mmmmm....hypotheticals.

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The Mustard Bastard
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At one stage or another, everyone has thought about it. It's a hypothetical that seems to be born into every individual rather than transmitted through the populous. It's something that you might mention in an offhand fashion and then have everyone within earshot turn around and say "I've thought about that before"

It's a fantasy.

It's a dream.

It's part of our psyche.

So the question is...

What would you do if you woke up tomorrow and everyone was gone?

A world of possibilities (with a distinct lack of company) confronts you. Live anywhere, make anything or destroy everything. Silent streets. Static on television. Empty airwaves. You are the last human. You are the new God and the new Devil of this big boulder. No cops. No government. No rules. No expectation. No judgement.

How do you entertain yourself in an empty world?

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despite what you say, i have never really contemplated this. (meanwhile mustard, you should read z for zacharia if you haven't already, tis about this girl who is left in her small country town after some kind of nuclear war or something.)

in this situation i would definately go crazy, broadway style.

hehehe. id go find a big mother fuck off crop and smoke myself silly. at least then if i heard voices i would know they were in my head.

what is the beeswax for?

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really? You never sat there and pondered an empty world? hmmm.

Well if I was wrong about that, maybe I'm also wrong about bacon flavoured ice cream.

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well no, but it could be because
a. the chances of everyone but me dying are pretty damn slim.
b. i much prefer the company of friends over my own company (dont get me wrong, its not that i cant handle being alone - its that no one would be around to hear my razor sharp wit and humour....hehehe)
and c. it is quite a depressing thing to think about. refer to answer b.

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These are all good points, but hypotheticals are flexible. Let's say in your hypothetical that a small bunch of people are left (enough to regenerate the race and to witness your jokes)

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If this actually happened to me id probably just wonder around the world for many years. Collecting anything of intrest or things that might entertain me or make me feel good. Start a library, a garden, a managery of animals, find the most beautiful place i could to live in, write messages in bottles and train my cockroach army to invaide Mars.

Then id get board and demand the cockroachs take my life.

Hang about... thats what i was planning on doing anyhow.

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I  would find an amazing ballroom and jump around to "all night long".

this is where I draw the line________________________Wigsville - dreams -  reality - what.

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unfortunatly every copy of "all night long" was destroyed what, you gona do?

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These are all good points, but hypotheticals are flexible. Let's say in your hypothetical that a small bunch of people are left (enough to regenerate the race and to witness your jokes)

there are just too many possibilities....
i guess amongst other things i might:

steal me an oldskool mustang to fang around in
attempt to rig a flying fox from my house to the beach
paint all the buildings in the city rainbow colours
launch a boat off of something
take a crap on john howards desk
blow up icon bar
burn all the pink shirts in australia

so there you have it, i would become a freaking vandal.

thanks mustard for making me realise my potential...

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Now we're getting somewhere!

I think destruction would be the fun part.

* Destroy all building belonging to banks/ insurance companies/ real estate agents/ telecommunications companies. (it's a pity churches are often beautiful buildings or they'd go too)

* Learn how to fly a plane... then go to D.C and destroy the whitehouse.

* Set up my new home in St Paul's cathedral.

* Go out to the desert and write "Nobody's home" in letters big enough to be seen from space.

* Find a cocaine dealer's house.

* Learn to play the guitar.

* Compile the world's largest sound system.

* Replace Gideon bibles with porn.

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but whats the point in destruction if there are no politicians killed?

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haahhahahahahaaaa i particularly liked the nobody's home one.

stealing some brand spanking new cars and having a demolition derby in the middle of the MCG would be pretty funny.

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but whats the point in destruction if there are no politicians killed?

you seem to forget we are from the eastern suburbs.

boredom is the mother of destruction.

or was it invention?

yes, we will be inventing new ways to fuck shit up!!! yeah!!

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but whats the point in destruction if there are no politicians killed?

You need a point?

It will go "bang, kablamo" and there will be fire and debris.

May as well start a new world with the destruction of everything that embodies the flaws of our current time.

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also...

* Blowing up a dam would also be wicked fun.

* Find area 51

* Make a band of puppets out of the corpses of dead rock stars

* Get a tank.

* Find the Batmobile.

* Burn lots of money.

* Destroy all shitty public sculptures.

* Wear my underwear on the outside.

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also...

* Get a tank.

of nitrous?

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The Mustard Bastard
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...well now that you mention it.  :Smile

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* Compile the world's largest sound system.

First thing that came to my mind for sure, though you'll want enough decibels to come out as some sort of soup from all the extreme resonance afterwards.  And it better drain so much freakin power that the rate of global warming increases exponentially despite being the only remaining consumer. Humanity does a pretty good job at screwing the ecosystem up, so with only one left, theres gonna have to be alot of slack to take up.

Build a genius network of urban flying foxes.. mostly between skyscrapers and various 7-11s.

