living for a 1000 years

Does exactly what it says on the tin. Some of the nonsense contained herein may be very loosely related to The Sisters of Mercy, but I wouldn't bet your PayPal account on it. In keeping with the internet's general theme nothing written here should be taken as Gospel: over three quarters of it is utter gibberish, and most of the forum's denizens haven't spoken to another human being face-to-face for decades. Don't worry your pretty little heads about it. Above all else, remember this: You don't have to stay forever. I will understand.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4003063.stm

don´t worry boys and gurls, looks like we´re
all going to be living for a 1000 years soon.

surely there must be another Sisters album
in that time ?
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thats what i love about sisters fans. optimism.

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That has a strange appeal to me today - with the passing of my b-day I realised that I have already wasted about a quarter of my (current) life expectancy (don't worry, I have no intention of doing anything constructive about this, I'm still going to sqander my days posting away on Heartland :wink: ).
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i kinda feel that i've lived that long, today...
I just can't keep living on dreams no more
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live to be a 1000 :eek: no thankyou!

Do wonder how they would plan to restore all the brain cells I happily kill off every weekend though :D
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can u reinstate pickled things?
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I guess the man with the sasquatch on his chin's never heard of "overpopulation".

Who wants to be a spotty teenager for 1,000 years? Who wants to be poor for 1,000 years?

"People also say we will get terribly bored but I say we will have the resources to improve everyone's ability to get the most out of life."

Does this guy really think that rich people will start voting for an effective welfare state just cos they live longer? Hell no! They'll need more money for themselves! Oh hang on...

"People with a good education and the time to use it never get bored today and can't imagine ever running out of new things they'd like to do."

He was only referring to "educated" people not running out of things to do. Right, so only "educated" people get to live for a thousand years, and the rest will be harvested for the blood to sustain their unnatural lifespans. That makes more sense...I forgot that Cambridge floats somewhere above planet Earth.

Fvck that crazy sh!t. Gimme a Star Trek future or gimme death. :lol:
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Cool, that means we can use the Sarlacc as a good deterrant :
the stomach pit of the Sarlacc keeps its prey alive for a thousand years, slowly dissolving its meal into needed nutrients, while the hapless victim is kept alive in searing, endless agony.
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CellThree wrote:Cool, that means we can use the Sarlacc as a good deterrant :
the stomach pit of the Sarlacc keeps its prey alive for a thousand years, slowly dissolving its meal into needed nutrients, while the hapless victim is kept alive in searing, endless agony.
Must take ages for it to finish it's dinner then:

no, you can't have your pudding til you've finished your tea

oh, Mum
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Quiff Boy wrote:thats what i love about sisters fans. optimism.

:lol:
Blind optimism? I'd settle for a multiple DVD with hundreds of Sisters bootlegs.

As for a Sisters album, I'd also like to be in a band that does something.
Neither have any chance of happening.
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@ Dark Clicky!
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James Blast wrote:@ Dark Clicky!
A Clicky to make even my heart twitch lovingly. However, I have no DVD writer. Guess I'll be doing some mp3 downloads. :)
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Funnily enough, my Doctor said that I should cut down on fatty, sugery, salty food, try to be less obssessed about sex and give up ciggies and excessive drinking.
I asked if I would live for a hundred years if I did so and he said no, it will just feel like it.
I thank you :P
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Atenolo - beta blockers
to feel close to normal
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"Who want's to live forever? Was it Quenn? In the first Highlander.

Top movie!
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as Sean shaid "Schtand Fascht Highlander!"

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rian wrote:"Who want's to live forever? Was it Quenn? In the first Highlander.
Queen, even. :innocent: ;D
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1000 years?! - those bastards are determined to get that bloody student loan back off me.

I think the term "lifetime guarantee" might drop out of common usage, however...
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Statistics of the boring kind...

If you invest $1 and made a modest 5% above inflation return, that means you'd have approximately $39 billion in 500 years. If you pay tax of 40% every year, you'd instead get a very modest $2.5 million.

In 500 years you'd have an 15% chance of having been killed in a Motor Vehicle accident. 28% in a thousand years.

If the rate of technological develpoment continues, your laptop will be 10^176 more powerful than it is today. To put this in perspective, consider your laptop's power to be an atom in the universe. Now consider the numbe of atoms in the unverse. Take those atoms and assume each one is a universe in itsself. Add up all those atoms in all of those sub-atom universes. Times by the number of people on the planet Earth. That's how relatively powerful your new compuer is.

I need to get out more right? :lol:
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Pensions would take more of a kicking than they do now.
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Gawd, can you imagine working until your 800 before you retire? Doesn't bear thinking about :eek:
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nodubmanshouts wrote:Gawd, can you imagine working until your 800 before you retire? Doesn't bear thinking about :eek:
Or if Labour's in power for another term, 900.
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I quite like the idea of living to 1000, ;)
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rian wrote:"Who want's to live forever?
brian blessed as voltan (or similar) in flash gordon c.1984. great big winged caveman swooping in on ming the merciless' aerial palace

oh, and the apostrophe isn't required, grammar police making a comeback
then he takes your hand in some strange californian handshake and breaks the bone
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wintermute wrote:
rian wrote:"Who want's to live forever?
brian blessed as voltan (or similar) in flash gordon c.1984. great big winged caveman swooping in on ming the merciless' aerial palace

oh, and the apostrophe isn't required, grammar police making a comeback
:eek:

I'm a swede, god dammit
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