Re: ZERO POPULATION GROWTH or ZPG
Sorry Bert, but I had to condense that..
It would seem that disbelief in the current media is a world wide phenom.. What goes for "News" shows over here, have instead become morning variety shows, mostly based around whatever this or that sports figure, movie star or personality has done lately. Like whom they are sleeping with, or whom they sexually assaulted. Very little actual 'News' is reported.. I don't watch any of it..
As far as toilet paper and it's proper usage is concerned, the pat American answer to such questions is, "We wash our hands after using the bathroom." In fact Americans no longer touch anything "public", without wiping it down with alcohol first! We won't even sit on a public toilet seat without first covering it with special paper seat covers dispensed for just that purpose.
Heaven help us if we ever are exposed to some disease, for we have built up no natural immunity to anything and eventually we will pay a heavy price for our increasingly prissy existence.
Roger
No arguement about news Roger.
Except the changes you are seeing now, we have been getting for 200 years.
Many years ago I picked up a line from a junkie passenger I was taking to Kings Cross at 3 am on a rainy morning.
"Why sit at home and watch some one else's artificial life when you can live your own one for real ?"
Thus TV sits in the corner and gathers dust except for a few shows , like the Press Club dinners & the odd documentary.
I find it funny that we push our children to read above their level to increase their literacy skills yet are happy to watch TV programes all day written down to very low intellectual levels.
When was the last time you heard a word with more than 4 sylabiles on a TV show.
SWMBO did 4 exhibitions when she was with the museum that won awards world wide.
She got sacked because she refused to dumb down the literature to that of a 10 year old.
The museum has never staged another exhibition that won an award.
Luckily we have government media down here , like the BBC in the UK, so the radio is on all day in the workshop ( I have tinitus so quiet is a no no ).
Usually it is on the PNN ( Parliamentary News Network ) but even then, the reporting of debates, that I hear on the "news" is nothing like what was actually said in the debate.
As far as obsessive cleaning, it will kill you in the end.
Lack of proper science education in schools combined with scare advertising negates the fact that around 92% of all bacteria are beneficial.
And of course the real dangerous ones are immune to alcohol so like 95% fat free= 5% fat , kills 95% of bacteria = leaves the really nasty ones behind.
Perhaps we need to broadcast War of the Worlds every day to make it sink in. The churches would really like to see it on endless high rotation as ultimately God saves the world .
We actually passed laws banning butchers from using wooden chopping blocks because some idiot decided that plastic was cleaner than wood.
Hundreds of mass poisionings have been traced back to kitchens preparing food on plastic boards but the penny is yet to drop that wood, even old dead wood is naturally antibiotic ( which is why they used it for butchers blocks in the first place) .
