I've just realised ...

[blamebrampton]

* America has a President who has actually done a reasonable to good job in extremely trying circumstances, but almost everyone hates him passionately anyway and is likely to vote for someone far less able next time (and without even Reagan's redeeming qualities).

* It's bleedingly obvious that our reliance on oil is fucking up the entire world, but people are sticking their fingers in their ears and singing LALALALALALA! when alternatives are announced.

* I have a fringe.

* The global economy is tanking due to private over-reach being blamed entirely on governments (who in reality mostly bear a part of the blame, but very rarely even the bare majority of it).

* Skylab Redux is about to occur.

We are TOTALLY reliving the 1970s!

If you hear any whistling sounds coming from above this afternoon, duck, and then grab a pair of tongs and see if you can pick up a sale-able piece of space junk!

Comments

[shu-shu-sleeps.livejournal.com]

These moments of utter clarity are (as usual) spot on. And I like the fact that you realising you have a fringe is rated as equally important (because it is).

As for skylab redux - all I'm gonna say is duck and weave. And yes - make sure you observe appropriate safety protocols when handling potentially radioactive space junk :)

[viridescence]

OMG. SO EFFING TRUE. *headdesk* We never learn.

[nuclearsugars.livejournal.com]

One thing my dad likes to do is blame every day inconveniences on Obama. Burnt toast? It's Obama's fault. Probably because it was socialist toast. ;P

[kerryblaze.livejournal.com]

OMG! WE ARE!!!! Whenever I think of the 70s as a child, I remember lines at the petrol/gas station, Elvis dying, Skylab, and three mile island.

[auntpurl.livejournal.com]

Wait! Reagan had redeeming qualities?

[shocolate.livejournal.com]

*puts on my David Soul LP for the full effect*

*uses vintage icon*

[melusinahp.livejournal.com]

I agree with all of these. *grabs tongs*

The first one may make me lose my mind, though. So true and so upsetting.

[spirillen.livejournal.com]

To add to this: John Lewis' latest advert features lots of yummy things for the home - in orange! What's worse is that I quite like them, which surely has not been acceptable since the seventies....

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

Ugh, the 70s :(((

Also, I heard the pieces were going to weigh at least 300 pounds a piece. That would require some awfully big tongs.

[la-mariane.livejournal.com]

We are TOTALLY reliving the 1970s! I hadn't realised, but now that you say it... and we didn't even get to have our version of the 60s before :(

[lokifan]

:( Plus, in a little while the Tories will gleefully union-bust!

[annafugazzi.livejournal.com]

LOL! Beautiful. And also painful. Like a flaming piece of space station ;)

[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

It can only get worse, all.

Normally my student neighbores from up above just ash on my head or empty their toasters when I am smoking on my balcony. A piece of space junk would make such a welcome difference.
Glad you have a fringe. I shall keep my frizz. Yesternight I saw loads of gals with glizzed hair made to hang straight off their heads and they all looked just the same: made of ticky tacky, so I´ll try and stick out by way of fake afro. I think there is a name for the middle-aged variety I offer but I forgot. The glizzy fake blondes all appeard for a socalled speed-dating occasion in my streetbar and my friends and me almost laughed our heads off at the participants in their too-tight pants (the boys had glued hairdoes). Not nice of us but good clean fun.

[subtlefire.livejournal.com]

Oh, that first...I have so many feelings about your first point. And the feelings get all jumbled up and the words tangle around each other, so that I can't get much out. But yes, to your first point.

OIL, grr!

Yay fringe?

GREEDY BASTARDS.

*ducks*

[shiv5468.livejournal.com]

I AM NOT WEARING FLARES AND YOU CAN'T MAKE ME

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

I forgot what Reagan*s qualities might have been but it was typical that I never caught the omgyayvoteBO bug but was more positive towards him when everyone who had passionately hyped started hating him. Human nature *pulls a face* I think I stop now and stuff my face with something bad for me.

[norton-gale.livejournal.com]

We are TOTALLY reliving the 1970s!

Except without the music...

The fact that bisexuality is momentarily trendy again is also very 1970's.

And Obama is totally the Jimmy Carter of the 21st century. Looks like the US might be in for 8 years of Romney.

[adrianchester.livejournal.com]

I feel the same way about the Australian (I.E., my) head of state Julia Gilliad, first atheist, first non-married, first female Australian Prime Minister, of course everything that has gone wrong is entirely her fault according to the right-wingers.

[mrsquizzical.livejournal.com]

the more things change, the more they stay the same. *sigh*

[drbunsen.livejournal.com]

BRB, putting on Iggy Pop, spiking my hair, and heading out to throw bricks through some shop windows up the high street.

[drgaellon]

At least here in the US, the "private over-reach" is indeed the fault of government, as the Republicans have systematically dismantled all the regulations that were created in the 1930's to prevent this the LAST time it happened!

Poor Barack. The Right hates him for being too liberal, and the Left hates him for not being liberal enough. We need another FDR - but I fear there isn't one in sight. We all thought he would be, but have been woefully disappointed.