Guest seanfox778 Posted 12 February 2012 Posted 12 February 2012 Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!!
Saxondale Posted 12 February 2012 Posted 12 February 2012 Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!! Old testament, real wrath of god type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies, rivers and seas boiling. Forty years of darkness, earthquakes volcanoes. The dead rising from their graves.
Collymore Posted 13 February 2012 Posted 13 February 2012 Metal keys a thing of the past. Also see total recall.
I am Rod Hull Posted 13 February 2012 Posted 13 February 2012 Hoover boots, just like hover boots but with a vacuum action. Mams will love em...
ozleicester Posted 13 February 2012 Posted 13 February 2012 Elaine: According to my source, the end of the world will be on February 14th, in the year two thousand and sixteen. Peter Venkman: Valentine's day. Bummer. Where'd you get your date, Elaine? Elaine: I received this information from an alien. As I told my husband, it was in the Paramus Holiday Inn, I was having a drink at the bar, alone, and this alien approached me. He started talking to me. He bought me a drink, and then I think he must have used some kind of a ray or a mind control device because he forced me to follow him to his room and that's where he told me about the end of the world. Peter Venkman: So your alien had a room at the Holiday Inn, Paramus? Elaine: It could have been a room on the spaceship made to look like the hotel. I can't be sure about that, Peter.
Zingari Posted 13 February 2012 Posted 13 February 2012 how about this for a prediction ? listen to this scene from 1996 film Long Kiss Goodnight http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34RsWDn0v-4
Zingari Posted 13 February 2012 Posted 13 February 2012 Laptops will replace traditional newspapers. There will be many broken windows as a result of sun readers trying to swat flies and wasps with laptops
Ashley Posted 13 February 2012 Posted 13 February 2012 We will have fridge and freezers which will order food in for you when it has almost ran out. The food will be delivered like tesco, asda etc home delivery are.
dave the caveman Posted 13 February 2012 Posted 13 February 2012 Why do we need jobs? No other anmals need monetarily rewarded thankless tasks to survive, jobs are not a pre-requisite to life. No other animals have houses, electricity, aeroplanes or spaceships either. No other animal has came close to inventing the wheel. They dont even have basic tools and the vast majority have nothing like a language. They just wander around naked eating whatever shit they can find on the floor. Then they get eaten by any animal which is bigger than they are. All in all it's a pretty crap life, and hardly something we, as by far the most advanced species ever to have lived on this earth (and probably among the most advanced species ever to have lived anywhere), should be aspiring towards. Jobs are just traded skills. We don't need jobs but almost everything in the modern world relies on them. On the shorter working week: “I don’t think the right way to think about an economy is that there’s just a fixed number of jobs and it’s a question of how you carve them up between young people, middle aged people and older people. I think that’s the sort of mistake that other countries have made, when for instance, they’ve introduced a 35-hour working week. They think ‘Well, let’s have a 35-hour working week for everybody and then we share out the jobs that are available, what we find happens then is that your businesses become more expensive to run than anybody else’s, you lose out to the competition and you have less jobs in the economy.” - That's Mr David 'WorkLifeBalance Cameron himself there, pointing out some basic problems.
Saxondale Posted 14 February 2012 Posted 14 February 2012 Laptops will replace traditional newspapers. I actually wrote my degree dissertation on why this won't happen anytime soon. Although this was in 2003/04.
Captain... Posted 14 February 2012 Posted 14 February 2012 No other animals have houses, electricity, aeroplanes or spaceships either. No other animal has came close to inventing the wheel. They dont even have basic tools and the vast majority have nothing like a language. They just wander around naked eating whatever shit they can find on the floor. Then they get eaten by any animal which is bigger than they are. All in all it's a pretty crap life, and hardly something we, as by far the most advanced species ever to have lived on this earth (and probably among the most advanced species ever to have lived anywhere), should be aspiring towards. Jobs are just traded skills. We don't need jobs but almost everything in the modern world relies on them. Wandering around naked, eating, fvcking, playing and fighting, sounds good to me. I think you should change your name to dave the metrosexual. On the shorter working week: “I don’t think the right way to think about an economy is that there’s just a fixed number of jobs and it’s a question of how you carve them up between young people, middle aged people and older people. I think that’s the sort of mistake that other countries have made, when for instance, they’ve introduced a 35-hour working week. They think ‘Well, let’s have a 35-hour working week for everybody and then we share out the jobs that are available, what we find happens then is that your businesses become more expensive to run than anybody else’s, you lose out to the competition and you have less jobs in the economy.” - That's Mr David 'WorkLifeBalance Cameron himself there, pointing out some basic problems. It's not just about carving up the jobs, it is about creating a flexible work force with a greater transferance of skills, creating a time rich society with the flexibility to handle temporary shifts in the market. It would require at least 2 people to do every job, it would ease transition between jobs in the event of someone leaving, it would decrease stress because every position would be shared in someway.
grth2004 Posted 14 February 2012 Posted 14 February 2012 Back To The Future hover boards have just become reality http://www.toyark.com/news/toy-fair-59/toy-fair-2012-back-to-the-future-ii-hoverboard-5405/
dave the caveman Posted 14 February 2012 Posted 14 February 2012 Wandering around naked, eating, fvcking, playing and fighting, sounds good to me. I think you should change your name to dave the metrosexual. It's not just about carving up the jobs, it is about creating a flexible work force with a greater transferance of skills, creating a time rich society with the flexibility to handle temporary shifts in the market. It would require at least 2 people to do every job, it would ease transition between jobs in the event of someone leaving, it would decrease stress because every position would be shared in someway. It would also require twice the recruitment, twice the training, twice the management and twice the admin a twice the cost making you half as competitive. That's a simplistic view of course, but it has been proven not to work. I also think you underestimate people's desire to work. Most people given the choice between a four day week at 75% of their salary and a five day week at 100% would take the money.
Captain... Posted 14 February 2012 Posted 14 February 2012 It would also require twice the recruitment, twice the training, twice the management and twice the admin a twice the cost making you half as competitive. That's a simplistic view of course, but it has been proven not to work. I also think you underestimate people's desire to work. Most people given the choice between a four day week at 75% of their salary and a five day week at 100% would take the money. First of all It would be 80% of the salary, (and I would quite happily work 4 days a week for 80% of my pay, I love 3 day weekends and the chance to get to the shops during the week), with plenty of options for overtime to cover holidays. Oh and you don;t have a choice, that is not how business works, do you choose to work 5 days a week or are you told to? As one example, a team of 4 in customer services working 5 days a week, would become a team of 5 working 4 days a week, each person covers one other on a given day. When it is busy you can all 5 in every day of the week, 1 extra person no extra training, able to meet demand. Someone gets sick, or fired, no drop in service because there is already someone who can do their job and the team can cover the missing days by working an extra day each. There is also the continuity of customers still being able to speak to someone they know. One of the biggest problems I come across in my job is when someone leaves they always take some knowledge with them, this would erase that issue. You take it to a higher level and management, customer services manager 1 day of the 4 is also purchasing manager, and vice versa, again the same benefits and also creating greater harmony and communication between teams, which is also a big issue I find. This is of course not applicable to all jobs, but is already being applied to extent in others, for example in supermarkets. what is your line of work Dave? I would agree that it may cost more in training, but the benefits would outweigh it. I don't understand how it would make you half as competitive, it would, increase job satisfaction reduce stress and pressure, keep continuity in the face of disruption and have more flexibility in the workforce at no extra cost.
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