I would like to live today in total luxury.

Any suggestions?

Remove three things from our world -
- Religion
- Money
- Reliance on coal/oil

That’ll be a good start.

mollwollfumble said:

I would like to live today in total luxury.

Any suggestions?

No ideas this end, I’ll be cleaning my lavatory. Amongst much other cleaning.

Spiny Norman said:

Remove three things from our world -
- Religion
- Money
- Reliance on coal/oil

That’ll be a good start.

I didn’t expect to agree with that, but on reflevtion, i do.

You already are.

AwesomeO said:

You already are.

This.

buffy said:

AwesomeO said:

You already are.

This.

Both Billy Connolly and Spike Milligan have commented (decades apart) that ‘you Australians live in Paradise, and you don’t even know it’.

captain_spalding said:

buffy said:

AwesomeO said:

You already are.

This.

Both Billy Connolly and Spike Milligan have commented (decades apart) that ‘you Australians live in Paradise, and you don’t even know it’.

If it’s only today you are looking for, simply put off all the jobs you were going to do…. until tomorrow.

once upon a time

people used to walk every where

people used to hunt and gather their own food

there was no electricity, radio, tv ,lights, computers, telephones,

there no were air-planes, cars

people used to wash by hand

people used to entertain themselves.

once upon a time.

Tau.Neutrino said:

once upon a time

people used to walk every where

people used to hunt and gather their own food

there was no electricity, radio, tv ,lights, computers, telephones,

there no were air-planes, cars

people used to wash by hand

people used to entertain themselves.

once upon a time.

Those same people had about half our life expectancy.

Tamb said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

once upon a time

people used to walk every where

people used to hunt and gather their own food

there was no electricity, radio, tv ,lights, computers, telephones,

there no were air-planes, cars

people used to wash by hand

people used to entertain themselves.

once upon a time.

Those same people had about half our life expectancy.

Is half a life of modern living a luxury ?

Tau.Neutrino said:

Tamb said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

once upon a time

people used to walk every where

people used to hunt and gather their own food

there was no electricity, radio, tv ,lights, computers, telephones,

there no were air-planes, cars

people used to wash by hand

people used to entertain themselves.

once upon a time.

Those same people had about half our life expectancy.

Is half a life of modern living a luxury ?

If being dead is considered a luxury then, yes.

captain_spalding said:

buffy said:

AwesomeO said:

You already are.

This.

Both Billy Connolly and Spike Milligan have commented (decades apart) that ‘you Australians live in Paradise, and you don’t even know it’.

I do. Part of that paradise is the Australian people.

Except one or two here, and there.

kii said:

captain_spalding said:

buffy said:

This.

Both Billy Connolly and Spike Milligan have commented (decades apart) that ‘you Australians live in Paradise, and you don’t even know it’.

I do. Part of that paradise is the Australian people.

Except one or two here, and there.

Unfortaunately, those few seem to be the ones we put in charge of the place.

mollwollfumble said:

I would like to live today in total luxury.

Any suggestions?

It might help to start by identifying which, if any, of your needs are not currently being met.

Rule 303 said:

mollwollfumble said:

I would like to live today in total luxury.

Any suggestions?

It might help to start by identifying which, if any, of your needs are not currently being met.

I stayed in a Soviet era 5 star hotel. That was pretty luxurious.

captain_spalding said:

kii said:

captain_spalding said:

Both Billy Connolly and Spike Milligan have commented (decades apart) that ‘you Australians live in Paradise, and you don’t even know it’.

I do. Part of that paradise is the Australian people.

Except one or two here, and there.

Unfortaunately, those few seem to be the ones we put in charge of the place.

Yeah, those plus the general fuckwits who pontificate about shit on the internet.

kii said:

captain_spalding said:

kii said:

I do. Part of that paradise is the Australian people.

Except one or two here, and there.

Unfortaunately, those few seem to be the ones we put in charge of the place.

Yeah, those plus the general fuckwits who pontificate about shit on the internet.

Hey , i resemble that remark!

Tamb said:

Rule 303 said:

mollwollfumble said:

I would like to live today in total luxury.

Any suggestions?

It might help to start by identifying which, if any, of your needs are not currently being met.

I stayed in a Soviet era 5 star hotel. That was pretty luxurious.

