"You mean you've got a hold full of frozen hairdressers?" he said.
"Oh yes," said the Captain, "Millions of them. Hairdressers, tired TV producers, insurance salesmen, personnel officers, security guards, public relations executives, management consultants, you name them. We're going to colonize another planet."
Now, bearing in mind, and it's so ironic given the current need for disinfecting electronics and hard surfaces, the:
tales of impending doom which enabled the people of Golgafrincham to rid themselves of an entire useless third of their population. The other two-thirds stayed firmly at home and lived full, rich and happy lives until they were all suddenly wiped out by a virulent disease contracted from a dirty telephone.
The world needs to grow a pair and put massive sanctions on countries that are using way more than their share of recources. The UK is bad enough but consumption levels in America are rediculous and they're doing very little about it.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I always thought the UK gov needed to do more with manufacturing and 'things' being fit for purpose. Too much 'stuff' is made for landfill - it's made on the assumption that it's redundant within too short a timeframe. All items should have a published expected life and the manufacturer should be in some way responsible for the product through to and including end of life.
But we live in a consumer driven economy and the govs around the world want and need people spending and spending and spending on 'stuff' that doesn't last.
They're not best pleased that some fortunate people are saving money due to the pandemic. No fares. No bucket of designer coffee. No need for new clothes. I wonder what will still be considered essential when the new normal arrives .
Maybe we need to copy cigaratte packaging and have photos on your new iphone or clothing that show the harm it's doing. Pictures of the Chinese concentration camps and little kids in sweat shops, living in slums so we can consume cheap disposable rubbish. That aisle in Aldi that's full of junk that is a few months away from being landfill will look a lot less appealing hopefully.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I still wear shirts that are over 20 years old. Ok they are "gardening grade" but it's only when they literally fall apart do I give them up. The EU have been gradually bringing in rules as @steveTu says. It's already happening in the automotive sector, and making domestic appliances more easily repaired. Oh but we left the EU didn't we.😡
I had three levels of clothes - outdoor-meety people type stuff, that moved down a level to tatty indoor slouch around stuff, that then became work around the house or garden stuff. So now all people see me in outdoors are clothes that are fit for a scarecrow....apt really given the way I look.
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Now, bearing in mind, and it's so ironic given the current need for disinfecting electronics and hard surfaces, the:
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.