What does 2104 have in store?

Thulsa Doom

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Got this at the end of last year. Figured might be interesting for some to see if you havent seen it already. And ok you persnicity fact checkers have at it.

The Year is 1904


Maybe this will boggle your mind, I know it did mine! The year is
1904 ... one hundred years ago. What a difference a century makes!
Here are some of the US statistics for 1904:


The average life expectancy in the US was 47 years.


Only 14% of the homes in the US had a bathtub.


Only 8%of the homes had a telephone.


A three-minute call from Denver to New York City cost $11.00


There were only 8,000 cars in the US, and only 144 miles of paved
roads.


The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph.


Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee were each more heavily
populated than California. With a mere 1.4 million residents,
California was only the 21st most populous state in the Union.


The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower.


The average wage in the US was 22 cents an hour.


The average US worker made between $200 and $400 per year.


A competent accountant could expect to earn $2000 per year, a dentist
$2,500 per year.


A veterinarian between $1,500 and $4,000 per year.


A mechanical engineer about $5,000 per year.


More than 95 percent of all births in the US took place at home.


Ninety % of all US physicians had no college education. Instead, they
attended medical schools, many of which were condemned in the press
and by the government as "substandard."


Sugar cost four cents a pound. Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen.


Coffee was fifteen cents a pound.


Most women only washed their hair once a month, and used borax or egg
yolks for shampoo.


Canada passed a law prohibiting poor people from entering the country
for any reason.


The five leading causes of death in the US were:


1. Pneumonia and influenza
2. Tuberculosis
3. Diarrhea
4. Heart disease
5. Stroke


The American flag had 45 stars. Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico,
Hawaii, and Alaska hadn't been admitted to the Union yet.


The population of Las Vegas, Nevada, was 30!


Crossword puzzles, canned beer, and iced tea hadn't been invented.


There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day.


Two of 10 US adults couldn't read or write. Only 6 % of all Americans
had graduated high school.


Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the counter
at corner drugstores. According to one pharmacist, "Heroin clears the
complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind, regulates the stomach and
bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health." (Shocking!)


Eighteen percent of households in the US had at least one full-time
servant or domestic.


There were only about 230 reported murders in the entire US


And I forwarded this from someone else without typing it myself, and
sent it to you in a matter of seconds! Try to imagine what it may be
like in another 100 years ... it staggers the mind.
 
Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available over the counter
at corner drugstores. According to one pharmacist, "Heroin clears the
complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind, regulates the stomach and
bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health." (Shocking!)

Time to retrograde.
 
IDLEchild said:
Time to retrograde.

Even though we've since found out about the harmful side effects? Tsk, tsk...Smoking and drinking are bad enough...and I do both.

I see this happening...

With the rise in the 'progressive' government lobbyists, the US will have the following problems

1. Rampant unemployment due to taxes paying for social programs that fund laziness and stupidity.
2. Frequent race and class violence spurred on by number 1.
3. Drugs are legalized to quell number 2, resulting in a permanent underclass.
4. 4 in 10 people will be illiterate because of numbers 1 and 3. Why get educated and find a job if the government will pay all of your bills for you?
5. The military will expand to twice cold-war size, mainly due to efforts to employ people and pay for those very social programs that the population 'deserves' in number 1...look forward to a draft.


Pessimistic? Only time will tell... :lloyd:
 
And I still say the vast majority of lazy drug abusers already are, and that legalizing them would have little effect on usage. It would have a very big effect on the profit of dealing though. :shrug:

BTW, by 2104 will we have our effing flying cars?!?!?!?!? :nerd:
 
by 2104, the new era of proto monkey man might be poking out of the deep recesses of the world to start anew 50 years after WW3 wiped out 99.6% of the population.
 
unclehobart said:
by 2104, the new era of proto monkey man might be poking out of the deep recesses of the world to start anew 50 years after WW3 wiped out 99.6% of the population.
That's probably closest to the truth.
 
chcr said:
And I still say the vast majority of lazy drug abusers already are, and that legalizing them would have little effect on usage. It would have a very big effect on the profit of dealing though. :shrug:

BTW, by 2104 will we have our effing flying cars?!?!?!?!? :nerd:

Drug abusers, yes...lazy people? A resounding no. Hell...both of those types have been growing just in the past 40 years...when welfare started getting out of hand...
 