Was that 5 Red stars?

captain_spalding said:

Tamb said:

Rule 303 said:

It might help to start by identifying which, if any, of your needs are not currently being met.

I stayed in a Soviet era 5 star hotel. That was pretty luxurious.

Was that 5 Red stars?

No. It was after the end of the USSR so no red stars. Mainly white marble & sweeping staircases.

Tamb said:

captain_spalding said:

Tamb said:

I stayed in a Soviet era 5 star hotel. That was pretty luxurious.

Was that 5 Red stars?

No. It was after the end of the USSR so no red stars. Mainly white marble & sweeping staircases.

And microphones.

I know of someone who stayed in a plush Moscow hotel in the early 80s, might have been the Rossiya, IIRC.

There were no coathangers in the wardrobe. He said he stood in the middle of the room, and said loudly ‘there are no coathangers in the wardrobe’. Later he went out. When he came back, there was a plentiful supply of hangers in the wardrobe.

Tamb said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Tamb said:

Those same people had about half our life expectancy.

Is half a life of modern living a luxury ?

If being dead is considered a luxury then, yes.

>>> Those same people had about half our life expectancy.

if people today only lived to half modern expectations then how much better off would the environment be?

Would the population drop by half?

captain_spalding said:

Tamb said:

captain_spalding said:

Was that 5 Red stars?

No. It was after the end of the USSR so no red stars. Mainly white marble & sweeping staircases.

And microphones.

I know of someone who stayed in a plush Moscow hotel in the early 80s, might have been the Rossiya, IIRC.

There were no coathangers in the wardrobe. He said he stood in the middle of the room, and said loudly ‘there are no coathangers in the wardrobe’. Later he went out. When he came back, there was a plentiful supply of hangers in the wardrobe.

:)

Magic.

captain_spalding said:

Tamb said:

captain_spalding said:

Was that 5 Red stars?

No. It was after the end of the USSR so no red stars. Mainly white marble & sweeping staircases.

And microphones.

I know of someone who stayed in a plush Moscow hotel in the early 80s, might have been the Rossiya, IIRC.

There were no coathangers in the wardrobe. He said he stood in the middle of the room, and said loudly ‘there are no coathangers in the wardrobe’. Later he went out. When he came back, there was a plentiful supply of hangers in the wardrobe.

Not too much of a problem. Different when I was there in 1961. Very KGB then.

Tamb said:

Not too much of a problem. Different when I was there in 1961. Very KGB then.

You weren’t at the Rossiya, then.

Tau.Neutrino said:

Tamb said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Is half a life of modern living a luxury ?

If being dead is considered a luxury then, yes.

>>> Those same people had about half our life expectancy.

if people today only lived to half modern expectations then how much better off would the environment be?

Would the population drop by half?

I don’t think so. The “old” people would die but the young would still breed.

captain_spalding said:

Tamb said:

Not too much of a problem. Different when I was there in 1961. Very KGB then.

You weren’t at the Rossiya, then.

No. It wasn’t in Moscow. Yekaterinburg I think.

I liked the Russian cruise ships, with the CTC line in the 80s. They were ex-Cunard ships like the former ‘Ivernia’, real classic liners, delightful.

Went on some short cruses with them, busman’s-holiday style (cheap drinks, back then).

Having some Russian language made it more fun, i’d pick up on some of the conversations between the crew. Nothing at all spy-like, of course, just the usual ribaldries and comments about passengers and work.

When we we disembarking from one, i said to the female cabin steward something like ‘до свидания, спасибо за все, возможно, увидимся в следующий раз’ (goodbye, thanks for everything, maybe see you next time). I hadn’t said a word in Russian until then.

The look on her face was priceless.

Tamb said:

captain_spalding said:

Tamb said:

Not too much of a problem. Different when I was there in 1961. Very KGB then.

You weren’t at the Rossiya, then.

No. It wasn’t in Moscow. Yekaterinburg I think.

And all the time, the Romanovs were down in that hole in the town.

captain_spalding said:

I liked the Russian cruise ships, with the CTC line in the 80s. They were ex-Cunard ships like the former ‘Ivernia’, real classic liners, delightful.

Went on some short cruses with them, busman’s-holiday style (cheap drinks, back then).

