End Of Days

[allenlondon]

Has Western capitalism really been reduced to the Hospitality Industry and Beauty Salons? Can an economy, in or out of lockdown, sustain itself simply by selling burgers and beer or having its hair done?

[rowanwitch]

Wave goodbye to our Golgafrinchams. If nothing else we are learning what we really need.

[Old_Geezer]

We really need an economy, and a life rather than an existence.

[Zacs-Master]

Who said it was, and it did?

[allenlondon]

Rowan. Your Douglas Adams reference goes down well with me. (And what colour WAS the wheel, smartie?)

[Zacs-Master]

Nihilistic black.

[mushroom25]

// Wave goodbye to our Golgafrinchams. //

who's to say that the virus isn't being spread by dirty telephones that remain uncleaned by absent golgafrinchans?

[Mozz71]

Dammit Mushy, you beat me to it by a whisker.

[Peter Pedant]

0h - is this the 24th meeting on re-invention of the wheel?

[Peter Pedant]

there are times - not here not here
that I wonder if all the golgafrinchians have ended up on - AB !

[Peter Pedant]

in an archological report ( 1980 ) I wrote of one hard core group
"archeologists some of whom are in the autumn of their existence"

loud complaints of - jesus you didnt even refer to 'life'

[Mozz71]

Do you think that if we all had babel fish, some of your more extravagant posts might make sense to us?

[Zacs-Master]

And some of the less extravagant ones?

[mushroom25]

// Do you think that if we all had babel fish, some of your more extravagant posts might make sense to us? //

from chapter 30:-
"This caught Arthur by surprise. He had grown so used to receiving an instantaneous and unconscious translation of everything he heard via the Babel Fish lodged in his ear that he had ceased to be aware of it, and he was only reminded of its presence now by the fact that it didn't seem to be working. Vague shadows of meaning had flickered at the back of his mind, but there was nothing he could get any firm grasp on. He guessed, correctly as it happens, that these people had as yet evolved no more than the barest rudiments of language, and that the Babel Fish was therefore powerless to help."