Predictions for the Decade

[Donfuy]

Are you saying that these are not common on the USA? They're surely pretty common around here.

[otters]

Just in order to clear up some things, 20XX could equal 2000. Take this equation.

4+x=2x

Logically, we can decide that x must be equal to four. This does not mean the equation must be
x+x=2x

Because then it would be impossible to solve. The value x represents can appear without being represented by X.

You don't substitute a variable for a constant. You substitute a constant for a variable.

[SlappyMcGee]

Just in order to clear up some things, 20XX could equal 2000. Take this equation.

4+x=2x

Logically, we can decide that x must be equal to four. This does not mean the equation must be
x+x=2x

Because then it would be impossible to solve. The value x represents can appear without being represented by X.

You don't substitute a variable for a constant. You substitute a constant for a variable.

Yeah, exactly. That's why 2XXX isn't necessary.

[Aldaric]

A better, faster way of cleaning after going to the bathroom will be invented. *I think a combination of water and suction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidet

No no no. I know all about those French things. They are just water cleaning. I want suction.

[Spawn of Yanni]

A better, faster way of cleaning after going to the bathroom will be invented. *I think a combination of water and suction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidet

No no no. I know all about those French things. They are just water cleaning. I want suction.

Suction? I don't know about suction, but aside from that you need to go to Japan.

[Drathmoore]

No no no. I know all about those French things. They are just water cleaning. I want suction.

Isn't that what they use on spacecraft, due to the lack of gravity?

[scythe]

A better, faster way of cleaning after going to the bathroom will be invented. *I think a combination of water and suction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bidet

No no no. I know all about those French things. They are just water cleaning. I want suction.

Have you ever read the story "Guts" by Chuck Palahniuk?

Trust me. You do not want suction.

[otters~1]

I don't suppose that's the one with the anal masturbation in a pool that backfires (lolpun) badly?

[乳头的早餐谷物]

I want to know what Aldaric does that is so hard to clean.

Actually, no. I definitely do not want to know.

[Aldaric]

I just think wiping is very primitive. It is just moving the mess. We should have like a poo be gone spray by now.

Also, I foresee every living plant dying. With it all animals except humans will die. The humans that die are made into food. Ahem ahem did not take that from a awesome movie.
"Soylent Green is people! We've got to stop them somehow!"

[Drathmoore]

I just think wiping is very primitive.

Erm... Toilet Paper is, at most, 160 years old as an invention. Primitive would be wiping with a sponge on a stick (of which is where the phrase of "Grabbing the wrong end of the stick" comes from.)

Also, I foresee every living plant dying. With it all animals except humans will die. The humans that die are made into food. Ahem ahem did not take that from a awesome movie.

Mmm... Soyalent Green...

[Tanner]

On the aside of music dying, I think this decade was the best decade for music ever. There are more bands I love who made their debut these last ten years than bands I love who made their debut any other decade combined. I see music only going uphill as it becomes easier to record and our cultural consciousness starts to embrace more offbeat ideas.

Music is becoming more fractured. The list of genres on rateyourmusic.com is fascinating to me but it's so long. At least personally, I've got to the point where I'll listen to hundreds of albums from any given year and still not feel comfortable making a "best of" list because I know I've missed something. I see as both good and bad. It's good because it expands our tastes and exposes us to new things, opening us up to new experiences and maturing us. It's bad because it limits the commonality that we can experience with each other through a shared taste in music. I remember a quote from Borealis when McP said that he'd joined a metal forum where the users would have made Borealis look like he knows nothing about that genre. Borealis said, "I'll know 90% of what they're talking about and the other 10% they'll be making up." That's just... plausible. There's so much out that there that if a Google search returns nothing about a given artist, that doesn't necessarily mean they don't exist. I don't know if I'm pining for something that never existed but that's my take on the direction of music in general.

[otters~1]

Tanner, you've made me very sad. Fortunately, the rest of this discussion is more lighthearted.

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The Romans shared a sponge on a stick with each other at public baths.

[SlappyMcGee]

Tanner, you've made me very sad. Fortunately, the rest of this discussion is more lighthearted.

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The Romans shared a sponge on a stick with each other at public baths.

Haha! Those sick fucks! They should use different sponges but the same stick! Idiots!

[Tunco]

Tanner, you've made me very sad. Fortunately, the rest of this discussion is more lighthearted.

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The Romans shared a sponge on a stick with each other at public baths.

Haha! Those sick fucks! They should use different sponges but the same stick! Idiots!

Haha! Those sick fucks! Sponge is not the best way to have bath! Idiots!

[Drathmoore]

Haha! Those sick fucks! Sponge is not the best way to have bath! Idiots!

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The sponges weren't used in the baths. Especially not considering they were used to wipe your arse with after going to the toilet.

[Tunco]

Haha! Those sick fucks! Sponge is not the best way to have bath! Idiots!

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The sponges weren't used in the baths. Especially not considering they were used to wipe your arse with after going to the toilet.

My point wasn't that. Anyway, I was just being sarcastic.

[bobaganuesh_2]

Are you saying that these are not common on the USA? They're surely pretty common around here.

we certainly don't get them in Canada.

Users who are unfamiliar with bidets often confuse a bidet with a urinal, toilet, or even a drinking fountain

I lol'd

[Neil_Bryan]

Here's one thing I'm sure will not happen: the world's end in 2012.

Are hybrid cars gonna replace our diesel and oil-powered cars in 2020? Obviously not, unless hybrids go cheap, which I think I won't see happening in 2020.

Technology will be seen everywhere in the next decade: maybe, in developed countries, we might see everyone there carrying gadgets, netbooks and handheld computers, but probably we won't see any in developing ones, although maybe we will still see some people with these gadgets.

[SlappyMcGee]

Are you saying that these are not common on the USA? They're surely pretty common around here.

They're virtually unheard of. There may be six in the whole country.

[chume14]

> Climate change will have been universally acknowledged as a threat, but international collaboration will still fail to happen.

This won't happen I will never accept it.

by the end of the decade I hope to have posted several more maps, there will be no personal computer storage all information will be stored remotely and accessed through the internet and a super-bug will have wiped out most of humanity.

[EdoI]

Are you saying that these are not common on the USA? They're surely pretty common around here.

They're virtually unheard of. There may be six in the whole country.

Same here, I've never seen a bidet live.
But talking about toilet stuff, I want urinals to disappear from this planet. They're disgusting, I don't use them.

[乳头的早餐谷物]

But talking about toilet stuff, I want urinals to disappear from this planet. They're disgusting, I don't use them.

As far as public toilets go, they're better than the alternative.

[otters~1]

But talking about toilet stuff, I want urinals to disappear from this planet. They're disgusting, I don't use them.

As far as public toilets go, they're better than the alternative.

Yeah, Edoi, I'm not sure I see what you mean. Urinals are vastly superior to normal toilets in terms of cleanliness. Especially if they auto-flush.

[EdoI]

But talking about toilet stuff, I want urinals to disappear from this planet. They're disgusting, I don't use them.

As far as public toilets go, they're better than the alternative.

Yeah, Edoi, I'm not sure I see what you mean. Urinals are vastly superior to normal toilets in terms of cleanliness. Especially if they auto-flush.

Yeah, but I don't like peeing in public like that.