Having some Russian language made it more fun, i’d pick up on some of the conversations between the crew. Nothing at all spy-like, of course, just the usual ribaldries and comments about passengers and work.

When we we disembarking from one, i said to the female cabin steward something like ‘до свидания, спасибо за все, возможно, увидимся в следующий раз’ (goodbye, thanks for everything, maybe see you next time). I hadn’t said a word in Russian until then.

The look on her face was priceless.

mz T mk II speaks Russian & I am trying to bring back the primitive Russian I had back then. I’m getting there but it’s not easy.

captain_spalding said:

Tamb said:

captain_spalding said:

You weren’t at the Rossiya, then.

No. It wasn’t in Moscow. Yekaterinburg I think.

And all the time, the Romanovs were down in that hole in the town.

They took us to the room where the shootings took place. Bullet marks in the walls etc.
I got the impression that they were not all that pleased about what had happened but that it was necessary to ensure the State’s future.

Tamb said:

mz T mk II speaks Russian & I am trying to bring back the primitive Russian I had back then. I’m getting there but it’s not easy.

I haven’t much used any Russian for nearly thirty years, and i struggle a lot with it now. Have to look things up, grab the Russ-Eng dictionary and such. If you don’t use a language, you lose it, for sure. Not that i was vastly fluent in it, at any time.

But, bits of it pop into my head when least expected, phrases and words equivalent to something i just heard or read in English. Concentrating mostly on French these days.

Tamb said:

captain_spalding said:

Tamb said:

No. It wasn’t in Moscow. Yekaterinburg I think.

And all the time, the Romanovs were down in that hole in the town.

They took us to the room where the shootings took place. Bullet marks in the walls etc.
I got the impression that they were not all that pleased about what had happened but that it was necessary to ensure the State’s future.

At least they never tried to pretend it didn’t happen, unlike other governements with their dirty doings.

captain_spalding said:

Tamb said:

mz T mk II speaks Russian & I am trying to bring back the primitive Russian I had back then. I’m getting there but it’s not easy.

I haven’t much used any Russian for nearly thirty years, and i struggle a lot with it now. Have to look things up, grab the Russ-Eng dictionary and such. If you don’t use a language, you lose it, for sure. Not that i was vastly fluent in it, at any time.

But, bits of it pop into my head when least expected, phrases and words equivalent to something i just heard or read in English. Concentrating mostly on French these days.

First Russian I learned was “Two bottles of beer please”

What were you doing in Russia, Tamb, just holidays?

asking for a friend

captain_spalding said:

Tamb said:

captain_spalding said:

And all the time, the Romanovs were down in that hole in the town.

They took us to the room where the shootings took place. Bullet marks in the walls etc.
I got the impression that they were not all that pleased about what had happened but that it was necessary to ensure the State’s future.

At least they never tried to pretend it didn’t happen, unlike other governements with their dirty doings.

They were more proud of shooting down the USAF U2 spy plane over Yekaterinburg, which was the USSR’s equivalent of SAC’s Omaha headquarters.

Tamb said:

captain_spalding said:

Tamb said:

mz T mk II speaks Russian & I am trying to bring back the primitive Russian I had back then. I’m getting there but it’s not easy.

I haven’t much used any Russian for nearly thirty years, and i struggle a lot with it now. Have to look things up, grab the Russ-Eng dictionary and such. If you don’t use a language, you lose it, for sure. Not that i was vastly fluent in it, at any time.

But, bits of it pop into my head when least expected, phrases and words equivalent to something i just heard or read in English. Concentrating mostly on French these days.

First Russian I learned was “Two bottles of beer please”

Mine was ‘One fish jelly for me!’ (It was an interesting language course, full of things meant to keep you paying attention.)

sibeen said:

What were you doing in Russia, Tamb, just holidays?

asking for a friend

Answering carefully: Yes.

Tamb said:

sibeen said:

What were you doing in Russia, Tamb, just holidays?

asking for a friend

Answering carefully: Yes.

That was a bit out there for the early 60s. Did you meet any interesting people?

sibeen said:

Tamb said:

sibeen said:

What were you doing in Russia, Tamb, just holidays?

asking for a friend

Answering carefully: Yes.

That was a bit out there for the early 60s. Did you meet any interesting people?

