Is World War 3 Imminent?

[Numero Veinticinco]

Si vis pacem, para bellum.

[polymerpunkah]

ubi solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant

[Bjornebye]

2 hours ago, Strontium said:

 

Not me, I don't read fiction.

 

I may watch the film in future.

How odd:  

 

 

“I read a lot when I was a kid (pre-internet era) and most of my favourites have been mentioned already.

 

- Game books, especially Fighting Fantasy, Lone Wolf and Way of the Tiger

- Roald Dahl, still love them to this day, and his adult fiction is superb too

- Enid Blyton (Famous Five and Secret Seven of course, but the less well known Five Find-Outers were the best) - even though my English teacher criticised me in school when I was 11 for reading "Noddy books"

- Loads of books by Usborne. Always had loads of ace pictures. They did history books on vikings, castles etc and nature spotters books, and puzzle adventure books. All excellent. Oh shit, and books on ghosts and demons and things, they were brilliant.”

 

 

Anyway who cares. Pray for Peace even if it makes you stupid etc 

[Strontium]

Well done, you've quoted a 2017 post where I talk about the books I loved as a kid to "disprove" the notion that I don't read fiction in 2024.

[Bjornebye]

5 minutes ago, Strontium said:

Well done, you've quoted a 2017 post where I talk about the books I loved as a kid to "disprove" the notion that I don't read fiction in 2024.

I was just quoting it. Mainly because I don’t believe you all of a sudden don’t read fiction. But I might be wrong. Either way I don’t really care. Just thought I’d do what you do and bring up a random post from years ago to prove whatever you’re trying to prove. 

[Strontium]

2 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

I was just quoting it. Mainly because I don’t believe you all of a sudden don’t read fiction. But I might be wrong. Either way I don’t really care. Just thought I’d do what you do and bring up a random post from years ago to prove whatever you’re trying to prove. 

 

As is evident from years of posting, what you believe, and what is, are two vastly differing things.

 

Unless you want to count comics, and I wouldn't, then the last fiction book I actually read probably was a collection of Roald Dahl short stories, probably shortly before I wrote that post.

[Bjornebye]

3 minutes ago, Strontium said:

 

As is evident from years of posting, what you believe, and what is, are two vastly differing things.

 

Unless you want to count comics, and I wouldn't, then the last fiction book I actually read probably was a collection of Roald Dahl short stories, probably shortly before I wrote that post.

Comics aren’t fiction? You learn something new everyday. Cheers for the heads up. 

[Strontium]

All this because I had the temerity to say that I hadn't read Cloud Atlas. You couldn't make it up.

[Bjornebye]

2 minutes ago, Strontium said:

All this because I had the temerity to say that I hadn't read Cloud Atlas. You couldn't make it up.

No it’s because you said you didn’t read fiction. Hope that helps! 

[TheHowieLama]

There is no chance Stig searched that blind - he remembered SD had read Roald Dahl for 7 years.

 

That's so cute.

[cloggypop]

Yeah, he's too thick and full of hatred to have SD's spreadsheet system. 

[Bjornebye]

3 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

There is no chance Stig searched that blind - he remembered SD had read Roald Dahl for 7 years.

 

That's so cute.

Some things just stick. Like regular posters who don’t pay their membership. 

[Arniepie]

5 hours ago, Strontium said:

 

There used to be a pacifist tribe in New Zealand's Chatham Islands, the Moriori. I say used to, because they were almost completely wiped out by the mainland Maori, and the remaining few were assimilated. That whole "no wars" thing is a bit of a handicap when someone else decides that, actually, they'd quite like to have a war with you.

 

Let us not be stupid enough to ever make the same mistake the Moriori made.

Correct me If im wrong but wasn't Cs suggesting people in general should try peace, rather than 1 particular group?

It won't happen of couse because human being are,by nature,thick and greedy.

[TheHowieLama]

3 minutes ago, Arniepie said:

 human being are,by nature,thick and greedy.

 

We prefer tribal and territorial but...

[SasaS]

16 hours ago, Strontium said:

 

Not me, I don't read fiction.

 

I may watch the film in future.

 

Don't, read the book instead. Then the film.

[Anubis]

So am I the only person who went looking for a picture of Yoon's wife, Kim Keon-Hee? I'm happy to handle the corruption interrogation.

 

[Strontium]

14 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

Some things just stick. Like regular posters who don’t pay their membership. 

 

Harsh on cloggypop that.

[Carvalho Diablo]

19 hours ago, Strontium said:

 

Not me, I don't read fiction.

 

I may watch the film in future.

 

So many futures, so many films, possibilities so endless I said.

[Carvalho Diablo]

19 hours ago, Strontium said:

 

Not me, I don't read fiction.

 

I may watch the film in future.

 

So many futures, so many films, possibilities so endless I said.

[Strontium]

You can say that again.

[Section_31]

Not war related but what fucking fresh hell is this?

 

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/dec/12/unprecedented-risk-to-life-on-earth-scientists-call-for-halt-on-mirror-life-microbe-research

 

World-leading scientists have called for a halt on research to create “mirror life” microbes amid concerns that the synthetic organisms would present an “unprecedented risk” to life on Earth.