Is anyone curious about this snowy weather?

[Philly Q]

So, a far more interesting and important question - which of the participants would be alien and which predator?

Hmmm, dunno.... do the Daves or Ratrod have acid-dripping teeth?  :?

[Johnny Mac]

So...who do you think won BKP Forumites?!  :lol:

Whoever won, we all lost :lol:

 :o


You mean......


..........................it happened....................?????!!!!!

Ladies and gentlemen, normal service has resumed.

Excitement over, please relax and enjoy the banter.

So, a far more interesting and important question - which of the participants would be alien and which predator?

I thought Dave Mc was Fozzy Bear!  :lol:

[Afghan Dave]

I both disagree & agree with Ratrod and dave_mc on various points...

I walk my own path on this issue.  :x

[AndyR]

Jeeeezzz... I just read all this cr@p... I am a complete tosser! :lol:

And may I add some more? (cr@p)

There's some great stuff here, some funny (haha and peculiar) arguments on both sides, but I can't help feeling that the way it has panned out is missing the point slightly...

I/we need strategies/solutions for how to survive what happens next:

Lots of people are going to die because either humans have become too successful and too numerous for the environment they inhabit, or the environment itself is gonna pull some trick that the humans have not foreseen and cannot control (eg the Sun does something funny, or the Clangers get wise and nuke us).

For example:

- how do I/we find somewhere else to live if/when this pot of resources can no longer sustain me/us?
- how do I/we make sure that other people/species die instead of me/us?

Those are among the things that humans (as individuals, communities, and as a species) should be pondering if they're worried about it. Anything else on the subject is time-and-energy-wasting, head-in-the-sand, self-defeating, and probably involves accepting someone else's agenda without thinking.

Obviously, it's more complicated than that. There are ideologies (both political and spiritual) and practicalities involved that have to be taken into account, blah, blah, and so on, and so forth...

But, the more effort we put into piddling about arguing about what's going on and why, and can we stop the damage, the less effort we put into doing what makes humans so successful - adapting and finding solutions (including killing each other, if necessary, directly or indirectly, to make the survivors' lives better).

Luckily, I'm getting old enough that it doesn't really bother me too much. It's unlikely that I'll survive long enough to see the real fun start and, if I do, I'm one of those people who regards suicide as a valid life choice :lol:

Love and peace folks...

[MDV]

Jeeeezzz... I just read all this cr@p... I am a complete tosser! :lol:

And may I add some more? (cr@p)

There's some great stuff here, some funny (haha and peculiar) arguments on both sides, but I can't help feeling that the way it has panned out is missing the point slightly...

I/we need strategies/solutions for how to survive what happens next:

Lots of people are going to die because either humans have become too successful and too numerous for the environment they inhabit, or the environment itself is gonna pull some trick that the humans have not foreseen and cannot control (eg the Sun does something funny, or the Clangers get wise and nuke us).

For example:

- how do I/we find somewhere else to live if/when this pot of resources can no longer sustain me/us?
- how do I/we make sure that other people/species die instead of me/us?

Those are among the things that humans (as individuals, communities, and as a species) should be pondering if they're worried about it. Anything else on the subject is time-and-energy-wasting, head-in-the-sand, self-defeating, and probably involves accepting someone else's agenda without thinking.

Obviously, it's more complicated than that. There are ideologies (both political and spiritual) and practicalities involved that have to be taken into account, blah, blah, and so on, and so forth...

But, the more effort we put into piddling about arguing about what's going on and why, and can we stop the damage, the less effort we put into doing what makes humans so successful - adapting and finding solutions (including killing each other, if necessary, directly or indirectly, to make the survivors' lives better).

Luckily, I'm getting old enough that it doesn't really bother me too much. It's unlikely that I'll survive long enough to see the real fun start and, if I do, I'm one of those people who regards suicide as a valid life choice :lol:

Love and peace folks...

So, what youre saying, if I understand you correctly, is stien is the alien, ratrod is the alien queen, youre ripley, dave MC is predator and afghan dave is the somewhat more terse and dry clean-up predator from avp2, or possibly a face hugger?