All the “interesting” people were either in the Lubyanka or the Kremlin.

Tamb said:

All the “interesting” people were either in the Lubyanka or the Kremlin.

One CTC ship’s cinema was showing the James Bond movie ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’ (Roger Moore).

They’d run a show for the crew, after the scheduled passenger showings. I was watching the through the cinema door, and the scenes that were meant to represent the KGB people and their Moscow headquarters were greeted with great gales of laughter from the assembled crew members.

captain_spalding said:

I liked the Russian cruise ships, with the CTC line in the 80s. They were ex-Cunard ships like the former ‘Ivernia’, real classic liners, delightful.

Went on some short cruses with them, busman’s-holiday style (cheap drinks, back then).

Having some Russian language made it more fun, i’d pick up on some of the conversations between the crew. Nothing at all spy-like, of course, just the usual ribaldries and comments about passengers and work.

When we we disembarking from one, i said to the female cabin steward something like ‘до свидания, спасибо за все, возможно, увидимся в следующий раз’ (goodbye, thanks for everything, maybe see you next time). I hadn’t said a word in Russian until then.

The look on her face was priceless.

Yes. Russia was a possibility, but getting there and back in a day is a bit daunting.

So far, my day has been total luxury.

Heated spa for the length of 760 long beaths, over an hour.

Sitting under a beach umbrella on a deck chair in the park. My feet on artificial grass, no insects, wind at my back, watching a mobile powered by water. For more than half an hour. Then walked under the splash for fun before heading indoors.

Watching an all-woman yoga class from a distance, laughing at their total failure to downward dog.

Watching people exercise in a gym.

Got up high in a place normally sealed off to the public, Looking down on the yummy mummies, fat old geezers and handsome hunks hanging around the swimming pools.

Quick sauna. Quick steam room. Three showers, one a very long one.

Then to church for a free coffee and a chat. Was too late for the coffee, but got to chat with a few of my favourite people.

Now lying on bed with a coffee, and mrs m has just delivered me a lunch to be eaten in bed.

On target for a totally luxurious day.

mollwollfumble said:

captain_spalding said:

I liked the Russian cruise ships, with the CTC line in the 80s. They were ex-Cunard ships like the former ‘Ivernia’, real classic liners, delightful.

Went on some short cruses with them, busman’s-holiday style (cheap drinks, back then).

Having some Russian language made it more fun, i’d pick up on some of the conversations between the crew. Nothing at all spy-like, of course, just the usual ribaldries and comments about passengers and work.

When we we disembarking from one, i said to the female cabin steward something like ‘до свидания, спасибо за все, возможно, увидимся в следующий раз’ (goodbye, thanks for everything, maybe see you next time). I hadn’t said a word in Russian until then.

The look on her face was priceless.

Yes. Russia was a possibility, but getting there and back in a day is a bit daunting.

So far, my day has been total luxury.

Heated spa for the length of 760 long beaths, over an hour.

Sitting under a beach umbrella on a deck chair in the park. My feet on artificial grass, no insects, wind at my back, watching a mobile powered by water. For more than half an hour. Then walked under the splash for fun before heading indoors.

Watching an all-woman yoga class from a distance, laughing at their total failure to downward dog.

Watching people exercise in a gym.

Got up high in a place normally sealed off to the public, Looking down on the yummy mummies, fat old geezers and handsome hunks hanging around the swimming pools.

Quick sauna. Quick steam room. Three showers, one a very long one.

Then to church for a free coffee and a chat. Was too late for the coffee, but got to chat with a few of my favourite people.

Now lying on bed with a coffee, and mrs m has just delivered me a lunch to be eaten in bed.

On target for a totally luxurious day.

OK, I’ll bite.

Is it your birthday?

Michael V said:

mollwollfumble said:

captain_spalding said:

I liked the Russian cruise ships, with the CTC line in the 80s. They were ex-Cunard ships like the former ‘Ivernia’, real classic liners, delightful.

Went on some short cruses with them, busman’s-holiday style (cheap drinks, back then).

Having some Russian language made it more fun, i’d pick up on some of the conversations between the crew. Nothing at all spy-like, of course, just the usual ribaldries and comments about passengers and work.

