Comments on: This week’s header image on le craic http://www.lecraic.com/2010/01/01/this-weeks-header-image-on-le-craic-61/ craic from ireland Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:54:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: aj@lecraic http://www.lecraic.com/2010/01/01/this-weeks-header-image-on-le-craic-61/comment-page-1/#comment-24555 aj@lecraic Sat, 02 Jan 2010 13:30:55 +0000 http://www.lecraic.com/?p=2528#comment-24555 You're right there's no hurry (as the quote says), but still - we should at least be all driving around in more environmentally cars at this stage. You’re right there’s no hurry (as the quote says), but still – we should at least be all driving around in more environmentally cars at this stage.

]]> By: Ursula http://www.lecraic.com/2010/01/01/this-weeks-header-image-on-le-craic-61/comment-page-1/#comment-24471 Ursula Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:44:13 +0000 http://www.lecraic.com/?p=2528#comment-24471 I think you might be a little harsh here, AJ. Who sold us those promises of your futuristic vision? And - more to the point - why did we believe them to come true so soon? What's the rush anyway? Admittedly, Orwell's 1984 has come true (now if he wasn't a visionary, I don't know who is). He also managed - at an impressionable age of mine - to plant a tiny seed of paranoia in my head. In the olden days we were threatened with God watching over us and reading all our thoughts (surely, the size of the world's population being as it is there might be the odd occasion when HE is distracted by paying attention to, say, a child dehydrating in some god forsaken place instead of one of my white lies). Anyway, God can take it easy now since we have CCtv cameras to watch over our every move. Soon I won't be able to go to the toilet any more. Happy 2010. U PS I have just spent some of the future I had a few minutes ago writing to you. Mwah I think you might be a little harsh here, AJ. Who sold us those promises of your futuristic vision? And – more to the point – why did we believe them to come true so soon? What’s the rush anyway?

Admittedly, Orwell’s 1984 has come true (now if he wasn’t a visionary, I don’t know who is). He also managed – at an impressionable age of mine – to plant a tiny seed of paranoia in my head. In the olden days we were threatened with God watching over us and reading all our thoughts (surely, the size of the world’s population being as it is there might be the odd occasion when HE is distracted by paying attention to, say, a child dehydrating in some god forsaken place instead of one of my white lies).

Anyway, God can take it easy now since we have CCtv cameras to watch over our every move. Soon I won’t be able to go to the toilet any more.

Happy 2010.

U

PS I have just spent some of the future I had a few minutes ago writing to you. Mwah

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