Category: Fucking obvious idea
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Unlimited sustainable energy.
Imagine a world in which we have unlimited sustainable energy! It would be fucking brilliant – we’d never have to worry about flying anywhere, or desalinating sea-water, or how we start the Moon colony. However do you think we’ve yet attained the wisdom required to deal with unlimited energy? Do we have the humility? The…
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Don’t be a fucking banker.
Escape the fucking city
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Half the amount of tea in tea bags.
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Do what the fuck you like.
But remember: it’s rewarding to live well.
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We humans who art on Earth, humanity is special. Our kingdom has come: Do what we innately know to be right on earth, because that’s all there is. Share the bread we have, try not to screw up, when others screw up, understand. We can’t have everything that tempts us. Deliver ourselves from evil because this is it: the Earth, the power to do right – and the glory to come if we do – is ours, now and forever, Hu-man.
Thanks to the fucking brilliant Marcus Brigstocke for this one.
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Human civilisation has only a 50% chance of surviving the next century THAT IS UN-FUCKING-ACCEPTABLE.
Seriously: What. The. FUCK? I know it’s an “old” quote, but fuck me if it isn’t worth repeating, because I suspect you’re probably living much the same sort of life as when you first heard that. Now, if you’re doing something brilliant and virtuous and social and civilised and generally befitting 21st century human awesomeness…
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Make a shopping list, buy less crap.
Let’s cut to the chase: Buying things you don’t need means working more to pay for things you never wanted, and you are not that fucking stupid. I am, though. I’m not sure of the last time I went into a shop and left with ONLY the thing I intended to buy. Whether it’s sneaky…
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Eat more, exercise less.
Being fat has never been more popular, and since popular is synonymous with good, I’ll see you at the chip shop.
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Teach animals the need for economic growth.
With thanks to Bee Stawbridge for the inspiration.
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Donations are fucking brilliant, but DO nations are fucking inspiring.
It’s a little weird that a friend running a marathon / having a holiday climbing Kilimanjaro / jumping out of a plane / is supposed to compel us to give to charity, but that seems to be the way it is, and it works jolly nicely, so keep it up, everyone. That said, the idea…