Construct the most obscenely excessive circuit bending monstrosity.

Get some serious sniper training in. I'm sure silent scope is alot more fun in real life.. with dummies and real urban decay.

Dropping a few cars off skyscrapers'd be good for a laugh.

Construct some sort of pinata based deity.

Develop a Neural Network with nightmarish lucidity and reason.

Get paranoid delusional.

Build pocket sized doomsday weapon.

Last couple are more life goals, but would be a hell of alot easier without all you damn humans in the way.

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seeing as it's hypothetical,
i'd want a few people left because none of this would be fun on your own after a while.

I think I'd set up base in the tate modern. I think I could live in an old power station and kick back in the turbine hall and wander round altering paintings. there are slides from the fifth floor right to the bottom, how could you get sick of that? You could also blow up stuff along the river... and set off a fuckload of fireworks.

I think I would probably get into vandalism in a big way haha

and adey i would help you destroy the icon bar but i'd rather die eheheh!

flying foxes yeeeeaaahh

why is the rum always gone...

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and adey i would help you destroy the icon bar but i'd rather die eheheh!

;D

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For the first few years all I would need is a TV, generator, videogame system and Mee Goreng Noodles. I realise the irony of being able to do anything you want and doing something you do anyway but hey......its the first thing I thought of.

Other things would include:

- Playing Tool at a loud enough volume that Maynard's voice shattered all the glass in the Rialto

- Never wear a seatbelt again

- Detroy all copies and traces of Hip-Hop so that if intelligent life ever found us they would think more of us (I realise some hip-hop is great but its not worth the risk. It may give the aliens ideas)

- Take that Giant Darth Maul from Comics'R'Us in the city

- Build the biggest ball pit possible in a crater

- Move into Toys'R'Us   (Hmmmmmmm, that's the second "R'Us" already)

- Grow lots of pot. Fuck, I'm sure in that time I could figure out how to cultivate cocaine

- Make a pool of coke as it would be too hard to fill it with melted chocolate without help

- Pee of all the biggest buildings I could find. May as well beat-off while I'm up there too

- Blow up the MYOB building, Tax Office and any accounting firms I stumble across. And GE the non-finance providing fuckers

- Is everyone gone or dead? Cos I'm sure lonliness would make necrophilia a lot more appealing. Otherwise I'ld be visiting Club X for one of those realistic dolls

- Take up Base jumping

- Learn Guitar

Um....I'm sure more will come to me throughout the day. I love hypotheticals.

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yeah the drug thing. i'd probably set up house at CUB so i'd have a good constant supply of booze and could set up a chemical laboratory and would spred the weedseed every where i went. all nature strips or any healthy soil would be put to work growing the evil weed.

i'd have to sus out genetic engineering and clone me a tyra banks or someone equally as hot for a sex slave. oh yeah.

actually i'd probably have to clone a few woman coz i'd need an audience for the dancefloor where i would also set up the biggest most fuck off of all time sound systems and bang out tunes en masse.

i'd get that akai mpc i've always dreamed off as well. yeah fuck yeah.

rock the fucken fuck or stfu

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You know all these ideas sound alright, but it would be alot more fun to do them together.

So who wants to start living like there in a post apocolyptic world already??

We can make this hypothetical a reality....yeeeha

im going to start by leaving work eairly.....livin on the edge a-huh

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I already smoke and play games like there is no tomorrow.

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You know all these ideas sound alright, but it would be alot more fun to do them together.

So who wants to start living like there in a post apocolyptic world already??

We can make this hypothetical a reality....yeeeha

im going to start by leaving work eairly.....livin on the edge a-huh

i'm down soapie. i'm gonna start by not going into work in the first place.

rock the fucken fuck or stfu

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Wish i thought of that!

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So who wants to start living like there in a post apocolyptic world already??

We can make this hypothetical a reality....yeeeha

So YOU have my Doomsday device!

I've been looking for that fucking everywhere. "Look under the couch," you said! "Try behind the desk," you said!

Sneaky, sneaky. Now give it back so everyone gets hurt.

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I feel that "Doomsday Device" is a misleading title. It makes it sound like genocide on a global scale is a bad thing.

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really? You never sat there and pondered an empty world? hmmm.

Well if I was wrong about that, maybe I'm also wrong about bacon flavoured ice cream.

bacon on icecream rocks

something profound! make it up yourself. what, do i have to think for everyone around here. now go dream about your mum in my jocks.

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I feel that "Doomsday Device" is a misleading title. It makes it sound like genocide on a global scale is a bad thing.

I agree.

My new suggestions for the renaming of the Doomsday device are...

The World Washer.

or

The Global Sanitization System.

or

The Silencer.

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It incredable that super heros are fictional, when baddies like us exsist.

so convenient.

And btw. all icecream is made from bacon already ... icecream is murder kids, so eat up. Death is tastey!

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