When we we disembarking from one, i said to the female cabin steward something like ‘до свидания, спасибо за все, возможно, увидимся в следующий раз’ (goodbye, thanks for everything, maybe see you next time). I hadn’t said a word in Russian until then.

The look on her face was priceless.

Yes. Russia was a possibility, but getting there and back in a day is a bit daunting.

So far, my day has been total luxury.

Heated spa for the length of 760 long beaths, over an hour.

Sitting under a beach umbrella on a deck chair in the park. My feet on artificial grass, no insects, wind at my back, watching a mobile powered by water. For more than half an hour. Then walked under the splash for fun before heading indoors.

Watching an all-woman yoga class from a distance, laughing at their total failure to downward dog.

Watching people exercise in a gym.

Got up high in a place normally sealed off to the public, Looking down on the yummy mummies, fat old geezers and handsome hunks hanging around the swimming pools.

Quick sauna. Quick steam room. Three showers, one a very long one.

Then to church for a free coffee and a chat. Was too late for the coffee, but got to chat with a few of my favourite people.

Now lying on bed with a coffee, and mrs m has just delivered me a lunch to be eaten in bed.

On target for a totally luxurious day.

OK, I’ll bite.

Is it your birthday?

Nothing like that. (By the way, anyone know when squeezebabe’s birthday is?)

I’ve just had a tough time with the plumbers lately (calling Ben 10) and the pain in my right buttock and thigh has been driving me up the wall. I needed a day of total luxurious self-indulgence to recover before facing more plumbers on Monday and Tuesday.

mollwollfumble said:

Michael V said:

mollwollfumble said:

Yes. Russia was a possibility, but getting there and back in a day is a bit daunting.

So far, my day has been total luxury.

Heated spa for the length of 760 long beaths, over an hour.

Sitting under a beach umbrella on a deck chair in the park. My feet on artificial grass, no insects, wind at my back, watching a mobile powered by water. For more than half an hour. Then walked under the splash for fun before heading indoors.

Watching an all-woman yoga class from a distance, laughing at their total failure to downward dog.

Watching people exercise in a gym.

Got up high in a place normally sealed off to the public, Looking down on the yummy mummies, fat old geezers and handsome hunks hanging around the swimming pools.

Quick sauna. Quick steam room. Three showers, one a very long one.

Then to church for a free coffee and a chat. Was too late for the coffee, but got to chat with a few of my favourite people.

Now lying on bed with a coffee, and mrs m has just delivered me a lunch to be eaten in bed.

On target for a totally luxurious day.

OK, I’ll bite.

Is it your birthday?

Nothing like that. (By the way, anyone know when squeezebabe’s birthday is?)

I’ve just had a tough time with the plumbers lately (calling Ben 10) and the pain in my right buttock and thigh has been driving me up the wall. I needed a day of total luxurious self-indulgence to recover before facing more plumbers on Monday and Tuesday.

10th March

mollwollfumble said:

Michael V said:

mollwollfumble said:

Yes. Russia was a possibility, but getting there and back in a day is a bit daunting.

So far, my day has been total luxury.

Heated spa for the length of 760 long beaths, over an hour.

Sitting under a beach umbrella on a deck chair in the park. My feet on artificial grass, no insects, wind at my back, watching a mobile powered by water. For more than half an hour. Then walked under the splash for fun before heading indoors.

Watching an all-woman yoga class from a distance, laughing at their total failure to downward dog.

Watching people exercise in a gym.

Got up high in a place normally sealed off to the public, Looking down on the yummy mummies, fat old geezers and handsome hunks hanging around the swimming pools.

Quick sauna. Quick steam room. Three showers, one a very long one.

Then to church for a free coffee and a chat. Was too late for the coffee, but got to chat with a few of my favourite people.

Now lying on bed with a coffee, and mrs m has just delivered me a lunch to be eaten in bed.

On target for a totally luxurious day.

OK, I’ll bite.

Is it your birthday?

Nothing like that. (By the way, anyone know when squeezebabe’s birthday is?)

I’ve just had a tough time with the plumbers lately (calling Ben 10) and the pain in my right buttock and thigh has been driving me up the wall. I needed a day of total luxurious self-indulgence to recover before facing more plumbers on Monday and Tuesday.

Ah. G’donya.

:)

> 10th March

Ta muchly. I’ll give her a call.