Don't panic ......... yet

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The world is running out of one of it's commodities. Apparently there is only about 20 years supply left. Plenty of time to start hoarding.

Oil?
Nope.

Water?
Nope.

Gold?
Nope.

Rare Earth Minerals?
Nope.

Even more important than all of the above.

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  • Profile picture of the author pianochris
    What about sun light??
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  • Profile picture of the author jointaldc
    lol.... that's nice, I like chocolate but... if need be, I can live without it
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    • Profile picture of the author Tina Golden
      Anyone know if you can grow cacao beans in Massachusetts? Either that or I dang well better be rich before we run out because life without chocolate.....

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      • Profile picture of the author ThomM
        Well in 20 years I'll either be dead or way more senile then I am now:rolleyes:
        I'm hoping for dead as it will be a better choice then no chocolate.
        Course if I'm that more senile then now, you will be able to feed me dog turds and tell me it's chocolate
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  • Profile picture of the author Andie
    Darn, y'all gave it away...
    I was gonna guess "common sense"

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    • Profile picture of the author Tina Golden
      Originally Posted by Andie View Post

      Darn, y'all gave it away...
      I was gonna guess "common sense"

      :-)
      Dang, I'm out of thanks for the day but that one made me laugh out loud for real. I've been saying for years that I'm going to print a bumper sticker that says "Common sense is being bred out of the human species".

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  • Profile picture of the author MalaMalas
    I think it is compassion for others.
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    Well there, see now -- I told you and told you that we have to move to negative population growth immediately -- but did you listen???? Noooooooooooo.

    Well nobody will ever have to worry about limiting their family sizes again, because when the world runs out of chocolate you are going to have crazed women running the streets like an episode out of the day of the dead and they are going to kill everything in their paths. When we are down to 1 bil again, and everything will be stabilized enough to grow plenty of chocolate, too.

    Why don't humans ever learn?
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  • Profile picture of the author Patrician
    Don't worry about that Sal - I watched that show on TRU TV about Conspiracy Theories last night and that is just the plan of the Bilderberg Group - population reduction aka genocide.

    The 'sources' (scientists, media spies, etc) say it is in the H1N1 flu virus and/or vaccine - (which could become mandatory) so you either die or become infertile.*

    Either way we got less chocoholics, etc.

    Now serious is running out of chocolate. It CANNOT be allowed to happen. Life would not be worth living.

    However if vanilla (real vanilla that is) runs out, I will jump off the nearest bridge.

    * the H1N1 vaccine/virus theory is suspect although the rest seems less so, because it is already pretty moot - H1N1 is not nearly as common and/or widespread as a year ago - doesn't make sense at this point that they would go that route -
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    • Profile picture of the author Andie
      Originally Posted by Patrician View Post

      Don't worry about that Sal - I watched that show on TRU TV about Conspiracy Theories last night and that is just the plan of the Bilderberg Group - population reduction aka genocide.

      The 'sources' (scientists, media spies, etc) say it is in the H1N1 flu virus and/or vaccine - (which could become mandatory) so you either die or become infertile.*

      Either way we got less chocoholics, etc.

      Now serious is running out of chocolate. It CANNOT be allowed to happen. Life would not be worth living.

      However if vanilla (real vanilla that is) runs out, I will jump off the nearest bridge.

      * the H1N1 vaccine/virus theory is suspect although the rest seems less so, because it is already pretty moot - H1N1 is not nearly as common and/or widespread as a year ago - doesn't make sense at this point that they would go that route -


      I'm so glad I'm not the only one who watches that!
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      • Profile picture of the author Steven Wagenheim
        I don't eat chocolate so I don't care.
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        • Profile picture of the author pickthat apple
          Does that also mean "no POCKET COFFEE"? ...Terrible news!!!!
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        • Profile picture of the author R Hagel
          Originally Posted by Steven Wagenheim View Post

          I don't eat chocolate so I don't care.
          I wonder if such blasphemy is a bannable offense?

