If you had the power to phase something out of existence over the next 10 years then what would it be? Some things that might be on my list:

Religion
The Royal Family
The House of Lords
Parking on pavements
Football agents
The City of London
Leylandi trees
Arms exports to muslim countries
Non football blogs on a football blog forum

The choice is yours...

Mala591 wrote:If you had the power to phase something out of existence over the next 10 years then what would it be? Some things that might be on my list:

Religion
The Royal Family
The House of Lords
Parking on pavements
Football agents
The City of London
Leylandi trees
Arms exports to muslim countries
Non football blogs on a football blog forum

The choice is yours...

Blackburn Rovers Football Club

RocketLawnChair wrote:Blackburn Rovers Football Club

Won't need 10 years to phase that out.

Newty wrote:Won't need 10 years to phase that out.

Sorry Newty, I failed to mention my project started six years ago. Only four to go... Bang on schedule!

Brexit. And I'd deport all Brexiteers to a country outside the EU, which would surely please them.

Immigration
Social Change
The Young


I've been on this forum too long...

Younger clarets fans singing far, far, far, far too fast. Get some rhythm, or watch the 91-92 promotion video.

Religion

Communists

Not necessarily phase out, although I guess if someone could invent a remote to turn down women nagging, that'd be quite nice. I'd quite like to see her lips moving but the volume dropping to muted.

Football
Money in football, I'm not sure you could 'phase it out' entirely but take things back to the old days where there wasn't such a huge disparity between clubs/leagues in terms of finances. This may in turn lead to better atmospheres in stadiums, make it more affordable and truly the working mans game again. There would probably end up being less overseas players here but that would just mean more opportunities for English youngsters.

Non Football
Superficial vacuous Z list celebrities and the whole circus that goes with it - TOWIE, X Factor, Big Brother etc.

If you want to phase something out then you have to supply the way to do it and put forward some creativity regarding what will function better. As far as religion goes, the first thing to address is the issue of transubstantiation and the idea that another man is somehow a conduit between you and God and that your self experience was somehow dependent on others.

The first case is Buddhism and the Dalai Lama claiming to be a living God as well as Hinduism and the notion of Holy men (Godhead is the phrase) and Holy words. Hirohito had to say to the populace of Japan that he was an ordinary man, so this should be the case with the 'Holy' men of India and the Dalai Lama and all lamas and swamis, who are currently lording it with alpha male status as claimed God representatives, spreading superstition and supernatural fear.

In actual fact it is epistemologically impossible to have Holy men or holy words because of the 'sin' of imperfect sense mediation and the subjectivity of the human condition. As such there is in fact no Islam, no Christianity, no atheism, No Judaism, No Buddhism, because there is not the perfect object to receive and act upon it, only one's personal subjectivity and take on the supposed knowledge.

By making that common knowledge, then perhaps we can phase 'religion' out.

The advert at the top of this forum for The Todmorden Show which happened last weekend.

Dyche to Palace thread

Modern Art: I have no problem with the origins of Dada, which was a revolt against art after the atrocities of WW1. It was the punk of it's day, so to speak. But some of the tasteless ugly monstrosities that are considered to be works of 'odd beauty' nowadays are just annoying.
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boiledclaret wrote:Modern Art: I have no problem with the origins of Dada, which was a revolt against art after the atrocities of WW1. It was the punk of it's day, so to speak. But some of the tasteless ugly monstrosities that are considered to be works of 'odd beauty' nowadays are just annoying.
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That horrible thing is on loan. I would send it back from whence it came, the bloody weirdo.

Bad art, not Modern Art. Modern art is a tactical strategy to try and open the door of perception to see what is universally beyond the limits of the human mind. In ten words: Shape represents form but looks like shape. Tough sh*t. Play.

Damien Hirst's sculpture is a vile example of 'public art.' That really does need phasing out, it's folk on committees with too much money to spend and the no taste, hoping to add a bit of 'culture' to the environment.

Periods.

ClaretinMyBlood wrote:Periods.

We call them 'full stops' over here.

People
Things
Places

UpTheBeehole wrote:We call them 'full stops' over here.

Nope, My wife has never had a full stop.

Mala591 wrote:If you had the power to phase something out of existence over the next 10 years then what would it be?
Non football blogs on a football blog forum
...

What's this thread about then. Doesnt appear to be football related.

