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Some 2020 hindsight.
"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."
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An annus horribilis indeed ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Things don't change just because the calendar flips a page.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Why does the calendar have anything to do with it?
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Because you don’t get 2021 vision
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Too soon, man, too soon.
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We are still in October!
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hence the title of his post "Looking forward"....forward. Implying it has not happened yet. future.
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Yes Slacker007, I read that. It's 2.5 months still to cross 2020 and thus might be too early - it is for me. (again, depends on person to person: tomorrow is also future and so is 2022)
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Personally, I'd be happy if the last 4 years were irrevocably erased from the temporal stream.
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I'd be happy if the last 106 years were erased. Perhaps the second time round, the Europeans power might use the brains God supposedly gave some of them, and avoid both World Wars.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Perhaps the second time round, the Europeans power might use the brains God supposedly gave some of them, and avoid both World Wars.
Quite so!
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With all that's going on, it's only going to get worse.
Maybe ten or twenty years from now, 2020 will be "the good old days."
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[Young adult in 2040]
"Twenty years ago were the good old days. When I was lonely, I cried and they held me. When I was dirty, I cried and they cleaned me. And when I was hungry, I cried and they stuck boobs in my face!"
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I don't think crying and shitting your pants counts as good old days.
The boob thing sounds good until you remember who they were from
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When you're a few months old, there's nothing wrong with any of those activities.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I know, but you wouldn't want to go back to that time either (or so I hope)
Actually, there are men who do, it's a fetish thing.
Not with their actual moms though, that would be an Oedipus thing
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Don't be too optimistic. Depending on how the future turns out, we may find ourselves looking back on 2020 with nostalgic pleasure.
You heard it here first:
- The alien invasion of 2021.
- The worldwide volcanic episode that began in 2021.
- The great EMP reset.
- The neutrino event.
In no particular order.
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The neutrino event? How about the rogue neutron star event?
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That too.
I just felt that this[^] was always deeply suspicious.
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Interesting read, thanks.
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I think they mean xkcd: Lethal Neutrinos
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Another interesting--and fun!--read.
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