          :p
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          • Profile picture of the author thatgirlJ
            Originally Posted by R Hagel View Post

            I wonder if such blasphemy is a bannable offense?

            :p

            It is! See YA, Steven!!!!

            :p
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    • Profile picture of the author HeySal
      Originally Posted by Patrician View Post


      However if vanilla (real vanilla that is) runs out, I will jump off the nearest bridge.

      How could you be so jaded as to even suggest such a thing!
      My world would completely stop without vanilla.

      Thanks, Pat -- I don't think I'll be resting easily for a few nights over that thought.
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      • Profile picture of the author Patrician
        LOL. Yes we have our priorities straight:

        1. vanilla
        2. chocolate




        distant third:

        3. threat of global genocide by neo-fascists



        Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

        How could you be so jaded as to even suggest such a thing!
        My world would completely stop without vanilla.

        Thanks, Pat -- I don't think I'll be resting easily for a few nights over that thought.
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  • Profile picture of the author garyv
    Most of the "chocolate" bars being sold right now don't have very much real chocolate in them anyways. So it may not have much of an impact on them. Ever wonder why the rise and fall of chicken prices lately hasn't had an impact on McDonald's chicken nuggets' prices? - Same reason.
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    Considering McDonald ingredients, I'm surprised it isn't listed in one of the Conspiracies as one means to eradicate population.

    Generally though, they are at a point where they can harvest clean water, and even clean some of ours, they have all natural seeds in a vault. The medical community owns people lock stock and barrel. Our water, food, and products contain deadly poisons and nobody seems any too worried about it.
    I'm sure their means of genocide is poisoning the masses. Sure Flu shots and flues cut people down - but only once their immune systems are compromised. Cancer is killing 1 out of 2 people now and most people don't have a clue what to do other than subject themselves to chemo. There is a way to even make chemo harmless....um...illegal in the US for what reason? Cures that have proven effective disappear quickly and the finders seem to get rich quite quick. There are a lot of things pointing to purposeful culling.

    Right now about 17% of the world's population is starving, and that's not going to get better.

    Scientists are monitoring eco-systems. One cold winter in Haiti could mean the complete destruction of the rain forests and a chain reaction that could kill a LOT of the population off. It would take one furious lot of work to restructure those eco-systems, too, though. Blue fin tuna will be extinct in just a few years if people don't quit hunting them right now, and several countries refuse to do so. Garbage is a problem, but they are finding they can turn that into fuel so that problem might be stemmed -even if it can't be stopped. Look at the cans in your town on garbage day. Where does it all go and how long can we deal with it?

    We're in grave trouble and the only ones likely to survive are the ones with the brains and money to stay out of the toxins. If people want to gorge on McDonalds (plaster of paris, deadly perservative, deadly foam retardant, etc) nobody is going to stop them. The medical community will drain their bank and family inheritances before they leave the planet without complaint as well.

    It's kind of hard not to see it all coming together into a wonderful conspiracy story. But there's nothing to be done much because a great percent of the population doesn't think anything is wrong, can't do the math, or hold beliefs that a deity makes over-running the planet and trashing it is all honkey-dorey.

    Okay - now that half America is mad at me, I'll leave it here.
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    • Profile picture of the author whateverpedia
      Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

      Considering McDonald ingredients, I'm surprised it isn't listed in one of the Conspiracies as one means to eradicate population.
      It is.

      McDonalds - A Deliberate Part of the Depopulation Agenda?, page 1
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      • Profile picture of the author HeySal
        And here I just thought maybe I was unhealthily paranoid. Of course, in my world paranoia is just survival instinct that schools tried so hard to drive out of us. LOL.

        While some of the ingredients in McDonalds are only poison -- the salty flavor is the result of tons of MSG, which is extremely addictive poison (yes I know MSG occurs naturally in some foods - but not in the quantities used to flavor foods). So it's addictive poison. It is also a handy means of doing some social engineering as it is usually the poor that eat the crap - because they can afford it.

