to think that Scientists just are n't putting in enough effort.

[CarefullEugene]

I want time travel, parallel universes and memory wiping.
I want to suspend my kids in stasis whilst I grasp exciting full on career opportunities a hundred miles away.
I want a parallel universe so that I can see if the electricity between me & 'him' could have sustained a full on relationship. Surely that not too much to ask?

Higgs Bosun, pah, where's my sci-fi dream promises you lazy cancer curing Scientists.

"you lazy cancer curing Scientists." Sorry even in jest that's an awful thing to say.

but they havnt even cured cancer so they arent trying hard enough there either!

Maybe you should encourage your kids to become scientists, and work on these problems for you?

I'm a "lazy cancer curing scientist" and I couldn't give a shiny shit about the other things on your list - lazy thoughts of a weak mind.

Really, really not funny.

I know what you mean - I want back to the future style stuff - hover boards for everyone, cars in the sky, robots in every home and where's my blooming jet pack?

Lazy cancer curing scientists? Have a

OP is clearly totally in jest, I am clearly being completely unreasonable.

Back in the 60/70s, world wide scientists chased, mostly for military purposes, the secrets of hypnosis, telekinesis, etc. What a waste of intellectual muscle.

I obviously don't really want Scientists to take their eye off improving our health, I'd just like them to stumble over it at the weekend or work through a few lunch breaks.

I'm a cancer curing scientist too.
Perhaps you need to rethink your 'humour'. You too balotelli. And go get a fucking education while you're at it.

YABVU. How can you know you haven't time travelled to a parallel universe and had your memory wiped?

You'd probably want a physicist for most of the stuff on that list anyway.

Just a guess, TotallyKerplunked, but if you're a hard-working cancer curing scientist, you're most likely trained in something to do with biology or chemistry that has nothing to do with time travel or parallel universes ?

I thought it was funny OP. YANBU.

Exactly. If they worked just one hour extra of overtime they could easily transport me to a parallel world where I am rich, beautiful, popular, successful just like in this world. Not wanting them to take their eye off the ball of finding a cure for cancer though (I understood this was meant tongue in cheek but maybe a bit too much!).

Interesting that all your wishes are for you personally, rather than for the good of mankind as a whole.

Not funny, sorry.

Am now feeling rather in awe of TotallyKerplunked and Forwardscatter.

Is it the and the wrong place to thank you for the extra months we had with my Dad? And for that fact my friend's 3 year old is still here, still fighting and attending nursery? Fuck it. Thank you.

Blimey po faced people or what.

I'd quite like one of those hover chair things from wall-e

Some of you are taking this waaaay too seriously. It was a joke in slightly poor taste but not as bad as some of you are making out!

crashdoll The whole I wanted a time machine thing would have been funny, if not for the jibe at those "lazy scientists" wasting their time trying to cure cancer. FFS why bring cancer into it. Cancer jokes aren't funny.

Gosh. What a lot of humourless posters are on here tonight.

I want to know why personal jet pack travel isn't available. I am sure Tomorrow's World promised me this back in the 80s. It would make the commute so much better.

Bloody hell, poor OP.

I'm sure she really doesn't think scientists have got the wrong priorities.

Now, if only the lazy sods should get on with calorie free chocolate instead of everything else that they are doing.

YANBU. Slackers. Not even a sniff of a pony the size of a hamster or a holiday shuttle to Jupiter. Bah humbug.

I'm a scientist and I thought it was funny :)

The time I spend on mn at work could probably be put to better use, you're right OP