  • Finally...a paperless society in the year 2104
    Walls will be coated with paper-thin pizo-electric screens which will be our TVs, our news sources and our Internet4 access screens.
    The virtual-net (Internet5) using direct-connect Firewire3.075 technology will allow people to close their eyes and enter the internet without facing mental-viruses.
    The last of the crashed servers from the WWWI & WWWII wars will finally be online again and history buffs will spend years trying to analyze OTC alone!
    FWI (flying while intoxicated) rates will finally drop below 14%
    The middle-East radioactive no-entry zone will be extended by 50 miles to a mere 500 mile radius
    HIV/AIDS victim count drops to below 1 billion after 30 years near the 1.2Billion mark.
    The United Republican States of the Americas will discover oil reserves in the southern island states of Cuba and Jamaica. President Mahmoud Abbas-Smith is said to be quite pleased.
 
MrBishop said:
  • Finally...a paperless society in the year 2104
    Walls will be coated with paper-thin pizo-electric screens which will be our TVs, our news sources and our Internet4 access screens.
    The virtual-net (Internet5) using direct-connect Firewire3.075 technology will allow people to close their eyes and enter the internet without facing mental-viruses.
    The last of the crashed servers from the WWWI & WWWII wars will finally be online again and history buffs will spend years trying to analyze OTC alone!
    FWI (flying while intoxicated) rates will finally drop below 14%
    The middle-East radioactive no-entry zone will be extended by 50 miles to a mere 500 mile radius
    HIV/AIDS victim count drops to below 1 billion after 30 years near the 1.2Billion mark.
    The United Republican States of the Americas will discover oil reserves in the southern island states of Cuba and Jamaica. President Mahmoud Abbas-Smith is said to be quite pleased.

Psst...you forgot to mention the complete, and utter, subjugation of Canada, and the creation of free-speech zones, caged of course, for the progressives to babble incessantly about 'politically correct' speech. :D
 
Gato_Solo said:
Psst...you forgot to mention the complete, and utter, subjugation of Canada, and the creation of free-speech zones, caged of course, for the progressives to babble incessantly about 'politically correct' speech. :D

There is no more Canada...we've become the 53rd to 60th states :D

Free speech??!? Is that some sort of anachronistic term? Never heard of it :brush:
 
MrBishop said:
There is no more Canada...we've become the 53rd to 60th states :D

Free speech??!? Is that some sort of anachronistic term? Never heard of it :brush:
I was thinking more along the lines of Canada being bought out by the Time/Warner/Lockheed/Pfizer/GM/Disney corporation as a corporate retreat.
 
unclehobart said:
I was thinking more along the lines of Canada being bought out by the Time/Warner/Lockheed/Pfizer/GM/Disney corporation as a corporate retreat.
Not enough beaches :(
 
MrBishop said:
There is no more Canada...we've become the 53rd to 60th states :D

Free speech??!? Is that some sort of anachronistic term? Never heard of it :brush:

And what would the 51st, and 52nd states be?
 
Puerto Rico has always been on the bubble as the 51st state... but they wont do it. They get all of the welfare benefits as it is without having to lump up any of the tax load or suffer annoying federal law ... sorta like Newfie to you guys.
 
unclehobart said:
Puerto Rico has always been on the bubble as the 51st state... but they wont do it. They get all of the welfare benefits as it is without having to lump up any of the tax load or suffer annoying federal law ... sorta like Newfie to you guys.

Ah, except Newfoundland has to pay taxes and follow federal laws like the rest of Canada.
 
Nixy said:
Ah, except Newfoundland has to pay taxes and follow federal laws like the rest of Canada.
;) Just trying to make you post more. Dissin' Newfie always seems to bring you right out front and center. :kiss:
 
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