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    Quote Originally Posted by Coyote View Post
    I'm thinking of becoming Anti-Christ.
    I hope you have got a WICKED CV then. There seems to be some contention for that particular position...
    It is preferential to refrain from the utilisation of grandiose verbiage in the circumstance that your intellectualisation can be expressed using comparatively simplistic lexicological entities. (...such as the word fuck.)

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    Doomsayers are rarely right, as the current crop of nutters buried in a Russian cave are grim testimony. There's this Pollyanna streak in humanity, combined with dumb luck, that has worked well for us to date in both an evolutionary and sociological sense. But how long will that lucky streak last?
    "Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]

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    Who cares. So long as it lasts a few more years until I'm not around, that's all that matters. Besides Doomsday is a beginning, not an ending.
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    This world has lost it's drive, everybody just wants to fit in the be the norm as it were.
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    The manufacturers go to a lot of trouble to find out what the average rider prefers, because the maker who guesses closest to the average preference gets the largest sales. But the average rider is mainly interested in silly (as opposed to useful) “goodies” to try to kid the public that he is riding a racer

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    Doomsday is presaged by an Upper Huttian riding an unmuffled, and until recently unloved, Honda CB200.

    I saw him last night. I think he is the 5th rider of the Apocalypse: Scrofula.
    If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?



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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim2 View Post
    I think he is the 5th rider of the Apocalypse: Scrofula.
    The 4th Rider, Chlamydia, is having problems with countersteering.
    "Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]

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    That's what comes from steering with your bottom.
    If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?



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    Quote Originally Posted by Ixion View Post
    Besides Doomsday is a beginning, not an ending.
    Exactly. That's why I'm keen to get it started. Maybe 1000 years of the lord ruling will set things straight.

    Apocalypse is the battle ground where heaven and hell wage the war to end all wars. It's not the name of the day.


    So the book says. Could all be fiction and we're destined to live under a plutocracy until the world decays.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Coyote View Post
    Could all be fiction and we're destined to live under a plutocracy until the world decays.
    It's not fiction. "Plutocracy" is merely code for "Bloody Labour Gummint".
    "Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hitcher View Post
    It's not fiction. "Plutocracy" is merely code for "Bloody Labour Gummint".
    The Book of Revelations isn't fiction?

    And I think it's 'code' for any party that has a hope of getting into power in any Western civilisation.

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    Well, let's not forget that our beloved motorcycles are but one incarnation of said plutocracy.

    ...as is this forum.
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    S'all a bunch of bollocks innit? Anyone who uses the term "postmodern" and expects to be taken seriously needs a cricket bat applied behind the ear by B.McCullum...
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    Live and let live.
    Some things are worth dying for, living is one of them.

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    I'm hoping the next large meteorite is going to come and provide a clean slate..........preferrably after I'm not around, but.............
    “- He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by SPman View Post
    I'm hoping the next large meteorite is going to come and provide a clean slate..........preferrably after I'm not around, but.............
    I'm just hoping that humanity, as a whole, might one day actually grow up and accept resposibility for its actions.

    Kinda embarrasing to have to wait for an external event to come along and clear the slate for us eh?
    It is preferential to refrain from the utilisation of grandiose verbiage in the circumstance that your intellectualisation can be expressed using comparatively simplistic lexicological entities. (...such as the word fuck.)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mikkel View Post
    I'm just hoping that humanity, as a whole, might one day actually grow up and accept resposibility for its actions.

    Kinda embarrasing to have to wait for an external event to come along and clear the slate for us eh?
    So are you suggesting we should wipe the slate clean ourselves? Perhpas MAD wasn't a bad idea after all?

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