To: Poppy
Re: Government and the End of the World
So you've decided to go down the marriage route, fair enough. It does make sense, and if it makes you happy for some time that can only be good. Normally I might suggest that marriage can only be restrictive, and serves no real purpose, but in this case, it's the idea and the declaration of it that makes it all worth it. You won't have to deal with the difficulties of marriage because it can't last long enough for that, so hopefully you'll just get the good bits of it.
Of course, being a child is much easier because all the difficult stuff is taken care of for you. Still, children don't get involved in intimate relationships, so if you went back to that you wouldn't be with Jack now. Having said that, the 'black and white' approach to life you mentioned can be used as an adult too. You like who you like, avoid who you don't. Just because a lot of other people don't do that doesn't mean you should feel compelled to make their mistakes.
As to the imperial/metric problem, it has been an issue for a long time. The problem is that if both systems are used, inevitable confusion results. The main problem comes from the new generation, who having been taught metric, have to then learn another system to be able to do certain things. Of course, it works the other way too, if you only know imperial, how are you supposed to know what the weatherman means if he says it's going to be 20°C? Still, you can probably count on the fact that whatever he says, it'll be wrong. The point though is that there is no real purpose in having both systems, so choosing one and sticking with it would help to solve the problem. With only one system in place, people would learn it very quickly, and given the choice between the two it's obvious that metric is simpler.
Of course, your government is well known for investing vast amounts of money in pointless activities. The Millennium Dome is a good example of that. Having said that, people in general tend to spend lots of money on things that serve no real purpose, so maybe they are "speaking for the people" in that case.
Naturally, "red tape" is something else your government is famous for, although people have complaints about that everywhere. Of course, the government has to try to cover every eventuality, especially with regard to criminal law. Otherwise different judges could give different sentences for the same crime. This results in a massive web of laws, which are usually not understood by the general public. Of course, this is great for lawyers, since they can dedicate all of their working lives to understanding it, and make huge amounts of money for it.
In actual fact, wages for the armed forces in the UK are better than a lot of civilian jobs, and the benefits are very good as well. They have to be, for anyone to want to do such dangerous work. Of course, people do sign up for the army, which they wouldn't otherwise do unless the benefits outweighed the risks for them (or they had a death wish). Still, the fact that the government sees such a need for armed forces as opposed to decent healthcare and internal security (police) says something about human priorities.
Scientists always have to take risks to advance in their knowledge. In the past, these risks at worst involved a few people dying. Attempts to fly, for example. Nowadays, technology has increased, and of course people are looking into things they don't understand. It does show a certain lack of concern that the security at the Hadron Collider was cracked by a group of hackers. Having said that, smashing atoms together is not going to create black holes big enough to destroy (or even really effect) your world no matter what. You humans do know you need a collapsing "star" full of atoms for that, right?
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From: Complaints Department [mailto:Address removed by anti spam software]
Sent: 10 September 2008 21:28
To: God
Subject: FW: Bliss
It certainly seem sadistic to me to lock someone up for years on end yeah! An individual who's been done a great wrong might well want to punish whoever's responsible, in a much more aggressive way that locking them up, but for society surely it would be easier to simple dispose of people like that? I mean, it's not like you humans need to keep people like that alive, you've got enough people on your planet anyway.
Well, I do kinda agree with the page 3 girls thing actually. I figure it would be a much better experience to visit a brothel or something than staring at a photo. But hey, nicer to look at an attractive topless woman than the latest stats on your wars, or a picture of some starving child huh?
How can you not see that watching people shower is fun? It's kinda one of those taboo things you humans like so much, watching people like you and Jack getting all wet and steamy. By the way, personal request, can you do that together?
Speaking of that, how can I say this in a sensitive way... Ok how about this - if you're getting married I take it that means you'll be getting your cherry popped soon? I'll be tuning in for that!
Nah no advertising, we don't have money up here so it would be pointless and annoying for your viewers. Still can't believe you people put up with paying the BBC so much for a few pretty crappy channels without adverts.
Well yes... I was thinking of a nudist beach. Maybe a fetish club or something. Something to think about later on.
Ha! A lot of people would also rather shoot themselves that be a Christian! Or the clearer minded ones would rather shoot the Christians. Killing all those priests and clerics would be one of the best things you could do as a species.
We wouldn't miss it! You'll have to let us know exactly when it'll be, so I can set the recorder. Er... I mean be there on time. One thing though, you might want to come up with something to tell Jack about who we are, can't really introduce us as a couple of angels who raped your ex with another angels trout now can you?
I do like your new surname by the way, much more fitting than the old one!
Love, light and medical experiments,
Gabriel
Signature - There'll be time for explanations later. And hopefully, some sex!
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