Easy Solution To Everything

Everyone over 30 (like me)= Soylent Green.

Plenty of homes
Plenty of gas
Plenty of food
Everyone good looking and fully capable

Geez, I'm talkin myself into becoming food :twisted:

Comments

  • I'd probably be Grade D soylent then. Too fatty. Not to mention I'm 7 years ripe.
  • I was going to say us oldsters probably taste a little too tough..Just not as tender as the yungins.
  • I didn't even know what Soylent Green was so I looked it up -

    Soylent Green is a 1973 dystopian science fiction movie depicting a bleak future in which overpopulation, global warming, and the resulting severe damage to the environment have led to widespread unemployment and poverty. Real fruit, vegetables, and meat are rare, expensive commodities, and much of the population survives on processed food rations, including "soylent green" wafers.

    Yummy, I like wafers! It's all the rest I don't like :(
  • There is a very famous phrase at the end of that movie. Everyone here should do their part not to spoil it until Cougar has watched the movie.
  • Heh, my wife hasn't seen it either, so every time we're watching something and they make a reference to that famous line, I quickly move to cover her ears so as not to spoil the surprise. I obtained the movie a while ago, I just have to make time to get her to watch it.
  • Cougar wrote:
    Soylent Green is a 1973 dystopian science fiction movie depicting a bleak future in which overpopulation, global warming, and the resulting severe damage to the environment have led to widespread unemployment and poverty. Real fruit, vegetables, and meat are rare, expensive commodities, and much of the population survives on processed food rations, including "soylent green" wafers.

    Yummy, I like wafers! It's all the rest I don't like :(

    Ironically Cougar, the only part of that dystopia you're looking forward to (the wafers) is the one part we don't yet have. Let's see:

    overpopulation - check
    global warming - check
    damaged environment - small check
    widespread poverty/unemployment - maybe in a couple years
    real food is expensive - check
    population survives on processed food - (McDs?) check.
    soylent green wafers - nope.

    Everyone over 30 (like me)= Soylent Green.

    Plenty of homes
    Plenty of gas
    Plenty of food
    Everyone good looking and fully capable

    Geez, I'm talkin myself into becoming food :twisted:

    That's just nuts. People at age thirty have many productive years left in them, and prices are usually set at the margins. You need to change number from 30 to at least 50, and perhaps even a bit higher than that.
  • Oh SNAP!!
    I only watch romantic comedies for a reason.
    No wafers for me. Disgusting. Going to go watch 27 Dresses.
    What made the wafers green? No, I won't watch the movie. :shock:
  • There is nothing special about the wafers being green. They had soylent red, blue, yellow and many others. There was something special about soylent green, but it had nothing to do with the color.

    Soylent sounds like an imitation form of soy protein and it is what you get when the world soy production cannot keep up with demand.

    By the way, does anyone know of any books that describe all of the bees dieing so that crops can't be pollinated?
  • Better solution (at least for the industrialized world):

    Instead of retiring, we have ritual suicide. Once you're done working, you off yourself in the manner of your choosing. Gets rid of the hordes of unproductive people who make our healthcare expensive, massive population reduction, no more silly savings programs, no more social security (tax cut!)...
  • Or give everyone an ultra-light on their 55 birthday.

    Or a bird suit.

    How these guys learned how to do this is beyond me.

    Also, you wanna make sure we're dead, and not just paralyzed.
  • How about a lottery? You buy a ticket by accepting money from the government. Winners are killed.
  • Logans Run

    I guess I should head for the woods now.
  • Alan wrote:
    How about a lottery? You buy a ticket by accepting money from the government. Winners are killed.
    Sliders, right? I love that show.
  • Good eye, Tim.

    I liked it until they changed it to a more "action oriented" show.
  • ..And that coincided with Tracy Torme being pushed out of writing/directing Sliders. It was one of my faves, especially the episode where Tracy Torme's rel life dad, Mel Torme plays a lounge singer.
  • The actual correlation is that the show became too popular. The production moved to a better studio, and they were able to do more tornadoes and dinosaurs and stuff. Instead of coming up with creative ideas, they were able to churn out Hollywood style tripe.
  • Alan wrote:
    I liked it until they changed it to a more "action oriented" show.
    Agreed.

    It's just like FOX to kill a good show any way they can though...

    Futurama, Firefly, Arrested Development... grr.

    P.S. (At least they let Malcolm in the Middle have a healthy, full run of 7 years. One of my favorite shows ever. Now if only seasons 2-7 would ever come out on dang DVD!)
  • Yeah, they kill great shows like Futurama and Firefly, then give us 173 hours per week of American Idol and various other crappy reality shows. If I want "reality" I'll turn the TV off. :roll:
  • Maybe its just the nerd in me, but I've always had a problem with Soylent Green's blatant violation of the laws of thermodynamics.
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