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'Twas a warm and, admittedly, rather pleasant day. I crept along to the kitchen in the morning for my normal cup of tea. The mug was out, the kettle boiling away, I was even dressed and awake, and then stumbled upon the greatest tragedy in modern times. I had run out of tea bags.

Blindly running into my friend's room I blathered incoherently until, fortuitously, they understood my fateful dilemma and gave me one of theirs. The day was saved, after standing but an inch away from impending doom.

Feel free to share your horrific moments of the month and/or year. :)

'Twas a warm and, admittedly, rather pleasant day. I crept along to the kitchen in the morning for my normal cup of tea. The mug was out, the kettle boiling away, I was even dressed and awake, and then stumbled upon the greatest tragedy in modern times. I had run out of tea bags.

Blindly running into my friend's room I blathered incoherently until, fortuitously, they understood my fateful dilemma and gave me one of theirs. The day was saved, after standing but an inch away from impending doom.


It was at that moment you realised you had ran out of milk :eek:

I too ran out of teabags once, i had to go a whole day without them. It was hell i tell you.
A more serious horrific moment was discovering that some bright guys had the idea to make a hadron collider in Switzerland, yes lets spend Billions of dollars just to see if we can find out anything more of the universe, oh human suffering isn't a problem, neither is the economy don't worry if it fails and a black hole is made you won't be worrying about the economy anymore.

*mumbles about inquisitive physicists*
em other than that, nothing else i can think of that's new and horrific.

That's why you should take the teabag out before adding any milk. If you need to use an old teabag (or two) to make stopgap tea, it doesn't smell and taste of sour milk.

'Twas a warm and, admittedly, rather pleasant day. I crept along to the kitchen in the morning for my normal cup of tea. The mug was out, the kettle boiling away, I was even dressed and awake, and then stumbled upon the greatest tragedy in modern times. I had run out of tea bags.

Blindly running into my friend's room I blathered incoherently until, fortuitously, they understood my fateful dilemma and gave me one of theirs. The day was saved, after standing but an inch away from impending doom.

Feel free to share your horrific moments of the month and/or year. :)

if someone had a dirty mind this would sound utterly ackward....and I have a dirty mind :D

I too ran out of teabags once, i had to go a whole day without them. It was hell i tell you.
A more serious horrific moment was discovering that some bright guys had the idea to make a hadron collider in Switzerland, yes lets spend Billions of dollars just to see if we can find out anything more of the universe, oh human suffering isn't a problem, neither is the economy don't worry if it fails and a black hole is made you won't be worrying about the economy anymore.

*mumbles about inquisitive physicists*
em other than that, nothing else i can think of that's new and horrific.

Wait til you hear about this thing they call the 'Nuclear Missile', I have no idea what it is but apparently it causes great destruction, like blowing up an entire town or something.

Why scientists have to meddle in God's world is beyond me.

Wait til you hear about this thing they call the 'Nuclear Missile', I have no idea what it is but apparently it causes great destruction, like blowing up an entire town or something.

Why scientists have to meddle in God's world is beyond me.

Cause god's world is bright and shiney and we all want to be there...

Wait til you hear about this thing they call the 'Nuclear Missile', I have no idea what it is but apparently it causes great destruction, like blowing up an entire town or something.

Why scientists have to meddle in God's world is beyond me.

well if they do have any of those i'll make sure to devise a big nuclear screen, like a giant electromagnetic net in the air, it would provide total cover from remote missles and nuclear weaponry. (in theory)

As for those scientists, i guess because the only experience they have of the real world involves their secretary dropping a cup of tea.

*continues ranting*

Cause god's world is bright and shiney and we all want to be there...

Show some respect to God - capitalise!

Otherwise it's straight to hell for you, as a loving believer, I'll be up in heaven laughing at you, pointing with pointy sticks while I nestle in the plumptious breasts of my 72 virgins.

Yay me!

Show some respect to God - capitalise!