        They call it "fast-food" and I'm wondering if we couldn't sue them for false advertising. There's not much resemblance to food in that stuff.
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    • Profile picture of the author seasoned
      HEYSAL!

      Want to hear a REAL conspiracy? Well, YEARS ago it was ruled that contracts are ILLEGAL and NON ENFORCEABLE if presented AFTER the transaction!

      Well, I was hired on a contract several DAYS before I got there! To do that, I registered at a hotel.

      OK, simple enough? Sound reasonable? WELL, *******NOTHING******* ****ANYPLACE**** told me what the little statement said on the doors, that you would be lucky to SEE, much less read! The statement? That there are chemicals inside known to the state of california to cause reproductive harm. HECK, I was at the hotel 3 days before I even
      saw the sign!

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  • Profile picture of the author Rick B
    The facts are that many people like McDonalds. They haven't grown to the size they are because their food is addictive. They've flourished because people like the convenience of not cooking, washing dishes and mopping the kitchen floor. It's really that simple.

    Many of the things they serve aren't the healthiest choices available but most people eat unhealthy foods when they eat out. Are the baked potatoes with butter and sour cream healthy at your favorite steakhouse? What about those buffalo style chicken wings? And don't kid yourself, that chicken Caesar salad at Chilis that you order because it's so healthy had 1,100 calories and 76 grams of fat.

    My point is that there's nothing wrong with an occasional splurge at McDonalds (if that's your choice) or anywhere else. I would urge those who eat out regularly to at least be aware of what's in the food they're eating and consider their health but that's a very personal decision and I won't presume to make it for anyone else.
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    • Profile picture of the author HeySal
      Originally Posted by Rick B View Post

      The facts are that many people like McDonalds. They haven't grown to the size they are because their food is addictive. They've flourished because people like the convenience of not cooking, washing dishes and mopping the kitchen floor. It's really that simple.

      Many of the things they serve aren't the healthiest choices available but most people eat unhealthy foods when they eat out. Are the baked potatoes with butter and sour cream healthy at your favorite steakhouse? What about those buffalo style chicken wings? And don't kid yourself, that chicken Caesar salad at Chilis that you order because it's so healthy had 1,100 calories and 76 grams of fat.

      My point is that there's nothing wrong with an occasional splurge at McDonalds (if that's your choice) or anywhere else. I would urge those who eat out regularly to at least be aware of what's in the food they're eating and consider their health but that's a very personal decision and I won't presume to make it for anyone else.
      Yep - let em like it. If ingesting high poison is someone's idea of a "splurge" or "treat" (this goes beyond and unhealthy diet) then let em go for it. Eat the crap every day. Have double helpings.

      More resources for the rest of us when you die from it.

      Oh - make sure to take some home to the kiddies, too. We'd appreciate putting a lid on a gene-pool with self destructive tendencies and low neuron firing rates.
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      • Profile picture of the author Rick B
        Originally Posted by HeySal View Post

        If ingesting high poison is someone's idea of a "splurge" or "treat"
        Well, you elect to call fast food "high poison" but the food and drug administration doesn't.

        By your definition, anything besides water and organically grown vegetables could be considered "high poison". So I assume that's all you consume.

        I'm just being realistic. The vast majority of people occasionally eat something that's not so good for them. I'm all for urging people to make good healthy choices most of the time but it's really a personal choice.
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  • Profile picture of the author whateverpedia
    I remember hearing something many years ago (pre-internet), that McDonalds only put pickles on their "burgers" to stop them being classed as confectionery.

    Which brings us full circle back to the original topic.
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  • Profile picture of the author un
    one more thing that George Orwell predicted in 1984...chocolate was something that only the elites had.
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  • Profile picture of the author phsims
    OMG can you imagin how bad PMT could get w/o a good supply of chocolate???? There would be riots!!! I know this could I would be starting them tbh lol
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