The Ranting Room

We have these wonderful little devices at markets, hardware stores, and pretty much most major retailers that allow you to swipe a card, key in a few numbers and within a few moments your transaction is complete.  Why do I always end up behind some head who has decided they can't quite endorse that level of convenience and has to write a ing check. Its always somebody who does the ballpoint pen version of 'hunt n peck' to boot.  This is invariably the same person who decides to argue about the paper towels that were supposed to be $.74 but they are charged the ing outrageous sum of $.79.  Jeebus! I'll give you the ing nickel myself if you will just get the  out of my way.  What really chaps my hide is that my wife does the same thing. Its ing embarrassing to have a line of andgry shoppers behind me.  Then she'll write me a grocery list and give me the check book and expect me to take part in the same ed up practice that annoys the  out of me.

stonebeard wrote: mystic fred wrote: stonebeard wrote: What upsets me is all these bigwigs with cash coming out their asses quivering in fear and asking "Whatever will we do if the market crashes!?!" As if human beings cannot sustain life without gasoline for their car and a cushy job behind a desk. We lived for thousands of years without these things, we can do it again. Stock up on nonperishables and start hunting in that thicket of woods behind you're really f**king big house.    last time this happened in the 30's people were jumping from skyscrapers or forced to live in central park - or are these stories a myth?   good point - though unless you were a Scout many "survival" skills are unknown to most people, it doesn't take much to damage the thin membrane holding civilisation together -  without electricity there would be hardship, without "gasoline" there would be severe hardship, and without clean water survival would be impossible - in any of these circumstances anarchy, looting and the law of the jungle rules   it happened here just last month..   Eat food from tin can, take water, create a fire, boil the water in tin can = sterilized water I'd welcome a situation like this. We've been living too comfortably for too long, and I always feel more alive after doing something constructive like building a fire. The problem in a situation like this would not be water (rain's good for that, unless your in the desert), but food. If nonperishables aren't nearby, and you don't live in the wilderness, you may be in a tough situation. But you know, it probably will never even come close to a situation like this.

Uh, you DO realize that without electricity, we'd have nothing to power our Moog synthasizer console units, right?