I watched that film Letters from Iwo Jima the other day. I do like a good war film. This was a bit long but quite good and we have that moment where the Japanese soldiers, banzaing around to protect the island, realise that the American soldiers are not savages as they’ve been taught.
They’re just like them, with mothers who write letters and stories of dogs and day to day life. Of course that doesn’t stop them shooting, grenading, beating isolated soldiers to death before bayonetting them in the neck and all the other terrible things people do to each other.
And even now, around the world, people carry out acts of unspeakable violence and horror on other people for differences in religion, colour of skin, territory, for reasons of power and money and fame. We are, when it comes down to it, just animals who can sing and invent the internet. When you look at what humans do on a daily basis it’s hard to think we’re a civilisation at all.
Which is why there is absolutely no hope the long-term survival of the human race … unless we find a common enemy. And that enemy can only come from outer space. In order to survive we need an intergalactic war against an alien species.
Does it really matter anymore if you’re the wrong kind of muslim if there’s a laser shooting monster from some far distant galaxy trying to obliterate everyone? Protestant, catholic, rangers, celtic, Britney, Christina, Stewart, Beck … erm … well, let’s just assume that even if we were fighting aliens everyone should still want to kill Glen Beck … none of these things would have the slightest meaning any more.
For us to truly evolve into the intelligent species we like to think we are, we’d better discover extra-terrestrial life as soon as possible. Then wipe it out completely.
your great-great grandson will, one day, call for a cessation of violence between the Earthlings and the Ging-Gong Gooley Gooleys!
It’s only a natural progression really.
We started off by fighting with the tribe in the next valley. Then we joined forces and fought the bigger tribe two valleys away. Then they conquered us both and we were integrated by way of them taking our women and making better babies.
Then we formed a kingdom and fought other kingdoms. We worshipped the sun, they the moon but they had silver shit. So we traded our pretty women with them.
Then we all formed a country and fought other countries. Then we all joined together and formed unions of states and economic zones.
Then capitalism flourished but undermined religious morals because of the freedom of choice money brings. Some religions though embraced it and benefited from their wealthy followers.
Islam didn’t, essentially because of the concept of interest charged on loans. Oh and hookers and booze and drugs.
So yep, aliens would be a good distraction.
I’m not siding with any rangers cunt – don’t care what the monster looks like.
you havent fully come back from electric picnic yet have you?
too late to start fighting aliens. richard burton’s not around to do the voiceover
http://www.ticketmaster.ie/Jeff-Waynes-The-War-of-The-Worlds-tickets/artist/945224
Or maybe that the world is so small now that we can fight anybody even at the edges we’ve started fighting ourselves as a species.
All that evolutionary struggle energy has to go somewhere.
For all we know Mars may have been through the same process as the earth only it ended long before we were capable of observing it.
Personally if the earth gets another twenty years I’ll not give a shit after that.
I love this ad:
Yeah, but what if the slimy, tentacle covered aliens are coloured in green & white horizontal stripes and the sound they make is a sort of gutteral alllllaaaaaaaahakkkhbaaaaaaar?
It’s not just us, Twenty.
Competition and the will for your collective to dominate other collectives is everywhere in nature. The group who succeeds will thrive and expand above all the rest. The problem is when we hit a cul-de-sac and there’s nowhere left to expand, then we’ll turn on ourselves.
Who will provide the grand design?
What is yours and what is mine?
‘Cause there is no more new frontier
We have got to make it here
We satisfy our endless needs and
justify our bloody deeds,
in the name of destiny and the name
of God.
A common enemy might be the solution, as you say. Maybe we should start sending radio signals to other planets saying “What the fuck are you lookin’ at?”
You’re not thinking clearly; basically, you’re basing the future of the human race on the ability of some hypothetical species to overcome relativistic limitations and invade. Let’s face it; it’s not going to happen.
What we need to do is set up a colony on Mars. If it’s done properly, and the colony can become self-sufficient, then it’s only a matter of time before the splitting bastards declare independence and we have to blow the shit out of the low-gravity fuckers.
We need to go to Mars. Not just so there’s an emergency backup for when this planet becomes corrupted beyond repair, but so we can unite and kick Martian bottom.
I like Lungs idea. An intergalactic shoulder shove.
Isn’t this the plot of Watchmen? (The book, they changed it for the fillum.)
let’s just face it, we are the bad guys, not us as individuals but the collective us, the western world… the reckoning is coming…Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets
robert – sounds very firefly…
A common enemy might be the solution, as you say. Maybe we should start sending radio signals to other planets saying “What the fuck are you lookin’ at?”
hah
“Are youze looking at our burds?”
