So anyway, there I was riding south to Kirra, look left and what do I see??? Whoa!!! what the hell is that, looks a lot like an oil platform, the likes of which are rarely seen in these parts.

Ok, Norway, the Gulf, hey, anywhere north of 0°.

But here, in s-e Qld.

What is this thing???

But then I started to think, yes it happens every now and again... What is most precious to us here???

Yes, yes, Petrol. I know!!! but you can actually live without a car (now a motorcycle is another matter) and yes I'll get onto the subject of personal transport vs. public transport later.

What you see here is the face of the future in Australia. Or perhaps the future of the face of Australia (Australia's future face???)

De-salinifinication (or some bloody thing)

That's right, this monstrosity is a part of a giant thingy that is somehow able to remove the salt from the sea-water, or is it the other way round???

Either way bloody ugly, isn't it? and if I lived where I could see it then it would probably bother me, but seeing as I don't live anywhere near the bloody thing then I really don't give a crap.

Why should I???

Damn...

And for that matter, if the climate changes drastically over the next 100 years...why do I give a Poo??? I hope I'll be dead

Yeah...knowing my luck they'll come up with a drug that will make us all immortal and I will have to give a crap...

how very...Pedestrian (scheesh!!!)

not that I got anything against living...just not forever. I can't keep up with that much fashion (I can't bloody keep up with fashion in this lifetime, let alone an endless one.

what a disaster that would be...

Dying saves fashion...can you imaging how many fashion disasters/victims there would be if we lived forever.

I'd have to commit suicide, whilst wearing a pair of very cool shorts (of course/or perhaps a safari suit)

Speaking of which...