That about the gist of it?

Or did I miss something?

[Philly Q]

So, what youre saying, if I understand you correctly, is stien is the alien, ratrod is the alien queen, youre ripley, dave MC is predator and afghan dave is the somewhat more terse and dry clean-up predator from avp2, or possibly a face hugger?

That about the gist of it?

Or did I miss something?

Can I be Ripley, canIcanIcanI pleeeeeeeeeeze?  The way she is in Alien:Resurrection where she has a bit of Alien DNA and becomes totally $%&#ing badass??!!  :o

[AndyR]

:lol:

Yeah, I went a bit "off-topic" in relation to where things have drifted... but do take into account that I had just read all of the previous 11 pages (or the 7 or 8 I had missed since I last stuck an inanity in here), and my mind was on higher things ...

But otherwise, yep, that's, er, about the gist of it :lol:

EDIT: Yeah, I don't mind if you're Ripley, Philly, not sure I could get into the costume at the moment...

[MDV]

Cool. Glad we're singing from the same songsheet there, as they (tw@ts, that is) say.

How about, phil, andy can be ripley and you can be cloned part alien ripley?

They're not really the same ripley.

[AndyR]

And I get to torch him?

Cool

(All theoretical and make believe, Philly, don't panic)

EDIT: I've misunderstood, haven't I? We wouldn't even be in the same film... I thought MDV was suggesting you could be one of the earlier clones that, er, didn't make it...

[Dr. Stein]

... Can I not be Scar Predator?

[MDV]

... Can I not be Scar Predator?

Shhh! Or you'll be that lass in AVP that no one remembers the name of that survived all the fighting but probably froze to death :P

Yes, andy, you get to have a flamethrower/machine gun thing gaffa taped together. This is a high honour, since its really, really cool and it served as inspiration for me to tape a little torch to my soldering iron: very handy.

[Philly Q]

How about, phil, andy can be ripley and you can be cloned part alien ripley?

They're not really the same ripley.

Yep!  Cool!!   :)  8)

I/we need strategies/solutions for how to survive what happens next:

Lots of people are going to die because either humans have become too successful and too numerous for the environment they inhabit, or the environment itself is gonna pull some trick that the humans have not foreseen and cannot control (eg the Sun does something funny, or the Clangers get wise and nuke us).

For example:

- how do I/we find somewhere else to live if/when this pot of resources can no longer sustain me/us?
- how do I/we make sure that other people/species die instead of me/us?

Reading that bit make me think of something entirely different, which is going to affect us in our lifetimes:

PENSIONS.

Rapidly growing, ageing population, inadequate state pensions and no matter how much we personally put away it's going to be worth buttons by the time we retire.  We are sitting on a time bomb and the government are just turning a blind eye to it because it'll be someone else's problem.

(Let me make it clear:  I don't want a pensions discussion, nothing could be more boring.  Just crossed my mind.)  

[MDV]

Discussing pesions you may have to be cpt harrigan/danny glover, from predator 2. Hes too old for this shite.

[AndyR]

Not intending to fuel a "pensions" discussion either, but that's one of the areas where "suicide is a valid life choice" comes in for me and the missus :lol: (if there's enough of us p1ssed off enough at the time though, killing young f***ers and nicking their stuff might also prove a valid choice at the time... let's see how it pans out...)

And, I have to admit, "what the f*** happens to us here and now? (jobs, house, pension, etc)" is far more important to me than "is the world gonna stop working?"

The former question I might be able to do something about or influence the outcome of, the latter is decided for me no matter what I do...

[MDV]

On the topic of pensions, I might just put the hundred or two hundred quid or whatever it is, I dont even know, a month thats supposed to go in my pension in a savings account of some sort. Probably safer there, get better interest even now and well, yeah, thats done it hasnt it, now I'm talking about $%&#ing pensions - I'm 27 and pointedly dont care or believe that it will work in the least. What the economic picture will be like in the 2040s or 50s or whenever I retire is anyones guess anyway.