Otherwise it's straight to hell for you, as a loving believer, I'll be up in heaven laughing at you, pointing with pointy sticks while I nestle in the plumptious breasts of my 72 virgins.

Yay me!

is that 72 male or female virgins?
cause if it is what it could be, maybe i don't want to go to heaven after all.

Show some respect to God - capitalise!

Otherwise it's straight to hell for you, as a loving believer, I'll be up in heaven laughing at you, pointing with pointy sticks while I nestle in the plumptious breasts of my 72 virgins.

Yay me!

who said the virgins were all women?

Feel free to share your horrific moments of the month and/or year. :)
6 days ago my best friend got killed by a truck. Which is sad, to say the least.

A more serious horrific moment was discovering that some bright guys had the idea to make a hadron collider in Switzerland

You'll look very silly if the theory explored there leads us to abundant clean power. "Good for the economy" doesn't even begin to cover that.

is that 72 male or female virgins?
cause if it is what it could be, maybe i don't want to go to heaven after all.

Let me check the brochure...

*scans*

Wait a minute, 72 vermins? That's not right.

:mad:

Let me check the brochure...

*scans*

Wait a minute, 72 vermins? That's not right.

:mad:

Sure it is.

Do you have any idea how much fun real life whack-a-mole is?

You'll look very silly if the theory explored there leads us to abundant clean power. "Good for the economy" doesn't even begin to cover that.
it better lead to something useful.
even then which countries get this new technology of 'clean power'?
Let me check the brochure...

*scans*

Wait a minute, 72 vermins? That's not right.

:mad:
:p
heh, looks like you applied to the rat-catcher heaven, well i got my ticket for the right type, and it has lots of good food.

6 days ago my best friend got killed by a truck. Which is sad, to say the least.

:( The topic was rather satirically 'horrific', but that's really ... crap. My condolences.

:( The topic was rather satirically 'horrific', but that's really ... crap. My condolences.
Aye. Bit hard to come to terms with, seeing as they're really the first person that I've really known to die.

And terribly sorry about ruining the topic by being a bit morbid.

Aye. Bit hard to come to terms with, seeing as they're really the first person that I've really known to die.

And terribly sorry about ruining the topic by being a bit morbid.

Also sorry to hear, sobering.

Aye. Bit hard to come to terms with, seeing as they're really the first person that I've really known to die.

And terribly sorry about ruining the topic by being a bit morbid.

yeah, shame that happened.
um...do you have any other moments of horror?
mayhaps not.

6 days ago my best friend got killed by a truck. Which is sad, to say the least.

That's awful. :(

um...do you have any other moments of horror?
Err I spilt some curry down my top. And it was Tandoori :eek:

Err I spilt some curry down my top. And it was Tandoori :eek:

yum, tandoori how much i miss proper food.
I tried attacking my steak and kidney pie earlier, but well it sortta lost it's good flavour, so i'll resume the battle later with lots of toppings.
I spill food down my front all the time, i don't know why it's not as if i intentionally place dip on my t-shirt, or why hot chocolate seems to gravitate toward my crotch area. (no i do wear clothes so it's not as bad as you might be imagining).

6 days ago my best friend got killed by a truck. Which is sad, to say the least.

That does suck. Was your friend driving, riding, what ?

That does suck. Was your friend driving, riding, what ?
She was on her bike on the way back from the college. I'd really rather not dwell on it, I've sorta ruined this topic already.

Aye. Bit hard to come to terms with, seeing as they're really the first person that I've really known to die.

And terribly sorry about ruining the topic by being a bit morbid.

It's hard, especially someone so close.

No worry, trivial things always pale into insignificance when faced with real human tragedy.

it better lead to something useful.
even then which countries get this new technology of 'clean power'?

That attitude of "it better" is almost luddite. If the physicists knew where it would lead, they wouldn't need to actually build the thing, would they?

When I found out that my 300 bucks from Uncle Sam would be pushed back to June or july...I now have 1.74 to last me for 3 weeks (my job starts in a week, and wait two weeks for a check) and I have no food.


