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

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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.

I would love a hoverboard to haul my massively pregnant self around

You'd think us them lazy scientists could manage that at the very least.

Yeah, that was a funny post until the comment about cancer. I know plenty of cancer curing scientists who work all hours, in low security jobs who can't get funding for their research because of the state of the economy :(

What was the OP saying? I don't understand really - Is she saying that scientists are too busy trying to cure cancer than to worry with quantum mechannics? Or is she saying that the scientists are failing to cure cancer because they are lazy?

Most people would realise that a phycisist is probably not going to be at the forefront of cancer research. However, they do come up with some snazzy kit to help zapp the bastard disease.

So forgive me, as someone who is clearly to lazy to secure funding for cancer research and is struggling to get a job in the field, as someone who's father passed away from cancer, if i have a sense of humour failure on that one.

OK, experiencing cancer is not funny, clearly a 'cancer curing Scientist' is doing their best for society. Calling someone following that career path 'lazy' for not gratifying my clearly selfish desires is without doubt amusing but required more punctuation then I scattered in the OP.

Back to the premise: 'Tomorrows World' presented as factual but from the same writers as Blake & & Doctor Who. CDs do not play once defiled with sticky substances. They lied...

I'd rather thought the OP was being funny, and the cancer-curing joke was an acknowledgement of scientists' serious work.

Sheesh. Sense of humour bypass by some on here. Or is it irony deficiency?

Massive lack of humour on this thread!

Yes OP, your grammar has damned you, so it has - and i have gotten over myself, sorry. lol at irony deficiency - id call it summer holidayitis actually

DVDs the same - videos much betterer

Have now decided that I need a pony the size of a hamster. I can't wait for Christmas, I want one now.

Ffs, op was so clearly tongue in cheek, or so you actually believe she thinks scientist trying to cure cancer are lazy for not inventing hover boards. I'm with you op I want an ever lasting sandwich

For the hard of understanding, I think it's pretty clear that the comment about cancer was an acknowledgement that scientists are actually doing far more important work than inventing time travel, etc. The post was tongue in cheek.

I doubt that anyone on this thread hasn't been affected by cancer in some way. I certainly have been. I still found the thread funny.

Clearly the op was poking fun at herself by mentioning cancer curing scientists.

ie.

Cancer curing scientists = scientists doing all this good work and clearly wouldn't waste their time doing all that crappy tomorrow's world stuff

lazy = oh what a fool am I mentioning all these things as if the scientists could just get them done if they weren't doing something more worthwhile (like curing cancer).

I thought it was blindingly obvious. I suspect one of those threads that takes its tone from the first 3 posts. When the first was in the top 5 responses then you were quite frankly screwed OP.

And where's my invisibility cloak anyway?

OP YANBU. My husband is a scientist. I keep telling him to spend less time on the nuclear safety and to crack on with the calorie free chocolate but he doesn't listen.

Tell you what I actually seriously want

That machine in star trek where you just tell it any meal or drink you want and it instantly makes it for you

I should really get on that

I had a dream when I was a kid that I had a basket full of tiny chimpanzees. I squished them between my finger and thumb if they bit me. I was an interesting child

Looking at this thread, I think Scientists should put more work into a cure for 'stickupbummus'.

As long as they're not trying to invent a zombie virus I'm happy.
Hamster sized Pony sounds fantastic, Pony sized Hamster is disturbing.

What about the giant chickens from alan partridge? Combined with mini ponies that would make for a very upsetting petting zoo

Yes, big things made small = cute. Small things made big = fucking terrifying.

Look at this from the 70's, why, oh why did they withdraw the funding from this research programme.

Jesus wept! Are some people this joyless in real life? My five year old could read the op as it was intended, tongue in cheek.

And before anybody starts fuckingcancer has touched mine and my families lives more times than enough this past year. Doesn't mean I can't smile at a light hearted post about hover boards.
Can I sign up now to guinea pig the calorie free chocolate? .

Pony sized hamster reminds me of that episode of Ben and Holly

I would love a cat sized cow. Imagine? A house cow?

OP you have got my brain far to awake and excitable with all of the possibilities, I have work very very early in the morning.

If I had Bernard's Watch I would stop time, then go back to bed and sleep, for bloody hours. .

Apologies OP. [Blush] Obviously still a bit raw about a few things recently that I shouldn't have thrown at you for what was meant to be a lighthearted thread. I am truly sorry.