Interesting...

[dgraves]

Something to think about...

http://users.gazinter.net/melan/Warn/Warnenu.htm

[Annie]

It definitely makes you feel thankful for everything you have and appreciate your position in this world!

[John S]

So Dorian you've been to Trumpton then?

[Mary G]

Dorian

That is very good. Thanks for that.

Mary

[Beachcomber]

Pretty humbling really, when you think about it.

I wonder what the odds are of being born in Gt Britain, one of the safest places in the entire world, as opposed to anywhere else?

[gizmo]

World population.... 6,570,000,000
UK population........ 60,500,000
% of world pop...... 0.92%

[witchnettle]

one hundred years ago the worlds population was 1 billion now it is 6 billion these stats still shock me to the core x

[Bobbie En Tejas]

I agree Witchnettle, amazes...

Just a few months ago on this forum we had a conversation about population, and as I recall, the US population was 250,000,000, which shocked me. The 2006 statistics show it is now 298,000,000+. And to realize that the UK is only 1/5 the population of US is mindboggling.

[dgraves]

So Dorian you've been to Trumpton then?

No John, though I'd love to some day...I don't think the writers of the above article ever imagined a place like Trumpton! Hope it never changes- I wonder what including the Bochan, Heidless Horseman, Bubbly Jock, Scouder, Thewetman, Morenish, Sanyanya, Bitter End, Carradale Goat and of course, Doc Snoddy, would do to their carefully studied demographics???


The link was sent to me today- I agree with you all. It was indeed very humbling.

[dedalus]

yah b011ox to that sentimental nonsense - "dance like nobodies watching" crap.

Live your life like..... well what you are ....obvious really ..... a Scot ( distant relation or actually a scot) ( why the hell else would you be on here).

Being a Scot gives certain characteristics which ensure that you are where you are. By living this far north your ancestors needed certain skills to survive the winter. Chief among these were control of your environment ( farming) , a killer instinct ( hunting), tenacity ( fishing) as well as perseverence, and perhaps most importantly innovation and co-operation ( as we developed better and better technology and methods of government it enabled the most intelligent and advanced humans to live further and further north ( obviously there is a limit to how far you can push this - probably just south of Dundee!)

It is no accident that there is no democracy within a thousand miles of the equator.

[dgraves]

yah b011ox to that sentimental nonsense - "dance like nobodies watching" crap.
Live your life like..... well what you are ....obvious really ..... a Scot ( distant relation or actually a scot) ( why the hell else would you be on here).

Being a Scot gives certain characteristics which ensure that you are where you are. By living this far north your ancestors needed certain skills to survive the winter. Chief among these were control of your environment ( farming) , a killer instinct ( hunting), tenacity ( fishing) as well as perseverence, and perhaps most importantly innovation and co-operation ( as we developed better and better technology and methods of government it enabled the most intelligent and advanced humans to live further and further north ( obviously there is a limit to how far you can push this - probably just south of Dundee!)
It is no accident that there is no democracy within a thousand miles of the equator.

You ought to try the dancing bit, dedalus... guaranteed to losen you up!