Appreciating modernity

[poxpower]

I thought we could all take a break from bitching for once and appreciate what we have and how far we've gotten as a human race. It's great to complain about oil prices, but at least you don't have bobonic plague and you can go out and buy a hot dog ANY TIME YOU WANT. Isn't that amazing?

700 years ago, hot dogs didn't exist. You were lucky to eat a boiled potato WITH SALT ON IT.

So I dedicate this thread to taking a break and appreciating the fine things the modern world has to offer, so we treasure what our ancestors have built.

I'll start with:
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Beer.
Beer is amazing. It takes months to make a good beer. It takes farmers to grow the grains and truckers to bring it to the plant and then it takes years to develop the perfect recipe. It costs thousands and thousands of dollars to get equipment to make the bottles, the labels and the beer itself. Dozens of employees watch over my beer every day. They have designed giant machines just to pour beer into a bottle and screw a cap on it.
Then a guy in a truck hundreds of miles away from my house brings cases of beers to stores around me and I can pick from 10 stores if I want. I can walk in an air conditioned, clean surface, open a giant freezer and buy a case of perfectly preserved cool beer for less money than most people make in an hour.

Isn't that awesome?

tell us more awesome things about the present.

[andybobbins]

Hmm interesting idea but i think the key to a good post is to do a bit of bitching i mean its every human beings favorite past time.

So id say i appreciate that we have forums where we can do it with groups of ppl from all around the world :p

[ThePretenders]

The fine taste of malted barley with a hint of oak as it goes down your throat.

[thedo12]

dont forget the loads the free porn we have now on the internet , think of how hard it was 30 years ago to hide your playboy mags.

[JudgeDredd]

At 9/21/08 11:33 AM, poxpower wrote: Beer.

Can i at least complain about the rapidly rising price of beer? .. just a little??

[Phobotech]

Working outside all day, hot and sweaty, to climb in your car and become overtaken with cool, cool AC listening to your favorite mix-CD you burned from your computer back home.

[mrwinneranimator]

Beer was invented by mesopotamians thousands of years ago, that is not from the present

[Ansel]

I was thinking about this same idea the other day... People spend so much time complaining about gas prices or whatever, when they should be thinking about how great it is that they can drive at all. That oil came out of the ground far across the globe, and was shipped to the US in barrels, carried by truck or plane to their area, and then distributed to gas stations. They can simply pay money to fill their automobile (one of the most complicated pieces of equipment available for consumers) and then DRIVE AWAY. It's like "stop bitching, when I was a boy we had to make our own oil out of dinosaurs we killed ourselves thx."

[poxpower]

At 9/21/08 12:52 PM, mrwinneranimator wrote: Beer was invented by mesopotamians thousands of years ago, that is not from the present

I don't know what their recipe for beer was, but I would guess it ended up tasting somewhat like really warm malt liquor.

In the meantime I can go to any store and pick out from dozens of different beers. They were stuck with a giant jar of rank, warm fermented grain juice.
Probably was full of bugs too. YUK

[BrianEtrius]

Once I'll find the source I'll post it, but somewhere I was reading that had not the Church condemned science, then it would have been estimated in the 1800s that we would have computers.

However, that's a bit off topic. The fact of the matter is you need to live in the moment.

[JackPhantasm]

You should watch Wall-E and then say that.

[EmpireOfAtaraxia]

At 9/21/08 01:17 PM, poxpower wrote:

At 9/21/08 12:52 PM, mrwinneranimator wrote: Beer was invented by mesopotamians thousands of years ago, that is not from the present

I don't know what their recipe for beer was, but I would guess it ended up tasting somewhat like really warm malt liquor.

In the meantime I can go to any store and pick out from dozens of different beers. They were stuck with a giant jar of rank, warm fermented grain juice.
Probably was full of bugs too. YUK

I don't know if it's true, but I heard that Mead was the first "beer"

Fermented honey is gross, IMO :|

Heh, the advancements in the last one hundred years alone are staggering. In a lifetime, we go from 8 mph cars to aircraft to space vehicles. If we all don't kill each other first, I'd love to see what comes out in the next one hundred years.

[DingoTheDog]

I personally wish I was born 50 years ago. My profession was a lot more fun back then

Ships would spend months alongside in port aside from just 36 hours. There was no aids so you could shag as many hoors as you wanted, and the majority of ships manning was British so I wouldnt have to deal with certain nationalities that piss me off.

The laws back then werent so stringent. Leaking oil wasn't such a big deal, nowadays if we drop a thimble of oil overboard we face unlimited fines and jail sentences. If we are found discharging oily water of anything greater than 25ppm we will go to jail.

The USCG werent such uppity cunts either, nowadays they use Threats, Intimidation and anything the feel fit to make a ships staff slip up. These slip ups are then punished with fines and jail terms, I struggle to think of anywhere else this practice is acceptable in the developed world.

The Old days were the Good days for sailors.