Chicken-based fast food outlets. - They stink & remind me of that old abattoir stench.
Trendy "superfoods"- quinoa etc - Gets some spuds and carrots down you!
"Celeb culture" - No need to explain
Honours lists- Totally devalued now.
Call Centres in India that "serve" UK customers - Bloody annoying especially if you don't hear well.
Electronic music - Learn to play a guitar/banjo/bass/drums/trumpet/saxophone/glockenspiel/fiddle/flute/whatever.
Bright street lights - Let's see the stars again
Old codgers complaining - Oh er er....

Politics

Islington

Lily Allen

Pstotto wrote:Bad art, not Modern Art. Modern art is a tactical strategy to try and open the door of perception to see what is universally beyond the limits of the human mind. In ten words: Shape represents form but looks like shape. Tough sh*t. Play.

Damien Hirst's sculpture is a vile example of 'public art.' That really does need phasing out, it's folk on committees with too much money to spend and the no taste, hoping to add a bit of 'culture' to the environment.

Agreed, that's more or less what I was trying to say. You just did it in a less 'arty farty' kind of way, which is ironic really.

Smoking. End the sale of it in public. Addicts (like myself) would pick them up from a dispensary like a prescription. No new smokers starting means we could pretty much rid ourselves of smoking in fifty years.

UpTheBeehole wrote:Brexit. And I'd deport all Brexiteers to a country outside the EU, which would surely please them.

Remainers; that way they could f*ck off to the mainland, which should surely please them.

Funkydrummer wrote:The advert at the top of this forum for The Todmorden Show which happened last weekend.

harsh.

the internet will have just reached Tod, just as you've phased the advert out.

Departure announcements

Abc and krbfc

BennyD wrote:Remainers; that way they could f*ck off to the mainland, which should surely please them.

Well, it is where all our ancestors were from. You know, the vikings, saxons, angles, romans etc. Europeans who came to Britain to trade.

Why would we seek to stop immigration and trade with our ancestral homes?

UpTheBeehole wrote:Brexit. And I'd deport all Brexiteers to a country outside the EU, which would surely please them.

We could save some money deporting all the remoaners as there are about a million fewer of them.

LeadBelly wrote:Chicken-based fast food outlets. - They stink & remind me of that old abattoir stench..

Venky's given an honourable stay of execution.

ExistentialWanderer wrote:Not necessarily phase out, although I guess if someone could invent a remote to turn down women nagging, that'd be quite nice. I'd quite like to see her lips moving but the volume dropping to muted.

You're watching the wrong lips then.

People who leave wooden chopping boards in a sink full of ******* water!

Leftwingers and all their claptrap.

The Monarchy..

ClaretinMyBlood wrote:Periods.

I would go a tad further mate...Woman altogether.

Steve1956 wrote:I would go a tad further mate...Woman altogether.

We had your sort in the forces.

Bertiebeehead wrote:We had your sort in the forces.

What? Homosexuals ?

UpTheBeehole wrote:Well, it is where all our ancestors were from. You know, the vikings, saxons, angles, romans etc. Europeans who came to Britain to trade.

Why would we seek to stop immigration and trade with our ancestral homes?

We won't; hopefully well be able to regulate numbers that we want, not what Brussels wants.

BennyD wrote:We won't; hopefully well be able to regulate numbers that we want, not what Brussels wants.

We already could.

It might be stretching a point slightly to say the Vikings came here to trade, or the Saxons and Romans for that matter.

I'd like to phase out electronic sound processors used to filter a signal by creating a series of peaks and troughs in the frequency spectrum. The ones where the position of the peaks and troughs of the waveform being affected are typically modulated so that they vary over time, creating a sweeping effect.

ablue!

Funkydrummer wrote:That horrible thing is on loan. I would send it back from whence it came, the bloody weirdo.

Is that a Dyche quote about Bamford?

The UK government's mass racial profiling information programme.

"Which ethnicity suits you best?" White? Brown? Indian? Bangla-pakistani-British? British-Pakistani-Bangla? Lancastrian? etc. etc.

If I were a multi-millionaire I would genuinely fund a nationwide advertising campaign encouraging people to tick the "prefer not to say" box.

UpTheBeehole wrote:Brexit. And I'd deport all Brexiteers to a country outside the EU, which would surely please them.

I think you might have that arse about..
We'll stay here and you can go and live in either Merkels Germany or In a Pakistani region and understand the type of community they are trying to establish here.

Drivers who don't indicate.