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If you were granted ONE wish...?

Started by Siege, July 01, 2011, 01:43:52 PM

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garbon

"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

merithyn

I would wish for the entire world to return to the barter system. :)
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away...

Neil

Quote from: merithyn on July 04, 2011, 08:11:15 PM
I would wish for the entire world to return to the barter system. :)
This is the cruelest thing that you could ever do.
I do not hate you, nor do I love you, but you are made out of atoms which I can use for something else.

sbr


HVC

Quote from: merithyn on July 04, 2011, 08:11:15 PM
I would wish for the entire world to return to the barter system. :)
Dear god why?
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

Razgovory

Quote from: Neil on July 04, 2011, 08:13:25 PM
Quote from: merithyn on July 04, 2011, 08:11:15 PM
I would wish for the entire world to return to the barter system. :)
This is the cruelest thing that you could ever do.

I can't think of a good reason for doing this.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Habbaku

Maybe she just really wants to be a prostitute? :unsure:
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.

-J. R. R. Tolkien

Razgovory

Quote from: Habbaku on July 04, 2011, 08:52:10 PM
Maybe she just really wants to be a prostitute? :unsure:

I'm pretty sure there is an easier way to do that then reduce humanity to poverty.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Habbaku

Quote from: Razgovory on July 04, 2011, 08:54:58 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on July 04, 2011, 08:52:10 PM
Maybe she just really wants to be a prostitute? :unsure:

I'm pretty sure there is an easier way to do that then reduce humanity to poverty.

Yes, just being a prostitute is an easy way to do that.  Following that with nukes would reduce humanity to poverty again.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.

-J. R. R. Tolkien

merithyn

Quote from: HVC on July 04, 2011, 08:25:42 PM
Quote from: merithyn on July 04, 2011, 08:11:15 PM
I would wish for the entire world to return to the barter system. :)
Dear god why?

Because then only the people who can actually do or make something will be valuable and everyone else will be dead and gone. :)
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away...

garbon

Quote from: merithyn on July 04, 2011, 09:12:27 PM
Quote from: HVC on July 04, 2011, 08:25:42 PM
Quote from: merithyn on July 04, 2011, 08:11:15 PM
I would wish for the entire world to return to the barter system. :)
Dear god why?

Because then only the people who can actually do or make something will be valuable and everyone else will be dead and gone. :)

Sorry but I like the 21st century. Perhaps you can take yourself to Montana and leave the rest of us well alone? :hug:
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Habbaku

Oh, good; let's roll back the Industrial Revolution while we're at it.  Also, dying at 43 was pretty cool.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.

-J. R. R. Tolkien

merithyn

Quote from: garbon on July 04, 2011, 09:20:26 PM
Sorry but I like the 21st century. Perhaps you can take yourself to Montana and leave the rest of us well alone? :hug:

Given that this is all theoretical, seems silly to do such a thing. Especially since Montana doesn't work on the barter system. :P
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish, I wish he'd go away...

garbon

Quote from: merithyn on July 04, 2011, 09:31:17 PM
Quote from: garbon on July 04, 2011, 09:20:26 PM
Sorry but I like the 21st century. Perhaps you can take yourself to Montana and leave the rest of us well alone? :hug:

Given that this is all theoretical, seems silly to do such a thing. Especially since Montana doesn't work on the barter system. :P

Yeah but I think you are theoretically stupid and that seems like a good out of the way place.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.