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twistedAM said:
I've 125 cash money to give to the Calais camps after a little fundraiser. Whose the best person to give it to? Manter ?
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Please please please go on here: and buy some sleeping bags: Leisure Fayre - E-Commerce Web Store

We urgently need them as apart from the Calais evictions, we have also been told that in the Dunkirk move, no one will be allowed to take anything like clothes and blankets with them as there has been a huge scabies outbreak.

Thankyou so much x
 
Town hall clock's been stopped for days - maybe a full week? now. it's playing havoc with my time perception, which is bad enough in a London February because yes it could be 5pm and dark, even if it's 3pm or 7pm when it could be just as cold and dark.
(the bings and clangs are still binging at the correct intervals though to mark the hours)
 
Rushy said:
Worry not. Population growth will surely be brought into check soon enough by a new flu epidemic and/or drug resistant bacteria. Or a colossal meteorite. It's just a matter of time.
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Not that far fetched. Last flu epidemic was after WW1. Spread by people returning home after war. Killed more than died in the war. So far science has stopped any real epidemics. As well as better public health safeguards to stop disease spreading. But as you say drugs are not keeping up that well with possible next epidemic. With increased globalisation in last hundred years disease can spread more easily. As with AIDS. Which fortunately was not airborne virus.

As for population growth Dorling is an optimistic. (But he has his critics). Basically he argues that world population growth is reaching a plateau and will stop increasing.

As this discussion started off with Manter asking about halal meat he has interesting things to say about migration:

This 10 billion mark is proving talismanic, with a spate of doom-laden books presaging the moment. One eagerly awaited tome, by Stephen Emmott, will be published shortly, with a message to be very scared. Dorling, by contrast, is more sanguine. Several factors, he argues, are driving down fertility rates. One is education. Another is public health. More intriguing is his contention about migration: "People tend to rapidly adopt the fertility rates of the places they move to. If Europeans want to be well cared for in our old age, and we also want fewer future people in the world, the last thing we should be doing is trying to reduce migration to Europe."
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Gramsci said:
But as you say drugs are not keeping up that well with possible next epidemic.
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I wonder how much of that is due to the fact that pharmaceutical companies would rather develop drugs which can be pushed to basically healthy people every day for the rest of the lives than drugs which are only taken for a few days when someone is actually sick.
 
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irf520 said:
I wonder how much of that is due to the fact that pharmaceutical companies would rather develop drugs which can be pushed to basically healthy people every day for the rest of the lives than drugs which are only taken for a few days when someone is actually sick.
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I think its more scary than that. We have got used to science keeping up with dealing with disease. There is real problem with antibiotic resistant strains.

Make one think whilst the papers are full of Syria etc the global big underlying problems like climate change, feeding everyone and dealing with disease which are global issues that can only be dealt with on a united global basis are taking a back seat.
 
bimble said:
I wonder how much of that is due to the fact that pharmaceutical companies would rather develop drugs which can be pushed to basically healthy people every day for the rest of the lives than drugs which are only taken for a few days when someone is actually sick.
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Interesting program on radio 4 yesterday. It said the financial structure whereby you only have so many years to profit from your drug is against development because there is incentive to use it as much as possible in a short space of time. The antibiotics would last much longer if used sparingly so the answer is to buy out the valuable ones from the pharmaceutical companies who develop them (£ billions), and then use then as sparingly as possible for a longer period.
 
alcopop said:
You have reduced your consumption of human meat?
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That would be Soylent Green

Fears of population growth was quite a big thing in 60s and 70s. Brunners Stand on Zanzibar
features a dystopian look at the future of an over populated world. Still worth a read and relevant.


From the misty depths of the late 60s, Brunner gives us the ultimate dysfunctional society, a world of decadence spilling into decay, of high tech advances and the loss of common sense. There's a good bit of cyberpunkish foreshadowing here. The drugs, the mean streets, the ragged suburbs, and Mr and Mrs Everywhere on your TV set, who can be programmed to look just like you; through them you can attend the most exclusive parties, visit the most scenic places on Earth, meet the rich and famous, all at the flick of a remote control.
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Manter said:
Please please please go on here: and buy some sleeping bags: Leisure Fayre - E-Commerce Web Store

We urgently need them as apart from the Calais evictions, we have also been told that in the Dunkirk move, no one will be allowed to take anything like clothes and blankets with them as there has been a huge scabies outbreak.

Thankyou so much x
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Done but that site isn't exactly the most intuitive on the net. I hope I don't get a bulk delivery of sleeping bags to the address my credit card is in. Just emailed them to make sure as there was no mention of delivery address in the confirmation email.

ETA - the shitty Leisure Fayre website billed me twice. Next time i'll give someone cash.
 
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Has anyone else noticed that the Loomis security guards tend to be ex Gurkha's. I'd think again as not likely to give up.
 
twistedAM said:
Done but that site isn't exactly the most intuitive on the net. I hope I don't get a bulk delivery of sleeping bags to the address my credit card is in. Just emailed them to make sure as there was no mention of delivery address in the confirmation email.

ETA - the shitty Leisure Fayre website billed me twice. Next time i'll give someone cash.
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:( it is a bit rubbish! It's a wholesaler doing us a favour, but yeah, pretty dire customer experience! They are normally good at sorting stuff out though. And they do turn up in the right place- I've been in the warehouse before when they turn up and it's quite exciting!

Thankyou so much! We were at 418 sleeping bags when I went to bed.... So nearly half the target. This will have helped us loads

Thankyou
 
T & P said:
That for the most part isn't graffiti; it is tagging. And not only it is mega fugly to look at, but it is also a fucking vile practice completely devoid of any artistic merit. Shame on McDs.
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Yeah the standard of art in McDonalds has really fallen in recent years imho :)
 
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