Horrific indeed. :(

That attitude of "it better" is almost luddite. If the physicists knew where it would lead, they wouldn't need to actually build the thing, would they?
Still a bit insulting, oh yes there's lots of poor out there, i know what will help, building a massive thing which we're not sure what it will do just to find out what it can do isn't that wonderful?
sure it may help in some areas of technology, i'd like to know what exactly this would lead to. rather than a general, oh it'l be cool to find out, sort of reasoning.

6 days ago my best friend got killed by a truck. Which is sad, to say the least.

I am so sorry to hear that.

I don't normally do this for strangers but...


-hugs- :)

Still a bit insulting, oh yes there's lots of poor out there, i know what will help, building a massive thing which we're not sure what it will do just to find out what it can do isn't that wonderful?

Yes it is, actually. Physics is the core natural science, discoveries in physics have completely unforseeable consequences for chemistry, electronics, nanotech and in fact all applied science.

If you believe in science, you believe in physics. If you don't believe in physics, you're a luddite. Simple as that.

sure it may help in some areas of technology, i'd like to know what exactly this would lead to. rather than a general, oh it'l be cool to find out, sort of reasoning.

Well, you have to wait. Every other biggest-of-generation particle accelerator has yielded knowledge about the internals of matter, advancing understanding of quantum mechanics, conservation laws, cosmology and nuclear physics.

As to your concern about more worthy targets for the money, a pure science project is surely not the first thing to attack. Western governments fund all sorts of research for its potential to create better weapons. Then they fund the weaponization of that knowledge. Perhaps you should worry more about that, because history shows pretty clearly where arms races lead.

Yes it is, actually. Physics is the core natural science, discoveries in physics have completely unforseeable consequences for chemistry, electronics, nanotech and in fact all applied science.

If you believe in science, you believe in physics. If you don't believe in physics, you're a luddite. Simple as that.

Well, you have to wait. Every other biggest-of-generation particle accelerator has yielded knowledge about the internals of matter, advancing understanding of quantum mechanics, conservation laws, cosmology and nuclear physics.

As to your concern about more worthy targets for the money, a pure science project is surely not the first thing to attack. Western governments fund all sorts of research for its potential to create better weapons. Then they fund the weaponization of that knowledge. Perhaps you should worry more about that, because history shows pretty clearly where arms races lead.
attack? do you take me for some regmient of mechanised supersoldiers of something? (if only)
I looked up Luddite and it sounds too energetic for my liking.
That's me told then. :D

'Twas a warm and, admittedly, rather pleasant day. I crept along to the kitchen in the morning for my normal cup of tea. The mug was out, the kettle boiling away, I was even dressed and awake, and then stumbled upon the greatest tragedy in modern times. I had run out of tea bags.

Blindly running into my friend's room I blathered incoherently until, fortuitously, they understood my fateful dilemma and gave me one of theirs. The day was saved, after standing but an inch away from impending doom.

Feel free to share your horrific moments of the month and/or year. :)That's the saddest thing I've read all day. And I don't want to imply that I feel any empathy for your plight. :p

As to your concern about more worthy targets for the money, a pure science project is surely not the first thing to attack.

Indeed. The generating and use of electricity for instance was the result of pure scientific research, with no real interests for the practical applications. When asked what that bloody electricity was actually for, the scientists is rumoured to even have replied "no idea, but you will probably be able to tax it".

We found some uses. We tend to find unforseen uses for practically everything.

And to the OP: tea BAGs ? BLASPHEMER !
Stop drinking that junk. Go for the real thing.

And to the OP: tea BAGs ? BLASPHEMER !
Stop drinking that junk. Go for the real thing.

What is that, pray tell? You mean using leaves? Well, I do that as well, I vary between the two.

Drink coffee you limey Brits.

Drink coffee you limey Brits.

Not while there's still air in my lungs you corporate coffee consuming creator of cuffuffle's you cranky yank!