:

I would eliminate countries, borders and religions.  

John!

 

[Voodoo Child]

Personally, I should have finished my college degree, and applied it.

[Dirtyhip]

7 hours ago, maddmaxx said:

I suppose that world is simply an imaginary one then?

Not.

Again, back to what I said:  

"There is physical attraction.  I won't deny that.  However, how often do you see the gals here talk about rating men by their looks, like a number system?  How many Men's attractiveness pageants are there?  How often do we post sexual stuff about men and their looks?   Do we have a men in suits thread?  Do we have a men in speedos thread?"

The girls around here don't post this kind of stuff.  Hope you had fun looking for a picture to make a point that it moot. 

I've never hired a stripper, nor gone to a male stripper venue.  As a matter of fact, I have never been to a Bachelorette party that involved a male stripper.  I think it is more rare than you might think.  

[donkpow]

9 minutes ago, Dirtyhip said:

I've never hired a stripper, nor gone to a male stripper venue.  As a matter of fact, I have never been to a Bachelorette party that involved a male stripper. 

Me neither.

[Wilbur]

10 minutes ago, Dirtyhip said:

I have never been to a Bachelorette party that involved a male stripper.

I have.  I need to put that night in the deepest corners of my memory again.  Thanks DH!   

[Road Runner]

24 minutes ago, Dirtyhip said:

Do we have a men in speedos thread?"

Of course not.  Men in speedos look ridiculous.

[maddmaxx]

1 hour ago, Dirtyhip said:

Again, back to what I said:  

"There is physical attraction.  I won't deny that.  However, how often do you see the gals here talk about rating men by their looks, like a number system?  How many Men's attractiveness pageants are there?  How often do we post sexual stuff about men and their looks?   Do we have a men in suits thread?  Do we have a men in speedos thread?"

The girls around here don't post this kind of stuff.  Hope you had fun looking for a picture to make a point that it moot. 

I've never hired a stripper, nor gone to a male stripper venue.  As a matter of fact, I have never been to a Bachelorette party that involved a male stripper.  I think it is more rare than you might think.  

It wasn't that difficult.  Women in offices all over (I'm trusting womaxx's experience here) often make jokes about chippendales and others.  Perhaps you have led a sheltered life, but beefcake is probably just as popular as pinups.

 

There are Chippendale calendars, Chippendale coffee cups............worse, they are more acceptable in some offices than a playboy bunny coffee cup would be.

[Prophet Zacharia]

2 hours ago, maddmaxx said:

It wasn't that difficult.  Women in offices all over (I'm trusting womaxx's experience here) often make jokes about chippendales and others.  Perhaps you have led a sheltered life, but beefcake is probably just as popular as pinups.

 

There are Chippendale calendars, Chippendale coffee cups............worse, they are more acceptable in some offices than a playboy bunny coffee cup would be.

Can we just acknowledge that both are wrong? 

[Square Wheels]

I would have studied in college, and for my MCATs and gone to med school.  Oh well.