The Mars thing is interesting. Perhaps a more simple solution would be to round up all the cunts in the world and send them to Mars until they evolve to survive in that atmosphere.
For sale – Land on Mars.
Planning permission – no problems
apply Fianna Fail …..
“round up all the cunts in the world” – not going to be many people left then. need a good war and/or plague, both of which are definitely coming sooner rather than later
mmmmmm
Britney.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKo4fFVymqk
it’s all about the music.
just reading the comments on the britney youtube…:0
didn’t read anymore of the post twenty, just got to the britney bit.,…anyhow…this the 1srt comment on youtube
TheKinkychicken
6 hours ago Ah i loved these days ….you didn’t have to flash your vag and tits to be called sexy ….she was so cute back then even though she was like 18 lol typical girl next door look :) we loved her for it
huh?
Britney in a schoolgirl outfit ?
You are EVIL itchy ….
I went to her show at The Point last year maggot. (don’t tell anyone)
I watched a documentary about hit-singles and the 25 year-old swedish dude who wrote that song sitting at his grand-piano said in a heavy accent, “I knew when I got that riff that a rodent could sing the song and it would stillgo to number 1″
bastard
Is that the war film, the one of two, directed by Clint?
robert – sounds very firefly…
Rufus T. ?
I just called my mobile from Gmail. I have no idea who pays for it though.
I went to her show at The Point last year maggot. (don’t tell anyone)
Was it good ? I’m still struggling with those pictures of her clopper.
I have to admit – best entertainment at a concert for me was Rod Stewart at Glasow Apollo 30 years ago – leopardskin leotards and all.
here you go HM; I read about that a little while ago
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c05d3f06-b1c3-11df-ad4d-00144feabdc0.html
maggot; I won’t mention the Rod Stewart gig. yes. I thought so. She looked like she might have chomped a bucket of valium though. zonked.
If there is a bus leaving this kip for Mars, question is, where can one buy the fucking tickets?
Hopefully in Mars there will be no bible bashers,
as someone said before religion is ‘like Santa Claus for grown ups’.
Anyone remember the old Torquemada/Nemesis stories from 2000AD?
Humans are the baddies but on a galactic scale.
Be Pure!
Be Vigilant!
Behave!
“We have to depend on the Government trying to dig us out”
The commerce of ff – a dig out .
Must never let this happen
“Uachtarán na hÉireann Bertie”
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0908/breaking28.html
A Mars a day helps you work, rest and evacuate planet earth in case of natural catastrophe threatening the future of the human race.
Itchy – yeah, I think the other one is called Flags of our fathers.
The day is not far off when Steven Hawkings will come out and admit that planet Earth is the loony bin for the rest of the universe. It’s here where the aliens dump their crazies. You have doubts? Take a look around you or into a mirror, the proof is there, right in front of you.
It’s a reasonable theory, in fairness
except me and a few chosen others. I was employed to come here and keep an eye on all the loonies. I go home to Zious once every 500 hundred years
Peadar, they only told you that to keep you quite.
We’re not really that bad as a species, I was reading about a study recently that was carried out by S.L.A Marshall after WWII and there was another more recent one with similar results by Lt.Col. Dave Grossman.
Marshall interviewed thousands of US troops after WWII and concluded that only 20-25% of troops actually fired to kill. Of that number about 98% who killed were mentally traumatised by these actions, and the other 2% were classified as aggressive psychopatic personalities who probably would’ve committed murder even if there was no war, but that’s such a tiny number, it hardly represents our species.
Wars and violence on small scale throughout history have only been caused by megalomaniac leadership and/or a scarcity of some resource such as natural minerals, water, food, something used as currency like gold/silver/cold hard cash, maybe even women. Even then, it’s always a small minority of people. How many of us have ever had the urge to kill someone else really (Bertie, Cowen and Blair don’t count, they’re not people)?
We’re not such a violent race really, if we had good leadership and abundance we would have barely any violence whatsoever.
Ummm, nice idea, Twenty, but since that whole cohesive, “Let’s band together and fight them” idea didn’t work so well for the Native Americans, the Africans, the Indians, etc., I really don’t have any hope for us at all.
Even if you’re just looking at the history of England, Scotland, Wales, or Ireland, it’s “Oh shit, invaders? Who can we make deals with and/or sell out first to save our skin?!” And now it’s known as “The American Way,” meh.